New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1916, Page 6

SEW GRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING GCOMPANT. Proprietors. ued datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:1% p, m. ®t Herald Building. 87 Church St IBtered at the as Second Post Office at New Britain Class Mall Matter. liverea by carrio: v. part of tne eity T4 15 Conts s Week. 5 Cants's Month. bscriptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance, 60 Cents 8 Month, $7.00 a year. "%, 00ly profitable advertlsing medium 18 the city. Circulation books and press Toom always oven to advertisers. i Herald will ve founa on sale at Hota- Ing's News Stand, 43%na4 St. and Broad- Wway, New York City; Board Walk Atllntl( City and Hartford depot. TELF‘PHONE % lisiness DMce iony fiterial Rooms 226 [IONEY, MONEY, MONEY, WHAT MUST HENRY THINK ? Purporting to give the reason why e Ford Peace Party with final flure, Amsterdam is @aracteristic 6f some poor traits in kman traits that the Detroit overlooked when he a pilgrims. met the story out of nature, Anufacturér nbled ne. S his It seems that of the the Women's hwimmer, the nemes New York President the ernational rty, cabled from Irst Vic. to e of Committee for Perman- Peace saying she would donate to $200,000 of Henry rd’s money. According to Dr. Alet- Jacobs, of Amsterdam, the leader the peace organization, the news of donatiorfof Mr. led with glee. tion "B ney, ated it organization Ford’s money was It seems the organ- was just about going to the The $200,000 of Mr. Ford's which, remember, was to be Mme. Schwimmer, loomed large a ‘“bumper. at rejoicing among pen of Amsterdam. , There was the peacetul Not losing ix spread the their in other went to work sending ca- authorizing members of tke e organization in all nepityal coun- to go ahcad with tHeir plans, tever they might be. Before that day was over several thousand rs had been spent,—just how by thousand, the Dr. does not sa br this money had been cast away, a i@ news to sisters s they ams Jacobs wisely decided to send one e cable,—that one to Miss Jane lams, the American head of this en’s peace party. And lo and be- the cat came out of the bag. Jane Addams [Women’s International Committee net from the Ford expedition,” nu- to the Os- failed to | cabled:—"“Keep wireless message to Eurcpe, pus 11, fcen response from Mme. Schwim- | and the Al the | advocates In Eurove were i Ly telegrams to have nothing to | ith the I ation w r II on its arrival and get and ex- ation Mme. Schwimmer. is what the delegation learned enroute feud was on. ad- | rd Peace Party, and a appointed to meet the from belong to your organiza- 1 have resigned.” And she had. the peaceful women of Amster- going several longer are seriously considering court and fight for the ‘s gand dollars™ they lost in antici- bn of getting a donation of $200,- of a man's money from a woman hom it didn’t belong. Mon money. It is at the root of all Although it in Pilgrims on s. succeeded ing the Ford their it also managed to put them on ocks. And there the whole What must Henry Ford think? is COMPETITION. would eliminate competi- business, or It this one ftrom the industrial, the world. that engenders great accom- ment. The American railroads, three or four years ago, en- into competition along new and hal lines,—the Safety First move- Led by the Pennsyl®ania sy. ey decided to strive for Bd per cent. efficiency in ess of carrying passengers, get with a minimum number of ents. © he - ‘‘Pennsy i a period of three years during time mot one passenger was on ‘its “Eastern division, ears during which no passenger illed accident on its entire Considering that . this rail- almost three times the the United States remarkable social is one the and " recently and by o ftransports population of year, this ac ment. the in the slate. Mi is a the with It has a good competitor yest, The Illinais Cen- h comes forth safety period ot “Pennsy” is not only United States a with record T ending a passenger agcident on its de of Chicago. that passengers vision. is not _wever, for last consecutive year assenger lost life on the entire sys- ar the Illinois Cen- tly 26,019,820 pass- service, v | ean [ our eng The record is all the remar; when this is taken into consideration. Let the good work o on. Every railroad in the United States should join- in this