New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1915, Page 6

President Wilson .on his réturn (o ‘Washington had to face one. of : the j most.serious situations ever- front- €d:by a chief ‘executive of the United States. Coming at a time fraught with such porténtous possibilities, the German submarine attack on thé pas- senger steamer Ordunma adds a more serious weight to the situation grow- ing out of the sinking of the Lusi tania. Obviously, the Orduna carried no munitions of war or contraband. With her 272 passengers aboard, 21 ©of 'whom were American citizens, the Orduna’ was bound from Liverpool to New York and its destruction could therefore have been of no military value to the Germian War Office. Her attempted sinking means that Presi- dent Wilson must now change the whole complexion of the note he has drafted and which he will send to Germany during the later part of this week. .On the face of it the attack on the Orduna was unwarranted. It must haye. the. effect of exerting a strong nflyence-in-the minds of the President and his advisors. It is somewhat in the nature of a direct repudiation of all the President has asked for in his notes to Germany. It is a backing fice. at Naw ‘Britain Mail any m of the city 65 Cents a Month. be sent by mail . 60 Cents & a year. ising medium n books and press to advertisers. ‘,Iwn(a on sale at Hota- é‘:‘u St., and Broad- ty; Board Walk, artford depot. tb:uu who ever took nd has been ready orrors of war for- the the, American public. Pities i unknown num- ! ‘these shores. Bar- ry. their Dbest ‘up to the readers of Life has been he after another. the correspondents eing told of the hor- told how the German sy for anything: else, | FACTS ‘AND FANCIES. I. Germany can fight well and change the subject of conversation with great skill.—Buffalo Enquirer. “Seeing America First® is the slo- gan that tipped the bandits of the Yellowstone that Alabama to &€t ready. Local laws may take away the right.to carry concealed weapons but the Constitution gives tourists the right to carry rifles, and they had bet- ter be doing it.—Brooklyn Easle: A prince wha was chosen by his uncle, Maximilian, to be his “heir to | the imperial throne of Mexico,” has just been married in Washinsion | City. He has never claimed his es- tate, nor is there any indication of un | attempt to do so. at present. Wise vrmce‘—Pmsburgn Dispatch. What the party leaders nant v their business is Mr. Root’s “brains. They want his conservation, too, but there are plenty of conservatives in the party. It is ability they are look- ing for, and they will look far befo: they find any better example of it.— Binghampton Press. Instead of adding to her dominions beyond the sea Germany has stripped of all she had. Her armies have been perfect, her military strat- egy has been unsurpassed, but her diplomaey and her statesmanghip re- | garding what was to happen when she | threw down the gage of battle have been mistaken all through.—Water- town Times. i to the business of herland in its fight id_have given up all frivolities that were s of pelce Instead of and dance halls, ese: stories, the Ger- dre not at the front © attention to ° the s, in life and ars ‘getting ready for amusements have _the end of hos- up of the evasive German message of July 9 which in reality brought about the climax to the sityation. It is also irreconcilable with Germany's apology. for the : torpedoing of American steamer Nebraskan. The situation is now. S0 comn 4 ed that a Philadelphia lawxgr be lost in the maze. Ge; often times declared t vessel would be to been fairly wazdid § sengers wezdil deat! 2 be kan unate ac- ust now show “an accident, al- this can be done, varning’ was given and the as attacked by shell fire aft- orpedoes had failed to lay her W, is a . mystery. The Orduna was unarmed and offered no - resistance. Only wonderful seAmanship saved her from a fate similar to that of the Lusitania. When .the President and his offi- cial family meet, as they will tomor- row, this latest episode’ in submarine warfare must be thrashed out. ~ “All the evidence must then be taken into consideration , and % prope‘r‘attltude MSumqsl-w lie to these as- who claim tg 'man people, tch frog ow 0 the ‘home. least the € not less joy- wonderful scene n the sporting el- ity turned out to.see w;nimala match their gruust races ael ‘great stand, fillog<| eXists -between:the ‘military" party of ‘ladies attired in the I Germany and certain commanders of What ‘a gafa “event. '!