New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1914, 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. Issued dally (Sunday exce; * ‘st Herald Building, ¢ Bntered at the Post Omde ar New Britaln © . @8 Second Class Mali Matl ter. od) at 4:18 p. m. Shurch 8t Deltvered by carrier to any part of the eity €or 15 Cents & Week, 65 Cents & Month. ptions for paper to be sent by ‘maitl, Dayable in advance. 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. —— The onty le_udvertistng medium o the . #ty. Circulstion books and press To)m always open to advartisers. Fhe Herald will be found on sate at Hota- fine’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Walk. Atiautlp City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Basiness OmMce . g Rooms SUPERINTENDENT OF TOWN HOME ASKED TO RESIGN. It is an unpleasant thing to see an administration going wrong so early In the year and in a manner that is uncalled for and which has been proven so often. The Herald was in- vited .to send a reporter to the mieet- ing of'the board of charities last even- ing and did so, only "to have him, as well as:others, denied admittance be- cause Mayor Quigley objected. It is generally better to transact public business in the open, so that the peo- ple who are represented and who pay the bhills know what is being The reason for secrecy was may done, that the mayor might bring up the question of the Town home man- agement, which the former board has said was satisfactory in every way, and which has now ended by the present board asking for the resigna- tion of the superintendent, Mr. Kibbe. Just what was said is unknown, be- | cause the meeting was secret and the puhlic can do its own guessing. It is reasonable to suppose that the case is one of the mayor against the superintendent, growing out of the charges preferred by the former last year and which resulted in the super- intendent being stoutly defended by the board of charities. tract was drawn up by the corporation which went into effect April 1 and is to con- The document contains a clause which that if either parties wish ‘terminate the contract at the end of A new con- counsel a few months ago, tinue for a year from that date. to that time notice is to be given during the preceding January. That con- tract has been signed and is now in effect, and before the ink is hardly dry the: mayor proposes to break it, For that is what it means, the under- nding being that if Mr. Kibbe does not resign.an effort will be made to oust him. s No one will blame a department for dismissing an incompetent official, but the board of charities does not be- lieve that the superintendent is competent, for if it did it would not in- have made:a new contract with him. It evidently hag done the bidding of the mayor because he wanted it, al- though he is'not a member of the board and has absolutely nothing to do with its management. Had the newspaper men been present the de- tails would have been known and the public could.discuss the case intelli- gently.” As it is now, they are handi- capped because of the lack of details. There are times ;when the board of charities might talk over some of its bu‘sineas in secret, particularly when the poor question is being.considered, but when it comes to dismissing pub- lic officials for what appears to be a private grievance with another official The situa- on is one to be regretted by every that is another matter. one W:ho desires to see fair play to- ards every public servant and who wishes to see the dignity of the city pheld. DEAD FROM VERA CRUZ. Memorial day will have a new significance this year because of the h of the seventeen sailors and rines who were killed in the taking Vera Cruz, whosge bodies will reach New - York tomorow and for whom morial exercices will be held "at Brooklyn navy yard on Monday. me men did not meet their deatn s aid the soldiers of '61 nor as did ose who died during the Spanish- x n war. Their struggle was for different eause. The flag | he insulted, the omé who of- | fered ‘the indignity refused to apolo- nd reparation was demanded. while insisting upon the rights €7 tals country being respected that these young men fell. They were American sailors and marines doing their duty, obeying the orders their superior. officers when death | came, as it did to all of those who ! have gone before, whose resting place | will this month be decorated with the flowers of the field and moistened by the tears of a grateful country. The | president of the United States will be present at the exercises, will make an address and .the fags in New York | will be placed at half mast and the church bells will toll a final requiem for the brave young fellows whom fame has claimed and whose friends and relatives will know them no more. : of SAVED HIM FOR GALLOWS., The Waterbury American calls at- tention to the efforts made by the waterbury tuthorities saving the life * or mur- derer who was put death | at the