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New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

of common parks, of one vote for each citizen, does much towards Obliter- atlng the lower class by bringing it to middle class level. But when at tempts are made 10 pull down the upper class to middle class level we hear the old stock objection raised that we are trying to drag everyone to d dead level" What is really meant is that we would destroy incen- tlVeS to / progress. No genuinely democratic man could have personal use for over a hundred thousand dol lars, to say the most. Whatever above this he should accumulate be would acquire not to satisfy legitimate dem ocratic personal needs, but to give him power and prestige, to place him in a class above the public, or middle class. In republic he is really no longer a plain citizen but lord, baron, or prince, actually even though not nominally. Groups of these form a sort of nobility, only here we call them capitalists. They are mon with the instincts of the
 'nOblesse' flourishing in a dem mocratic state. We would curb the man who by real ability, shrewdness or any sort of trickery should cast more than one D0llOI. A man like IGIt might have a hundredfold more political sagacity than newly made voter of foreign birth, but each has but one vote. This political equality is not really matter of justice, of giving each man his due, but it is a matter of idealism. It eValuates men, not by their proven worth, but by their potential value in an idealized state
 Thus democracy always has a large measure of idealiSm altruiSm in it's political aims. But in an era where machine industry comes to be the determinate factor in the day by-day life of the people, it tends to set up a superim posed social structure more vital to existence even than abstract political systems. That is the condi- ton that obtains today, and our struggle of labor against capital has outgrown the forms of the old po- litical antagonsms. We can say to the foreigner when we naturalize him, Here is your franchise equal to that of any other man. But we cannot tell him at seven the next morning, Here you arc equal to any other man in the shop. your pay and say in cluded. And this is precisely where our social system fails. It gives a man an idealizcd rating politically, and a mean rating industrially, unless he is in the upper class. It is Doc tor Jeykll and MT. Hyde social sys- tenn. Therefore many despair and turn to Bolshcvism. And your edi- torial concludes that game cannot be beaten" I beg to differ with you
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

MoLlERE, by Philip Moeller.
 The play which ran for 8 number or weeks in New York. It relates the story or Moliere's loss of favor with Louis HIV.'-A l.. A. BookIist. If EODORE ROOSEVELT, by w. R. Thayer
 An intimate biography. COMMAND IS FORWARD, by Ser seant Alexander Wollcott.
 AaleS Of the A. K. F. as they ap- peared in The Stars and Stripes.''
 The book is one you will like to read whether you were overseas ar not. ."-N. Y. Times.
 FICTION. CAPTAIN zILLNER, by Rudolf T. kreutz
 Presented under the guise of 1c- ton, the volume is nevertheless dis tlnctiy war book, and a very inter estlng one."-N Y. Times CARR1NGTONS OF HIGH HILL. bv Marion Harland
 An old Virginia chronicle.
 There is love story of unusual type ana a mystery to hold the read CT attention. IN. Y. Times oOIIAGE OF DELIGHT, by E. M. Dell
 The scene is in a British army sta ton in India" oH HEKR1, by G. E. McCutcheon.
 The story is told in an entertain Ing style, and with much humor that especially manifests itself in the con- Versatlon. IN. Y. Times
  SIMON, by J. $. Clouston
 really first class detective story Is pure and unmitigated joy; such tale is Simon.'-N. Y. Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
QUITS THE CONFERENCE.

