New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1915, Page 6

FHUSSE prcn St i ~xow Britsin Matter. rt of the city ts & Month. sent by mail Cenis & ng medivm 1o and prese vertisers. saie at Hota- and Broad- ard Walk, bra depot. s interested n or who he board of ets the con- department [The dispute d the chair- an unhap- F an ill feel- benefit to epartments, to a large pline and if naging end hardly bhe & men. It for the po- nmoned by t the mect- instructions rary chair- d to desist s he is still A Philadel- be natural he time to ight do the of public nsel might a’ truce department Interruption courtesy mbers. ge person a ‘member 30 no mistak- ! or has the per of any have ‘removing ob- asn’t then | in him til he does f he is not i not being de at tha jpate in the ents. The interest in aper and ess of the le same as evidently the case there can it of lie € now hee s bs a re- pin and his aying th peen given i that it k the whip ority vest- He may it looks ax can only d it would ndrews to been € mayo:” on what rts decide A nice lould be o e corpor- S the dealt Billy Sun- are any. cises rge hat Tk. in audi- he is The to | ANUARY , 1918, | | i He ' is conver- ball cago team e as a country perhaps players ¥s a man me of it he humor- the pulpit. ther with puses peo- and also e toemu- s ciaimed pxperience backslid- tains, but ining that t or plat- of theol- of the with some uments in | mercy of the inhabi favor life are mot sufficiently appealing to make an impression upon a serious thinking man woman, What is there about that causes so many to flock to hear him? Different answers are being given to this ques- tion. day a popular hero, the American people | like that sort of thing, especially when it relates to a great popular sport, and Billy is profiting by it. He ig endeav- of his ability, how- return for or him then In his he was a sort of oring to the best to give it, but his discourses are not elevating as compared to those of other noted and his fervor is even far the same convincing ever, some good evangelis! from being character. of NO RAILROAD LOBBY. It is as plain as anything can be that the New Haven rallroad will seek some favors from the legislature this vear, and according to the.statement of President Elliot there will be lobby maintained at Hartford, Mas- sachusetts or Rhode Island. It would however, if this desirable upon the manner meet the requests of the company. It needs help, undoubtedly, but whether It will be granted or not will depend to a great extent upon the nature of the requests, no seem, as depends the condition in which legislatures There give the road a fair show, a chance as it werc to get back onto its feet again, but it if the idea as to this shall permit it in one way or another to increase its revenue. That is logical enough, but there is another side to the ques- of the railroad is a disposition to looks company's how as be done is to tion. The trouble is jnot due to any causes for which the state is to blame, but to the bad man- agement of those intrusted with the affairs of the company. They are (o blame and if such procedure as is suggested is to be permitted and when | financial difficulties follow the state 1s permit a proceeding which will the up then to compel public to make the it would all been procceding lines in all ideas of govern- ment and business, The proper way to rehabilitate the New Haven road to compel those who put the corpora- tion in its present unhappy condition | to make good the losses and to have | it then practice economy until such time as it has recovered the troubles from which com- plains. That appears to be the plan, followed in other branches of busi- Why not in the railroad busi- it we along | losses, seem as have wrong from 18 now ness. ness? SERVIA'S ACCOUNT OF HERSELF. If Servia may be said to be the _cause, of it all' in Europe's war, to some according to the Literary Digest, she seems shouldering her full share of respon- sibility, as shown by her reported rout of the Austrian At the is paying the dreadful price of victory in losses of killed and wounded and the ment of the land, so that, as we learn cable dispatches, her plight, proportion to four million observers, to be invading force. same time she ravish- from in the popu- is even that of Belgium. a London more Also, for lation, pitiable than it the Servian iz noted in | appeal re- | lief fund that the very success of the | has thrown the ants tens of thou- belonging For all that, Courier ervian arms upon of to the enem the sands wounded soldiers 's forces, as Charleston News and observes, this turn in the tide has, for least, the present at preserved from the fate of Belgium, The failure of the Austrian advance sing and dramatic de- velopment, Philadelphia Inquirer, which reminds us, neverthe- that must, in fairness, taken the fact that Austria engaged a strenuous struggle to defend ils east- is a most surpr remarks the | | | | account of simultaneously less, be is m most ern frontier against the Russians, and it may be true, as stated, that troops that purpose | from the Servian campaign at were withdrawn for a time when it seemed that they might very well be spared. Today the question of greatest im- portance is whether there is any pros- | pect of the war's coming to an endj | during 1915. A few months ago there seemed to be every reason to believe | that it would. Now, with little apparent progress bheing made by | cither side and with neither giving | any indication of being anywhere near the end of its resources, there seems to be no Jjustification for optimism in | this respect. It may well be, however, that just as the war itself began with | little or no warning, €0 its cloge will bhe equally sudden and the result of circumstances that cannot now he | forseen.