New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 3

[ Bos n Store ~Jewelry for Xmas Gifts Begin now and make your selec- tion for Xmas. Look over our stock you will be surprised to see the thou- sand and one things you can buy for a little money. Brooches, Brace- lets for ladies and children, Lava- llieres, Rose Beads, Friendship sets, Pearl Beads 25c to $1.50. Cuff Links 25c to 50c. Scarf Pins, Rings, Gold Top Hat Pins, 25¢ to 50c Silver thim- bles, 25c to 50c. Tie fasteners, Lin- gerie Clasps and lots of other pretty things suitable for gifts. Most of them put up in dainty boxes. PARISIAN IVORY a fine showing of useful and ornamental pieces, see the wonderful values we are offerinyg from 25c¢ up. Mirrors 25c to $1.50. Trays 25c, Puff and Powder boxes, Cream jars, *Soap boxes, Stamp holders, Card cases, Napkin rings, Picture frames, Button hooks, Shoe horns, Blotters Buffers, Vanity Caces, Hair Brushes, Combs, Desk sets, etc. BIG VARIETY, Comb sets, Bar- rettes, single back and side combs, all boxed in fancy boxes. Jtd PULLAR & NIVEN NAVY YARDS TO BUILD SUPERDREADNOUGHTS Becretary Daniels Lets Contract for Two Ships Authorized by Congress to New York and Mare Island. Washington, Dec. 11.—The two superdreadnoughts authorized by tlie last congress will be built by the New York and Mare Island Navy vards. Contracts for the two ships were let by Secretary Danels following a conference with President Wilson. Bids submitted by the government yards came within the limit of cost fixed by congress for each ship—$7,- 800,000—while bids of all private buflders exceeded that amount. Both ships are expected to be complete Within “thirty four months. Secretary Daniels announced that congress would be asked to appro- priate about $1,000,000 to equip the Philadelphia Navy Yard for battleship construction. OUTSIDE THREE MILE LIMIT. British Cruiser That Pursued. Ameri- can Steamer Vineland. ‘Washington, Dec. 11.—The British cruiser which recently pursued the American steamer Vineland from New Yo;k down the Atlantic coast, kept well outside the three mile territorial limit, the state department was ad- vised yesterday by Sir Cecil Spring- Rice, the British ambassador. This advice was supplied in denial of a charge that the cruiser had entered the three mile zone. The Vineland was ' pursuer from Banfly Hook to the Delaware coast, hugging the shore all the way, on the suspiclon that her ownership was partly German.. She’'put into Port at night, eluded the cruiser in a fog and continued her voyage to Norfolk. ECZEA ON LITTLE GIRL'S FACE Very Inflamed and Red Looking. ltched and Burned Badly. Did Not Sleep Well, Used Cyuticura Soap and Ointment. Face Cleared. 33 Windsor Ave., East Lynn, Mass.— “My little girl's face broke out first as a pimple and she scratched it causing it to spread all over her face as a fine rash. There was an eruption on her chin and her face was very inflamed and red looking. I thought she would be scarred for life. I thought it was ec- zema as it itched and burned badly. She did not sleep well and it made her fretty. “I tried all kinds of crcams and also different salves then finally I thought of utiepra Soap and Ointment and decided o try them. After using them a few times I was well pleased so I used them continu- y for about two weeks. Her face cleared fand now you would never know she had ad any skin trouble.” (Signed) Mrs. R. Bteeves, August 5, 1914. Sample Each Free by Mail ‘Although Cuticura Soap (25¢.) and Cuti- a Ointment (50c.) are sold everywhere ou may try them before you buy them. Weample each with 32-p. Skin Book on equest. Address post-card ‘‘Cuticura, T, Boston.” AMERICAN BUSINESS MEN CAN Columbus, O., Dec. 11.—President Wilson yesterday expressed the opin- ion that there will be no ‘‘patched up peace” following the Kuropean war. In a comprehensive and force- ful address before the Columbus chamber of commerce he urged Am- erican business men to mobilize their resources in order that the United States might be prepared to play a mort important part in the world's affairs, and bring about justice after the present war. The president spent eighteen hours in Columbus, during which he was ac- tive every minute. In addition to the chamber of commerce speech, he de- livered an address last night before the commission on country and church life of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, shook hands with more than 7,000 people at a reception in the rotunda of the state capitol, spoke briefly to a large crowd from the steps of the capitol and took a long walk about the streets of Columbus. The entire city and many people from surrounding towns greeted him, Defends Mexican Policy. In the chamber of commerce ad- dress the president defended