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New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS KILLED.

We are biting our journalistic finger nails in wrath, we are looking for~ ward to a summer, next year, of dark ness and gloom, we are overwhelmed, speeChless, in the calamity that has OVertlkel us. There is no justice, Daylight Savings mas been hopelessly 'fost. A farmer-ridden Senate and House have yielded to the advocates of rising via the call of the rooster rather than the mechanical jangle Of standing the hcartless Solons have de- creed that we get up later in the morn ing, go to bed later at night, and lose an hour of sunlight after work. Why coulI they not have compromised? Why not an agreement to let the man. ufacturer of soft cider, which is bound to get hard, go on, midst Saha ra while the city dweller hangs his tongue in thirst, if the toiler of the soil would allow us to set cur clocks to suit ourselves? Gentle reader, thuy did it not, not by a jugfull they gave the farmer the WhClc works even though they had 10 override the veto of the President to do so
 Really we are not as angry as the preliminary phrases would give one to suspect Daylight Savings to us, was 8 fine plan. It saved lighting bills in factory anC homo, it allowed us more recreation in the open air. while yet there was light. We had an oppor- tunity 10 fulfil our desire for the great outdoors. We feel the loss of the hour. But, we have the common and, may we flalter ourselves, praise worthy habit of regarding what is past as past. The American public, for several years gone by, has culti- vated a habit of doing things that it does not wish to do, and doing them gracefully. We are part of the pub lie. We wish to get a moderate amount of pleasure out of something which we do not like, but cannot help, by joking about it.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
Paradise Rcgaincd?
(New York Sun.)


 Senator Simmo ons has assured q dis tracted farmer who asked if he could make cider without fear that before him yawned the penitentiary and behind him stalked revenue agent, that cider, according to the attorney general, lis not prohibited by the prohibition law" not being q dis titled, vinoUs or malt leverage. It was of Mother Eve that the poet sang:
 Grapes they say, hun round her
 in plenty;
 Other fruit hundred and twenty.
 But she, I've heard,
 An apple preferred. A juicy one, Eve ate the first Unless tradition belied her And as it slaked the lady's thirst J.. She ,ried. What a good thing is
 cidern"
 If Senator Simmons has correctly quoted the attorney general and MT. Palmer is as set in his opinions as a Quaker is said to be there is a boom coming in apple orchard property such as will delight the unregenerate vets seeking to regain q paradise lost and dismay the drys fearing the loss of paradise gained.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
GIVING.

Under this head l have nothing to say-or give. 1 am still paying on a Liberty bond, and am glad I'm able, for there is great satisfaction in knowing that even if 1 do not own a home, or have no interest in any large manufacturing concern, that if the Hun had come here 1 would have had less to lose than some of those ducks who cheered so loud, and who have thousands, and today on whom you cant find a Liberty bond with a fine tooth comb. These ducks who boost ed the price of calico and cheered the loudest when the boys marched by! These fellows who bought front seats! These nuts who are a disgrace to the nation, and who hop up catchup, and button hooks, and suspenderS and oth- CT necessities of life that their nest might be feathered and are able now to loll back in their cars with puffy hands folded over fat paunches. But
 this is foreign to my heading, rgiv- ing" You bet your life it is! This
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

going at 9 profit: but when the de mandS of labor become so excessive that he cannot do this he can close his mill and pocket his loss. The pub lie will not be the losers to any extent and the strikers can seek employment elsewhere. This process Is gong on already. At Bridgeport where 5000 employees Of the Columbia Grapho- phone company have been on strike for weeks the owners have decided to abandon Bridgeport and establish factories in other places where they can expect greater freedom from labcr troubles At our neighboring city of Rockville the Beck Manufac turing company have closed their mill indefinitely owing to a strike of their spinners.
 Some manufacturers, through combination of circumstances. are in q position where they can pay eXcep- tionallv nigh wages. If their product is in 1s.nand they can simply raise their prices to the col sUiner and get along without sacrificing ther profits. Others are not in such a: fortunate position and wl'en the demands of la bor become excassIyesrlu either shut
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
THE TREATY FIGHT.

