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Connecticut western news., 1920-12-16

Winsted Flower Shop-Roses Carnations, etc. for any occasion Telephone 56O-5.-adv.
 The Canaan Fire Go. are planning to give dance on New Years night
 MT. and Mrs. Morley Wood of Oneonta, N. Y. are the parents of a son born Nov. 29th. Mrs. Wood was formerly Miss Ethel Laidlaw, and has many friends in Canaan.
 William Fitch is home from New Jersey for short time.
 Fred Slaughter is nursing one hand which he is carrying in sling, as the result of an accident.
 Mrs. Cora Downs Stevens returned Friday from 10-days trip. Besides teaching training classes in Higga- mum and Southington, she made an address in the Congregational church, Southington, of which Rev. D. c. Stone is pastor. His subject was Cooperation of Home and Church in the Religious Education of the Child" She also gave an ad- dress to a union service of several churches there and conducted con- ference. She presented the organ ized class work at the teachers assembly at Emanuel church, Hart ford, Thursday evening. " .
 The sale and supper given by the ladies of the Methodist church netted about $125.
 Mrs. Helen Miner, who has been visiting friends in Lime Rock, has returned home. @N
 The parish of Christ church will meet in the parish house on Monday, Dec. goth, to tie greens for decorat- ing the church. Everyone is urged to come.
 The parish guild of Christ church will meet with Mrs. Marion Camp on Friday afternoon at o'clock. Refreshments will be served.
 The Cranford Club will meet with Mrs. H. D. Humphrey, Thursday, Dec. 16th. Readings by Mrs. Pres ton. Subject, The British Founda- tion. There will be a holiday ad- journment.
 Miss Theodore Scott of Torring- ton was weekend guest of Rev. and Mrs. A. Karl Skinner.
 Howard Hatmaker is enjoying a weeks vacation from his work at The Conn. Power Go.
 Mrs. A. L. Higgins and Miss Marian | Higgins spent Saturday in Great Harrington.
 Miss Louise Trieschmann of Dan bury spent the weekend at her ! home here.
 The Five Hundred Club met with Mrs. L. E. Hester at her home on Church Street, Wednesday after noon.
 Masters and misses class meet Thursday evening at o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall. G. Girard.-adv.
 MT. and Mrs. Black, Mrs. Hatch and sons motored to Gaylordsville Sunday. \
 Miss Austin has returned to Miss i Bridges after a few weeks vacation.
 Mrs. Black and daughter and Mrs. Hatch and sons spent Saturday in Great Harrington. t..
 Edward 0. Boinay is very i'll at the home of his son, Edward D. Bolnay. ..,.
 Services in Christ church com menoing Dec. 19 will be held as fol- lows: Morning service at 10:30 o'clock the first and third Sundays of the month, and in the afternoon every Sunday at 2:45. There will be no morning service on the second and fourth Sundays.
 The Altar guild of Christ church made about $40 at the sale Saturday 
 Mrs. Carrie Rossman of Yonkers, N. r., has been visiting her niece, Mrs. Samuel, Briggs. "@\
 Advertise-It pays.
Connecticut western news., 1920-12-16

The Ladies' Catholic Club will hold Food Sale at Chamberlain's Store on Thursday at p. m.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Louis vanZelm of New Rochelle, N. Y, announce the engagement of their daughter, Mss Florence A. vanZelm, to Ensign Robert Sprague, U. s. N., son of MT. and Mrs. Frank J. Sprague of New York and Sharon. Miss vanZelm' s father is vice-president of the New York Life Insurance and Trust Con- paEy. Ensign Sprague was gradu- ated from Annapolis in 1919. Mir. Vanzelm has a summer home at Twin Lakes.
 List your farm with H. V. John, son, Winsted.-adv.
 Books-Latest books of fiction, less than publishers prices, now in stock. Books for children of all ages. G. L. Parsons 6 Son.-adv.
