New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1915, Page 8

puAiPHING COMPANT, fetors. fea) at 4118 p..m. © Church: 8t Pol ¥ Q at New Britain' ‘Mafl Matter. ny part ;}: ' & Conts & th, e aper to be sent by mail ble in advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a year. profitable advertising m.fl’\‘lfl in - Circulation books a always open to mnrunr-. Br Sy pn: d will ve found on sale at Hota- \Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk, © City and Hartford depot. FIRE PREVENTION DAY. Britain, in rying “out ‘the of ‘Goverfios' Holcomb that set aside as a time when le should be {mpressed with ssity of guarding against the pf fire, has gone every other e state ‘one rhetter and or- at ‘the work be carried on days. To this'end, the In- of the populace in the mat- ‘eventing fires will take place nd tomorrow..In all the speakers have been sent to hildren the best possible way fires, the proper methods to in preventing thems As care- is one of the biggest factors hsidered the little ones will be hgainst carrying matches. The | be taught the danger of out remote corners in out of places for the purpose of ‘to smoke; the girls will be b, taking care of the interior ome. ing a modern day slogan this fire prevention could -easily la “Safety First.” People all United States have long ago yéary of, the' ravages of fire, eatest enemy. Realizing that lreadful tragedies could have erted had the necessary pre- been taken, officials have on ‘a campaign that tends to donstant, with an annual cele- 0 keep the advantages of fire on” néar the human healrt. res covering the entire coun- has been ‘learned that every he year an average of twen- lpersons are either killed or wounded by fire. No other n the globe has suffered such ravages by fire as America., e of the property material de- aside from the lives lost, L to more than a million dol- When one considers these t is easily seen that Fire Pre- Day is, an_jinstitution which ake firm hold upon the coun- lpopular way of expressing the v of the fire loss of the United as been set forth by the gov- _experts: - It .is expressed in lhien: . The buildings we give leach * tWeélve “months are suf- lo“fine a roaa from New York ago,, Byery.. thousand feet s road there would be enact- ne Ot an injury by fire, and ixgerduagters of a mile the a death bY fire. % jan and child in the W Emaln is vitally interest- ire “Prevention Day, because all called upon to contribute, form. of taxes, to the cost.of ing our fire department. fded to the waste of fire de- , means real money to every in the city. The burning of means so much money gone four winds, =0 much labor de- , 50 many treasures ruined. It lwork of years crumpled in a brt minutes, - It is time then e the peoplé 'of New Britain eartily in this movement, that press upon our neighbors the s of it all, that we heed the that we strive for greater of life and property against bmy, fire. ADEQUATE. DEFENSE. n President Wilson, facing the s of the naval advisory board, by Thomas Edison, said, “that fht to be prepared, not for war, defense, and very adequately 3 he but uttered the senti- the entire nation. Ever since in Europe took on such mag- and the people of the United lhave been brought face to face e terribhle .calamity awaiting on that is not Prepared to de- self, there g‘s been an awaken- publi ;conscience on this her gress convene: in his fact. will be impressed e national Bwmakers by the , -Against anything tending to e militarism; the people want p a more adequate defenss, a on against the invasion of any t might seek to. harrass the soil erica. From the expressed atti- pf many congressmen it t there will be no difficulty in & some measure of relief from sen® situation. The men visory board of the navy, con- g @ they do, the expert in- e brains of the lay nation, with is on the co-operation of the trained naval ! officers, will give wonderful aid in | bringing about a golden medium for the pational defense. Their concec- i gram does not necessarily mean that -the land - forces are to be neglected. The submarine and the aeroplane are two of the most important factors connected with any defensive move- ment, and these two, being more natural adjuncts to the navy, special stress will be laid upon bringing them up to the highest standard. What- ever is accomplished for the naval aeroplane, or hydroplane, must be of benefit to the army, as practically the same machines are used by.the two arms., The speech of President Wil- son to the advisory council struck a responsive chord in the hearts of the American, people. In* committing himself to a strong and definite policy he has all the more endeared himself to those true Americans who care more for the