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New Britain herald., 1924-03-01
EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE Hartford. Conn.
 February 2l, 1924.

 Dear Father:
 The diocesan regulations for the observance of the holy season of Lent are as follows:
 1-The sick or delicate arc not bound either to fast or to abstain.
 2-Children under seven years of age are not subject to the law of fast or abstinence.
 S-Persons who have completed their fifty-ninth years or who have not completed their twenty-first year are not obliged to the fast. but must abstain from meat on abstinence days.
 1.-The abstinence days for the la- boring class and all members of the household of laborers are Fridays, Ash Wednesday and Holy Saturday till noon.
 5-The abstinence days for all other persons are Wednesdays, Fridays, Sat urday of Ember Week and Holy Sat urday till noon.
 6-Any person engaged in a labori- ous occupation, while bound to abstain from using meat on abstinence days, is nevertheless excused from the law of fast.
 7-The law of fast for all who are not excused is binding every day of Lent except Sundays. On fast days those who are subject to the law are allowed to take only one full meal. In the morning, however, they may take a cup of tea, coffee or chocolate with a piece of bread. In the evening they may take a collation.. At the collation. it is lawful to use fish, eggs, cheese, butter and milk. but the quantity of solid food should not exceed ten ounces. Meat is permissible only at the principal meal. This meal may be
New Britain herald., 1924-03-01

taken in the evening and the collation. at noon.
 The use Of meat and fish at the same meal is not permissible. and the Lenten fast and abstinence cease at noon on Holy Saturday. Yours sincerely,
 JOHN J. MILAN,
 Bishop of Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-01
SPECIAL NOTICE

The anniversary committee Of the .adies' Auxiliary to the A. o. H. will meet Sunday evening at 7:S0 D. m. at the K. Of C. parlor. All returns for the tickets for the banquet which is to be held Tuesday evening in Judd's hall must be made at that time. Sale of tickets closes at ?. m.
New Britain herald., 1924-03-01
.ENTEN RULES IN
 CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Bishop Milan Outlines Regulations
 for Members of Faith

The following letter concerning Lenten regulations has been sent to the local priests and will be read in all the Catholic churches in the city tomorrow:
Evening star., 1924-09-07

went on to say, "the very fact of that
disinterestedness gives opportunity
with US for the most acute divisions
of sentiment among people drawn
from many races and countries, who
are still bound by ties of sentiment
and interest to many lands
Hyphen sdn Factor.
This was an attempt to hammer
home to the European consciousness
that the hyphen has not yet lost its
power for evil in American politics.
Witness the support with which the
National American Citizens
Alliance has just favored Senator La
Toilette. Mr.. Hughes probably did
many useful things in Europe. But
none could possibly have been more
helpful than his reminder that while
the United States is nation, it does
not yet comprise a race with def
mite race consciousness such as the
British, the French or the Italians
possess and which governs all of their
foreign policies To many ears Mr..
Hughes explanation savored of an
extenuation-of an apology for our
aIoofness from Europe. Yet it turned
on the light where light was needed.
Whether it changed anybody's mind
in Europe, or made anybody think
little more charitably of our problems
is a different matter. Europeans are
surfeited with words from the other
side of the Atlantic and crave for
deeds.
President Coolidge's speech of ac-
ceptance burst upon Europe co-inci-
dent with the triumphant conclusion
of the London reparations conference.
1t was accordingly more or less lost
in the shuttle of joy and relief with
which 1.-The first peace treaty since
1914" was greeted. But there must
have been good deal of quiet amuse-
ment in the chancellories of Europe
over the assumption that it was Uncle
Sans big shoulder that was at length
put to the wheel and pushed the Eu-
ropean cart out of the mud. Great
Britain thinks it was the tact and
tenacity of Ramsay Macdonald that
finally got the cart to moving-that.
indeed. MacDonald's achievement was
so tremendous that his lease on the
premiership has been indefinitely pro-
longed. While Emile Herriot returned
to France from the London confer
ence. the Paris crowd pelted him with
roses because France thinks it was
her Radical Socialist premier who
really did the trick.
Feel Uncle Sam Is Strutting.
Europeans are likely to feel that
Uncle Sam is strutting again. as they
say he strutted after the war which
he "won" and after the rescued civil
liZation which he saved" If there is
one impression indelibly borne in
upon the inquiring American in Eu-
rope, it is that the democracy"
which the war made more or less
safe, is held to be in that condition
Evening star., 1924-09-07
What Europe Is Saying About America

