New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1915, Page 8

v BRIZAIN HERALD 2B Ersgg:e COMPANTY. "propristors. Sur @xcepted) at 4:15 p. m. gty 5 %Batiaing, M Church St [RALD Post 6 at New Britain “p::ua Kl Matter. by’ to any part of the city 5 Conts & Week, 85 Cents a Month. [ptions foripaper to be sent by mall payable In.advance, 60 Month, $7.00 a ¥ ly profitable advertising medium in lty. Circalation books and press oom always open to advertisers. on sale at Hota- 4 B week from today, October 27, en set aside as Dollar Day. On fay the merchants of the city isplay in their .show windows jings that can be bought for one | The idea, as we gather it, is “mark down” a lot of two dol- licles and place the dollar mark m, but to set forth a full dol- rarth for a dollar. It is not bargain sale, “or anything of prt. Dollar Day means that merican dollar still maintains | of its purchasing power and ngs it will buy are worth while. re are many who decry against pllar, who say it does not go as pw as it did in George Wash- 's time. It is reported, on authority, that the Father of ountry once threw a dollar the Potomac River. That was g a dollar go pretty far; but erchants of New Britain have jced themselves that while a went a long way in the early of this country’s ‘development’ be made go a longer way to- That is, providing the proper s {s given to it. And the men jw Britain who have things to ve banded together to do this. s why Dollar Day has been set It is hoped that every body in ty will take advantage of this unity, when men, women and en may have their wants satis- ith the things that remain the realm of reason, the dol- icles. Polish up a silver dol- alk down Main street next Wed- v, look in the windows, see just you want, then go in and get jmembering that Dollar Day but once a year. AT NEW JERSEY THINKS. en New Jersey undertook to de- yoman suffrage it accomplished k in no uncertain terms. Even President of the United States any of his cabinet members upon the side of the women, oters of that staunch old state to \‘..he ’polls yesterday and ad- ered one’ of the most crushing s the advpcates of votes for wo- Jhave - ever: received. ‘Whatever [be said of the outcome of rthe Jersey vote, the onhe great fea- salient above all others'is that eople of New Jersey do not want suffrage. If ever there were 1 workers for any cause the bn who essay to thrust upon the s of New Jersey a double vote be said to belong to this class. are faithful to the last as evi- d by the fact that having been ted yesterday they are starting pday with new plans. They are to 'n}ak(e ‘an attempt to get the o Ahe _ Legislature to 80 that the women ote next spring for presidential great silent army of women are re- luctent to shoulder the responsibili- ties of suffrage, why let the silver tongued orators and campaign swash- bucklers shove it upon them? It the 'best women in the land, the mothers and housewives, too busy With other cares, are to refrain from exercising any privilege that suffrage might give them, what good would it do If the least desirable went to the polls and registered their opinion? The situation would be practically the same as it is today in the case of the men. THE FACTS IN THE CASE. ‘When Secretary of Commerce Red- fleld takes his pen in hand and waxes loquacious in defense of the La Fo- lette Seaman bill, there are many in the nation who will listen to the learned lawyer who has charge of, our commercial interests, so to speak. This time the venherable Secretary has written a letter in which he charges that the Pacific Mail Steamship company sold out its vessels because present demand for shipping made it possible for the company to se- cure a tempting price. The Secre- tary of Commerce alleges that the action of the company was not due to the anticipated effect of the sea- man’s law, and points out that there are many American owners of ves- sels who are eager to enter the Pa- cific trade. If what the Secretary says is true, and surely no one would want to doubt him, there will be a great deal of rejoicing in American shipping cir- cles. Yet, to those who know, the Secretary’'s letter will be frowned up- on, for such an array of facts can be marshaled against his intimations that they quickly lose their glamor WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Mary. (California Pelican.) Mary had a little lamp; It was well trained, no doubt, For every time a fellow called, The little lamp went out. Heating by Electricity., (Waterbury Republican.) One of the effects of war on hu- man progress that is expected to ma- terialize at any time, is the develop- ment of heating by electricity. There probably never was a time in the history of the temperate zone peoples, since they first began to use coal as a common fuel, when it was scarce where wanted or so