compoti- tion. It is healthy and stimulates a desire for travel. s able THEY DESERVE IT. When the committee on salaries, the ordinances, and the board of public safety, meet in joint session, a resolution referred to them by the last council anent of are committee on or separately to consider session of the common an incr in the the Chief of Police salient points their consideration. pay envelopes & « on ‘0., there some well worth To wit: 1. A Chief of Police is a hu- man being. The same holds true for .the men under him. 2. Human beings can do so much and no more in the line of of physical endeavor. After that, they are calling on their reserve energy and eating themselves up. 3. When a human being does so much work he is entitled to be recompensed in fair proportion. 4. The public officers of New Britain have proven themselves human beings of high type, thoroughly efficient in the line of duty, seldom complaining, ever looking to the interests of the city. All to all intents and purpose, they are true, it were well that when the two com- mittees and the board aforementioned, they take in consideration the those things belng true and, meet, As far as the Chief's salary goes that is the only one which would show a very material ralse, a matter of $400. It is but in keeping with the dignity of the office that this sum be attached his present emolument. Fifteen makes a com- to hundred dollars a year fortable salary for a captain, and the sergeants will well satisfied with | promotions. ~What raise the patrolmen get will not empty the city’s exchequer and will be receivea as a mark of appreciation for services well rendered. There is no gainsaying the fact that the police of New Britain are worked longer than the men in many other cities, also that their rate of pay is not commensurate with that in even smaller towns. Even Councilman Curtis is convinced that the police of New Britain are entitled to better pay, and that should the subject. with naive’ be their be the last word on Councilman Landers, perception and wit, read- ily grants this in itself to be just cause for the adding that “if you catch the councilman from the third favoring a salary increase, it must be a deserving one.” And we but add, in the language of the scholastics, “The truth it is, in- advance, ward old deed.” What fool must be the mortal who introduced in the United States House of Representatives a bill providing that if gasoline off on the market at price exhor bitant as fifteen cents a gallon a tax of one dollar shall be paid on each gallon sold, additional dollar of for every ad- ditional of By the same law of economics who got the haberdashery market | necktie every time | any one starts a and an tax shall be added cent price. a man a corner would he on be taxed sold a collar. SOMIE SHOO Bill—was the thinnest in Fn g man town. group of merrymakers he accidentally got bullet above the knee. It was quite late at night and the men had quite a time in arousing a Finally they got old Doc—to velled, doctor. the down, Doc, Bill—? leg.” doctor, window and Bill Where's “Some “Come on got shot.” *“Who? he shot ” “In the shooting,” said the shooting “some AND FANCI FAC French recognition of the protest against the forcible re- moval of German civilians from American ships on the high an important diplomatic victor this country. There have been eral such violations of American ereignty by allied warships cruising off our coast, and the acceptance by France of our point of view should bring these incidents to a close— Brooklyn Eagle. that the added may never be needed, and that an agreement for disarmament may | reached as a result of the peace | gotiations that will follow the war, | administration’s preparedness | ures will not interfere with our arming too. At best we shall expended a few millions by way insurance, and at werst we shail the more ready to protect our soil and our own institutions. York World. Granting defense the have of he wn New An official account evacuation of Gallipoli | only the extent of the disaster but the deplorable result of blundering. Rus- sia remains shut in from the open s the Bulgarian-Teutonic nee been formed and Great Britain’s ern possessions are menaced; haps Germany will secure a gphere of influence in the Bast. Al this might | have been averted if the biunders had of the finul 1phasizes more | the subject | faithfulness of the men in question.: | Jjustice of | tof | tribution sev- |y} | tor, | | | | | | | | vogue. | teriors not | Perhaps he's your brother-in-law! About dnctors Oh plea | ne Just | | ture, NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, not been committed. most costly | Record. It has been | experience.