familiar saying, and one worthy of
full acceptation. that we are all eager
for better understanding" No in
telligent understanding of Europe's
present hour state of mind is possible
without frank appreciation of her
feelings about the 10000, 600, 900 she
owes and cannot pay the United
States. 1t will be a miracle If there
is not some pretty plain speaking
some thinking out loud-when the
interallied debt conference is sit
ting and statesmen cast their glances
In the direction of Americas vacant
chair Signor Mussolini holds some
particularly strong views on the sub
Ject of Americas unwillingness to tie
up her allied-owed debt with the
general problem of interallied obli-
cations and reparations. If he comes
to the debt conference at Paris ne is
liable to let off some Italian fireworks.
Less temperamental statesmen from
the Thames and the Seine may de-
plore so unseemly an exhibition by
the gentleman from the Tiber, but
anything he hurls in the direction of
the Potomac will have their inward
approval.
Europe Respects United States.
Mr.. Hughes was in Europe at the
critical hour of the reparations con-
ference. His representations to al
lied and ex-enemy statesmen that the
United States earnestly desires them
to bury their tribal differences and
get down to brass tacks on repara-
tions were undoubtedly effective.
Even though Europe does not love us,
she respects our power and authority.
A man has no overwhelming affec-
tion for the banker to whom he is
overwhelmingly in debt, but he sits
up and takes notice when the banker
talks. Mr.. Hughes went a great deal
further in London, Paris, Brussels and
Eerlin than to voice Americas anx-
iety for a European settlement. In
about so many words the Secretary
of State said that unless such set
tlement was effected, here and now,
any hope of American interest in Eu-
rope would go where the wood dbine
twineth: and probably would never
return from that dismal bourne.
Potent as Mr.. Hughes straight
speaking on that score probably was,
he struck, in this observers judg-
ment, far more useful note when he
emphasized, as he did on many occa-
sions, the many Americas that con-
stitute the United States. He went
direct to the core of European mis-
understanding of our country when
he traced the peculiar factors that
come into play when the United
States requires to formulate and ex-
erute a foreign policy. We showed in
the World War, Mr.. Hughes ex-
planned, that we are capable of quick,
decisive, united action when Ameri-
can interests are directly involved.
But when as a nation We are rel
atively disinteres the Secretary
Evening star., 1924-09-07

The idea of saving coal and expense
by generating electricity in super
power stations located at the mouth
of the coal mines is great. So, too.
were those earlier ideas about finding
the fountain of youth. transmitting
base metals into gold. and getting the
boys out of the trenches by Christ
mas. But they all possessed one fault
in common-they wouldn't work.
During the war and again later,
while the coal strike was on, folks
who meant well, but lacked technical
knowledge of power-house processes.
pointed out the saving in coal and
expense that would result from
generating electricity at the mine
mouth. Locomotives, it was declared.
consumed approximately 25 per cent
of the coal they hauled, in addition
to which there was to be accomplish
ed the saving of the transportation
expense.
The possibility of such drastic
economics stirred the imagination of
laymen. both here and in England. to
Evening star., 1924-09-07
100000 NEW VOTERS
ELIGIBLE In 1924 RACE
Together With Stay-at-Homes in Last
Race, Groups Form Raw Army Of
33,O8l ,3l8, Observer Says.

