New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1914. BFHAIN HERALD | * m muaamo COMPANY. Proprietors. d Saily (Sunday excepted) st 4:18 p. m. Hersld Bullding, 67 Chucch St at the Nn Office mt New Britaln Second Class Mali Matter. Dy carrier to any. part of the ity 5 Conts & Weok, 65 Conts & Month. criptions fov paper to be sent by mall Dayable in advance. 60 Cents & ‘Month, $7.00 a year. only profitable wdverusing medium in Ivm Circulstion books and press v always Spen to advertisers. Herald will be found on sats at Hota- Ing’s News Stand, 42nd St. Ind Bronfl far ) New York City: Board Wi tic City, and Hartford dopoL ; A'torial Reowns . HARBOR MASTER JOB. Wn,u our Middletown-New Britain nal completed, it will be necessary have harbor plans issued and rules d regulations established. And last, jut not least, a harbor master’s job orth something.—Middletown Penny 'ess, | What pleasant thoughts this little ort of our esteemed contemporary fwakens. We trust, however, that Bur Middletown friends have not un to start a campaign for harbor ter. It seems as if that office hould come to the head of naviga- on. Bristol has been claiming that jonor and presumably will want that fice but New Britain at the proper me will file its claim. There has n a decrease in interest in the canal oject of late but that is due in a arge measure to the war with Mexico fnd the New Britain election. The iof filling the city offices is occupy- Jrg so much time at present that it y fiirther labors were to be thrust nus now it is feared that some- *would break, the machinery jould stop and business cease. A board of strategy should be appointed consist of seven men, ‘four from jew Britain and one each from Mid- n, Berlin and Bristol to formu- |b rules for the management of the nal and for the establishment of a saving service with a sub-com- mittee on medals so that due reward be given those who distinguish mgelves for bravery. We are greatly indebted to the ny Press for suggesting early 8 tion on the appointment of harbor haster and we desire to add that a fommittee be chosen to select a suit- bble uniform for him in orlder that he be distinguished from the re- ainder of the employes. But it s t8 us just now that we may be proceeding on wrong lines. Suppose the women have been given the light, to vote by the time the canal is puilt and that the title of the head pfiicer be changed from harbor master b harbor mistress. New Britain ishes to enter a most emphatic pro- jest. against Middletown women nanaging the canal. TROUBLE IN -OOLORADO. | The industrial roublé in Colorado »which ‘so ~ many ‘lives 'have been ought not to/bs possible in this try and it would not be if the er was handled properly. It is most natural thing in the world it men should seek better ‘wages ndishorter hours of labor, that is the lency’ of the times, and such a oposition ought not to cause such e as ijs now on in Colgrado. It not always possible to grant all -demands that are sometimes made [ there is absolutely nothing to 5 gained by striking. The presi- t of the United States has re- ed John 'D. Rockefeller to as- t him in settling the mining trou- andihe replied that he has turned all his interests in ‘the property question .to his son and he refuses do anything, in fact he says there nothing to arbitrate. - In the mean- the disturbance goes on, armed u are fighting the strikers and large number of people have been lled. s . There is only one explanation of s trouble and that is that the right pethods have not been employed to ng both sides together, settle their jifrerences and have work resumed. will be settled sometime and when inventoty is taken of the loss and e it will be found that the have been the heaviest losers that it will take a long time for to recoup their losses. At ent an effort is being made to teh up our troubles with Mexico the loss of life in that dispute 8 not been nearly as large as it has y o where the troubles %fl no immediate pros- myuwu. That is a sad yry om ‘our methods of do- in’ this country. ble in Colorado should be o people and wbd " The the present strife is continued nore bitter will be thé fey be- the partles concerned r will it t-ke to restore c Muld always exMV 2 T utd employe SAY' BECKER IS WEAKENING. The reports from the Tombs prison in New York are that Lieutenant Becker awaiting the second trial for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, is breaking down and that he would be willing to ‘plead guilty to a lesser degree of crime than that with | which he is charged if by so doing he | might escape the electric chair. Those reports have not been traced to him directly, but he refuses to deny them and has declined ‘to