New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 8

ar 4113 B @ burch 8t th. by matl - hg medium 1D and press rtisers. e at Hota and_Broad- rd Walk, labor com- Teport this practice of picking out jh, potatoes n the spot; heir hands eir ‘fingers ptact with e usually d” weather rom their Rt many of pring home ty of being have been rs for the The com- scavenger centive to e in this its full hnd a piti- they work inders or frequent- is to pre- ed on no complete ts as well ormer are yone else. our own irls work- out coal her is of some in- bliged to prevent prned, the from the knowing on hand uel. The 1s can be ‘day with g wood hen this men it is ee a man ell filled e of the while a lace of a or less pmmented j in num- ‘way and '{6 ovide( it, rents " in 1ly effec- PONOMY. eculatian of fthe gqvernor, to be on em with The new s being Bolidating omote a are now ust soon e refm#}x n when o ah, jts to cut fmes into ances rs he is with the t was a Ibly some office for ip and as nfronted adequate the work ght well d with to bhe chieft of the urn over health. d plan, that can he facts W seem as plague b if the Roard s the ney are erculosis e should hnds are tinue so under the m.'oposed management. The | placing of the duties of the dairy and food commissioner on the same de- _partment is among the reforms pro- posed. Perhaps the health department can care for all this work, but if the othgr departxnénts are busy under the.pres- ent arrangement it would seem as if the proposed scheme would overbur- den the health branch of the state and before the year is up there might be a cry that it could not attend to all that was being demanded of it. There s also a revival of the old argument of combining the labor commissioner and factory inspector. It is believed that this can be done with a great saving to the state and if the same degree of efficiency can be maintained it should be done. Whatever means there are available for the practice of economy should be adopted. Connecticut needs such a system and now is a good time to put it into active operation. IN PRICE OF FOOD ANIMALS, Supply and demand philosophy is being hard hit these days and in no place is this more conspicuously il- lustrated than in the anmnual report of the department of agriculture, which says that the price of food animals during the past year has de- the flgures being fourteen DECREASE creased, cents per hundred pounds. It 1s well known that the supply of meat during recent years has not been equal to the demand, and the number of cattle received daily at the stock yards in Chicago, including veal, sheep and hogs, is less than it used to be. The retail price of meat has gone up and the assumption has been that the cattle dealer was re- ceiving more money for his stock and the packer was sharing in the al- leged lack of profits in the meat busi- ness. This conclusion is apparently incorrect. The report of the agri- cultural department suggests that the packer must be making greater profits than ever and that it is the cattle dealer and the ultimate consumer who are the sufferers, the former be- cause of the low price he has been receiving for his stock and the latter from the high prices he is compelled to pay for his meat: The European war has increased the demand for food products in this country and they have been exported | in large quantities. Ordinarily this would offer a better market for the cattle dealer, even if there was not a large demand for his stock: bafore, and according to all the rules and laws laid down by political econom- ists he should be receiving better prices, especially as the purchaser is charging more for the same goods. This, however, does not appear to be the case and there are facts and fig- ures to prove it, It is difficult to see this matter in any light, except that of a benefit to the packers and a loss to all others interested. A happy New Year. Mayor Quigley is due to arrive today and when he hears the news? Wow! Christmas clubs are just now. They mean more money at a time when it is most needed. popular The . _ lexposition opens today and will continue all year, The fact that it is being held in California will prevent many from attending from this section of the country, but all can read about it for less money. Inspector Crowley seems to be still on the job for pure milk. He had an offender in court this morning and the judge took the same view of the case as the inspector. Moral: Don’t water your milk. FACTS AND FANCIES, The famous, or infamous, as you like, Governor Blease of South Car- olina yesterday released forty-four more state prisoners, including ten serving life sentences far murder, making a grand total of 1,488 crim- inals that he has liberated in the last four years. If it were not so much like locking the stable after the horse has been stolen it might be a gond thing to put this great liberator him- self behind the bars until his present term of office has expired.