state prison this week. When he committed the crime the murderer tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and later jumped out of a win- dow of a hospital. \The city provided him with the best medical aid that could be obtained and later the state put him to death when if let alone he would have done the job himself. The American is not acting as a critic but is simply stating how such mat- ters are taken care of. It might have added that murderers are watched closely so that they will not injure themselves in any ' way before the state can step in and take their iife in accordance with sentence passed by the court. It was painfully apparent that the authorities at the prison feared that the execution might open the old wound in the man’s throat and his neck -was therefore bandaged up so as to prevent any unusual scene, but the physicians who sewed up the wound originally did their work well and the execution passed, off without any of the scenes expected. It is stated that some years ago a negro was hanged in New York and as he fell in the drop his head was snapped off, causing a horrible scene. It was evidently feared that at the execu- tion of the Waterbury man this week a similar scene might be enacted. towards the to TANGO FOE TO DISEASE. That the inodern dances are a dis- tinct aid to good health, and may supplant physical culture of a more serious type, is asserted by Dr. G. Hepburn Wilson, editor of The Mod- ern Dance Magazine, in an article contributed this month to Health Culture. Exercise, says Dr. Wilson, must provide not onty physical but also social and esthetic stimulus. The problem of doing this was solved by our primitive ancestors, when they developed the dance as a necsssary tribal institutfon. .Guided by instinct and impulse, they hit upon the right thing, and the dance was an impor- tant factor in their physical vigor. Despite our superior civilization, we are not in a position, thinks Dr. Wil- son, to improve on this primitive method of developing mind and body in the proper relationships. Some physicians have warned peo- ple of uncertain age against these dances because of a feeling that they may bring on attacks of heart failure due to the over exertion. Dr. Wilson, however, says, and his remarks have been republished in the Literary Di- gest, that the dance, particularly in its modern ‘expressions, possesses the value of physical exercise plus social iand cultural stimulus. Exercise must be ‘interesting; the more interesting the more energy and enthusiasm, and consequently the greater the stimu- lus. Besides it is social play. The world seems to have forgotten how to play, an art essentlal to preserve vigor and spirit. The association of many people in rhythmic mdtion, pro- vides unsurpassable inspiration, the spirit of the joyous life, and joy is fundamental. Not many people can join a gym- nasium; time and opportunity are lim- ited. The gymnasium appeals to sys- tematic and methodic people, - but what most of us want 1s ease, free- dom, and the joy of social activity, ‘Gym’ work is generally drudgery, and exercise at home is even worse. In our age of hurry and speed people aim to combine many taings in one, and.the dance combines social and physical utility. Not all people, be- sides, are fitted for the gymnasium; the dance is common to all, open to all. Fellowship of the sexes is a pri- mordial instinct. It is at the basis of life, art and culture. Woman needs man's strength and man needs woman’s imagination. Woman with- out male companionship becomes a weakling, and ‘man without female comradeship becomes coarse. The dance since time immemorial has ex- pressed fellowship in its inspirational beauty, and life is incomplete without it. The dance, Dr. Wilson goes. on to say, brings into action the larger muscular masses of the body, im- proves and strengthens the circula- tion, respiration, and nurtrition, and develops agility and grace. Dancing exercises more muscles simultaneously than any form of gymnastics. Many dance movements incorporate coor- dinations of nerve and muscle which contribute Ereatly to the progress of the race. These areat the root ofthe | will to work, act, and think; and the dance individualizes and exhilarates them. FACTS AND FANCIES. Victor Berger wants to know how a man can sing the national anthem when he does not own a foot of land. Land can be bought from $1 the acre up. There is land at®$10 the acre just as good as any which our fore- fathers acquired when they settled here. If a man does not own a foot of land it is probably because he does not want to or is squeamish about the location.—Norwich Record. A man by the name of Jones Szike- ley, serving thirty years in the New Jersey state prison for murder, who when brought to the prison seemed 1o be a perfect brute, has been trans- formed into a very intelligent and kindly man by an operation that re- moved a splinter from his brain. To that operation he may soon owe his liberty as it is believed the murder was committed because of that splin- ter.