New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 29, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1014. ¥ BRI[AIN HERALD BRALD - PURLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m 'Herald Bufiding, 67 Church Bt d at the Post Office at New Britain @8 _Second Class Mall Matter. d by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ° ptions for paper to be sent by mafl payable in advance. 60 Cents & Month $7.00 a year. nly profitabble advertising medium in ‘eity. Ofrculation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. Horald will be found on sale at Hota- 's News Stand, 43nd St. and_Broad- iy, New York City; Board Walk, tlantio City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Caillaux has been declared guilty of the murder of Gaston étte, editor of the Figaro in and so has ended the greatest of a murder trial that has ever known. The verdict sets a an free who walked into a pri- office and deliberately shot a dead because of attacks on her land and because of a belief that as going to publish some letters h would reflect on her honor. The said she was not guilty and the uncement of the verdict was re- s with tears by the defendant, Irs’ shouted murderess, the law- engaged in a fist fight and dur- he melee the woman in the case ped through a rear door. This been a fair sample of the con- that has marked the progress @ trial from the beginring, and result there has been talk of and Paris has been having a t!on that has pleased its peo- There has never been another like it. One of the American irs published a cartoon calculated ive an idea of the.character of proceedings. The court officer pictured as trying to quiet the Jult and ~wvas madesto say: “‘Order court or 1 will' throw ze court i great deal of extraneous matter fntroduced in theicase and much made of statements that seemed ave no bearing on the murder at It was freely predicted that the han would not be convicted, not- hstanding the fact that her crime & premeditated:one and commit- in cold blood. There have been e peculiar verdicts rendered in own country, but none as farci- las that. The Frenchjpeople have h given to understand:that it isn’t _to seriously annoy women . for h' acts may be followed with the ng of human life whichithe French Irt 1s apt to look upcn:as justifi- JLLING TO PAY AND IS'IN JAIL. here's a man working out a fine i costs which will keep him in the hfield jail for about a month be- se he failed to pay his personal bill to the Torrington collector. court he offered the judge the ount of the tax and promised to the rest as soon as he got a job, the court had no choice other n to send the man to jail. The sonal tax law is one of the few ks which ®onnecticut has that per- s no one to escape, once he is ar- d.—Waterbury- Republican. [Phat’s funny. Is it not possible t ‘the delinquent offered the mon- to the wrong person? The judge a courf is not authorized to collect personal tax and the Torrington tleman had no business to offer the amount of the bill. There e been any number of cases bught into court for non-payment the personal tax in various places i in practically all of the instances b amount was paid in the court bm and the criminal part of the beeedings ceased. Just why that not done in Torrington fs diffi- t to say. It is certainly peculiar ht there should be a man in the chfield county jail with money in pocket ready and willing to pay personal tax and there is no one take it from him and give him his erty. GUIDE POSTS. Governor Baldwin’s warning to the ctmen to see that guide posts are ided in all the towns and cities the state may strike -some as not ng of much importance, but to e who travel by team or by auto- bile if matters a great deal. The gign posts have become decayed there has been no disposition to t new ones. Formerly these posts bod at the “four corners’, so called d drivers who were not sure of the d never failed to obtain the proper on to go. They save much ry travel and much time. The e posts provided by 'the towns e become obsolete and one rea- for it is the' action of automo- 1& clubs in having guide posts placed fong the direct roads from one town another for 'the guidance of those v motors and they are very ofirst place they are P distinguishable to those cars. roads which are not along the main passing These signs are also of value to drivers of teams, although they were not erected for their benefit. The absence of sign posts is evi- dently on the roads which wind in and around the small towns and which are not' considered main lines, but even there they are of value because the drivers of teams and cars neéd to know where to go after they reach a place and besides there are severul in line and yet are visited by many peo- ple throughout the year. It needed some one to stir up the small towns on this point and the governor was the best one to do it. His notice tog the selectmen