New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 9, 1915, Page 3

A OUTING FLANNELS Thousands of yards to choose from in our new Fall stock. New stripes checks and fancy weaves: in smooth, heavy fleece strong woven flannel. Buy now and get your choice of the ! best flannel ever sold for the price, 10c yard. SWEATERS for Misses and Chil- dren, all wool, in a lot of new color- ings and weaves, also in plain white in plain and Norfolk effects. THREE-PIECE Angora and plain knit Suits in white, tan, gray and brown, sizes 2 to 6 years, all pure wool, $2.50 to $3.50 set. CRETONNES are as popular as ever for dresses, skirts, waists and hats, new goods arriving nearly every day. Priced from 121;c to 42c yard. Agents for McCALL PATTERNS The latest and up-to-date styles can be found in McCall's, easy to put together, all seams allowed, 10c and 15c each. i MecCall Magazine for October, 5c. McCall Fall Fashion Book with 15c Coupon for any pattern you may se- lect, 20c copy. AT . PULLAR & NIVEN STATE of GONNEGTICUT Treasury Department TAXES ON INVESTMENTS Owners of securities such as notes, bonds and other choses in action in- . cluding deposits in bank, (not a Sav- A ings bank) are liable to taxation pither to the State or locally. The state rate is four mills on the dollar and must be paid BEFORE OCTOBER 1st: Enquire of your bank- er or write to STATE TREASURER. HARTFORD, CONN. A HEAVY PENALTY is fixed for avoiding this tax by a law passed by the last General as- be sembly: A copy of the law will mailed to anyone writing for it. F. 8. CHAMBERLAIN, Treasurer. Smoleers of c&%fls&z{g years ago ~are smokers of TorxkisH TropHies Cigarettes today \//mdwmuwmfi; L3 Mebersofthe Highest Grode Tirish M@%%fluhhw RUSH STEEL MILLS Steel Industry Forced to Make New Production Records New York, Sept. 9.—The Iron age will say tomorrow: A significant turn in the steel trade is the beginning of rail orders for spring rolling. The Louisville & Nashville has bought 43,000 tons from the Steel corporation and the Atlantic Coast line 20,000 tons for such delivery. The New York Cen- tral lines are taking up their next vear's requirements, and an Eastern road is figuring on rollings before winter for rails it will lay in the spring. At last the railroads are impressed with the extent to which rail mill space is being taken up with war orders for large rounds: Western lines are seeking to contract at Chi- cago for track supplies for 1916, but thus far the mills have not quoted for that delivery. About 3,000 cars are now up for bids, and inquiries for- 4,000 more are expected. New Production Record. The steel industry is making new production records. In August tha Steel corporation produced more In- gots than in any other month; like- wise the independent companies as a whole. The corporation’s ship- ments of finished steel last month were close to 42,000 tons a day. Its statement of unfilled orders is ex- pected to show an increage for Au- gust, but only a moderate one in view of the large amount worked off in the month. Pig iron production is mounting rapidly. In Ausust it was 2,779,647 tons, or 89,666 tons a day, against 2,- 563,420 tons in July or 82691 tons a day- The steel works furnaces in- creased 5,000 tons, and the merchant furnaces 2,000 tons a day. Steel companies produced 2,101,818 tons of pig iron last month, breaking all records. May, 1918, 1,991,192 tons, is the nearest month. 33 Million Tons a Year, On Sept. 1, the capacity of the 249 furnaces in blast was 91,076 tons a day, a rate onlv exceeded in Febru- ary and April, 1913. On Aug. 1 the 234 furnaces in blast were making 86,776 tons a day. Furnaces are still wheeling into line, the Steel corpor- action blowing in one at Pittsburg and one at Farrell, Pa., this week. Pig iron production is now at the rate of 33,500,000 tons a year. It wa3s 18,000,000 tons a year on Jan. 1. Just as comment is renewed on tho acute situation that seems to be ahead in ferromangancse, domestic produc- tion has risen rharply, the ferro and spiegel total being 27,463 tons in August, against an average of 15,000 tons for the previous months of the year and 28,310 tons in the record month of July, 1913, Ore supply, however, is a continuing problem. The Carnegie Steel company is now pay- ing 46c a unit, as against 41c, recent- ly paid for Brazilian ore and 26c as its last official quotation. Prices of Pig Iron. The ndvance in pig iron continues. Bessemer iron has sold at $16 at Val- ley furnace, and in basic iron while $14.50 was done on a 3,000-ton lot last week, $14.75 and $15 are