New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1915, Page 5

Our 38th Annual Sale Begins Tomorrow Morning, January Once a year for the past 37 years we have offered the people of New Britain and vicinity an opportunity to secure RELIABLE FOOTWEAR AT MANUFACTURERS’ P.RICES. The Foot: we offer at this sale is our regular reliable kind. It includes those lines that are to be discontinued, and Broken Lots. There’s no money in thisl sale for us, but it serves to bnng many new ! our store and makes us new friends, and that’s worth a lot to us. AT THIS HOME OF GOOD SHOES YOU WILL FIND REDUCTIONS THAT ARE REAL. The following are only 3 SOLD AT COST Money Saving Opportunities. RUBBER Women’'s Rubbers Misses’ Rubbers . .. Children’s Rubbers ... Boys’ Rubbers .. .. Youths' Rubbers............ Men’s Rubbers . FOR CHILDREN Children’s $1.25 Gun Metal But- ton ......Sale Price 98¢ Children’s $1.50 Gun Metal Button .Sale Price $1.19 Tan Calf Pumps, S Sale 'Pricel69¢ Children’s $1.50 Pat and Calf Ox- fords .Sale Price 98¢ FOR WOMEL Women's 60c Comfy Slippers ..... B Women’s $3.00 Satin Pumps ......Sal Women's $3.00 Gun Metal Pumps . .Sale Women’s $3.00 Gun Metal Button . .Sale Women’s 43.50 Colonials, Pat. and Gun ......Sale Women's $4.50 Colonials, Pat and Gun ° Button High . | Women's $4.50 Oxfords, Pat and Gun .Sale Sale Women's $5.00 Button, Pat. and Gun Sale FOR MISSES Misses’ $1.75 Gun Metal Button . ...Sale Price $1.40 Misses’ $1.65 Patent Button . ......Sale Price $1.19 Misses’ $1.50 Tan Calf Pumps ......Sale Price 79¢c Misses’ $1.75 Patent Calf & Oxfords, Sale Price $1.19 Misses’ $3.00 Russia and Gun Metal CrtErRE e e Sale Price $2.25 FOR BOYS AND YOUTHS Boys’ $1.75 Gun Metal Blucher ... .Sale Price $1.35 Boys’ $2.50 Gun Metal Blucher . ...Sale Price $1.35 Boys’ $3.00 Gun Metal Blucher ... .Sale Price $2.25 Children’s $1.75 Russia and Gun ¢ Boys’ $3.00 Gun Metal and Russia %xlforii)s Y ; 5 TN ey e SaleSPrice1$1198 Dbt Youths’ $1.50 Gun Metal Blucher .. Sale price $1.50 Metal Button High Cut Youths’ $1.65 Gun Metal Blucher ..Sale Price $1.25 .. .Sale Price $1.98 Youths’ $2.00 Gun Metal Blucher . .Sale Price $1.60 FOR MEN Men’s $3.00 Gun Metal Bluchers .. .Sale Men's $4 Gun Metal Bals & Blucher, Men’s $3 Gun Metal & Pussia Oxfords, Men's $4 Gun Metal & Russia Oxfords, S Men's $3.50 Russia Bals Rubber Sole Sale Men’s $5.00 Russia Bals Rubber Sole Sale Come Early Thu Morning All Sales Strictly for Cash : Judge E. N. Warner Pleads - For Farm for Drunkards upon several other officers and while ed the di he was being shoved into the patrol on the e he sunk his teeth deep into Speclal |last three mon Officer Kennedy's coatsleeve and bit | was taken becs and snarled like a dog. Judge Wil- | ings, which liam F. Mangan fined Daigle $5 for |corporation’s evading payment of his carfare and sent 'nim back to jail for fifteen days for breach of the peace. Conductor Parkinson testified that farm work then indoor labor could be provided. “Some such plan has been success- fully tried in Massachusetts and other states This measure is advocated by the Board of Charities and Correction, by drunkards. The county jail in | necticut with few exceptions Con- { 000; loss in wages 1,000 inmates of cannot | juil at $500, $500,000, making a total prove that it is useful or profitable | of $865,000 worse than wasted an- cither to the state of the convict. | nually. { Brief terms of imprisonment or fine “This police court system raises up and costs neither punish or reform |a distinct class of ‘rounders.’ The anybody. There is no classification.| worst case I know of is man confined of prisoners, no method of education. | in a Connecticut county jail on re- |judges of palice court, by many of ’ NOT TO SEI Juvenile offenders are permitted to I peated sentences since May, 187S8. [our prosecuting attorneys, by a report | Germany Gives ;\Hfocinm‘ with ha(x‘*d(\n(;t'l criminals Thirty-five years in jail for drunken- |of recent special commissioners, and ik o A come out worse then they go in. ne: by a large number of clergy of all|he asked Daigle for his ticket several quet of New Britain Christian Endeavor Union stead of ja We have ten jails in Connecti- |denominations. It has been most|times and when none was forthcom- ) ay may be called houses of | cut and this population is about 1,000 jgenerously advocated by various news- | ing he told him he’d have to pay —Set of Resolutions Adopted. ‘<‘0r\'lml}ons- Four-fifths probab {at any given date. The state pays |papers of the state, who realize the | thirty-three cents to-ride to New Brit- all the inmates of our county jails are . about 125,000 for the board of tiue | failure of the present system and |ain. Later Daigle told him he was there for drunkenness or allied of- | prisoners, but has no voice in the |believe in the possibility of improve- | going to Bristol. “All right, fifty-five fenses. It is one of the most astound- | management. The income for the !ment. - cents then,” said the conductor