New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 30, 1915, Page 9

‘American Association for Labor Legislation Issues Statement New York, Nov. 30.—In making public the text of the bill for health insurance which is to be promoted in the different legislatures this coming year the American Association For Labor Legislation has issued a state- ment to explain the scope and aims of the proposed law. The main object of the measure, according to the committee responsi- ble for its introduction, is the encour- agement of industrial sanitation and consequent prevention of sickness and the prevention of destitution aris- ing from the loss of wages during the sickness of the wage earners. In the announcement signed by John B. An- drews, secretary of the Association For Labor Legislation it is claimed that the present time is opportune for promoting in America schemes for in- syrance of the health of the workers similar to those which are a proved success in European countries. Plans Most Timely. “The recognized success of work- men’s compensation or accident insur- ance laws in stimulating ‘safety first’ raovements, the beginning of compen- sation for strictly occupational dis- eases, the general awakening of pub- lic interest in the problems of factory and housing sanitation and the' ap- pointment in California of a state commission to study social insurance all make plans for health insurance most timely. Every wage earner should be In- sured so as to receive sick and funer- al benefits for himself and medical care both for himself and his family, with special provision for his wife at times of childbirth, and these princi- ples have been embodied in the bill. Not anly does a well balanced system of health insurance succeed in miti- gating want arising from sickness of the wage earner, which is the most fruitful cause of destitution, but the insurance rating of the health of the worker stimulates movements for the prevention of sickness itself in the same way that the establishment of workmen’s compensation stimulated a “Bafety first” movement for the prevention of industrial accidents. Time Opportune. The committee further points to ex- pressions of opinion from representa- tive men that sickness insurance is necessary and that the time for intro- ducing it i{s opportune. Dr. Lee K. Frankel, director of the welfare work and sixth vice presi- dent of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance company, stated at Philadelphia on Nov. 10, 1915, “The need for sick- hess insurance can no longer be de- ied, and it would be quite simple to Incorporate maternity insurance into o scheme for general sickness insur- ance.’ * Dr. Bevan’s Opinion. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, chairamn f the council on medical education, American Medical association, said in May, 1914, “We are every day coming nearer the time when in this country we shall see laws enacted to provide by some state insurance scheme med- cal care for the poor. If the medi- 1 profession in this country is far- ighted it will recognize these com- ing events.” TFerdinand C. Schwedtman, chair- an industrial betterment committee pf the National Association of Man- facturers, is quoted as saying: “I give it as my opinion that sick- ness insurance of some kind, with ompulsory contributions on tne part pf the employers, will be enacted into aw by many states of the Union with- fn the next five years and that now s the time to go into this subject horoughly.” Opinion of Labor, The opinion of labor, as represent- bd in the Union Labor Bulletin of Beptember 4, 1914, is that “the Am-- BAKING Absolutely Pure Made from Cream of Tartar No Alum—No Phosphate 30, 1915. POWDER erican Association for Labor Legis- lation is the proper body to propose and carry on to fruition plans for sickness insurance. x X x Labor representatives and organizations will lend every aid to such a campaign, understanding best of all, because of individual and collective experience, the economic loss to tne nation be- cause of sickness:” . The social insurance committee, which is responsible for the launch- ing of the health insurance program in this country, in itself promisgs strong backing for the proposal, as it comprises among its members recog- nized leaders and authorities on social® matters. The sommittee includes Dr. Edward T. Devine, director’ of the New York School of Philanthropy; Dr. S. S. Goldwater, commissioner of the department of health, city of New York; Dr. I. M. Rubinow, author of social insurance; Dr- Henry R Seager, rofessor of economics at Columbia; Dr, Alexander Lambert of Bellevue hospital, Dr. C. W. Doten of Boston, secretary Amerfican Statistical asso- ciation; Dr. Henry J- Harris, library of congress, Washington; Miss Lillian D. Wald of the Nurses’' Settlement, Miles M. Dawson of New York and others. EMBARGO ON EXPORT STEEL. B. & O. Railroad Takes Action Re- garding New York Terminal. Pittsburg, Nov. 30.