Senator Plttman'S four reservations, as presented by him yesterday to the League of Nations pact, has raised a howl of protest from pronounced anti League and decidedly Republican newspapers. Special correspondents in Washington, paid to present mat ters in a certain light, have played up from many angles, most of which at tempt to ridicule the effort to concili- ate those who are wavering.
 The resolution was to have been adopted as a preliminary warning to other nations that the United States would not be bound by the moral obligations of the pact in the event of certain contingencies. It attempt ed to define our attitude on the Mon roe Doctrine, withdrawal from the League, questions of internal or pure ly domestic problems, and our inter- pretatiOn of Article x. It was intend ed as a warning before adoption that the United States would refuse to in terfere, notwithstanding any other reading of the document, under cer- tain contingencies. It released us from intangible ''moral' obigat tions. It was our declaration of policy.
 The plan was hailed by certain Sen ators to be new Administration at tempt to, befog the issue who appear very much put out that their own eff forts to do so have been met in kind. if that was the intent of the resolu- tion.
 We believe that the four reserva- tions originated elsewhere than in the mind of Senator Pittman. They were Administration efforts, beyond doubt But they are reasonable enough They do not seem to us to carry an in tent to befog. They are carrying out the idea of the President as expresseG to senator Brandegee of the moral side ot the covenant and defining our construction of that moral side, fore casting what we consider ourselves privileged to do. Why they should arouse Republican ire is hard to see Republicans are doing little else than getting angry at the Administration these days, which is nothing but proof of their weakness.
 If they do not intend to ratify under any conditions, let us have a vote on the subject and so decide. We will then be confronted with a specific situation. If the whole thing is no good, throw it out If Pittman's reser- vations do not cover the points upon which the Senate has been arguing and they seem to--let us have some that do. Quit the growing and let us have action. We need it.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
OUT OF JOINT.

I hate the rain! I spise the sun. 1 don't like nothin' no, I don't! What nurSie says I'll never mind Is solved to that-I surely won't. But most of all I hate the man That brought the baby here last
 night. A little girl-that's worst of all. A boy would maybe be all right. NurJe says I'm not the baby now, But have to be a little man And thank the doctor for/the girl And act as pleasant as I can. My gran'ma says that now my nose Is out of joint, but I cant see Just where it's wrong or out of place Or where the crookedness might be- But I've been coaXed, so I will try To like the kid and please my
 mother. I hope she'll love me just the same, Because, you see, I'm baby $
 brother.
 Philadelphia Ledger.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
Killing the Goose.
{ Manchester Herald )


 Every time there is big strike which depriVes the public of some thing it needs the public turns to a substitute. Many travellers are forced to resort to automobiles and motor trucks because of uncertainty of rail and trolley transportation. 1t is even now hinted that trolley lines will be fore long be junked because of the competition of motor traffic Tn such instances strikes help to defeat the industry is prosperous it cannot pay high wages, and every attack on it's prosperity decreG seS it's ability to pay from it's earnings
 Unfortunately the place where the strike is most effective is in the public age. The railroads and the street railways serve millions of people who are in no way interested in the dis putes between employers and empIoy- ed except that they must have service Because of thir urgent need and be- cause the owners of these utilities must keep them going the strik CTS have a, strangle hold. But when a manufacturing concern has a differ ence with it's employes over wages the situation is different. The product of few manufacturers is absolutely es- sential to the public. Of course a manufacturer wants to keep his plant
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
Tho Aggressive Few.

(Waterbury An eriCan)
 One of the clear impressions brought back from Europe by Frank A. Van derlip is the startling one that minor ities too often control events. A small clique in Germany forced the war on the world. The Bolshevists who have ruined Russia do not make up per cent. of the total population. There is in England a small and intensely active minority, antagonistlc 10 the capitalistic oroer, and creating dan ger which can only be dealt with if the majority, which wants order, ln- sists on having it. There is a like minority element in the United States, whic his doing it's best to start fire. The lesson he brings back is 10 be- ware of the power of n>inorities and to take means to neutralize or resist it,
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
National Happenings.