now auoted. Consumers of foundry iron are watching closely the increase in pro- duction of merchant iron; but with it there was a reduction in stocks in August, amounting in Alabama to 40,000 tons. At Buffalo the sale of 650,000 tons of basic iron to be de- livered as hot metal has reduced the capacity available for foundry iron and the price of the latter has gone to §16 for fourth quarter and first quarter delivery. Most buyers have seen the succes- sive advances in foundry iron with- out covering for 1916, yet with each week some sales of Northern iron are made for that delivery at ad- vances over this year's prices. South- ern makers have booked relatively little for next year, and in the Central West a good many foundries hava enough iron hought to carry over into next year. PIRATE LEADER CLARKE RESIGNS | Pirate Manager to Devote Time to Business Interests in Kansas, Pittsburg, Sept. 9.—Fred Clarke, for sixteen years manager of the Pitts- burg Pirates, will sever his connec- tion with baseball at the end of the season. His resignation was handed to President Barney Dreyfuss yester- day and the latter accepted it. Clarke sald that the main reason of his quit- ting was the fact that his intereats in Kansas demanded his undivided at- tention, Clarke wanted to win another pen- nant before leaving Pittsburg, but has come to the concluston that it can't be done without a complete reorgani- zation of men and methods, which would take too long for him to re- main away from his business, He camo hero in 1900 when the Loulsville and Pittaburg clubs were combined by Mr, Dreyfuss, who owned the Ken- tucky club and bought a controlling interest In the Pittsburg olub that year, In 1001, 1002 and 1908 Clarke won the Natlonal league pennant and again in 1909, in which year he won the world's championship, For the greater part of his stay here Clarke played in the outfield, He will remain until the close of the present season. Good Furniture Is Not Necessarily Expensive Shown in our fall disp]. ay of Furniture, are a number of Bed Room Suites, splendidly constructed yet exceptionally moderate in price. We illustrate herewith an Adam Suite produced by Berkey & Gay of Grand Rapids. Though showing the design, this picture cannot show the soft glowing tones of the An- tique Mahogany, nor the careful painstaking cabinet work for which Berkey & Gay are famous. Made of selected Mahogany, dust-proof construc- tion throughout. The Dre sser has top 45x22 and French Plate Mirror 34x28 priced at $49.00. The Chiffonier top measures 36x22 and has exceptional drawer room. Priced $35.00. The Bed of this suite is made in both double and single sizes. The price is $46.00. SEE THIS SUITE IN OUR SOUTH WINDOW. B. C. Porter Sons BIG BUSINESS REFORMS FAIL; CAUSE HALT IN PROGRESS » Former President Taft Addresses Bankers—Hits Recall of Judges, and Direct Primaries — Conventions Are Not U nreliable. Seattle, Wash.,, Sept. 9.—Former President Willlam H. Taft, today told the American Bankers assoclation, ia cosvention here, that practically all of the radical reforms attempted in connection with ~politics, railroads and ‘“big business” had failed of their purpose, causing the nation to halt in {ts progress and that there must now be a ‘“retracing to the line of moderation and justice.” In giving an ‘‘economic and poli- tical summary of the generation just closing ,”” Mr. Taft said that the latest outstanding feature appeared to be the widespread growth of - t he spirit of the brotherhood of man, de- spite the fact that the war had shat- tered the dreams of universal peace. In his opening remarks Mr. Taft outlined the growth of large combin- ations in business:; their successful adoption to politics, and how -the ‘“chase for the dollar” had absorbed all the people until they suddenly rea- | lized they were almost in the grasp of a plutocracy. It was then that agitation for reforms swept the coun- try, he said, and public indignation became acute. “The leviathan of the people can- not be stirred to such action as has been taken and stop short at the line of moderation,” sald Mr, Taft. “The hostility of legislatures and congress came to be directed against all suc- cessful investment of capital with- out discrimination. Nothing is so timid as capital, and nothing is so easily able to take care of what it has.” . ‘Wage Earners Suffer. He then said that a deplorable fea- ture of such excess of remedy was that the wage earners suffered most. “The close and absolute supervision over the management of railroads,” said Mr. Taft, “and the