welfare of the nation than for the sickly sentimentalism of the pronounced peace-at-any-price policy some statesmen would force upon the Administration. Having enjoyed more than one hundred years of untram- meled liberty, the people of the United States have grown to look upon their freedom as the greatest treasure the human heart can enjoy. And yet, they are a peace-loving people. They have no ambition to go out and conquer the world. But they will allow no one to come here and conquer this land. That is why every word President Wilson utters concerning an adequate preparedness hits straight to the mark. Congress will do well to ponder over the President’s message on preparedness. It will do well to appropriate enough funds for a better army and navy., If the United States of America is to be respected among the nations of the future as it has been among the nations in the past it must be able to defend itself. There must be built an adequate defense. And now is the time to get busy. OVERLOOKED, While all the fuss and fervor have been going on anent the great war orders placed in this country by the nations of Europe, while men have had their eyes focused on the stock markets, while great sales of am- munition and other like munitions of war have been registered in the in- dustrial mart, nothing has been men- tioned about the purchases of artifi- cial limbs which have been made here during the last month. Yet one or- der placed jointly by the French and English governments calls for fifteen million dollars’ worth of arti- ficial arms and legs for the crippled soldiers who are now convalescent in the hospitals of Europe. This huge order has been placed with a Pitts- burg firm. The company plans to ship two hundred and fifty legs and arms each month until the order is completed. To give some idea of the enormity of this business deal, the factory must run double time to get out the aforementioned monthly quo- ta. At that, the limbs will be but shaped in the rough, the finishing and fitting to be done in the factories of London and Paris. It is estimated that more than two hundred thousand artificial legs will be sent over be- fore this order is completed. Two hundred thousand men, or more, who must go through life hobbling on arti- ficial legs, as the result of the war. And that is the number in but two countries, What must be the per- centage in the other countries fighting against the two nations which have on their hands such a large number of legless men? It is appalling to think of such a condition. Yet this order will give some idea of what Europe will resemble after the war is over. It will be nothing more mnor than a great hospital, or tarium, where crippled and blind will be ambling around, awaiting the time when Di- vine Providence frees them from their misery. These are natural after growths of war. Could they have been presented vividly to the minds of those who brought about the strug- gle probably there would be no war in Europe today and the American manufacturers of artificial limbs would not be doing such thriving business. A fifteen million dollar or- less sani- men der on goods of this kind is enough to awaken the imagination of an Egyptian ‘'mummy. Yet, it has been overlooked. FACTS AND FANCIES, Inspiration and perspiration makes a good team.—Worcester Post. ‘Wireless telephony may be a great military asset, but it will hardly serve for sending = secret dispatches.— Rochester Union. An Indiana man says he can eat more raw meat than any lion that ever lived. But can he eat a live lion like T. R.7—Albany Argus. Although ‘"this is supposed to be the close season for some kinds of games the voter is not protected from the politicians.—Bridgeport Telegram. Bernstorff says the storles of the Armenian massacres are pure . inven- “with the naval side of the pro- |’ b | famous- American universities, tions. If they are, this is the first time they haven’t been true.—Berk- shire Eagle, Harvard and Yale may be the most but Columbia university has the largest number of students—20,000 of them this year.—Boston Globe. Very few women swear, we are pleased to observe, but the woman who does swear can do it much more artistically than any man can do.— Meriden Journal, The boom in the grain market on the Great Lakes leads to the belief that the lake-carrying trade will make a Garrison finish despite its bad start. —Buffalo Commercial. The deepening of the Hudson River is urged by both state and local au- thorities. The improvement would mean much to the cities along the line of the Barge Canal including Am- sterdam.—Amsterdam Recorder. Forty women of social distinction in Paris are driving ambulances for the transportation of wounded. Not much is heard nowadays about the decadence of the French people.