—Announce- ment by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road yesterday of an embargo on steel products for export passing through the New York terminal will not seri- ously affect this district, only about twenty-five cars a day being shipped to that point, while some eighty cars make up the steel trains for Philadel- phia and Baltimore. Much of this freight, railroad officials said, was for rope. Reports from other railroads lead- ing to the east indicate that every precaution is being taken to prevent added congestion at als. Three thousand cars loaded with export steel were said to be in the yards at Hollidaysburg, Pa. ‘This material, valued at approximately $10,000,000 consists Jargely of steel car parts, wheels, etc., for Russia, which will be routed through the Panama Canal. There is also a con- siderable tonnage of bridge steel. COFFEY K. O.’s SMITH. Gunboat Goes to Mat in Fourth Round After Taking Walloping. Atlantic termin- | COST OF LIVING HIGHER IN FRANCE Dealers Seek. to Corner Cheese— Price of Beel Increasing (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Paris, Nov. 1l.—Louis Malvy, min- ister of the interior, speaking of the outery of retail provision dealers and consumers against rising prices of meats and certain provisions, says: “If the situation is serious it is not alarming. I am under the impression that the meaures already taken by the government and those that will be taken will remove all danger of fur- ther increases and will provoke some decreases.” A prominent member of the provis- ion committee of the central .markets sums up the situation this way: ‘‘Paris was spoiled by the astonishing- 1y low cost of living during the first months of the war. It is character- istic of the Parisian to consider all benefits once enjoyed as acquired ! rights. On the other hand certain dealers seem to have been intoxicated by stories of fabulous war profits made by certain categories of merchants and manufacturers; they don’t intend to be | left out of it if they can help it. There A BEAUTIFUL WINTER SUIT CUT REDINGOTE “Nigger brown” broadcloth, banded with muskrat, is featured here. The long coat has a demibelt and irregu- collar- an interesting. feature. GONTAINERS SHOULD " BE STANDARD SIZE sity to Farmers Chicago, Nov. 30.—Charles you have the explanation of the pres- ent conflict between the wholesale and | | retail provision dealers and the con- foreign ports other than those in Eu- | sumer: the consumer prices and the dealer wants w profits. There is ppy medium somewhere and the government will | probably find it.” Corner Cheese. 1 This conflict has made the cheese pavilion at the Central market one of the liveliest spots in Paris in the | early morning hours. It appears that certain dealers have been trying to run | a corner in camembert; the women of the Paris creameries are after them with sharp tongues and decayed vege- tables. From four to twelve cents a cheese in June, 1914, camembert has gone up to thirteen to twenty cents. At these prices it is often unobtainable even at the opening of the market and when buyers ask why, the commission wants peace New Yorq, Nov. 30.—Jim Coffey, the Irish heavyweight knocked out Gunboat Smith of this city in the fourth round of their fight at Madi- son Square Garden last night. The fight was a hard one from the start. Coffey had the advantage nearly all the way and punished his opponent severely. Coffey weighed 202 pounds and Smith 180 1-2. The knockout came after one min- utes and fifty-five seconds of fighting in the fourth round. Coffey landed a hard blow on the body and ten Linonine A Great Home Remedy or Coughs and Colds Linonine brings relief, even the most stubborn cases, and he world of medicine knows no urer curative agent for bron- hial afflictions than Linonine. hen the throat is parched and e Jungs sore with severe colds e flaxseed oil in Linonine romptly relieves this condi- lon, and the other ingredients et to work to remove the in- ammation from membrane and ssue. AND IT DOESN'T MATTER HAT FORM OF COLD YOU AVE, LINONINE IS WHAT OU WANT. LAX"SEED ,,, B 8’5 f » seconds later put a whole right swing to the jaw, which sent Smith down for the count. Coffey made a better fight than he did recently when he lost to Frank Moran. He was stead- jer and used better judgment night. = AGAINST SUMMER BALL. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 30.