—Ansonia Sentinel. The announcement Is made that a movement is on foot to reform the present method of appointing judges for city and town courts. Whatever may be the outcame of this effort, or the of the plan proposed, it cannot but be realized that it is =n step in the right direction Thera should be no half-hearted action about it. Such judgeships should be re- moved from the list of political foot- balls and whatever the change, if it is for the better, it can only he looked upon as a tardy recognition of duty. Matters of such importance are han- dled through the city and town courts success that the choice of judges should not be entrusted to log rolling methods. —Norwich Bulletin. Cold weather brings little comfort to folks compelled to labor out in the | ola open, but it also brings pleasure in the form of skating and These are healthy and sports and yet, vear after year, they are marred by serious accidents, often resulting in death: Skating acci- dents which cost the lives of skaters have already been recorded in many communtities throughout the country and the Christmas holidays, with the ! first general white Christmas in vears throughout the northern states, have been saddened for the young people af many cities by terrible coasting ac- cidents, These disasters always have a tendency to cause the prohibition of these sports and consequently even where they may be enjoyed with com- paratively little danger severe restric- tions are sometimes plared on those who desire to enjoy them.—Water- bury Republican. The last contested congressional election from Connecticut was that conducted by Raymond Jodoin against former Congressman Higgins of the then third district’ after the election of 1910. It was not successful. is recalled in this connection congress took no action upon it un- til about to adjourn on March 4, 1913. Then the complaint was dis- missed, but Jodoin had some balm in an allowance of $2,000 for expenses. There was always a mightly interest- ing little story behind this contest and its outcome. It was whispered from Washington that certain suggestions were forwarded from powerful party leaders of democratic faith in this state that they would not be at all displeased if the democrats at Wash_ ington threw the contest out of court. Of course it was all to be done in a regular way. It will be remem- bered that this happened just about the time S8tate Senator Mayor Mahan of New London wanted to go to con- gress. It Jodoin had won the doughty New Londoner would hardly have received the nomination for tho new district which resulted in an elec- ton.—Bridgeport Telegram. that Crow Is a Nice Bird. Opinion as to the merits and de- merits of birds is undergoling a change as the facts become known. It is now widely realized that a great many birds formerly condemned because, as believed, they did great destruction to crops, including fruit, are actually the benefactors of farmers and horti- culturists, since the birds consume vast quantities of harmful insects. It appears that even the crow is not as black in character as he has been painted. He has many good qual- ities, and some of them are set forth by the Office Window of the New York Mail: “Amid all the recent mi- grations of our feathered friends, there was one bird who spurned the pop- ular bird-movement southward. That was the crow. The common crow is- known to everyone who lives in the country, or who has ever lived there. You can hear them cawing on Dyckman street hill almost any morning. These are among the earliest birds in the spring to build their nests, and they still nest up there at Spuyten Duyvil. The crow has managed to gain a bad reputation among the farmers because he loves to pull ‘'up corn after it has sprouted. Crows do this to get the grain of seed- corn, which has become softened hy germination. If the corn is dipped in tar the crows will reject it. Certain poisons also exercise a deterrent ef- fect upon crow depredations, but bird protection laws now largely interfere with the use of poisons. The var- ious experiment stations have with- in recent years demonstrated that the crow eats a great many harm- ful insects, and in this 'way makes full amends for his raids upon the cornfields. Intensive farmers now regard the crow as an ally instead of an enemy, although the use of scarecrows and other similar devices still lingers."” - - Boosting the P’rice of Movies. (Cleveland Plain In New York there is a strong ten- dency to advance the cost of an even- ing at the movies. Many theaters charge as high as fifty cents. These houses have more less pretentious orchestras, and offer the so-called “feature films,” with stars of movie- land or stars temporarily adrift from their orbits in legitimate ageland A large business is done by theaters of this kind, while there scems to he little falling off in the profits of the five and ten-cent establishments. The New York Times comments on the tendency to elevate the movies or, rather, to elevate the price of movies—and finds it bad. The mov- ing picture patron, even though he has abundant wealth, is perfectly happy in a five-cent theater, providing the theater is sanitary and the show as good as the average. There are, too, plenty of patrons who prefer the style one_reel film, acted by old favorites of the cen, to the costly multiple-reel productions which tures actors and actresses new to the movies. But there are many othe who go to the movies because of their alluring cheapness. With the mission bhoosted to the theater these patrons doubtless go the theaters, they to sit in Happily arrived in a number Dealer.) or s¢ ad- e to had would even though the galleries. the problem has Cleveland. This of excellent house: but their scale of pr considerably below that of the ate Cleveland also has an dance of five and fen-cent presenting the old kind ment, which is in m good the costlier offeri feature theate are more able, their is better, and are infested by that prime the unaccompanied small dyved-in-the-wool siasts divide their allegiance he- tween the two classes of entertain.