expensive. European prices have doubled in countries outside the war zone and the prospects for still higher prices | everywhere are favorable. Germany though holding great coal mines in conquered territory, already of the shortage of coke, due to the scarcity of English coal. Por- tugal is paying twice as much per ton for coal than before the war ($9.25 to $12.90 per ton). Denmark is making careful scientific investigation of the prospects of successful coal mining on the island of Bornholm and throughout Europe the problem of heating with coal is- getting the greatest attention from all govern- ments, that the prices may be kept down and that the factories and the military and naval forces Whose operations cause an unwonted con- sumption of coal ‘may not be handi- capped. Necessity is the mother of inven- tion and in the present emergency the practicability of heating with elecs tricity may be thoroughly tested. In America the use of electricity for heat- ing is already well known. Electrical kitchens are almost beyond the ex- and instead of the Stars and Stripes floating majestically over the ships that plow the placid waters of the Pacific the merchants who deal in those things can see nothing more nor less than Chinese junks, or Japa- nese vessels, or the ships of England, Germany, France, and other coun-’| tries which are making endeavors to gather in the lost American marine trade. Already the American ship has practically disappeared from the Pacific and up to the present writ- ing there has been nothing which would indicate that new vessels under the American flag will take the places of the old ones that have gone. With the seamen’s law and the ever present bogey,—government ownership of the American merchant marine,—there is not much chance of American men go- ing out after the maritime trade in the Pacific. The facts in the case show that the American ships have gone from the Pacifio. What is going to happen to demo- cratic simplicity when President Wilson and his bride venture forth to Shadow Lawn and occupy the won- derful million dollar mansion as a Summer residence,—the palace that has in its immediate vicinity a mag- nificent building which was originally erected for a stable? Again we reit- erate. ‘What is going to happen to democratic simplicity ? Shades of Thomas Jefferson. FACTS AND FANCIES. ‘Was there ever a colleée that didn’t need a new building *——Atchison Globe. Neither bachelor nor widower in the ‘White House now escapes Cupid.—St. Louis Post-Despatch. Germany is on the inside and can economize on quick transportation.— ‘Waterbury American, ors. There are but two weeks n which the women can make campaign, as the candidates for egislature who have been nom- d by the Democrats and Repub- s will come _before,the voters for on on the first Tuesday in No- ber. It 18 expeeted that the len will get'another turn-down on second time out. Even though n suffrage ‘was defeated yester- in New Jersey there is no real of telling just how far the wo- want suffrage in that state, as ) is no way of really getting a n how far the women want suf- in the entire - United States. because the women have lit- nothing to say in the matter. men are the ones who do the orf e, questian,: albeit there ever 50 many‘fibteulonu suf- ts around to try and influence ote. All of the noise and racket parades :are - furnished by the ped suffragists who strive to pro- the ‘effect of great numbers eas in reality they are in inority. As a matter of fact, vast majority of women have lit- © say on the subject of suffrage. only here and there one finds pman who would be willing to go on the stump and yell for the Fe.” As far as the public can Most women remain silent, show- in this way they are not per- ed in the least about having page thrust upon them in addi- (to thefr other cares. That is thing to be remembered,—if the The Turks do not even take the trouble to make censors suppress the massacre news.—Washington Star. Some fellows can see no big men in their home town- Everybody at home is as small as they.—Toledo Blade. For a jitney king, Ferdinand of Bul- garia is a huge cansumer of first-page space.—Washington Post. Now that Wilson has come out for woman suffrage, will all the antis turn republican ?—Charleston News and Courder. General von Bissing, who insists that there shall be no cruelty to songbirds in Belgium, can at least be said to have made a start.—New York Herald. But before the movement to recog- nize Carranza culminate, it might be well to try the old fellow out in the gentle art of flag-saluting.—Anaconda ‘Standard. Our idea of nothing to get excited about ‘is the George W. Perkins open letter on political questions—Houston Post. Make a noise that rings like wealth and any number of visiting cards will be pushed under your front door.