New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD ,D PUBLISHING fibflPAN»Y. Proprietors. y (Sunday exceptedy ¢ ™ ald Bullding, 67 Church St at New Britain Mall ‘Matter. by carricrs to any part of the eity mts & Weel, 65 Cents a Month. pns_for paper to be sent by mail ble In advance, 80 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. L —_— profitable advertising medium In Circulation books and press R always open to advertisers. 4 will be founa on sale at Hota- s &tand, 42nd St. and Broad- ew York City: Board Walk, Atle City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. tice Rooms D DEEDS, WELL DON! Money, and energy, com- ith sympathy and love, are itest charitable gifts man can upon his fellow beings. And P Were part and parcel of the ne during the past year by the litain chapter of the American pes in striving to alleviate the | S of the stricken soldiers nf! The report of the war relief | ‘e made public yesterday is a tribute to the men and of New Britain who have un- devoted themselves to this cause. As usual, the women ontributed enormously to the portion ~of necessaries sent Thirty boxes of bandages, and other articles knitted, and put together by tender guardiang of the needle, at- love :and devotion of these ktering angels. Truly, life women would be a. dreary There were mufflers, and b, and shirts, and socks, and ngs, and pajamas, and blank- [l everything to make a conva- goldier rejoice that the women erica are so true and noble . And many a big, rough bhen he receives his gifts from will utter a fervent, sincere ! for some noble hearted little New Britain, s a wise precaution the women Britain) get up when they de- send ‘the work of their hands particular country, but to be- their . “alms_and munitions of without favor to the afflict- } - all' belligerent countries. § the strictest neturality. In unity like New Britain, where fare men and women from the lorners of the globe, it is a good to remember that America is ted in no particular the warring peoples, even in puting its aid. The cry of the fled, of the dying, rises superior rattle.and boom of cannon, and can ears hear the call as com- om no particular land. The here is to extend help when help eded. And this have the men women of New Britain done h their associations with the ican Red Cross. taction § CHANGE OF HEART. kt before leaving his Washington b for a winter sojourn at Miami, da, Willlam Jennings Bryan, for- Secretary of State, gave out an view in which he emphatically d that, contrary to popular belief, gag fiot at odds with President on, that there was no ill feeling jis side, and that whatever differ- s have- arisen between them are ers of principle. Thus does the jmoner brush asjde the 'hope of ji politiciens that he will split the hocratic party asunder at the next ention. He says he resigned I the ‘secretaryship only after he there was greater ~work to be 6 on the outside,—whether he ns ‘“Chatalkqauing” he does not But he does say tbat his break [h President Wilson ~ which 'was s0 much publicity five months cannot be likened to the great it between President Taft and Col- 1 Roosevelt in 1912, the break that Jant the swan song of the Republi- | Party and the birth of the pro- ives. = There was personal en- in the Taft-Roosevelt break, ks the Commoner. There is no thing in the Wilson-Bryan split. [Paking into consideration all the jous actlyities of the late Secretary State since that memorable day in e when he . .laid aside hig toga at e same time bestowing a “God less You'’ on the man in the White puse, it is evident that he has had change of heart, In the words of e genial geologist, “He is not the ly pebble on the beach,” and he s at last discovarfd this fact. He S touched the pulse of the people. € i3 out where he can feel the draft d the wind is not blowing just the 2y he wants it, so the prince of €ace has taken to cover. He is not daquately prepared to wage war on Ny part of the Democracy and so he g0ing to follow the path of least esistance and be on his good be- pavior. And, having proven to his llows that everything is lovely and Jhe goose honks high who shall say at Willlam Jennings Bryan will not launch forth a platform of his own and go forth after the nomination? Who shall say? For W. J. Bryan 1s ! a man of moods and when the dove | of peace is nigh and the silver's on | the tougue there is no telling what | will happen. In closing his remarks | on the Wilson-Bryan situation the great Grape-Juicer extended his | thanks to the some six million men who cast their votes for him during | the three unsuccessful starts he made over the Presidential race coarse. Just how many of these voters are dead and buried statistics cannot show; but those who are left and who have not fully attoned for their past performances will be comforted to hear the voice of the master. That declaration of William Jen- nings Bryap, that he is not at odds with President