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New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
SPRING ODE.

Till me with sassa fras nurse, And juniper juice, Let me see if I'm still any use, For ! want to be young and to sing
 again,
 Sing again, sing again, Middle age is a curse. It is spring gain, spring again, Spring again!
 his cave
 At the flood of the tides And bellows his love to his mate
 where she rides
 On the crest of the wave, The crimson pylorus is singing his
 song And the scarlet sciaticas flame in the
 grass, The snail is abroad with his periscope
 prong Fill me with sa ssa fras. I want to be one With the joy of the earth, under the
 sun, For the purple conNolNus conVolves
 and volutes And the arbutus ups and arputcs-- Fill me with sassa fras, And cohosll aud buchu and juniper
 juice
 And thcfl turn me loose. Out of the prison of winter The earth and it's creatures emerge, And the Woodlouse sits on a splinter And flirts with the CosmiC urSH; Steep me in camomile tea, Or give me a shot with a needle, For I want to be young again-Mc. And WOO With a lyrical WhcCdle. Go page .Ahnaryllis, And tell her springs here With a
 ,heluVa moon
 Oh, Chloe, come hither. Here's a bald headed Strephon that's
 willing to spoon, He brings to the business a Tyre and
 a zither And a heart that's been chewcd by
 the romance ba cillus-- Nurse, the juniper juice, And the sa ssa fras, nurse, and then
 turn me loose, Let me sec ii m still any use. The Sun Dial" New York Eve ming Sun
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
THE TROLLEY BILL.

If judgment may be based on the
 Opposition to the recommendations of
 ! the special trolley Investigating com Amittee of the General Assembly, the
 relief bill must be amended or fall entirely. There seems to be particu-
 lar objection to the proposed loan of Is2, 000,000 by the state to the Con- Hnecticut Company, but there are also other grounds for remonstrance equal
 aly as important.
 Corporation, Counsel William L..
 SBennett of New, Haven is,reported to
 B have discovered that the measure is
 replete with "jokers". with the joke
 on the public Judge Bennett claims that the section sTspending the pay |n3e.1i Of taxes for two years in reality lvould bring about Q complete repeal lof Iaauy laws. some of which were 1erlctcd sixty years ago and are still 1in force. The New Haven man also
 Acallcd attention to . peculiar sirli-
 Alarity- between tho report Of tho in aycetigating committee and 8 measure NaTafted by the Connecticut Company sia"gers earlier in the term of the
 HLeg4slature which wandered around 8fhe Capitol like an. orphan with no
 lone to father it.
 Governor Holcomb appointed the
 8committee presumably with the object zof aiding the Connecticut Company.
 zThe committee has failed in it's pur-
 8pose. It might have succeeded if it
 Shad recommended moderate steps but
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
DISCIPLINE.

If the courts martial system of the army is to be rganized, nothin g should be done to weaken authority of officers over men. Discipline CT the lack of it means the difference5 between a good army and a useless army. Punishment has been noted out for infringement of regulations that seemed 10 civilians to be entire ly out of proportion to the offense. Long terms of Imprisonment have been imposed for what civilians con- sidered minor mira ctions. In the final adjustment of the system this should be prevented, but the spirit of discipline and response to orders should not be killed.
 Three men we'll qualified to testify spoke yesterday before the American Bar Association committee which has been Investigating military justice. The witnesses were Leonard Wood, Hugh l.. Scott and John l.. Chamber lain. major generals in the United CldleS dl lily. llCA pi pioteSlSu oScSllloL taking from the President and com manding officers the control they eX ercise over court martial proceedings. They admitted that defects exist in the system and urged that these should be remeded.
 General Wood made 2 straightfor- ward appeal "ETbateJe1, is done :" he said don't give us any possibility of a Harry Thaw case in the army. Give us Q simple. direct process We. don't want the haggling over technicalities of civil court cases.'' The three major generals insisted that the proposal to strip the President and command ing officers of power would wreck dis cipline. General Scott, who was with the Root mission in Russia, clinched /the case. "The weakening of disci- pline in the Russian army destroyed Russia he said.
 Incidentally. General Chamberlain S tegtlrl1 ony helped to vindicate Eecre- tary Of War Baker. He asserted that the Secretary had directed that the Inspector general Of the army investi- gate every complaint received by him and that in pursuance of this order even inform ation contained in anony- looked into.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
HAS TO PAY MORE THAN HIS INCOME
 
British Peer, With Property in U. S.
 Doubly Soaked By Income
Tax.