The expected has happened Labor |has decided that there may be no |meeting of the conditions that it has Faid down and has left the capital Tabor agricultural conference assem- Died in Washington. Meanwhile, capital and the public group are con- fvening in an attempt to "carry on." Collective bargaining was the rock in sthe channel; the ship could not pass. 5Though we do not approve of blowin g bur horn too much, we cannot refrain From the II told you so'' assertion, There was little prospect of the wo factions agreeing upon the big question of the hour. It might be an Interesting sidelght now to kick the Capitalists out of the conference and ] o union and capital. Of course, the Capitalists have a right to be repre- $ented, as has labor-but, finally, the public is to decide the matter. Why hot do so now? We might let them Advance their ideas, fight them out in ! he press, and pass laws that will back up the ideas.
 I We believe at the present time that : he arbitrary stand has been adopted by labor; it is in a position to do so; zlthough, if conditions were different, abor not so scarce, we do not doubt
 but that capital would have met the 2Ldvances of labor with barred swords.
 labor is truly in the saddle; it is in position to demand. But this will
 ot always be. There will come Mime when capital will be able to pick nd choose it's own Workmen. Then
 will be labor which will be anxious So grant concessions. It would be
 ken if the public could pick a middle
 round, in which it has a chance, and
 night be no upsetting of the order If things-by labor at present or by
 apital later-under penalty of fine
 nd Imprisonment.
 < Gompers has made his threat. He
 Implies that labor will be able to tie J p industry and force another con- Ference, when capital will be glad to #alk collective bargaining. If that i" &he way the land lays, the public is Ready for the fight to be staged. 1t < ill be a big one, there is no doubt II that, but some adjustment will ave to be reached Otherwise we
 re facing oblivion. Gompers may &hi; if he does, we have decided.
 al pital may lose; if so, we have de-
 ided. Bring on the battle royal, it
 hay as well come now as later. The
 GOT public faces the music eventu- lilly, but it has it to face.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
COMMUNICATED
East Berlin, Conn.

Oct. 21, '19. The Editor, New Britain Daily Herald,
 Dear Sir:
 Will you permit me to offer com ment on your editorial of the 21st on the Industrial Conference? Like many other laboring% men l have been studying carefully your editorials on industrial subjects and am glad to admit that your viewpoint is broader than that of many other Connecticut editors But in this one in Tuesdays issue I find much to criticize.
 Tn stating that "the public has still to be ground between the mlllStones of the perpetual capital labor strife you imply that there are three definite classes an upper, lower, and middle class. What you call the "public' is the middle class. Now It appears 10 me that if democracy IS to contain three classes it is bound to come to orief t1,a three classes being elements of intimate disruption. If three, or four or five classes are desired, then q monarchical form of government holds better prospects of holding them in nlace than democracy. The loGi cal end of democracy is to embody o ono class society. in which the con- cent of the "public" and of the "n,asses" shall become identical. Our svstem of common education, of widesnread circulation of newspapers,
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
THE TWO PLATOONS.

Advocates of the platoon system in the fire department are not hesitating to call attention to the recent fire on Pearl street and the lack of men that was noticeable for a moment or so at the start of it. It happened to come at noontime when the fremeu or part of them, were off to lunch Naturally they got to the scene as soon as possible, but they were not in the stations when the apparatus got under way in care of the men whose turn for lunch had not yet come.
 The tWo- o-platoon system has been described. It calls for a force that will not be double that at present, but will give every man an opportunity
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NOTE: Comments on our editor ials are always welcome, We do not pretend to do otherwise than attempt to cOnstrue the course of events ac- cOrding to our philosophy Like the rest of mankind we arc prone to mis- takes. While the above letter is very interesting as reflection of anOthcr's standpoint, the editorial to which it refers has been Ilisrcad tritie. There is no attempt to make three diVi- siOns of our social system, the public is referred to as the great mass of individuals, some of them capitalists and some of them other than capital ists. Labor undoubtedly makes up the greater part of the public. be- cause the greater number of us are laborcrs. Tn strife such as that be- tween the coal miners and their em- pIoyers the public is ground be- tween the millstoneS of strife is it not? Does not the laborer and the capitalist alike have to pay more for the coal as a result of the miners demand for more money whether the blame lies with the miners or the owners of the mines? Then is not the public being, fguratively speaking, ground between the two classes?
 The last paragraph of the above communication is an expression of opinion with which we do not happen to agree, though it is perfect, theo
 retically. When one limits the returns to capital the element of reward for competition is removed and competi- tion is liable to be stitied. ThcreupOn the public will not get the service nor the results out of the use of capital for it's benefit and support. Also, it must not be forgotten that many who
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

