New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 8

New Britain Matter. Weoelt. 65 Cents a Month. DAPEr to be sent by mail 60 Cents & 0 a year. b deertlling medium in lAtion books and press én’tq advertisers. be found on sale at Hota- ¢42nd St, and Broad- o \City; Board Walk, and Hartford depot. ity AFTERMATH. It's Plattsburg speech, fpectéd, has stirred up Frirst,)@eneral Leonard Wood, e U; States Army, has r ga:‘:a severe rebuke by War Garrison for allow- diary remarks delivered camp. Secondly, Colonel Jesenting the attitude arrison has gone fur- ¢ising the Administration position in the Mexican ‘,\- the German crisis. Nat- (effect of all this will be an vhere before all was peace fony.-In.the. end, it will be that t el could well h\';} &‘;ms unsaid at _or, if he wanted to give How the country should be d_have journeyed to Wash- I'boured his plaint into the President. ' many things the Colonel ttsburg which are true, or ar the semblance of truth: that. . But at best it was Jll propriety for him to take B of a camp.where business | learning the duties of sol- id discuss national prob- d he given a short talk on trategy, or camp sanitation, nduct of an officer in battle, ! have been fulfilling a pission; and there are few the Colonel knows at least E military ldfe. But when he the paramount questions of " questions with which the Plattsburg are fully conver- . Colonel accomplished no il and his remarkswere en- of order. The place for Brances is the Chautauqua jiindeed they would be tol- h that platform. Were it not o ‘a presidential campaizgn Roosevelt probably would fve uttered a word that went lips last Tuesday night. . He | |8 forward to 1916 with great especially as the bottom has it of the Progressive party. the blican convention must be othing more nor less than material. He is trying to you please, public opinion, this can be done. If he 8' has a goodly portion of our behind him, especially when says and does before imself up against the pres-, stration, he will endeavor ‘himself into the battle Woodrow Wilson, ry easy for Mr. Roosevelt & platform and proclaim to d. that. President Wilson is But when all is said and 3'Atferican people as a whole /gfiés to judge the policy of son ;administration and if nk the President has been éatse he has not plunged 0 a war with some foreign y.will quickly register their it/ the next clection, or even f:er all, it is not the Pres- t. Congress that must var on a country, and then tafter the breaking point is ‘Bven if. Roosevelt were in Ite House today it is doubtful puld have pursued a different fhafi' Wilson in the present sit- “N¢' matter how much a man ed with the fighting spirit he sitate when he views the ter- amity which has ted the Contintental Europe. These days when patience and are better ed passion and fury. A gold- bdiwm between peace-at-any d militarism is what is want- e American people today and Wilson is about the near- re- attributes than jpoach to this the country has "some gererations. FRIENDLINESS, h s of a fortnight the gol%;i_:\uunshine of today er all but & short step and the an people feel a sense of re- the lifting of the clouds. 'Von Bernstorff, the German Fador, when he visited the fépattment {thaay ana laia be- cretary Lansing government would give full pn to the United States for ig Of the White Star Liner carffed with him the future happiness of the American people. If the German government does as its ambassador says it will and makes a complete "disavowal of the action of the submarine commander who sent the Arabic to the bottom, the impend- ing crisis will be lifted and there will be no more cause for fear of a break with Germany. The mere fact that Germany wants to keep on good terms with the Unitea States the all sufficient reason why Germany will see to it that no future tragedies are perpetrated. Germany does not want a war with assurances | the United States any more than the United States wants a war with Ger- many. Because Germany realizes that this country, even with the cry of its unpreparedness, could do Germany more damage than any country with which she is now fighting. Experts have already laid before the