— Philadelphia Telegraph. “J, P. Morgan Instructs 700 How to Sell Bonds.”—Headline. But the great American public, Mr- Morgan, is more interested in learning how to buy ’em.—Newark News, London intends to punish “treating” by fine or imprisonment. This may not make a great difference. There 1is an impression that most of the treat- ing was done by American tourists.— ‘Washington Star. perimental stage, but the electrical heating plant adaptable in dwellings, has not appeared. Perhaps the lack of sufficient “juice” is a reason, per- haps the absence of a practicable and safe radiator is the big obstacle. Whatever the obstacle is it is not unlikely that before the war is over there will be some evidence of its modification, if not its complete ef- facement, and probably sooner than it would have arrived under other conditions the electrically-heated dwelling will be common. Now It's The E-Boats. (Waterbury Democrat.) The submarine war has taken on a new aspect. Great Britain has undertaken to show that it's a game two can play at. Most of the re- cent submariné activity has been ex- hibited not around the British Isles, but in the Baltic sea. The vessels operating have been not German U-boats, but British E-boats. They have been destroying German and Scandinavian merchantmen engaged in trade between Sweden and Ger- many on a scale reminiscent of the German warfare against British com- merce in its most successful period. This campaign has followed hard This campaign has followed hard upon the reports of British success in checkmating the German sub- marine peril. It is likely that the numbers of German submersibles destroved by the British have been exaggerated, and that Germany has at least as many such craft as it started with. Still, the fact is evi- dent that that arm of her sea power, form which the kaiser expected so much, has been seriously weakened. It remains to be seen whether the British can beat the Germans at their own game. They may appear to do so for a while, operating in the Baltic sea from Russian bases, but it will be strange if the Germans fail to find as effective means of combatting this foe as the British have found. The campaign is a clever stroke designed to make the blockade of German ports really effective, preventing Germany from getting further supplies from Sweden and thus compelling the United States to admit that the blockade is actual and legal. Germany has been getting great quantities of war sup- plies, food, ete., from friendly Sweden and doubtless considerable merchant- dise consigned to Norway and Swe- den from this country has found its way to Germany. If England can really sweep German commerce from the Baltic sea, by the use of hersub- marines, we may have to recognize the legality of her blockade. School Inspection. (Meriden Journal.) Dr. Townsend, the secretary of the Connecticut State Board of Health, has written an interesting monograph in the monthly bulletin about school inspection in which he points out the necessity of safeguarding the child at school by medical inspection. Health instruction should be some- thing more than the bare fact of anatomy or physiology; it convey to the child’s mind definite ideas of how to avoid disease and the measure used to protect others. Any information that may be impart- ed by the teacher, health official, medical inspector or nurse will be of little value to the child unless it re- sults in a bettering of his conduct. A boy gains nothing by knowing that spitting on a hall may spread disease unless he ceases to spit. A child does not profit by the knowledge that an erect posture gives the lungs more room for expansion unless he ac- quires the habit of erect carriage. The importance of correct posture in sitting as well as standing is well known to every teacher. Correct pos- tural habits cannot be formed by a child whose legs are dangling, and whose shouldc=s must be elevated to reach the desk, The proper accommodation of the séat to the statute of the child can be best obtained by adjustable seats. To say that in practice the seats are not adjusted to the child is to pro- s0 | is complaining | should | McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” RAINCOATS RAIN CAPES UMBRELLAS We have now a splendid stock of | Rain Coats for Women and Children. WOMEN’S RAIN COATS We are showing some very destinc- tive styles in Brown, Grey, Tan, Black, Navy, also new mixtures, plaids and checks. Priced $3.98, $5.00, $5.98, $7.98, $9.98 and $12.98. See Our Special PRIESTLEY’S CRAVANETTE Rain Coats for Women at $10.00 each. | Regular $12.50 value. CHILDREN’S RAIN COATS | Two extra values at $1.98 and $2.98 each. ' CHILDREN’S RAIN CAPES At $1.98 each. UMBRELLAS For the Whole Family. Children’s 50c, 75c, 98c each. Women’s 50c to $4.95 each. Men’s 50c to $4.95 each. Women’s Colored Silk Umbrellas $2.48 to $4.95 each. Fur Trimmings Fashionable but scarce. See our se- lection, 35¢ to $3.50 yard. AT OUR LACE AND TRIMMING DEPARTMENT See the new metal, Spangled, Silk Brand and Flower trimmings. Coat and Dress Frogs and Loops. 