discuss his af- fairs with anyone extept his family and his attorney. That, however, seems to be a wise decision. Those who appeared in court to give reasons why the gunmen should have been given a new, trial have admitted that they committed perjury, and it |is said that the district attorney has ob- tained some information from them | which he thinks he can use Becker. against Those who have been watching the | case and who profess to know some- thing about it 'say that it is going to . be a much more difficult job to con- | vict Becker this time than many sup- pose, principally because of the de- cision of the court of.appeals, which, it is believed, will keep out the great- er part of the evidence if not the whole of it upon which he was con- victed at his first trial. At least one of the gunmen said on the morning of his execution that Becker was not ! connected with the case, but it was a gamblers’ fight. There is no reason to doubt the truth of this statemént and while it may be difficult to get it | before the court the district attorney knows that it was made and it ought to have some effect In the preparation of the case against Becker. The tes- timony against him has come from some very peculiar people. HUNGER STRIKE ENDED. A hunger strike is not as popular in | this country as it is in England. Over there a woman throws a bomb, is ar- | She refuses | rested and sent to jail. to eat, also objects to being forcibly fed, and when she becomes weak she | is released under the cat and mouse act, and when she gets out she re- sumes her bomb throwing, Miss Becky Edelson is a sympathizer with the I. W. W., was arrested for being implix cated in acts of viplence in New York | recently and when placed in confine- ment she announced her intention of ‘engaging in a hunger strike, but after a day or two she began to eat some candy which had been placed where she could reach it, and she found that it tasted so good that when the jail officials brought around her dinner she ate: that too, and the' hunger strike came to an ‘end.” The young woman gave evidence of ! still having some sense left when she | The warden realized | decided to eat. her weakness and tempted her with the candy and the rest was easy. It would be interesting to know what would have been the result if she per- sisted in her original refusal to eat. There is no doubt but that she would. be compelled to remain in There is no cat and mouse act here and she would be forcibly fed or she would have died in prison. (If the same methods were’employed in Efig- land the results would probably be different. © The militants would either be compelled to obey the law or they would spend the greater part of their time behind the bars, even if some of them died there. Are Grandmothers a Nuisance? (Syracuse Post-Standard.) The professor of pediatrics at Har- vard is right. The opposition and in- terference of grandmothers is a great obstacle to the correct bringing up of children, according to scientific text- book ideas. many absolutely correct parents have observed as often as Prof Morse has, that grandmothers who have brought up their own children sensibly will defy modern science and ‘progress when they have grandchildren. ‘“They are willing,” says Prof. Morse, bitterly in his new book, “to give them any- thing and everything to eat, and will | in fact go out of their way to do so.” He explains this on the ground that grandmothers don’t have to care for the children when they are sick. In this inference he is mistaken. Grand- mothers, whdtever else they may be, are not selfish creatures. They do not, as a class, fill their children’s stomachs with chocolate creams and fruit cake as practical jokes upon the children’s parents. The truth about indulgent grand- mother is that she practiced what Spartan severity her nature was cap- able of when her children were babies. She gave them rhubarb and castor oil; she spanked them when they started anything like anarchy; she them go to bed when they wanted to stay up and got them up when they wanted ‘to stay a-bed; she them to school and to church when she sympathized with their desire to spend the time frisking about in the open. All this was difficult. She did it because it was her duty. Now that she has grandchildren she thinks that she is entitled to some of the enjoyments of | motherhood with fewer of its penal: ties. She is quite right in_this. Grandmothers may need watching but if the pediatrics professor at Har- vard thinks the world will consent to a quarantine of children against grandmothers he is mistaken. More- over, there are professors of child- ng here and there who could from grandmothers who W‘ pediatrics. prison. | It is a strange fact which | made | sent | FACTS AND FANCIES. If a man must drink when out with an automobile he ought to have a good safe sober chauffeur to pilot his car. -Any man who tries to handle a car with alcohol affecting his eye- sight and control is an enemy to so- ciety, no matter how good a fellow he may be outside his automobile.. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Waterbury American. The senate of 1913 had a reunion at Hartford the other day and most of the members were present. The absentees included Senators Perry, | Hooker, McDonough, Newman of Bridgeport and Shanley. Very few of the senators expect to be back again next winter. The . majority members realize that things will be there is a big change in existing poli- tical conditions between { November.—Bridgeport Post. Requiring a high school boy clear fourteen feet in the broad jump in his third year, and fifteen feet In i his fourth, is a strange bit of edu- cational uplift. At least six high schools in the neighborhood of Bos- { ton see some virtue in it, and this| form of compulsory athletics will Jast | as long as parents submit to such waste of time and strength._Broch- ton Times. When the beautiful daughter of Secretary McAdoo of the treasury, quit munching chocolates in the sen- ate gallery, the night the Mexican regolution was passed, and pulled her daddy’s coat tail, so that he would turn around, a good many | smiled pleasantly at the When Bryan left the sénate because i Senator Fall was flaying him, most people were wondering how the sec- retary relished hearing such things in a place where he could not taik back. These are mere incidents in the lives of American ‘“royalty.”— ‘Waterbury .Democrat. When that inveterate old banterer Mark Twain, reached his seventieth birthday he celebrated it in a char- acteristic ' manner. He dwelt- upon ‘having docked at Pier 70 and then | proceeded to reminisce. ~ During the -Chauncey M. Pier 80 just { week that had passed Depew has docked at four piers above that used by the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell who swings easily at Pier 76. These two distinguished sons of Yale college are known wherever men want to know congenial souls, but they are partic- ularly well known and". beloved by Yale men of an earlier generation.— New Haven Journal-Courier. Some Unwarranted Assumptions. (Detroit Free Press.) According to Mrs. Charlotte Perkins | Gilman of New York women -are | fonder of going to church than are men, “because for generations it has | been the only place where they could | 8o as human beings, not simply as the female relatives of men,” and not because women are more religious than men, Into this assertion is packed more of ‘assumption and undemonstrated as- sertion than is usually to be found in So few words. First, there is the assumption that in every place but in the church woman has been consid- ered simply the ‘‘female relative of ever such a statement may be taken to mean, and that woman in being considered -“the female relative of man” has somehow been debased and ill-treated. 1f woman is not | “the female relative of man” what in the name of language, anthropology, biology and theology is she? And if | it is debasing and injurious to her to be thus classified, what is the effect | on her father and her son? Do they not share in the injury and debase- ment, if any there be? Isn’t such argument the climax and catastrophe of absurdity? The entire statement of Mrs. Gil- man is based on the assumption that woman is “fonder of going to church” than is her mate and offspring, man. But this lacks proof. True, more women than men go to church. But the founders and leaders of all re- ligions are and have ever been men. i And men have been just as devout and as loyal and as often suffered martyrdom for religion as have wom- en, The devout woman is no- more devout than the devout man, as a matter of plain fact. ‘Women have'in all the history of ed by civilized man as ings.” Differences of treatment have ever been due to differences of civilizationd and the deferences con- sidered proper under the established systems. In some places men have reserved to themselves certain powers over real and personal property, over the ballot and such matters. In some places these reservations are being swept away, not by women but by men. This is due to changed views of what is due to woman’s position and intelligence, not to such abusive statements as Mrs. Gilman sees fit to make. An Inch of Rain. (War CT¥.) An inch of rain strikes one as very little, but it is really a big rainfall. It is more than falls in New York city in an average week. When an inch of rain has fallen it i