State by only 1000 over Blaine.
With 100000 youngsters entitled to
cast first ballots. If they accept their
sovereign privilege, there may be
something of an upset in New York.
The home State of Calvin Coolidge
Ma observation-disclosures not quite so
large a crop of new presidential vot
ers. and yet $4,000 margin would
probably satisfy the former Bay
State governor-or either of his op-
ponents-in that commonwealth this
year.
Pennsylvania frequently shows a
presidential plurality of around 200,
600. 1t would take only about two
fifths of the $1,000 young presiden-
tial voters of that State to make such
a plurality.
Illinois with 42S.o00 young voters,
if they should decide to vote en- bloc.
could be turned politically topsy-
turvy in spite of the customary 20o,-
900 plurality, delivered at the polls.
May Decide Election.
Among the States Of the Middle
West in which the La Toilette third
party movement is active, the young
voters of 1924 show these interesting
totals: Michigan, $4,000: Wiscon-
sin, 1000; Minnesota, $4,000; Iowa,
10000; Nebraska, $4,000; the Da-
kotas. $4,000 each; Kansas, $4,000,
and Missouri, 23S,000. So you see
there are enough new voters in most
Of these States to decide the election.
They may be swayed by the oratory
in their first political meetings.
Out on the, Pacific Coast. California
has 100000 new presidential voters,
while down in Texas there are 2s2,-
900, which are enough to make even
those big States sit up and take no.
tice politically.
One of the interesting questions is:
How many of the 100000 young
presidential voters of the Is South
ern States will actually cast the bal
lots to which they have just become
entitled? If only Is per cent of them
vote, they can change the political
complexion even of ''The Solid
South"
The aggregate of 100000 for the
12 States of the Middle West is a
particularly interesting study. Here
is a ground on which Young Amer
lea can voice it's political sentiments
decisively.
So the national candidates this
year confront as an unknown guam
tity a voting population such as the
history Of the country has never
known. There is abundant oppor-
tunity for missionary work, political
ly, patriotically, now that these new
voters may exercise their highest
prerogative intelligently and thought
fully for the best interests and well
fare of the Nation-not only for this
one year, but for the widening fu-
ture,
Evening star., 1924-09-07
PAN-AMERTCAN MEETINGS
INCREASE In IMPORTANCE
During Present Year and
Early in 1925 Significant in Promotion
of Good Will Among Nations.

| A number of institutions already have
accepted the invitation, and several
| of them already have named their
! delegates. among them the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, which will
send Dr. Wilfred c. Parkinson and
| DR. Graham H. Stuart: the American
Museum of Natural History of New
York. which will be represented by
DR.. Robert Cushman Murphy. who
Will also represent the New York
! Academy of Science; the Geographical
Society of Philadelphia. which will
send Adrian w. Vollmer to the con-
gress.
The American Historical Associa-
ton, the Anne rican Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Ameri-
can Bar Association the American
Economic Association and others will
be represented. Among the univer-
stiles which already have Signified
their intention of naming delegates
are Yale, the Cniersity of Illinois and
others.
Topics to be discussed at the con-
gress will range from folklore
through laws and into highly tech
nical assertions on anthropology and
history, mining, metallurgy and ap-
piled chemistry. engineering. medicine
and sanitation, biology and agricu1-
ture, public, private and internation-
al law, economies, sociology and edu-
cation.
SANITARY Congress at Havana.
One of the most important con-
ference of the year is the seventh
pan American sanitary conference
which is to be held in Havana, No
vember to Is next. Questions af-
fecting the health of all the Amer
icas will be discussed at this con-
gress, with medical and health ex-
perts from the United States Public
Health Service and similar organiza-
tions in the Latin American countries
present. While it's work will be rath-
er technical, the exchange of infor-
nation will be of highest value to the
study and development of health and
sanitary problems in all the nations
of this hemis phere.
|. At the fourth convention of the
American Red Cross which will be
held here October 6 to 9, a special
session will be devoted to foreign and
pam american work, with an address
by Dr. Honorio Pueyrredon, Ambas-
sador of Argentina to the United
States. The first pan-American Red
Cross Congress was held in Buenos
Aires, and Argentina is one of the
| leaders in that field of humanitarian
endeavor, although the other Latin
American countries also have Red
Cross activities and are taking deep
! interest in this work.
What the United States is doing in
child welfare work will be fully ex-
planned at the congress which meets
! in Santiago next month and Miss Len
root of the children's bureau, with the
other delegates from this country
| will take data, charts and models of
various kinds to show what is being
done here in that direction. The ex-
| change of views at these various
congresses, it is believed. is of great
| value to all the countries participat-
! ing.
Copyright, 1924. by Henry L. swenhart.)
Evening star., 1924-09-07
Lack of Water Stands in Way
OF Generating Power at Mines

say nothing about the declarations by
certain OF the technically Informed
who should have known better The
savings that could have been effected.
on paper, were marvellous. But the
plan was not workable then. nor is it
workable now. The trouble is that
nature has rarely seen fit to put coal
and abundant water. supply sideil by
side. II
For every ton of coal CONSUMED
under modern power-house boilers
from 900 to 1000 tons of water are
required to condense the steam dis
charged from the turbines. That is
the reason why superpower stations
must of necessity and in the majority
of instances be built on large rivers
or at tide-water. That also explains
why some of the great interior cities
of this country, and of England are
handicapped when it comes to erect
ing superpower stations. Generally
the coal is obtainable, but the water
Is not-that is, not in proportions Of
LOCO times more water than coal
Evening star., 1924-09-07

