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New Britain herald., 1922-10-05

DIRECTORS CLARENCE r. BENNETT Vice President Stanley Works. ISAAC BLACK Sales Mgr. Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co. J. LfNFIELD DAMON Pres. American Hotels Corp. JUDGE B. r. GATFNEY
 Attorney at Law.
 GEORGE P. HART Chairman of Board. Stanley Works. VIM. l.. HATCH Pres. w. l.. Hatch Co. FREDERICK NJ. HOLMES Pres. North & Judd Co. HAROLD l.. JUDD President Judd { Co. ARTHUR C. kIMBALL Pres. Landers. Frary Clark GEORGE ". KLETT
 Attorney at Law.
 JOHN c. LOOMS Pres. Chamber of Commerce. ANGELO PAONESSO Mayor City of New Britain. HOWARD l.. PLATT Pres. N. B. Lumber Co. EUGENE J. PORTER
 B. C. Porter Sons PARDON c. HICKEY Treasurer I.anders, Frary { Clark. GEORGE P. SPEAR Gen. Mgr. Corbin Screw Corp. GEORGE ". TRAUT Pres. Traut Hine Mfg. Co. HORACE l.. WIGGfNS ss@ V. P. and Gen. Mgr. United Hotels Co. of America.
New Britain herald., 1922-10-05

John McGraw must have been a very happy man yesterday, but it is isfaction over the opening result than did Judge George W. Klett. The judge has long been an ardent rooter for the National league champions.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
An End Of Muddl;us

Governor Edwards has done well
TO place a competent prosecutor in
full charge Of the New Brunswick
murder cases. The pity is that he
did not act weeks ago. Local self
government issan honored Ameri-
can principle, but when county au-
thorities get in one another's way
and muddle their efforts as con-
,tinuously, as have the prosecutors
OF Somerset and Middlesex counties
the need for action is clear.
In the past days the efforts of the
authorities haze been largely de-
voted to persuading the town of
New Brunswick, the Governor and
the newspaper men that something
was about to happen. Thereby they
gained a few days respite. Jus,
how much unintentional aid has
been given to the murderers by this
prolonged muddle remains to be
seen. Every one will hope that the
new prosecutor will succeed in re-
tracing the lost clews and that Jer-
-sey justice will at last commence to
operate with it's customary efficiency
and dispatch.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Court Of Appeals Salaries

The people of New York will have
an opportunity on November z to
end an unseemly discrimination
against the judges of the highest
state court. A constitutional amend.
ment is to be voted on which raises
the salaries of judges of the Court
OF Appeals to $17,500 year. That
IS the compensation now allowed
justices of the Supreme Court-an
inferior jurisdiction-who happen to
sit in the first and second iu-
dlcial departments-that is to say, in
the counties of New York and the
Bronx, comprising, the. 1st Judi
elal District; the counties of Kings,
Queens, Nassau, Suffolk and Rich
mond, comprising the I'd Judi
clal District, and the counties Of
Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rock
land and Westehester, comprising
the 9th Judicial District.
~ Is unfair and inappropriate
that these judges of junior rank
should receive larger salaries
than their seniors. The chief Judge
OF the Court of Appeals at present
gets sl4'2oo and the associate judges
get s1S,7oo. This is meager nav
Tor the Sprvica ro,daJ yr,
adoption Of the amendment would
increase the states expenditure only
49, LOO a year. This extra charge
is a trifie in a budget of s125, 900.
ooo or over. The people ungenerous.
~ voted down a similar amendment
lew years ago. This time there
saoaid be no question about ratifi
cation.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
oyerwosking the Presidents
Physician

Ihe Legion's demand that the
Presidents physician, DR.. SAWYER.
be relieved of his work as chief CO.
ordinator of the Federal Hospital-
ization Board should not be inter-
preted as reflection on the man
bat rather as frank recognition
that has duties as physician ID the
Wsaite House and as supervisor OF
the disqualification work are incom-
patible.
1t happens to be true that DR.
sawyer's early training at Marion
says hlna no, experience of unusual
value IN such work as the super
vislon OF the care for. the disabled
yeterans. But even had he been an
expert on such work his duties al
the White House would stiIl IRE.
vent his giving to it the time and
attention which il demands. The
place of the Presidents physician
Is with the President. This pre-
ciudes trips of inspection and per-
sonal investigation such as should
be aaada By the supervisor of the
disqualification work.
The Legion in its resolution goes
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Overhattered Ancestors

