New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, The gentleman stretched himself out ifor the shave, closed his eyes, and | cocked his ears waiting for the usual | rapid-fire of converse. But, alas! The barber said not a word, he merely kept on shaving. i man was amazed. Had he suddenly | | gone deaf? No, he could hear other barbers at 'other chairs talking and shaving their clients to death; but | | his own barber said not a word, he; ! merely kept on shaving. Surely then | this barber was deaf, thought the man | in the chair. But, the artistry of | barbery completed, when the old | | gentleman started to sally forth from ;the shop he heard the very musical | voice of the barber at chair number six wishing him a very pleasant jour- y. The barber had said, as is the custom, “‘Cail Again!”,—the only words he uttered. And the old gentle- nian, much bewildered, hailed a pass- ing hansom cab, drove immediately home, and made out his will. He be- queathed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars to the barber at chair number | six at the Astor Hotel barber shop, having previously learned the name The tidal wave ¢ prosperity | ©f the master of the razor. And he detal Vine We are | #ave this sum because he had gotten ling in good times, drenched in | that much joy out of a silent shave BDiie. buteher making | Because barbers, like followers of because people have the nec- cther professions, are given to much Wherewithal. - The baker is | ambling about the country, the keeper & overtime because more | °f ¢h s needed ‘to keep the hard | Vefore 8 going. The shoemen, BRITAIN HERALD ly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. rald Bullding, 87 Church St t the Post Office at New Britaln Second Class Mall Matter. by carricers to any part of the city ‘ents & Week, 85 Cents a Month. ons_ for parsr to be sent by mall aple In advance, 60 Cents a ! Month, $7.00 a year. J profitable advertising medium in y. Circulation books and press m always open to advertisers. 1d will be found on sale at Hota- ews Stand. 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk, otic City and Rartford depot. = TBLEPHONE CALLS. fce . 925 S| ED FOR THE U. S. A. ess men from ‘various parts country assembled in conven- New York are unanimous in eclarations that this the | rosperous year sedén the States in many decades. Every every city, every town, every | all are enjoying bounteous | 1 1] is in « land is L r number six waited eight years he got the reward of his But he got it, and today he is the proudest barber in the world. the | Sitence. mals for gery. authoritativ a master of surgery. Art of speech making, by N. C. dinner speech to the sermon. as well as ¢ overlooked. What to wear.” Black and white ne matter.” —N Carly furnish the lay reader with a simple, || COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED 1 IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK The old gentle- | snimal experimentation and medical Woman’s work in municipalities, by | Mrs. M. R. Beard. “In grappling with the problems of education, public health, the recre- ation, the assimilation of races, hous- ing, social servite, corrections, pub- lic safety, civic improvement, gov- ernment and administration, the au- | thor records woman’s achievements, as represented in urban communities in various parts of the United States. not alone the large cities. Suggestive and inspiring to individuals and clubs.”—A. L. A. Booklist. ERE Fiction. Bent twig, by Mrs. D. F. Fisher. “An interesting and thoughtful novel, a vivid portrayal of an uncon- ventional professor's family in | middle west university. The contra: between their unassuming simplicity and fineness and the more spectacular andards of the social leaders of the town makes a test for proving the character of Sylvia. The other characters are true to type, the { mother is a positive inspiration. A. L. A. Booklist, e o by W. J. Burns and Tsabal ander. A detective story. w o progr by W. W. Keen. “A justification and more than a ustification of experiments on ani- | the advancement of the cience and art of medicine and sur- The essays are complete, final, they are the work of Nature. x5 o Fow- ler, Jr. “Speeches of all kinds are con- idered by the author, from the after Many peakers could profit by his example by his advice. The final hapter treats of a subject that, al- hough important, might have been .. in the southern states, a study of the race probh- lem in the United States from a South African point of view, by | Maurice S. Evans. ¢ w ow ‘atholic democracy, Individualism and socialism, by Henry C. Day. Tt has the special merit of clear- in the presentation of subject ation. Crevice, O: * » Janice Day and The Testing of Janice Day, by H. B. Long. - Man from Bitter Roots, by Caroline Lockhart. dyeing in Germany and America, with a chapter on colour produc- tion, by S. H. Higgins. ¥ x o church from Ignatius to Au- gustine, by George Hodges. “The Lowell lectures for 1908. They = ox Steppe. and other stories, by Anton Tchekhov. DRy Topographical Items With War Interest P ‘Washington, D. C. Dec. 2—With the coming of the relief armies landed by the Allies for the succor of the hard- | pressed Servians, the tradesmen of | the Greek port Saloniki, say the re- ports from the Near East, have flour- ished as seldom before, and Dunmeh, Jew and Greek are said to have found this stage of the world-war a special windfall for themselves. Wealth is Very uuevenly distributed in this lit- tle port, where Greek, Jew and Bulgar have been held to poverty through years of Turkish administration. There is, however, one very rich clique in Saloniki, which is described in the following war primer just issued by the National Geographic Society. “First among Saloniki’s citizerts of Wwealth, who are now enjoying the op- portunity of purveying in wholesale auanities to French and British sold- iers, are the Dunmehs, a sect, or rather a community peculiar to the city. They are Jews, who, the stranger is told, have been converted to Moham- medanism. Just how successful their conversion really was no one knows, but there is an interesting legend which embodies the traditions of their establishment. The story is that some centuries ago a certain Jew of Salon- iki, Sabatia Sevi by name, became | convinced that he was the Savior prophesied for his race. He declared himself to his people in Saloniki as their long-awaited redeemer, and soon won a strong and enthusiastic | following. The Turkish Sultan, un- willing that redeemers should flourish rights to gather tiths for the govern- ment at Constantinople. Today, with their advantages of wealth, | they form a most exclusive cast of Sa- | loniki contractors and merchants.” “The Vardar River Valley.” “The Vardar river valley, where the Bulgarians and French have been | dead-blocked now in a desperate presents a battle-ground almost as un- favorable as that along which the Austrians and Italians are contend- ing,” says a war primer given out to- day by the National Geographic So- ciety. “Below Uskup this valley is formed by the alternation of wild gorges and small, mountain-ribbed plateau. Tt is dominated by one bare rocky peak or mountain shoulder aft- er another, and along its entire course | is protected by countless natural strongholds. Here cutting deep grooves through the cliffs and there | emerging for a brief course on a plain whose bowl may be dominated by mountain-placed artillery on every hand, the problem of forcing their way down the Vardar's course is, likely, the most severe physical prob- lem confronting the Bulgarians. “The Vardar rises in two branches near the Albanian boundary, which flow north and unite just before the river reaches Uskup. Here it swoops east and southeast through its chaos of hills and crags toward the south- | eastern corner of Servia and the Gre- McMILLAN’S BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Warm Winter Coats | cliff—and—canyon struggle of weeks, | for 300 Children ‘At Ong-Third to One-Half Less Than Regular Price That's Just What This Sale Means and this is how it happened: A Broadway New York Manufacturer going out of business offered us his entire - lg men, all who have things to Yery readable sketch of the growth cian frontier. It empties into the He has shown that to be great in any walk of life a selling because thcre are pur- o in the land. The dcmand for ! man has to do some- ter of the fifth century These twain, by Arnold Bennett. “This volume completes the story of the “Clayhanger” and “Hilda Les f the church down to the first quar- i contemporary under the crescent, or that a danger- ous fanatic power the more should | develope under his sway, had Sabatai | Gulf of Saloniki 12 miles southwest of Saloniki port. From Uskup on, Uiing out of the ordinary. And he| Roman conditions, the rise of mon- ways.” is great; the supply is to the deménd, and there re. © So long as such | lons last the nation = will be frous. And, from present in- ns, when young 1916 comes along in a high-powered mo- to shove 1915 off the highway, Better Times will bé sitting in | nneau telling the chauffeur to go. And the destination will A, A HAPPY THOUGHT. le John Wanamaker, who des- himself as a shop-keeper, was Y He wa ulk,—he sim barber and he didn’t ly kept on shaving. o UP, MEN, AND AT ’EM. If things keep going on as they have been in the past week or