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New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
New York Deserves a Medal.
(BoSton Globe.)


 The. humane societies of>thc coun- try should award New York city a medal for a genuine act of humanity and common sense.
 First New York started a crusade against doctors and druggists who have been dealing illegally in dru ys
 But what about those who have been ,uspg the. drugs-thc victims?
 Of all strange things in a bull headed world of rcformcrs' som ebody had the wisdom to at once open a bureau for the exclusive treatment of the unfortunatcs who had become ad- dicted to drugs and who were sud denly deprived of tho substance for which they crave.
 That showed something like real intelligenc ce-to join the reforner and the physician in the crusade.
 When men are wounded in battle today the. are taken to the nearest hospital for treatment. This is some thing new in Warfare-not much more than a half century old. Formerly they were left 10 die on tie field or shift for themselves as best they could. The result is that thousands are now saved in war who otherwise would have perished.
 The world is becoming more and more conscious of the fact that in this teeming and complex civilization of ours men and women are fighting almost unconsciously sc much has it become a habit--batt1es of one kind and another every day in which many are wounded and left to perish or shift for themselves.
 We have learned that in our every day lives there are enemies even in the guise Of friendship or liability ready to take advantage of every weakness in human nature-for money.
 Society is beginning to sense it's responsibility toward these victims. Many of thcm-most Of them-need the hospital. They arc the seriously wounded in the battle of life. They need the physician. not the jailel'
 New York is to be congratulated Other cities please CODY. E.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
$250,OOo,0OO MUST
 BE RAISED DAILY
Country Mill Have to Subscribe
 to Bonds at This Rate

Washington, April 19.-First re- ports to treasury today of the Vic tory Liberty loan campaign disclosed that three weeks drive to raise S4.- O0,000,000 already has been started in hundreds of communities.
 Without awaiting the formal open ing Monday, committees were at work today gathering promises of subscriptions to be officially recorded Monday. Many cisies had arranged parades and mass meetings of citizens for today and tomorrow to boost the loan, and in number Of churches prea chers have planned to discuss the urgent necessity of America's pushing the loan, :n connection with their Easter services"
 To raise the entire amount Of the loan it will be nc' essary for the country to subscribe at the rate of $250, 100000 each day. Officials look for largo subscriptions the opening day, although the volume Of these probably will not be reflected until late next week. Arran gements similar to those in the past loans have been made for gathering daily reports on subscriptions received by banks and actually backed up by tho initial payment. These figures will be for Warded by each bank to the federal reserve bank of the district and com piled there for the district, tho totals for tho whole country being added up in Washington
 X feature of the opening of the loan m Washington Monday will be the teSllng of new wireless telcphonic apparatus by which a man fying in 1h a1rplanc above tue city will deliver an address to a throng on the treasury stops through use of q sound amplihcr set up on tho ground. Admiral Sims VIII be speaker on this occasion, ana Dllile Burke the actress. will sell ponds from the treasury steps.
 E\eh While the loan campaign is under way, the War Savings organi- zauon throughout the country in tends to keep up it's work, althouc;, not in direct competition with loan workers. The slogan Of tho thrift campaign this year. it was announced today. will be save first, spend after. ward" ..
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
DandeliOn Greens.
(Chicag go Tribunc.)

