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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10


leaped into the future his eyes were
never to see and his thoughts tex-
pressed on that occasion fit the oc-
casion today with startling vividness.
One of the greatest CONFERENCE.-The
against an uprising in this country is
the fact that so many of the middle
class own property. That is the tap
root Of our prudence the barrier
tension of suffrage without requiring
the property qualification, Lowell
said: Even in manufacturing towns
where q majority of the voters live by
their daily wages, it is not so often
the recklessness as the moderation of
public expenditure that surprised the
old fashioned observer. The beegar
is in the saddle at last cries Pro-
verbal Wisdom. why, in the name
of all former experience, doesn't he
ride to the Devil?' Because in the
very act Of mounting he ceased to be
beggar and became part owner of
Dwelling on the trend of the times,
the desire Of the people to have
louder voice in their national affairs,
| Lowell declared: "This sentiment is
merely an expression Of the natural
wish of the people to have d hand. if
need be controlling hand, III the
management of their own affairs.
What is new is that they are more
and more gaining that control, and
learning more and more how to be
worthy of it. What we used to call
the tendency or drift-what we are
being taught more wisely to call the
evolution Of thinss--has for some
time been setting steadily in this di-
rection. There is no good arguing
with the inevitable. The only argu-
ment available with an east wind is
to put on your ONerCoat" Such senti-
| ments Of resistance would not do
today when demagOgues are abroad
in the land. mot q change for the
| better i'll our human housekeeping
| has ever taken place that wise and
| good men have not opposed it-haNe
| not prophesied with the alderman
| that the world would wake up to find
| its throat cut in consequence of it."
| he continued. THE world. on the
contrary. wakes up, rubs it's eyes
yawns, stretches itself and goes about
| it's business as if nothing had hap
| pened. Suppression Of the slave trade
abolition of slavery, trade unions-at
all of these, excellent people shook
their heads despondingly, and muir
| INJURED Tcha bod"
| Speaking of the conservative
| founders of the republic, Lowell
might have been describing what the
| world is asked to do now by the rad
! icals, order Il new system of govern
| ment like new suit Of clothes They
| would as soon have thought of order
ing a new suit OF flesh and skim
For that era, Lowell had unusual
| views on property. THE right of in
| dividuaI property" he said, SIS no
| doubt the cornerstone Of civilization
| as hitherto understood. but [ am i'm
| patient of being told that property is
entitled to exceptional consideration
| because it bears all the burdens of
| the State" One Of LoweITs strongest
! statements, as applicable today, was
| that IAN appeal to the reason of the
| people has never been known to fail
in the long rum
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10
Chronic.
(Exchange.D

Small boy (to charitab BILE lady
please mother says she's much bet
ter OF the complaint wot YOU gives
her QUINN for, but she's awful i'll of
the disease Wots cured by port wine
and chicken broth"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

Thomas A. Edison will reach his
I'D birthday tomorrow and has ex-
pressed the hope that he will live to
be 100. His great grandfather died
at 104, his grandfather at 102 and
rooters for the "EIectricaI Wizard"
to reach the century mark.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10
A just Claim.
(BOstOn Transcript. J

Among other claims for reparatlon
which might come before the peace
conference are those of the boy who
received sled on Christmas Gay
1918,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

Waterbury is agitating for q barge
canal from Derby. We hope it has
more water in 1t than our famous
ditch from MiddlctoWn.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10
\ Good Reason

(Buffalo Commercial.
How is it I haven't seen YOU in
church recently my Near?"
"WhN, bishop, l haven't been
there"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10
ORLD LEAGUE WITH TEETH.