for twelve hours on duty and twelve hours off, when he might be consid- cred a reserve. With this plan in vogue, there will be no time off for meals, the first meal of the day being eaten before going on duty. the second consisting of a lunch in the station, and the third to be consum ed after the days duty is over.
 It may be readily seen that as long as men are kept on duty twenty four hours there must be some of then excused for warm meals. The fire men seem to have an argument which, they claim, has been proved. The two-platoon system has been found feasible and necessary in many other cities most of the ones in this state, and it should work to our benefit here.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
Sliding Scale of Wages Based on the
 Cost of Living.
(NcW York Sum-

The proposed plan of sliding scale of pay in the navy, based on the f1uc- tuation of the cost of living. will in- terest more than the underpaid officers of our Warships, although they un- doubtedly have a keen regard for any scheme which will bring relief.
 If the plan as offered by Rear Ad- miral MCGOWan, the chief of the navy bureau of supplies and accounts, should be adopted and ShCuId work to the satisfaction of the beneficiaries how long would it be before men in other lines of life would cry for the same relief? We have in mind the citizens whose living expenses have advanced so or 90 per cent. since 1914 but whose salaries have not kept the same pace.
 On the other side there are the classes of labor whose pay has risen no per cent. in the five years. Would these fortunate persons approve 'a sliding scale which, so far as their own incomes are concerned, would mean a reduction? Probably nor. Their cry would be: We were worth more than we got before the war; we serve. and we will still deserve it no matter how far prices fall"
 The sliding scale of pay would be ideal if it were not for a weakness of human nature which approves Of slide in only one direction. In the army or the navy, however, the idea might work out much more smoothly than it possibly could in civil life.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
IDLE TIME.

IDLE TIME. 1 wonder if the time 1 spent Upon an idle summer day. here shadows lightly came and
 went
 Above the butterflies at play, While insects joined in merry chime And honey tasted- l wonder if that blissful time Was wholly wasted? | wonder if that day was lost Meath skies so radiantly blue. Where life seemed worth the toil if
 cost
 And sorrows were so strangely few. AS fancles 'mongst the smiling fow'rs In playday Wandered- l wonder if those happy hours Were only sQuandered?
 Washington Star.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

might have been capitalists have failed and lost their all in the world of competition, though these are not obvious. It aIso must be remembered that every workingman, possessed of the idea that will bring money for it's use, is a potential capitalist and there is nothing in the world to re- strict him from proceeding. Many large fortunes have been built up in one generation from nothing but an idea.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
25 YEARS AGO
tFron the Herald of Thas Date
October 22 I20I

October 23, 1894
 The |. r. 5. (. F. of the Methodist church elected Mortimer H. Camp vlce-presidcnt of the society at their annual meeting last evening
 The Stanley Rule & Level will start on Monday running eight hours a day, six days a week
 A fire broke out last evening in the building occupied by a smelting fur mace of the r. & F. COrbin plant The fire was confined to the building with a resulting loss of $500.
 Sutfield administered 22 to 0 de- feat upon the local High school team yesterday at electric field.
 Fire hydrants have been placed on the property of the Stanley Works to De used in case of fire.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Hart are visit ing for a few weeks with their son Howard, who resides in Chicago
 William Bulkeley of Berlin has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late w. w. NOrton
 Pork and sausage at 10 cents a pound; chickens , cents pound i; turkeys 17c q pound at Trewhcllas
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
National HaDpcninoS.