Big fire at Memphis-loss placed at a quarter million-every engine called into use-many narrow es- capes.
 A family of robbers-mother ar rested-father and son escapesAL woman captured after a long chase and hard fight with the officers, in which a constable is badly clubbed-- arrests made near Trenton, N. J.
 The strike problem-as President Eugene Debs would solve it-testi- mony before the National Labor commission-claims to have always opposed strikes.
 The seventeen year locusts have made their appearance at New JerL sey-over 25 to the square foot, where they settle.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
25 YEARS AGO (From the Herald of that Iate)
.AuguSt 21. 1891.

Peter Long is in New York. -
 George Swain has returned from his outing at the shore.
 F. G. Platt returned today from his outing at New Mi
 James Dur" 'e tNe Hotel Russwin has returned from his vacation. #
 Miss Georgie Parker of South High street is spending her vacation at WestbrOOke.
 Miss Lizzie Walters has returned from her outing at Indian Neck. ln'a
 M. F. Sullivan has returned from his vacation trip through New York state. n5F
 Mrs. Y. w. Mitchell of Vine street is spending & few days with friends in New Haven. .E- fe
 Mrs. M. P. Leghorn and the Misses Sheehan and Rose Mcintyre have gone to Madison for week. *..+
 Constables Rawlings and Gibney raided a barn on Washington treet this afternoon but found no liquors.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
:. THAT WELCOME HOME"

AY5the common council meeting last evening mach of the debate centered about the advisability of shortening Old Home Week, to be held next month, from one week to two days. A statement from the local manufac- turers to the effect that they would be willing to give ten thousand dollars toward defraying the expense, which is figured at about forty thousand, was responsible for the arguments pro and con.
 The manufacturers were gently chided for their tardiness in coming forward with their proposition but it was agreed that it would be consider ed. Figures on the expenses were given to the Council by those in charge of arrangements.
 We are inclined to agree with the Council and merchants in the criticism of the plan advanced by the factories, inasmuch as it is coming rather late in the game. There has been a series of plans for the entertainment progress ing for several weeks and change will upset them considerably. How ever, the point that production would be slowed up and a considerable loss to the citizens would follow an enter tainment lasting a week was also well made. We are scarcely able in pres
 
 weeks vacation with the loss in goods that will result. It is probable, also, that we may have just as happy a time in two days as we would if we dragged the affair out for week.
 With all of their planning the mer- chants, manufacturers and city fla thers have overlooked the one import ant item of the whole matter. Are they going to get the men who were in uniform, and who will be'the guests out upon the day of the parade? That is still hard thing to determine. Per sonally we are a little skeptical. It seems to be taken for granted that the soldiers and sailors will willingly come out, in force, to parade. Without them the day, or week, will be a fail ure The writer knows his own views, and he was in uniform. For the sake of public information, he will tell, as briefly as possible, how he feels He haG no particular desire to appear in uniform, but he will do so if the city so desires providing that the majority of the other men who served will do likewise. He does not wish to be one Nof a handful and will not consent to parade unless the rest do. He has no assurances that they will. What is the city going to do about it? There is one thing to do, and that is call mass meeting of military men, of all who served. Make sure that they will at tend the meeting. Then let them set tie the matter and give assurances to each other that they will come out E The concerted action must be institut- ed by the soldiers themselves. They do not wish to be told what they have
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

to do, they know what they should do, but are held by lack of knowledge as to what the other fellow wants Hold that meeting at once, before the plans go any further, and dispel the doubts of the soldiers and sailors
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
AIR ROUTES TO BIND EMPIRE.