ORLD LEAGUE WITH TEETH.
N er deliberate weighing and ma
consideration of all plans for the
# lishment of the League Of Ma
the committee arranging such a
n v has adopted a broad middle
Re, so far as military persuasion
concerned, according to q
#ch member Of the committee.
will not be prevented; it will not
be forbidden if the program ten
Ply arranged is adopted; it will
AIDE improbable.
Re important points have been
Rd upon, as follows:
AN executive committee with
authority, always in session.
mbers being appointed by Iarg-
N powers and acting for entire
@gus.
M judicial tribunal before which
NJ puting nations may be sum-
SRned to settle differences.
81 International pal lament con-
hing annually TO discuss and
q bet world legislation.
international military force.
81 luding naval units. Each ma
In to maintain its share within
IN borders subject to call by ex-
N ltive body to serve wherever
#eded, This force to be main
med only for purpose Of COM
Cling d1sputing nations to bring
#Pir case before judicial tri-
hal.
#Possiblc employment of eco
mic boycott to prevent war.
e fourth point is expected to
with opposition from public
in the United States who will
Pss to see in it an effort to use the
larry forces of America in the set
lent of disagreements between
Ign nations. They may be APP
SAed by the knowledge that the in
Mationai military equipment will be
81 upon only to insist on coun-
having grievances bringing their
before the judicial tribunal. 1t
#bt planned, under the tentative
#ram, to use this interna tional
4 in any war that might actually
\ r.
4 is said that the committee agreed
#he esta blishment of an interna-
III police force, because France
ed that Germany would again
Il the borders unless a military or
"a ton were created. After the
lriences of 1914 we can believe
such apprehensions by the
hen are we'll grounded.
he world has been crying for a
h1e with teeth in it, one that can
mol respect for public opinion. If
tentative program is approved we
have a society of this nature.
erbert Bayard Swope of the New
( World warns that 1.-The final
/ will be more loosely constructed
il is generally believed He also
res that no super-soverelgnty
he created that will absorb the
yidusl rights of the nations COM
ne the league. ........ ....
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

They say in Paris that the speech
making in the United States senate,
reported more or less fully by cable.
is complicating the. situation in the
peace conference, which, of course.
will carry joy to Washington, because
that is the purpose Of most of the
speechma king.-New York World.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

The new revenue bill puts soap in
the luxury class. Is this the enter
ing wedge Of BolsheVism ?--Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

Did YOU happen to note, in passing,
that St Louis laid the 'biGGest water
main in the World' on the day AFTER
the prohibition amendment was ratl-
fed New Orleans Picayune.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

we didn't go into this war to get
anything. but neither did we go in
for the proud privilege Of giving up
all we've Sensational Republican.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-10

4Ien are now demanding
Paris came near being be
fime for once in very con-
Jus ashion.-Was hingtOn Star.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

just consider that the nerves which are directly connected with the brain are of an identical substance through out the body The five senses trans roit their messages along a system of ''1.rillg" (tho nerves) which is not in tho slightest different in the case of hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting or smelling. The only differences are In tho external sense apparatuses them selves. Hence, if there should happen to be a "crcssing of the wires"-that is, if the sense of smell, sends mes sage to the brain along a nerve when in so,no way becomes intertWined with a nerve along which the senses of sight and hearing are wont to send sheir mcssa ges--it can easily be seen that the smell will translate itself into something seen and heard by the time # reaches the brain; and so the odor
 of 2 violet, for instance, will transmit, perhaps d. picture of a woodland glade,
 together with a strain of exquisite
 yous,c. i,o addition to it's own sweet
 rne:;ssse o2 fragrance, And if odors
 can produce this effect, why not also
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

the essential complement of each other. Their very existence depends upon this striving for union, and when their strivin'r is realized they lose their separate identities and become something altogether different.
 This seeking for union is what con stitutCS the force of elective affinity, the most ordinary manifestation of which is between the positive and negative poles in electricity; but is also found identically the same in es- sence, but different in expression, In the crystallizations of minerals and m the life of plants and animals and above all, in that marvellous attraction as well as repulsion which plays so supremely important part in human affairs.
 One of the most sensitively polariZed substances is the retina, that mem brane upon which the images of ex- ternal objects are thrown after enter :nss the eye through the pupil. The retina is by no means passive re- cipicn: of these images. The moment
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