Wilson, simple as it is, has a great deal of bearing on the future of many politicians. If he can be believed, it means that he will go into the next convention without try- ing to break up the show, and that means good-bye forever to the Bull Moose contingent and a fight to the death in 1916 between the Democrats and a united Republican party, with the odds about even. LOSING A GOOD MAN. In the letter made the Herald yesterday President Christ of | the Chamber of Commerce sets forth | u good reason why he cannot be a candidate for re-election at this time. Press of business demands that he re- Linquish the reins of office. In the | pursuance of his arduous duties he cannot find time to devote to Cham- | ber of Commerce -work and still a(-} tend to his everyday 'commerclal | callings. Rather than serve two masters he will do one thing and do it well. This gives some insight into the character of the man. In losing President Christ as execu- | tive head of the Chamber of Com- merce the members of that organiza- tion have cause indeed for regrot. During his tenure of office he has public in | | | i sale and deliberate, is perpetrated in defiance of what Oscar Straus has so aptly termed the conscience of = the world, and we have another horror which will stain the history of Aus- tria-Hungary as indelibly as the Lus- itania crime stains that of Germany. Nations that war in this way repudi- ate civilization, deny Christianity and write themselves down as the most ruthless of barbarians. Ultimately they must meet the fate of barbarians. ——Brooklyn Eagle. Has Dumba’s Plot Hatched? (New York Press.) Is the Teuton war being carried to America? Since one week Monday last news reports have told of the fire on the ¥rench liner Rochambeau, which luckily was put out, and the explo- sion of a bomb in the Italian oil ship Levletta, reported abandoned at sea. On land the Baldwin Locomotive Works, building engines for the Rus- sian government, had a fire loss of $55,000; the Midvale (Pa.) Steel and Ordnance company, which 'is making 3,000,000 Lee-Knfield rifles for the British government, had two of its buildings destroyed; the: Bethlehem Steel company’s ordnance plant at Bethlehem suffered an estimated loss of $2,000,000; the Roebling steel rope plant, waich has done work for the Alljes, had a fire loss of $1,000,000.,, Other big fires were in the Synthetic Color company's plant at Stamford, Conn., and in the Thomas P. Skelly Bolt company at Philadelphia. Three of these fires all occurred within twenty-four hours. All these plants represent Amerl- can industry, American capital, and ‘American workingmen were thrown out of employment. In the case of the Bethlehem ordnance plant 2,500 men were employed in the building that now is simply a tangled mass of steel, iron and wood debris: The latest revelation of the Teu- ton conspiracy in America is that of Dr. Joseph Goricar, in the Austro- Hungarian consular service for fif- teen years, who resigned his office because he could not spy and engage in plots which, he did not consider he was in honor bound to do against a country to which he was sent on a peaceful commercial mission. Truth is lent to thé Goricar resig- nation by reason of the exposure a month or two ago which retailed the activities of Austrian secret agents in Detroit, Cleveland and other points in the Middle West, in which a number more than met the demands upon his | time and energy. Whatever little | glory he got from the undertaking he accepted with becoming modesty; nor | did he essay to make capital of it. | An indefatigable worker, he looked | not to personal gain but rather to the | welfare of the community. It is to be hoped that the retiring | president of the Chamber of Com- | merce will not cast aside his in((flrs‘st‘ ir its future welfare with his toga. n{i office; but rather that he will, when | the opportunity affords, be ever at hand to lend his valuable counsel to his successor in office and the meni who are at the helm. The Chnmher‘ of Commerce as a growing organiza- tion needs the guiding hand of a man interested in our municipal affairs, just such a one as President Christ whose term expires today. May his successor be as successful during the | coming vear as President Christ dur- | ing the past. “To have every village, town and city call together, with fife -and drum, every singer and musician’* so that the peace of the world ' may be restored by song and festivity, is the aim of a well known musical league. We had al- ways thought that fife and drum corps were the heralds of war. FACTS AND FANCIES, The public schools of Douglas, Ariz., deserve a place in history. They were closed for a week, not because of an epidemic, but because of the war. on the other side of the border. Villa doesn’'t even hold the American gchool system in respect.— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Persistence in the policy of murder by submarines, es exemplified in the destruction of the Ancona, makes it impossible to forget the wrongs we have suffered from nations professing to be friendly. We gave the explicit warning that a persistence in such deeds would be construed as intended and deliberate unfriendliness. It will be the duty of the government at ‘Washington ‘to ‘ascertain whether the attack upon the Ancona must bear that construction.—New York Times. The wind that swept over western Kansas demolishing several villages and doing considerable damage to the Arkansas valley town of Great Bend is an unfortunate reminder of the Kansas that the time is not yet come for him to hlot cut the word tornado from his state lexicon. In choosing Kansas as the place for the dispiay of its power the tornado, according to the belief of many people, is at work in its favorite territory. But Kansas is touchy on the subject and 'huies the word as much as the ncarby town of Kansas City hates a mention of Mis- souri river floods, or San Francisco the word earthquake. Any Kansan will prove thaf the wind wrought more havoc in St. Louis or in certain Ohio towns than it ever did in his state, and that the “cyclone cellar” in his back vard has as little to do with prepar- edness as a Bryan Chautauqua speech.—New York Sun. A passenger steamer, bound west- ward and therefore not to be suspec ed of carrying either contraband or reservists, her cabins and steerage la- den with in-offensive non-combatants, many of them helpless women and | ambassador of Austrian consuls figured. Dr. Constantin Dwmba, the former of Austrin<Hungary, whose recall was demanded by tais nation, is back in his native land, yet the Teuton conspiracy in America still keeps up its amazing record of de- stroying American industries. It is not quite three months since Dr. Dumba wrote to Minister of For- eign Affairs Von Burian: “We can dis- organize and hold up, if not entirely prevent, the manufacturers of mu- nitions in Bethlehem and the middic west, whaich is of great imvertance and amply outweighs the expenditure of the money involved.” Certainly Dr. Dumba’s statement is borne out when a few d: in No- vember show a loss by fire alone of millions of dollars in munition plants. The Great Attraction. (Richmond Times-Despatch). We cannot escape from the fact that sex attraction is the great event in human life. Sex is the controlling force in nearly all of human efforts. War, for instance, is only an exag- gerated form of the sex instinct. Neither literature nor art would exist in any appreciable degree without se3 Men work, fight, sing, paint, live and die for the love of woman. In only one field of human activity is there no taint of sex feeling, and that is science. Science is cold and dispassionate. It has imagination, but the imagination of the explorer and not the ‘lover. Science has only one aim and end—the discovery of truth.” Seclence is another world from the hot earth of economic and military competition, which have for thelr ends the attainmert of love and marriage. Through science mankind will grad: ually throw off.some of the sex slav- ery and reach a new and possibly hap- | pler stage iIn its development. Automobiles In Princeton. (Newark News.) All morning the cars pour into little o0ld Nassau street, and by noon the safest way for a pedestrian to cross from Gulick’s to the campus is by aeroplane. The university has pro- | vided spaces near the stadium for | 3200 cars, but most drivers still pre- fer the private parking. places near the main street. In one day the hum- ble householder of Princeton can make enough money out of his door- vard to pay his rent for a couple of months. Even some of the churches open their lawns for the ’occasion. The grounds around the clubhouses are packed solid with the cars of graduate members. Kvery vacant lot in town is used as standing room for automobiles except the lot where the game is played. The good old perfume of chrysanthemums is missed. The flowers are there by thousands and they may be as fra- grant as ever; but the characteristic smell of a big football match in this day and age is gasoline. Sitting comfortably in a parked car, it is pleasant to eat a shoe-box lunch and watch the late-comenr: Out in the road the owner of the premises waves to the throng and points to his driveway. A big car turns in, a woman at the helm. She can’t twist the wheel quickly enough. Crack! goes a fence post. ‘““And they want the vote!” remarks a stout voung man in the car next to yours He is one of a hilarious stag party; vou are sorry to see n hottle going around. On the road home you will see that same crowd partly In a ditch and partly in a wire fence, and you will remark, “And they have the vote!” This particular young man is now taking a zuyving from his com- children, is summarily destroyed as were the IPalaba, the Lusitania and the Arabic. No military purpose is served- Italy, whose flag the Ancona flew, is not perceptibly