- ment, and enjoy the variety. It ix to be hoped, however, that the five_cent theater will not go out of existence. Its abolition would mean the passing of a desirable amuse- ment which is within the reach of nearly every resident of the cities. not yet city has “feature ex iy the- abun- houses, of entertain- as The they less nui- sance, Many coasting. | exhilarating 1t respects as | comforts boy. | movie enthu-| ¢ 5 1 WHAT OTHERS 3AY || Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. The Terre Haute Scandal. (New York Evening Post.) { Seldom, before, his- tory have seventy-four men, ranging from mayor to gunmen, and including if cver in our judges, a sheriff, policeman, and other | city employes, been indicted in a body. If this had happened in New York under Croker or in Philadelphia under Ashbridge, surprise would have heen smothered in satisfaction, but | who could have expected it in Terre | Haute, ind., a couple of decades afte the “blocks of five” scandal? The charges againsi Mayor Roberts are many: levying esscssments upon | proprietors of garmhiing houses, sa- loons and dance halls: hiring men to haul repeaters to the polls: intimi- dating others in order to force them 1o enter the alleged conspiracy; di- recting the making of cards of false registration, and so on. These acts, | if they were committed, violated the | federal eclection law. While there is’| a certain comprehensiveness in the | indictments, In that they include men | who call themselves republicans and | progressives as well as democrats, yet, in the words of the Indianapolis | News: “The men under arrest are all | members of the Crawford Fairbanks- Roberts machine, and most of them are habitues of the ‘red light' dis- trict.” That is the News adds, ma- liciously, “‘they belong to the govern- ing class in Terre Haute.” That newspaper rejoices at the arrests be- cause they deal a blow at an old sys- tem: “Precisely such crimes have for years marked Terre Haute elec- tions. . “The men guilty of them have never felt that there was the slightest dan- | ger that punishment would follow. They have gone about the business as though it were a legitimate industry.” The best thing that could happen for the democratic party in Indiana would be the conviction of the guilty persons involved in this “industry.” no matter how high their official posi- ticns. | Blatant Disregard of Law. (nvleriden Record) About 12 o'clock one night this} week a New Britain man went speed- | ing along the public highway at the | rate of fifty miles an hour. The fact | that the gates at a railway crossing | were down did not deter him. He crashed through one side, spun across the tracks and smashed through the | other gate and on up the street until | held up by a policeman. | That the speeder had his family | in the machine and submitted them to such risks merely increases the signi- ficance of the incident. The driver could not explain the speed at which he was traveling through the center of the city. He maintained that his | windshield was steamed and he could not see the railroad gates. It is just such escapades as this that make one long for laws which would | actually prevent the repetition of such daredeviltry. It ought not to be possible to impose a fine for such a crime. If a prison sentence or tho rock pile were the punishment for such a blatant disregard of law there would not be a repetition of it. That an awful tragedy did not re- sult from this joy ride or wanton at- tempt to evade the law, is good luck rather than good management. The Memory Quilt. (Indianapolis News) Grandmother making quilt. She has many in her day. is a new made of them Not a child or a grand- child but exhibits a proud array of them on the clothesline at cleaning time, showing them to tha neighbors and repecating the storles grandmother has told them of the| pink and blue, yellow and red pieces of calico, which have clothed the various members of the family through three generations. But the quilt she is making now is different, and if she is very careful it will be the most beautiful and the gayest of them all. Perhaps it will last longer than any of the others. She makes it us she sits before the fire, her hands busy as always with her tatting or her | knitting ncedles, and her mind busier | than her hands in the construction of | her memory quilt. There is no trouble | in finding the pieces for the N1 | There are so many of them that she could almost make a whole quilt in a day. The difficulty in choosing the pieces. She is ver) particular. Some days she must take out all that she has put in, and bravely throw the picces into the fl that they may hasten away up the chimney and i not bother her again They are, you see, dark and ugly memories which | would like to have a place quilt and they slip in sometim she is nodding over her Kknittir most always, however, has to sort the bright picces together, and once with a particularly pretty little picce of a memory she has no difficulty at all in finding others to match it. Then you will see her smiling and flushing with delight at tl.e beauty of her qu it and perhap: will stop and oIl you stories about it. There are days | in the little old schoolhouse in the | memory quilt. There are days in the harvest field and in the harvest kitch en, too There sleigh