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New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
CONN. REPRESENTATIVES.
Men Selected to Represent State in National Matches at Caldwell, N. J.

s Hartford, Aug. 7.-Under special orders from the office of Adjutant Gen. Cole, the following members of affiliated rifle clubs of the National Rifle association in Connecticut have been selected as members of the team to represent the state in the national matches at the navy rifle range in Caldwell, N. J.:
 Team captain, J. A. Baker, Jr., Rowayton; team coach, Captain w. H. Richard, Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,, New Haven; team quarter master, V. D. Cornell, New Haven; members, Paul A. Raymond, Green Wich; John. w. Hession, Bridgeport: w. w. Naramore and Major E. S. Hall, Jr., Bridgeport; A. 2 P. Lane, Hartford; c. w. Harrison, Milford; pr. A. B. Baylcs, Compo Beach; Geo. l.. Schenck, Greenwich, and A. A. Clouet, H. M. Thomas, George w. Chesley, C.. w. Curtis, H. J. Gussman and A. Klecker of New Haven.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
ASK FOR FREEDOM
 OF IRISH NATION
Knights of Columbus, It Peace Con- ventiOn, Adopt Resolution Calling
 For Independence of Ireland.

Buffalo, Aug. 7.-Early today after a session extending from last night, the peace convention here of the Knights of Columbus unanimously adopted resolution, calling for. the full recognition of the independence of the Irish nation. Practically every one Of the 300 delegates representing the Knights of Columbus under many different flags, cordially seconded the resolution, which read:
 Resolved that the supreme coun- cil of the Knights of Columbus, en- dorsing the vote Of the senate of the United States expressing it's sympathy with the aspira tions of the Irish people for government of it's own hereby urge the recognition of. the national independence of Ireland by the nations of the world"
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
The Higher Cost Of Peace.
(NeW York WOrld.)

(NeW York WOrld.)
 The prediction that clothes will soon cost double what they cost last year and that shoes will show proportion ate increase in price will hardly add to the consumers serenity of mind. Hay ing paid more for everything he eats or wears or uses in any form because of the war, must he pay still higher prices because of peace? Is the first result of the worlds return of pnoduc- tive industry to be a further imitation .af prices?
 Where are. prophets, but unfortu- nately when A coal dealer or a packer a shoe or clothing manufa cturer predicts dearer coal or meat or clothes the prophecy must be taken seriously. They are the real soothsayers. They peer into their crystal globes see Ital- ian cutters and filters departing for Europe or a herd of cattle grazin g near field of 25O wheat or $2 corn, and straightway forecast4a rise of clothes from S25 to $50 a sAffs and of shoes from $12 to s2O a pair
 No doubt the main trouble is the greater diffusion of wealth due to the war. As in the case of the prince s peaches, prices will be fixed in ac- cordance With the buyers ability to pay. Clothes and shoes will cost dou- ble because farmers and shipbuilders and munitions workers and other protiteers from war prices have the money to pay for them. As for the large element of the public which has nOt profited by the war and finds the purchasing power of it's income re- duced by half, it can wear it's old clothes for another year and have it's shoes patched.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
Ratify the Treaty. (NeW York TimeS.)

The country's impatience with the senate for it's daWdling over the peace treaty will ripen into indigna- tion if the futile hearings and speech making are much longer continued The foreign affairs committee has laboriOusly read the document, line by line, paragraph by paragraph, to the end of the cighty-scven thousand words it contains. It conducted the reading not in the spirit of men in- tent upon a sym pathetic examination of the great charter of peace and lib
 erty for all nations, but rather like body of the Inquisition hunting through an Erasman pamphlet for heterodoX utterances, or a gimlet- eyed church committee bent upon convicting the parson of heresy. The member of the committee are no wiser than they were; before. The hearings go on, the speechmaking continues. Republican senators, prompted by no other motive @fhan their bitter dislike of President Will son, consume days in denouncing 8 document which they are not com potent to eXpound or elucidate. And the country, every day in greater need of relief from conditions that are growing more difficult and dangerous, must bear it's burden while the sen ators vent their wrath upon the treaty.
 It is time to make an enn~of it. In the end the senate must and will ratify the treaty. it has no way of escape from that duty, for the coun
 try commands it. It now lays itself open to increasing severity of cen sure for every day it puts off ratifica- ton. --.
 1t would be indulging in illusory hopes 10 expect congress to restore normal conditions and normal prices by one enactment or a dozen enact
 ments. It cannot by law and in a day increases the supply of foodstuffs and other commodities; it cannot check or altogether regulate the de- | mand resulting from the world S needs; it cannot resolve that the in hatlon of currency and credit shall
 cease at given date. But there are inquiries to be made for the as certainment of facts and the disclo- sure of wrongs or evils or malad- Justments that may be. cured There would be measura ble relief even in the knowledge that congress ,sEith serious mind was attemptinNSb give relief. The events of the last few days have demonstrated that matters of the first order of importance await the attention of the nations legisla-
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
Strike At Springfield.