hurt. Murder, whole- panions; it appears that he was to provide fruit for the lunch. and he has brought sicklv-looking bananas. Around are other luncheon parties. ! Some of them have spread blankets McMILLAN’S BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABDE” RAINGOATS and UMBRELLAS Now that the rainy season has set in it is a good time to invest in a raincoat and umbrella. We have a splendid assortment to choose from. More than that we offer some very un- usual values, right now. i WOMEN’S RAIN COATS: $2.98, $3.98 and $5.00 cac Colors—Brown, grey, navy and tan: For women at $7.98, $9.98 each. Weather-proofed outside, rubberized inside. These coats are warmer than | the u.ual raincoats shown, more ap- propriate for the fall and winter, cold rains, made in smart 'belted back models. LONDON SLIP-ON RAINCOATS. ss’For women at $7.98 each, value .50. PRIESTLEY’S GLISH CRAVAN. ETTE RAINCOATS. For women, special at $10.00 each, value $12.50 RAINCOATS. At $1.98 and $2.98 each. CHILDREN CHILDREN’S RAINCAPES. At $1.98 each. TWO HUNDRED UMBRELLAS For men, women and children. Waterproofed cover, strong frames, fitted with unusually fine assortmeat cf handles, extra values, 50c each. WOMEN’S COLORED SILK UMBRELLAS Special, $2.98 each, value, $3.50. Others at $3.48 to $4.95 each Don't forget that we have a big stock of umbrellas, ranging in price, up to $5.00 each. STANDARD PATTERNS December “Designer” now ready. Winter number, Standard Fashion Book, price 20¢ with one pattern free. B. McMiLLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET on the ground and are taking refresh- ment picnic fashion. There are crim- son‘ coaching flags and orange pen- nants everywhere. Whisk brooms are busy, for the roads of middle Jersey are famously dusty. A mil- lionaire i§ trying to open a sardine can with a pocket knife; he is getting the oil on his leopard-skin overcoat. and his lady wife is jawing him—just as if he couldn’'t afford a new leop- ard-skin = coat! Thermon bottles gleam in the sunlight, and there is a vocial demand for more of those chicken sandwiches. It is all very picturesque and agreeable. But after the game! Iour thou- sand automobilés with but a single thought, 4000 engines that beat as one! The songs of alma mater are forgotten in the feverish rush for home, sweet home. It is more than an Fxodus; it is a regular Leviticus. What a scramble! What a fog of smoke! What shrieking of klaxons! What heroic deeds are done by the local and the Trenton police, com- pared with which the performances of the gridiron men were child’s play! y is the Naval Militia? (New Haven Register.) We'll take the Amphitrite and say nothing, say the officers of the Con- necticut naval militia. That's good discipline. That's the mark of the good soldier. “Theirs not to make repl “Theirs not to reason wh But this is America, and the people not only pay for the support of these things, but they have something to say about it. The public in general is not likely to receive as meekly as do the members of the naval militia the assignment to the Connecticut depart- ment of a discarded type of vessel of the model of nearly half century past. ‘Why is the naval militia? If it stands for anything, if it justifies in any d gree thie public money expended on i its purpose is to furnish an auxiliary to the regular naval service. It'should bear to the regular naval equipment the same relation that the state na- tional guards bear to the regular my. 1If we are to increase the nav: arm of the service there should be in the naval militia material from which to officer the recruits. Especially should the men of the naval militia know something about the manager ment and use of the modern ship of war. What can they learn of use from such a vessel as tae outlived monitor? Better have a baby cruiser, or one of the numerons destroyers. At any rate let it be a modern vessel, not a joke. To be sure, the problem of what to do with old vessels of the Amphitrite type—and we have several of them left—is not an easy one. Some of them have been used for targets, but that does not dispose of them fast enough. It- is desirable, no doubt, to keep them in seclusion. Does the navy department a suppose that sending them into Con- necticut waters is sufficient seclusion ? Probably, however, it is consisteng w tne whole attitude of the present ministration toward New England. PLUMES! PLUMES! PLUMES! 