restriction upon the rates charged by them in interstate commerce and in com- merce within states, together with the increase in cost of maintenance and of wages through the efforts of labor unions has ground the railroads between the upper and nether mill- stones. All this is to the detriment of the business of the country, and especlally to the comfort and hap- piness of the wage earners dependent on normal business and normal de- mand for labor. “We are all In the same boat, The prosperity of one class is dependent on the prosperity of all. This {8 no reason why we should not repress in- Justice and punish abuse of pow Put It {s a reason why we should not indulge In excess. “We must promptly grant Increas- ed rates to tho rallroads when con- ditions require it. We must not al- law the outrageous injustice to con- tinue by which we inaugurate the real reform of parcels post, and do it at the cost of tha railroads by com- pelling them to carry the enormous Increase of traffic for nothing. Wo should repeal the full crew bills that impose upon the railroads the bur- den employing unnecessary labor, In ouring these excesses thers is- no reason why we should not retain the real progress we have made in de- throning plutocracy.” Same Conditions Elsewhere. Mr. Taft said that conditions iden- tical with those affecting the ralil- roads were to be found in all lines of business where large combinations of investment have been made. “Another most important develop- ment in this country has been an attack upon our representative sys- tem of government as a cause of the corporate and corrupt control of politics. Tt was said that the sya- tem involved the selection of agents by the people to act for them In executive and legislative work who too often proved faithless and that the only method of carrying on the government safely was to dispense with legislative agents and let the people legislate directly- “A most formidable wave of public opinion in favor of such a change swept the country and found expres- sion in the initiative and the referen- dum. After a study of the working of these innovations. I do not hes- itate to say that it proves the unwis- dom of such changes. If it be true that a people have not information and intelligence to select from their own number. competent and honest agents to do their work, they certain- (That smile of satisfaction continues to broaden as you continue to eat more and more pleasure-giving and health - building Ice Cream — especially when Yyou are sure, for your own sake, that it’s ly have not the capacity to perform the much more difficult task of pass- ing useful judgment on statutes, fre- quently difficult to construe or un- derstand- Again, the duty imposed upbn the people in legislating by in- itlative and referendum is so much more burdensome than that imposed by the representative system in se- lecting agents to do this work that the majority of the voters too fre- quently refuse to perform their elec- toral duties “The Institution of recall with the executive and judicial branches of the government. With both its operation is injurious to the public service, though in the case of i]udges it is much more dangerous. “If an cxecutive officer is dishonest he can In efiect be recalled by im- peachment or by criminal trial and conviction, und sentenced to the pen- itentiary. Under the new system of recall an honest cfficial, before he has time to work out and vindicate 'his policies, may be oysted by an ambi- tious rival through misrepresentation in the press and the hasty judgment of the minority of the electorate who g0 to the polls. TUnder such a system Lincola would have been recalled. Revall of Judges. “‘The evi! of the recall of judges and Judicial decisions is. however, much greater. The tenure of a udge or the right of the individual litigants is to depend on the chance and uncertainty of one popular election. In the na- ture of the case, the people cannot be advised of the legal arguments pro and coa even if they could understand thein. Again the power of a reckless bress would be enhanced and justice and equity would play little part in the result. “The evil tendency of such so-called reform is in tae destruction of the sanctity of our constitution. Under the initiative and referendum, no greater consideration by the people is required in the passage of a con- stitutional ameniment than in that of any temporary and unimportant measure. “The system of representative gov- ernment is an inctitution hammered out in the struggle for liberty