has been given wide publicity and guide boards will soon be erected at all the places where they are needed and the motorists will be pleased. EUROPEAN WAR. The Austro-Hungarian has declared war against Servia and if the issue is to be settled between those two countries the trouble will be of short duration, Servia being doomed to speedy annihilation, The feeling has been unpleasant between those countries for a long time and the Sarayevo murders have brought on a crisis. England wants peace, Ger- many has declined to act with it on such a mission and the fear is that the latter power and Russia will be drawn into the trouble and should thlis be the result Europe will be plunged into a war, the magnitude of which can only be a matter of conjecture at present. The most distressing feature of the whole matter is the evident willing- ness with which Austria has taken the step it has because it suggests that it has weighed well the meaning of war and proposes to punish Ser- via for its offensive acts. Germany, government agreeable to this program, undoubt- edly realizing what it may. lead to, suggests great difficulty in carrying out any program which has peace for its object. If the other European powers can be induced to refrain from interference it will be the only step that can be taken now to prevent a big European war. All eyes are now turned toward Russia and until that power declares for hostilities there is some chance of the great struggle being averted. MAY GO TO WAR. It is belleved that in the event of there being any real demand for men to assist the various interests involved in the present European troubles that this country will lose some of . its citizens. In response to a call for Irishmen to avenge the Dublin blood- shed almost 2,000 men answered a call for volunteers in Boston last evening and for two hours they. drilled in halls and playgrounds under com- mand of regular army officers with a great deal of enthusiasm. Later com- panies were formed and officers were elected. Manchester, N. H., also has battalion and a mass meeting is to be held this week to whip the move- ment into shape. Money in satisfying amounts has been raised other places and it is believed that if there is any real desire for recruits that they will be supplied in large numbers ir. this country, in The declaration of Austria to make war on Servia has also stirred up the nutives of these countries who are now making their homes in this sec- tion of the country and they are ghowing such a belligerent spirit as to suggest their leaving to engage in war in defense of their own countries. There are a large number of Austrians and Hungarians in New England and if they leave for Europe the popula- tion will be much decreased. There are a number of those people right here in New Britain. Some of them have already talked of going back to the old country. FACTS AND FANCIES. L] This is a time when we are becom- ing inured to awful crimes. But even the hardened modern sensibility finds it hard to repress a shudder at the abnormal depravity of small boys who dare to go in swimming in July with- out the formality of bathing clothes. It is simply awfui! Bring on the bloodhounds.—New Haven Register. Hinman, the man who is trying to get the double nomination for Gover- nor of New York, Republican and Progressive, is on record as voting against woman's suffrage. A com- mittee of suffragists are going to wait on him to see if he has changed his mind lately. If not, they are going to interview Rgosevelt to see what he means by trying to make a governor of such a man.—Waterbury American, It is almost the last word in hard luck when.the unjucky and much hoo- dooed New Haven has a masked gun- man hold up vac of its New York and Boston expresses and shoot the daylights out of the terrified passen- gers.. Presumably this will be in- cliiled irt the brief of the attorney genheral as showing how much the New Haven road is in need of a per- manent receivership. It would be just as relevant as some, other of the -rancorous charges he has made in his rration.—Ansonia Sentinel. Longer School Hours, (Hartford Post.) The step taken by Superintendent Gibbs of the Meriden schools in lengthening the hours at the High school, is one which will meet with the approval of many who have giv- en the matter careful thought. 