so, it will not be surprising to see a small battle, if not a war, staged in our own United States, and the fighting will take place between the so-called paci- fists, the peace-at-any-price people, and the warriors bold, or those who ad- vocate ‘‘preparedness.”” Henry Ford and William Jennings Bryan would be naturally selected to lead the paci- fists and paltrons, as Colonel Roose- engaged in telling an audience | velt calls them, while the Colonel him- vhy he could not make that| seif would mount a charger and get long journey on Henry Ford’s! out ahead of the iron men. There fed peace mission, the great | would be women in this war, too. lelphian cast upon the ears Jane Addams, of course, would be se- ditors the following happy | lected to take care of the hospital end, jht:—“We have a right to be | while on the opposite side Dr. Mary of our French, our English. | Walker might find a place. President | elglan, and our German blood; | Wilson and former President Taft | e must remember that first, | would probably be drawn into the fray pnd all the time we are Ameri- | if it lasted long enough. We suggest As Americans we are neutral | that this battle, if it must be staged, be put on in the Yale bowl for the benefit of European war sufferers. n th W of | ( in m s H a we are to be neutral we should keep so.” It would be well ery man on American soil to that idea and paste it in We must never forget we icans, however proud we our foreign ancestral blood. at this particular time it is good place in which to dwell. | [America. Further, it is good for foul to think upon the fact that re Americans, that we are not oiled in the terrible ravages of that we are at peace with the d, that we are neutral. Surely | is & happy thought, and one well | h while dwelling upon. o et Query. To the Editor of the Herald: ‘Will you kindly tell me what states- man of the Civil War period is repre- sented by the character called Stone- man in the photo-play, “The Birth of a Nation”? are may A. a Thaddeus Stevens, moner from Vermont, is the man de- picted by the radical Stoneman. Just before the outbreak of the war be- tween the states Stevens went with the mass of the Northern Whig party over into the ranks of the new Republican party, serving as a member in the House of Representatives. His drastic methods proposed for conducting the | 1 war won him many enemies. He ad- | vocated the wholesale confiscation of the seceding states, the emancipation and enfranchisement and social equality of the negroes. His views were so radical that even members of the war party disagreed with him. Stevens lived long enough after the Civil War to take a leading person of the male sex gets out | Part in the unsuccessful impeachmeAnt | the chair without having had | ©f President Johnson. He also wit- lous quantities of jargon and d nessed the admission of the first in- be poured into his unprotected stallment of reconstructed states. He the master of the lather and brush in 1792, died in 1863.— d because of the adept manner in ich most barbers stuff bubbly soap heir customers’ mouths, thus pre- pting any questions or answers emit- & from the patient, the conversa- I in & barber shop is usually rather -sided. This is one of the reasons ' kn shave at home, so 'tis | There are in this office some five or [But now for every six communications, any one of which an exception. And so it is even| Would make good reading; fth barbers. There has beem dis-| cannot let them see cold print unless | ered one of the craft who is not, | We know more of the senders. When i nature or accomplishment, a talka- letter- man. He has been unearthed in confidentially.— ount Holly, N. J. After strenuous orts on' the part of a New York | firm, involving an eight months’ ur of the nation, looking into every bok crannie, Turkish bath, and bar- | r shop, the great and only silent prber has been ferreted out. And jhen found he was promptly handed ! the great Com- || t D THE BARBER SHAVING:” who make barbery their work have been, for one reason | pnother, characterized as men of ds and not of deeds although fhap while they are talking on are usually shaving off. Led to pat in any tonsorial parior by the activeness of a red and white ally striped pole, it is seldom that | KEPT ON ose lands in 1 was born (Ed.) While the Herald appreciates let- ters from its readers, in justice to all concerned of these letters unless the name and {he address of the writer are known. it can never publish any 0 said. rule chere must but we | requested, -the name of writer will be held Ed. any Views From the Trenches, (Bridgeport Farmer.) The news of yesterday gave two views of war, the first by an American football player, Florence J. Price, who | serving in the French trenches, | the other from Car! Schultz, a private | | eheck for the munificent sum of | Who deserted from the German ranks, and came to this country s a stowa- | n thousand dollars,—a : reward | yay. The former s Life is safer his curtailment of the Powers of | here in this trench, than in England.” eech. The other said: “My father and | Here Is how it all happened. brother wcre both killed in the r twelve years ago this particular trenches. 