and dances and sweetheart weddingzs | and Christmas days. There are friends | and children, riches and poverty, there ! are perhaps one or two sorrows that have become a sweet rather than a bitter memory. There is a bit of ov- everything is good and glad, and the quilt is going to be big enough to cover all the future as well as all the past. It will be a beautiful quilt and | grandmother is happy in the making of it, for memories are like friends, and we can choose the ones we love best. house mes, S0 in tho | when | N only | d put them she has staried | she are rides | thur; looking. I nimbie | excellent America Awaits England’s Reply to Wilson’s Note "SIREDWARD GREY AMBASSADOR PAGE. Official Washington awaits word from England in answer to President Wilson’s demand that Great Britain refrain from further interfering with American neutral sea commerce. The long note on this important matter was presented by Ambassador Page in London to Edward Grey, foreign minister of England, and diplomatic conferences at once began. 1f Em:-l Sir Herrick—But Not in 1916, (Louisville Courier-Journal.) Presidents of the United States are | as surely born to be presidents as kaisers are born to be kaisers. Elsc | how could Polk and Pierce, Harrison | and Roosevelt especially accidents | like Tyler and Arthur, Filmore and Johnson—have ever attained the White House? Lincoln had never | been heard outside of Illinois, nor ! Cleveland outside of New York two | short years before they were nomi- | nated for president.Willlam Howard Taft tried to get away from it and Woodrow Wilson did all a man could do defeat a nomination that was | predestined. Consider the case of Chester A. Ar- three yvears before he took the ovath as president of the United States : he had been dismissed from the col. lectorship of the port of New York | by his own party—under r-hnrlzes——t nobody dreaming of him as other than a local politician and not very high , up at that. The same birthright of destiny twenty years later meted out to “Teddy” that had been recorded in ! favor of- “Chet.” In 1843, Franklin | to Pierce was hauled away from Wash- ington to keep him from going to the dogs entirely—and he had nearly got there—but being born for it, 10 years later, in 1853—nothing except his nomination having happened mean- while—he came back as president. Don't tell us And don’t everybody speak at once! They are horn to' it. These things should admonish the average politician. They do admon- ish the Courier-Journal, and their token it has picked Myron T. Herrick for a winner: hut not in 1916, Oh, | dear no: the crazy, dear old Pick-me- | up—bheating ahout for an issue—and | finding none—will probably fall [ upon the impressive or Justice Hughes., and, willy-nilly, put him up to be knocked down. no event can it pull itself h 1916. Fven if it did dly beat Woodrow Wilson The presi- may not he to the average con- man quite a thing of b ©and E forever. He has r many of them to @ pulp as presidents go, he st mighty well with the couniry, a up-to-date, middling intelligent, fe m: If he lives he tolerably eight years rick's time come; a buckeyve hoy hegin with—stepmotheér of pre dents if not mother of states and sts men—away from the dread scenes of 1912 mes Buchanan was | from t of G405 zood- | good-natured characte if not, as h v a weight as the Justice Harlan athlet and likely and horn respectability in together it could 1 gres 1 joy too 10 very devlish rtain on the Then H will joh to aw ose zood and, late yvet an to it. [ i NOTYE PLEASES ITALY. ! May PVend to Avert Difficulties En- counterced by Ualian { i | Commerce. | | Rome, Dec. 31, 8:10 p (Do- | The Britain, m., i transmission) Ameri- | Great layed in note to the ican merchantmen, has produced «n impression here, only may tend to exactly difficulties enecountered but also may can protesting against interference with Amer- not be it the same Italian commerce is hoped that it concrete set of protecting the r The American ambassador here working most earnestly to secure an amelioration of conditions interfer- ing with American commerce 2 USH avert hy because it ! lead to a more international rules ts of belligerents The Water has written missioners the meter s: | { | Thompsonvilie company { to the lo water vunv—‘ sking for data regarding stem in use here. iof | the | all | stop | went secured land maintains her stand of indis- criminately holding up American ships bound for mneutral ports to make searches for ‘contraband of war the United States will put in claims for damages. Washington hopes there will be no open bhreak with England over the subject, which is similar in nature to the controversy that result. ed in the war of 181 RED TAPE ELIMINATED BY CANAL OFFICIALS| Wateiway Without Waste of Time Panama, Jan, (Correspondence the Associated So red tape has -been -elimihated canal officials that a captain may now take his through without hving to sign a single paper, Here- 1, much by the Press) ship's vessel and without any waste of time. tofore the formalities were so numer- ous that it sometimes required twen- ty-four hours for a ship to complete her passage. Shipping companies have been no- tified that hereafter it will not be necessary for them to point a shipping agent on the isthmus, for the reason that the Panama canal is prepared to undertake all work in connection with the payment of tolls, purchase of coal, water and other supplies. They have been informed that