 The Young Ladies' Guild of Pil- grim Church will hold sale of fancy and useful Xmas. gifts, home made candy, salted nuts in fancy boxes, and Xmas. wreaths, in the room over Dempsey's Drug Store on Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 5:00. Tea will be served. \.. .... ..
 There will be no Guild next week.
 Parsons-will obtain any book not in stock. Order early.-adv.
 A social dance will be held in Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday evening at :30, immediately after the dancing class is dismissed. Everyone come. George c. Girard.-adv. @
 G. M. Brewer of Pittsfield has been in town a few days. Bert" says that regardless of the business de- pression he is willing to bet he sells more cars next year than the past.
 Miss Lena Hayden brought dan lelion blossom to this office We'd resday. Has anyone else picked flowers in this un- reasonable weather?
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ance with the facts that 1t is worthy
OF notice only because it comes from
such a respectable source. Mr.. Moor
FIELD STOREY is putting the response
bility in the wrong place. The Dem
ocrats are responsible for postponins
peace. They refused to ratify the
Treaty Of Versailles unless Article y,
of the Covenant remained therein
without change The other treaty
Powers would have been satisfied with
the reservations which the Republi-
cans desired. but not so Mr.. WILSON.
Article Y. or no treaty" was the slo-
gan which was adopted at his instance
by his slavish followers in the Senate ;
and therefore we have no treaty.
HERBERT HOOVER sees this; and 50
do many other men of light and lead
ing of the type that Mr.. MooRFIELo
STOREY would naturally be associated
with in campaign like the present
We are surprised and sorry to find
him on the wrong side, apparently
because of an assumption which has
no foundation in fact.
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in the proposed treaty so effectually
that he could defy the Senate Of the
United States to disembody 1t with
out destroying the whole Vital struc-
ture. And here, 4 fortnight later, in
manifest reply to an unpublished
expression of anxiety from TuMuLTY,
the triumphant Interviewer and boast
full tier-up and confident defer of
the Senate was flashing back a
cipher despatch from Paris to quiet
TUMULTY's apprehension that his
great chief might prove. after all, a
contemplate gutter.
Why was TUNiULTy uneasy? If
not uneasy on his own account, on
whose account was he uneasy? There
is much of the history of this un-
precedented and fatally disastrous
exercise of unwarranted Executive
authority that remains to be disclosed.
And yet Governor Cox at Springfield,
Illinois, day before yesterday, In
speaking Of the patriotic declaration
which thirty-seven Republican Sena-
tors signed in March, IN the way of a
member the Constitution he had sworn
to obey, had the effrontery to describe
the document as Senator LoDGE's in
famous round robin
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WAR. MEMORIALS.
An Ex-Service Man Objects to Spend
ing Large Sums for Buildings.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
knights OF Columbus have s5,0oo,000 10
spend. Somebody makes the suggestion
that this sum be devoted to raising a
memorial building in Washington, and In
a sudden burst of mistaken patriotism his
suggestion is accepted.
Just think. they are going to erect a
Loautiful building in the heart of Wash
ington as a memorial OF their work in
the war. Ostensibly 1t Is a tribute TO the
brave men who fought in the war; still
as 81 per cent. OF them never get to
Washington, 1t will be about as accessible
to them as II II were planted in the
midst Of the Sahara desert.
Situated in a city that has several
magnificent buildings. which this pro-
posed one can hardly hope TO surpass, it
will add little glory to the knights of
Columbus. 1t is at bottom a barbaric
survival of the Rome Of Pompey and
Cesar this idea OF war memorials, and
should not be tolerated by society hav-
irg Christian pretcnsions.
We have in this country thousands of
men MANNED in the late war. How
much more Christlike would 1t not be
to help make their bIighted lives bright
er by expanding this five million dollars
on them These men are war memo
rails enough.