London.-Air navigation will bring the widely scattered units of the British ~empire in closer touch than ever ocean navigation could. That's why Britain is most keenly interested in aviation. Many of the Gilbert and Ellice islands in the South Pacific, for instance. lie 50 miles apart And there's 190 miles between the groups. Scaplanes would bind them closely.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

SNeS al SumentS for the league. A. L. A. Bool1list. JEWISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIV 1LIZATION, by Joseph Jacobs
 "A convincing, clear andx modest thesis by an authority. Dealing with the Jews of the past, it shows their contributions to Europe as religious and philosophic thinkers, as leaders of commerce, and consequently as leaders in bringing the knowledge of the East to the West."-A. L. A. Roolllist.
 LABOR TURNOVER, LOYALTY
 AND OUTPUT, by F. H. Colvin
 "A book mostly Of suggestions on the small points which employers overlook in hiring help anG maintain ing it's efficiency, such as creating in centive for good work, developing a sense of cooperate and responSibil- ity and relieving monotony The book describes many training experiments . 4. L. A. BOolllist.
 MOON OF THE CARIBBEES, by E.
 G. O'Neill.
 'TheSc one act plays arc sketches of sea fife with all the sea atmosphere and brutality, both in words and deedsF
 His best gift is that of hard and virile oathos. Among men he is in touch with, reality; among women he is merely romantic. It places him definitely among the handful of Amer ican dramat1sts whose future is of genuine importance to our theater" Nation.
 MOUNTAINY SINGER, by Joseph
 Campbell.
 An American edition of Joseph Campboll's poems fist published in Dublin in 1909. They are dainty lyrics, weird in ther old time lore and beautiful in nature pictures. "A. L. A. BOoklist.
 SWORD OF DEBORAH, by Jesse F.
 Tennyson.
 F'irst-hand impressions of the Brit ish women's army i'll France. TRAILING THE BOLSHEVIKI, by
 Carl Alderman.
 WHAT AMERICA DID, by F. F.
 Kelly.
 A record of achievement in the prosecution of the war. Fiction. BRANDING IRON, by K. x. Burt.
 
 NINOLA OF WALL STREET, by Fe-
 liX GrenGSOn.
 SECRET OF THE TOWER, by An thony Hope.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

down or go to the wall. As long as the present shortage in the labor market exists the wage earner has no need to worry. If he cannot have work in one place he can have it in another. But the time will come when the balance will be the other way and then he will lament the loss of the goose tEat laid the golden cgg.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
Fl. c. WELLS BIOGRAPHY.

London.-@d G. Wells. Britain S leading writer today, will have a chance to read his own biography Edwin Pugh. a fellow writer. is now at work on the book.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

The imports of precious stones into this country declined from $51,50o,- 900 in 1916 to SPA, ,272,o0o in 1918. The chief items of loss were unset, diamonds, which came largely from Holland, and pearls.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

Remember how we hoped for peace so that the price of shoes and other necessities would come down ?--Des MoineS Register.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

nations would have been far simpler than the efforts to provide a system of reSerVatiOns.-Was Star.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

The lawyers ought to make a pro- fessional holiday of the day the Chi cago Tribune called Henry Ford an anarchist. That was the dawn of prosperity for a host of them.-Buffa- To Enquirer.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

It is encouraging that we hear and read a little less about what we must do for Europe.-Albany Journal.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

kind of skunk does not give-he robs, and is a Benedict Arnold No. 2. Ex- Cuse the Aggression.
 FIBBING.
 1 have nothing to say under this head, for I've already said it.
 HANK LONG.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

But, we understand that 6 billion dollars is to be appropriated to offset the wheat problem, and that wheat will be a dollar cheaper. We have 1t all figured out for us, that if this is the case, beef will be cheaper, and as the horns, bones and hoofs of the steer is used in the manufacture Of overcoat buttons, why the natural in ference to draw is that the coming winter one may have twice as many overcoat buttons as formerly. It sounds good! It harkens fine. But, in Gods name, where are the over coats coming from? Cheaper grain of course means more hens and eggs CD but, who in the world ever saw a hen lay an oVercOat?
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

