New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918. ! i { "ol EW BRi{AIN dERALD HERALD PUBLISHING GUMPANY. Proprietors. ued defly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. &t Herald Building. 7 Church St Btered at the Post Office at New Britaln 85 Second Class Mall Matter. livered by carriors to any part of the ofty for 15 Cents e Woek, 65 Centa a Month. pbscriptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance, 60 Cents-a Month, $7.00 a year. only profitable advertising medium 1n the city. Circulation books and press Toom always onen to advertisers. ® Herald will ve found on sale at Hota- ns's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- Wway, New York City; Board Walk. Atlaatic Clty and Hertford depot TELEPHONE CALLS. isiness Dffice . . fittertal Rooms BRING ON THE GDADIATORS. Where once reigned quiet and sur- base from sorrow ssett, now along the Matta- there is strife and tur- oil. The clouds have descended til they dip their dark outlines in he dulcet waters of Lake Compounce, etching themselves along Piper's rook, and a misty film envelops the eights of New Britain. The political prizon becomes dark and murky, gere is not a ray of sunshine. All is pnfusion and chaos. In the storm llars, men grooming dark prses and making ready to flee over- ght to the political arena there to ambitions upon the field of fray. lore than one gauntlet will be flung bwn when the skies clear and the bpulace comes forth for its holiday mes. O!d Caesar's throne is totter- His senators are deserting him. om out of the lightning flashes he lay be seen gathering his Toyal robes bout him and preparing to make his st stand. It will be a great fight Jhen the stalwart old Romans gather r the fray. The tent flaps are flut- ring. The swords are sharpened. with the chariots. Ye gods! will be a bloody affair. are GOODBYE MR. GREENBACK. Boy, page Mr. Greenback. The ding financeers - of the nation buld have a word with him. From accounts it seems as 1f the bankers bd brokers are tired of him and ey want Mr. Greenback and family move out of the national bank- g system. So the clerk at the front bsk has touched the bell and the bllboy has started forth on his jour- by to the third floor back, in the easury Department, and is looking r Mr. Greenback, whose native bme is in the Bureau of Engraving d Printing. If he succeeds in find- | Mr. Greenback and getting him appear before the House of Repre- ntatives of the United States a bill y be drawn up and presented to bngress which would mean that feenback and all his ilk will be hnded their passports and started r ports unknown. It is proposed t to have anything more to do with ‘eenback. They want him called in, e ‘‘they’” being the committees of e American Bankers’ Association jich met the Governors of the Fed- 'al Reserve Banks at the recent con- rence. These committees submit~ d a plan to retire the $346,000,000 treasury notes now outstanding and e tentative outline has been cor- ally approved by the Governors of e Federal Reserve Banks. If Con- ess authorizes the carrying out of e scheme it is, in the spirit of an id-time song, “Good Bye Mr. Green- ck.” AWAY WITH IT. All members of the House of Rep- sentatives of the United States at pme time during their " tenure of ffice, if they attend the sessions, get chance to make a speech. It may ot be a very brilliant or wonderful peech; but, nevertheless, it is a peech. And such was the maiden 'ort of our own Congressman P. avis Oakey, who, yesterday, in all pristine glory addressed the jeaker and sallied forth on a discus- on of the so-called ‘“good roads” ], fathered by one Shackleford, presentative from Missouri. Our n representative was first allowed pur minutes, the time allotted each ember for debate, but his time was nded so he had more leaway to ax eloquent on a bill that should eserve no more consideration than a rompt and defeat. Mr. pakey will make his best stroke when speedy a sider Mr. Oakey's maiden speech but enother instance of love’s labor lost and wait for him to launch forth on more stupendaus striving. with half a mind knows that the state of Connecticut, which has a ieader in the good roads movement Anyone been byways until today they stand second 10 but few the should not be made bear the burden of such states as Arkansas, and others whose roads are mere flabby quagmires. In one year alone Connec- “icut spent almost four million dol- lars for the improvement of its high- ways, which, up to' date, according to the department of agriculture, have cost $14,934,176. Under the Shackle- ford bill it would receive an allotment of $65,000, annually, and other dls- bursements which would not bring tie sum total up to a quarter of a million collars, while some states that have spent little or nothing would. get four or five times as much. The whole affair is a scheme to build rural roads and bridges in remote sections of the country under the pretension of im- proving the rural delivery, a service that costs annually almost twice as much as the appropriation asked by the Shackleford bill. It would build and maintain all rural post roads at federal expense and when that term is used it means that any little lane out in Podunk county Arizona over which a mail wagon might eventually traverse will be considered a post road. The bill itself does not dis- guise that fact, for it plainly states “that for the purpose of this act the term ‘rural post roads’ shall be held to mean