by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors for eight hun- dred years. The system of written constitutions and an independent ju- diclary has vindicated itself in the strenuous life of the republic for 125 years and there is nothing in the ac- tual results of the initiative, referen- dum and recall that commends them as a substitute. “What is true with respect to the state is true with respect to the party. Paries are esseniial to popular gov- ernment. In no other way practical- 1y can the will of all the electorate be interpreted and embodied in affirma- tive action, legivlative and executiv, “The convention system gave rise to abuses, Bosses and machines were able to control the convention, but even under the worst boss and the worst machine the convention was a body with a scnee or of some re- sponsibility g ng out of sire to norin ticket which would win In the cic m; therefore, while it may have nominated many machine candidates whose selection did not ke for the public interest, it frequently nominated men of strength ond popularity and high character in ovder that the ticket might be a vote-zetting one, Primary Weakness, “Under the system of the general primary there no such responsibili- deals its de- te and tem ol 2 LAST FRIDAY HALF Hopin) Special Coat V; $25.00 NEW FALL MODELS OF EXCEPTIONAL STYLR P We have just received, in the suit and cloak ticularly velour and fine striped corduroy. throughout with peau de cygne. green. gray and navy. Every detail perfect. attractive new Fall Coats of wide wale oord They the interlin Shown in rich shad The corr you will marvel at the low price when you see the garm Many Other Coat Attractions, also big showing of Dresses, etc. Dresses for Young 98¢ We make a feature, at the Miss new gingham dresses for girls from 6 to 14. guaranteed fast color, and are seen in handsome plai stripes. Made up carefully and them to be the vest dresses ever also, at $1.25, main The section, in pretty styles and Wi s0ld in Hartford at 98¢ Sage-Allen & & (INCORPORATED) P HARTFORD WE GIVE ROYAL BOLD TRADING STAMPS——ASK JEOR SPECIAL CUT PRICES THIS WEEK, SEPT. 6 Sultana Peas 2 e TN || = JAMS 2 ars 25¢ HILLS DALE SLICED DOUBLE TIP MATCHES T Boxes 25¢ PACIFIC CAN ty. Eespecially is tkis true in the se lection of the subcrdinate ofllcersl ‘Circumatancea of no real or proper TOILET TOMATOES & P— —FR PRET LB 12¢ PINEAPPLE 2 <o — MAMOUTH— ASPARAGUS can 20¢ PAPER 7 s 2 _Dm’ SHF U | CLOTHES LINES cach 1 COLUMBIA RIVER Strictly Fresh SALMON 1’s Can 1-2°s Can Eggs 35¢ d Very Best Creamery Butter 30¢ 10 Trading Stamps Free WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING GROCERIES 1 can Sultana Spice 1 pkg A&P Ice Cream or Jelly Powder 1 can A&P Chorlide of Lime 8¢ 1 can A&P Lye 1 pkg Reckitt's Blue 1 pkg Puffed Rice or Corn Puffs .. . 15 Stamps with large pack- age of A&P Washing Pow- der ... e, 16c 5 Stamps with small pack- of A&P Washing Powder 1 pkg None Such Minee Meat s puosapl 1 bot Royal Polish ,.J 1 can Roast or Corned} Flakes .....c000008 1 bot A&P Vinegar ... 25 Stamps with large A&P BExtracts ......v N 20 Stamps ‘with 3%-Ib A&P Cocoa .... 184-186 MAIN STREET, LI e significance In the relection of qual- ified candidates affect the choice in such ¢ “Nor is it true that the primary is any less subject to the con- trol of a machine and the boss and political organization t tion. Primaries are nsually attend- ed by a minority of the party. In other words, { result is much af- fected by the nmnmber who can he aroused to come out to vote, and that depends upon organization Thig places in the hands of the politicians who have ation the means to control. “The represeniative system islatures and in conventions system will work well if the people who onght to vote will turn out, and it will work for the reasons 1 have statel a great deal better than the initiative and referendum and the general pri- mary But we should realize under any systera the politicians will con- trol, if the people fail in their elec- toral duties.” an a an organ in leg- general | conven- ' cured much benefit for thel through the politieal infl have exercised; that they stay and will remain powe in the progress of the com: held that the chief ground cising the recent policy o unions is thar with the " have legitimately acquived ation they now ath "t pilace organized labor in & He declared that kKing legal a secom might work great hardship vloyers, ] Mr. Taft said trades unio e class | PERFECTLY ' PAS i IZED MILK SEIBERT AND & Park Street, Near 6 teams. 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