1 don't want to be sent]| arber was working at chair number back.” the difference between these ix in the Astor House barber shop New York. Vviews to be attributed to the different | spirits of the men who utter them, pt very dignified mien came in the hop and emsconsed himself in the cr to difference in the service they presilled over by this barber. Two Ten | | One day a gentleman have seen? Probably to both. War 1s certainly more terrible than the ex- perience of Mr. Price would indicate. 1 the Fathers. treatment of his subject and clarity students as well.—A. L. A. Booklist. ¥ight for peace, by S. L. Gulick. combine in an for world peace. to Mexico. such questions as and Asiatic immigration. Approaches point of view, and presents a structive program slow and power.”—A. L. A. Book Happy art of catching men, by the origin and growth of the C: -my-pal the British Isl —A. ing down to 135 A. D., intended as the Biblical narrative closely, giving later events reference Josephus and the Apocrypha. Clear- | ly written, based on wide study, puts essential facts within the easy grasp of beginning students.”—A. L. House that junk built, by J. R. Mec- able, ligion strikes a he: midst of the discord by new thought converts and frenzied revivalists days.”—Boston Transcript. since its general reading woul to bring the public to a bettes zation of the actual injury which they Memoirs and Correspondence of Co- very careful and in many ways a very attractive picture of one of the most | original Englishmen of his time, and | one of the sincerest poets.”—Times. familiar thoughts of great men, may ! here read the letters, ranging half a century, sons, each notable in art or letters, or in intellectual activities of their day. Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Browning, Holman Hunt, Woolner, Millais, Ro- | setti, man, are amongst the many who at fidences with the Moonbeams from the Need for art in life, by J. B. Stough- of the age.”—Boston Transcript. | Political very brief, of the political Norman Angell. Written by an Oxford teacher, petent, and is fairly the modern Oxford tical Songs of and shovel, the world, these grimly the “long, lopping, hurrying lines” of which early ballads. Trade union sticism, and the life and work The of author’s liberal xox o Under the tricolour, by Pierre Mille. “The author of these stories has done for the French colonial sol- dier what Kipling did for the Eng- lish “Tommy” in India. “There are tales of mystery, tra- gedy, humor, all equally well told, and all original and entertaining.”— lBoston Transcript. saw Up the road with Sallie, by Sterrett. “A very slight but amusing story.” —A. L. A. Booklist. o Why not?, by Margaret Widdemer. “Rosamond had never had her own way, so when her grand-uncle left her three thousand dollars she de- cided to use it to make some things | she wished come true. “Why not?” atch | A house in the woods somewhere, a Movement. ' Livonian bloodhound, a knightly lov- S0 rapidly over 'er, some one to look up to her. Of s and which has been | course it all came true in one way troduced, here A human docu- !or another.”—A. L. Booklist. ent. which reveals the author's in- vired devotion toward the work.” | L. A. Booklist. f presentation will be appreciated by | EEE “Urges that American churches aggresive campaign Formulates a defi- ite plan of procedure with regard China and Japan, and race assimilation | . R he problem from the international con- with ‘“‘originality, i st. PR R, J. Patterson. “An interesting, sincere account of Temperance hich has spread FFACTS AND FANCIE 2 T 'ranza will hold an election just as soon as he holds enough of Mexi- co to hold it in.—Binghamton Press. istory of the Sanders. . s ““An outline of Bible history, com- Hebrews, by F. K. Now there is a protest in Chicago against “tag days.” The wave of re- form has struck the Western metropo- lis full force.—Philadelphia Ledger. text for Bible study. Tt follow: Fspter and verse references; is made for to The ailies say they want to assure themselves of Greece’s neutrality. Germany assured herself of Belgium'’s some time ago.