any public road over which rural mail is or might be carried.” Is or might be! There is the catch, further fastened by the proviso that all “necessary culverts and bridges shall be considered as parts of the roads constructed or maintained under * % * this act.”” The whole thing may be thought great in some states; but 2 for Conneoticut, we will have none of it. Mr. Oakey and his associates may be expected, and will be pected, to take care of it when the final vote is taken. Away with it. in Union, Georgia t t ex- f THE OLD ARMY GAME. It s the old army game that the Central Powers are playing with the United States in the matter of mak- ing amends for the Persia disaster. In that old gambling game, as we remem- ber it, the dealer has a pea which he conceals under one of three shells. It is for the piayer to guess under which shell the pea rests. And, invariably, the dealer wins; because you cannot beat the dealer. It has been demon- strated time and time again. In this case Persia is the pea and the three shells are marked Germany, Austria and Turkey. The pea has passed un- der all three already and with alarming alacrity that the quickness of its movements deceives the eye. It has gone from Germany to Austria and from Austria to Turkey. It may and it may not go back again. If there were more shells used in the game probably Bulgaria would get a chance to hide the pea. And it goes,—the old army game. This way, gentlemen, keep your eye the dealer. £ i i s t: f i i such | t i i S0 on There is quite a bit of pleasant thought in the terse summing up of life today as compared with a decade gone by as put forth by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the noted phy; says, “we live almost twice as die more than a third less fre are sick only two-fifths as often and should have three times as much money to spend for good food, hous- ing and healthful recreation.” He could have started the same e 3 saying we live twice as fast and there- fore do not have enough time in which to die as often as the cld tim- ers. Aside from a few touches of grippe this is a fairly good age, taking all things into consideration. cian who long, uently, ; by fa |3 t % ( Song of the Safety Board now con- sists of one stanza of “Holmesweet- home.” d t FACTS AND FANCIES. ¢ Office-seekers move in a mysterious way their wonders to perform.— | Jaltimore Sun. is falling off and up. Are the two Manchester Union. he Immigration wages are going things related? isn’t chased across the and were captured it would not take the courts three or four years to de- cide —Wilkesbarre Record. tral rights are what neutrs to favor purpose of promoting their manufac- ture the Democr tection is unc once remarked, tution between friends wi e nection with the development of Am- erican industry, the next Democratic national platform may contain a pro- ganization has been carried to highest degree possible operations as large as are now wit- nessed in Europe. able that the war on an enormous scale. policy” where possible, to strengthen Amer- We have four against disease: and Overland State health health authorities. are administered by the public health hold in the United States. eases fever, The plete physical examination as physical The third and fourth lines are ge. pended on for emergencv service if, notwithstanding the ; first and second lnes, enemy effects a landing in America. aeroplane ov Sunday, timed to the discussion in Parliament about the relative air forces of the British mans. have recently ster monoplane, after the d Dutchman, armed with a battery that shoots astern aswell as over the bow, and capable of a dred may be doubted, chine could carry fuel enough to su: tain itself in the air for many hours, morning, after got company for weeping so hard over a horse that fell dead in the street as to a crowd to collect and obstruct traf- fic. her sens cause Probably has no children to give —Rochester Union. The chances are that if Villa were American border what should be done with him. After eightcen months of war neu- Is can en- force and nothing more. Military necessity has wiped out everything clse—New York World. The fashion magazines are full of cuts of party dresses for young girls, but it is very hard to find any pat- terns of working aprons—Poughkeep- sie Fagle-News. T Gen. Leonard Wood, while advacat- ing resort to the colleges and mili- tary schools. for extra officers, Show- ed no marked enthusiasm for.the Swiss or Australian system. It strikes us that General Wood is more prac- tical than Colonel Roosevelt and un- derstands the subject better. The Colonel riots in round numbers and does not perceive that a faithful im- itation of German methods would take all the initiative and much of joy of life out of American democracy —New York Sun. the is said the The Wilson administration tariff on dyestuffs for this country. According to tic national platform pro- nstitutional but as was What is the Consti- Now that the has had an protection in con- in on administration ffective lesson in ection plank—Burlington Free Pre: Sanitary ‘“Fortifications. (Waterbury Democrat.) According to the authorities of the ” public health service, the European war exposes the United greater risk disease-foes. greater after the war emigration from the strife-torn p: States to of invasion by foreign The danger will be ends, when t and auperized nations of Europe returns ©0 its usual proportions. Sanitary or- the in military Still, it