In the actors strike the play wrights, who have vainly proposed mediation with the managers, stand in the position of innocent. but not disinterested, bystanders,-Sprin ngfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

Getting along towards time for Carranza to pay that bet he put on Bill Hohenzollern.-Man ster Union.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
HANK LONG
 Speaks oh THE COST OF LIVING, GIVING and FIBBING WITH CUSTOMARY CLARITY.
(Contributed.l

By eating we live, and move and have our being. This is Bible only slightly revised. Like all good things, too much is good for nothing. Too much food in the stomach is quite as bad as too few bathing clothes when in swimming. To expose the stomach , to too much Corned beef and cabbage, or surfeit if with blond cream puffs, or brunctt eClairS, is a sin against the alimentary and the spleen which to say the least is mean. When God gave least take as good care of them as we do our automobile. our dog and the lawn moker. Nor is this all. for He gave us a brain with which to think. whether it would be best to go without coat and vest and invest in two or three pounds of FrankfOoters a can of beer and half-a- dozen pigs feet, WhereWith to have a few hours of solid enjoyment, or, buy the vest and the rest of the suit at $55! One sees it would be far better to buy the what's to be done? I answer: Sell a Liberty bond, so that the fellow who manipulates them, can buy more stock in WoOlen mills, thereby controlling the output and thus keeping the price of clothing up until clothing is so almighty high that congress will pass a law so that all may revert to the fig leaf.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21

The initials "H. c. L." seems to stand for a trinity of Woes-High cost of living high cost of flicker and Henry Cabot Lodge.-Houston Post.
 We must add to the trinity this. High cost of labor and it cant last.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
FACTS AND RANCHES.

One is inclined to suspect that MT. McAdOo saw som ething coming when he resigned from the position of di rector of ailroads-Albany Journal
 In scanning the canvass of Indiana democrats for presidential Der, we note one vote for J. Hamilton Lewis Let scoffers remember, however. that great oaks from little acorns grow Chicago Evening Post.
 Senator Borah continues to intimate that his plan of having no league of
New Britain herald., 1919-08-21
LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE

AN AMERICAN IDYLL, by c. $.
 Parker.
 The life of Carleton H. Parker. CHIMNEY-POT PAPERS, by.C. s.
 Brooks.
 Essays of a Charles Lamb flavor, affecting the happy vein which their author mocLingly deplores and mer- rily puts to his advantage. They have charm of subject and literary touch, making leather suspenders, rainy mornings, and smoky Chimneys pos sible Of discussion in the same breath with philosophy and the classics.''-- A. L. A. BOoItlist.
 CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTOR, by w.
 G. Kellogg.
 "As chairman of the board of in quiry, this author has examined the troubled cCnGcieIceS of over eight hundred Americans who objected to military duty. In his book he gives an interesting history Of the problem these people have created from the early Christian erd where death was their usual punishment to the more lenient schemes of Great Britain and the United States in the last war; A. l.. A. BoOklist
 CRIME AND CRIMINALS, by C. A.
 Mercier.
 "A very clear, interesting contribu- tion to the study of crime, Which is also a departure in many ways There are chapters on the psychology and nature of crime kinds of crimes and of criminals and the prevention and punishment of crime. A book to pro- yoke interest in the short siGhtedness of many of our laws."-A. l.. A. Booklist
 FERNANDO, by Johr Ayscough.
 Autobiography of the early years of Monsignor Bickerstaffe-D Drew, who writes under the pseudcnym of John Ayscough. Told in story form it cov- CTS the period of his life which end- ed in his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. Monsignor Bicker- staffe- Drew was ser for chaplain of the English forces during the Great War;
 GENTLE CYNIC, by Morris Jastrow.
 Being translation of the Book of Eccles;astes, stripped of later addi- tiOns.
 IDEA OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS,
 by H. c. Wells.
 "Discussion by Viscount Grey, Lionel Curtis, William Archer, H. Wtckham Steed, A. E. Zimmern, J. A. SpenIer, Viscount Bryce, Gilbert Murray. It answers criticisms and