“bm,flrine boats, the- purpose " being to the west. and thq “to ypset'the peace plans of the Kaiser. Hamburg were the men Count vor' Befnstotft ~'may' know . something of this, and, if it can be proven and’ the Blame for“some of weather. The horses | the past »Qork ot submarines taken off but enthusiasm was | GeTmany's shoulders;s~the ; situation that account ana | Will be materially alter&d. " “In ‘that h ‘as. Haniel's wonder- event Germany ~.’f‘““ assume the pun- na, dashed before ishment ?t @‘hene deeg ea maurau- W‘winner of more | § back. to the - great. ers. 3 N 5 It wil] be interesting to note Grer- “Each week,” says-one pl m bl‘ commercial reporting, Sth Britain had the munitions ~ on hand she would have been ! ble to bring the war to an end by | this time. She has the men. They are being sacrificed by the thousands while the war must continue and the decision remain in doubt because shel was unprepared and has not the munitions. She did not expect thi war. She did not anticipate its de mands. She must, therefore, = pa: thé price in men and dollars. excuse is there for the United States | not profiting by this terrible lesson ! | which Great Britain. is learning at such bitter cost?—Philadelphia | Star. a | ... Rumania’s position is very difficult. She is the immediate neighbor of two i ‘enemies, each insisting that she either | Aake sidesor declare finally that she | won 't; if she elect:to remain neuthl, he ' is likely to have afterward the ! will of both. ~There is a greater | isk ‘of 1055 than hope of gain in what- ever she ‘does. Shc iz probably more dangerous to the Teutonic ‘allies than Iy'fs. "Many experts think so. s“in a’ position to in- ist: that-Wer*neutrality should be weli rewarded by Germany ‘and Austria, | but alas! Germany and“Austria beat- en might be unable to redeem their half of the scrap of paper.—New York | Times. Little is hemd today from those who but a few weeks ago were say- ing“that it was impossible tD build up an American merchant marine while laws-now- or soon to be in operation remained on the statute books. These | men have. been: silenced by the facts | showing that the- inevitable effect of the La Follette seamen’s act will he to make it impossible for ~many | ‘American vessel owners ta do business | under the United States flag. The many’s -explanation of the datest sub- marine attack which almost ended in | @ tragedy. ‘Excuses this time, hoiv- €éver, are somewhat limited as the Orduna carried no death dealing.-in- struments to destroy. the lives of Ger- man soldiers. who decry horse all, there is far less ; the ponies prance efe g in being charge. I the men had. their way they .Mtfls more horsz : _— THE TRUTY IT IS, In describing the great volume of gar puRgud ilLivugh’ the' largest tube of a ‘Springfield pipe organ, an expert gives this idea cf its enormity: ““Were a sparrow sitting on the end of the pige when the first blast of air went through,” he sa; ‘the sparrow Would be blown so high that its body, if 1t aguin fcil 1o earth, would not g2t luck until! “ome time after the Luropzan war tame to end.” ) m;. éfv‘m the United nt Wilson in his red-headed boys of fli"chli of him to Whiy? Because Pres- “delared himself a d.boys. - y back ,to ‘Washing- - President’s train Ws Falls, where executive was the 'boy in .thz Green The President asked er to lift the little lad ‘shake' hands with him. ieaded boys,” said the” «-the youngster af- fiery locks. g we might have a red- At of whizy, we contend, is going ! gorce: $10 Suit May Cost $800,000, (Little Rock (Ark.) Disp. .to Mem- phis Comemreial Appeal.) A suit to test the right of the gov- erner to veto any itéms fm an appro- priation bill after the legislature has adjourned, is on file in the Pulaski i = chancery court here. ' John H. Page nt” eaid the boy when | oommisiioner .of agriculture, has lf.\~ . back on the pla‘- | stitafed an actio to force the State jher had the Presi- |auditor to pay a $10 item for stamps Béllows Falls than ;hougl:hthe go\elrno; cut this item rom e general appropriation bill. ‘one raced bagk to Should Page win" hl:) suit, attor- Lt Mr. Wilson satdl| neys say that every item of the $800,- 11 the red-'| 000 vetoed by the governor would be the country in | lesalized. S Phey are The ground on which the suit is brought’is that the governor, having vlovs. «carrot- | waited until after the assembly ad- tops, | Journed to veto- appropriations, gave members of the legislature no oppor- tunity to pass the appropriation hill over his signature. . Spolled by Pett.lnz. (From the Ilinois Siren.) meat v iotol\—-l’er}ups M tieanis from » | prize lamp and it may have been -yqnad too much, - have they- boys % - 4 ids La Follette law 'is not yet in opera- tion, but it has already begun to turn | over our traffic en the: Pacific-to for- | eign steamship companies.