German Emperor what he might expect if he were drawn into a conflict with this country. In special reports which were sent to him and which have been made public in this country, the Kaiser is shown that already German commerce has been so crippled that it may never regain its prestige in this part of the world; that American industry, deprived of the commercial relations long enjoyed with Germany, has now set about to supplant the German trade altogether. If we put a complete embargo on everything destined for Germany and back her enemies with, our great finances it would not be long before Germany would be forced to surrender and thus ignominiously lose a war which she 'has been confident of gloriously winning.' Such things are viewed with concern in Berlin and the German statesmen have at last awakened to the realization that President Wilson was not bluffing when he said he would hold Germany to “strict accountabil- ity”. Those words are somewhat stronger than they look at first sight. Germany seems to have takert well account of them, however, judging from the position taken by the Berlin government the past two days and voiced by Ambassador Von Bernstorff. This is one time German diplomacy has not blundered. It is a wise move on the part of the Kaiser's advisors to advocate an advance of friendliness towards Uncle Sam. Every man, wo- man, and child in America will re- joice on the day when the burial ser- vices of the hatchet are announced. oL S R S SAYS THE EX-GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Cole Blease's the old in the It must have done heart good to have stood in State House at Boston, heart of the north, and delivered panegyric yesterday on ' lynching, which all members of this community and vicinity have identified as a ‘truly southern pastime. And while he was vindicating the spirit of the mob and stating the why and where- fore of lynching, the former gover- nor of South Carolina incidentally took a delightful rap at a custom which is prevalent in the north, the ecast and the west,— very he claims but not so much in the south,—namely applying the so-called third degre to prisoners. And what the forme and famous direction is rather timely governor says in th He stren- uously objects to the manner in which men are treated who have been taken into custody and charged with crime The so-called ‘“sweating"” Where prisoners, before treatment. trial, are plied with questions by unscrupulous officials and in many instances almost put to death, or made to acknowledge crimes which they never committed, is a too common occurrence in our It is bar- barity, as the ex-governor has pointcd out, and some steps should be taken against the third degree, just as now the whole country is aroused against Iynching. But it will be casier to cur- tail the crimes committed with the sanction of law than it will be to put a stop to mob violence. police stations and jails. MAKING 'EM FIGHT. Miss Jane Addams, contending that | soldiers on European battleflelds are | not “brutish and beastly” enough to fight unless “doped” with drugs strong liquors, must have inspired thg following lines:: A soldier of the Legion lay a-dying in Algiers, ‘When a waiter stepped beside him with a platter full of beers; He revived just long enough, ’tis said, to swallow eight or nine, And he lit right out for Bingen, dear Bingen on the Rhine. or Mayor Mitchel of New York, after three weeks in the army at Platisburg, has been given the stripes of a sergeant. This is a quick from high private inthe rear rank; but a shorter way. to a title would be John Purroy tor knock the “y” out of Mayor and in its place insert a “3’, 2 “rookie" rise for FACTS AND FANCIES. At the first hint of the buckwheat season the same old cry is heard of “Batter up!”—Washington Post. Vice president Marshal gravely de- clares the real trouble in Mexico lies in the fact. that the country has 1o vice president, Ha!—Worcester Post. Absinthe sellers are. being fined in Paris. Plenty of it being sold in this state, although most of it now mas- querades under another name.—Mer- iden Journal. Lack of fresh air caused a brief la- bor strike in this city; there is mno lack of hot air once a strike com- mences.