London. April 9, fCorrespondeuce of the Associated Press. )-That a man should pay. more money for sll. come tax than the total of his income seems the limit of taxaton.r. This is said to be the plight of a well-knowr British peer who was born an Ameri- can and became natura lizod in Eng land some years ago, His propeEtl7if in. the United States. BeingSa British subject, he is compelled by British Navy to pay income taX on all his revenues from all his sources aha9the Anieriaaa law compel5 payment Of incorle tax on all his Income from AmoIican properly. Being q niult;-n!iilioHni"e ilie income is subject 10 heavy fax Dy butt GoNernmentS. and thc two taxes age said to ar mount 10 moro than 'f01 pet cent Of the income. Thus the 1n- Fortunate noblcman must Day out. all of his receipts and dip into his capital to defray current taxes, and, after cc.- fraNing this first charge, use more of the capital for diving expenses. +&5s sytt
 Tlc double income tax Of tho war Ijeriod has nit Mcll-to-do merchants who l:V@ in Greet Britain yer. hard. Tn formct, days vary few of the large tOloHN oi AH'Gl1Ctttl FuSlICSS'. men llV- ing in Britain ever gave up their American cltizcnaIIip., But many cf them have found this draft on their patriotism too he%vy and have .. re- luctantiy changed their allegiance and taken out naturalization papers
 As for those Amcricana who lived ,herc because they found the 2oc;al at mosphere of l1ngland moro conseni- al, and the scope for spending money on pleasures greater than at home, most of them seem 10 have disap- pcared.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
The RourbOnS In Albany.
(NCM York NOrldl

(NCW Ork W Orld.) ''There are moro than S2 men in the assembly, says Gov. Smith, ready to pass the eight hour day for women, minimum. wages for women and children. health insurance, the proper deEelopm ent of hydraulic pow CT, municipal ownership for our cities'
 This actual majority docs not cx- press it's will in legislation, solely be- cause the rules committee, led by Speaker Sweet, controls the choice ot bills upon which a vote may be had and will "recess them from day to day in order that nothing may be done,' Speaker Sweet confirms this: ''The members of the assembly will go to their homes, a few staying hero to
 keep the session alive in a. const itu-
 tutional manncr''--as if the constitu- tion contemplated such a subtcrfugc to prevent 8 special session and to defeat the will of the people.
 All honor to tho little group of in .tellisent republican senators who have tried to convince their party that the world moves aud history is being written. But vain their labors, 1T intend,'' says Mir. Sweet. ito proceed along the avenue ot safe and sane legislation As if VIC were still liy- ing in tallov candle times. As if there had been no war; As if the whole world were not secthing with demand for change. As if the rural fruit-Canner, the snlall-toNn manu- ia cturer, were the interchangeable ar bitter of laws:
 The Bourbons learn nothing. They forget nothing. They control the ma iority caucus in both houses, and in the junior branch of the legislature they wield an antiqua ted rule to deny to a ma jority representing fully tWo- thirds of the people of the state even the chance to vote upon important m measures. over their political graves be inscribed. Here lies Folly" The pity is that Opportunity must be buried with them.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
WILD MEN AT THE KE1-HOLE.

Whother Premier Lloyd Georges statement to his critics in the British i1ouSc of Commons will prove tatls- factory can better be answered when time has furnished an opportunity to digest his words. Even his most bit ter political enemies will grant him credit for contributing such highly descriptive phrase as that employed in painting the little men with the shrill voices who have ridiculed and berated the delegates to the Peucc Conference for what they pleased to call their dilatoriness and. their mental vaporingS.
 "StoncS were clattering on IEC roofs and wild men were scrca min g through the keyhole while decisions depended upon the men within,' is tl.o fashion in which he launches out at tho nasgers, the grumblers, the jingoes and the suspicious. They arc found in every land. We have rnenl in America, although most of them have subsided and many have crawicd into their caves. Wild men scream ing through the kcyholc,' A classic thrust.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
ENEMY WANTS INDEMNITY.