AS a historian Professor Albers
B. Hart, of Harvard. has the
best of excuses for saying that
Americans indulge too much in in
genuous ancestor worship. Every
body born in Revolutionary and pre-
Revolutionary days was not lo-
that reason a painted paragon or 4
blameless hero. The frailties OF onr
generation differ in kind rather
than in degree from those Of an
other. So do the virtues. Without
being an iconoclast one may apply
a measure of common sense to our
estimates of the fathers and the
founders who did exceedingly we'll
in the mass without being perhaps
SO startlingly superior as individuals.
The historians reaction to over
adulation of our eighteenth century
supermen has been the preparation
of corrective biographies like "The
True So-snd-So," depicting Wash
ington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamil-
ton and the others in undress--.
often in rather shabby neglige.
Parson Weems's Washington is
caricature to anybody with the re-
search instinct. So is the Thomas
Jefferson heroized on so many
hustings as the archchampion ot
horny-handed democracy.
After while we shall get back
to historical precision and be as
justly critical of the fathers as tine
English have grown to be of the
statesmen of their George III
Ieriod. This involves no evapora-
ton of the spirit of patriotism. The
men who made America can stand
on their true characters and
achievements. They do not need
to be mounted on plaster pedestals
OR to benefit by whitewashed testi-
monials. "There were great men IN
those days" is formula which somc
succeeding generation will lie SURF
to apply to ours. and it will be Just
as true in our case as it was with
the generation of Washington and
/ jeff ferson. "rt
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
ppzsa.uaaIna1-
By Gabriel Hanotaux
(Fyons lie Figaro J

Who, after all, is the editor of that
strange compilation which appears
under the title of memoirs Of Will
liam IL?
Certainly the citizen Of Doom was
not considered superior mind. De-
spite the noise he made with his saber
his measure has long since been taken.
His ministers and his intimate ac-
cuaintances had judged him and did not
conceal their opinion. have already
cited the word Of his own chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe, who in a conversa-
tion said to me: "The principal func-
ton of the Chancellor Of the Reich con-
sists in following up the Kaiser in
order to repair his b!unders."
In my narration of the battle Of the
Marne l have given that intercepted
radio by which Won Hausen, the COM
mander of the Saxon army, after Sep
tember forbade the "war lord" entry
into his headquarters. Everywhere his
presence was dreaded; he confused
everything. If, moreover, knock with
the club were needed the Crown Prince
by publishing his own memoirs, has
taken care Of it.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
More Truth Than Poetry
By Jane, ]. Montague

[Radios are soon to be used to collect
mohey.-SEngiish Newspaper.l
On the Market
With joy | used my radio;
1t drove away dull care
To hear the winging words that
flow
At night across the air.
Before, aweary, to my bed
At 10 o'clock | skunk,
I knew what Wallie Woodchuck
said
To little SLIME Skunk.
And it was worth most any price
To hear the news that came
Directly from old Grantland Rice
~ About the baseball game.
But now the interests" have
acquired s@
The franchise of the air!
No longer am madly fired
: Their messages to share.
/ am not very keen to hear
Upon the radio
In accents most unkindly clear: "
eve want that ten you owel
Your gas bill is long overdue;
We know our legal rights,
And, you had be.>4r come right
Though
Or out will go your lights!"
It's bad enough for any one
Who owes little pelf
TO get sharp and threatening
dun
When he is by himself.
But when ten thousand folks
with sets
Hear voices, stern and gruf',
Demanding that you pay your
debts
It's just trifle tough!
So though | do not owe lot
l fear that nightly hail
From bill collectors, and I've got
A radio for sale.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Ihelm and America

So all this has not sufficed, and this
deplorabie family has deemed it neces-
sary to throw the crowning shovelful
on its own effrontery-its chief has not
even known how to maintain the dignity
of silence. To gain a few thousand
marks he has put his name to lucubra-
tion that is not worth cents. What
light this low speculation throws on
the sentiments of q people that lived
for. thirty years under such spell!
There is not one chapter, not one
line Of the pretended memoirs that
does not breathe, to those who know,
an absolute lack OF understanding of
the facts, Of the surrounding cir
cumstances, Of the international atmos-
phere during the time when one might
have thought that the Kaiser, Of all
the Germans, at least followed the
course Of affairs. Either he did not
know them or he lost the memory Of
the very meaning Of ths things that
happened while he reigned and under
his name.
! will speak only Of what concerns
the relations of Europe with America,
for that is thing I know we'll, and
was minister at the very time when
the facts which the memoirs pretend d
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
The Hungry Tiger