Without the remotest desire to ap- pear f1ippant. but on the contrary as serting the greatest seriousness in the midst of somber and sober discussions of world events, the wars of mighty empires. the diplomatic abstrusities of nations and the domestic economy of municipalities, we seize this rapt occa sion to recommend to the epicu- rean palate the delicious and fra grant virtues of dandelion greens.
 Rulers totter on their thrones and republics are in the making. but dan delion greens Wot not of these things. lifting their heads cOyly in the front lawn and inviting the gustatory both to pleasant yictuals and also tooth some spring tome. In tlls happy duty of recommending the dandelion green we "scoop'' MT. Heide, the gar den expert whose business lies more in the way of directing the production of conventional garden sass rather than in pointing out the efflcacy ot the unconventional.
 The dand elion green is found, as we have suggested. in the lawn--and elsewhere. But in the lawn 1t IS often apt to arouse the antipathy of the gardener. SldS ' Jul iIcHIlb, Cl'S" Q - gardener: for the succulent roots you would destroy are morsels fit for the tables of kings-that is. presidents, or, better still. peoples. Take them up tenderly. clean them conscientiouslS' and boil 'em down: maceratc them and serve them with butter and sliced 1 cold boiled eggs. Your system will 1 perk up, your blood tinglc pleasantly ] and next wear your lawn will have no ! dandelions.
 We wish we could start a vogue Tn l dandelions. Nothing so nourishlns nothing so unconsciously regulatory l of morale and the daily habits o1 1 life: nothing so cheap nor so easily l obtainable.
 And if this vogue gets well under way, who can say but We shall ask tbe west south and north park boards to permit dandelion hunters to piucA their salads freely from the para 1 lawns?
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
Wars DeXeIopnlcntS.

CHenry Seidel Canby in Yale Revicw)
 Flnc minds have been finely touched by the war, and base minds paseiy. By fine | do not mean re- hhed, or fine with an aesthetic or spiritual reference merely. I mean lthc ln the good colloQuial sense of
 ne Is a fine fellow," whether a dock man or waiter or clergyman or col leSe president is intended. The finest lelloW l met in 1918 was an Ameri- cah-ltalian orderly at the front Whosc heart was absorbed in the care or a reckless young army doctor to whom he was attached. And I think often of the half wild Corsican and wholly wild Apache of Paris who protected my friend, a young French lleutenant one on either side in CHarSe or retreat. and "mothercd" 1ilm when he was ill in the trenches .'uch mon as these .haVc been made ,'to raw material for reconstruction
 NS the war; finer minds in the intel 'OCtual sense of the word have been
 ouSed to pitch of leadership and
 e''Nc energy not cqualled since the t1N henalssance. And furtherm ore ,c are the millions of women who n: ntlhS themselves into the con-
 + N| llcufTlnS the pdSS1 on = .''' reaction of bloodshcd, and are
 ~. .s'"'''o orh1cd into q power for good
 "C cannot vet measure.
 ollt base minds have become ba ser u"cerla1n souls less certain still; and uHlofIuhatelN it is the hearts of gold
 t'i'u not or lead who have gone most
 c"serly to death. France has lost thc HoWcr of the next generation; one In five perhaps of the university mon or England is dead: not many in
 proportion, but too many of the best po9s or America have been left on the western front. And therefore, upon those of us. whether young or
 old, who feel the world is worth re- maklhs and arc left for the task, a tremendous responsibility dCscends The dead have d:cd for no lust of conquest or personal reward. but to save, as. they hoped, their country. 1t is for the living to sec to it that the world is really saved. No plans of federation or defense. however wise can secure the future. unless those whom this war has made strong can lift to safety those whom it has made weak
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
IIAItTFORD'S PRICE FOR ICE:

New Britains ice committee charged with Investigating the anticipated ico shortage during tho coming summer, may secure assistance from a similar committec in Hartford if t1ic II: en- bcrs care to interview that body. Inc Hartford committee feels conii- dent that it will be able to bring ice to Hartford by the carload and sell it~.lt branch distributing stations for thirty five or forty cents d hundredw iSht. The private dealers in the Capital City propose to charge seventy cents.
 Whether any progress has been made by the New Britain committee is In doubt. It would be an advantage Appreciated by the public # the mem hers could find means to bring Ice to this city at the same price it will be sold in Hartford. It is expected thc dealers here may charge as high us $1 a hundredweight,t d price beyond reach of the, workinsman' purse when the cost of other necessities of life is considered: The ice question IS critical. Ice is no longer considered a, luxury; it is required to preserve food stuffs and should be sold at q cost that will not work a hardship on any family.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
HITTING THE WRONG HEAD.