The editor of the Frankfort Ga zctte nav be dreaming or in need of his annual vacation. According to his paper as explained in a dispatch to- day. Germany will claim an indemnity from the Allies for damage caused by aerial attacks, compensa ton for oc- clpation Of sacred German soil and for losses alleged to have been sus- tained because Of the long discussion at Paris.
 Germany, of course, will receive 10 indemnity. The aerial attacks on enemy cities were invited by similar attacks first made on unprotected communities in Allied territory. AL damage to other than military cstan lishmcnts or munition manufa ctOrics in these cities. They did not ruthless lv cut down the civil population. As for occupation oC German soil, if it was so dear to the Germans why didn't they stand up and hGht TOT It like men instead of running away? Germany should feel thankful that so much time has been devoted to the discussion of peace terms at Paris. Had the terms been framed within few hours after the signing of the armisticc there would have been no Germany because. the temper in the Allied countries was for a complete political annihilation of the enpir2.-=' If the German demands for indem- nity arc received they will be otod and placed on file. "
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
\ Literary Eseayist on Words Coinc,
 By Reporters.
(NcN York sum-

pr. Bliss Perry of Harvard and Boston has impartcd to members of tho American Academy of Arts and Letters, assem- blod in thiS city, his opinion that tho present deplOra bio state of English as he finds it is duo in part to newspaper reporters who rudely coin words when writing in a somnolent state in tho small hours of the morning."
 Dr. Perry has been writing essay in standard English long enough to have found out that even articles which are not faultlessly pretty, only accurately descriptive. precise records of facts, intelligent opinions on an operatic or pugilistic performance, cannot be written by anybody in a somnolent state in the small hours of the morning or the large hours of the evening. .As to his indictment of reporters, that they "rudely coin" words, we will hear testimony if the doctor will first define what he means by "rudelN" in this respect.
 Undoubtedly there are firmly fixed in the living English language many words coined by reporters with suav- ity, in good temper and in q state
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
USE TIE" FOR SORE, s"
 TIRED, ACHING FEET
No More PufTcd-Up, Burning, Swcaty,
 CnIIOmscd Feet OF (Orns.

Just take your shoes off and then put those weary. shoc-c crinklcd. ach- ing, burning, corn -pcstercd, bunion- tortured feet of yours in a "Tiz" bath. Your toes will Wriggle with joy; they'll look up at you and almost talk and then thcyll take another dive in that ''Tiz" bath. When your feet fecl like humps Of lcad-all tired out-just ;ry "Tiz.'' It's grand-it's glorious, Your feet will dancc with joy; also you will fad all pain gone from corns, callouses and bunions.
 There's nothing like "Tiz." It's the only remedy that. draws out all the poisonous cxudations which puff up your feet and cause foot torture:
 Get 25-cent box of "Ttz', at any drug or department store--dont wait An! how glad your feet get; how comfortable your shoes feel. You can wear shoes Q size smaller if You desire
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17

or WIdeaWakeness, and much uscd by tue general and som etirnes by intel lcC'uaIs who know good word when they find it.
 ht1I were Dr. .Perry'S dissenting ShlS when he read Zola's com
 "'ent on writer he was praising-
 N9S u one of the Concourts :-tIat
 i'' wrote ln "a style forged on the
 .Vl'lp'e anvil of the article which
 "'''' pe ready today"? XOla ap-
 pe"rS 10. have looked further. than
 Has Dr, Perry into th@ journalistic
 necessities or motives for coining
 words, and the French method in
 such search has. not lacked English
 praise. Dr. Matthew Arnold in his
 lectures often begged his hearers not to scold in criticism, "as I do'' but to learn 10 follow the better manner of the French, who look at a mat ter they wish to understand and dis cuss it. not in wrath but with the calm eye of intelligent curiosity, eager to learn of what it may be made. Having satisfied himself in that regard a French critic puts his judgment into words with an earnest endeavor to impart to his hearers an understanding of the cbara ctcristics of the object of his study.
 That is 10 say. the FrGnchman would tell the chara CterIstics say, of newspaper reporters wandering from bookish language; find it's usefulness if it have any, it's evil, if it have any. and not think his work. well done ny dismissinS the reporters dcViationS with q curt word.
 With no intention of heinz rude a reporter might confidently believe ti?at he would be understood were he 10 venture 10 advise DE. Perry to cut out this rough stuff frcm his nigh brow spicls: lay off from knocking; get himself wise 10 the jumps rcpor- words have. their dips. curves and speed; to be a rcgula" fel- low among critics; always to he hep that the guy who puts a word into the language and makes it used is less likely to get the. hook from the gang than is the nut who keeps in the language q word which is never used in life.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
Regulating Free SnCCCil.