Death list reduced-Seventy- min e lives lost and 120 saved when the steamship Wairarapa was wrecked on her way to Auckland from Sydney The captain, fifty eight passengers and twenty of the crew went down with the vessel
 Chinese again beaten-Japs capture a fort at Port Arthur-Another army marching to the front-Chinese war vessels take flight from the port for Wai-Hai-We.
 A geyser well has been discovered on the farm of John Scholl in Bloom ington, III. The well is a tube four inches in diameter and 200 feet deep. When it was sunk to that depth a week ago the gas forced the drill weighing 500 pounds out of the well to a height of at least so feet. Water spouted fully 125 feet into the air
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
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 THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE

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 WORLD; the latest evidence as to
 communication with the dead, by
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 "A book that will serve as a short cut to anyone who wishes to lay his hands upon the latest developm tS anent the mooted question of a life after death and the possibility of di- rect communication from the other world. d."-Publishe Weekly. CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by E.
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 A book of poems. HEART OF THE PURITAN, edited
 by F.. D. Hanscom.
 SelectionS from old letters and diaries which reveal the New England Puritan as he really was. It shows how genuine and individual were the manners of the Puritans and with what vigorous truthfulness their speech, whether lofty or common, set forth what was in their hearts and minds. s.'-Springfield Republican. ltEA RTBREAk HOUSE: Great Cath
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  HEARTS COURAGEOUS, poems by John OXenham.
 JUDITH, by Arnold Bennett.
 A play in three acts.
 ''This retelling Of the romance of Judith of the Apocrypha who con- Quered the Assyrian general by her beauty, is dramatically fOrceful Per haps it's special interest is in the en- tertaining parallels which MT. Ben nett brings out between the ideals and customs of ancient warning peoples and those of the present. "A. l.. A. BoO1list.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

there, for l claim that by curbing the upper classes, by limiting the amount of money-incentiVes 10 progress, by increasing the altrustic incentives by raising the level of the lower classes, by these means an approximate equal ity, d one class democracy, may ulti- mately be established.
 Sincerely yOurs
 CLARENCE HOUSE,
 East Berlin, Conn.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

We wonder how Gompers feels about the recalcitrants in the ranks sents the sentiment of organized la Dor when lower men than he in the labor scheme cannot control them. in it's party who will listen to the other side at all, or it has in this strike.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

We would like to ask Senator Brandegee whether Hell has frozen tions are merely a coating of thin ice on the original proposition.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

This thing the papers arc all talk ing about the grating of glands from monkeys into humans to make them young again, has us worried. What effect does it have on the human bearer of the glands.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

The dock workers in New York their promises to the union heads.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

We heard about a fellow once that upper lip and they grafted on chicken skin to take the. place of what he had lost.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

They are busy adopting reservations to the Peace Treaty, in the Senate. Several of them have been added, be- fore any vote on the Treaty is taken.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

When he comes to, after the graft ing operation. does he ask for a CO., coanut or nursing bottle?
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

The Germans successfully staged their opera last night. Five attempts were made to interfere. Each at- tempt was one egg.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

It locks as if it will be ratified, eventually, even with the reservations.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Thrown by a man who handled them like one would hand grenaoe
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FACTS AND RANCHES.

Give us a fOur-hour work day, a three-day week, a tWo-Week month and perhaps we will all be happy-lf we don't starve.-Wheeling Intel- ligencer.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

And they say he raised feathers in- stead of a mustache
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

SuppOsing GOmperS had agreed to certain points in the conference Would his men have kept his agree ment?
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Wonder whether he will vote for the Treaty at all.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Depends on the condition of He'll we guess.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Not unless he brought them the world with golden string around it, we venture.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Else why should they make out the reservations.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Kansas school teachers are trying 10 find some way to get salaries raised in their profession. Have they ever thought of getting the administration at Washington to take over the schools?-kansas City Star.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

ntered at the Post once at New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

The cost of the British railway strike is estim ated at S250, 100000. That would have paid a good deal of interest on the British war debt.- SaratoGlan.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

~ The senators who have been visit ing the steel strike region have come to the conclusion that the foreign workers need to be Americanized, and they propose to see that something is done about it. So far so good Spring gticld Republican.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23
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New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