1t is a good thing and might well be ap- plied in all cities where two sessions are not in vogue in the high school. The school building is the place to do school work. It can be done more effectively there than in the homes. The short session in vogue in many high schools compels the pupils to do a great deal of their studying at home. They haven't the facilities in their homes that are found in all well equipped school buildings. The greater part of the pupils have no libraries or encyclopedias, historical and geographical reference books, to say nothing of the stores of!the world’s best in literature, that are in the school libraries. The same is true concerning many other features of school life. When the pupils leave the high school building in the early afternoon many of them do not hasten home to begin their study work for the next day. They loiter along the streets, visit picture shows, ice cream saloons and other places where they certainly do no school work. Thus valuable time is lost. ‘When they finally reach home many of them find that there is work they are required to do, thus taking up more of the time which should be spent in study. The afternoon passes, the study work is not done. After the evening meal the pupil is tired, his brain does not grasp things read- ily and oftentimes does not retain them at all. There are the distrac- tions of other interests in the home. Some one is playing the piano, callers drop in for the evening. These and many other things distract the atten- tion of the student and study is well nigh impossible and almost always in- effective. The school house is built for study as well as recitation and demonstration. The entire day's school work should be done there under ideal conditions so that the pupil shall get the best there is in his school life. Often the teachers make plans which call them out of the building as soon as the session closes. They naturally object to the longer sessions. This should have no weight with school authorities. The teachers’ time belongs to the town or city by whom they are employed for as much of the day, (within rea- sonable limits, of course) as the school officlals may decide shall be spent in school work. Most high school teachers are fairly well paid. Their hours are shorter than those of the average professional person. They can stand a couple of hours extra each day. Adding two hours to the regular sessions of the high schools of the state and having the pupils spend this extra time in study will prove of great benefit. Superin- tendent Gibbs has set an example that may profitably be followed by the heads of school departments in other cities. Women and the Voting Age. (Providence Journal.) The susceptibilities, real or affect- ed, of the women of Kansas have produced a constitutional interpreta- tion of some value and of widespread application. The Kansas suffragists are reported to have ‘“‘thronged the registration . booths” upon being as- sured that they would not have to disclose their ages, except by declar- ing that they .are ‘“twenty-one and upward.” The attorney-general of the state js responsible for the con- soling opinion that the age qualifica- tion for voting mentioned in the con- stitution does not mean that anything more definite than that shall be in- sisted upon by the registration offi- cials. . The apparent necessity that a wom- an shall tell how old she is, before exercising the privilege she has won, has been a cause of discontent in many suffrage states, though probably the reports of this dissatisfaction are exaggerated. But whether or not t supposed constitutional requirement has materially moderated the eager- ness of women over thirty, say, to use the ballot, and so has reduced the number of women voters, if it is their right to refuse to tell their ages they should enforce it, as they appear to have done in Kansas. The clause in the state constitu- tions usually reads: ‘Ivery citizen of the age of twenty-one,” or, as in Kan- sas, “twenty-one and upward.”. Ac- cording to the dictum of the. attor- ney-general of Kansas, which has created so much enthusiasm among the women voters custom alone is responsible for the rule of asking the exact age—there is no warrant for it in the fundamental law. Kan- sas men being submissive creatures have never objected to telling.. The issue is vet to have a judicial deter- mination, to be sure. But it is un- likely that the opinion of the state’s legal adviser will be appealed. from. If it should be, the courts will prob- ably agree that the phrase “twenty- one years and upward,” means just what it sa; and that there is no sense in reading into it a requirement that the applicant for the voting priv- ilege shall declare that he, or she, is twenty-two or fifty, or any other age. The registration officers must be convinced, of course, that he, or she, is not younger than twenty-one. And, gince this is so, it might become a very pretty question in some states— perhaps in most of them—if the con- stitutional requirement could be ful- filled without a disclosure of the ap- plicant’s age, after all. In Kansas the practice seems to be to ask the age. But in Rhode Island, the ques- tion takes this form, “When were you born?’ Now if the date of birth is set down, the age can be quickly cal- culated by anybody that chooses to do the trifling sum in subtraction. How can sensitive voters get around that? And how do the registration officers in Kansas ascertain that a voter i§ Bt least twenty-one unless the year of birth is divulggd? ;Do they take the \m;frl word it? | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Indispensable Alds to Justice. (Providence Journal.) From certain press allusions of late there seems reason to believe that a large western community is consid- erably excited over a woman judge who “knits on the bench.” This pop- ular but old-fashioned feminine pas- time seems to be considered inappro- priate in one who represents the dig- nity of the law and is supposed to stand for the impartial administra- tion of justice, and there is some talk about exercising the right of recall and retiring this kniting magistrate to the less conspicuous field of pri- vate practice. All of which seems rather unjust to the judge, and illustrates the dif- ficulty which society finds in adjust- ing its conventional views to new con- ditions. After all, there is nothing especially reprehensible about knit- ting. Many estimable ladies are quite devoted to this harmless and some- times useful domestic task. In fact, it seems indisputable that many of the inveterate knitters are uneasy and at a distinct mental disadvantago when deprived of their knitting. The manual occupation apparently acts as a mental stimulus, and the gar- rulity always in evidence in a group of busy and interested knitters is sufficient proof of its psychological value. There is something about the workings of this peculiar process that seems an inexplicable mystery to the average male, but there is no question as to the fact. If the process is po- tent in the ordinary courses of con- versation, how much more so may it be in a matter where serious and con- templative thought is required? Knit- ting, for the woman who knits, may reasonably be regarded as of pre- cicely the same value as a mental in- centive as tobacco chewing is to the man who has that habit. 1t is a pow- erful aid to reflective thought, study, consideration and rumination. The judge who knits, like the judge who chews, is likely to be deliberate in pondering a case Knitting, like to- bacco chewing, may be somewhat in- congruous with the dignity of a high- er court, but undoubtedly in the ap- proaching days when more and more women will be elevated to the bench the public will have to become accus- tomed to the judge who knits. Grown-Ups at College. (Indianapolis News.) The mistakes of our youth are sup- posed to follow us through the trials of our maturity. It would not be so bad if they were content to follow us, but they have a pesky way of trying to catch up, and when they catch up we recognize among them some of the most virtuous of our youthful virtues which have turned out to be mistakes after all. One of the latest which has thus forced itself into our notice is the fact that we went to college., We thought it was a very good thing to do at the time, but now we are compelled to admit that it was not a good thing at the time. The fault was in the time.. We, should have waited and gone to college when we had grown up. Grown-up people are going to col- lege now instead of taking summer vacations. And going to college when you are grown up is one long snap course, or short snap course, Whicht ever you prefer. That is the point. Everything is just as you prefer. When you are grown up you pick out a college with nice fishing and bath- ing facilities, and just camp out. When the fishing is bad you go to school. There are a lot of uncom- fortable things about camping, and when you get tired of them you a tend a lecture on “Why is Mexico or “The Rise and Fall of the Price of Potatoes,” or anything else that ap- peals to vou. If you start to class and happen to sit under a tree on the campus and go to sleep it is your hap- py privilege to sleep as long as vou like, Neither the janitor nor the faculty has power or inclination to awaken you. If you prefer to sleep in the lecture room, it is all right with the professor. Now, doesn't a condition like that make your youthful efforts to escape an education seem foolish? Do you remember that you used to be al- lowed to cut classes just so many times a semester and that those cuts had to be saved and expended with the most extreme discretion? Do you remember that the wnole purpose of the university used to seem to be to make you go to lectures and to make you learn things in which you were not particularly interested, and that going fishing In lecture hours was re- garded as sinful and that napping on the campus would have been sacri- legious? Do you remember how you used to look out of the windows of the laboratory into a distance of wild crab apple blossoms and sky and just ache to be let loose? The grown-ups at college are loose all the time. Of course, it may be that they would enjoy it more if they had to ache a little for it. 01d Testament Language. (Churchman.) A Geneva