—Springfield News. Peace must certainly surpass un- derstanding in the minds of a large portion of the Mexican people.— Rochester Union. Henry James, the nnvelist,_is _said to have renounced his Americanism. But did he ever have any to re- nounce >—Buffalo Enquirer. The Kaiser gives honorable men- tion to the other partner of his well- known firm in his despatch on the fall of Novo Georgievsk.—Philadel- phia Ledger. The decision to stop the further ex- portation of Limburger chcese is cer- tainly one act of Germany in this war that will not generally be regarded as deplorable.—Providence Journal. That rescued passengers on the Arabic who also escaped when the Lusitania went down cannot afford to neglect his protection in anticipation of a third disaster—Norwich Bulletin, Safety first applies to everything nowadays except the children of the streets and they are subject to dan- gers the same as ever. In large cen- ters the killing of innocent children is hardly noticed.—Middletown Press. The net results of a year's strife are: Men killed, 3,000,000. Property destroyed, $10,000,000,000. Changes effected the “v” changed to “b” in “Serbia” and ‘‘Petrograd” substituted for “St. Petershurg.”-—Norwich Rec- ord. Potential volunteer army officers who accidentally smecared themselves up with poison ivy at the Plattsburg camp now know that if General Sher- man really said it he had reason.— Rochester Post-Express. A few of the progressive party still refuse to swim ashore. But history is j & result of the sinking of the | city repeating itself and the organization is following in the footsteps of the Liberal republican party of forty Years ago.—New York Herald. If American lives have been lost as Arabic by a German torpedo, what would you have the president of the United States do? Count twice ten before you answer, and picture the president asking you yourself to do it—Bur- lington Free Press. Bridgeport has the strike fover bad. No sooner is one strike ended than an- other is started. The latest is the strike of 182 girls employed at two laundries. ’'Spect the housewives will strike next, for shorter hours. They deserve shorter hours of work as much as any.—Seymour Record. Justice Hughes now says, according to former Gov. Stokes of New Jersey that &ven if he is nominated for pres- ident he won’t accept. The justiec is aman of his word and his little ‘“no” ‘has been repeated pretty often. Dobutless he will have to say it a few times more before winter.— Springfield Republican. The Berlin Socialist organ, Vor- waerts, is not only allowed to circu- late peace talk and extend it beyond Germany. It is allowed to draw and export a gloomy picture of industrial conditions in the German capital, where the situation hitherto has al- ways heen ‘perfectly normal.’” Evi- dently something besides Klutur is now yeasting in the Fatherland.— New York World. COMMUNICATED. To the Editor.of the Herald: Sir:— Of recent years jt has been the fash- ion for certain people to scoff at “‘per- sonal liberty” in connection with the movement to prohibit the manufac- ture and sale of liquor, but I wonder if these same scoficrs will approve of the peculiarly offensive form of at- tack on personal liberty to buy and use liquor that is described in the following press item from Mason City, in the “dry” state of Tow “The seizure of 119 barrels of beer at a local freight house caused the authorities today to decide on the appointment of an official to be known as ‘liquor censor.’ Tt is to be the duty of the censor to determine what citizens have temperance records sufficiently good to entitle them to re- ceive liquor shipments from wet ter- ritory.” This item may or may not be true. But its truth is not essential, because the main point is that just such wretched meddling with other people’s business is the logical outcome of the prohibition propaganda. The ideal temperance law from the “dry” standpoint would be to give to a prohibitionist the power to sit in judgement on the fitness of his neigh- bors to select the aricles of their diet. But why stop with a censorship on diet? Why not pass officially on the moral fitness of each of the women of the community to adopt certain styles of dress? Why not have an official censorship | on each man’s fitness to handle money, | or to take himself a wife, or to have more than one child? It would seem that our civil liber- ty is in greater danger from ‘re- form” than it is from any other source for it is only in the name of goodness that our freedom is being curtailed. The leading prohibition organiza- McMILLAN’S| NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ADWAYS RELIABLE” FINAL CLEARANCE OF | WOMEN’S SUMMER DRESSES Saturday at $1.98 each, values up to $4.98. Colored Silk Petticoats Saturday at $1.79 each, values up to $2.98, Children’s Gingham Dresses at 76c and 98c each, sixes 6 to Yyears. New plaids and checks. Autumn Models in Silk Blouses The new plaid Silk Waists at $4.49 each. 14 Crepe de Chine Blouses at $1.98, | $2.98 and $3.98 each. Vestees and Guimpes of dainty laces and nets, at 49c¢ and 98c each. Long sleeve Guimpes in white, black, and Cream at 98¢ each- Boot Silk Hose Early Fall Shades at 25¢ and 50c pair. Men’s “Onyx” Silk Sox at c pair will outwear other makes at ‘twice the price. $1.00 “Lion Brand” Shirts Saturday at 79c each. Coat shirts with soft or laundered cuffs a final clearance to make room for fall goods 1 Ivory Dressing Combs 50c values at 39c each. 25c¢ values at 19c¢ each. 10c Barrettes at 5c each. Braid clasps 2 for 5c. Wide Brocaded Ribbons Saturday 29c yard, value 39¢, white, pink, light blue, for hair bow and sashes. 109-201-203 . McMILLAN MAIN T tion calls itsclf the ‘“‘church in action” and, as such, is attempting to assume control of the political and moral af- fairs of the people, and if the so- called *‘church in action” succeds in getting control, then the Liberty bell might as well be thrown into the melt- ing pot and be rccast in the form of a church surmounted by a cannon, or, more properly perhaps, the image of the thumbscrew used for the con- version of heretics. Very Truly Yours, T. M. GILMORE. 1915. Aug. 24, A United States Language. (Springficld Reepublican.) A correspondent of the New Yorkl Sun makes the suggestion that a dic- tionary of United States English should be compiled on the lines of the great Oxford dictionary, of which the late Dr. Murray was editor. In hold- ing to English standards of good use ! sleeveless, | we have been too much influenced, and | itis time that we had an American dictionary, in which all effects of the interfusion of races in this country un the meanings of words should be taken into account. The suggestion probably will not be taken seriously. standard dictionaries, including the crne edited originally by Noah Web- sier, which have becn careful to use as a model the speech of educated persons rather than the specch those who knew Bnglish imperfectly or were indiffcrent to ndards of correctnes onc desire to see, any language confused by admitting into dictionaries the meanings which words are forced to bear by are groping for accuracy in the use of a foreign tonguc? If any nev meaning of a word is legitimatee it i sure to be recognized in Ne one pretends that a language fixed. But a great dictionary Murray’s, which is an compendium of all the meanings of cur rich store of words up to a cer- tain date, must ineviiably exert a conservative influence. is 1i America has had | of | those who | due time. | = authoritative | An English writer, indulging some- | what in humorous exaggeration, goes | £o far as to say that “it will hold its place among the great conservative | forces of the future.” “It wiil be the ' who the despair,” he writes, “of those would ‘simplify spelling’ and terror of translantic empires, would debase the currency of speech. England nently weakened after the war if the our who | would be perma- | | of certain editorial matter burden of defending the country fell | so largely upon the shoulders of the | better classes. In all these arguments | ing of its position, that “it only goe tnere is a grain of truth, thcugh there | is exaggeration in the statement facts and possibilities. The question iz difficult to decide from both the moral and