—Wilkesbarre | It is morally certain near two million Progressivestexcept | in buckram—can how be copnted | Several very active gentlemen, led by | Mr. Perkins, keep passing on and off the scene with what Lowell called | “the cheap numerosity of a stage | army,” but nobody is deceived by their parading—least of all, we may be sure Colonel Roosevelt. He knows per- fectly what has become of the “arty | | of social justice. Little is left of it | ecept good bargaining material. It | is doubtless worth a certain price, and | will get it, but it would be folly for | | the Republicans tqQ sefl all that they | have into their hands.—New York | Kvening Post. that nowhere Direct nominations are the most preposterous humbug ever foisted up- dn any part of the American people. The most recent authoritative and il- luminating opinion on the subject wad" expressed the other day by a statesr | man of the. extreme reactionary type, | an unconquerable standpatter, who declared that no Legislature in the Union would have had the hardihood to return him to the Senate, but at the direct election in his state it was easy for him to get a thumping big | majority. The people have had time to consider the merits of the device: { by which inspired reforme; have sought to give them a more direct participation in the affairs of govern- | ment and they perceive that they have been fooled—that the old way wag beter, better for them and better for government. , So there of Mr. Wil- son’s four years have gone by and | there is no great probability that | within the remaining one vear nation- | Presidential primaries will be | shed by statute—New York wide | establi Times. COMMUNICATED, To “A Patient Who Believes in Golden Rule.” My dear friend of the *‘Doc,” Is it proper to knock A poor devil like me ,with your bunk ? I may be a “grouch,” But admit I'm no slouch At slinging this jingle junk. the I know that I ought To rejoice o’er the thought That well are my stomach and liver, But friend, can you vouch i That it's just “chronic grouch,” And not a disease of my “fivver?" There are some who might tell You to go straight to,—well,— But this wicked thought 1'll forbear; The doctors, my friend, { Need you down at this end,— Besides, it is naughty to swear Now just get this straight Through your kindly old pate, And let it sink into the core,— That I PAY the bills That result from my ills,— Have done so for three years or more. That “‘Golden Rule" stuff, That you sling, is a bluff, And I have to laugh a guffaw, You're either a ‘“‘Doc,” Or there's one in your block,— We've had quite enough Of this soft pedal stuff who sit the night | through By the side of your friend Who is nearing the end,— and us out something new! I know that in spite Of whatever I write, The doctors will rule us like Lords, But as for us two, Why this scrap we’ll eschew And emulate two henryfords. “SUFFERER,” (Alias “Bish K. Ibble.”) _— “Ruining Literatur (Waterbury Democrat.) Holt, the publisher, is con- that American literature Is going to the dogs. The magazines, maintains, brimarily responsi- ble, and they are aided and abetted by the government. The most per- nicious effect on our lterature, he explain is the exploitation of authors’ names rather than their works, by the periodical publishers. It used to Le that magazine articles were unsigned. Even until recently, while the authors’ names were print- ed with their articles and stories, there was no emphasis on them. The work w suppc to speak for itsclf; the nam of secondar. impc hce. But all that is chan ery and month- ly magazine scr the reader in big type and red ink, the names the men and women whose con it contai Literature commerciolized. It is like the *s /stem which has baen the bane American stage. Just as and playwriting have undue . empha on literature su exploitation \ Henr vinced a was now weekly ims af our suffered the ac- s from the of star writ- the w popular at The effect, says Mr. | “overworking of the authors who have names. Magazine their