ing elements of neglect on the part of | ]ahor of our principal jails, Hartford “A bill similar to the one to be in- | Daigle took out seventy-five cents and [* town and city authorities that any |.nq New Haven county is an average |troduced was passed unanimously by | exhibited it to the conductor and then | Germany would class of men are permitted to get|of cight or ten cents a day. Think |both houses in 1913, but failed to|Pput it back in his pocket. He told | OT any other &g drunk and exhibit themselves in pub- | o jt1 Imagine a system which dis- |receive the governor's signature. The | the court that he had a ticket but The amba lic. The drunken loafer has better | oses of the labor in these counties |only objection to the bill is the ex-|did not know where it went Stven verhin food and better care in jail than mauy | 4¢ over 600 men for the paltry sum of | pense. ~The cry of economy will be| John Meecker, who hails from Bos- | that later he a sober working man, outside. Therc | gight or ten cents a day. Can any |raised for bath good reasons and bad. | ton, was found sleeping off a drunk |Bote on the sub is no such thing as personal liberty (o ' ngy gsystem be less profitable than “I presume the bill will call for not } at the depot by Officer Charles Grace do wrong but the drunkard defies | yput more than $50,000 and surely that will | ]ast night, Officer Grace asked him '_“f"; Of both God and man. FHe “But this money loss is not the be a small sum to risk for such a | Waere he was going and he replied | :|T::r(«\|o‘{:“v‘“f'ffif-i:‘:\fi““;;‘:“““i““f":‘“;;“"w worst feature of our jail system. The worthy object, considering the that he was waiting for the first train ate mebai e 'V {worst*feature is that the system does mense waste of the present system. { to hell. The judge sent him to the the key-note of Christian{Endeavor | his conduct and neglect he frequently ‘.4 4nq cannot in any way reform | ‘The members of this union, I am | Hartford county jall for thirty days work for this year: ‘The Kilg's Busi- | murders his wife and children. Tho | po ymyriconed man. No attempt is g : e ¥ ¢ | instead ? R s Bl e all over the United States just now | SRS S S e Sl Ch g es Uy iaip Y O DAk, ; 1s YSafetv Tirst * This o 5 made to get him to change his mind, Make it your immediate duty to see speak tonight upon a branch of ‘our | i8 “Safety First.” This cry needsanad- '\ "\ 1o pim getermine to keep sober business, which has been very seri- | ditional phrase “Sober First.” The | 0 Ma%¢ BiT ; e Sres e MO Ll el St ously neglected. The subject of my | Public never will be safe until ail 204 earn his own living by steady ask them to support this measure. sl : subj There is a way to save both Write letters to them and send In * Putnam Barrister Gives Convincing Talk at Annual Ban- being houses of correc- Washington, Bernstorff, the notified the day that his officlal assurand shipped from t} treasurer. All of the pastors in the Union were in attendance. President Arthur Parker introduced Rev. B, T. Thienes as toastmaster and Judge E. M. Warner, one of Put- nam’s most distinguished citizens and " barristers, delivered the principal ad- " dress of the evening at the annual tanquet of the New Britain Christian | he called upon the tors for a few Fndeavor Union held last night at the | remarks. Judge Warner then gave chapel of the Center Congregational | the following address: church. Every society in the Union, which coverg New Britain, Plainville, Bristol, Berlin, Kensington and New- ‘ington, was represented. Bristol and Newington societies were especially well represented. The dining Pleads for State Farm. “I am very glad indeed to speak in this church. Your pastor, Rev. Mr. Maier, at the great state convention at New Haven elaborated splendidly GOVERNOR Hartford, Ja comb and staff} the militia of state armory. lowed im- room was tastily John J. Walsl taurant man, Bassett street. DIVIDEND. Jan. 27.—The corporation PASS York, Steel United resterday New work. JUDGE E, M. WARNER. decorated in white and a good supper was served. There were 250 present to enjoy the tasty menu ar- ranged by Miss Anna Ward, chairman | of the social committee, and her corps | of assistants. During the progress of | the supper the Y. M. C. A. | guests orchestra | furnished music. Among the guests of the evening were the following clergy- men and Christian Kndeavor worke Frank Nichols, president of the Union; F. C. Bidwell, past president: | Judge E. M. Warner, of Putnam, and | chairman of the State Union commit- | tec of prison and jail Soper, president of work Leon the Hartford I home | arunkards. In Urion, and Harry E. Taylor, state talk briefly stated is a ‘State Farm for inebriates’ T do not wish to be harsh or abusive in describing any in- | dividual whom we characterize by the title, ‘Drunkard,’ but 1 do find it very difficult to speak pleasantly -about him. He is such an unnecessary grievance. He is so obtrusive in his manners, he is so impudent in his be- havior, T am out of patience with him. I feel sometimes that the public does not fully understand him. To be sure he is wilfully wicked and de- liberately indulges a bad appetite, but he is also a willing vietim of a bad system of law. Our absurd police i court and jail procedure educates him to become a ‘rounder.’ He should be » treated as to save him from self. Ile must quit drinking. 1 ap- peal from the drunkard, drunk, to the snme man sober. 1 plead for a for him outside of the jail which ‘he shall earn for himself by honest toil, I plead for helpful, and even reformatory ment. [ plead for order and quiet in public piaces I plead for the right of sober men. women and children to ride on our trolley and steam without being disturbed oy insulted by short, 1 plead for a deal between the sober man rounder.’ severe square and the In prose and poctry juils are dread- | ed; they are shunned and any one would suppose that all people would try to keep out of them, but all this is changed so far as the “rounder” is concerned. The jail is his most com- fortable home, and he like to be there and frequently commits some ‘offense on purpose to be sent up for . short term and be taken care of by sober men. Our jails re not Man- <jons of the Broken Hearted, they arc him- | firm | treat- | cars | | potice Palace Hotels for lazy loafers and hands are sober. Wants Saloonless Nation, “Your city has voted to establish within its borders we will sixty saloons, that is, to set up in your com- munity what Hogarth would call ‘Beer Street’ or ‘Whis ‘Gin Lane,” every one of theni & place of temptation. For these sixty licenses the state and town get about ,000, but every dollar of license callg for $20 from the people, so that your people contribute at least $500,- 000 to the saloon interest annually What do you get for this princely sum? Sooner or later a big crop of drunkards, more or less crime, many ruined lives and homes. 1 fy any one to show one good thing helped by the saloon Rally to the national slogan, ‘A saloonless nation in 1920." “We will the saloons say surely close | pretty soon, but meanwhile we should take care of the drunkards already mude and there are a large number of them, perhaps 2,000 or 3,000 in whole state. Nobody knows exactly how many there are, Polioc Court Is Absurd. absurd ure, “I spoke of system of court proc Years vears ago we abolished ‘imprisonment for debt,” but how much different the action of our courts which sends a man who has drunk to jail because he cannot a fine, He imprisoned not guilty of drunkenness, because he is our and heen nay because e is but poor. such cases annually. “From the information 1 can got there are 2,000 prosecutions for drunkenness a month, 000 a year, at a $10 each., making $240,- 0003 paid by the state, $125 best cost of board Alle or | the | Connecticut shows about 2,000 { proposition state farm which they long term, men and money and the 1 favor is to establish a | for these “Drunkards,” to {can be committed for a say 8 or 5 years with at the end of a year. Locate this | farm in the vicinity of some large city which will furnish a market for Ithe farm produce and enable the au- thorities to obtain trade teachers who ! could easily devete a small part of their day to teaching at the state farm. Favors Cottage “Let the institution be the cottage System, built and managed on tem, /in these surroundings with | out-door labor the drunkard can get on to his feet. Parole him and if | he violates his parole bring him hack and keep him till he decides to re | main sober outside. If there are |some af the inmates whao possible parole | twenty or twenty_five in a cottage and | plenty of | cannot do petitions. Let the cry be a Farm for Inebriates in 1815." Union Adopts Resolution. vnion adopted a set of résolutions urging Jocal senators and representa- tives to support the bill soon to come before them to establish the state farm for inebriates. Dr. T. Edwin offered the closing prayer. The next gathering of the union will be Sunday evening, (Christian Endeavor Day) union service will be held at the South church Dr. Hill will preach a “(‘hristian ¥ndeavor." There will be a special musical pro. gram sermon on Another Incbriate Arrested at Depot Waiting for Train to Take Him to Hell, He Says, Liberated from the Hartford coun- ty jail only vesterday, Vincent Daigle, who was sentenced from this city, got on the 4 o'clock dinky and refused to pay his fare, although he had the money. When Conductor Parkinson ir »d Da became vilely abusive and was placed under arrest by Of- ficer Fred Wagner at the local pas- senger station, Daigle but one leg and it was necessary to carry him from the train. Such a fight did he lpm up that it was necessary to call has “State After Judge Warner's address the | Brown February o when a | | | | | | | | | \ | | | [ DR. EARL S. SLOAN, Inc. No need for agony another painful spot ment and away Philadelphia, Pa. Price, 25c., 50c. and $1.00