—Rochester | Post-Express. | The most fatal thing at this tSmc: for American interests would be.even | a temporary shiceess of Germany in | her campaign to’ divide American | sentiment and - cenfuse = American ‘opiniéhi Her success in. England was | only tempbrary, but it imperiled Eng- | land’s existence. Her success in Italy | was_ephemeral, but it almost produc- | ed a revolutien. There should be - no temporary success here, The. presi- | dent of the United States, in the dis- charge of his highest duty, the de- | fense of American rights and Amer- | ican lives, deserves the undivided sup port.of a nation. . He deserves it the more because to serve the interests of | a European nation he is being assailed | in America—New York Tribune. The Light That Faied. | (Chicago News.) 'Twas in dear old Bosting, fass. i The shades of night were Zalling fast, for the ladies of Btsting were changing their gowns for dinner. A solitary cyclist, a Dbenigkied stranger from Chicago, was pedaling | ponderously down Beans boulevard | when Ira Dumbpell, Bosting’'s next to | the oldest inhabitant, couarteonsly at- i tracted his attention by’ standing in the middle of the boulevard with out- | stretched arms. | “What’s ‘up?”’ . asked' the solitaxy; cyclist, reining in his steed. | ‘“Why, as to that—the sky. and, in fact, the complete planetary fira- ment,” replied the native politely. “But I arrested your loconiotion to| acquaint you with tht phcenomer.on that your beacon hag ceased its func- tien. “Come again?" “I thank you, sir.. Perha;.s I shall. | But as I animadverted, your illumin- ator is shrouded in unmitizatei ohli- ion. In other words thee ffulgence of | your irradiator has evanesced.” Just as the solitary cyeclist had his i mouth seven-eighths open to call for the man’s keepers a smali Loy from Philadelphia passing velled: “Hey, mister, yer |amp s out!” ‘“It’s 'a wonder you wouldn’t a-told me that,” #aid ‘the solitary cy~list re- proachfully t6 the native ‘as he lighed uy and pedale& over Ira Dumbel's i | | E i | [ 8 | | 1 B { | | | i 1 What | § | trict around -Joplin, | price of zinc has | stationary around five or six to be of Cerman origin. . All Cars Stop Here WEDNESDAY’S AT NOON CLERK’S HALF HOLIDAY been | [ McMILLAN'S New Britain’ Store s Busiest Big ““‘Aiways Reliable Our Anpual July Clearance Sale Extensive Price Reductions in All Departments THREE BIG (Just for Wednesday Morning ) $1.00 Children’s : Dresses, 49c each b to 14 years, made of fine Amos- keag Gingham On Sale Wednesday at 8:30 A. M. FANCY BUREAU SCARFS Colored Cretonne Effects Scalloped and Iace Edges On Sale Wednesday Morning at 8:30 HaliHolidaySpecial 45¢ each ® Genuine Leather SUIT Wednesday Morning CASES AND BAGS $2.98 each Regular Price $3.75 cMILLAN FLOORS OF BARGAINS cMILLAN'S All Cars Stop Here WATCH FOR BIG WEDNESPAY MCRNING SPECIAL SALE Just for Wednesday Morning Men’s Baibriggan Shiris and Drawers, 29¢ each Sizes 32 to 44, value 48¢ On Sale Wednesday at 8:30 A. M. egular 75¢ Values On Sale Wednesday Morning at 8:30 Half HolidaySpecial 10-4 COTTON BLANKETS Regular 75¢ Values Wednesday Morning_ 109 201-203 ~ NEW BRITAIN, CONN. 59c pair ' MAINSTREET, WHAT OTHIRS 3AY tmely Views on all sides of qucstimls £s discussed ‘in ex- ehlngos that come -{o. Henm office. N Zinc Mining and Profits.: (Waterbury Republican). As a result of the rise in the price of zinc, the American zinc mining dis-, Mo., is enjoyinz tremendous prosperity. It is largely a poor man’s mining camp. There are hundreds of individual operafors making money. A recent article in a trade paper states that: There are men hoisting the ore with a horse, breaking the rock with a sledge hammer, and washing ‘it out by hand, who making $250 a week. There are more | small, closed corporations conducting | mines in and around Joplin than in any other mining camp in the world. Mines having an investment of $25,- 000 to $75,000 which were formerly making a few hundred dollars a week. These statements, however, are ex- tracted from a mine promoters cir- | cular.