work, becat their have sel power. They too much, too rapidly, too care- They foresake their art and the money while they can get Thus they produce vast quan- of “rot” instead of real litera- weakening their powers, and the end even destroying their own The deterioration of litera- cen, s Mr. Holt, In the de- ion of the book trade, great quantities periodicals, 1 few books. A generation when our country had half cnt population, we had I 900 and 4,000 bookseller: Now have 1,600. Rut we have 100,- 000 ling pe dicals and Book production is s of acting from so our tematic ers—that the moment Holt, the is, s clamor for n write leasly seelc i tities in ture read of its we only n mensure wndard cism se well founded. lish in this country 10,000 We pub- books a ms | makes: | into the | great firm. McMILLAN’S| NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “AXWAYS RELIABDE” JANUARY CLEARANCE 'OF WINTER COATS FOUR REALL MARK BARGAIN LOTS FOR Saturday’s SELLING Don't deny yourself of this oppor- tunity to buy real:smart Winter Coats at about % price, Every Coat in the Store reduced for' this Sale, including Women'’s, Misses’ and Children’s Coats. CORDl ROY AND MIXTURE COATS Sale price $9.98 cach. Values to IN SMART COATS 1IN MIXTURES Sale price $7.98 each. FANCOY Value $12.50. AND MIXTURE Sale price $5.00 cach. to $10.00. PLAID AND MIXTURE Sale price $3.98 cach. to $8.95. Your choice of more than Three Hundred Coats in this Sale in a good assortment of colors and sizes. Special Sale of SILK BLOUSES Silk Crepe de Chine Blouses in eight shades. New plaid, striped and changeable Silk Blouses on Sale Satur- day, $2.98 each. Values to $3.98. January Sale of MEN’S SHIRTS At 69¢ Each Value to $1.00. In big range of colors. Sizes 14 to 17 inch. Soft and laundered cuff Shirts, all well known Lion Brand, Nonpariel, Klaness and Imperial Shirts in this Sale. Now is the time to stock up. Manufacturer’s Stock of DAINTY GUIMPES and COLLARS On Sale Saturday 45c¢ and 87c each. Values to $1.50. JANUARY SALE PRICES ON SHEETINGS, COTTONS and LINENS D. McMILLAM R0-20t-20: COATS Value $8.95 COATS Values $6.98 Aoy year. “Darkest Russia” publishes nearly three times that many. Even in its per capita production of books Russia is ahead of us. Great Britain produces twice as many books as we do in proportion to population; so does France. Germany produces near- ly four times as many. The govern- ment's responsibility seems to consist. in the fact that it charges higher post- age rates for books than for periodi- cals. “The government carries th Police Gazette at a cent a pound says Mr. Holt, *“and charges eight times as much to carry a spelling book or a Bible. It cannot be expected that literature will thrive under these con- ditions.” ‘What is Hard to Believe. (Detroit News.) So incredulous are we that are told a thing often enough, atutomatically cease to beliove it. would be very surprising to the ave: age person to discover an Indian with an unswerving memory for favor or injury; to find Kentucky colonel who had won his title in action; 1o meet a British lord wearing a mono- cle; to discdver a Bohemian restaurant where food was both good and low- Jjriced; to learn of a gifted poet star ing in a garret; to encounter a burg- lar who was kind to his mother; to know a detective who wore a dis- guise. We things of passed over from the if we we It have heard so much about this sort that they have realm of fact realm of legendary and fic- They are incredible, because we have been asked too often to give them credit. A favorite boy who star ment and r titious. fiction is that of the s in at menial employ to be the head of a Youths surrender hope of that prospect even before they get dver expecting to be president of the United State There is just one peril in declinir to accept traditions as possibilitic that peril is illustrated by a happenir in Chicago. The retiring president of the old- est commercial bank hegan his car- eer as a bundle boy in a department store. He is ars old and has been 32 years with the bank. His successor is 57. His first job was as a messenger ho; He has been years in the services of the same ir stitution. They both say that the successes won by plodding. were rthing true to form, and true in The Press and Fducation. (Waterbury Republican.) University heads are beginning preach to the public reading the may keep 1t gratifying to the pers, of course, that the u brethren have come to apprec educational value of the daily but it seems to have taken ti in Europe to drive the f: home them that it is not in the workg the old masters that one finds to of that times. the necessity daily newspapers of the daily new they abreast to of out Now DOWN | the world is moving. 