lNeW Haven Journal -COurior).
 The judiciary committee of the state legislature has reported favor ably :. bill providing this limitation on free speech: NO person shall in public or before any assem- bl1GC of 10 or moro persons advocate in any language, any measure, doctrine, proposal or propaG Ganda intended to seriously affect the government of the United States or the State of Conncc- ticut or the administration Of Inc laws thereof
 No ono can find any fault with tho intent of such proposed law. The question, however, which presents it. self to the lay nnd is whether thcrc is not law enough, common or statute, to meet an emergency of5 this char actcr. If there is it would appear to be unnecessary to add to power already existing. As a- general pro- position il is a dangerous thins to experiment with the principles of free speech and it is especially dangerous where it is left to indiN iduaIs to de tcrminc just what the abuse Of free speech is or just what damagc<is done to government by tho exercise of it. While the suspension of free speech
 
 duct of the war, it was not always made clear that the act of suspension escaped altogether justihablc irrita- ton. \ comparison of the two abuses would seem to establish the fact that more real harm is done by abusing the right of suppression.
 Free speech has proved to be a stimulating feature of our democracy and, while often indulgence in it has made men indignant. the record of it's having donc serious dama ge is not impressive. There is wcjl defined movement throughout the country to recover free speech rights, which have been confiscated, and it is ac- compa anicd by q. doubt as to the wis dom of additional legislation such as this suggested at Hartford. Laws born of knowledge are better than those born of fear
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
RELIEF FOR EN- SERVICE, ,rr.>.

An ltom of business that had rn- measured possibilities for dcbo+<> was happily disposed of at last nights lmeetlng of the Common Council
 when. tlt was learned that the War -rsssTreau IS furnishing adequate relief ao returning soldiers and sailors who are in need of financial assistance ard who apply for funds. X resolution 1ntroduced at the meeting was con- strued as instructinS the War Bureau sto aid eX-SerVice men who find them selves III straitened circumstances. It was learned that such action was not necessary as the bureau is prosecuting the work along the lines suggested in the resolution and action by the coun- ell might be considered a reflection on the bureau members
 The public in general will applaud ahe proposed investigation of the housing situation here. The object of the probe is to learn where excessive rentals are being charged and where rates have been increased to exorbi- tant levels Whether the council will have authority to remedy conditions is beside the point. The investigation will at least give an airing to in- scrupulous landlords and the public may learn the names of the proftcers.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17

Iunited by a common motivc.e Some of them, like Senator Borah and Senator jPcindeSter, were unqualifiedly oppos- ! cd to any league of nations. From : their point of view one kind of a league would be as bad as anothc. |Then there were senators like Mir. Lodge and MT. Knox who were not ir- reNocably committed against a leagu but purposed to model it themselves Iattcr tho treaty reached the United Sta teS senate.
 There were other senators WnO wished to defer final judgment until the trend of public opinion was dis closed. and some who, while they ia Nored any reasonable league, believed .that the president had sighted the
 senate and deserved rebuke.
 Public discussion during the last six
 weeks nas shown that the country is
 overwhelmingly in favor of the league and the amendments made in Paris
 have met most of tho objections,
 which were advanced in good faith or apparent good faith. Whether the
 constitution Of the league is better for all these changes is matter of divided
 opinion The iircconclable Tories whether British CT American. have not been placated, but the changes
 have made it impossible to rally a third of the senators against the treaty.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
Baked Beans. Boston POSt.)