—Waterbury American. A warning which should have much influence with the drivers of auto- mobiles in this state is the statement which has been made by Secretary of State Phillips wherein he urges the strict enforcement of the automobile laws and a liberal imposition 6f jail sentences by courts for violations. Such is a result of cases which have been brought to his attention through investigations in connection with the duties of his office and the momen- tous fact that fourteen deaths in this state have been caused by automobiles during the past four months.—Nor- wich Bulletin. President F. H. Johnston, of the State Business Men’s association, will head a Connecticut delegation to the international congress of Chambers of Commerce, in Paris, next month, and the State Association will be sure to get the benefit of his experience and observations abroad. No other pres- ident of the State association has been more thoroughly devoted to the in- terests and upbuilding of the organi- zation, and under no other president has it made such a record of growth, achievement and wholesome, active in- terest in its mission, as under Presi- dent Johnston.—Connecticut Western News. The Memory of May. (Baltimore Sun.) I am so glad that I've had a day Green with the memory of the May; So. fine and sweet that it might have seemed A Paradise dreamed, With love on her light— All in her glory and grace gleamed— Coming down rung by rung so bright To lean and to lift with her tender glow The mighty throngs that below. that the heart had silver stairs of en- are here I am so glad for the one sweet day Thét brought me the green of a mem- oried May— A day so sweet that it helped me find A cleaner heart and a cleaner mind, And an upward lifting of all my will To the open vision of peak and hill- And a growing better and feeling kind, And daring more as I took my place With the mighty throngs of the teem- ing race. I am so glad that the sunbeams play Over the hills of this memoried May; For the spring come back, for the gift of glee; That I have lived once more to see That vision of Paradise open there And love come down on the gleaming stair To cast her blossoms for you and nie, And soothe our hearts of their troubled care. And help us be better and men Because of the memory of May again. stronger Our School at Vera Cruz. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Kitchener was praised for his work at Khartum and throughout the Sou- dan when almost before the cannon ccoled he had the younger generation learning to find and follow the road of learning instead of the trail of Mad Mullahs and whirling dervishes. It is too bad that the object lesson of our occupation of Vera Cruz cannot reach Mexico at large—the millions of Sonora and Chiapas and the Pacific slope as well as the inhabitants of the CGulf water front. Mexico’s principal seaport capitu- lated to the deadly accuracy of the gunners of our ships and the valor of the landing parties. As soon as the ‘“snipers” were driven from the roofs the firing stopped, and our reconstruc- tive work began. The wonderful in- stant metamorphis from the war footing to that of peace is summed up in the single eloquent circumstance that as the Arkansas battalion par- aded—after it had kept guard over the orphan asylum-—a troop of the little children they had protected walked in front of them. The candid freedom from double- dcaling, the altruism, the higher pur- pose than that of loot and graft and unbridled license, are what a people “half-devil and half-child” find in- credible in those who represent a civilized nation. We did not go to Mexico to kill the people and to seize their country. It is highly unfortunate that what Vera Cruz has learned about the ways of ‘‘the gringoes” can- not be spread across the landscape from Nuevo Laredo to Yucatan. The peons on the rampage would then un- derstand that when we withdraw we have not been defeated, and it is not cowardice but the sublimity of moral courage and unselfish renunciation. TOWN TALK K HERE ‘is ample evi- dence at present to show 'that the New Britain city .govern- ment is tending toward machine poli- tics and that this year will see the ap- pointment of a committee to revise the charter so as to make each de- partment partisan. M; r Quigley Is being credited with the statement that his desire to abolish the non-par- tisan commissions. There are many men of good sqund judgment who do not believe in a non-partisanship bcard, claiming that under such a system there is no responsibility. Of course such a contention is nonsensi- cal, because the mayor appoints the commissioners and if they do not do their work properly the responsibility must rest on him for the reason that he is given power to remove incom- petent officials and if he does not do so then he is to blame and no one else. Tt is not necessary to have a commission democratic or