Springt1eld's; Chamber of Con- mcrCc has become the innocent victim of circumstances created by the strike of the telephone girls and associated workers and as q rcsult organized ia Dor in that city has threatened to wage war on that orSaniza lion and disrupt 1t if possible. Like many has been endcavoring to effect an end to tho strike and because of it's activ- ity> it is now accused of trying to "brcak" the strike, the intimation bc- ing that the Chamber was not in sym pathy with those who have left their NCrl..
 Officials Of the Metal Trades Coun- cil made the following statement:
 The recent activity of the.
 Chamber of Commerce against
 organized labor in Springfield
 places it on a level with that of any strikc-breaking organization. If the corner grocer, tho butcher the provision man and tho hun dreds of other small tradesoien that arc making a living on tho | trade of the clty;s workers arc using their good money to support an institution that uses it's 'F|i- l CnCe to break a. strike, we want to know it. we'll take care of thc rest if we've got to send nelgh- 1 horhood delegateS to every buoj- l nes, man in town.
 Isn't it possible that the officials who authorize the foregoing siatc- ment are oyCrWrousht and are nak- ing, a mountain out of a molchill? The Cham ber of Commcr is composed Cf business men and manufacturers. It is not an altrustic society organized for the direct prom otion of the citys interest although Indirectly it does this very thing. Business in Spring field has not been immune from in conVcnicnccs caused by the telephone strike and consequently it is to be eA- pected that the Chamber of Commerce should take au active part in the ScN- eraI campaign to bring the strike to a close and return the uEc of the tel ephonc system to those who ;re losing heavily because they have beer dc- prived of it. There is nothing un- moral in the actions of the Cham Der
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
\ WAR AMONG EDUCATORS.

Diplomatists and government repre- sentative5 at Paris may struggle with questions of indemnity, annexation and political adjustments with the hope that peace may be formally de- rIared next month and yet the dove is shooed away as it is about to light by Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, who speaks in the name of American educators. The trouble with Germany, pr. Butler finds, is that it is not repentant and sven it's university leaders have failed to don the conventional sackcloth so popular among sinners.
 When the city of Strassbourg vas taken over by the French, the German scholars who occupied the university In that city were given twenty four hours to pack Up a clean collar, a change of socks and get out. The evic- ton notice was highly resented and the scholars forgot momenta.rily that :. ono Of the signs of superior intelli- gencn is restraint under trying cir cunGtances, and flew into 8 berscrker rage, which, Morse tradition tells Us, Is the worst form of frenzy the world has ever known. True to time hon. pred custom in Germany they sat down and drew up a protest and for warded it to Sweden, denouncing the "outrageous action" Of the French. In due time the protest cached pr. Butler and he has replied, emitting any sympathy and informing the knobby- pates of Germany that their protest has fallen on deaf ears.
 pr. Butler cites "thirty-one atro- eioug offenses'' committed by the Ger.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
Our (llildrcn'S "Burdcn.
(BOStOn Post. )