The sight of them brings to our eyes
the real meaning OF war as it affects the
individual. How much nobler, how
much more worthy this great organiza-
ton that it should perform real act
Of Christian charity and look after these
boys. who, now that the peril they I'M
selfshly gave their all to avert is over,
are neglected.
Unfortunately 1t is not the Knights
alone who have been misled by this
sense of patriotism. The Odd Fellows
are endeavoring to embellish the city of
Brooklyn to the extent of 100000
with another Of these war memorials.
The knights of Columbus were one
Of tho few welfare organizations that
really were of service to the soldiers
overseas. Why spoil wonderful rec
ord? HAROLD r. CAss,
A Veteran Of the Third Division.
BROOKLYN, October IL.
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Hi Costofllving is on second base,
ready to make dash for the bare
home plate.
X. Travagance, the Democratic
speed marvel, Is on first base, waiting
to be advanced.
Sly JIM Cox is up, swinging the
Covenant bat he borrowed from VIII
SONS bag. CHARLEY, TOM and JIM
are cheering from the coaching line.
There it goes! Sly JIM starts for
first, the others speed on. But the
second baseman catches the ball, thus
eliminating JIM, touches second, thus
retiring Hi Costofliving, and pokes the
sphere into the ribs of X. Trava gance.
Thus the triple play, unassisted, just
as Mr.. WASfBsGANss made it in Cleve-
land on Sunday.
The second baseman's name? Well,
yours. as much as anybody's.
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Nooracid Storey's Mistake.

contemporaneously with the Presi
dental campaign comes the publIca.
ton Of the Godkin lectures at Har-
ward University, which have beer do.
livered this year by Mr.. MooRrIrLp
STOREY of the Boston bar, one of the
most distinguished lawyers in the
country.
The lectureship was established, en-
dowed and named TO honor the mem.
DRY of j. l.. GoDKIN, the founder Of
The Nation, weekly newspaper: and
the lectures must always relate to
'rhe Essentials OF Free Government
and the Duties OF the Citizen. in
whole or in part.
Mr.. MooRTrELD STOREY is n great
lawyer and good man; but he would
have been classed rs n Mugwunrp in
the days when the Mugwump was
abroad in the land
In his first lecture he discusses tho
use of political parties; and he makes
one statement in reference to the Re-
publican party which ought not to 90
uncorrected. He says the end OF the
reconstruction period. during the
Hayes Administration left both tho
great parties without an issue and
since then they have been seeking an
issue for each election; "as. for ex.
ample, lately when Republican leaders
proposed that the treaty OF peace with
Germany should 20 unratifled and the
whole world be left to suffer for n
year and very likely two IN order 10
create an Issue for the next Presiden.
tial election"
The suggestion that the Republic
cans wanted TO make the League of
Nations an issue IN this Presidential
campaign Is SO prcposterouslv NJ vari
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Before You shoot. BE Sure!

To THE NEW York HERALD: Now is a
good tim. to print conspicuously warn
ing to all those who go a-hunting TO be
careful--never to shoot unless they are
sure that their target is what they think
It to be.
Better TO let all the game in the coun-
try get away than to make n dreadful
mistake. with lifelong regret!
Such a warning might save life
oouossoc, Me-. October il. +. $. r.
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POLAND AND THE JEWS.
Assemblyman Dickstein Replies Il
Prince Lubomirskl.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD; I have
read with mingled surprise and indigna-
ton the interview with Prince Casimir
Lubon.irski, Minister of Poland to the
United States wherein he expresses his
pride that his fellow citizens hope to
make their own country nation like
the United States"
From experience gained as member
OF our State Legislature for the last
few years. from q knowledge gained from
various trustworthy sources, and from
first hand information obtained In re-
cent visit abroad / am fully convinced
that with present conditions and until
"a complete change is effected In it's ma
lional policy and in it's treatment of its
own citizens, Poland cannot rightly COM
pare itself with the United States
and not suffer greatly by the COM
parison. While the population of Poland
is to a very great extent composed OF
those of the Jewish race who are loyal.