40-inch Georgette Crepes $1.25 yard. 40-inch Striped Silk Nets $1.19 yard. 40-inch Chiffon Cloth 98c yard. COTTON NETS FOR BLOUSES Plain and Figured, 25c¢ to $1.69 yard. Gold and Silver Allovers, and Bandings. Edgings D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET claim a degree of laziness on the part of those responsible for such ad- justments that is incompatible with | good school work. The formation of hygienic habits is the end to be sought in health in- struction. Such habits can be more effectively formed if the child’s sur- roundings be first made hygienic and his physical handicaps removed. The Price of Wandering. (Chicago Journal.) Few physicians and still fewer lay- men realize that the white man in spreading over the world has taken to himself the disease of the whole planet, and that his health is menac- ed today by many ailments from which his far-off home-staying an- cestors were exempt. A Greek city of 500 years before Christ for example, had only the crudest notlons of hygiene, but it pos- secsed some blessings which we can cecure today only by constant watch- fulness and expensive safeguards. It was not bothered by malaria: that pest came from Egypt in the fourth century B. C. It was immune from | smallpox; that is an African disease | brought to Europe by the Saracens. It was in no danger from cholera or bubonic plague; those scourges had not vet made their way Westward from their homes in India or China, And almost twenty centuries were to elapse before syphillis was brought back from the Western continent by | the sailors of Columbus. Manifestly a people free from all these diseases could be rather careless in sanitary matters without paying the sharp penalty exacted for such indifference today. Science will | have to work long and hard to give back to the white race the health it once enjoyed free of effort in its arcient home. Being Misunderstood. (Milwaukee Journal.) “I am not understood. It makes me so unhappy.” Who is under- stood ? Do you understand others? Do you nuderstand yourself? No one | can fully know another. No one's life is a duplicate of another's. We cannot see the hidden workings of a man'’s soul. ‘We cannot know all the circumstances that have moved him nor the persons who have influenced him. All of us are influenced more or less unconsciously to ourselves by persons and things about us. We in turn influence many, quite uncon- scious that we are doing so. Prob- ably the strongest influence we exert is unknown and unsuspected by our- selves. Yet through it all there is a longing for the sympathy of those we love. We wish them to know our dearest desires and to care that we attain them. It is this sympathy that makes friends dear to us. De- prived of this, we must live our own lives to the best of our ability, trust- ' ing that some time, somewhere, a measure of understanding will come. No one can live our life for us. Each of us is responsible for himself, his own ability, his own work and what he makes of himself. 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We often hear the question asked “Is Christianity losing its hold?” Is it slowly dying?” There is no room for doubt that there is one country where Christianity is dying. That is Ar- menia. It is dying at the rate of thou- sands and thousands, and, if the pro- cess of slaughter is continued, there seems small reason to doubt that it will soon be dead in that hapless country for lack of votaries. Times have changed. There was a time when the great natlons of FEu- rope were on the lookout for a chance to pose as the protectors of Christen- dom in the near as well as the far | east. Aside from religious sentiment, it was recognized that the position of protector gave a foothold not with- out international significance. France | long clung to the title of protector of | Roman Catholics in the Turkisa provinces, Russia still poses as the protector of Christians of the Greek communion. Great Britain and Ger- many have both been quick in past times to pose as champions of Christ- janity. And yet today, according to reports which have gained the credence of no less competent a judge than James Bryce, 800,000 Christians of Armenia have been slaughtered without the only effective hand of protest being ‘raised. Once such a situation would have united all of Europe in a cru- sade. Now it only serves to render plainer the great gulf of division be- tween the Christian nations of Eu- rope and the hapless fate of the Ar- menian Christians. Yo, the Poor Reporter. (Providence Journal.) The public was reminded the other day by a lecturer on the history of newspapers in