only incidentally, not mainly, or ap-
proximately as much as we fancy, be-
cause of Americas contribution 10 the
cause. That is one of the rudest
awakenings awaiting Americans in
Europe nowadays.
Europe is entertained, too, by the
United States intention, when the
Dawes plan gets going, to call an
other international conference to re-
duce armaments. Now, Europe main
tains a highly organized institution
known as the League of Nations,
which has been dealing with reduction
of armaments incessantly for four
years 1t will be one of the main
items on the agenda of the fifth an
nual assembly in Geneva. The
leagues Temporary mixed commits
sion" has been continuously engaged
in an endeavor to carry out the
task intrusted by article of the
covenant, namely, the preparation Of
general splan for the reduction of
armaments These efforts have ad-
mittedly been hampered by the uncer-
tain conditions prevailing in Europe.
The third assembly drew special at
tention to one of the main obstacles.
1t declared that mutual condolences
and security, which are essential pre-
liminaries to material disarmament,
cannot be attained so long as the
world continues to suffer from disor-
ganization of the exchanges, economic
chaos and unemployment. Then the
assembly, perhaps with an eye
cooked in the direction of Washing
ton, observed that the only method
of remedying these evils is "the earl
lest possible general settlement of the
problem of reparations and interallied
debts"
Dawes Plan Helps.
The league has not allowed these
obstacles to the reduction of arma-
ments to prevent it from exploring
the ground to the fullest possible
extent. The definite purpose has been
to take concrete and constructive
action as soon as the appropriate
moment arrives. The Dawes plan,
from the leagues standpoint, brings
that moment appreciably nearer. 1t
will be interesting to note whether
the league takes kindly to the idea of
America walking off with the leagues
clothes in the midst of the long swim
it has been taking in the surging
waters of armament reduction. On
that point. too, there mayN be some
plain speaking by allied statesmen
ardent pro-leaguers for the most
part-when they are taking part in
the parliament of fifty-four nations
at Geneva in September.
Americas proposal to call another
disarmament conference strikes many
European observers as amazing, too,
in view of the strain in American
japanese relations over immigration.
One of the best minds in Great Brit
Evening star., 1924-09-07
Warrior of the Iron Age
Well Armed and Well Fed

ton Of a warrior lies extended, hold.
ing in the right hand a long iron
sword with a bronze hilt astonish-
ingly well preserved. 1t is probable
that this sword, which was dis
covered lying across the shoulder OF
the dead man, with blade turned
upward, was originally encircled by
a wooden sheath with leather COW
er, as some leather still clings to the
hilt. The wood and leather would
naturally disintegrate with the ages,
but they would account for the re-
markable preservation of the sword.
Two large keys lay near the head
of the warrior, and next to these an
iron bride, two iron buckles and four
small bronze plates, all appurte-
nances, probably, of horses harness.
Evening star., 1924-09-07
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

~ ORE than 100000 new
M voters are eligible to cast
iN their first vote for Presi-
dent this year-having come
of age since the 1920 cleo
tion-according to a statistical re-
port just completed by Simon Niche
let, Washington lawyer, statisti-
clan and political writer. and or
ganiZer of the National Get-Out-the-
Vote Club.
In a recent compilation this same
authority on vote statistics showed
that in the last presidential election
there was a Stay-at-h home vote OF
25,7O5.063, which added to the H.
376255 new voters gives in the pres.
ent presidential campaign total OF
33,0S1,31S citizens of voting age, as
a vast unorganized army or raw po-
litical recruits for the leadership Of
whom the rival presidential candi-
dates may wage forensic battle.
There may also be added to the
100000 young people recently of
age, war veterans and young men
from the farms who were old
enough to vote in 1920, but had not
yet established legal residence in
their new city locations. which
gives at least S.0O0.0oo hrst-time
presidential voters in this campaign.
eOO,OOO Alien E11SlDIeS.
Some of these young people may
be foreign born and not yet natural
lied but there is an offset for these
in something like 100000 foreign
born naturalized since 1920. who this
wear are entitled to cast their first
vote. After all deductions are made
on several counts, it is believed that
the total number of new presidential
voters will exceed rather than fall
below the 7,376,0O0 shown by the
census.
1t is to be taken into considera-
ton, also, that there has been a
large colored movement from the
South to the industrial districts of
the North during the past four years,
so that many colored voters will
cast their first ballots this year in
the North, where they will not be
subjected to the strict illiteracy test
of the Southern States.
The power of the new voters in
pivotal States is a live subject, and
has an important bearing on the re-
suits. Indiana has nearly 100000
new voters this year, while in the
normal campaign years, 1916 and
1908, the plurality of the successful
presidential candidate was only 6,942
and 1O,70O, respectively. Ohio has
$4,000 new voters, which is about
four times the average Ohio plural
ity: in fact, five times that of Pres
idents Taft and Mckinley.
The presidential margin in New
York averages around 100000, al
though Grover. Cleveland carried the
Evening star., 1924-09-07