The installation of Tammany in
control of the state government
which is what Mr.. Smiths election
would mean-would make impossible
any cleaning up of the bus gcandal
Instead, those methods which will
cost the taxpayersof New York City
more than a third Of a billion dollars
next gear, would beyond doubt be
INTRODUCED at Albany if a Tanimany
administration took charge there,
and tho burden of city taxes would
be increased by an added burden OF
state taxes.
Had Mr.. Smith continued in cfice
after his first term there Is every
likelihood that the $2o6 $50 900 asked
for in appropriations would have
been granted. There is as little
doubt that the same sort of extrava-
gance would prevail should Tam
many gain control Of the state on
Electies, Day.
1t Is Tammany's way to get all
that can be got out of the taxpayers
and to give them as little as possible
in return 0f the s1i,ooo,e08 which
Mr.. HylaH and the Board of Esti-
slate added 10 the budget last week,
a considerable portion is for the
maintenance of bus lines
The citizens know now how this
money is spent A million dollars
went 30 nave strSet in the Bronx
which led to garage for which a
Famaany Commissioner got $4,000
a month Ia rental. Large sums Of
aoneg went into Insurance, which
syas. handled by brother Of the
Mayors sar- Jaw The bus oper-
atars had to place the Insurance with
lhia gentleman, they aver, fearing
i they wouldn't gel any permits other
wise. Ia
Dozens of TammauY heelers were
paid daily wages 10 clean busses
which they never cleaned. the work
being done by garage hands. And
the Mayor all the time was violently
insisting that the bus lines were in
stituted purely for the good of the
people and that all the opposition to
them came from the Traction inter
ests."
What Tammany has done in New
York it is eager to do at Albany,
where there is plenty of money to be
spent on jobs for Tammany men
and limitless opportunities exist for
The discovery of gold mines as rich
ms the one developed in the bus busi-
ness.
If the people OF New York City
want to end the bus scandal and
make impossible others like it in the
conduct of the state, they must keer
Tammany out of Albany.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
The Ford Wins, Anyway

1t lis good that a smart breeze
blew during yesterdays race of the
International Fishermen's Regatta
and that last Saturdays unfor-
tunate drifting match was not re-
peated. To the Henry Ford goes
the victory for the first official race,
under conditions which not even the
NEST critical can protest.
The many misunderstanding that
have arisen this year in connection
with these races are unfortunate.
To the committee in Halifax and
also in Boston certain amount OF
blame is due. There has been re-
.grettable lack of clearness in their
decisions. Not only the ruling which
banned the Mayfiower, but the last
moment demand that the sails Of
the Henry Ford be shortened, as
we'll as the conflicting orders about
the continuation Of last Saturdays
race, naturally created i'll feeling
That this, however, justified the ac-
tion of a part CT tsc Henry Ford's
crew in refusing to- sail Monday
morning because the committee had
declared Saturdays race off will not
be admitted by any good sportsman.
If the Ford triumph is repeated
in the remaining races the protests
of the Americans against the regu-
lations of the racing committees
may be made with better grace and
listened to with fuller attention. .
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
When Cod Is King

These are great days in C.lo.ces-
ter. Cod is king again, and su 9re e7.ie
as he has not been since before t q
days of the canning factories. 81
the old salts have turned out to s..
yarns with their visitors from Nova
Scotia, and no one who ever dis
played special proves with cod has
been permitted to hide his light
under bushel. Not only the tech
nique Of sailing and the merits of
different types of schooners but all
the details of the fisherman's trade
have been recited to willing and un-
willing audiences, and boasts Of
great achievements have been bra
zenly made.
Ernest Mitchell, OF Gloucester.
however, has been among those few
whose deeds have outstripped mere
words. In the presence of His Honor
the Mayor Of Gloucester, right in
the City Hall, he proved that he was
master OF the fsh-skinning world.
undssturbed by the delighted how,s
OF excited "rooters" and indifferent
20 the Jeers Of his jealous enemies
ne removed the backbones and An.
and skins from quarter of a tor,
Of codfish in just fifty-three minutes
ne won by six fish, with his audi
ence standing on the benches ana
shouting themselves hoarse over his
achievement.
Gloucester may well be proud q.
us nero. Even the old timers as
they left the hall chuckled to them
selves and admitted that perhaps
these young feilers weren't uuita =,
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24