1916. SALE EXTR@?RP&EARY ! Charming New Style o an $ 1 3 EVENING DRESSES and DANCING FROCKS, Saturday No two alike and never shown before. Each one a distinctive creation of Ex- quisite charm and correct mode of the 1916 spring season—Choose from Marquis- eite Silk, Radium Silk, Silk Chiffon and Lace and Taffeta effects. In the newest evening shades. These beautiful dresses will be on sale for the First Time Satur- day. Alterations will be charged for—WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford Our Entire Stock of Styllsh Black Tailored Suits In Three Great Bargain Lots As Follows: Values up to Y w©$11.00| $14.00 $18.00 All Our Other Tailored Suits Marked Down This Way FORMER PRICES UP TO $11.00—NOW FORMER PRICES UP TO $15.00—NOW FORMER PRICES UP TO $16.98—NOW FORMER PRICES UP TO $20.00—NOW FORMER PRICES UP TO $25.00—NOW FORMER PRICES UP TO $32.50—NOW . THREE GREAT VALUES IN CLOTH COATS $10.0 $12.00 5,5 1$8.00 ooty R Worth up to to $18.98. to $22.50. |$14.98. $8.98 POPLIN DRESSES—NOW .... . ... $5.00 $11.98 POPLIN DRESSES—NOW ..................... $7.00 $18 Australian Opossum $ShO Manchurian Bear Values up to $32.50. Now Values up to $25.00. Now $5.00 7.00 $10.00 $12.00 : . $14.00 —For Coats| Worth up an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea substantial past. $10 Tiger Coney Fur Muff and Scarf $6 00 Fur Muff and $9 OO Mufl's. . Scarf. The Set g Now ‘Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mall Orders re- promptly filled. HARTFORD OUR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIV.ERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR. PURCHASES The Set Daily Delivery in New Britain, Elm wood, Newington, Cedar Hill, MapleHill and Clayton. in this town from the immigrant! America believe in v afe margin Americans in that h and insist upon chose population majority rule. The of at le: 6,000 town, free to establ any standard they “Why were the Americ the struggle We in Port Saik Modern Babel, wild as zhe Woolly West beaten in here, as, in ignored Yor ns Because Said, tr force of many or P ci house rank all-important Red Sea or ti toms B in early for w s Ve n n or th he a the husy, extensive 1903-1909, 1e nc w e in b ¢ n n 1 t 1 t of the vast British Empire,” begins toda; aved by the Said many other places, they of the world’s important depots for all | definitely isolated the immigrants, a manner of maritime supplies. The | permitting them to work all day with ' population of the city is about 50,000, | Americans in the mills or factoriess including representatives of every race | where they were needed, and then en- and individuals representing all races | couraging o them to at once. spend all { of their time in | their own corr the town, in Little Italy or Hungary Hollow and , croach no more than necessary | the respectable streets churches and recrea American Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.—"“Port situated at the northern the Canal, has, en- Suer by circumstances, important ance to become outposts compellir 3 1e of the most - to er in war geography pre- ational Geographic So- “port Said is the British store- in the Levantine world; it is a | h arsenal and troop station of it/is the base for defense of the route to India and for ense against the Mediterrancan and flanks of the Turks. ““A pioneer city in the ancient East; entirely the product of modern without traditfons, cus- or proprieties; a hetero- busines: of all races d of all the outcastes, Port has been nighly interest- & phenomenon since its birth. It earned world-wide reputation kedr s, beside which the mod- it fame of the western mining camp m to mer to the mild and con- ntional. . most undesirable 8le- in the and Levantine met and made life afte nother at Port vid. And the damp of the climate, incessant clatter of shipping, ihe r scenery, the never-ending coal- operations, and the often fierca at have combined to give the town renown of a most unenviable sort. “The English, however have stead- dampened