archeologist, Edward Na- ville, has raised some interesting questions as to the antiquity of the Hebrew language in a book entitled, “Was the Old° Testament Written in Hebrew?" He replies in the negative and believes that the earliest books of the Bible were written in the Baby- lonian arrow-head script, while the later ones were composed in Aramaic, that is, the language used by our Lord and his apostles in Syria. He be- lleves literally in Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, even of Deuteron- omy. which has been much doubted by the philologists; but supposes that Genesis existed not gs a book, but in the form of clay tablet¥, in cuneiform writing, never properly edited into a constructive volume, but similar to the Tel el Amarna tablets that threw so unexpected a light on the lan- guages used in ancient Egypt. As for the story of Joseph, however, he finds a long gap between that and the per- sonal experience of Moses himself in the same land of the Pharaohs, and evidently believes there was little that is legendary about Moses. He, then takes up the later find in upper Egypt of the papers (literally) of a Jewish colony at Elephantine in the time of the Persian occupation of Egypt un- der Cambyses and the Darii. These documents, centuries later than the Amarna tablets, are written (not im- pressed) on papyrus and in the Aramaic language, some 450 years b. C., and they disclose a considerable Jewish population in Egypt. Two and a half centuries later the present form of “square Hebrew” was invent- ed by the rabbis for their sacred books. The reasoning of Naville is often rather puzzling, but he puts to the cutters-up of the Hexateuch and the prophets some hard questions; and his scholarship is undoubted. Booming House Leader Mann. (Washington Star.) The republicans of Ohio have been advised from the stump out there to Kkeep their eyes on the present minor- ity leader of the house; that he is of presidential dimensions, and is im- proving his opportunities and grow- ing in stature right alons. This is none too high praise for Mr. Mann as minority leader will have to be a sturdy and fair fighter, an alert and capable leader, a shrewd tactician and a broad-minded legisla- tor. His success in his present post has been marked. Personally, he is popular on both sides of the cham- ber. Between now and the next repub- lican national convention Mr. Mann will remain very much in evidence. If the democrats carry the next house it will be by a reduced majority, and Mr. Mann as minority leader will have a better opportunity than he now enjoys to serve his party and fix at- tention upon himself. If the republicans carry the house, he will be the speaker, and in that post become more than ever a na- tional figure and force. He will ad- minister the office well. He has been a member of the house 16 years— time sufficient to ripen all his facul- ties for legislative work. He is 58 years old. Since 1860 the republican party has taken its candidate for the presidency seven times successfully from the mid-' dle section of the country. Lincoln was from Illinois, Grant, Hayes, Gar- field, McKinley and Taft were from Ohio, and Harrison was from Indi- ana. That section has always been famous for its politics and politicians. Lincoln in his first race had an eastern man—Hamlin of Maine—for running mate. Grant in his second race had an eastern man—Wilson of Massachusetts—for running mate Wheeler of New York ran with Hayes. Arthur 6f New York with Garfield, Morton of New York with Harrison, Hobart of New Jersey and Roosevelt of New York with McKinley, and Sherman of New York with Taft. When the east was recognized in Blaine, the middle section was rec- ognized in Logan of Illinois for sec- ond place, and the Roosevelt ticket was completed with Fairbanks of In- diana. Geography still a factor in the equation, and it gives Mr. Mann two chances for recognition. If he should not qualify for first place ‘in 1916, h«; might for second. If the east through some man developed in the coming two vears should carry off the first prize, the middle states would have the call for second prize, and Illinois in the Chicago representative would have a very likely candidate. The republicans, through their own folly, were badly dished two years ago, and are still handicapped by the bad feeling growing out of that exper- jence. But they have some attrac- tive men unscarred, and will be able if discreet to name a very strong ticket two years hence. East, west and in the middle section are leaders worthy of the party’s better record, and wor- thy of a chance to correct the parts recent mistakes. Sponging on the Doctor. (Chicago Tribune.) The earnings of a large proportion of doctors in the United States are less than that of organized labor, as- serts Dr. Charles J. Whalen in the July issue of the Illinois Medical Journal. . Competent - authorities, he