- “Nevertheless, ers must be reaping a harvest. been the zinc mine own- The cents a pound for twenty-five years and the Joplin district, prospered. The city {rof Joplin grew to a large population {and its only reason for existence 1 the zinc industry. The world’s prin- | cipal scources of supply are the mines of Silesia and Belgium, both in the war zone and in the hands of the Germans. As a result, the price of zine is around thirty cents a pound. duced around 380,000 tons a month, and" has consumed practically all at home, Now the demand for zinc abréad is causing the United States to, export 18,000 a month, and new properties are being opened up’ and old ones rejuvenated to supply the gap ‘-between supply and demand. Zinc {8 a necessary ingredient of all brass and bronze, and in addition, the gal- vanized products trades of the coun- try consume 200,000 tons per annum which is more than half of the en- tire American production. “Made in Germany” No More. (South Norwalk Sentinel.) The most famous trademark in the world ig doomed, according to the as- sertions of American importers. They say the German manufacturing firms | arg very generally abandoning the “Made in Germany” label that has for decades been used on all German pro- cucts, and that this action is taken with the secret encouragement of the German government, The immediate cause is the difficul- ty of selling- goods in hostile markets, or even getting thew safely through to neutral markets, if they are known In order to are | practically | /The United States has hithertc pro- | {-there ‘rather thah in Germany. | | keep (HEM, Fidlgriesat Wwoty And nola some of theif foreign trade it 18 said that ‘manufacturers are sending their .products first to Hoelland, Switzerland and Scandinavian countries, and then .bhaving them re-shipped” with trade- .marks represendting thém as madé Some German firms are éven said to have bought fdactdries 1n ‘the _adja.cent neu- tral couftries ‘so’ tiat” they -may ship {-their "&bbds ‘thefe 'in 4n ‘incomplete state, putting ‘the fisiichirig touches on them in the neutra’ factories, and ex- porting . ithem as ‘Made in Switzer- land,” ‘“Made in Holland,” etc._ The real signi®cance of, this_expe- dient, say the importers supposed to be in tiie secret, is that the Germans apparen‘ly intend to continue it whon the war is over. They know that Ger- many hag literally to compete with “‘a worid’ of enem business even more than in war nat not only in al the hostiic conntries and their dep=ni- cnetes throughcut the world, but evea in many neutral countries hemispheres, there wll be such strong senurtent against Cermany that ‘ie German label will handicap goods rather than help their Sale. If all this ig true, if Germany after | | the war will have to take up the stu- lost of pendous task of regaining her world-trade anonymously instead with her customary boldness and di- | rectness, it is the most striking indi- cation yet given of the grievous price that Germany industry and commerce | will ‘have to pay for German militar- | ism. The More Dangerous Anarchy, (Bridgeport Farmer.) The lives of men, their health and their happiness would be more secure, | if their fears and thelr precautions | were ordered in accordance with pro- babilities. A person who would never bet even money on a horse booked a hundred to one, will tremble, in the presence ! of a thunderbolt, but associate freely with those afflicted with tuberculosis, though the probability that a man will die by lightning is about one in 360,000, while the chance he may die by tuberculosis is about one in seven: The eye is more vigorous than the imagination, so that the tendency among men is to be too much afraid of dangers that are dramatic and ob- vious, and not enough afraid of dan- gers that are, in physical measure, tiny and obscure. The newspaper comment briefly and with amusement upor the bad cus- tard pies which killed one person and made many sick in Westerly R. I., and deal in many colpymns and thund- erously with the maniac, Holt, and his bombs, which injured one -man and slew none. Unless there is an early and re- markably improvement n the hom- jcfdal efficiency of fanatical dabblers | 8f " bota | eoimd B TR of Westerly @um.h- now knew ‘that the anarchy which Poisons food for profit is more to be féafed than the anarchy of shattered intéllects, who would bring the wérld to virtue,” by blowing it into fragments, ' Uniform Divorce Laws.' | (Newark News.) { - The Illinois Legislature has pas- srd and Governor Dunne has signed a bill which seems to be a step in the direction of more uniform diverces. The new law provides that persons rzsident in enother State and applying for license to marry in Illinois must | be eligible for license and marriage in the State in. which they have their legal residence. . This law is . much rnore comprchensive than may appear at first glance. It recognized the right oL other States to fix their own mar- rioge rules and regulations, and up- helds instead of violating them. It goes cven further. If the courta of New Vork or New