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The editor of every local newspa- per in the country has been free in the use of the slogan, ‘“Trade at Home.” His clear understanding of the conditions of his community make it plain to his mind that if his wn or city had what was naturally due it, that the would do a larger business; and while the editor is notoriously an inselfish member of society, he can- not help knowing that he has suffer- ed with the rest of the community. and that his advertising columns have been thinned out by the mail order houses, the big city stores, and the balance of that.sort of fungus that drains the commercial and in- dustrial vitality of the small towns and cities. Examination shows that the loeal merchant sells staple articles of merchandise that are calléd for by name and he maintains the re-sale prices fixed by manufactures—no matter whether the article is break- | fast food, jewelry, shirts or 'socks; and he makes a reasonable profit. -As a “bait” mail order houses cut prices on some of these staple articles, in order to make it appear that they sell cheaper; but their greatest effort is made to sell goods which they claim to be “just | as good,” but which are in most | cases of inferior quality, at prices far above their actual worth. The local merchant must either do | an honorable business, or close up ! shop. His principal competitor drugs, shoes, is the catalogue house and the mail or- der man, and those men actually make a larger percentage of profit olut of their sales than the local mer- | chant, whe is so often mistakenly accused of overcharging. An outrags ed public rebelled against the old- time custom of barter and bargain, | and forced one-price system to be astablished in reputable merchant- dising, but the mail order and cata- logue houses are ‘“beating the old game” 'in a new way. Those are reasons why the Feder- al Trade Commission regards “price regulation” as the biggest question it has to handle. It is expected that the commission and congress will sooner or later put an end to the methods of cut-throat merchandising which are playving havoe with small communities, and doing no good to the large places, or to any- one else excepting the men engaged in these unworthy practices. The Goricar Charges. (Meriden Journal,) Providence Journal, which paper the charges by Dr. Josef « Goricar were made, declares in its issue today that it can prove all that has been said about Gor- icar statements and today some im- portant letters and other documents are printed tq substantiate what Dr. Goricar said Tt is charged that the Austrian government planned to spend many millions here to destroy munitions plants and that the entire Austro-Hungarian consular service in this country was linked in a huge conspiracy to *complish this result. The president has taken the matter under his personal control and or- dered the United States Secret Ser- vice to investigate the whole thing thorolghly nd make the inquiry into Al reported conspiracy arching he possibly can, Chief Flynn will have much to work on and still much to handicap him, If the Austrian government can prove that Dr. Goricar is a discredit- ed man who was discharged from his official position and The through loca® merchants ' | As !injury ‘upon the business if the | dence that he is really seeking re- | venge and not a high minded man | {who would not do what he was or- | dered when the order was to de- | stroy property and take lives in a { country that was friendly to Aus- | tria, then the whole fabric of the ies- | timony will fall. If Goricar is proven | !to be right then there will be a seri- ous break with Austria which will be more important than any. crisis that we have had with Germany, or Eng- land or France. | The president be can depended upon to do his duty as he sees it, to | carry the thing through to the end and demand satisfaction for the way that America’s friendship has hbeen violated. Abolish ghe Tips. H (Norwich Bulletin.) A movement which seems to be headed in the right direction, is that which has been launched by waitress- es of Boston, who at a mass meeting went on record as protesting against the small amount of wages which they receive and the necessity of relying | upon tips to make up the difference between what the employers pay them and what is necessary for existence. Ostrich Plumes Made of first grade male stock. Extremely heavy and broad with wide full head. 18 inches long by 10 inches wide. Come In brilllant glossy black and beautiful white. 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There should be no such thing in this country as a German-American jor a British-American, or an Itallan- | American,” declared Mayor Rudolgn Blankenburg at the City club last night, and continued: ‘I love the beau~ tiful German village where I was born, I love the fatherland, every foot of it, but if any foreign foe should at- tack the United States I should want to be the first man, 73 years old as I am, to shoulder a musket and fight for my country.” Anyone who heard the address ant knew anything of Philadelphia’'s “Grand old man” knew there was no buncombe about that declaration and that the speaker mgant every word of it. It is reported that a certain class of There is no reason why there should | not be a living wage in this in | any other business and the stand | ‘w'hh‘h the waitresses take that their | pay should come from their employ- ers and not