means, literally, that the amount . of | water descending from the sky in that | particular shower would cover the surrounding territory to a depth of one inch, providing, of course, that it did not run away or soak into the ground. It means that on one acre water enough to fill more than 600 barrels of forty-five gallons each has fallen. This quantity of water weighs more { than 110 tons. If the rainstorm cov- | erea a territory comprising 1,000 | acres, which would be a very small | shower, 113,000 tons of water would | | 1 fall from the clouds. Rain storms fre- quently cover whole states and often four or five inches of water fall in one rain. In this case the total num- ber of tons of water falling to earth is enormous. ' much different than in 1912, unless| now and | to | people | incident. | man,” not as a “human being,” what- | the world been considered and treat- | “human be- | Socialists and Progressives. (H. J. Whigham in the Metropolitan) Not half the people who voted for lRooseVelt in 1912 were real progres- sives. Many were attracted by his | personality, and far more were insti- | gated to revolt by the gross misman- agement of their own party leaders. Thousands and hundreds of thous- ands of these will go back, no doubt, to the old republican party. The real progressives, hoewver, will not 8o | back. The people who are really look- mg for social justice can never go back. But they will not be strong enough in numbers to make a great | showing at the polls next' November unless, indeed, Colonel Roosevelt re- | turns with a tremendous new lease of life and makes a whirlwind campaign. For our own part we should rather | see the new progressive party rely on | its own inherent aims than on Colonel Roosevelt's personality, though that may be useful for the time being. And if the progressive party 1s sufficiently purged of the old leaven of capital- ism angd is really intent on a genuine program. of reform, we should like to see’ an understanding, if not an alli- ance, between the socialist party and the new progressive party at the | polls. In other words, where a good | progressive is running in a district with a fair chance of winning, he should get the support of the socialist vote, and where a good socialist has | 2 fair chance of winning he should get | the progrssive support. Such a suggestion ~will, we know, bring ycries of horror from most of the orthodox socialists. But we shall not take these cries too seriously. ‘What we propose is not new. It is freely adopted in Europe, and no one can pretend that the result has not been greater progress in carrying out socialistic measures. It is, in fact, the only sensible way for the two partles to act if they believe in- po- litical progress at all. There is not much difference between the views of the intelligent progressives and the “nte!ligent socialists. The main stumbling block in the way of any sort of alliance is the strong feeling that most socialists have against Colonel Roosevelt. But the person- ality of one man ghould not be al- lowed to interfere with the welfare i not alone. of two political partles but of the whole people. And we are very certain that the time has come for more intelligent political action on the part of the socialist forces. In no other country in the world does ,the socialist party insist so strongly ] on orthodoxy and isolation and in no ! other country is the political organi- i zation of socialism so futile in ob- } taining results: -~ The Mule. (New York World.) | Announcement of the despatch of mules to Mexico does not impress the imagination like a despatch of war- ships. One Dreadnought carries more of pomp and circumstance than’ does | any number of mules; yvet in Mexico | is the mule the more important war maker of the two. If the campaign opens widely and our troops leave the cities by the sea to enter upon the mountain-climbing rarches towards Mexico, it will be the mule that will carry the munitions and the howitzers and ~ the ' baggage. He will tread with safety the narrow trails along the side of precipices, he will drag the heavy guns up the steep heights, he will share in the battles, and then he will haul the wounded to the hospitals. Along all the frontiers of the world, wherever there is a war there is a demand for the mule. Compared with him the much-vaunted war-horse is a vanishing figment of the past. His strength, his sureness of foot, his warl- ness of eye, his ability to endure hard- ship and hard work on little food and with little care, have made him in- valualle as a campaigner, whether in deserts or mountains. The mule has seen the camel and the elephant disappear from armiies. He may see the horse vanish. He