The National Archaeological In
stitution of Czechoslovakia has for
some time past been undertaking
excavations at Stresovice. western
suburb of Prague, in a graveyard of
great antiquity. Some of the skele-
tons seem to date from the stone and
others from the iron age. Up to the
present IL tombs have been opened,
all of which have contained valuable
matter for scientific study. The
excavators succeeded in opening
another tomb. which, owing to its re-
markable state of preservation and
the wealth of its contents. promises
rich food for archaeological thought,
In this tomb, which dates from the
beginning Of the iron age, the skele-
Evening star., 1924-09-07
Forestry Literature
List Given Libraries

Municipal and school Libraries are
receiving a catalogue of III titles of
works on forestry in English, which
has just been prepared by Miss Helen
E. Stockbridge, librarian of the For
est Service, United States Department
of Agriculture. Every phase of fores-
try and of forest products is covered
in this proposed forester's book shelf,
so that many individuals interested in
these lines will be able to use the list
to check up their own reference
Shelve2
Evening star., 1924-09-07
Conclusions
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

rItueTlC " lillian VIE mas con-
cluded an investigation of Euro
pean opinion about America, which
lasted six weeks and brought him
In contact with the leading public
men of Great Britain, Ireland,
France, Italy, the League of Ma
tions and the Vatican. His final
article is in the nature of resume
of his impressions.
A MERICA'S refusal to attend, or
~ even unofficially to observe.
~ the interallied debt confer
4 \ ence in November at Paris
typifies, in European estima-
ton, the callous attitude of the United
States toward old world affairs. Tn
til our stony heart melts on the score
of the debt all Of our protestations
of "helpfulness" will leave Europe
cold. Dawes plans may come and go.
Our effective cooperation in framing
and executing them may be evsr so
gratefully acknowledged. But as long
as the United States maintains its
right to its pound of flesh" just
so long will allied Europe view US
with indignation dangerously border
ing on contempt. To the cOnscien-
tious X-rayer of European sentiment
toward America that fact stands out
as clearly as Mars at perihelion. 1t
is as palpable as the Atlantic Ocean.
Such emotions do not creep into the
public prints of Great Britain, France
and Italy. They do not find express
sion in the pleasantries which Messrs.
Macdonald, Herriot and Mussolini ex-
change with Amba assadors Kellogg,
Herrick and Fletcher, respectively, at
London. Paris and Rome. 1t is not
probable that they were poured into
the ear of Secretary Hughes when he
was in Europe few weeks ago. But
they are emotions, all the same, that
fire the soul of nearly all Britons,
Frenchmen and Italians when they
discuss America. ON every occasion
on which this writer has interrogated
a European man of affairs the latter
was besought to speak with the
brutal frankness of a blood relation"
Thereupon cnsued, in nearly every
case, a species of candor that is far
off the key of the usual tone in
which European-American amenities
are pitched.
Plain Speaking Predicted.
The United States is not likely to
be detected by European grievances
from it's determination to order its
international destinies in its own
way. But no useful purpose is served
by binding ourselves to the existence
of those grievances, unjuStified as,
from our point of view, many Of
them may be.
Addressing The Pilgrims in London
on July 21, Mr.. Hughes said: 1T is
Evening star., 1924-09-07
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

//T RANCE holds out a frater-
- nal hand to all your coun-
tries. 1t will give her joy.
L even among the sadness of