sounds, or, in fact, anything that ap- peals to any of the senses?
 Of all the theories of colors, no other, perhaps, is so we'll adapted as that which endeavors to explain not only why it Is possible for sounds to present themselves as colors, but also why colors exercise so powerful an effect upon the human disposition. To understand this theory it will be neces- sary, first, to get a comprehensive view of what is meant by polarity and "elective affinity'
 Polarity, as defined in the Century Dictionary, is "the having two oppo- site poles; variations in certain physical properties, so that in one di rection they are the opposite of what they are in the opposite direction: thus a magnet has polarity. Usually, as in electrified or magnetic bodies, these are properties of attraction or repulsion." etc.
 A better description of polarity might be that it is the striving for union in two substances which are specifically different but generically identical. Substances of this kind are
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

capable of imparting the tremendous oneroies inst referred to. What It does mean is that, in the same manner as you move your arms at the penesC of your will so it is will which ln- habits every force and gives It the energy to act.
 In man this will Is guided by under standing and reason; in brutes ty un- derstanding alone without reason; Tn bcth the will reacting chiefly to mo- lives which have passed through their brains.
 In plants. though many acts appear to be guided by intelligence, such as for instance the stealthy closing of the calvx of the fly-catching plant over it's victim, which it then pro- ceeds to digest, this is only seem ingly intelligent act. In reality 1t IS brought about by a stimulus, instead of bv a motive. The fly lighting upon a sensitive spot in the calyX causes the latter to close up mechanically; whereas the animal which grabs for it's sustenance does so after perceiV- ing 1t.
 Thus an organ of perception, even though it be of the primitive kind possessed by the oyster or the polyp, is an indispensable concomitant of animality. Nevertheless, the will in plant, although not accompanied by intelligence, becomes operative and manifests it's characteristics no less distinctly than in man and brute. For it's characteristic in every instance IS one of desire, yearning, longing, even i'm those cases when it seeks it's gratitt- cation in flight or by repulsion rather than attraction.
 It will thus be seen that. alt.>ough
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

Musician painting a landscape in notes which are converted into col. ors as he strikes the
 piano keys
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01
When Violet Is White

A striking proof of the fact that white Is produced by the complete ac- tivtty of the retina and may, therefore, be appropriately marked as l, with black as 0, is furnished by the follow ing experiments:
 First. A bouquet of lilacs having the true violet color) seen by the vel low light of candle, will appear to be white.
 Second. Let sun rays pass through two prisms (crystals) so that the union of the violet spectrum of the one, coin ciding with the yellowlsh-red spectrum of the other become combined into truo red color. Then allow the green spectral rays from third prism to fall 1,non the red and the result will be a pure white.
 Third Using only two prisms, allow the orange rays from one to fall upon the blue rays of the other and you will
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

numeral l and representing the full activity of the retina, yellow might be considered as engaging three-quar- ters of the retinas activity, and violet only one-quarter
 After yellow the next removed from White IS orange. So, pastng up your orange square upon the black back ground. gaze at it for some thirty sec onds and then turn your eyes to the gray surface. What do you suppose you will find there?
 A blue square!
 As orange sets in motion about two- thirds of the activity of the retina, the residue necessary to form the impress sion of blue is one-third.
 And now we come to the paper square of that bold, bad color" red. Taste 1t up upon the black surface. and after filling your eyes with it for half minute, gaze at the gray sur face.
 You will there behold a green square.
 TO see red, your retina needed to exercise but one-half it's entire ac- tiVity; hence it's complement, green, required the other one-half.
 Now put up the green square and after gazing at it for half a minute look at the gray surface, and on it you will discover the green color's red com plement. So, likewise, il regard to the blue and the violet squares, which in their turn will disclose their respective complements of orange and yellow.
 Yellow, orange, red, green, blue and violet are the primary physiological ColOrs. All other colors, of whatever shade or tint, though they are in- finite, are but notifications of these six.
 Tn this respect the color scale re- scmbles the musical octave; and al though the gradations in each case are infinitely minute, neither the normal eye nor the normal ear can ever fail to detect to which place in it's respec- tive scale a color or a note belongs
 You will have observed that the nearer the colors approached to white the greater the degree of retina activ- ity required to produce them: red orange and yellow requiring, respec- lively. oue-nalf, twothirds and three quarters, while for green, blue and violet one-half, one-third and one-Quar- ter of the activity of the retina suf feed; these colors being closer to black (darl;noss>, the total absence of color.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01
Elective Affinity Plays Part