has seen the metor cycle and the motor car come in. He may see the aero- planes numbered by thousands. But it is not likely he will ever see him- self superseded in' his own line of work. There may be mules without w.ar, but probably never a war with out mules, i Money for Saint Bernard’s. (Chicago Record-Herald.) It was of the ‘‘pious” monks of St. Bernard that Longfellow sang. But the adjective needs changing; the new word is “impecunious.” The cele- brated monastery, having rather over- done its hospitality, finds itself in fi- nancial difficulties. For generations travelers have been accepting its en- tertainment by the dollar's worth and dropping acknowledgements by the nickel's worth into the box at the gate. This cumulative shortage, tak- en with the increased cost of every- thing and the static rentals on which the monks largely subsist, accounts for the abbot’s reluctant considera- tion of a plan to charge the rich traveler for what he gets. If the monastery were in England instead of among the Alps the solu- tion would be simple. - The Ameri- cans would be worked. Placards headed with quotations from “Excel- sior” would be posted in the more lively and expensive hotels and sub- scriptign papers would be circulated among the Yankee guests. The press would issue a call. Select committees of titled persons would get busy. American millionaires would be ca- joled- The historic refuge would be “saved.” But St. Bernard’s hospice still re- mains among the Alpine snows. The best that we can do is to ask all Americans who happen that way next summnier to pay a fair price for what they get. They will probably do so anyhow. We incline to blame St. Bernard’s deficit on the thrifty Brit- ish and the still thriftier Swiss. MEXICAN POLICY 15 SCORED BY MONDELL Wyoming Congressman Benounces Bryan as a-Sensation Monger. ‘Washington, April 28.—A savage attack on the Mexican policy of the | administration as reflected in public acts of Secretary Bryan was made in éhe house yesterday by Representa-| ive Mondell of Wyoming, a republi- can. Mr. Mondell accused the secretary of te of circulating reports sent in by consuls in Mexico that tended to “inflame the public mind against the de facto government as represented by Huerta in Mexico City.” He vigorously assailed United States Consul Canada, stationed at Vera Cruz, and United States Consul Hanna, stationed at Monterey, for sending out alarming reports about conditions in Mexico without first ac- quainting themselves with the facts. Mr. Mondell lashed these consuls and Secretary Bryan and charged in effect that the administration in deal- ing with Villa had practically made an ally of “‘a bandit and a murderer.” Kent Praises Villa. Mr. Mondell's sensational attack on Villa, Secretary Bryan and the two consuls was followed by a speech by Representative Kent of California, a progressive, in which Mr. Kent eulogized Villa as ‘“a great leader of men, who has been growing in power and in the knowledge of what the civilized world demands of him.” Mr. Kent conceded that Villa had been a bandit, but insisted that he had changed his ways and that he was capable of performing efficient service in restoring peace in Mexico. Mr, Mondell began his speech with an attack upon Consul Canada, who made a report to the state depart- ment that conditions in Mexico City had reached such a pass that =l Americans there were in danger. He followed this up with an attack upen Consul Hanna, expressing doubt that Hanna had been imprisoned by the Federals as alleged in his reports to the state department. He then denounced the secretary of state for giving out the Canada and Hanna reports, charging that the consuls’ advices, untrue in the main, had given the American people a '| false impression of the treatment ac- corded Americans. “Of all the sensation mongers down there Canada seems to be the chief,” declared Mr. Mondell, ‘“What he has not said officially he has said to the | newspapers seeking colored reports. This man Canada should desist from a course likely to inflame our people and creating an erroneous impres- sion of conditions at the seat of trouble. Canada’s Despatches. “Canada has no business to alarm relatives and' friends of those Amer- icans in Mexico by sending out 'in- flammatory despatches regarding con- ditions that do not exist and prophesy ing slaughter and executions of Amer- icans that are not going to occur,” shouted Mr. Mondell. “But after all he is only a nfinor of- ficial of the government- I want to refer to a telegram sent by one in high . authority m"zhe state - depart- ment.” Mr. Mondell then read a telegram forwarded by Secretary Bryan this month to H. A. Parkin of Chicago | quoting