—Bridgeport Standard, s0 During the year just closed there | were 515,000 motor vehicles manufac- tured in the United States, and the | tetal value of the output is estimated ia[ $485,000.000. If the item has any special significance, it may indicate that the times are not so hard as a great many believe, or it may offer a partial explanation of the hard times. Anyway, there is undoubtedly a con- nection, and it is up to the economic experts to trace it and submit the right arnswer.—Providence Journal, 1 of the adoption of a Christian | 8lible FACTS AND FANCIES. Incidentally, no congressman or senator should be allowed to vote for A national prohibition amendment to the constitution without stating pub- { licly whether he ever takes a drink Limself.-—Waterbury ‘Republican | held the right of public school teach- ers to form unions, and thus the con- test goes against the superintendent of schools of Cleveland. who attempt- ed to prevent the teachers of city from organizing.—New Union, Haven Records of the weork of the pre- vocational and trade schools in New Britain can be studied with interest here in Ansonia because the time is not far distant when we are going to undertake this vocational school training ourselves. The sooner the better.—Ansonia Sentinel. Unless the new city fathers get onto their job and put through ordinances that will afford it ample protection, Ansonia’s new *“$100,000 Main street” will look like thirty cents in a few years. As things are now it should have been made portahle, in sections, 80 as to be lifted and replaced at will, —Ansonia Sentinel. The disposition to find a nice place for the private secretaries is not ccnfined to congressmen. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania is about to retire from office and he has just named his private secretary to the public utilities commission of Pennsyl- vania at a salary of $10,000 a year. The appointment is to be confirmed by the state senate and opposition has alrcady developed.—Bridgeport Post. Bristol, the youngest city of the! state, has made a good showing, ac- | cording to the public report for the vear past. Noticeable is the charity | department, which has been con- ducted on a strict business basi; under the supervision of a chari ccmmissioner. One advance in char- ity is the plan adopted to cut out tho ! luxuries of life ‘at the expense of the | public. On the back of the duplicate orders any grocer can fill is a list of articles that form the only food pro- ducts permitted to be distributed.— | The supreme court of Ohio has up- | that | | but WHAT OTHZRS 3AY | Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- , changes that come to Herald 1 office. ! | Traffic in Pardons. (New York World.) Ever since the pardon of Patrick by i Gov. Dix there s been talk up and | down the state of the existence of a brokerage husiness in gaining pardons from the state penitentiaries The | disclosures in the Hein-Marrin ase reduce a matter of suspicion to matter of fact. It remains to be determined how | widespread this traffic in pardons has become and what is the locality of the political influences through which it has been able to live. Men who are interested in winning the release of convicts do not pay out good money for the purpose without a belief | that controlling influences exist which can be bought, and such a belief is not likely to persist without some solid foundation for it. | Enough is now known of this culiarly dangerous manifestation of political corruption to call for the !mnst rigid inquiry and prosecution. | For this work it is the good fortunc | of the state to have a warden at | Sing Sing into whose appointment | no political influences entered, and a | governor at Albany whose prior pub- | lic work especially fits him to direct | the pursuit of this insidious attack upon the administration of justice. pe- Untimely Deceptions. (Boston Trickery and clap-trap do harm eriough when they go no farther than the perpetrator and his first victim; when they stain a nation's good name, stall its commerce and poison the judgment of its rank and file, they hecome public dangers, deserving wide exposure and severe repression. Whoever first thought of shipping contraband copper in the heart of a | cotton bale may have hugged himself as a clever trickster. He hardly