—The University of Minnesota Athletic Board of Control yesterday voted to recommend that Minnesota’s ballot in the annual Big Nine conference meet- ing in Chicago next Saturday be cast in favor of retaining the present ama- teur code which forbids playing of summer baseball by conference ath- letes. The board’s action was a sur- prise. A few weeks ago the student body declared in favor of abolishing the present amateur code. AS WE GROW OLDER our minds are quite as active as in former years but our strength does not respond when we need it most; perhaps the kidneys are weak, the liver torpid, rheumatic pains or stiffened joints beset us, and we cannot easily throw off the colds that winter brings. What we need is the rich cod liver oil in Scett’s Emulsion to renew the blood and carry strength to every organ of the body,whileitsglycerinesoothestheres- piratory tract, and its hypophosphites | strengthen the excitable nerves. Scott’s Emulsion is a scientific oil- food, of unusual benefit to those past fifty years—particularly during the colder seasons, it imparts warmth and Creates strength. One bottle will prove its worth. No alcohol or harmful drugs. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. 15-3% last, | merchants say all their receipts have ' been bought up by telegraph and tele- phone. Such sales are not according | to market rules. All receipts should be sold the day received by word of mouth, and one dealer who replied in this way was obliged to take to cover before the indignation of cheese | mongers, who saw high piles of cases | of camembert in front of them but not a box for sale. s The monopolizers of camembert and other provisions are merchants in the zone of the armies who are mak- ing high profits out of soldiers and are able to outbid the Paris retail dealer. A maximum tariff for all provisions sold at the front is a remedy proposed by the prefect of police, thus limiting dealers’ profits and preventing ab normal prices. Just why this conflict broke out in the name of camembert does not ap- ‘pear. Brie cheese has advanced quite | as much and all other varieties are from fifty per cent. to a hundred per cent. higher. Eggs have also gone up i a hundred per cent., selling now at | from thirty-five to fifty cents a dozen | wholesale, according to grade. But- ter which averaged twenty-two cents a pound a year ago has gone to thirty- | seven cents. This butter and egg question developed a violent incident at the Caen market yesterday when a merchant asking exorbitant prices and replying insolently to a customer’s | complaint suffered ‘the mortification | | of posing as a target for his own stock | used as projectiles by the indignant | Ppublie. Cold Storage Beef. The introduction of cold storage beef | into the market has failed of the an- | ticipated effect on price and the rea- | son given is that the stockyards peo- ple at La Villette who look askance at | the imported article have been able | to bring sufficient pressure to bear | upon retail dealers to prevent a fav- | orable presentation of congealed beef. It is declared that in some cases the I imported article was ‘“made up” so | as to repel prospective buyers. Gov- ernment officials declare, however, that where the imported meat has béen put on the market properly it has been an unqualified success. Com petent judges say that for roast and steaks it is even superior to the fresh French beef, and the expressed deter- mination of the authorities is that it must be made to go. In the mean- time, fresh meats continue about twenty-five per cent. higher than be- fore the war. | | | | i U. . tola the Marketing and standardization ‘o quality and as to size package necessary as Lasis for price quotation. department of agriculture, National Conference on A Credits that products as type of accurate He said Farm of farm and is an tween the price paid by and the price received by producers. legislation under the weights and nieasures power of the constitution. Mr. Brand said.in part: ‘““We can never have much progress until the buyer and the seller are ciscussing the commodity in the same terms, and that means that we must hLave grades and standards not only as to quality, but as to packages and containers. In order to get an ac- curate idea of the diversity which | prevails in this latter regard, C. T. | ture has made a collection showing containers current in the trade. 1 | assure you it is a motely horde, and is in itself a complete argument'for standardization. “New York has one set of grape haskets, Michigan another, and still other grape territories other kinds. fome of them look very much like others, but contain less. Such con- fusion furnishes endless opportunity tor manipulation and even dishonesty, Tn the case of strawberry boxes, not only is there exceedingly great varia- \ion in the cubic contents, but it is a common practice to repack from containers of greater capacity to those of less in distributing in and to the | retail trade. Likewise with peaches, the successful commercial orchardist racks his peaches according to the buys his own fruit he finds that where he had packed as high as 36 to cach four-quart basket, the retailer has repacked only 19 to 25 peaches in | the same basket, “Under the weights and measures power of the constitution congress has 1ecently established the standard bar: rel for apples, cranberries and certain other fruits. This act becomes effec- tive July 1, 1916. Undoubtedly