America that this year is the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of journalism. Some- thing unusual might be expected to happen in the celebration of an occa- sion so significant, and perhaps there will be no disappointment on this point. In another part of New York, at almost the moment this reminder of a notable anniversary was given, the students of the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia university | were being told by Dr. Talcot Wil- liams, the director, that he believed | the time to be near at hand when | journalism would be put under state | regulation and no reporter would be permitted to follow his trade without taking out a license. That is, in or- der to qualify as a member of a news- paper staff all would-be reporters will be required to pass a state examina- tion. With what glee this prediction must have been received in many quarters where the hap-hazard reporters of the present day are regarded with consid- | erable disfavor! How it would have | pleased Dr. Dumba, for instance, if he could have heard the news before he started on the homeward-bound ocean voyage upon which he was forced by the vigilance of enterprising, unli- censed reporters! Dr. Willlams was not prepared to state how soon he ex- pected the new license law would be enacted in the first state to show it- self truly progressive in this respect, but he expressed his conviction that the time for the close season on re- porters was not far off. It might be unfair' to suspect Dr. Willlams of cherishing an enthusiastic hope that the practice of journalism will soon be restricted to the gradu- ates of recognized “schools of journal- ism,” but that might be the practical effect of such a system of state ex- amination as he suggests. With a “competent” examining board the test might be most successfully passed by those aspirants who had received sev- eral years of training in the theory of tions for this sort of work are not to be determined by any arbitrary and purely academic system. In observing the three hundredth anniversary of journalism, it is of séme significance to note that this venerable institution has achieved its extraordinary prog- ress chiefly through its freedom from outside control and from the hin- drance of religious, academic or state interference. Journalism has its own rules, elastic as they may be, and it abides by them. It has its own infal- lible and unending system of “‘exam- ining” reporters and eliminating the unfit. The reporter is virtually under examination daily as long as he holds his job. Plant Peonles in the Fall Peonies are coming into popular- ity again, not only the old, double sorts, which we can well remember in our grandmother’'s gardens, but hundreds of new varieties. Some of these are valued more for their od- dity than for their beauty, but many of them are exquisite, I have seen some so delicate in coloring and so perfect in form, says L. H. Cobb In Farm and Home, one could hardy imagine any flower more perfect. Some are early and others late, so the season has been much extended, and one can have flowers for nearly a month from the time the earliest begin to bloom. Peonies can be planted at any time from early fall to early spring. September is considered the earliest mecnth, and by some it is thought the best, but October is just as good. The roots are dormant and they will get well settled and established before it freezes up, if planted any time before the middle of November. The roots should be set deep enough so the crowns are just beneath the surface, and the roots should be deep as they would naturally be, without crowd- ing them or spreading them more than natural. Pack the soil firmly. For general planting I would re- commend the mixtures in colors clas- sed separately, as mixed reds, mixed whites, mixed pinks, and mixed pur- ples, The whites will range from clear white to cream and light blush, and white with some petals marked with pink or red. The pinks, reds and purples are varying shades of these colors. Get the doubles, of course, and you will not be disappointed with the flowers, They are much cheaper than the named sorts and for the farm garden they are practically as good. The flowers are very large, very double, and the colors are good. The plants are even more hardy than the general run of fancy sorts. Peonies should be planted where they can remain for several years, for they do not like to be disturbed. | As a general thing they will not hlcom for one, and sometimes two or ‘three years after they are trans- planted, though I have usually had some flowers from good, roots that I Lcught the first season after I planted them. A Little Talk With Mr. Ford. (Life.) Henry Ford says he has $10,000,- 000 to spend if necessary to persuade | this country that peace is always the | best plan....He