out 81 its way to attack DR.. Sawyer
personally. IN view Of the recent
meeting between Legion represen-
tatives and the doctor, at which it
was made clear that numerous past
tlisagreements were the result Of
mutual misunderstanding, it seems
not only superfuous but also un-
charitable for the Legion to pass
a formal vote of condemnation Of
the doctor. His good will cannot
be questioned. Most of the mis-
takes which the Legion has charged.
against him can he traced to the
difficulty of doing two tasks as
widely different as those of physi-
clan to the President and co-ordi-
nator Of the disqualification board.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
What Re9istratiost Shows

Registration la the upstate cities
fell of a little, but not so much rela-
lively as it did in this city. New
York's slump from year ago was
83,16s. Buffalo showed ais big a los
ing ratio--its shortage being 1929.
But Rochester gained 4,623 over
1927; Syracuse. f,14s; ogdensburg,
1898; Gloversville, 661; Glens Falls,
1,A28, ard Hornell, 1881. Toy,
UTICA, Ringhanton, jamestown and
Schenectady were among the cities
showing material losses.
The decline I'M registration has
been most marked in territory in
which Mr.. Smith ran best two years
ago. In the smaller towns and the
rural districts personal registration
is not required The poll lists vary
little from season TO season, and no
of-year fluctuations are noticeable.
The eligible vote is there. 1t is only
q question of getting it out OF Elec-
tionsDay.
In 1920 Mr.. Smith had plurality
in this city of 3I9,965. But the reg
istration then was 194,055 greater
than it Is now. No offsetting decline
has occurred, or can occur, in the
Republican party Of the state. On
the registration figures it is plain
that the Democratic candidate has a
harder road to travel than he had in
1920, and that Governor Miller has
an easier road.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Higher Library Fines

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: May be permitted to add a
few suggestions In respect TO M. D.s
letter csptioned Higher Library
Fines' in your issue of the 2ist inst. !?
he states that q fine Of one cent a
day is imposed upon borrowers with
overdue books. Personally, / know
that Brooklynites are fansd two cents a
day. and was net aware that the f,ne
was smaller in Manhatan libraries. In
agreement with NJ. D., I am sure that a
much higher fne, say five cents daily.
would noticeably decrease the number
Of tardy borrowers.
Another misdemeanor prevalent Is
the Harring Of book pages. This is
chiefly true in the case Of students
using tbs books for reference. Quota
tions are inclosed in parentheses. sen-
sences underlined and pages willful,y
adorned with drawings and marginal
jottings.
u would be ,wiss IL librarians care
fuiiy inspected all works when re-
turned. But the vast demands upon
their attention doubtless make that
impossible. s
HAMILTON DE B. HARMEK1EIaH.
Brooklyn, Oct. %, 1882.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
What Readers Sau
Rum Running as Piracy
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In the discussion of the search
ing Of the rum-running vessels OUT
side the three-mile limit have failed
to see any reference to the piracy
laws. had supposed that the law Of
nations, as we'll as the statute laws Of
individual maritime nations, gave the
naval forces of any nation the right
to board on the high seas any craft for
the sole purpose Of examining it's
papers to see il they were in order. It
is difficult to see how piracy could be
prevented otherwise.
Also had supposed that it a vas-
sci cleared from any port with cargo
destined for another specific port, and
did not make the run in accordance
with its clearance papers, it made it.
self subject TO the piracy laws, unless
the deviation were caused by something
outside the masters control.
If these are the facts--and, Of course,
may be mistaken in them then a yes
sci clearing, say, from the Bahamas
for Halifax with cargo Of booze
which instead of proceeding to Hall.
fax anchors Off the American coast
could, in the first place, be boarded
by an American warship, or, for that
matter, a Chinese or q Peruvian war
ship, and required to show papers
When its papers had shown that II
was bound for Halifax 1t would be ur
to the captain TO show what Legitimate
reason il had for anchoring of ths
American coast instead Of proceeding
to it's destination. Besides that. /,
lit transferred cargo on the high
seas instead Of taking IL to it's de.
clared destination, except under force
of necessity, that Of itself would bring
it in conflict with the piracy laws.
In other words, the primary purpose
Of q vessel is to take it's cargo to its
destination as soon AZ reasonably pos.
sible, and II 1t does not do SO it has
to show why. It could avoid this only
by clearing with trading license
| which would, presume, lesitimasise
such trading, but IL 10 doubtful /.
under the circumstances any govern
ment would let 1t clear with sucl
papers.
GEORGE Y. PAYZANT. i
Isle az Pinas- ~. 4. Oct. 12, 1922.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
MI. Hylan and the Poor