And now we come to the part of our inquiry which deals with the reason for the strange effect of color upon the disposition.
 You will remember that the produc- tion of the colors was described as due to an eXcitation of the retina, causing the latter to exercise an activity known as polarity, and that polarity was explained to be but another name for elective affinity. Now the term affinity" originally used only in con- nectiOn with chemical substances, mas come to be applied also to human beings, especially persons of the Romeo and Juliet type. In some 1n- stances the mutual attraction IS so strong that those who are under It's spell gladly give their lives for each other. Under another aspect the strength of the devotion manltests itself in a jealousy which does not hesl- tate to murder in the frenzy Of its selflshness.
 But, as already stated, elective affin- ity is by no means confined to tne human kind. It exists among other animals and rules with an even more despotic sway in the vegetable ana the mineral kingdoms. In order to understand just how it shows itself m so inorganic an object as, let us say, q pebble it will be necessary to take a sort of informal trip into the workshop of nature herself and there try to gain initiation into some of her secrets.
 Naturally we are curious to know what that is that imparts so tremen- dOus an energy to electricity Whlch rends, welds, heats, lights and moves mighty masses: and to graVltatloh which holds planets and entire solar systems in place; and to impene- inability which enables an atom to defy the weight of a universe to crush or destroy it; and to all the other forces which are everywhere and at all times present throughout the world and only await an opportunity for manifesting themselves.
 Fortunately each of us finds natures workshop very close at hand, for, truth to say, it is within our own selves. Each of us is thus enabled to ascer- tain quite entirely to his own satis- faction that the power which endows all those forces which have just been enumerated with their energy is identical with that which is the most intimately known to us of all things in the World-our own will This, Of course, is not to be understood as meaning that my will or yours Is
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01
By Iruing F. Bacon