thinks people have a false idea of war that ought to be educated out of them. He imagines that they are fooled by the glory and glamor of it....He wants the people to be persuaded that preparedness for war creates war. Henry does not seem to realize that several times $10,000,000 is being spent every day, and has been spent every lay for 14 months, to persuade mankind that peace is the best plan and that excess in prep- aration for war is about as dangerous as no preparation at all. Our news- papers and movie shows are telling the truth about war nowadays in so far as they can get it. They repre- sent it as a terrible job. The glory and the glamor of it go for nothing. I+ is all tragedy, the purge of the passions; tragedy, destruction and waste. Henry’'s ten millions would be a mere scratch on the slate com- pared with the dally picture of war newspaper work, while veteran re- porters in droves might ignominiously flunk. As a matter of fact, the qualifica- that we have been getting this last vear. Have patience, Henry. This is a war against war. Folks who survive | it are going to be gun shy for so: time. You have done a great & to make life attractive. That is yo great service to peace, because t pleasanter life is the less people wa to die. But war, Henry, brings much greater lesson than that—th lesson of self-sacrifice. body 1% much good who has not in him some idea, some ideal that he cares mors for than he does for life, even though it is life alleviated by the Ford motorn You help to make life pleasant, but¥ war, Henry, helps to make it noble® and if it is not noble it does mo¥ matter a damn, Henry, whether pleasant or not. That is the old les- son of Calvary repeated at Monk and Ypres and Liege and Namur. Wheth- er there are more people in the world or less, whether they are fat or lean, whether there are Fords or ox makes no vital difference, but whethe men shall be willing to die for what they believe in makes all difference between a pigsty and Paradise. Not by bread alone, Henry, shall men v for military preparedness, enough is good and salutary; toe much is militarism and that is bad, bad, bad, the Germans are teachs ing us. They are the great teachers of peace, and, be sure, Henry, thay shall learn that lesson themselvgs down to the last line. Leave peace propaganda to them: but you, if you have ten millions to spare, put it into Ford ambulances for France, Hating the Newspapers, (Bridgeport Farmer.) Mr. King is not the first great man who has objected to newspapexs. Europe even now is full of kings who suppress newspapers and lock up editors on slightest provocation. Na« poleon never had the slightest friend- ship for a free press, The late Bill Tweed spoke in bitterest terms of the newspapers that discussed his polfs’ tical activities. L It s human and reasonable {ei men to resent whatever stands in th way of their ambitions, whatsoever exposes their little plots and pland or makes it more difficult for them to rescue limousines from the treas: uries of the world But a debate between Mr. King and some of the editors might be instructive, especially if the discoute included what Mr, King knows about. politics in Bridgeport during eight years. He knows a gread deal, and some of it would quite cure the pub- 11: of a mistaken admiration for some well known idols. One is inclined to suppose that such revelations might cure all of Mayor Wilson’ admirers, except the most hide bowsd place holders. Such mysteries as commission paid to Warrenite sales~ men might be cleared up. The re- lations between politicans and the utilities might be dragged into the _ sunlight., Newspapers are not un- iversal in their knowledge. Somo things are concealed from them. If Mr. King knows those things, and will tell them he will do the public a ser- vice, and hasten the great day * climination. Take the Cure, (Worcester Post.) Some evening when you're feelinf particularly chesty, take the cure, into the back yard to look at the If the moon is out study her. LM to the crickets. If a whippoo! sings give ear to him. Look at stars and the moon again, Get 1t into your head that a fl“ many of the stars are a great m times larger than this earth, of whi you are so infinitesimal a part. Recall that the crickets consider themselves juet as important as you consider yourself. Remember that the Whi.L poorwill thinks he is some fellow! Don't let it escape your attention thate you have no y to get to the moon=~= even though you are a very importani individual who s feeling particulass Jy chesty this evening. But at the same time keep on working and t ing and trying to amount to so thing, for the day is coming w man shall go to the moon, mayl and understand the stars bétter, p haps—and even learn how to properly and correctly; and fol hcew to hate, and learn how to everybody and everything,