Numerous articles appearing III the newspapers and magazines comment ing upon our tremendous national debt start off about as follows: The Am crican child born today must, as q result of the war. bear burden of debt that will tax him $10 every year until he or shc iS full grown; that every average family of five persons will have to pay $50 per family each year for another generation.
 That looks pretty serious on the face of it, and some of the writers on the subject seem to be somewhat alarmed about where the money. is coming from. But if one stops to analyzc tho problem, is it not equally or moro important to inquire. WhCrC is the money going to?
 Of course, it is true that the billions upon billions of interest and principal for tho national debt must be paid by the people of this country during the next 25 years or so. But it is not go- ing to be paid to the inhabitants of Mars, or even of any other country on this earth. It is all going to be paid to the people of the United States,
 Therefore, will the people of this country be any poorer because of these payments? Will not tho "chill born today be the recipient of these principal and interest payments, just as much as he or she will be the payer of them? From a national standpoint, it will mean no net change in total wealth, but simply a churning over of money payments from one part of the people to an other; and as there arc some o0,00O.- 900 loondholders representing approxi- matcly 20,0O0,000 families in the country. it will be about the same as paying from one pocket to the other.
 What most of these comm entators appear to forget is that tho loss iron, the war stopped when the war ended or, to be more exact. will stop when the troops have been dem obilized and returned to normal peace pursuits The loss is all incurred while the troops are in service blowing up mil lions of dollars worth Of munitions every day: all loss is due to the diver sion of workers from producing peace time necessities and comforts 10 wasteful production of guns, powder and munitions.
 From now on there is no furt her direct loss. What we shall be doing is exchanging bits of paper in the form of bonds and money which re- present the amount of service the stay-at- ones gave to the Goyernm ent while the war WAS being Waged. The boys whom we are welcoming home today and who Ti@ked the most and gave the most, receive the smallest pieces of these paper representa- tons Of service given.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
The Blessing of Work.
r'T'hc .\nlctnVst Rim

NI
 It is good for mankind to work. It takes mans mind off his OWn life and turns him away from dreadful self minatipn; it keeps him from that which makes solitude un]oeara )le. the contemplation of that other being. his real self. It is the sovereign rem cdN for moral and aesthetic obses- sions. Work is also excellent in that it panders to our vanity. hides from us our impotence. and Gatters us with the hope of something good to come. We imagine that it enables Us 10 steal a march on Fate. Failing to realize the necessary relation between nldi- vidual endeavor and the mechanism of the universe, we fonlly imagine that our efforts are directed to our own advantage against the rest of the ma chine. Work gives us illusory deter imitation, strength and independence, and ma kes us as gods in our own eyes. We appear to ourselves as so many heroes, genii, demons, demiurges. gods--yes. as God hiu1 self.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
Reading Off His Plate.
Cln diana polls News. )

Thomas nearly three years old, son of a Huntington family, is accus- toned to hearing his father give thanks for the necessities of life at tho family meals. At Q. late supper one day they had food hot off the stove. and while father was busy. mother loaded his plate with hot food to give it an opportunity to cool
 'Daddy hasn't read yet" the boy told his mother.
 "H&sl- t what"'' she qucried.-~-
 "Daddy hasn't read off his plate yet" he exclaimed, and caused dad dy'' to choke while he was perform = ing the rite of "reading.'
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
Where Mir. Simonds Gets on.
(Sprin gfield RepublicanN

One of Frank H. Simonds' hectic dispatches from Paris says that Prcsi- dent Wilson lost influence in Paris because he was subseryient to group of international bankers. Insinua- uohs or this kind might very we'll come rom extremists of the French nauonalast party or from self-5cellinE tTench capitalists. If the banking world faYors reasonable peace terms Tor the Germans. it is because the banking world wants to keep com plete chaos out Of Europe. This de- sire is shared by not few outside uuns nIpdqs dAAJpuo fbYsqA WUggzx the circles Of finance.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
HOW SO0NsC WE
 to HOME? IS CRY
U. s. Soldiers in Germany ASK
 Daniels Questions