The Germans are now at peace with all the Western world, but the Ger mans in the Baltic provinces haven't heard it and won't listen.-Syracuse Post Standard.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

There are a lot of native sons who might do well to celebrate Am erican- ization Day by spending the evening reading the Constitution.-Wa Watertown Times.
New Britain herald., 1919-10-23

Speak a word of cheer to the men who are making the good fight for our America in the Senate. DO it today-right now, the minute you finish reading this.-New York American
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Sufficient.
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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-10-25
Niemeyer's Buys.

room bungalow, new and mod
ern, on south Church st. Lot 2Ox12o.
$1,000.
room modern house on Chemeke-
ia. Lot 50x165. $2700. $500 cash and
monthly payments.
room modern house on N. Com
mercial. Garage. Fruit and berries.
$4,000.
room modern house on Miller ST.
Garage. Lot 45x100. $2500. Install
ments.
10 acres near Marion, all cultivat-
ed acres prunes good family ORCH
ard. Good room house, large barn
and out buildings $500.
SO acres miles from Salem on
good road. 80 acres cultivated, bal
|ance pasture with some timber. Fam
lily orchard. Good 6 room house. Barn
20x30. $4,000.
Strictly modern room house on
State street. Lot 94x195. Garage and
good garden spot. $3500. Will trade
for acreage.
298 acres near Lowell on good road.
l115 acres cultivated. Fenced and
cross fenced. Good buildings, house
modern bungalow style with fireplace
Cotton silo. Spring water piped to
buildings. $4,000. VIII trade for
Portland property.
| Just real estate and high class in
vestments. 215-216 Masonic bldg. Sa-
lem. Phones 1000, 1014. 253'
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-10-25
Bargains and Investments.

20 acres about A miles out in best
prune belt, about half in bearing
prunes, other fruits and all necessary
farm buildings. Only $4,000, terms.
Fine general farm ofA105 acres, Ia
mile from town, half in cultivation
and fine SOIL balance timber and pas
ture; good set farm buildings, orch
ard and, berries. Snap, $125 per acre.
SO acre prune orchard, 32 in full
bearing now, acres bearing Royal
Anne cherries, 2 in pears and apples;
good buildings of all kinds, good wa
ter system. Phone miles from Sa-
lem on good road. Big bargain, $3.50
per acre.
Dandy, nice acre tract close in,
fine soil, house and orchard. $3.50.
25 acre orchard, 20 in full bearing
prunes, other fruits. Good set build
Iings. near school, good road. Snap,
$450 per acre.
16 acres fine dark loan soil near
salem. Bargain at $3.50 per acre.
/ Several good bargains in modern
houses on easy terms.
See US for bargains and invest
lments
Perrine & Marsters
0t0 Nop,p, aroial Cl,1h bldg
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1919-10-25
Market News

Grain: Wheat, soft white NJ. 1 S2s
feed oats soc; milling oats sec; hay,
cheat, new SIT; hay, oats, new $18@
20; mill run $43@44.
Butterfat: Butterfat, 6sc; cream
cry butter, 67@69e.
Pork, veal and mutton: Pork on foot
lac. veal fancy ice; steers
7@sc; COWS s OF 1-2c; spring lambs
1oc: ewes 4@5c; sheep. learlings &c.
Eggs and poultry: Eggs cash eoc;
light hens. 22c; heavy hens Csc; old
roosters is a. lee; springs 22c.
Vegetables: Onions, per sack %;
celery doz. zoe; tomatoes 90c; potatoes
Sc; sweet potatoes 5c.
Fruit: Oranges $7@7.50; lemons -,
bananas 1Oc; honey extracted zoe;
bunch beets 45c; cabbage 21ae; head
lettuce 60c; carrots 45c; grapes, Ma
lagas 10c; grapes, Tokays &c.
Retail prices: Eggs dozen 65@70c;
creamery butter Use; country butter
&c; flour, hard wheat $3.l0@S.25