Springfield, Mass, Aug. 7.1The goo shop men employed in the Boston x Albany shops in West Springffem walked out at o'clock this morning without demonstration. A few older men remained, according to. Master Mechanic F. A. Butler andsswith these it will be possible to effect ssfnc re- pairs. sS~s
 The IT stationary engineers ana about as many firemep% Employed in the shops presented to MT. Butler de- mands for wage increases to S5 centa an hour for the engineers and 6Sscent for the firemen, and gave the mana gw-' ment until Saturday noon to meet the demands, failing. which, it was afr nounced, a strike vote will be taken.
 At the Boston & Maine offices it was said that none of the 200 shop Work- CTS of .thaty road in this city had gone out, the men having deternined bo await word from their leaders in. Washington. The New Haven s, roaas maintains no shops here. 8
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
Prohibition AutOcracy.
(NeW York WOrld.)

Whatever the platform of the Anti Saloon League may say on the sub ~ject, it is certain that the prohibition amendment to the constitution does not authorize congress to make the possession of intoxicants a crime.
 The demand by the lobby for such legislation iustifies the arguments of those who have opposed prohibition. It is now freely admitted that thou sands of spies are to be employed and that enforcement will not be possible unless, in defiance of constitutional guarantees, they can make searches and seizures on suspicion alone.
 It is always thus with fanaticism. After the first step has been taken, zealotry complains at once of lack of authority, and with each succeeding advance toward absolutism it finds new reasons why constantly increas- . ing powers are necessary. In the present revival of the spirit of the Inuuisition there is such haste to re- sort to tyrannous methods that at tempts to proceed in accordance with law and in recognition of human rights are condemned in advance as aItogether useless.
 This is a confession at the very out set to the movement that in order to make prohibition effective govern r,ent must be revolutionized, the laws of liberty rewritten and the people subjected to expressions against which they have been taught to be- lieve they were forever safeguarded Tho worst of it is that the menace does not proceed from any party hav- in 2 Soopular sanction, but from a pri- vate' and in many respects secret or ganasation which never yet has had the tkourage to Meet its proposed vic tiraE ~ the ballot box.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
NEWARK CLUB SOLD
Ernest C. Landgraf, New Owner, Has Had ConSidcIa bIc Experience ill
 Minor League Baseball.

New York, Aug. 7.--President D. l.. F'ultz, of the new International league, today announced the sale of the Newark club by Joseph J. Lannin to Ernest C. Landgraf, of this city, for $40,000
 MT. Landgraf has had considera ble experience in minor league baseball, having been the owner at various times of clubs at Allentown, Potts vile, Paterson, Portsmouth, Rich mond, Danbury and NeWburgh. He is connected with a big manufactur firm in this city. His brother, Will liam J. Landgraf, will be associa ed with him in the mana gem ent of the Newark club.
 It was officially announced that Patrick J. Donovan will be retained as manager.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
S ta~ "NO SUGAR." UNCLE SAM.