— Springfield Republican. is almost $1,000,- 000 richer than a year ago. To any Harvard fellow who calls her a “wealthy malefactor” she will give the classical response “Tu quoque,” which is a ‘universal maximum si- lencer.—Brooklyn Eagle, Yale university We may all have our opinion about the strategy that dictated the enter- prise in' the Dardanelles. But about the behavior of the men who have been sent to carry it through there can be only one opinion.—London Times. Statistics are set forth to show that girl babies are more wanted than boy babies. Perhaps it is because under the new order of affairs the girl is the more likely to grow up, get a job and support the family.—Hudson Republican. i If it takes $10,000 to soothe the heart of a Coffeyville girl whose fi- ance declares his love for her one day and marries another girl the next, what should be the balm for a bus- band who is married on Monday, takes his wife to Iola to be kidnapped on Tuseday, and .she comes back to him on Wednesday?—XKansas City Star. Hayti will loom large upon the long roll of honor whereon are ré- corded the achievements of the Unit- ed States Marine Corps. A ‘“good job” efficiently done. The surrender of Morency, the only recalcitrant pos- sessing any military strength marks the end of oposition to American domination and ushers in the period of constructive upbuilding.—New York Herald. Heroes. Save all your praise For Enoch Pratt, ‘Who seeks to raise The voiceless cat. —~Cincinnati Enquirer. Just save that cake For good John Burt, He seeks to make A faultless shirt. —Pittsburgh Post. Save all your praise For good John Runyin, Who strives to raise A smell-less onion. —Hemstead Inquirer. Our hero is Adolphus Barr; He does not brag About his car. —Bridgeport Post. Pin the laurel Wreath on Hicks; He never talks Of politics! —New Haven Register. We drink this toast To Johnny Helf; He never talks About himself. If You Creak, Oil Up. (The Mediator.) Once upon a time there lived an old gentleman in a large house. He ‘had servants and everything he want- ed, yet he was not happy, and when things did not go as he wished, he was very cross. At last his servants left him. Quite out of temper, he went to a neighbor with a story of his distresses. “It seems to me,” sald the neiga- bor, sagaciously, “’twould be well for you to oil yourself a little.”” “To oil myself?"” “Yes; and I will explain. Some time ago one of the doors in my house creaked. Nobody, therefore, liked to go in or out by it. One day I oiled it hinges, and it has been constantly used by everybody ever since.” “Then you think I am like the creaking door,” cried the old gentle- man. “How do you want me to oil myself ?"” “That’s an easy matter,” said the neighbor. “Go home and engage a servant, and when he does right praise him. If. on the contrary, he does something amiss, do not be cross; oil your voice and words with the oil of love.” The old gentleman went home, and no harsh or ugly” words were ever heard in the house afterward. Every family should have a bottle of this precious oil; for every family is lia- ble to have a creaking hinge'in the shape of a fretful disposition, a cross temper, a harsh tone, or a fault-find- ing spirit. A Poor Political Crutch. (From the Milwaukee Journal.) The Chicago Tribune, which some time ago Tecovered its bull moosing, 1 McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Dress Up a Saturday At the Busy Big Store FALL OPENING WEARING APPAREL. Coats, Suits, Dresses. Blouses, Gloves and Hosiery. Opening Day Specials in All De- partments, DISPLAY OF QUALITY SWEATERS, See our big selection for M9a, Women, and Children, priced 9%€ to $10.00 each, THE NEW BLOUSES. Lingeries, 97c to $2.98. Crepe de Chine, $1.98 to $3.98. Lace Blouses, opening special $3.49 each, BOOT SILK HOSE- For Women in the newest shades of Navy, Bronze, Taupe, Suede as well as the staple colors, the best for your money, at 25c and 50c pair. MEN’S COAT SHIRTS. $1.00 kind, opening special, 85c ea. New neckwear at 25¢ and 50c. “Onyx” silk sox, our special 25c pr- Night Shirts, pajamas and Under- wear. MALINE RUFFS. 49c to $2.25 each. OSTRICH BOA* $1.98 to $4.98 each. LACE AND NET GIUMPS. Opening special, 49¢ 98c each, with or without sleeves, BE WELL GLOVED. Wear our kind, Fabric Gloves, 25c, 50c, to $1.00. Kid Gloves, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 to $3.00. AT OUR ART DEPT. All kinds of Stamped pieces to embroidery; Embroidery threads, silks, etc. : COLUMBIA YARNS, Germantown, 4 and 8 fold. Saxony, 3 fold. Columbia Floss Lady Jane, suitable for infants gar- ments, Columbia worsted knitting yarns. SPECIAL SILK SALES. This week Saturday last day to buy silks at cut prices. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STRFET ané evidently considers itself once again a bulwark of republicanism, warns republicans that they have no easy road to travel. Against one de- lusion it gives especial caution: “The theory that a number of party magicians can rub the full dinner pail snd summon .the fairy success is beautiful, but not reliable.” This is a pretty good text for some of the old tory organs and old-time {ory politicians who apparently rely on this old-time magic for the main- stay of their cause. After a long enough time the parrot stuff runs out with thinking voters. Too many men know the lie that is told about pros- perity. Too many men are able to see that the whole world rocks on its foundations, and the matter of pros- perity is not to be decided by one party or the other. It is a good time to stop and think about using the old crooked crutch. Amen. (Waterbury American.) In his opening sermon of the aca- demic year at Yale, addressed to the freshman class, President Hadley em- phasized the fact that truth is the basis of American vivilization or any | other secure civilization. He told the freshmen that “we must buying the newspaper which tells us what we wish is true and buy the newspaper that tries to tell us what Teally is true.” To which all decent newspapers will say Amen. stop | 1 Again for Saturday a Great Value in Tailor- Made Suits $25 to $32.50 Sample Tailor-Made Suits at $18.98 We have been fortunate in securing another lot of sample suits of even higher quality than those offered last Saturday. Every suit is a new stylish model and the tailoring is of exceptional fine work The materials are of the best quality in their respective kind and in- clude broadcloths and fine mixtures as well as the best of gaberdines and poplins in all the fashionable colors. One suit only of each choice model. $20.00 Fur Trimmed Corduroy Coats At $16.98 length broad guaranteed oppossum lining, collar of skunk oppossum and loose back with wide Come in black, navy, copen and brown, in Handsome three-quarter corduroy coats, belt. remarkable coat value. 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'Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. skirt bottom and military beit, A dainty white silk collar finishes these smart frocks. | WISE, BINED AT $11.98 SMITH & HARTFORD these charming taffeta dresses are fashion's an ideal place for a light lunch, & cup of tea o substantial past. CO. re- | Our Restauraut, OUR DAILY 'AUTOMOBILE DELIV-ERY INSVRES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PURCHAS Daily Delivery in New Britain, Elm wood, New.ngton, Cedar Hill, MapleHill and Clayton. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that comes to the Herald Office. A Pot of Hoosier Gold. (Philadelphia Ledger.) Speaking of pirates: In the little Indiana town of Richmond there’s great excitement these days over the treasure of Captain Kidd, colored seer and clairvoyant knows the loca- tion of a pot of gold. For a century the treasure hunters have mistakenly given their whole attention to the Atlantic coast, but the truth i, ac- cording to this woman, that deserters from the captain's pirate ships stole some of the tainted money which Kidd had buried and carried it in- land, burying it about thirty miles from Richmond. Speaking of treasure hunts: reception of #Stevenson's story, “Treasure Island,” reads like a fairy tale. Graham Balfour, in his biogra- phy of the author (now published in a one-volume edition) writes: “States- men and judges and all sorts of staid and sober men became boys once more, sitting up long after bedtime to read their new book. The story goes that Mr. Gladstone got a glimpse of it at Lord Rosebery’s house, and spent the next day hunting over London for a second-hand copy. Andrew Lang spent over it several hours of unmingled btiss. ‘This is the kind of stuff a fellow wants. I don’t know except ‘Tom Sawyer’ and the ‘Odys- sey,’ that I ever liked any romance so well.” Speaking of “Tom Sawyer,” his best tale, Mark Twain observed, “There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’'s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for buried treasure.” Tom's, ap- parently, was a rightly constructed boy’s life. He planned for himself an entrancing career—"At the zenith of his fame, how he would suddenly The appear at the old village and stalk ; into church, brown and weather- beaten, in his black velvet doublet and trunks, his great jack-boots, his crim- son sash, his belt bristling with horse- pistols his crime-rusted cutlass at his side, his slouch hat with waving plumes, his black flag unfurled, with the skull and cross-bones on it, and hear with swelling ecstasy tae wh perings, ‘Its Tom Sawyer, the Pir- ate!