this Tarrel will replace a large number of chort measure packages which are veed for potatoes, truck crops, fruit an dother things, and which vary in capacity from two bushels up to ten or twelve pecks. The standardization of apple boxes, berry crates and cups, ond other containers is under con- sideration and we may look forward to progress with reference to these.” CONNECTICUT STATE Hartford, Nov. 30. annual session of the State Grange will be Guard armory Tuesday, . Wednesday and Thursday, January 11, 12 and 1 There are two reasons for especial in- terest: to Hartford after meeting elsewhere the past two years and the annual GRANGE. Connecticut | election of officers for the bi-ennial West | command of the b term. Frederick E. Duffy of mentioned for state master held a t Foot The organization comes back | | | France. | official representative of the Creusot | works and all the other iron and steel OUR FOREIGN TRADE GOOD FOR YEARS. French, Certainly, Cannot Com- pete with America | (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Paris, Nov. 12.—That the volume of business between the United States and Europe will not cease with the war, that the United States will not for several years have to fear Euro- pean competition in manufactured products, is the opinion expressed here by Robert Pinot, general sec- retary of the Comite des Forges de This organization is the and the French manufacturers of France medium through which the government is now securing large quantities of war munitions for the use of the French and Russian ar- mies. In an interview Mr. Pinot said: Look To U. S. “It is unfortunately true that we must look to the United States for several years to supply us with money or credits and with raw and manu- factured materials. I say this is unfortunately true because I realize that we will be working for the next twenty years to pay what we owe. Not before that time can we begin | to put any profits in our own pockets. The fear that so soon as the war is ended the manufacturers now busy making arms and cannon and shells will convert ‘their factories into the making of products to compete with yours is ungrounded. Not Superhuman. “While we French iron and steel men have been doing surprising work in our munitions, while we are turn- tories, while our people have shown a marvelous example of improvision, while we have done all this with our best plants and our mines in the hands of the Germans, we are not lar front, fastening with a snug high | The tailored slit pockets are | Reform of This Character Neces- | | % !w(th us long after the war is over, to Brand, chief of the bureau of Mar- | follow up and establish himself in that accuracy of standards in selling | products means a smaller margin be- | consumers | home market, but we were beginning More, of the department of agricul- | the size and types of packages and | size of the fruit, and often when he | I superhuman. We cannot turn around so soon as the war is over and begin flooding your home markets, because | of our cheaper labor, or compete with | you in your foreign markets. How | can we? We will first have the enormous task of rebuilding our old steel plants of reconverting our auto- | mobile, button, cloth, printing, and | railroad shops, all now busy making | munitions, back to their old uses. | We will have to try to repair the vast | material destruction that has come | with the war. Then we will have to do our best to satisfy our own home markets. To do these things we will | have to continue to buy of your, as | we are now doing for war supplies. Good Roads Demanded. “What chance is there for the American to do a steady business the business now begun? I am not a and the war is not yet over. itut here a fact to be considered by the American manufacturer. So far as concerns France, we iron and stcel men had begun to do a surpris- ing business in the few years before the war. We were not only filling the demands made in this line on the prophet, is to go into the foreign trade. France He thought standardization of con-| had almost ceased to be an agricul- teiners a proper subject for federal | tural nation. I believe, too. that our | products were the most perfectly made in the world. They were made to stand up, to wear. I won’t say that we were right in manufacturing this way, that the American method is not the better; but our customers de- manded long wearing articles, and we satisfied their demands. An Ameri- can locomotive. is built to last seven years, a condition the American must raeet in future competition with us.” American Cotton. In connection with the reconstruc- tion of the French factories destroved in the North of France, referred to Ly Mr. Pinot, a current report indi- cates increasing imports of cotton from the United States and shows that France is now using more American cotton than ever before the war. The totals for the first eight months of this year of