Mayor Quigley's absence from the sugar situation came to a head-and the postponement of the special ses- sion~of the Common Council may be condoned by but one thing, success in getting the ordered comm odlty through his personal efforts in New York, Washington or wherever it is that he has gone to look after the supplies His journey will. then be justified. but we doubt whether he will be able to extract the necessity. The fact that the Board of Equalization has denied our petition and cancelled the order for the time being, bears out this belief. Meanwhile time is being ? lost if it is the desire of the city to obtain any other supplies from the government stores, and we are liable to find, after it is decided to buy other commodities, that we have again been too late and there will be none upon the market.
 l It SoHt1il1Cil ol Ine Clly ndS Deen undeniably in favor of buying the sugar and there has been 0 diversity of opinion, hard to crystalIze, qifpon the advisability of purchasing other goods. It appears that the mayors action has done a great deal toward closing up the possibility of so doing as municipalities all over the United States are losing no time in buying UT all that is offered. A Council meeting next week may be too late.
 The citizen who is enabled to pur- chase even pound of bacon, or ham at less than the prevailing rates, feels that he has accomplished som ething that is far greater than what he has actually done. The satisfactio of the bargain hunter instinct, to all of us, is cause, for great rejoicing, such is hu- man nature. There is little need tc cry over split milk-in this case lost sugar-but it is too bad that the three carloads we expected were denied us.
 We probably will have to resig1 ourselves to a complete lack of gov ernment supplies for New Britain, al least until another batch Is thrown open to the pubHc by the War Depart. ment. Our own tardiness of actor will be to blame, nothing more. It is
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
COMMUNICATED.
Explanation of the "Bolshc viki'' Riots
 At the Ukrafnian State Convention. f

New Britain Conn.
 August B. 1919 Editor New Britain Herald:
 Kindly allow space in your valu- able paper for the explanation of the so-cal1ed "Bolsheviki' riot at the tkrainian convention on the Grd day of August which we hope will settle the misunderstanding as 1t comes from an authoritative source, namely: The trouble started after the petition to the president had been read and voting upon it had begun. The dele gates unanimously approved the peti- tion by arising from their seats and theFPOles who were in great mum bers in therrear of the hall seemed dissat- isfed and started to hoiler tshame" and make other disorders.
 We. are very sorry for the incident for thas petition in question did not disparage in any way the Poish peo- pie but it repnAvcd the irresponsible autocratic authorities of Ukrainia in which the Polish people have no part Thanking you, we are, sincerely, (Signed.)
 COMMITTEE IN CHARGE OF
 THE STATE UKRAINLAN
 CONVENTION.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
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 A BALLsDEz AGAINST CRITICS.


 You mourn, for your hopes decay?,H Ambition and Fame are cheats ?- Some Critic has deigned to hay Your work in the public sheets. Come, don't be a lamb that bleats! The battle is gay.FHd Bong. Remember (oh,s ssweet of sweets) The Critics are mostlyaaxrong. >~ @%9 The Critics-and who are they? Usurpers that hold their seats An hour of a passing day; And what are their noble feats? Why, see what they did to Keats And Byron, that Lord of Song. Apollo himself repeats, '"The Critics are mostly wrong!" V Aware of their feet of clay, When Critic with Critic meets They wink as they go their way To plot in their foul retreats. Ghen shout in the open streets, ardent but inl1y 1rong, The truth that ed hTheart secretes: The Critics are ndsny wgong!"
 rnvor. Though skilled with the lash that
 beats
 And deft with the prodding throng As sure as their moment fleets The Critics are mostly wrong.
 ARTHUR GUITERMAN,
 in Harper's Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07

tors. They should be free to turn their minds to the exanmnation of the complex and difficult questions which occupy. the public mind, and haVe produced the prevailing uneasi- ness. Congress cannot concern itself with these questions of moment while th@ senate is engaged in making tWal' upon President Wilson, i'm deVising ways to deprive. him of his shares of the credit for the great work done at Paris, After all their challenges, all their fault-tinding and criticisms and assaults, the treaty and the league covenant stand unconquerablc. There is no need of reservations or amendments. The country wants none. It wants the treaty ratified now
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
.25 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, August :, 1894
(From the Herald of that Date)