,eaceable and Industrious citizens and
contribute to the wealth and prosperity
Of that country, nevertheless they are
treated with the utmost harshness and
parbarity, ostracized from all public Of
fee and positions of trust in the State,
their property and possessions confis-
Gated without any Indemnity offered or
explanation given therefor, and they are
treated in the manner of the Russian
serfs under the old barbarous regime,
not yet quite extlnguished.
While in Europe during the recent
summer l have heard horrible tales Of
oppression and cruelty practised on the
poor, unoffending Jews in Poland, and
upon investigation have had these tales
confirmed, and have also discovered that
there exists in that country a certain
ruling element as autocratic, tyrannical
and regardless Of the rights Of others as
were the Prussian 1unkers and Russian
imperialists
Personal liberty as known and ex-
tended to all the inhabitants and citi-
zens of this country is not universally
recognized by the ruling powers in Po-
land, and their treatment of the Jewish
inhabitants and citizens ever since the
close of the great war Is a disgrace to
civilization and blot on the Polish ma
ton. Until reformation Of these pres
ent abuses is inaugurated and the spirit
Of humanity and justice is more widely
diffused and recognized the boast Of the
Prince will not be fulfilled nor will his
country be deemed worthy Of COMPARE
son with our own.
SAMUEL DIcKsTEIN.
New YORK, October IL.
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DANIELS COMMENDS
FLEET MARkSMANSI4IP
High State of Efficiency He
Says After Seeing Records.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 12.-secretary
Daniels to-day wrote to Admiral Wilson
and Admiral Rodman. commanding off,
GERS OF the Atlantic and Pacific fleets
respectively. commencing them on the
marked progress In efficiency" of both
fleets az shown by an analysis of gun
merry and engineering exercises during
the last fiscal year.
Despite the high percentage OF re-
cruit personnel. the Secretary wrote, i'm
provement In gunnery practice by the
Atlantic feet had produced high state
OF battle efficiency" The Pacific feet
he said, showed progressive improve
ment" in both gunnery and engineering
performance.
The Secretary also commended Rear
Admiral Eberle. commanding battleship
division No. OF the Atlantic fleet.
which attained the best record In divi-
sion gunnery exercises OF either fleet
The division Is composed of the super
dreadnoughts Utah, Florida. Delaware
and North Dakota.
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A DENIAL THAT ADMITS.
The Negative Pregnant Suggested by
Mr.. Wilson's Words.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The issue
of truth and falsehood between Senator
Spencer and President Wilson suggests to
the legal mind the negative pregnant"
Mr.. Wilson's denial does not say that he
did not ever make and never made or
intended to make any expression of the
kind attributed to him; and the evidence
indicates that Mr.. Wilson did make some
statement Of the kind in connection with
the Peace Conference.
His denial OF Mr.. Spencer's statement
IL little more than denial Of the state
ment "ipsssmis verbis,' which Is in law
no denial. but a practical admission of
tile substantial truth of the allegation.
1 am glad to suggest this view Of the
matter, as I have no doubt Mr.. Wilson'S
friends would not like to have him re-
main under even distant imputation of
falsehood. Under this not Improbable
theory he has told no falsehood and his
honor is therefore safe. n. G. MILES.
BINaHAMToN, October IL.
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A QUEER BIT OF BUSINESS.
What the Office Manager Tried to Do
to Samuel & Nephews, Inc.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD The house
OF Samuel & Nephews. Inc, having CO.
operated with several other concerns In
lawsuit for dana ges and the defendant
having become bankrupt the office man.
agerl went to represent the Samuel cor
poration at a creditors meeting.