says, place the average annual income of physicians at $700 a year. In the struggle for bread, the writer further asserts, the. physician is often com- pelled to throw medical ethics to the wind, for ethics and an empty stom- ach, or an unpaid rent bill do not go hand in hand. The writer does not indulge in idle speculation as to what the cause of the low 4ncome of physicians is. He has nothing to say about the subject of too many doctors—a subject which is debatable. Instead, he points out some of the abuses from which phy- sicians suffer. And all of the abuses can be summarized under the head of “sponging.” The physician is being sponged upon not alone by the patient"| who is careless about paying his doc- tor bills, but- also by the community, by the state. The&, trend of civilization, Dr. Whalen thinks, is in the direction of niaking the healing of the sick a pub- lic duty rather than a family affair. The work of the physiclan is more and more becoming a function of the state. It'is here that the abuse of the doctor begins. It lies in the amount of charity work physicians are doing. Doctors, thousands of them in Chicago alone, are giving from two to four hours a day on two or three days of the week to free clinics, hospitals and dispensari They not cnly cure the city's poor sick, they educate the ignorant masses of the community in matters pertain- ing to health, and thereby render in- valuable services in the field of disease prevention. This medical altruism saves thousands of dollars to the comfunity and untold misery to the poor, but it drives many doctors | known either to desperation or else to quack- ery and dishonesty. A lawyer, says this writer, is never required by the community to defend its poor gratuitously. The same prin- ciple should apply to physicians Doctors caring for the city’ poor should be paid by the municipality, he argues, the same as the charity or- gunization workers who care for the poor are paid for their wotk White Suits and Sk ew York Journal of Commerce.) Why complain avout the hign cost of living when you can buy a suit of Stockings. clothes, partly woul, 1or $v.00, and a | pair of silk hose lor twenty-live cents? These are actual tucts and their existence just at this Ume make an interesting situation in two un- portant parts of the textile industry. S0 called Palm Beach or some- times Panama, suits for hot weather wear are now being advertised in the large department stores of New York for $6.50. This is a sale price, the regular cost being $3 fo $1v. Artifi- cial silk hosiery for both men « and women can be bought the year round | price of twenty-five no doubt in some are sold at at the regular cents a pair, and of the cut-rate shops much less. The beach cloths, as they are in the woolen industry, have proved to be the sensation this season in that tariff distressed trade, 'J'.hv, manufacturers in larger numbers are putting out greal quantities of this cloth, made of wool and cotton or mohair and cotton. Some of the clothing manufacturers, it is said, cannot get enough of it right now. One such manufacturer here in New York is reported to be turning out 1,000 suits a day and then could sell more. . Now these are seasonable garments, the male part of our population, which has always been notoriously conservative about departures from the old established ideas of having finally awakened to the fact that this is a hot climate for several months of the year, and clothes could well be lighter than they have been. The Palm Beach suits, it is more than likely, therefore, are here to stay. The question then arises if Ameri- can manufacturers of woolens can manipulate so successfully in produc- ing a cloth that gives universal satis- faction for summer wear, Wwhat may happen when one of them starts to work on un article at a low price for general year-round wear”? The high cost of wool at present, with the probability that it will not be much lower for many years to come, is the incentive for just this kind of branch- ing out in new fields. Then consider the situation in hos- jery. This country is silk mad. The piece goods manufacturers have been having everything their own way for several years with the strong back- ing of fashion. Enjoying a higher protection than any other branch of textiles under the new tariff act, they have had, in adidtion, all of the style support on their side. The expansion, therefore,” of the industry in this country since January 1 has been marvelous. Silks are worn at tango dances in the afternoon, are worn on the streets and, of course, are the leading fabric for evening wear, What more natural then that hos- iery also should be of silk to give a finishing touch to the silk gown with | a sAt skirt? But pure silk hosiery, it was found, would have to sell for §1 a pair. This necessarily ft from the masses. Poorer grades of pure silk yarns, it was found, could be used