republican in order to have it efficient. The in- tention in making the boards non- partisan was that the members would give their attention to the city and not to politics and in this way the public would be benefited. Under the partisan system appointments will be made in such a manner as to benefit the party in power regardless of the ccmpetency of the individual. It may be remarked that some incompetent appointments are made under the present system. That is undoubtedly true because the city has not . pro- gressed far enough along non-partisan lines to eliminate all incompetents but no one can truthfully say that some progress has not been made dur- ing the past eight years. People will recall that the old charter contained a provision for instance which said that the appointments to the police force should be divided equally be- tween the two leading political parties, as if politics had anything to do with police efliciency. Nothing could have been more ridiculous than to refuse a4 supernumerary an appointment be- cause he did not happen to affiliate with the political organization entitled to the place. It took a number of years to see the foolishness of that provision just as it took many years to see the foolishness of some other provisions which have been removed and it will be the biggest mistake the city ever made to go back to the old conditions. Mayor Quigley has pledged himself to give New Britain a business administration and said also that no efficient employe of the city need have any fear of removal, yet the public can see for itself how the latter statement has been observed, No one has any right to think he owns an office, but a city cannot have a business administration unless when ore official is removed another more efficient is put in his place. A private corporation that was run on any other basis would soon have the red flag of the auctioneer outside the door. The determination of Mayor Quigley to remove the superintendent of the Town home, although® the occupant of that institution is under a contract for another year, a move- ment which has been emphasized by a demand for his resignation through the board of charities, recalls a former superintendent there. It will be re- membered that the position was once held by Levi Boughton and the:late Newton R. Hurlburt was selectman, There had been rumors that Mr. Boughton was not giving satisfaction and that in the event of the re-election of Mr, Hurlburt he would not be given another term. Mr. Boughton became a candidate for selectman himself but did not receive any sup- port to speak of in the caucus and naturally was not reappointed by Mr. Hurlburt. In due time Mr. Boughton retired and upon a casual examina- tion of the record book at the home some time later an entry was discovered on one of the back pages to the effect that Mr.. Bough- ton had been removed because he had sought the nomination for selectman and so closed a cam- paign incident that at one time was thought might develop into a demo- cratic party dispute. The superin- tendency of the Town home, from the time it was removed from the north end of the town to its present location, has always had its unpleasant features. It is a disagreeable position, more so during recent years and will continue to be so because the number of insane there is constantly increasing and the work must necessarily be more dis- agreeable. Previous to the adminis- tration of Ambrose Beatty as select- man and before an addition was first made to the old building, the town house, as it was then called, was & place to be shunned. The inmates were small in number and little atten- tion was given them. The food was of the poorest kind, consisting mainly of pork, cabbage, potatoes and such other articles as were gathered from what was really a poorly cultivated farm. No one paid any attention to the place and the management was allowed to drift along any old way. Mr. Beatty found the place in a wretched condition. He found it necessary to build an addition, which was formally opened with a dinner at which the selectmen and a number of prominent citizens attended and from that time until the present conditions at the home have been improved and its management more carefully looked after. The general impression is that it has been well managed . by Mr. Kibbe, the present superintendent, who has been asked to resign, and who has been praised by the board of charities up to this year and that has been as competent a body as ever had charge of charity work in Connecticut. The board of finance and taxation has had occasion to favorably comment upon its work more than once. It re- moved the poor question from public discussion and that is one of the best things that has ever happened in New Britain. The republicans will be more inter- ested in the legislative campaign this vear than they have been for some time past because they are now in possession of all the offices in the city, something that