the practical point of view, but there can be no doubt of the pre- ponderance of American opinion being on the side of the voluntar stem. If our own advocates of national ser- vice encounter little opposition these days, it probably because so few be- lieve that there is any likelihood of the establishment of compulsory mili- tary service in this country, of | | l First Showing in Hartford of New Fall Suits, Coats and Dresses Extremely Special Offers for Saturday--Wise, Smith & Co. NEW TAILORED SUITS FOR FALL coat has notch vestee, Skirt has of all wool poplin, collar and reveres, with good satin lining. three pleats on each side with f in front, at our spe- cial price of white of all wool men's-wear serge, trimmed with fancy Skirt is cut full flare style with £ in front and back, at our special price of with pleated back and fancy with side black, Skirt is made comes in green, brown, at our special price of navy TAFFETA in a coatee NEW FALL DRESSES, style, bottom of coat is made with pointed scallops as 1s also the tunic of skirt. Coat 1s trimmed with white collar and cuffs, at our special price $10 00 . of coceene made Many extra special offerings for of which the following Saturday, are good examples: $28.75 Genuine Spanish Leather Lounging Chalrs at $19.99. $10.00 White Cotton Felt Mat- tresses at $7.99. $21.75 Brass.Beds, continuous 2- inch post design,.at $14.99. $19.75 Quartered Golden Buffets at $14.99. $16.00 Quartered Golden Pedestal Base Dining Table $11.99. $2.75 Golden Oak Box Frame Dining Chairs, leather slip seat, at $1.99. $15.00 Chairs, $9.99. Fumed Oak with leather cushion, $15.98 NEW TAILORED SUITS FOR FALL coat has two half belts on sides and ornament. $18.98 NEW TAILORED SUITS FOR FALL of all wool gaberdine, coat is made self ornament and self tabs on each side. pleats, and $20.00 Oak Oak at Mission at NEW grey mixed homespun belted pockets, price of .. all our around, special old NEW FALL old with pleats at side pockets, at our spe- cial price of wool Donegal mixed wide folds in front an convertible collar an around and button our special price POPLIN in coatee effect with pointed scallops, silk collar with two rows of fancy stitching. Skirt is made with full flare with | a flounce bottom headed with | self cord, s peart button | trimmed, at our spe- $7.98 cil price of FALL MACHINE COATS of materials, 45 inches long, high shawl collar and also patch $8.98 TRAVELLING COATS of all wool mixed grey tweed with convertable collar, belted all around and patch $10.00 NEW FALL MACHINE COATS of all tweed with d back, large d belted all trimmed, at $13.98 SILK [ NEW FALL DRESSES OF SILK | NEW FALL DRESSES MADE OF COMBINATION SERGE AND TAFFETA SILK, walst is made with a yoke effect, skirt with a full flare with fold in front, has wide lace trimmed silk collar, trimmed with buttons, at our l special price At Our Great August Furniture Sale ONLY 3 DAYS MORE OF FURNISHING EVENT—SATURDAY, MONDAY THIS MOST IMPORTANT HOME- and TUESDAY. This, the most successful August Furniture Sale in the store’'s his- tory, positively comes to an end tomorrow. MAKE YOUR SEL 31. Come WILL DE- Tuesday night, August BECTIONS NOW—WE LIVER LATER ON IF YOU WISH—BUT—YOU MUST BUY NOW IN ORDER TO PROFIT BY THE TRULY GENEROUS SAVINGS WHICH THE AUGUST SALE.PRICES REPRESENT — REMEM- BER OUR WHOLE ENTIRE MAMMOTH FURNITURE STOCK I8 MARKED AT AUGUST SALE REDUCED PRICES. $12.76 Steel Bed Couches, with Mattress and Bolster, at $9.69. $29.76 Solild Mahogany 4-Poster Beds at $19.99. $22.50 Fireside Colonial Wing Chairs or Rockers, upholstered in denim, at $14.99. $23.76 Mahogany Dressers $18.99. $42.50 Three-Piece Parlor Suites at $32.99. $9.76 Mahogany Sewing Tables at $7.69. $69.00 Three-Piece Leather Liv- ing Room BSuitey at $44.99. $29.76 Tapestry Arm Chairs at $22.60. $10.95 Fumed Oak Tables at $7.99. at Library First in the Field With Men’s and Youth’s New Fall Suits at lar Price. on Sale Saturday at Much Below Regu- Suits Worth $20 to $25, . $15.75 It seems unusual-to offer such value as this right at the very beginning of ‘the Fall season, but one ©f the best manufacturers whom we buy largely from~agreed to let us have his