—Pittsburg Dispatch. it . Booklist. * . —— The latest diplomatic interchanges in Burope indicate that nobody knows what the aim of the war is beyond the fact that it is dcadly-—New York Sun. | Mahon. | * prophets, . deals of the Driver. “Professor Driver's style is admir- by S. R. and his continual emphasis on | he higher cmotional factor in re- 1thy note in the ant sounds made the of our modern | The incident which ogcurred at the meeting of the Friends of Peace in New York last week makes jne won- der how much longer treasonable acts can be tolerated.—-Rochester Herald. o cts and man, by C. A. Ealand. It should have a large audience, d help r reali- ns Attorney General ‘VVoodbur_v will not let a widow draw a pension for children not her own, unless she adopts them legally. There are limits ance of the limits is worth while.— ive from Brooklyn Eagle. the insect world.—N. Y. Times. . “If Mr. Roosevelt ever goes to the ventry Patmore, by Basil Champ- | front it will_be with a rifle in his neys { hands.” says The London Mail cor- | “Mr. Champneys has produced a | respondent. Rifle nothing! It will be a forty-two-centimeter howitzer, at i among the measures that should be least.—Pittsburg Dispatch. “Those who love to get near the Mr. Bryan's declaration that he would rather be right than a success- ful politician is interesting only as calling attention to the fact that it seems to be absolutely beyond his power to he either.—Springfield Union. over | from scores of per- | Burne-Jones, Manning, New- This is what the newspaper man gets handed to him every where he goes: 1. I should think newspaper work must be awfully fascinating. 2. Now I'm just telling you what happened. You can write it up to suit yourself. 3. Remember t is confidential. 4. Will this be in tomorrow’s pa- per? 5. The linotype must make things lot easier for you reporters. 6. I just think it's a shame you | can’t sign your name to your article: 7. Give vp a good write-up, won’t one time or another exchanged con- less conspicuous Poet of Wedded Love "—Standard. & | | | larger lunacy, by Stephen Leacock. xox o ton Holborn. “One of the greatest little hooks B thought in England Herbert Spencer to the day, by Ernest Barker. “Critical summaries, most of them writing of leading from Spencer to * a from present 7 you? 8. Don’t know the latest news from the Balkans? What kind of a nNewspaper man are you. anyway ? 9. T just called up to give you an {item for the paper. 10. Don’t you have a lot of excit- ing experiences, Or can't you? 11. Yes, P'm an old newspaper man myself. 12. Have a cigar? 13. Now try to get the names right, | won’t von? 14. 1 want to se the editor. 15. T have nothing tn <av, 16. Who wrote that piece paper? ik All reporters have to know shorthand don’t they?—Exchange, i | thinkers ! the book ir able and com- representative of outlook on poli- L. A. Booklist. * end, A. ® dead problems. the MacGill. “The life of the by Patrick men with pick = the unskilled laborers of furnish the themes for realistic, robust poems are suggestive of Kipling —A. L. A. Booklist. P e in the woman, by Alice Henry. ! it available, not only in war, but also | hundred other | st died at Liberty, N. Y. | this | Enterprising | them sl ows are Sevi arrested and brought before him at Constantinople. The story of the reformer found no favor at the palace, and he was given the alternative of death or conversion to Mohammed- anism with his entihe flock. The leg- end concludes that he, and his chose the Koran in preference to death. This formal conversion to Moham- medanism has been the greatest com- mercial asset of the Dunmehs through many generations of successful trade at Saloniki. With all the business keeness of the Jew, they combined all | of the privileges of the ruling Ottoman, and were thus among the most able traders within the Ottoman Empire, It has been said that they professed Mohammedanism merely for safety, and that they had continued thelr religion in secret. In any case, they are ngt fanatics, although through the yearilj:)r Turkish rule of Saloniki they we! acepted by the ruling race as co-religionists. “The richest people in they have jealousy guarded ever their secrets may be, and, in Turkish ‘garb, they have gone their way through centuries quietly and in- dustriously amassing fortunes. The have not married outside their own sect, nor sought beyond their fold for other ferms of social relationships. Their community keeps itself, with its education, its own social life, and its own success. For many vyears, these people throve by sub-letting Saloniki, what- it is a Macedonian river. “The French hold this valley from a point some miles below Koprili. The roads along this old section of the valley which forms the second most noted Balkan route, that