Consul Canada to the effect that nineteen Americans and one Brit- ish refugee had been taken from a train by Federal troops at Tierra Blanca and that “it is reliably stated that all of these persons may be ex- ecuted ?” “Who sent that message?” Representative Madden of sharply. “That is a cheerful message sent across country to Chicago by our Sec- retary of State William J. Bryan,” re- turned Mr. Mondell. “That is the mes- sage sent to cheer up the relatives of these refugees.”” Representative Mondell next re- ferrad to an interview between Consul Carothers and Villa. “One of our representatives down at Chihuahua the other day was in the warm embraces of a gentleman by the name of Villa,” exclaimea sr. Mon- dell scornfully. “Consul Carothers was sent there by the secretary of state. He pleaded with Villa, no doubt, to be good.” Mr. Mondell charged that Villa first came into international prominence as a looter of American property and that the rebel leader while in pursuit of Orozco with Huerta was ordered to be shot for insisting on an attack upon an unprotected town, Pleaded for Life. “This brave leader of the Constitu- tionalists on that occasion got down on his knees to Huerta and made a plea for his life,” shouted Mr. Mon- dell, shaking his fist at the democratic side of the house. As another instance of the circula- tion of false reports concerning Huer- ta, Representative Mondell said the American people had been told that Charge O'Shaughnessy in order to save his life would have to slink out of Mexico City in the dark. “As a matter of fact, the Charge was escorted to the raflway station by President Huerta's troop of guards and given prtection all the way to Vera Cruz,” scid Mr. Mondell. Representative Mondell then up the case ot Consul Hanna, “I have not the time to go into that report of Consul Hanna in detail,” said Mr. Mondell. “He does say some things and the Way in which he says those things raises in the mind of any fair minded man the Impression that he has exaggerated. “He tells about insults to the flag by individual Mexicans, and then he concludes by saying that he does. not know or has not heard of any excesses by the rebels. “I do not know of. course, asked Illinois took but 1 heard 'last evening on what I con- sidered most excellent authority that at the time of the taking of Mon- terey by the constitutionalists on American flag extended across the door of a building to protect Amer- icans was torn doywn by the rebels or constitutionakistsi Trampled American Flag. “They entered the building in which the Americans. were quartered, tore down the flag and trampled it under foot. They demanded money, and in the melee that resulted one Amer- :lcan at least was wounded, and yet our Consul Hanna never heard of it. Certain of our officials never see the | outrages perpetrated by the constitu- I tionalists."” “I have had much experience in Mexico. I have lived among the | people,” said Mr. Kent. “I have lived in the back couutry ‘of Mexico {and can claim to have a knowledge and a sympathy with the common evervday people of that country. “I have been associated with some of the rich men, some of the pluto- crats, and a more useless gang of crooks I have never met. They have no regard whatever for their ¢ommon | people. “They dispise them more-than we do, look down on them more than we do, but they understand the method of thought better than we do, and therefore they are preterred by the common peaple to us. “Our history in Mexico has been something scandalous to us until re- |cent times. We have sept down there our outlaws, our promoters, our grafters, our refugees who have uni- formly and always despised the com- mon people. “They have spit upon them, they have killed the men and they have not dealt fairly with the women. Now we wonder that our good -efforts and impulses, our good intentfons, are ;:ot appreciated by the people of Mex- co. “I' voted against the resolution that the president requested simply because T do know these people. I felt that in the passage of that resolution’ for the acts complained of we had stum- bled into hell.” i Choosing a Barber. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer.) ‘Where is the man who, in the proud flush of manhood, can stalk non- chalantly into a barber shop and, with seven gog-eyed barbers standing sen- tinel behind as many chairs, choose his fate without conscious qualms and misgivings? The choice of a barbei is a serious thing., And for a timid man, one of the crises of life is pre- sented when he enters a barber shop. It is not really the hazard of expense that frightens him. He may be. a husband and a father and accustomed to deliver without question, It is not | even the dubious joy of having one's | face mauled over by an alien, hand, although rarely does man go through more personal wrecking and recon- struction in the glorious cause of cleanliness, which, we are solemnly assured, is next to godliness. pastoral barbers who fix over# the spiritual side make it much easier, and they don’t hunt in couveys, either. No, the thing that brings the blush to the cheek and sets the heart beat- ing in quick time is the solemn array of seven solemn barbers, each stand- ing gloomily behind a solemn chair, with all the deadly weapons in the background, and never a word said, nothing but the mute appeal, the haggard atmosphere of despair and retribution. A brave man, indeed, he who, without wincing, can single out his chosen artist and ignore the gloomy six.. -The victim loses' sight of the fact that he is going to pay for favors received. He knows that the barber shop is the nearest to the | judgment seat that he ever gets while | on earth. He feels that whatver he does is going to be recorded against him and that some day some rejected barber will meet him face to face and take his revenge without compunc- tion; that his family will be taught to hate you and his children will point you out to other children as the bad man of bogiedom, with whom a sociation means pestilence. It is all on the side of the barber. COMMUNICATED. (By F. B, Mitchell.) Dear Ish K. Bibble:—Only praise Should greet your last and best ef- fusion. { I'm beaten fifty thousand ways Angd so retire with some confusion. My words, in spite of me, assume Fortuitous concatenation: Whereat, I'm plunged in gloom . And vacuous obtenebration. deepest Though not a wit—for something sad My lightest fancy always smothers— Belleve me, I am very glad To be the cause of wit in others. I will not say, “You bite a file,” For that were supererogation, But, ere you a er, wait awhile And practice comperendination. \ INJURIES PROVE FATAD, Edward G. Norton of Meriden Suc- cumbs From Effects of Derrick Orash. Meriden, Conn., April 28.—LCdward G. Norton, a foreman employed by a local construction company, died at the hospital today of a fractured skull and other injuries. A derrick fell on him yesterday shile he was at work on'an addition to the First Con- gregational church. He was thirty-five years leaves a wife and child. old and UNITY REBEKAH MEETING. There was a large attendance at last night's meeting - of Unfty Re- bekah lodge, No. 54, I. O. O. F., held in Odd Fellows’ hall. The *reports of delegates were received and after the meeting the Phoenix Minstrels gave a performance. “Mald to Or- der,” a farce, was staged and made a big hit. averal of the latest song hits were rendered by a chorus in costume. All who attended had a most enjoyable evening. The McMILLAN'S Phenomenal Sale of HOSIERY. for Men, Women and Children AT A PAIR Three Days Only, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, This Wesk All our regular two for a quarter Stockings will be sold for thse three days, for ° 9c a pair. Limit 6 pairs to a customer, We inaugurate this sale for- one reason, ‘and one only, and that is to get you to know how good a Hosiery Dept. we have, and to introduce to you the values we offer from day to day at 12Y;c a pair 7 47 Remember this 9¢ price is for 3 days only and our entire stock of 12%c Hosiery go at 9c a pair. D. McMILLAN " 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. H. E. HORTON NEW SUP'T. Methodist - Church Sunday School Holds Adjourned Meeting. Howard E. Horton, one of the most prominent young men at the Meth- odist church, was last night elected as superimtendent of the Sunday school to succeed Retiring Superin- tendent Doolittle. H. C. Doolittle was elected assistant superintendent to- gether with E. E. Agard. Mrs. Harry E. Reynolds is the new primary de- partment teacher. There are now twenty-eight new members in the home department ac- cording to a report made by Mrs. C. J. Symonds. The superintendent and assistant superintendents of the Sunday school will arrange for the annual observance of Children’s day. NEW PRESIDENT FOR Y. M, C. A. E. M. Wightman, sales manager of the North & Judd company wus elected president of the association Jast night to succeed Charles J. Par- ker, who declined & re-election. Other officers chosen were as follows: TMirst vice-president, Frederick G. Platt; second vice-president, Robert N. Peck; treasurer, H. B. Humason; sec~ retary, E. J. Skinner; auditor, George 8. Talcott; assistant treasurer, Charlcs E. Wetmort E, G. Platt was choscen chairman of the finance committee. A whirlwind campaign will be con- ducted for the next two weeks to raise funds for next year's budget.