such imports were six million metric quintals of 100 kilos each. Before the war France had 7,200,000 cotton spindles and 120,000 looms. At the end of 1914 but 25 per cent., or 800,000 were in operation, due to the German in- vasion of the Vosges and Lille dis- tricts. Now 40 per cent. or 3,000,000 | spindles are in operation with 4,200,- 000 still idle. Need Railway Supplies, There is a prospect for large orders ot American railway supplies being | placed in France. The northern and | ! eastern railways suffered severely by | the German invasion, and the other | four large railway systems are badly | in need of new material of all kinds. | While the latter four railways have, during the present year, earned oves | | 70 per cent. of their normal receipts both for freights and passengers, they | aelayed placing orders for new ma- | terial until this fall. So far Ameri- can car firms have taken orders for 110,000 freight cars, March delivery. Other orders amounting to more than | twenty million dollars were being | rlaced by the French roads when the Palkan situation interfered with avail- able ocean freights and now these orders are either being delayed or be- | ing placed in England. The Southern Railway ordered 1,000 cars from a Belgian firm newly established in Spain when this freight situation de- veloped, otherwise this order would | | | | | The thirty-first | kave gone to an American firm. ASSIGNED TO WAR COLLEGE. Washington, Nov. 30.—Captain S. E. W. Kittelle, of the cruiser Mary- land, which has been placed in re- serve at Mare Island Navy yard, has been assigned to the navy war col- lege at Newport, R. I. Captain A. P. Niblack, recently relieved from attleship Michigan, Hartford is among the prominent men | also has been ordered to the war col- 1 ege. ing out more than the English fac- | | WHERE HINDENBURG CONTINUES HIS FIGHT | f | HUGEST REAL DEAL IN THE W0 Buying Out of Irish Landlol British Government Chicago, Nov. 30.—How the h real estate deal in the history world was consummated by British government buying ou Irish landlords and reselling the | perty to the tenants was told t Secretary Charles W. Holman of National Conference on Mark] and Farm Credits to that bod | sessions here. MAP OF FIGHTING ON RUISIAN FRON The map shows the important points in R\elssin. where the Germfan advancs has halted. According to one report the Germans ordered the evacuation of Mitau, an important point and their forward base. The German objective in this campaign has been the capture of Riga. Winter sets in early in those parts, and already there are reports of the freezng of the ground to such depth that the digging of trenches is How the principle so suce Ireland could be administer America was explained by the who recently returned from Britain where he made a stud Irish land registration and admin tion. Holman urged the adopti congress of that section of the of the United States Comm Industrial Relations which dealt the land problem. He wasin of the fleld studies made by the mission. Hope of Farm Tenant. “In state aid of land purchase, said, “lies the immediate hope o American farm tenant, for by means only can we hope for & action to stem the growing tid) landlordism." Secretary Holman credited aided land purchase in Ireland these benefits: Increase of Occupiers. The industry of occupiers has creased; Farm houses and farm buildings have improved; the dency to sell interests in land h creased; the tendency to sublet divide holdings has become &l dormant; the solvency of the ipiers has improved. There is & ing of contentment; a prevalene law and order that did not exist impossible, AMERICAN FARMERS SHOULD ORGANIZE First Minister of 'Agriculture of Ireland Declares Chicago, Nov. 30.—Declaring that America should launch a citizenship movement for the organization among farmers of self-help, the Right Hon- orable Sir Horace Plunkett, K. C. V. O. of Dublin, Ireland, last night ad- dressed the opening session of the Third National Conference on Market- ing and Farm Credits, speaking to delegates from forty states. The speaker came across the ocean to address it as the first of a series of talks and conferences that he will hold throughout the United States, with the end in view of organizing Ameri- can agriculture. He was the first minister of agriculture of Ireland and called the “father of the Irish co- operative movement,” which has un- der its wings 105,000 Irish farmers organized into 1,000 co-operative so- cieties. ‘Weak Rural Spot. He described the weak spot in American rural economics as being a lack of business organization among farmers. He dwelt upon the chaotic conditions that accompany the mar- keting of farmers’ products and the purchasing of farmers’ supplies. He showed how the cities of America and other nations have been developed at the expense of the countryside. He declared the time is ripe for all pub- lic spirited persons to interest them- selves in