It has been the claim of the Mayor
of New York that he was the friend
Of the poor. For the poor his heart
has bled. For those who had no
friends among the cruel interests"
he had deep and enduring sympathy.
And it was for the poor that he or
ganized the public markets, where, at
practically no cost at all, they could
obtain the wherewithal to be fed.
Now, there are few persons in
New York City any poorer than the
pushcart peddlers WHIP sell their
wares in the public markets. It goes
without saying that no person of
substance is going to operate push
cart. It is hard work and but scan
tily profitable.
Yet representatives of five hun
dred peddlers are pleading with Mr..
Hylan in vain to get their license
fees reduced from 81 to so cents a
week. The markets do not cost half
AS much as the peddlers pay in
licenses. They could be operated
for even less il Tammany job hold
ers were eliminated.
But the pedd.ers have been mulcted
just the same. And it isn't the Gin
terests or the food profteers" that
are taking this 81 week from each
of them. 1t is the Market Depart
ment of city of which Mr.. Hylan
is the Mayor.
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Judge Hands Decision

Those advocates Of wetness who
saw III the Daugherty ruling Grass
ignorance of international law and
a strained Interpretation of the Vol
stead act enunciated for purely DO.
iltical purposes will be surprised by
Judge Hands decision. From a
strictly legal point of view it was
Lard to see how any other conclu-
sion could be reached.
The briefs of counsel for the COM
plaining lines did not really uues-
ton the power of Congress to make
foreign ships dry wl.ile within our
ports. They chiefly argued that in
50 far as liquor was part of ships
stores it did not fall within any of
ihe prohibitory clauses OF the Vol
stead act. Judge Hand plainly con-
sidefs that here is a aebatable point
and he continues his injunction SOLE
" with respect to such liquor. But
shat is small oasis. Such liaaor
must be clearly intended for the
srew's use and a bond must be given
Tor its use only by the men, pend.
ing final decision by the Supreme
Court. This exception is apparentl,
intended TO apply to both foreign
and American ships.
Upon one whole branch Of tht
case Judge Hand refuses to rule al
all. By curious omission counsel
for the American coynplainants
Tailed to allege that the government
intended to prosecute them Scr ths
sale of liquors upon the high seas
The question was debatsi ii the
ssriefs and relief was prayed Tor,
issH since the governments intent
was not charged the court could
aot rule. Probably this remaining
question viii be speedily raised in
snother action. The point involved
& the simple one as to whether
tongfess intended To consider as
Americas ''ssrritors'' sl.ips ssiling
New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Banish the Bogey Man
70 the Editor Of Tho Trihune. !.

TO the Editor Of Tho Tribune.
Sir: The death " q nine-ysar-osd
Chicago boy. due to 2rightful visions
oS q truant oihcsr, affords q lesson in
the rearing of children. Tho youthful
MIND is very eager to registar impress
sioas and these impressicns remain
often throughout life, especially thoss
Impressions that come an q shock.
Parents shouid be careful Of Ssightsn-
Ing children BY telling them blood
curdsing stories. know whom / was b
boy those tales sIf you're not good
the DOGGY mani will get youls \ certain
" impressed nae and did no coed, but
4 great deal of harm. I Was afraid os
the dark until grew up. and even now
will ron1ess TO iittis shiyAr when
going down All untrequented street or
path, Do away with all that hsrmSut
supsrstition-~sive the kid a chance.
RALPH W. PERSON.
New Haven. Conn. Oct. "a, 1922.