from the patrons is a The idea of tips It places waitress- es especially in an undesirable light, to say nothing of giving encourage- ment to a prteice which ought to be abolished. long the proprietors intend that it shall be that way and the waitresses understand that they are to look to patrons, through some neces- sary or unnecessary bit of attention, for the securing of their wages, it re- sults no differently than as {if the whole expense for meals was made in one charge. It would be fairer to the public and decidedly more so to those who serve them, without working any such a plan as proposed was put into effect. It should not mean that adequate wages should be paid and the collec- tion of tips permitted at the same time, but there is unquestionably sound reason in desiring to abandon their rellance upon what they can coax out of the public for their wages- A change in the system would be an excellent thing and with it the tip should be forbidden. | commendable one is entirelyy wrong. as The Waning Livery Stables. (Turners Falls Reporter.) | The livery stables of a town used | | to be very important institutions and | | the size ana character of them were | a very good index, at one time, to the fmportance and quality of a place. But with the Increasing number of automobiles, Fords, motorcycles, etc., the demand for livery stable rigs has dwindled down decidedly, and the keepers of livery and baiting stables | very seldom get a chance to roll in wealth unless the letting of horses snd horse-drawn vehicles is supple- mented by other enterprises. ‘‘Buggy riding” used to be the acme of bliss and desire not so many years ago, and was the one sure road to courtship it not to matrimony, but the time- honored method is much too slow in this age, and while folks still go to' weddings, funerals and christenings behind horses, they don’t do even this if there is a devil wagon to go in instead. The decline and languor | of the livery business is the same everywhere. In Orange, for instance, where there used to be four stables, there is now but one, and where there were 40 horses kept there are now but 15 and this in spite of the large- ly increased population. It is the came story everywhere. Still, the old horse will never entirely go out of vogue. Like the poor, horses will be with us for some time yet. There still | can bring evi- be folk 50 plebian that they like the |that his paper is bl Germans have blamed and denounced Mayor Blankenburg for just the sen- timents he expressed at the City clubx= but we are glad to believe that the great majority of American citizens of German birth or lineage agree cntire- ly with the sturdy old patriot from Philadelphia. Advertising Time Tables. (Indianapolis News) The American traffic associatiog, whose convention at French Lick at- traced transportation officlals from all parts of the country, announces two important changes, one of which deals with efficiency, the other with economy, and both with improved service. The railways In the earlicr deys of the business used to adver- tise train arrivals and departures, But as the systems increased tie tables became so complex and the changes s0 numerous that newspaper advertising was found inconvenient Besides, it was costly, and so the practice was abandoned in most of the larger cities. Travelers were in. formed of extraordinary changes In time by means of newspapers, but for ordinary convenience they had to look to the companies’ folders. Now the old custom Is to be revived and the newspapers are again to be em- ployed to keep the public Informed. The other change which the traffic officials indorsed is the removal of the ticket offices from the prominent streets in the cities to less expensive places so they are still in the ecgn- tral parts of the city. This will prob- ably be done in Indilanapolis, Chi- cago, Louisville and several other large cities. This will reduce the ticket office expense about half, it is believed. Such a measure of econ- omy has been repeatedly advocated by some rajlway men. In Chicago practically all the railroads- enterk that city and many operating else- where maintain elaborate ticket offis ces in the prominent streelts The public has grown so accustomed to this feature that the change may be confusing at firet, but it will bo economical. It would seem to a good nove. The proceedings of the association are of unusual interest at this tinge. The railways have many rate (‘ur plaints Defore the Interstate com- merce commission. They complain of high wages and burdensome taxes, But they desire to serve the publie, for thereby the most profit will come to them. And by restoring time- ables to the newspapers this sers ice will be improved. ern railroad has a strikl ing feature, which tells the traveler that his watch is hid time-tablé~ trains every hour, half-hour or quars ter-hour, With time-fables in newspapers the travelér will realige iable 1 ¢ 3 be