He returned from this and reported
that he had done grand stroke of bust
ness for which Samuel's fellow creditors
had given him great applause. He had
succeeded in arranging to have all Of
tie bankrupt debtsr's available assets
divided among the other creditors. sign
ing off all the claims of his own en-
ployers and had Incorporated with this
settlement perpetual agreement on the
part OK Samuel & Nephews that they
would hereafter participate with all
those associated creditors in all the law
quits in which they might hereafter be
engaged.
Old Mr.. Samuel said: well, I don't
care so much about the first part Of the
arrangement; / always expected It to
be a bad debt. / only went into the fight
AS matter of principle. But as to this
agreement to go into all future lawsuits
they may not concern mel may dis
approve of Them
oh" said the envoy. "the agreement
only means that you will engage in such
suits as you do approve OF. 1t is all SUBJ
ject to the approval of your board Of
directors"
Does the agreement say so?" asked
Uncle Samuel
mo, the agreement is unqualified and
unconditional, but It really means that
all these future actions shall be subject
10 the approval of your board"
Very well, them says Uncle Sam,
put that into the document distinctly in
black and white. before we ratify it,"
Never. Not on your life !" said the
envoy.
What did Uncle Sam do? What would
any man OF sense do in such n case?
And Uncle Sam, though q good fellow
n good neighbor and generous friend,
is no fool.
Very well. then" says he, u will
appoint your successor and we will have
q new deaf. Instead of a combination to
bring lawsuits, we shall make one TO pre-
vent them. and settle disputes nmicably
out OF court. That's my notion, and your
successor shall carry 1t out" j. W.. c.
New York, october IL.
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EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Home lFurnishers Association din
ner. Hotel Pennsylvania. $3.50 p. NJ.
Address by Otto II. Kahn before the men,
bers of the New York Board OF Trade and
Transportation. 3S Park Row. IL 15 p. NJ.
Address by Seumas McManus on condi-
lions In ireland before the American Irish
Society. me-. knights of Columbus Institute.
81 Hanson place. Brooklyn. s:15 p. NJ.
Board OF Education meeting to elect .
member of the Board of Examiners, Park
avenue and Fifty-ninth street. r. NJ.
Electrical show, Grand Central Palace at
ternoon and evening.
dwelling of a portrait of william Allen
Butler In the council room OF New York Uni
versity. Washington square. 1880 =. NJ.
Opening OF Headquarters Of the New York
County Committee. Wonen's Division. ad-
dress by Attorney General Newton, II Fifth
avenue. II noon.
York. convention. Masonic Hall. sessions all
day.
Eastern Supply Association meeting. Hotel
National Home Furnishers' Association
annual meeting, Sixth avenue-and Eighteenth
mings will speak Mt a luncheon OF the XII
wants Club AT the Hotel McAlpin. beginning
Raymond d. Fosdick win speak on 'Thc
League of Nations, under the auspices of
the Bedford Council. Junior Order United
American Mechanics at Erasmus Hall High
School. Fln q and Church avenues
Miss liberia X. shipley will speak on
'"rhe Battle Over the League OF Nations
In the United States Senate" Mt the Train
Ing School for Teachers, Park place, west
of Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, at 10 7. NJ.
Monthly luncheon Of the New York Elec-
trical League, Hotel Aston. IL 80 r. NJ
Daniel NJ. Lord will speak on The Evolu-
tion of Advertising in Fifty Years" Adver-
Using Club, :15 p. NJ.
dorf-Astoria Hotel, 2 p. M.
Wrapping Paper Trade Association meet
Ing Waldorf-Astoria. 10 A. M.
r1tfa na1 AQqnHfafiOn meeting.
dorf-Astoria, 10 A. M.
Eastern Union dinner-meeting, Waldorf
Astoria, $3.50 =. M.
waldorf Astoria, +. Nj.
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PUBLIC LECTURES TONIGHT.

Some American Composers and Poets,
by Miss sally Hamlin. at p. =. loi. lllth
atreet west OF Lexington avenue.
1.-THE League OF Nations" by Nathan IL.
Goidstein, at Bowery Mission. 227 Bowery.