The standing in law of the industry of baked bean production has never been put to the test. It has been re- garded as an occupation free and open to all without restraint. Perhaps there has been a, mistake, a neglect on the part of justice. in this careless Hberality. For there comes the report from Omaha. Neb.. of the filing of a suit in the district court there alleg ing infringement of a, pate on the part of several large corporations in making and offering for sale "a biscuit of which the principal ingredients arc pork and loeans.'
 This action is brought by two sis tcTs who declare that they are the holders of the patent and that their damage by reason of it's infringem ent reaches the sum of S120, 0,000,000. Without forestalling the judgment of the court, 1t may be said that an ex- elusive right to the cooking of pork and beans would be worth a good many more millions than are claimed in this suit For generations the ap- petite for this admirable product of domestic skill has grown among our people. It is one of the historic mon uments of Boston and New England along the path of national develop ment.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
Senator Cumn1ins Points the Wny.
 (NRM Il Ork World !

Senator Cummins of Iowa has an nounced in public address that if the published reports of the amend ments made in the constitution of the league of nations arc correct he will vote for the covenant. As Senator CumTninG was one of the original slgners of the round robin. his state ment marks the beginning Of the dis mtegration of that celebrated coali- ton.
 It has long. been apparent that the s1sners of the round robin were not
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17

JAMES MackaNc t"
 \ Yankee view Of capitalism
 lth such excellent handbooi1s as 'ne present to guido him, even inc moderately intelligent and very h,1s, American has no excuse for the ,b- Sol!ttc lack of distinction between so- clitllSnl, l. W. w, bolshcvism. s>nd- .N1''S1i. etc.. that marks his morto1 l"lelloTlty to the moderately in+A1E- gent and equally busy European, - Survey. bESF SHORT STORIES OF f915 bl
 Edward J. O'Brien.
 oZECH FOLK TALES, compiled bv
 Josef Raudis
 FflmltlNc tales intended to ex- t'np pll1N the spirit of the Czech race.
 cAhlplt sense of humor and an o''licat tendency. Compiler is lccttlr- p Ill comparative philology at the 1it.sc iA.suc university. A. L. A. Book Ot,H srr E'l-OPMENT OF THE UNITED
 uc r"> FROM COLONIES rTo A
 IVY MC1thD POWER. by Max F'arran1 1itio, N'h hardly any mention of po- ''H u hCNelOpS the person. N o1 the United States, what the American people are and ho, their .'l l"N.cr developed from their ni9- tory. lnconoclastic. csneciallv il ehe '''ieht of the Revolutionary war ?l'u : ''ot detailed by fascinating read n'e uulte suited to the authors pltr- P0"c' A. L. X. Booklist
 GOOD MAN AND THE GOOD. by M.
 ". Calkins.
 A text of college grade treating e'nics concretely as the study of live men, AS such it seems to have an unusually moral and disciplinary tone Tor young people. It refers constant " to hlstOrleal examples in illumlna- ton of it's Drccepts. "A l.. A. Book lis;.
 GRAND FLEET, l91t-191G, by Ad-
 miral Jcllico.
 It's creation, dovelopm ent and work, GREATER EUROPEAN GOVERN
 MENTS, by A. L. Lowell.
 "GiNcs compact form the govern mcnts of Europe as they were at the outbreak of the war M1 HUSBAND. by Mrs. Vernon Cas-
 tic. ON BECOMING AN AMERICAN, by
 IT. J. Bridges.
 An English lecturer who became naturalized in this country for sol idly practical reasons presents here an appreclative book or the duties and privileges of citizenship in N light which tends to cause anyone who is apt to take his own merican- 1 ism or his country lightly, to think. l It is inspratiOnal material for teach ] CTS of civics or of foreign classes. - A. l.. A. Booklist. PUSHING WATER, bN Eric P. Daw-
 son.
 "An animated account of tho , cramped but far from stupid exist 1 the British mosquito f1cet'."-A L. A. l BoOklist.
 The writer of this book is lieuten- ant in the auxiliary patrol.
  SAD YEARS. by Dora Sigerson. "'Thosc who love Ireland will find ] in his collection all the depth of silf- l fering of one who, as Katharine Ty- { ana says in her tribute, died from her l sorrow over the events of the Easter ] rebellion. and of a whole world at war l with herself. The poems are all, as ! inc title Sll2CoStS hl1t heo l1ti e,,I !
New Britain herald., 1919-04-17
The H. S,
(Tucson C.tizenD

Mrs. J. J. Norton, assistant grand vice president of the c. l. IA to tho B. of L. E., will make her official visit at the San Xavier division. 241. c. l. A. to the F. Of L. F.. April ' at E. E. T. hall.