has not happened be- present | fore in some years. The candidacy of F. S. Chamberlain for state treasurer will serve to enthuse the republicans to a marked degree and with the en- thusiasm that will accompany the candidacies for local legislative offices there ought to be something doing in the city this fall, hot speaking of the contests that are likely.to take place for delegates to the different conven- tions. There is a feeling that Mayor Quigley will want to go to Hartford to represent the city in the legislature and if he does he will not be refused a nomination. The question is being asked as to how well he would run for the senate or the house and whether he would run as well as he did for mayor. No one can answer that ques- tion truthfully now. He has demon- strated the fact that he is some vote getter, both at a caucus and at the polls. It may be that the republi- cans will have their primary system in operation by that time and if they do it is likely that there will be a large number of candidates, as the voters can then vote for whom they please as candidates. The recent re- publican victory has introduced a number of new men into politics and it would not be strange if some of them sought public office. It will be remembered that when.the republi- cans were in power before the crop of candidates was very large, some of them were nominated only to find out later that a nomination was not equivalent to an election. There may be a return to those conditions but it is impossible for any one to tell any- thing about it just now. The charter amendments will occupy some atten- tion and the father of the moverment may want to go with them to Hart- ford to see that they are properly piloted through the house and senate. | It was said long before Mr. Quigley was elected mayor that he had an ambition to represent the city in the legislature and with the prestige he has now obtained he has an oppor- tunity to have his ambition realized. "What the democrats will do is a‘ques- tion. They have been pretty lucky in the legislative elections, particularly as regards the senate. There are no candidates in sight yet, although there may be some under cover wait- ing for the psychological moment to appear. There will be no United States senator to be elected by the legislature this time and the en- thusiasm incident to the election of candidates favorable to Mr, Brandegee six years ago will be absent this time except such as may be caused by the candidacies of the opposing candidates cn the state ticket. If Mr. Chamber- lain has a place on it, and it is be- lieved he will, he will undoubtedly be given a rousing vote in New Britain. TUnless there is a change in the sen- timent of the voters many democrats vl support him. Commissioner E. N. Humphrey de- serves well of the board of public works and as a change was made in the method of transacting the business of the department it was a deserving compliment that was paid ‘him when ha ‘was elected president.. During the first two vears of the existence of this .commission Mr. Humphrey divided honors with O. F. Curtis as leader of ! the majority side of the common coun- cil. It is a strange thing, but never- theless true that ‘every important | recommendation of the board was | opposed in the common council and | were it not for Mr. Humphrey it would not have made any progress. As it was he came to the assistance of the | department and never suffered a | single defeat in the two stormy years the board had at that time. It was a trying time for him and an annoying time too for the board. The work was all new, consolidation had just gone into effect and the board was obliged tc meet two and three times a week in order to make any headway and yet when it made a report to the council it was invariably opposed, the only | reason being an apparent desire to prevent the department from accom- plishing anything, the main cause arising when the mayor made his ap- pointments, the aldermen giving their approval under the charter at the time. The mayor and the aldermen did not agree on all the appointments and a feeling sprang up between them which did not end during the first two yvears of the Landers administration. Mr, Humphrey was a good friend of those managing the street department affairs during that trying period and he received valuable assistance from Jokn Kelly, then a member of the council and now a member of the board of public works. Mr. Hum- phrey is well informed on the laws governing that department because he had a hand in drawing up the ordi- nance and has had to keep brushed up on it during his service in the council and since as a member of the board. He is eminently well qualified to serve as head of the department and the members paid him a deserved compliment when they chose him as its president. Mr. Billard’s $2,748,700 Profit. (Springtield Republican.) ‘What has long been suspected as a crowning infamy is. confessed by Mr. Billard