bf Nish— Saloniki, are very bad. The railway parallels the river's course, and, since its building, has carried most all of the Servian traffic that has flowed toward the Aegean Sea. This rail- way is noted as being one of the slowest in the Balkans. The Mace- donian peasant pays for his travel by the hour, and, in order to give him his money’s worth, the Uskup—Salon- | iki railroad hardly out-distances the ox team, and the hours and the price of the cart and the train bear a strong relationship to one another. “There is much picturesque beauty in this valley’s scenery, though its hills and mountains are in great part | bare rocky masses lacking in the | green background of northern and central Servian forests. Some of the way i as savage as are the paths through the broken Dolomites, and here the rocks are harder than the crumbling Dolomite masses. The river's course stretches about 200 miles, passing near the Bulgarian | border near the stronghold at Strum- itza, crossing the Greecian frontier | near Karasuli, and some score of | miles below breaking into the fertile, open gulf plain betwcen the Saloniki | mountains and those of northern Greece.” WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of questions as dis changes that Herald Office. timely The Atlantic Inner Waterway. (Bridgeport Standard.) The matter of national prepared- ness which is just now so much be- fore thepeople, brings with it as acopted in any reasonably complete scheme of preparation, the subject of the Atlantic deeper waterways, which in coast defence would give the United States an inside line to communica- ticn extending from Boston to Florida that would be of great advantage 10 any American fleet charged with the duty of patrolling the coast. Con- necting up the existing waterways and | deepening some that need it, would enable a fleet to make its way out of reach of an enemy to any poins cn the coast that needed defending at any time and would give, in a much larger measure, the protection which the Kiel canal has afforded the Ger- man navy since the European war began. The chain of inner channels would increase the efficiency of the Ameri- can navy on the Atlantic coast very greatly and would afford communica- tion for ships of commerce which in time of war would be cut off from the use of the outside routes. For very many purposes the advantages ot this inner route would be very great at is would not only be safe frem the attacks of a foreign foe, but weuld be also protected from storms d, therefore, doubly safe. Secre- tary of War Garrison and Secretar) of the Navy Daniels are both in favor of improving this inner way to make in peace, for the facilitation of our coastwise commerce, Popular Son, J.Fred Helf, author of “Everybody ‘Works but Father” and more than a popular songs, has Nearly everybody in the United States has Leen familiar with a number of his compositions. Yet probably not one person in 10,000 ever heard of his rzme. It is an anonymous and evan- escent kind of fame. The contagion of popular songs of type is something marvelous publishers distribute } to every mus| tore in the land, and within a week all the pic- ture theaters, minstrel and burlesque trying them out. In an- other week they have been heard by many millions of people, and their in- tectious melodies are heard on every street. Unfortunately these transient com- vositions take the place of the fine cld songs that everyone used to know. The crowd that used to get to- gether on doorsteps and sing “Suwa- nee River” and “Ben Bolt” have long | zgo lost their voices. The felks knov, not the words and scarce- Iy the airs of these classics. Nothing that is more than three months old is up to their pace, and the market for the songs of this type seems il- limitable, It must be admitted that they have a very catchy snap. Time Price System. (New Haven Times-Leader.) A leading southern farm journal has just published the results of its investigations of “time prices” in the south. It has found out that the “time price” system is creating an- other race of slaves in the southern states, and these slaves are white as well as black. The poor people living in the rural districts from North Carolina to Texas | and from Tennessee to Florida are clutched tightly in a system which not only keeps them living in direst poverty but binds them to their local- | ities as effectively as old-time slavery lield the colored bondman. They have to pay 54 per cent. to 90 per cent. interest in the food they eat! The time pricer is a storekeeper | who takes a crop llen for the pay- | rient of bills due him. He is pro-! tected *from losses as long as he does | not allow a greater credit than his