4a Tv, Tuesday, August :, 1894. James Butler returned. from d trip to Ireland on the Majestic last Satur- day.. Jim COrbett, the prize fighter, was on the same steamer and MT Butler says that Corbett pitched quoits every day on"the way over
 Water Commissioner Egan has noti fled all. persons inS arrears. with their water rents that unless they pay promptly liens will be placed on .1heir property. '''
 AssistaDk Cashier E. N Stanley of the New Britain, National bank left town today with his family for Quo- gae, L.s., where they will enjoy a few weeks outing.
 William Middlemas is visiting in HarWinton. e@,..: -.
 At the annual. meeting of the Saw ngs Bank aof New Britain, held Syester- day afternoon at 4 o'clock, e. B.. Old- ershaW was elected secretary. e.. * About 11:30 this morning Consta- baes. Rawlings j. and Special Officers Coffey.. and Nelson started for F. $. McMahons s..ssa loon on the corner of Broad and High streets, Just as Con- stable Rawlings was within few yards of the ddbr a. small boy dashed into the saloon and shouted: Cheese it Paddy, the cops are coming" In the tWinkljng Tan eye sturdy jug was passed from the bar to the rear door and when the officers appeared on the scene of action there was only root Beer and cider to be found,
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07

are Exceedingly well written; several are in dialect and have quiet hiimor which is delightful ublisher's noae.a s:1l.' k. --s .. .1n*** 4, .. = .. WHY WE FAIL AS CHRISTIANS, by
 Robert Hunter g.
 .sss..Accepting the second great com-' niahdme ent- we must, love others as ourselves-as fundament tally neces- sary o.,a. Christians life, I have en- I'd eavoredt in this volume to consider all that, obedience .to<it involves and especially what the consequences would be to any man in present socie ty who attempted to obey that com-' mandment hmplicitlys' 'Tz-Authar's' pre- face. B.. .-% | .-, zfoNIsM SND/ rHE4 FuTURE 6oF
 PAElEsTINE, bs Norris Jastrow
 The fallacies and danesrs ;s1 of poltti- cal aKionlsm. ..:
 "' rtctaonl:: < =. 1 : .r BIG FLAT, by Henry Qyen.,
 'Asstory of the northwest Afforest fire and the explosion of a dam fur nish added excitement and the love story turns out as. it should "A. eL, A Booklist,s
 DANGERoe DAYS, :bs MAR. Rine-
 ii''' / tGAY-DoMBEYs, by Sir Harry John
 ston.. e, +@ fs,r;- ,t
 Several of the characters are de- scendants of some. of Dickens charac- ters.' l~ef , x
 H1EEs oE DESIRE, by R. "A Maher
 A. story ef;sa- loving young couple doing a gypsy stunt with an old gypsy ! wagon, and horse, and their adven- lures by the way Some misunder- standing separates them to drive him into the war and her into Red Cross nursing. Book Review Digest.
 Mild and pleasant little story for the most part, though one.gwhich be- gins and ends on note. Of melo dra . ma. The horse DonaVan is d likable individual. IN. Y. Times. IN SECRET, by R. w. Chambers. SMILE A MINUTE, by H. c. Witwer. STARLING, by w. Tompkins. YOU NEVER SAW SUCH A GIRL, 1xs George Weston.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
AGAIN, THE TREATY.

Arguments, pro and con, on the League of Nations seem to have settled down into a situation wherein each side is doing it's best to prove fhe other falsiher-we hesitate to use the shorter and uglier" word Irrespective of the merits of any par ficular point that has been brought up. There is in Washington some
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
National Happeninos.

Choleras is raging in Canton-More than 10000 deaths since March 1. Ninety per cent. of the cases prove fla tal
 Big game run down-An. extensive nest of counterfeiters unearthed, : lo- cated near Danbury-Well equipped for the manufac cture of spuficAs money-RiscoNefed by detectives.
 Train robbers attempted to hold up the fast Lake Shore mail train near South Bend, Ind, last evening Xbnt after a pistol duel Mith the, trainmen were compelled to give up their at tempt 4xf -,
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07