—The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main!” Tom and Huck Finn did gc hunting for treasure. | called “Where’ll we dig?” said Huck. “Oh, most anywhere.” “Why, is it hid all around?” “No, indeed, it ain't. It's hid in mighty particular places, Huck, some- times on islands, sometimes in rotten chests under the limb of an old dead tree, just where the shadow falls at midnight; but mostly under the floor in ha'nted houses.” “Who hides it?"” “Why, robbers, of course. you reckon, Sunday school tendents?” “Don’t they come after it?" “No, they think they will, but they generally forget the marks or else they dle. Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow pa- per that tells how to find the marks —a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hyroglyphics.” Who'd sup-rin- A Successful Memory System, (Youth's Companion.) The late Horace Hutton used to say that haviing to take a little trouble would impress a fact on any one's memory so that he would never be able’ to forget it. In illustration he would tell this story: “Our waitross, Maggle, could never remember to put salt on the table, and time after time Mrs. Hutton would remind her to do it. One morn- ing it was absent, as usual, and I eaid ‘Maggic, where is the stepladder?’ “It's in the pantry, sir.” “ ‘Please bring it in, Maggie,’ kindly. “Maggie brought it in with a loox of wonder on her face. “ ‘Put it right beside the table, I I said commanded; and when she had done | so I added, ‘Now I want you to climb up to the top of it, 100k all over the table and see if there is any salt there.” ““Maggie never forgot again.” the salt The Paging of Letters. (Meriden Journal.) Some one has started a newspaper discussion abouvt the proper way to page letters. It may be a minor mat- ter. But a considerable number of bad words are constantly elicited by the eccentricities of some people in this respect. Formerly people wrote letters in a straightforward way. They begun on page 1, turned this leaf over and it page 2, and on with 3 and 4. Now they may start anywhere and jump to any page on the sheet. One comman method is to jump from page 1 to page 4, then wrtie pages 2 and 3. Others will jump from page 1 to page:3, then take 2 and 4, arguing that the two front sides of the leaves, should be covered before the two back sides. Probably the real reason for these peculiarities is the desire to give some originality to a letter. It is apt to be done by the same people who adopt a very striking manner of pen- manship, which is exceedingly styl- ish but very illegible. The best write ten letter is the one written without pretence, in the most obvious way, ! the pages following like the pages HI a book. Prohibition Waning? (Bridgeport Standard.) Interesting, in the light of Tecentw assertions by liquor men that the | prohobition wave has reached its crest and is now receding in the Middle West, is the showing in the “little town elections” of Connecticut Monday. Two more towns have de- cided to be “wet” and while this ac- cretion to -the cause of liquor is not remarkable nor unusual, it may be taken, possibly, as an Indication of the reaction from the strict measuress proposed. No one will deny that so- briety is a valuable and desirablé thing. For a long time there has been a growing belief on the part of men of tolerant views, who mix much with all classes, that there will be, and should be a transition period between wide cpen saloons and the arid state de4 ! sired by the “sold water” advocates. They belleve that such a period is necessary to prepare the youth of the land for strict prohibition, which will probably come a long time in the future, along with other millenial benefits. With human nature cons stituted as it is, these men belleve that this transition period should b§ one during which “hard licker” will be put under the ban the same as drugs now are, to be sold only on prescription. Beer and light wines would continue to be sold under high license until the drinkers die off, to be replaced by a diminishing crop of alcohol admirers, It has been proven that men can- not be made good by legislative en- actment and the alcohol desire cannot be eliminated by vote of the people. Making it more difficult to get booze” may be desirable, but appar- ently cutting off the supply doesn’t always accomplish the good that was anticipated, nor prevent some evils that are as bad as moderate drinking: “Temperance in all things” is an admirable motto. The man who fol= lows it has little use for the opene saloon or for prohibition, Educas ¢ tion, more than law, ls needed on the temperance question for the next: fifty years. b