the fundamental! develop- ment of agriculture. “They must get together,” he said, “they must eliminate waste, or Amer- ica will fall behind more competent nations.” America Farming Country. He showed how the co-operative movement of Europe has stood the test of the greatest crises in the world’s history and dwelt at length upon the sharpening of the business ability of the co-operative managers as a result of present stringent condi- tions. Not only must America learn to organize her food supply, he said, to meet critical periods such as war, but America must prepare for the great international competition which is bound to strike the American farmer keenest since he is farthest behind in organization for his own interest. This damage to the farmer will be | reflected in every other industry; for America is still dominantly a farm- ing country, said Sir Horace. “Allow me to utter the warning which will have to be faced in the United States and Canada, as well as | in the United Kingdom, in France, in | Germany and in other countries,” he continued. “This relates to the very vital problem of co-operative finance, both what is called ‘long term’ or ‘real credit’ and ‘short term’ or ‘per- sonal credit.’ Finance is, indeed, a vital part of the co-operative organ- ism. Nothing More Vital. ““There is nothing more vital for the der landlord and tenant relations. “What a contrast this against the American movement wards tenancy!” the speaker sald, Illinois, Towa, Kansas, New Ohio, and Pennsylvania tenant mers have increased by 121,167, the number of home owning has actually decreased by 62,915, in Texas and Oklahoma we find the saddest disillusionment of I ican hopes for home owne Forty years ago Texas had § tenant families. That number prised 37.6 per cent. of all the in the state. In 1910 the tenant mers had increased to 219,671, made 53 per cent. of all the farm the state. “In Oklahoma 54.8 per cent of state is in the hands of tenant mers and in the 47 counties w] tenancy is highest the perc: runs to 68.13. 2,400,000 Homeless Families “If we take the twenty-five prosperous states of the union states that produce the greater of the cotton, corn, dairy wheat the fruit stuffs of the nation, may easily estimate 2,400,000 hox less families who have not survi the competitive pressure for I ownership. In these same stal the concentration of land owne is progressing at a speed that is less than tragic. “In the Southwestern states, rate of tenant increase over the hol owning increase is two to one. the middle western states of Illing Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and Towa tenants are becoming more num ous than home owners. “America cannot evade this gro ing land question. The Amerioc people must recognize that ours is last of the first-class countries recognize the need of fixing upon sound land policy. How to redi tribute the population upon the laj how to care for the inswarming in migrants, how to readjust the rel tion of city to country must be Y great issues of the immediate future| WILSON WILL READ ADDRESS TO CONGRES President Completed Document Night and it Went To the Public Printer Today. Washington, Nov. 30.—Presiden Wilson's address to congress went the public printer today. The Pro dent put in the whole of yesterda at work on the document, completing it last night. The message, which is comparative: ly brief, will be read by the Presi dent at a joint session of the tw houses of congress a week from today) It deals primarily with national pry paredness, other questions on whig! the President hopes to see legislation being left for treatment in other ad cresses to be read to congress aftel the Christmas holida HEAD STUFFED FROM CATARRH OR A COLD Says Cream Applied in Nostrils Opens Air Passages Right Up. oo Pl B b PP co-operative movement than that it | should clearly sound also a note of | self-help. Looking not only to the future of America, but at the move- ment in the old world today, what I see stirs the depths of my feelings, that while the state must give its aid to the co-operative movement, it must scek to obtain for it the greatest pos- | sible freedom.” | DR. GREIL TO LECTURE. { Rome, Nov. 29, 10:30 p. m.—Dr. Cecile L. Greil of New York, one of the survivors of the steamer Ancona, | is arranging to deliver in the principal | Itallan towrsa series of lectures on | ! ner dramatic experiences for the ben- la Instant relief—no waliting, Yo clogged nostrils open right up; the aly passages of your head clear and you can breathe freely. NoO more hawk- ing, snuffing, blowing, headache, dry- ness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or cartarrh disap- pears. Get a small bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pens etrates through every air passage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and re- llef comes instantly, It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed-up with a cold or nasty cartarrh.