organization that is issuing S sastatse- ments attributed tofstIes President or sonlet.ef his opponents that are highly contfadict61'y and we. are reading these statements so oftea that it has come, to a hoint where it>is impossible to know what~to believe In addition 10 this, the reports are, so confusing sthat we < cannot readily determine where anyone involved stands.
 The appearance of the President before body representing the Senate in an open quiz ron 'the subject is. a case in point. We have been assured that the President Fould be glad to tell what he c'5hld }o5 the Committee on Foreign Relations. Then it ap- . pears that he would not go before thes committee, under Tany considera- ,tion. Ostensib1y the latter was from Democratic headquarters Now We are reminded, through the New York World, a Democratic paper which is close 10 the Administration, in :. it's story of the Lansing inquiry of yes terday j. that the President and his services are "at the disposal of tue Committee on Foreign Relations, eithef" inforinally or in session." This statement was made in the Ples dents recent address to the Senate, and, according to The Wor1d, again, Secretary Lansing's attitude during the inquiry. carried an implication that the invitation should be complied with. In view of alltof these things, we are convinced that it is Repub- lican methods that are creating* the uncertainty, that it is Republican tac- tics that will npt allow the public exposition of facts to take place, .$while the party is also trying to in sinuate to knowledge hungry popu lace that it is the President whQ dehies the interview. The action or the falsiaers is boun ndetesc come out and sure to be resented, :aTspite the Ssv:-
 
 dent desire to make sas cloudy 4nd remote as'possible Why can we not have the treaty discussions open and above board. from start to finish :? Are the Republicans, afraid Of an open argument-7tos \ be- tried before us all-between the Com mfttee, anRe+the President? If so, the League of Nations is our wish, as it would have Virtue enough to meet with public approval after an, argu- ment. Otherwise, why should tac opponents fear the tribunal?
 AS usual, the Lansing inquiry was nothing but words; nothing but. the preliminary grapple of mental wres tiers struggling for a decisive hold, which was not forthcoming. Agaln we repeat, there has been nothing but words, bitter words many times, to the whole affair so 'far. No salient points have been exposed, no real ar guments against adoption presented. We do not care, for instance, whether any one individual in the United States demonstrated < against the Shantung clause. We would like to know why they ;remonstrated, and why in others opinions, they were wrong. Then we may decide, Gen era1ities prove nothing; give us facts, and do. not cloud the issue ,,@
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New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
WaII<out At Stamford.

Stamford, Aug 7.-Shopmen ndffas' bering 40 in the New Haven roadas
 local plantyieft work at 10 a. m. The
 entire force is out. The shopmen re4
 pair electric locomotives. and q epro-s tracted strike might mean d conIpfe ta: tie-up of the lines in the energized ,zeae from here. to New" York eitys 'Thes Connecticut Itroney)} Co is noti affeet@daant the power station atf Cos. /, Cob, whaeh supplies scurrent to bokR the railroad and the railway, iss@4eT4
 atiug: as usudl.x S
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
ANOTHER STRIKE.
Employees of l.. I, T. Co. Out TomorS~s row in Sympathy With B. R. T. Men.

New York Aug 7.--The street rail- way men employed by the Long Is- land Traction Co.,, which operates cars to practically all the towns of Long Island, WilA go on strike at o'clock tomorrow morning, according to an announcgment made today by Edward Smith, chairman of the local execuwves . committee of the Analgamated Assos citation of Street and Elevated Rail-, way Employees.
 MT. Smith stated tha. Atrike had been voted in sympathy with B. R. T.s strikers.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
Now London. Report.

New London, Aug. ALA o'sIpck this morning, rS car> inspectors 0TN&sN New. Hayen road in this city and RGp shopmen in the Midway. yard, all @.oes those who were in the first trick, quR work in response 10 the strike ordefs The second ttick of 45 men is due fR report at 3 o'clock this afternoon, a1H the third trick, involving the sanae number, at II O'clock tonight. R
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07

The figures were carefully compiled by one of the largest retail clothing esta ablishments in New York city. Throughout they represent the same grade of goods in each case, and the outfit is such as experience shows a man who used to weaf $50 suits would buy.
New Britain herald., 1919-08-07
OUTING FUND


 The Herald is in receipt, today, of two more generous checks to be used by the City Missianet in the main tenance Of its vacation home for needy New Britain children and their mothers known as "Interbrooke." This worthy cause has not been for gotten by the Herald or by Miss Bart lett of the Mission, who originated the scheme. Any donations of any amount will be gladly received and thss public is assured that it's money will be spent in such a way as to in sufes the greatest possible benefit to as largts g. number as may be accom- modatedteat the farmhouse. In our equalization today; we include two amounts which were sent direct to Miss Bartlett which she wishes to ac- knowledge by this means:
 Previously acknowledged '.S 67