Jersey, for example, grant a divorce to a wife, forbidding the guilty husband to marry again, he cannot go'to Illinois and get a li- cense to wed, because he is not eligible ‘n the State i% which he was divorced, There’s a suggestoin of State’s rights in this, bu* there is alsv a large de- gree of justice. It is the custom, in these days, for divorced men or women to flout the orders of the court against remarrying by simply crossing the | dividing line between the States and contracting new marriages as If a court order had never been issued. Tllinois ha smade such acts illegal. Prohibition’s Latest, (Brooklyn Eagle.) The intimation from Washington that the next decennial revisien of the United States pharacopoein, hy a vote of a committee now consider- ing tht subject, will eiide bhoth whis- key and brandy as drugs. will delight humorists in the medical wqrld. The vote is said to have been 26 to 24 for «a'change running athwart of all the practice of the civilized world. The pharmacopoeia is fixed by a conven- tion finally, this convention to which the committee will report has tharee representatives each from the iacor- porated medical colleges, the col- leges of pharmacy, the unincorpor- ated pharmaceutical societies, the American medical association and the American pharmaceutical asspciation with three delegates named by the surgeon-general of the army, three “by the surgeon-general «f the navy, and three by the surgeon-general of the marine corps. It may or mav not ratify the joke of the committee 'of “scientists.” Whatever may be said of alcohol as a beverage alcohol as a medicine is pretty nearly univepsally recognized as . in dynamite, the bad custard pie is the more serious source of danger, end ought to receive a corresponding amount of attention. Those ptomaine shattered- citizens needful. Brandy in small amounts is better than digitalis for hedrt weak- sess. For aged men and women it is a common prescription. - To' throw spirits out of uuvn-rnmlp“ of the United States will not affect toe practice ot the physicians of world. g ¥ This seems to be a fiel! where in. terference by political or demagogic forces rhould be deprecated. Prohi- bition ‘by phnrmlmofl‘ is at once visionary and pernieious, On_ that proposition we venture to say nime- tenths of the.doctors, will agree, Identify Militia’s Enemies. (New London Telegraph.) There is a movement on foot to se~ cure the enrollment of all those ems. ployers of labor to considerable extent who are willing to be known as fa= vorable to the enlistment and service of their employes in tte National guard. Tt is to be hoped that the en- roliment may be carried on in such a way as to make those employers who do not agree with its purposes as cos- spicuous as possible. Because of the opposition of some trades unions and far more because the discouragement by employers ¢ labor the National guard of the coun- try is, with some notable exceptions in a rather poor .state. TIts total strength i& merely & fraction of what it should be, and the character of its personnel, considering it i a poten- tial fighting machine, is much below what it should be, rendered so by the paucity of volunteers and the conse- quent impracticability of picking and choosing fit material from among those who offer themselves. Recently there has been a marked change in the attitude of some of the more discerning employers toward the matter of military service., One great Rhode Island corporation recently am. nounced that employes would not only be permitted to leave their work fop the required annual training out would be paid in full and the thme would not be taken out of regular va- cations. Another great industrial cor- poration, in New York state, evem pays its men doubly for the time of their military service in camp. The Merchants’ assotiation of New York city not long ago formally declared in favor of full time payments to e ,ployes engaged in military service. 8o there is a growing tendency in the right dirtction. But it is inevita- bye that there will be many concerns + too seifish and too blind to the neocs- sities of the situation to fall in wiih this spirit of patriotic progress. They should be 3flennfluble. Making due allowance'for the hors ror of the Lusitania massacre, which for a season centered attention upom - Germany, we believe that in the ab. sence of further depredations upom American lives and commerce by marines we should’ maintain our pe. sition as boldly against Great Britajm as Germany. dt!‘“u Lear. ing and fighting each other; th essentlially in aecord in deny the use of the seas.——New York | £ K|