himself. His personal rake-off in the deal whereby he took over the New Haven’s Boston and Maine stock and sold it back to the New Haven after the formation of the Boston railroad holding company was no less than $2,748,700. Mr. Billard defends/| the transaction on the ground that he was privileggd to buy at the mar- ket price and to sell at the market price wholly without restrictions, his private fortune being at stake. If the story now told by Mr. Billard is true, the transaction will receive a withering blast of public condemna- tion. Was a great railroad property like the Boston and Maine something to be tossed from the New Haven’s possession into Mr. Billard’s lap for a vear's keeping and then to be tossed back again at a loss of mnearly $3,- 000,000 to the New Haven's stock- holders, while Mr, Billard profited in a like sum? Mr. Mellen has something more to answer for, if this was the arrange- ment he consented to in its initiation and approved in its consummation. There is no reason whatever to sup- pose that Mr. Billard could have car- Mr. Mellen originally arranged it without the backing of Mellen as pres- ident of the New Haven and the banking credit with which Mellen was able to support him. To allow to Bil- lard such a profit under those cir- cumstances, must have been a mon- strous perversion of the executive of- ficer's duty. But it is necessary to await further developments in this exposure of Bil- lardism before being sure of the pre- cise facts. Did those enormous pro- fits belong to Mr. Billard? Is there nothing now to be returned to the New Haven treasury? |Is there no basis for a suit for restitution in be- half of the railroad corporation? Mr. Folk yesterday was able to con- front Mr. Billard with a minute of the meeting of the New Haven direc- tors on Ogtober § 1909, three days before Mr. Billard became a director himself, which shows that the board voted to approve the repurchase of the 109,948 shares of Boston and Maine, “provided that all shares of Billard company stock and all profits actual or nominal realized by Mr. Billard, less a reasonable compensa- tion for services and risks and the amount of his actual expenses in connection with the purchase and sale of Boston and Maine stock, be first vested in the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company and subject to the disposition of the di- rectors.” Under that vote, how was it legal- 1y pessible for Mr. Billard to retain a profit of $2,748,700, on the deal in stock? When Mr .Folk asked him to explain, Mr. Billard was content to say “Mr. Mellen must answer that question.” He must, surely, The testimony of Mr. Billard now develops three things: First, he claims as personal profit nearly $3,- 000,000 on the Boston and Maine transaction; second, he admits he paid the increase in the capital stock of the Billard company from $50,000 to $2,000,000, out of his Boston and Maine profits; third, he . refuses to answer a question whether he now has in his possession the assets of the liquidated Billard company, which had included’ Mr. Mellen's note for $375,000, $400,000 bonds of a certain prominent New England newspaper and $1,500,000 stock of the Eastein Steamship company. Tt is to be hoped Mr, Folk will find bottom before he gets through. The Biggest Wheat Crop. (New York Times.) A few days ago a calculator of test- ed accuracy predicted 900,000,000 bushels of wheat from this crop. Yes- terday the government gave its rea- sons for expecting 630,000,000 bushels of winter wheat alone. The spring- sown crop on the old yields would give fair expectation of 870,000,000 bushels as the total crop, or more than a hun- dred millions over the previous maxi- mum. This ds only a prom:se. The facts are that the biggest breadth ever sown is in the highest condition ever known. It would require an equully unprecedented disaster even to bring this promise down to an ordinary yield. The best wheat yield ever known is the reasonable expectation at this time. Crops of this sortare the best rem- edy. both for high prices and for sus- taining the values of the farms, Farm- ers are unlike other producers in that their costs are more nearly fixed than their product. After the farmer has done his part there remains the work of his partrer, nature, and the part- ner's work is an unknown quantity. The farmer’s reliance has been upon dollar wheat, and he has not seemed to care whether the price was realized by speculation or by extortion. A billion- bushel crop would reduce the price Ly a quarter, but it would not reduce the farmer's profit proportionately. On the contrary, the farmer's profit would be liberal, and surer than the profits which he has been accustomed to real- ize by scarcity. With dollar wheat there are hunger and discontent, al- though the farmer has escaped them. But when wheat falls in price because the buyers lack money the farmer is a double loser. His scant crops fell in value, and the farm falls with the price of