Coblenz, April IFS (By the Associat, ed Press of the Navy Jo- sephus Daniels. speaking to the mer of the Second division of the Ameri. can army of occupation this afternoon told his audience that he hoped tht army would be taken home as soon as possible sfa-
 As captain of the ferry boats which brought the American army to Flu. rope,'' he said, T wish to say that have under my command 70,O00 American boys who also arc cIamor9 ing to return to their homes. I have told those sailor boys they would gGL home, but that. first they must helr get back to tho United States tho boyk who fought in France and Belgium
 MT. Daniels entrusted today's as scmblage with that of tho Germans who stood on the same ground in 1914 before the beginning of the war.
 "Thcir chiefs" he said, had visions of conquering the world. but Ameri.s ca entered tho war without desire fol territorial gains
 The secretary's reference to the sol diers return home was answered with cheers and shouts of How soon ~ were heard. The secretary smiled but did not answer.
 This morning, during the review of the division, the Belgian Order of the Grown was conferred on Captait Gaines M oseley, and the Order of Leo' pold on Captain Robert Bake. BotF are officers in the Marine corps. Thir.s ty-three distinguished service crosseS3 and 65 French war crosses were pre-. sented officers and men of the diViZ sion. On the reviewing stand with Secretary Daniels were Mrs Daniels Major Gen. Joseph T. Dickman, com-. mander of the Third army: Majol Gen. John A. IleJeune. commander ot the Second division; Brig. Gen. Johi,' l.. Hines, commander of the Third corps, and naval and army officers who arc accomp mpanying the secretary on his trip. .. ! Following the review, Secretary andi Mrs. Daniels were given ride across. tho fields to the speakers stand on a. caterpillar tractor.
 Mir. Daniels and his party will-- lie guests Of Gen.. Mangin. comIs ander Of the French army of occupation al Mayance today.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
LABOR CONDITIONS BRIGHTER.

Labor conditions throughout the nation appear to be improving a fact that will be noted with satisfaction by employers and employees. The United States Employment Service has an- nounced statistics for tifty-nine cities for the week ending April 12 Dur ing that week there was a labor SLY plus of 97.90O, 8 decline of apDrcxi- mately 36,0G0 over the preceding week. In seven cities there is an ac- tual shortage of 3,75O and in sixteen cities the supply and demand are about eYen.
 In the census taken in twelve Con- necticut cities, the unemployed do not form a surprisingly large army and it is said that the figures arc in excess of the actual situati ton. For instance, the federal service reports 5000 idle in Mcriden, but competent authorities in that city deny that there arc moro than 800 out of work.
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
Col. Harvey Weakening.
Springfield UniOn.)


 So recently as March 17. Col Har- vey, in speaking at Indianapolis on the proposed league of nations. said "I am opposed to the covenant as it stands. ] am opposed to it as it may be amended. I am opposed to it i principle. I am opposed tg it in theory" The impression conveyed is that it would be simply impossible to amend it into anything that would shake his opposition. But, writing in the current mum Der of his Weekly, he gives the impression that he no longer stands where he stood two weeks before. He thinks the Root amendments change the situation, and that flew, if any, republican senators would have the hardihood to reject a policy. marked out by such q leader' This also conveys the inn pression that MT. Harvey was fighting in good shape in March but is seeking peace terms in April
New Britain herald., 1919-04-19
New Works Mail Subway.
tSprin gfield Republican, ) . For m ,aocn,, n oil o,-oo,,, .

Nopt Hl ShS lhepuDllCdn.b %
 For no reason at all except a the orT of his own, the postmaster-gen- eral impaired the f1rst-class mail service in half a dozen cities in the country and. having done that. turned around in his latest annual re port and asked for a tube system of his own to take care of the conges- ton in New York which his own of 11clal act had created,'' writes the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript. The statement, in. part, a t. least. is incorrect. The system" which Mr. Burleson asked for, and which congress wisely grant ed, is subway for transporting mail between Grand Central terminal and Pennsylvania station in New York. undoubtedly the. most, sorely nceded link anyw;l ere in. the post office serv- ice Of the country. There never was tube connection between these great stations, and the ransfer arrange ments have been inadequate causing countless delays to f1rst-class and other mail. The great adNaptage of Q mail subway is that II can carry pouches and sacks of ordinary size, whereas the tubes could transport only packages of letters that had been packed into the cOntaine CTS. It is, indeed debata ble whether the tuhe betveen Grand Central terminal and general post office should have boen abandoned before provision was made to extend the subway down. town But & subway between the stations is a necessity, and should be built with the least possible delay