his Mex- ican policy and said that as long as he was president nobody should “butt in” to alter the Mexican's government for them; urged the business men to pay more attention to foreign com- merce and be more self-reliant; de- manded the restoration of the Ameri- can merchant marine; praised the new banking' and currency law: and touched on the attitude of the United States toward the European war, The address was delivered before more than 1,400 men and women in the Masonic Temple, patriotically draped with American flags for the cccasion. Near him sat Governor Willis, former Governor Judson Har- mon, Senator Pomerene, Representa- tive Brumbaugh and others of Ohio’s leading men. His speech was fre- quently interrupted by applause. Text of Address. The president said: “Mr. President, Gentlemen of Columbus chamber of commerce: “I want first to express my very deep gratitude to you for the cordial manner in which vou have greeted me, and my serse of privilege in standing ere before you to speak about some of the things in which we are mutually interested. You, gentle- men, are perhaps more interested in those matters of policy which affect business of the country than in any and yet it has never seemed to me possible to separate the business cf a country from its essential spirit and the life of its people. The mis- take that some men have made has been in supposing that business was one thing and life another; whereas, they are inseparable in their princi- ples and in their expression- ‘I must say that in looking back upon the past there is something about the history of business in this country which is not wholly satisfactory. It is interesting to remember that in the early years of the republic we felt ourselves more a part of the general world than we have felt since then. Down to the war of 1812 the seas were full of American ships. American cnterprise was everywhere expressed in American commerce when we were a little nation; and vet now that we are a great nation, the seas are almost bare of our ships, and we trade with other countries at tne convenience of the carriers of other nations. Chose to Be Provincial. “The truth is that after the war of 1812 we seem deliberately to have chosen to be provincial, to shut our- selves in upon ourselves, exploit our own resources for our own benefit, rather than for the benefit of the rest of the world; and we did not return to address ourselves to foreign com- merce until our domestic development had so nearly burst its jacket that there was no straight-jacket in which it could be confined. Now American industry in recent years has been crying for an outlet into the currents of the world. There were some Amer- jcan minds, some American business men—not a few—who were not built upon the previncial type, who did find their way into the foreign markets and made the usual American peace- ful conquest in those foreign markets; but others seemed deiiberately to re- frain or not to know that there were opportunities to be availed of. “Until the recent banking act you could not find, so far as I am inform- ed, a branch of an American bank anywhere outside of the United States, whereas other nations of the world were doing their banking business on foreign shores through the instru- mentality of their own bankers. T was told at a meeting of the Ameri- can Banker's association that much of the foreign banking business, the business in foreign exchange, had to be doue in our ports by branches of Canadian banks established among ourselves. Being literalists, we inter- preted the national banking act to mean, since it did not say that the national banks could engage in this business, that they could not en- gage in it, and some of the natural, some of the necessary, functions of banking were not performed by Amer- ican bankers. Attacks Monopoly. “I refer to this merely as an evi- dence of what I take leave to call our provincialism. Moreover, during this period, this very interesting thing happened, that American business men were so interested to be pro- tected against the competition of oth- er business men in other countries that they proceeded by organization to protect themselves against each other and engaged in the politics of organization rather than in the states- the MASTER WORLD, SAYS WILSON President in Columbus, O. Address Declares There Will be “No Patched Up Peace” Following Earopean War—Defends Mexican Polic manship of enterprise. For your or- ganization for the purpose of pre- venting successful competition is not in moral level any higher than run- ning politics upon the basis of or- ganization rather than upon the basis of statesmanship and achievement. Organization is necessary to politics and it is necessary to