its product. The farmer ought to join those capitalists and. corporate trusts whose aim is to stabilize their industry by increasmg produation, and to remedy scarcity oy abundaace. The true friends of man are those who follow this policy, rather than seek to distribute other people’s prop- erty, or to give fictitious values - to articles of universal necessity. There is no individual farm whose value is not increased by adding a bushel or two to the acre. The addition o the values of all farms by a billion bushel crop is sémething hard to calculate, and it would not be grudged to the cheapeners of food by the reduction in the price of breadstuffs, whatever the profit to themselves. Enormous Money From Waste. (Bradstreet's.) At the first annual banquet of the national association of waste material dealers, held in New York city this week, it was brought out that by col- lecting and utilizing waste products the members of the association trans- act an annual business of $700,000,- 000. The utilization seed oil and of cotton seed, until very recent years a mere waste product of the cotton crop, it was pointed out, is now valued in the United States alone at $50,000,000 a year. Curtis Guila, ex-ambassador to Russia, noted that we are now exporting sisal strings to Kurope to be turned into tooth brushes; that we are using the worn- out _painter’s brush, soaked with white lead, by cleansing and using the worn bristles to provide in. expensive and durable scrubbing brushes, and exporting American cot- of cotton ton stockings to Europe, where they | are unraveled and used as a cheap packing in the manufacture of gra- phophones and electrical machinery, while the patched and darned BEu- ropean stockings not having any oth ‘McMILLAN'S ALL CARS STOP AT McMILLAN'S SATURDAY AT THIS STORE WR SEVERAL HUNDRED SUITS AND DRESSES, ALL AT SPECIAL PRICES. The biggest bargains of the seas son. Come carly in the morning, before the afternoon rush, look over these exceptional lues in Coats, Suits, Dresses and Separate Skirts and you will readily see why there will be something doing at our Suit Dept. Saturday. COATS WORTH $9.50 TO $20.00 Saturday at $5.98, $7.98, $9.98, $10. $12.98 and $15.00. SEE THE WOMEN'S SUITS We are offering at $10.00, $15.00 and $20.00 each. Values $16.98 to $30.00. SERGE AND OTHER FANCY DRESSES For women, trimmed with silks, laces and buttons. Values $3.98 to $12.50. Saturday at $3. $4.98, $7.98, $9. MORE THAN 300 SEPARATE SKIRTS In all wool materials, all new styles and every one a bargain at the price, Saturday $2.96, $3.98, $4.98, $5. and $7.50. Values up to $10.00. CHILDREN'S WHITE AND COke ORED WASH DRESSES 3 to 14 year old sizes. Saturday at 49c and 98c each. We have never seen their equal at these prices. AT OUR WAIST DEPT. SATURDAY Choope from dainty Waists of voiles, crepe de chines, silks, laces, cotton crepes, BSwiss lawns and Batiste, priced 97c, $1.25, $1.49, $1.69, $1.98 to $5. $1 W. B. COMET‘W!AL AT 8%¢ For three days, Saturday, Monday ' and Tuesday, this special offer holds good, providing our stock lasts that long. So don’t delay seeing this spe- cial Corset, as it is usually sold at $1.00. / HAVE YOU SEEN OUR DISPLAY OF SILK GIRDLES? Every color here, priced at 98e, $1.49 and $1.98 each. ‘ KNIT UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT * Usderwear for' Men, Women and Children, We are showing such well known makes as Carter’s, Richelieu, Bedo, Winchester and Roxford Mills. Suits, — D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. this country for their only possible use as paper stock. The exports und imports of waste material are not yet thoroughly re- ported by ‘the department, and everf the commencement of their appear- ance in the official publication of the United States government fates back but a fow years. For the calendar vear 1913, we exported cotton rags to the value of over, $500,000, pass per stock other than cotton rags to Separate garments and Union , the value of $800,000, woolen rags to the value of $1,000,000, scrap iron to the value of $1,200,000, old and re- claimed rubber to the value of §1,« 600,000, and serap brass to the value of over $2,000,000. The figures of the imports of waste materials from foreign countries are even more striking. In the year 1913 we imported scrap iron to the value of $500,000, old copper to the value of $1,000,000, silk waste to the value of $3,000,000, old rubber to the value of more than $3,000,000, cotton pa- per stock which was neither cotton rags nor wood pulp to the value of nearly $5,000,000, The trouble with the city of Middle- town lies in the fact that we have too many frills for the actual size of the city. Were the city and town combined, it would be a different matter, but 4t the present time here is nothing fuir or equitable about the assessment of property or the rate of taxatiol... ried through the business, as he and ler use, are exported from Europe to lMlddle!own Penny Press. . - ' .