all that is needed is to cable to Panama the probable arrival of a ship, the deposit at the oflice of the nearest assistant treasurer of the United States of tne estimated amount of tolls, the probable supplies the vessel will need and other data and the officfals of the canal will see that ship safely passes through with the least possible delay and without the payment of agent's fees by the owner. Ship's Captain Surprised ago a ship arrived at owners having ap- ials of her com- had been made to pass through master appeared A few days Cristobal, her praised the canal off ing. The deposit and she ready the canal when the at the port captair office for his papers iHe was given his clearance papers, receipt for tolls, permit to pass through all the locks, health cer- ale, and other necessary papers and told to proceed into the canal, He was astonished at not having to obtain from various officials these documents further at the fact that not a single signature was required of him. His stay in the port of Cristobal exactly one hour, while at Balboa there was no required beyond slowing up to drop the pilot in the outer harbor. 1t pointed out by canal officials that many papers at first in proved to complicate matters and oc- The bulky copies of nifest have been abol- boarding officer of now obtains only a was was and was use casion delay, m: the port the ship's hed, and the terminal short abstract Two, Reduced to ary for a signature officials to has it master to than vessel neces the canal permitted number the captain the health the captain obtain, but the regu- of- time was have five was inal This ed to two entry and officer. These, however, not himself have to affixed in the course of routine the port captain’s or ship's of not belore less hi enter the heen port now of the does are lar { fice WHAT CHAPAN OWES. \dolph Chapan, Chapan & company ore, into bankruptcy yesterday, liabilities of $10,805.85 which are un His total liabilities are $11,- Assets consist of stock and of the who has proprietor A 09 lnnd fixtures, valued at $1,300. McMILLAN'S After Invzary Clearance Sale Suits COME SATURDAY AND CHOOSE 4 COAT OR A SUIT AT A REAL BARGAIN PRICE. You have all been waiting for this big mark down on coats and suits WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ COATS. Reduced to $5.98 each, Values uj to $15.00. WOMEN'S AND MISSES' SUITS. Reduced to $7.98 each. Values up te $25.00 AFTER INVENTORY CLEARANCF OF JEWELRY AND SHELIL GOODS, Many things you can have at a big reduction | CHILDREN'S GLOVES. $1.00 value. Reduced to 8bc. and wool lined. 8ilk LONG SCOTCH GOLF GLOVES. Elbow lengths at 7bc pair. White and oxford. CLEARANCE OF HANDKERCHTEFS Lay in a supply now for the season All mussed and handled handker- ehiefs marked for a quick clearance PLEATING. 19c yard 25¢ AND 50¢ Clearance price, WARM HOSIERY. Fleeced lined and cashmere hose. At 25c and 50c pair. Our Apnual January Clearance Sale Starts Monday Morning Bargains for you in all depart- ments. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET- RUSSIA'S PROHIBITION DECREE ENFORCED Petrograd and Moscow Council Deny Petitions to Sell Irioxicants. Petrograd, via London, Jan, 1, 7:38 a»m.—The last appeal against Rus- sia’'s prohibitice decree failed Thurs- day when the councils of Petrograd and Moscow rejected a petition to authorize the recommencement of the sale of beer and light wines. The re- cent final order to discontinue the sale of all alcoholic drinks was fs- sued with the reservation that the city councils should have the right to appeal for an authorization of the recomimencement of the sale of three per cent. beer and light wine Shont Notice Given, The final prohibition order was so unexpectedly issued that there was no opportunity to provide a stock against the coming period of abstinence. Between 6 and 8 o'clock in the even- ing the merchants received instruc- tions that next day there would be absolute proaibition, and hence there was no chance to give warning (o eager customers who, on a fulse alarm previously spread abroad, lined the streets for hours awaiting their turn | to squeeze into the crowded wino shops. The formerly popular res- taurants, which masnged to weather the vodka edict, are now almost with- out patronage, The liquor dealers, restaurant keep- ers, wine grewers and distillers brought all posszible influence to bear on the city councils for authorization to sell light wine, aselsted by the while approv- ing of thought that abstinence more grad- ually and that the sudden of the use of all alecohol would an injurious effect. But despite these influences and the fact that not one per cent. of the members of the city councils teetotale the coun cils rejected the petition by a vote on of than four to one beer and theorists sobriety who, general should come cessation have were | a ratio mor« | PPar Roaching Monsures. enforce sale of er) to to the and e compound, per- extreme measure en extend arnish The prohibition e denatured alcohol, able ire not saleablc conceiy alcoholic which mit, without a PLEASANT BIRTHDAY PARTY Bristol, and New Friends from Hartford, Southington, Springfield Britain were present at the birthday party given last night hy Miss Alfrig- ena Roy at her home on Park street Vocal selections were given by James idkeen and James Malloy and by Miss Sylvia Bechard, of Bristol. Whist was playved and refreshments were served ess received A number of nice of Goafs and .. P o