business, but the object of organizaton ought not to be exclusion; it ought to be effi- ciency. The only legitimate object of organization is efficiency. It can never be legitimate when it is intended for, hostile competitive purposes. I have never entertained the slightest jeal- ousy of those processes of organiza- tion which led to greater and greater competency, but I have always been jealous of those processes or organi- zation which were intended in the spirit of exclusion and monopoly, be- cause the spirit of exclusion and mon- opoly is not the American spirit. The American spirit is a spirit of opportunity and of equal opportunity and of admitting every man to the race who can stand the pace. So I say that we have reason to look back upon the past of American business with some dissatisfaction; but I for my part look forward to the future of American business with greatest confidence. ‘“American business has altered its point of view, and in proportion s it has altered its point of view it has gained in power and in momen- tum. I have some times heard ex- hortations to the effect that politics ought not to be injected into busi- ness. It is just as important that you should not inject business into poli- tics, because so far as the business of this country is concerned there ought not to be any politics. Military Democrat. “I, gentlemen, am a democrat, as you probably have heard, and I am a militant democrat, but it is because T believe that the principles of de- mocracy will be of more service to the country than any other kind of principles. Not because I believe democrats are better than republi- cans; it is because I think republicans are mistaken and democrats right, and I hope and believe that I hold that conviction in no narrow partisan spirit. T am one of a few among my acquaintances who absolutely believe every word, for example, of the Vir- ginia bill of rights. Most men use them for Fourth of July purposes and use them very handsomely, but T be- lieve them. For example, the Viriginia bill rights—I cite that because it was one of the first bills of rights; the others were largely modeled | upon it or run them. For example, the Virginia “bill of bill of rights says that when a government proves un- suitable to the life of the people un- der it (I am not quoting the lans- uage, but the meaning,) they have a right to alter or abolish it in any | way that they please. When things were perhaps more debatable than they are now about our immediate neighbor to the south of us, T do not know how many men came to me and suggested that the governmeut of Mexico should be altered as we thought it ought to be altered, but being a subscribed to the doctrine o? the Virginia bill of rights, I could not agree with him. The Mexicans may not know what to do with their government, but that is none of our business; and so long as I have the power to prevent it, nobody shall ‘butt in’ to alter it for them. That is what I mean by being a democrat built, on the original plan of the bill of rights. Opposed to Monopoly. “Now those bills of rights say some things that are very pertinent to busi- | ness. They assert the absolute equal- |ity of right on the part of individuals “to access to opportunity. That 1is the reason I am opposed to monopoly, not that monopoly does not produce some excellent results of & kind, but be- cause it is intended to shut out a lot of people who ought not to be put out; and I believe that democ- racy is the only thing that vitalizes a i whole people instead of vitalizing only some of the people of the couniry. T am not fit to be the trustee of pros- perity for this country; neither are You; neither is any group of men fit to be the trustees for the economical guidance of this country. I believe in the common man. I believe that genius of America to be that the common man should be consulted as | to how he is governed and should be glven the same opportunity with every other man under his government. I believe that that spirit is the spirit of the average business man in America. I am sure that it is the spirit of the average business man in America, because, although it is a current theory that the President of the United States is a very much se- cluded person, a good many people talk to him, I assure you and he takes particular pains to know what the people are talking about who do not talk directly to him. Nobody who has been bred in the atmosphere of American societies, from one end of this continent to the other, can mis- take the spirit of the average man and I am for the average man. The country consists of him. He is the backbone of the country. The man who is about the average uses him, and ought to respect his tool, ought to respect his instrument, ought