customer’s crops may amount to. He frequently makes strong efforts to persuade his customers to get deeper into debt. If he can get a customer to the point where his crop is taken up entirely by the landlort | and the time price bill it means that the customer must begin buying on the time price plan right after his crops are in, or in other words con- tinue it from year to year, Time prices in the south are in a way what charge accounts are In the rth, excepting that time prices are | used as a means of gouging the last | red cent out of the poor, white and tlack alike, while in the north the | price includes only a reasonable and lawful profit. The southern farmers, that is the little centers, usually exist upon most rieager incomes, Most of them never hive any money, their crops being | just about big enough to pay the rent and the bill at the time price store. A few manage to keep away from the t.me price store until spring; fewer still have cash enough to get them part way through the summer, Thousands of families ar held for 70 per. cent. interest on every mouthful of food they eat. That is seven times the legal rate of interest allowed in any southern state. The lowest time price interest rate in the south if that of Virginia 54 per cent.: the highest in Arkansas, 90 per cent. These figures up were obtained after young | stock on hand at such a price sacrifice that we thought # our duty to take his stock so that we could help mothers of New Britain to save some- thing on that warm, cosy win- ter coat their daughter must have very soon. This sale means: $ 3.98 COATS for . $1.98 $ 4.98 COATS for . $2.98 $ 5.98 COATS for ....$3.98 $ 6.98 COATS for ....$4.98 $ 7.98 COATS for .... $5.98 $10.00 COATS for . ... $7.98 Sizes for the tots 2 to & years and for the bigger girls 6 to 14 years sizes. Come to this sale expecting Bargains and you'll not g0 away disappointed. an investigation extending over a year and which took in every part of {Yie south, Taking the highest of the time price states, Arkansas, investiga- tors found that the average cash price for corn is 86 cents a bushel, and the average time price is $1.10; for flour, the cash buyer pays $1.30 a sack, the time price buyer pays $1.70; cash price for cornmeal is 93 cents a bushel, time price is $1. the time price for lard is three cemts a pound more than the cash price; svgar costs threecents a pound more; and molasses cost 14 cents more a gallon, These products were selected be- cause they make up most of what southern agricultural people buy for food for themseles and their ani- mals. b The Texas figures are little ‘better. No one unacquainted with the tables of the south among the poorer classes one realize how much increas- ed prices on cornmeal and molasses means. That is thelr chicf staff of life. They eat it morning, noon and night. The time pricer scldom loges, fo® his customers are too poor to move ex- cepting to the graveyard, and then he drives the widow and children into the fleld to pay the old bill along with the bill for their food that year. There are some bad crop years, of course, and often a portion of the time price bill has to go on to the next year's bill, which means that thc customer is bound all the tighker in his slavery. Remedies have been suggested. Among them are more liberal credits, personal and land, to the small farmers; abolishing the crop lien; abolishing landlordism; encouraging thrift, and educating the people. - - McMILLAN 01-203 MAIN STREET x Too Much Truth, * (New London Day.) There are occasions upon which it is unwise to tell too much truth. The present, when the majority of the people in this country are being grads ually converted to some sort of reals ization of the necessity for prepared- ness, is one of those times. It is well to show the people of the cougtry some of the proofs of our dang? it is not well to show them all. Be- cause if the light let in upon the situse tion be too strong it will merely blind them and they will see nothing at all. Henry Reuterdahl, the artist, whe is an expert on navy affairs—admit- tedly so—has an article in the Metro~ politan magazine which is, in our opinion, of doubtful expediency, It is the most drastic criticism th national attitude toward defence that we have ever seen. It is also, unfor- tunately, true in all its essentials. But its effect on the majority of those who read it, will be to creat incredu- lous disberief. Advocates of preparedness would do well to limit the truths they tell to the capacity of the: public to reeéive them. Otherwise they might, perhapi better keep still There is enough of skepticism without making skep tics out of those who are already half converted.