thought what effects the cheat might have all our European exports. Herald.) on | But this attempt to ship copper in the guise of cotton must bear the blame for no small part of that suspicion that has worked delay for the bulk of Middletown Penny Press. In many respects the most interes “f ing figure in the country today. poli- | tically, is Governor Whitman of New | York. His career has been sensa- tional and may yet be more so. He owes his political prominence to his cfficient work as the district attorney of New York and his expectations, If hc has them, to the fact that he carried handsomely the great state of New York. This may, provided he | makes as good a governor as he did a district attorney, lead to his nomi nation by the republicans for pre dent two yvears hence.-—New Haven Journal-Courier, Much has been said and much has been written about the alleged cor- rupt practices of republican Boss | Barnes and the democratic Boss | Murphy in New York, but neverthe- less, the elections in the Empire state are the most honestly conducted and *he returns the most accurately and expeditiously reported of any state in | the union. The two states in which | there are more election scandals than | ir: the others are Pennsylvania, a Te- publican state and Indiana, a demo- cratic state.—Bridgeport Telegram. New Haven autoists have a griev- | ance against the police department | and it seems to be a justifiable one. | Chlef Smith has ordered all per- | sons who are arrested to be measured by the Bertillon tem, no matter what the charge is or who the pris- | oner may be. Some of the motorists, who have been taken to the police station for no greater offense than | having their rear lights out, have been | subjected to this indignity. They have | not been “mugged” for the rogues’ | gallery but they consider the Bertillon | record only one step removed from | “mugging” and are up in arms over the matter.—Hartford Post. i [ Apples. | (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) “Comfort me with apples,” begged Solomon, “for I am sick of love.” The author of Proverbs was the au- thor of the Song of Hong Solomon wrote love songs and love dramas. And when he was surfeited he called for—apples! The Palestine apple crop was a ne- thing. Here in America, we have better apples, bigger apples, juic- ier apples, more apples, than Holy Tand cver dreamed of in any ecstasy of praphecy. We have wmore and finer apples than any other coun- try in the world at any ag It the poet who dreamed of “apples of silver in pictures of "—whatever it could have heen turned loose American orchard. he might conceiv- ably have changed his lyric wail to “Comfort me with love, for I am sick of apples.” A reasonable estimate placas year's apple crop in this country 50,000,000 barrels. That would give 150 apples to every man, woman and infant/in the United States. Of enormous quantity we should normal- 1y export 2,000,000 barrels. But this is not a normal year for exports. no apples go abroad, each of us gets six apples more as his share. While entertaining feelings of the profoundest pity for the Kurppeans | deprived of this fruit, let us appreciate our blessings to the extent of enjoy- ing that extra half dozen to the limit. Iat six apples this week, and you will have 1o your extra of consumption. You will have | gained in health. in taste, in appreci- | ation in enjoyment. Physiecians say {that the drinker of alcoholic stimu- lants can remove his eraving by eating an apple. Comfort yvou with apples, whatever you are sick of— flesh, wine or love itself. And even then, there are apple pies, apple butter, apple sauce, fried s, haked apples and apflel nothing of cider, also Was— in an this i up ap- kuchen. L aiding: compared with those who rewrite dis- | i fincluding | merchant, of the mechanic, | and the | at | | this | If | share | our trans-Atlantic shipments. The selfishness of a few has hurt business through all the country The publie should know the names of the men that took the chance of choking a na- tiona) commerce embarrassed enough best Kven at worse than such trickery in days ar critical as these is the traitor- ous abuse of freedom In printed speech. Certain newspapers are now putting forth incendiary perversions of fact. There are sneaks that. for longer pay, help the forest fire ac S the woodroad they undertake guard: there are ghouls that in disas ter rob the victims they profess to be hut these are petty offenders to pitehe yd color headlines in delib- ! erate effort to kindle a people’s fight- ing temper and fan a blinding excite- ment. As Bad as in Massachusetts. (Chisago Tribune.) Apropos of tax indictments ru- mors of further indictments, pen- alties dire and examples calculated to effect wonderful refcrms, tne Tribune would remind officials and citizens once more of the bottom fact that 1llinois has an impossible and incred- ibly stupid tax system. What would the neutral world say were KEngland or France or Germany to impose a war or emergency tax of forty, fifty and sixty per cent. on all