to re- spect the veins through which the very life blood of the country flows. Future of Business. “Now with regard to the future of business in this country, no man can speak with confidence, because it hap- pens that the distressing events of the months since the great Buropean war began have put America in a peculiar relation to the rest of the world. It looks as if we would have to be the reserve force of the world in respect to financial and economic power. It looks as if in the days of reconstruc- tion and recuperation which are ahead of Europe we would have to do many of the things, many of the most important things which hitherto have been done through European in- strumentalities. No man can say just how these matters are going to shape themselves, but every man can see that the opportunity of America is going to be unparalleled and that the resources of America must be put at the service of the world as they never were put at the service before. Ther fore, it is imperative that no impedi- ments should be put in the way of commerce with the rest of the world. You cannot sell unless yvou buy. Com- merce is only an exalted kind of bar. ter. The bartering may not be di- rect, but directly or indirectly it is an exchange of commodities and the payment of the balances; and, there- fore, there must be no impediments to the free flow of the currents of commerce back and forth between the United States upon which the world will in part depend. and the other countries which she must supply and serve. “And for the first time, gentlemen, it happens—I believe, providentially— that the business men of America have an instrumentality in the new banking law such as they never had Lefore for the ebb and flow and free course of the natural processes of credit. For the first time we are not btound up in an inelastic currency. Our credit is current and that current will Tun through all the channels of commerce in every part of the world. “A gentleman present here today told me that he had done what I trust it is not his habit to do; he said he had been looking up an old speech of mine and that when I gddressed the American Bankers’ association in Denver some years ago I sald that T had been called upon a little while Fefore to speak to the hankers of New York on the elasticity of the cur- rency and that I had replied that T €poke upon it with the more freedom because I know nothing about it. Reing a professor at that time on a salary. T was not in a position to Xnow anything of the elasticity of the currency. I hope that he is ready to believe that in the time that has in- tervened I have taken pains to find out something about the elasticity of the currency, for I was an enthusiastic supporter of the bill which finally es- tablished the federal reserve system, and I think that I understand it. Credit Very Spontaneous. ‘At any rate, gentlemen, jesting apart, it does furnish the business men of this country with an instrument such as credit never possessed before. Credit is a very spontaneous thing. 1ts excursions ought not to be per- sonally conducted. There have been times in this country when the expe- ditions of credit were personally con- ducted I could name some of the agencies where guides were provided. But if vou are starting an enterprise in one part of the country you do not want any guides; you rather resent guidance from another part of the country. And there were times when there were limited circles in the ¥astern portion of our great country, who thought they knew more about business in the other parts of the country than the people who lived in those parts of the country. coubted them. I now know did not. “The vision of a democracy that T have is this, that you must not be presumptious enough to determine be- forehand where the vitality is going to come from. The beauty of a demo- cracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with you, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what cir- cumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country. That is the beau- ty of democracy that you do not, be- forehand, pretend to pick out the vital centers, but they pick themselves out. ‘The men who are going to lead yvou prick themselves out and elect them- selves by an electoral process over which ]egislation can have no control whatever, I like to think that the youngsters now are playing some- where, perhaps in a gutter, who are some time or other going to stand up and speak the voice of America for zll the world to hear. Cosmopolitan Spirit. “So I want you to share with me this vision of the future of American business—of a cosmopolitan spirit, of a spirit of enterprise out of which the old timidity has gone. For you will have ta