the ardorous excesses of modern and, with the 1 of v study “My Brother’'s Kecper.” upon 1y the Times-Leader.) let (New Haven Will the American people of the savage rioting st and schools a t3 the 18 Y section.” lesson taught town pa Shall American hospitality be {tended to the down-trodden, un- educated, oppressed stranger \\'h? hopefully enters our gates or shall w leave him to himself and bring down upon. the rest of us the natural ve- sults of centuries of tyranny in other 1ands? Are wé going grants meric: rot? This newspaper does i{hat the American people, are inhospitable. We do that the folks who live in sections of oup industrial ¢ entirely content with the rit immigrants at Young: Right Attitude. Journal Courier.) of the Dominion to the mother country of Gr t Britain has been one of the notable features of the European wa¥, not especially more so than other | British colonies, but because of the nearness of Canada to our couhtry. | W hav been the better able tn visualize the relationship and be af- fected it It a mere Incident that Canada is a British colony. The | impression would be exactly the same whole, | j¢ it wore a German colony not believe | jegjance was to the impe the better | ont of Germany. s In the course of an miserable | 1oyaity to the mother foreign ‘séttlement on their out- nadian parliament ski We think it is thoughtlessuess | jationship of the American settlers in rather than intention the part of | that country to the general situation the, public which consigns these | directly touched upon. The prg. grown up children to the exploitation | mjer, Sir = Robert Borden, declardd corparations soulless manufac- | that there would be no conscription turers. in Cana and then went on to say Mr. Citizen, that if there was there would be no own sake, for youv children’s danger that the American settlers in for your countr sake, yay cannot } the country would pack up their bhe- #fford to be thoughtless on this vital [ jongings and make for the states Guestion any longer. He said that there had heen no hesi- The backward peasant ation on their part in foining tho ‘kward countries of Burope will g0 | Canadian forces and that today man farther back, as at I3ast Youngstown, | hundreds of men of American bir if he is left alone, reeking in ignor- {were serving wish the Canadians anc thinking his own thoughts, | the battle fielgs.of Europe and many Lrooding over what he considers his [ hundreds mofe: were in training in wrong, acting sav y his un- | BKurope. taught, unenlightened on| This Lim to act, These 1 “The captains ton of ( all to blame for ment, foreign settlements of them center ances N. home: They became citizens of Can- worker writing in the and then and there subjected Jv, hits the situation themsélves to the obligations of that following citienship. They are of American de- Ir. Ro scent, but they are no longer Amer- * points to ] izens. Their first duty is to Canads 6,000 inhabit and the mother country. For taking ants, and giv picture of the [ the attitude they have taken they intergperance, bad housing, and | deserve the respect of all true Amer- v xouhcd standards of living resulting icans. The (New Haven ex- 4 = The devotion Canada e mes, neous immi- we to these make citizens e is not believe 1S a ents rters a nters 7, the expression itions ming ne excitement country in Monddy the o on nd for your sake, and Mrs. sabel: improvements th the addition of expert to the town’s with the building of a e railroad to Cairo, a of people have sough. in Port Said. Thus iner ng of the port's possibilities and the com- merchants, the place has lerably sed the so- nd lowered in scale of hor rge cotton ac- and ug from the w intere ki ith the mmereial g of the en cor when mind calls is exactly as it 'shguld be. ren immigrated to thd Domin- nada because, in thelr judg- arger, opportunities awaiten there than could be found at in a the are not in the industrial social Month- in the of industry conditions scale rid interest. “The port city W its eds of the narrow ded in 18 by was fou 9, determined the anal. It lies on a m strip sand editerranean from is on the western The harbors of splendid mod- o and odious imth the . S ind is is one our Kellor, Atlantic exactly site was sreat desol of es the 't sepaz Men: he Ola World in the typical western town 10,080 of them Ne world, o