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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
4
Mt Higby weather report lists 24 hours ending noon with high 80 and low 60, noon reading 79, barometer water depth 23 feet 9 inches, wind calm, skies clear. The rest notes wartime politics and social issues, including a near final revenue bill, registration reminders, sugar ration talk, Russia and Germany war dynamics, and local transit debates.
The piece argues that highway detours around congested cities could greatly shorten trips and reduce through traffic, with postwar road building expanding for direct shipping within a few hundred miles. It notes wartime limits and a Connecticut veto on a New York Boston link, urging a grand afterwar venture despite railroad competition.
The Detroit News reflects on Lenin and Trotzky as figures who rose from modest origins to mythical power. It argues an idea alone cannot become a fact without armies, finances, and education, noting their thrilling run on others' money and declaring the ideal fighting reality.
The New York Globe muses on fashion history from Elizabethan ruffs to the modern soft collar. It argues abolition is unlikely soon, predicting a shift toward looser neckwear and less restrictive bands, noting potential links between neck constriction and baldness, with reference to workers like day laborers and sailors.
In wartime sentiment the piece argues that figures like Haywood reveal cancerous trends in American life including race bias and I W W sabotage. It urges countering anarchism with democracy and justice, stressing solidarity with the oppressed to curb revolutionary strikes.
Local discussions center on how to pronounce Rhance Field formerly Rheims Rheems or Rheims with many favoring Rhance. Community voices clash over spelling and phonetic accuracy at Kelly Field amid longstanding naming traditions.
The writer urges ending tips in hotels and restaurants as a wartime economy. Tips are seen as a wage supplement employers exploit, with workers relying on gratuities. The piece imagines a future where fair wages replace tipping and notes heightened prices and customer dissatisfaction with the current system.
Forecast for New Haven and vicinity calls for partly cloudy tonight and Friday with moderate west winds for Connecticut. Disturbances over the St Lawrence valley and Minnesota bring unsettled conditions and showers in northern districts and along the eastern lake region. Observations show varied skies and mild temperatures across regional cities.
The author contrasts British and American celebrations on July Fourth in London. He notes unlikely scenes if French allies honored Napoleon at Waterloo and reflects that the Declaration of Independence day marks a humiliation for the British Empire, a century later celebrated as a national festival signaling loss of a continent.
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