sample line and advence models at about~cost offer. and conservative, there are only the sizes run from 36 to 46. splendid suits at $15.75. NEW STYLES, NAW FABRICS, NEW PATTERNS, stripes, checks and plaids, 2 an d 8<button models. to make hence this remarkable Pretty Extreme, medium seventy-cight suits in the lot, but ome Baturday if you want one of the —WISE, SMITH & CO. $18.76 Quartered Golden China Closets at $13.69. $4.00 National Link Bed Springs at $2.79. $23.75 Mahogany Top Living Room Tables at $16.99. $15.00 Solid Mahogany ‘Gate Leg Tables at $10.99. $10.00 Mahogany' Tea Tables at $6.99. $15.00 Women’s:Dressing Tables at $9.99. Complete Dining+Room Suites of ten pieces, Dining Table, Serving Table, Buffet, China Closet and Six Chairs, handsome period design, worth $185. Only 3.days more can you buy this Suite for $144.00. Other Dining Room Suites at pro- portionately savings if you buy NOW. Oak Before School Opening Sale of Suits Parents Can Buy Now and Save Money BOYS’ SUITS, VALUES UP TO $3, SATURDAY. ONE AND TWO PANTS - $1.98 ALL NEW FALL STYLES and Pat- | terns, knickerbocker pants, terns and plenty of them. This Sale price: in excess of cost of materials alone. | gray and:brown mixtures. All sizes, 6 to 17. Norfoik coats and full cut neat dark pat- |su ian s on many of these suits is slightly BOYS’ pockets and stitched on ALL WOOL TWO PANTS SUITS, POSITIVELY WORTHS 4, SATURDAY$2.99 New:'model Norfolk coats with patch belt, each it has two pairs of pants, cut nice d full and lined throughout, the | materials are strictly all wool, neat All sizes, 16 to 17. TURDAY LAST DAY OF THE BOYS' WASH 'SUIT SALE THAT SO some colors and patterns, all fast color. | WISE, OUR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIV- ERY ‘Chone orders Charter 3050. and Mail Orders promptly filled. MANY HARTFORD PARENTS ARE TAKING $1.00 AND $1.50 WASH SUITS AT OF. . 49¢ The styles are just what you'll find in the:highest priced Suits, Hand- SMITH & HARTFORD INSURES PROMPT Sizes. 2 to 10 years. CO. Qur Restaurant, an ideal place forw light lunch, up of N P B B LY pals DELIV ERY OF"XOUR PURCHASES Daily Delivery in New Britain, Elm wood, Newington, Cedar Hill, MapleHill and Clayton, m ‘The Proper Answer. (Bridgeport Standard.) Somebody who did not like the tone in the Norwich Bulletin wrote to that pape signing his article “A Reader,” say to show how much like other new papers the Bulletin has taken a stand | to believe ev thing which is bad | about Germany but to accept noth- | ing good.” To this the Bullefin s reply that answers all such iticism for all other critics who are eternally getting off that claim of oncsidedness against everybody who does not agree with them It sa “The Bulletin does not paper in the United States character here described. We know a of the have | cerning | false, free speech, here in America an uncensored press | or many of the German papers could i not say what they are saying about President Wilson; uncensored letters, 0 Germany can be told things con- our government, true of the sympathi- zers .with the warring nations can say what they please of this country or about one another, and the liberly ‘A Reader’ exercises in criticising the press is American liberty, not Ger- i manic.” What the Bulletin says is true and the critics who take advantage of American liberty to abuse it and to defame its agents and upholders may B0 one step too far if they are not careful, in their general and untruth- ful denunciations: They are tolerat- ed now because everything is al- lowed that is not ous, but when it ines needful to tighten the rules ..... draw the lines as it certainly may be needful in c. tain contingencies, it is going to hard for the carping crowd adage says lutely murder- be An ofd “Beware the fury of a patient man’” and it can be as truly made to read: “Beware the awaken. ed indignation of a patient people,” for, once aroused they will visit upgn their abusers a prompt and effectunl squelching. Economical Fighting, (From the Baltimore Star,) Four years’ war in Mexico h that country a little over $384,000 . 000. This would Tun the main show in Europe about fiteen minutes, as copt