admit, gentlemen, that Ameri- can business men have been timid. They have constantly run to Washing- ton, and said: ‘It locks like rain; for God’s sake, give us shelter’ You do not need Washington. There is genius enough in this country to mas- ter the enterprise of the world, and it ought not to ask odds o anybody. I would like to have the thrilling pride of realizing that there was no- body in America who was afraid to match wits with the world. The Typical American. “When I move about this country I feel as you do the vitality of the thing that is going on in it, the quick arganization of minds when they meet new circumstances, the readiness with which Americans adapt themselves to new circumstances—that is the spirt of conquest. I originally, for example, belonged to a stock which has never failed to feel at home any- where as soon as it got there. I mean the Scotch-Irish. The Scotch-Irish have taken leave to belong the min- ute they landed, and presently a good deal else has belonied to them be- sides themselves, and I like to pic- ture that as also typical of America.. Whom would you pick out among the early Americans the typical Ameri- can? You know that for more than a hundred years after the settlement of this country—for nearly a hundred years after the establishment of the union—there was always a frontier on this continent. and the typical American was the man who did not need any assistance from anywhere or anybody, but who went out into a new country, made his own home for himself, established his own govern- I always that they sHOP IN GIFT SHY POR GIFT WHY NOT A NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE| A GIFT -Allen & Co. (INCORPORATED) HARTFORD Yel. Charter 1090. Mail and Telephone Orders Recelve Careful Al FOR Business Hours, 8:30 to 6. Our New Toyland Is Ju the Place to Bring the Children IT'S ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND IS WELL PR OVIDED WITH THINGS THE CHILDREN FOR AT CHRISTMAS. Dolls, Mechanical Toys, Electrical Marvels, Little Phonographs, Sand Toys, Set of Dishes for Lif] and many others. Our New Toy Land on the Second Floor is a or grown-ups. Everything is New and of the Best Cha THE CHARACTER DOLLS Are the sensation of the season. Everybody has become enthusiastic over the little Dutch Boys and Girls and the Cowboys and Indian Papooses with their quaint costumes and droll naturalness. They are selling at $1.00, $1.25, $1.75 and $2.00. ‘They are unbreakable and are not sold elsewhere in town. Two salesgirls dressed in costumes similar to those of the dolls are at the department to wait upon you. ELECTRIC TRAINS. Everything the Boy wants in the way of an Elec- tric Train. Wonderful Toys, prices from $3.50 to $30.00. Can be run on dry cell batteries or by using you regular house current. A great assortment of articles for the boy and the girl, as well as decorations for the tree. Buy before the Stock has been depleted. Girls, st interesting place to visit, either for little o acter. Your presence is requested me DOLLS AND OTHERS. The wonderful Creeping Doll, at 98c, is a no you should see. And the Charlie Chaplins at 75c. There are small Phonographs that play the Li Wonder Records, $1.00 and $4.50. And the Rocking Horses that are always a to the child. At $2.50, $3.00, $5.00 and $10.00. DUMPING SANDYS. The New Sand Toy which represents the g dredges, cranes, etc., used in the construction of Panama Canal. A very instructive and fascinaf toy, 50c, 75c, $1.50 and $2.50. SPECIAL—Windup set consisting of Engine, th) cars and figure 8 track, at only 95c. Only a few of these Sets and they are going fi | All our Toys are Moderately Priced. ack, given Free to each Child accompanied by Parel Make Children Happy THAT IS THE MISSION OF GROWN-UPS AT TH SEASON. The Baby's Store is overflowing with Christ Suggestions just now. You will find things to ph the very youngest children and things to make th comfortable, too. We will hastily sketch a few of them—just a f Rattles, of all sorts and kinds, 25¢ or more. Complete Toilet Sets for the Kiddie, 25¢ to $8. Baby Record Books at wide variety of prices. By:Low Dollies, made of worsted, in pink, blue al tan. ‘Willie Rounds in white, pink and blue, non-breal able. Also Bunnies, Dogs and Cats of the same terial. ' DOLLS are a big feature. A host and other prices. Featherweight Dolls are the youngster—Buddie, Dorothy and Betty. SPECIAL—Santa Claus with Candy in his P Today and Saturday. Welcome to Wash Fabrics 1916 STYLES. An advanced shipment fortunately here for Holi- day selection. A delightful assortment here for Dainty Frocks, Blouses and practical Dresses. A Waist or Dress length designed for a Gift will be put in a Christmas Box. DRESS PATTERNS. 8 Yards of New Percale, $1.00. 