&% ~N-
 MUCH has been said Of the possj- ~'A bilsiy of color influencing ones disposition II has even been sug- scs-ed t--at color may be the fruitful scurce Of crime D.vorces arc said to haTr been caused by the occult influ- e1ce oT certain colors. and other colors are believed to have been productive .of beneficial effects and 10 have re- s---el in c-res
 Red 2zas heea lander the ban as the asTtiLsh ElCto- yo which almost every eFl attributable tn color can be traced wlIIe Erefu. blue and violet have been revered as rlfe soothing. nervc-toning. soul -sa'ae.uE colorS. and yellow. while -'t aSsoc-atrd w5;h the evil reputc of god nevertheless. is in bad -'odor" as "-sr ef the most eShaustinE 10 the eye.
 N'-.F phase ot colors seems to have e=-aF-od tho sersat tion seekers. They =1F" Ho- Net sought 10 ascertain the possibility or constructing a painting cut Cf musical notes.
 Of course. the story of the building Of The walls ot Thebes. the ancient city of Greece. is some four thousand years old I, is the story of how Am nhion's music so affected the stones in the fields that -hev became suddenly enerEtzci and ranged themselves in LOWS laysr upui. layer. until the solid c.~CumvaIIa-ions ha1 reared them sesVe~- And as "prcof" of it. portions CT tie walls .t,b.it in ruins. may be seen 10 the present day.
 But as to music taking the form of g painting. history and even mythology are mute: ard the fertile imagination of the modern cxrloiter of sensational scientific novelties appears to have missed it's chance. Not even the most progressive of the savants has said word as yet concerning the feasi hility Of such a thing.
 Sound Translated Into Painting
 And yet the transition to a music. born painting from what actually oc. CUTS Tn the case of at least one out of every ten persons is so easy and obvious that it seems almost incredi- ble that those who SCOUT the world in all its four clements" for startIinp discoveries should never have thought Of it.
 Chromesthesia is the technical name for peculiar twist of the mind which makes those who are afflicted or, shall We say. blessed?-with it to see color whenever they hear cer- tain sounds. The word is compounded from two Greek words which mean color feeling" According to the New International Encyclopedia, one Der. son in every eight is subject to chro. mesthesia.
 There are. of course, various degrees of this strange manifestation, ranging from the cases where the sounds sug. gest merely the thought of some color up to those extreme instances in which the sounds elicit the actual, visible colors with as much objective reality as if they were spread upon canvas. Some persons cannot hear a tenor without seeing green. A soprano voice conjures up yellow before their eyes. 4 bass, especially if of the Ger man, beer-sodden timbre, makes them see red Orange comes in with the baritone. A mezzosoprano never fails to evoke the blue color; and contralto, violet
 Now, with such a palette at an artists disposal, what is there to pre- vent him from training a sextet to sing a painting" of enchanting beauty?
 Lest this be considered sheer folderol,
New Britain herald., 1919-10-01

1t is affected by them it reacts in an the impressions which come to it, so to speak, as raw material, works them over into such form as enables the understanding to perceive them as finished products; that is to say, as objects existing outside of us
 The polarization which takes place in the rctina, in order to reproduce within itself a given color, is called it's divided activity" This, in turn, may be quantitative as well as quail tative. When white light affects the retina, 1t does not undergo this polar lzing process, but operates with it's entire activity; for white is really no color at all, and, like black, serves merely as sort of border post for all lie between them.
 The half shadows and gray, being midway between light and darkness (white and blacll), are visible to us by reason of what may be called the intensively divided activity of the retina. This can best be explained by an illustration.
 Paste a piece of black paper cut into the form of a cross upon a white sur face and look at it intently for half a minute or so. Then let your eyes rest upon a grayish or, at least, drab surface. You will see there the spectrum" of a white cross
 You Can Test It Yourself
 The cause of this is that the black cross did not call forth any kind of activity on those parts of the retina affected by it: whereas, the Whiteness of the rest of the surface did exercise the full activity of those parts of the retina which they affected; and now, while the formerly busy parts are taking a comparative rest, gazing at the gray surface, the rested part is working at full intensive activity and, accordingly, fills out with white light the portion which had been occupied before by the black cross.
 If, instead of turning to grayish surface you close your eyes with your hand, creating a total darkness, this transformation will not take place.
 Extensively as well as intensively divided activity are but the subdivi- sions of the so-callod quantitatively divided activity of the retina. It IS only when we consider ColorS properly so called that we begin to deal with what has beer referred to as the qual- itatively divided activity of the retina. This, 100, can be best and most conveniently explained by an Illustration
 Cut out little pieces of COlored paper, yellow, orange and red. say two or three inches square. Paste the yellow square upon a black surface and look at it intently for half a minute. Then look away, allowing your eyes to rest upon a gray or other drab surface. Instead of yellow, a violet square will appear to you. This "speCtral' violet is the complementary color to yellow.
 What caused the violet to appear was that the yellow color not being able like white to set in motion the whole activity of the retina, left a portion of this activity unoccupied :. but when the eyes were withdrawn from the yellow, and the part of the retina which had been set in motion bv if had come to rest, the remainder of the latent forces began of it's owr accord to grow active, thus conjuring up the impression of violet.
 Yellow is the nearest color to white, violet the most remote one from it. Assuming white to be expressed by the