."rhe League OF Nations as n Tangibs
Organization," by Herbert 8. Houston.
al the Central Jewish Institute, 12o East
Eighty-fIfth street.
''French Songs from Folk Song 10 Opera,
nv Miss Esther Benson, at Hunter College.
sixty-eighth street and Lexington avenus.
Illustrated by songs. -,.
..Ieoturc Recital Of American and Jewish
songa." by Mrs. Bertha Hirsch, Mt the New
York Guild, $40 East 105th street.
Trend OF tho Times" BY Prof: Nelson i, * =.
iege Of the City OF New York. Amsterdam
avenue, i3sth and l3eih streets -
.aThe League of Nations" By Arthur j.
yvestermayr. Ill. NJ. at Y. NJ GA. Har-
lem Branch, D West t2Jth street.
A course Of four lectures on America
"a the Americans" the first being For
nation OF Government. Wealth and Re-
sources" by Mrs. Mary f. Lease NJ 4. ;;
Al Prospect avenue. Jennings street ana
Ritter place. The Bronx.
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Albanians to their own satisfaction
and to the security of Italy's eastern
coast.
Baron AvEzzANA has made a fra
record at Washington and the many
friends whom he has gained here will
regret his departure. He is said,
however, to have been selected by his
government for "more important po-
sihon." Baron AnoTTI, whose latest
foreign post was as Minister to China.
has seen service IN America and Is
well known at Washington; his wife,
like Baroness AvEzzANA, is an Amerl-
can woman.
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1920.
Another Rent Boost From Taxes.

1t Is the property owner, the land
lord, who protests against and groans
over the increased real estate assess
ment and the increased tax rate. The
tenant, the rent payer, ought to join
in, for it all goes into the rent.
Look at the plain arithmetic of it.
A dwelling place of any sort, house,
apartment or what not, costing $1,000
TO build before the war. had from
$1,000 to $4,000 of labor cost in it..
Interest on that labor cost alone. ut 6
per cent, counted $50 to $3.50 year,
or $3.50 TO SIS a month-rent for
the labor cost alone.
To build the same thing to-day
takes $4,000, $500 of which Is
labor cost alone. Interest on that
labor cost alone, at 6 per cent. counts
$3.50 year; ut 8 per cent. the pres
ent earning power OF money, $500 a
year, or $50 a month-new rent for
labor cost alone.
Depreciation at 3 per cent. (to re-
new the building when worn QUIT was
on the old $1,000 dwelling $3.50 Il
year, or $3.50 month---old rent to
cover depreciation. Depreciation at
per cent. on the present $4,000 re-
newal cost Of That former $1,000
dwelling is $3.50 year, or $3.50 a
month-new rent for depreciation
alone.
Rent to cover merely new labor
cost and new depreciation charges,
then. has jumped from $50 month to
$3.50 a month.
But along comes the municipal gov
eminent to slap more rent on the ten
ants already grossly multiplied rent.
The old $1,000 house without flgur-
ing the land) at per cent. tax rate
was 500 year taxes-old rent for
taxes. But lacked up tax rate to 3
per cent. on lacked up $4,000 house
tworth only $1,000 before the war; be-
comes $3.50 year-new rent for
taxes.
Not counting cost of materials in
the house, not counting investment in
the land, not counting even taxes on
the land, not counting expenses of
operating and maintaining the prop
erty, the rent charges are slapped up to
5000 year by labor, to $3.50 a year
by depreciation and to $3.50 by local
taxes. a total rent charge in those
three items alone Of 81 300, rs against
the former S40e year!
Up from some $50 month to 1926
month-all i'm the rent
The tenants of this city, the rent
payers, need TO raise the roof with
their uproar over what is done by
municipal tax assessors, tax gatherers
and tax spenders, ON top of all thai
has been done before to make the rem
of the already overburdened ant
grooming tenants of this city an I'm
bearable load.