incomes, the lowest? It would say position of that belligerent was desperate indeed, and that such confiscation meant the end of its sources, exhaustion and collapse. the world would be right Now, lllinois is not at war. She enjoys and has enjoyved for years state of peace Yet, in litera! truth, she is levying a tax of forty, fifty and sixty per cent. on certain classes of incomes—the income of the million- the of the retired that the re- And aire, income the widow Let anyone honds, anyone herwoman. | invest his or her savings in | stoe or mortgages, or let | put a sum in a savings bank and the | Ilinois law demands annually half or [ two-thirds of the income from such | securities or deposits This rob- | bery and confiscation under modern | conditions who that can escape { will submit confiscation? A law | that no would dare to propose [ in the midst of peril and bitter | flict is the *normal” law.of Hlinois | He who thinks it can be enforced { it for bedlam. Indictments? Why ‘nv»l indict those who stand the ‘ way of constitutional revision perpetuate a monstrous farce, a dal, an outrage, and a crime? the wa to one con- is in and thus scan- Will Mayor Mitchell Tackle ft.” ! (New Sun.) | The associations of policemen, formed | hominally for benevolent purposes, but for the defence of their proposed change that York used against any or statutes | actually membe 1 in rule | them, have for years been a oshtacle to practically every attempted | improvement in the conditions in | force. Their power has been exerted | at Albany, in City Hall and in the tria! | room at headquarters. Through them | the politicians of the force have aper- l'ated, thwarting commissioners and mayors when it seemed desirable to thwart them, and controlling to a de- policies and perfomances of displeases serious tie | gree the | the department. In the past the managers of political parties have dickered with the officers of these associations, promising lesis- lation as a reward for votes and influ- ence at the polls. Sometimes the mands of the associations great that the politicians fused to accede to them, hut such stances have been rare. The tions have heen for more influential than the commissioners on whom sponsibility for the management of the force rested, the mayors who appointed de- heen re- in- have | even s0 associa- re- | rendered al small | ‘()\em or the governors who had au- thority to remove them Should Mayor Mitchell decide, in consequence of the occurrences of the last few dayvs, to und ake to rid the| department of these bodies, which are | obviously and notoriously antagonistic to discipline, he would find himself op- posed to a highly powerful clique. Yet that clique can be beaten. General Bingham heat it when he made the inspectors detailed instead of perma- nent oflficers. Moreover, it should beaten, for long it ex mayor and commissioner wil be pered in every rcformatory they seek to apply to the pe be the ham. endeavor §0 as s Prohibition in 1911, (Providence Journal.) No student of social and economic problems can afford to ignore develop- ments of the past year as regards the liauor traffic Irrespective of our personal views on the subject, we must mark with interest the following facts: - 1. The sale of vodka was abolished in Russia by imperial decree at the outset of the war, and within the last few days beer also has come under the ban at Petrograd, 2. France has forbidden the traffic n. absinthe. 3. The open hours of English pub- houses have heen curtailed. 4. On the first of March a wide prohibition law went in Tennessee. 5. On the first ginia inaugurated tion. 6. the third of November con- stitutiona] amendments forbidding the sale of liquor were adopted in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. 7. A majority of the national house of representatives on December voted in favor of submitting a pro- hibition amendment to the states, The opponents of prohibition can indeed point to the rejection of pro- hibitory amendments in California and Ohio and to the failure of the house resolution at Washington to secure the necessary two-thirds vote, but they cannot point to the abandonment (in 1914) of prohibition by any state where it was already in force. The prohibitory area in the United States is steadily on the increase, through constitutional amendments, state-wide prohibition laws, or county, municipal or township option. Con- siderably more than half the popu- lation of the country now lives in ter- ritory from which the saloon has been lcgally banished. The facts are im- pressive enough without explanation or argument. lic state- into effect of July West state-wide Vir- prohibi- On Good for Wellesley. Herald.) huge sum (Boston of money which college has just raised. list of educational institutions in this country which have a smaller endowment than §2,400,000, appears in the almanacs as long and impos ing, Wellesley's accomplishment is all the more notable be brought to pass in the face of unprecedentedly distressing appeals for help from a world-wide war, and of the husiness depre n which it cngendered, Such liberal giving at a time like this bears evidlence of the strong hold which Wellesle¥ posses on the thought and affections of the com- munity, Verily it has = ‘“friends.’ Surely the higher education of wom- en has passed the experimental stage —if indeed it ever long lingered | there, We are wont to complain of the lavish extravagance of the useless rich, and with good reason at times. But most the rich of the United States have acquired a habit of g ing, which disarms much of this cr cism. The Wellesley fund, moreover, | seems to have been the small contributions tered people of moderatc means gifts that meant ir touch of real sacrifice All thin onsidered veculiarly which New innd of the higher educ will be particularly s of swelled by of widely scat-| me cases a in nds the result It is one and all fri ition clsewherc rejoiced. islators’ Punishment, Sentinel.) it that the the legislature of the rules “itehbu Good authority has rece committce of will report change whereby tie speaker will he given Power remove any member of a committee who does not attend to his legislative hbusiness. The provoca- tion to give such authority found in the practice of a minority legisiature not attending official busine, They arc their They must quorums, they delay greatly Hence propositon to punish them, hang a threat of punishment their heads in order to force them attend, The is of the their false in to t be but leg- | the | 1 oatn office for rarely counted they islative making come and business or over trouble with the proposed pen- alty is that it is tremendously severe Its purpose is bring the offending members under public censure and to disgrace them the eves of all the state. Such a severe penalty would be cxercised by the speaker un- der rare occasions, it to sumed. Its se improbable that or, in a vietim to lie. Such therefore, defeat On the other better ccured to in only be makes is pre- very it it would be enforced enforced, it mizht be done which would eqtitle the the sympathy of the pub- a measure of discipline, would likely its own ends, hand, attendance by much milder effective means Let I tendance be kept by the clerk of each committee and let report of the attendance published week, or every month expedient, in the would e the public mation, Kvery offendern given warning before the penalty was visited, as under posed rule, a accomplish There such erity when huff, he most to the same result can doubtless be and more cord of at- a he every as might seem Journal It the infor would Honse all be extreme the it pro- would result doubtless healthful & thing is being too strict, McMILLAN'’S. | UR ANNUAL MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE- Remarkable Price Reductions in All,,i Departments Come to this sale expecting Bargains and you will not be disappointed. BLANKETS AT SALE PRICES Sale Prices 69¢, 97c, $1.49, $1.97, $2.39, $2.68 pair. Value 89c, $1.25, $1.75, $2.25, $2.75, $2.08. WOOL BLANKETS Sale Prices $2.87, $3.44, $3.97, $4.48, $5.88, $7.25 pair. Value $3.25, $3.98, $4.50, $5.00, $6.50, $8.00. CRIB BLANKETS Wool Finish 89c value,Sale Price 78¢ pair, Large Single Blankets, Sale Price 88c each. COMFORTABLES Value $1.98, sale price $1.68 Value $2.25, sale price $1.97 Value $2.50, sale price $2.19 Value $3.50, sale price $2.97 DRAPERY MATERIALS BY THE YARD. Sale Prices 10¢, 15¢, 17c, 22¢, 25¢, 29c. Value from 15c¢ to 45¢ yard. Sale Prices on Ready Made Curtains, Rugs, Lino- leums, KNIT UNDERWEAR for Men, Women and Chil- dren. All Marked at Sale Prices. Knitted Skating Scarfs, Toques and Long Gloves. Toques vevvvo... 49c each Scarfs ............ 98¢ each Long Knitted Gioves 75¢ pair. $1.00 LONG SILK GLOVES Sale price 79¢ pair. Colors pink, Lt Champagne, Brown, Tan, etc. Blue, Navy, OUR ANNUAL SALE OF SHEETINGS, COTTONS, TOWELS, TOWELING, LINEN, ETC. 17¢ Turkish Towels, Price 1215¢ each. 1215¢ Toweling, price 9¢ yard. $1.30 Bed Quilts, Price 89¢ each. 35¢ Table Damask, Price 25¢ yard. $1.00 Table Damask, Price 89¢ yard. 59¢ Shams and Scarfs, Sale Price 44¢ each, Battenberg and Cluny Centerpieces at about Half Price. WASH GOODS AND OU'F+ ING FLANNELS. 10c Outing Flannel, Sale Price 7c yard. 15¢ Waisting Flannels, Sale Price 11¢ yard. Best quality 36-inch Per- cales, Sale Price 11¢ yard, New Dress Ginghams, ex- tra fine quality, Sale Price 11c yard. Dress Goods and Silks in- cluded in this sale, BIG CLEARANCE STAMPED GOODS ART DEPARTMENT. Lot No. 1—Sale each, value 25¢ Lot No. 2—Saie Price 19¢ each, values 25c to 30c, Lot No. 3—Sale Price 39c¢, values 49c. Sale Sale Sale Sale OF AT Price 9¢ ALL OUR WINTER COATS, SUITS AND DRESSES MARKED DOWN FOR THIS SALE. for Women’s and Misses’ Coats, values up to|Misses’ Suits, values [$25.00. $15.00. $7.98 for Women's up and to The Famous Columbia Its Tone Grafonola the Clearest. Its Construction the Best. Its Finish the Finest. Sale ) (. Mo bk It Excels in Every Detail. - Special Outfits With Records From $20.00 Up Grafonola Dept. J. Van Ost, Mgr. D. McMillan 199-201-203 Main Street. L et Il | acs