6 Yards of Printed Chiffon Voile, $1.50. 5 Yards of Silk Ginghams, $1.45. 6 Yards of Printed Silk Tussah, $2.70. 8 Yards of Dress Sateen, $1.50. 7 Yards of Printed Flaxon, $1.05. 7 Yards of New Scotch Gingham, $1. of them, 5 fine £ Beacon Blanket Robes, also. A nice Bath Bath Robes of plain eiderdown and finished with satin, Robe at $1. Others at $1.50 and higher. Hand-embroidered Sacques and other hand ma de garments a feature here. markably fine. Sweaters of all colors and sizes; Silk Socks and Stockings, Cuddledown Sets and many others. the Kindergarten Crib Cover with its many picture s to please the little one. Second Floor. The Dresses are re- See I challenge you and men liice | ments which arc most serviceal vou throughout the United States to |the world. As you do this, the apply your minds to your buiness as | jcan spirit, whether it be labele if you were building up for the world [or not, will have its conquest fa a great constitution of the United | wide, and when we come back States, as if you were going out in |our long voyage of trade, we will the spirit of service and achicvement | fee] that we have left stranger —the kind of achievement that comes | hing us by friends behind us and only through service, the kind of | come home to sit by the fireside achievement which 13 statesmanship, | speak of the common kinship © the statesmaship of those arrang- | mankind.” BUY NOW PAY WEEKIY Clothing of Quality at Prices That Please For Ladies: Suits and Coats of especially fine fabric, style and tailoring, at prices that mean real savings, and on terms to suit. Ladies’ Coats . .... $8.00 to $30 Ladies’ Suits . ... . . $15.00 to $30 Ladies’ Waists ... $1.98 upward Ladies’ Skirts .... $1.98 upward For Men: Suits and overcoats that represent exceptional val- ue, best of style, and low price. Overcoats . $12.00 up Suits ..!.. $15.00 up Boys’ Overcoats, $3.50 up. Boys’ Suits Boys’ Mackinaws, $2.98 up $3.50 up. WE INVITE YOUR INSPECTION. GATELY=BRENNAN 47 MAIN ST., New Britain - ment, 1ged evervthing to suit himself, and then occasionally went back to his old home rich and pow- erful and contented. That was the typical American, There was a certain community somewhere in what used to be the frontier back in Jackson’s days, who sent pitiful plea to Washington that congress would hurry up and give them a territorial form of government because they did not have any* gov- ernment; they happened to be beyond the bounds of the governments there- before set up. Jackson sent them a very poper reproof. He said that they were the first Americans he had heard of who didn’t know how to set | up a government for themselves and take care of themselves. No Patched Up Peace. “The characteristic munity for a long time was the fron- American com- tier community made on the spot and made according to the local pattern. So that when I hear Americans beg- ging to be assisted by authority, I| wonder how long they have breathed the air of America. I wonder where their papers of spiritual naturaliz tion are. For America now may make peaceful conquest of the world, and I say that with all the greater con- fidence, gentlemen, hecause 1 believe | and hope that the belief does not | spring merely from the hope, that when the present great conflict in Europe is over the world is going to wear a different aspect. I do not believe that there is going to be any patched up peace. 1 believe that | thoughtful men of every country and of every sort will insist that when we get peace again we shall have guarantees that it will remain and that the instrumentilities of justice will be exalted above the instrumen- talities of force. I believe that the spirit which has hitherto reigned in the hearts of Americans and in like people everywhere in the world will assert itself once for all in interna- tional affairs and that if America preserves her poise, preserves her self-opssession, preserves her attitude of friendliness toward all the world, she may have the privilege in one form or another, of being the medi- ating influence by which these things may be induced. Spiritual Medlation. am not now speaking of gov- ernmental mediation, T haven't that in mind at all I mean the spiritual mediation. T mean the recognition of the world that here is a country done OPEN AN ACCOUNT T that has always wanted things that way and whose merchants when they carry their goods will carry their idea along with them and that this spirit of give and take, this spirit of success only by having better goods and better brains and better training will through their influece spread the more rapidly to the ends of the world, That is what I mean by the medi- ating influence which I think Ameri can commerce will exert. l Near Franklin &