and thus bring the retail cost down to fifty cents a pair and even a little cheaper, but that did not catch the trade of the masses, the greu purchasing power of the country. Along came artificial silk made of wood fiber, that could be bought by the hosiery manufacturer at $1.70 per pound or thereabouts, against the $4 or more per pound that real Japanese silk weuld cost him today. Labor Day Without Its Parade. (New York Sun.) The dropping of the Labor parade this year is to be regretted. It was usually a picturesque display. It was invariably digniied and orderly and it gave the working men of New York an opportunity to show them- selves in their true colors as law lov- ing citizens with proper civic pride and an honorable respect for their arts and crafts by which they not only make their own livelihood but contribute so incalculably to the greatness and prosperity of the city, the state and the nation. A fine manly show—womanly, too, indeed, for the women workers took a characteristic share in it—it gave vast pleasure to tens of thousands of people. The participants were moral- ly exalted by it and the spectators, whether personally concerned or not, gained useful lessons and experienced beneficial emotions. Perhaps, indeed, the best effect was on the outsiders, those who were neither handicrafts- men nor their near relations. For to these the force, the organization, the spirit of ingenuity, the purpo: the patience, the probity und the pregnancy in all good and advan- tageous ways of labor were brought home in most impressive manner by the marching hosts, the illustrative floats, the banners, the bands, the companies and their captains, all ar- rayed for the glorification of the great idea. that work is life in the highest sense, £ Sorrow for the loss of this annual pageant will assuredly not be lessened by the cause of its abandonment. It appears that this is due to the lack of employment among manual work- ers and the need that has fallen upon ¢ of them through failure of a to earn their daily bread. Perhaps it would be ironic to cele- brate the glory of the work that is not. Perhaps it is better—urgent, indeed, to spend the money in helping those who have superfluous days of rest these psychologic times. No doubt in this matter the labor leaders know what they ure apout and need no outside guidance. But the day dress, | barred | McMILLAN'S Store Closes Wednesdays at noon during July and Au- gust. Last Week of our BIG-JULY CLEARANGE - SALE GREATER BARGAINS THAN EVER TO MAKE THIS THE RECORD WEEK OF NEW BRITAIN’S Sale of Undermuslins at 98¢ sach Not a garment in the lot worth less than $1.50; some as high as $1.98. Included in this Sale are Prince Blips, Gowns, Skirts and Combina~ tions. Muslin Drawers Lace and hamburg trimmed. All sizes in stock, plenty of styles (o~ choose from. Priced for the last week of the Big Clearance Sale as follow 39c values at 50c values at.. 76c values at Women's and Ghildren’s Knit Un- derwer, Sale Price 12 1-2¢ ea. Women’s Vests in this lot, all styles, regular and extra sizes. Children’s Vests in high and low neck styles. Children’s Pants, lace trimmed. Rugs and Linoleums REDUCED FOR THE LAST WEEK OF OUR SALE. $25 Axminster Rugs Room size, 9x12 feet. Sale price $19.98. 3315 Tapestry Brussels Rugs tight knee and Room size, 9x12 feet. Sale price | $11.49. 1$9.50 Wool and Fibre Rugs Room size, 9x12 feet Sale price $7.98. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS Sale Price 29c, 35¢ 50c¢ LINOLEUM Sale Price 44¢ Square Yard, $1.39 EXTRA HEAVY LINOLEUMS Sale Price $1.10 Square Yard. . McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. triends of labor, who are all the citi- zens, wjll hope earnestly that the stoppage is only temporary and that future years will find the celebration of Labor duy restored to all its pris- tine glory for the general edificatic and enjoyment. unappreciated marvels, IFof instance, a news item chronicles in a matter of fact way that the other day no less than seven people underwent X-ray examinations at a local hospital for the exact locas tion of broken bones. Only a few years ago if a man declared that he had found a means for producing a ray of light that would penetrate solid substances and enable one to see through the human form, he would be regarded as a giboering maniac; vet here is just such a ray, in common usage, a part of the equipment of every up-to-date hospital,—Bridge- port Telegram This is the age of Commissioner Goldwater of the health department of New York city ig starting on a campaign which may end in the elimination of dogs from that city. While very many people will take exception to thé commis- sioner’s view that the keeping of do in cities should be @nllrlly.mhlbngfl there can be no doubt that: the many stray dogs allowed to run at large in Lridgeport are a nuisanee _and n easily become a danger the come munity.—Bridgeport