is inevit- > will breed de- ectives and sow the seeds of disease It is there- ‘“preparedness inspect and, ore part of a sound thoroughly to f‘un fortifications against the disease enemy.” This is now being done. “lines of defense” 1-—The Maritime quarantine; 2—The inspection system; 38— authoritie: 4—Local The two former mmigration ervice, reasury. under the secretary of the The public health service is always in close co-operation with the two latter. The first line of de- ense, or the quarantine, involves the nfinite precautions and a gauntlet of nspections to prevent the quaran- inable diseases from getting a foot- These dis- cholera, yellow smallpox and leprosy. line provides for com- of every weeds out all legally classed undesirable: are plague, typhus, second mmigrant, and thus mmigrants who are or mental efforts the of the “‘disease" An Aeroplane Raid. (Providence Journal.) The first appearance of an enemy r the English coast, on seems to have been nicely superiority of the and Ger- rumored that the latter put in service a mon- sign of a It is speed of one hun- miles an hour. Tt of course, if a ma- and eighty 1t any such speed That London is now well protected against Zeppelins is apparent from he fact that no attack has been made here by this type of aircraft since Jctober, though raids may have been ittempted in the interval. Yester- lay, however, about one o'clock in the an aeroplane dashed over he Kentish shore, dashing away again dropping nine bombs; and, in he afternoon, two Zeppelins came and away. It may be conjectured that these were practice flights. More attacks may be expected hy aero- planes, ecither independently or in with Zeppelins. Characteristic. (Bridgeport Standard.) We do not wish to point out the ( The Modern 3Iueb;ard CITY MMISSIONERS ““People of the Veil” Hold Aloof From World Washington, D. C., Jan. —“Back of the troubled areas of Northern Afri- ca, where war and agitation for war has been engendered anew by the con- tagion of the world-struggle, there lies a truceless country, inhabitated by a people, the masked Tuarges, fascinat- ing for the mystery and exclusiveness with which they have surrounded their life. These people, natives and rulers of the Middle Desert, are the allies of no one, neither of the Bermanic bund nor of the entente, but wage a furtive guerilla warfare with all who invade the inhospitable Sahara sands of thelr domain. They are the buccaneers of the trackless sand, forever at war with all clvilization and its restraints,” be- gins a war geography primer jus sued by the National Geographic so- clety at Washington, which describes the people now warring with the Af- rican armies of Italy for the mainten- ance of their power to levy tribute up- on the ancient trans-Saharan cavaran routes. “Masked Tuaregs are Berber nom- ads, a white desert people, whose country is probably the most inacces- sible on earth. Even before Egyptian civilization began to leave coherent records of its history, the Tuaregs, or Berbers, were long established along Northern Africa. The great Arab in- vasion of the eleventh century dis placed them from their possessions upon the seacoast and drove them in- to the savage area of the interior des- ert, where, with their hands raised against all who come into their path- less country, they have maintained themselves through the intervening centuries, despite lack of water, sand- storms, and lack of farming land, re- quisitioning by force of arms from the Arabs and Fgyptians, to the north and east, and from the blacks of the Soudan, in the sonth, such necessities and luxuries as their cheerless por- tion of mother earth cannot supply them. “There are five main tribes in the Tuareg confederation, and they inhab- it the desert from Tuat to Timbuktu and from Iezzan to Zinde Their homes are reared in the heart of arid wastes, where vast solitudes, unnat- ural heats, and unmarked distances shroud everything in uncanny n tery. They are masters of an area half that of the United States in e tent. Of this 1,500,000 square miles of territory, scarcely farmland is only maintained by an enduring struggle with the drifting sands. These fierce adventures who have forced the great desolation to yield them w support number 300,000, or more, according to estimate; and they have made themselves feared by the natives from the Mediterranean to the jungles of Central Afri “The Tuaregs wear the end of their turban cloth drawn around the face, allowing nothing but the eyes to be scen. It is worn for the purpose of protecting the throat and lungs from the cutting blasts of fine desert sand, and, also, probably, an element en- hancing the mystery of their life, for they seldom or never remove these masks, whether roving over the dess ert or visiting in the citics on the coast. Duc to these cloths, they are calleqa Masked Tuare; while the Arabs call them ‘People of the Ve The masks are dark blue and white, the former being worn by Tuareg no- bles and the latter by the serfs and slaves. -« for Tuareg “From Morocco to Tripoli lentless ferocity, the cunning, daring of the Tuareg is mingled in all the traditions unpleasant to the more peaceful natives along the coast. The Tuaregs, meanwhile, openly spy upon the caravans in course of outfitting in the coast cities and thrive upon the tribute they are able to exact. Still, the time is coming when the long car- avan will no longer cross the desert, but the Soudan products will be car- ried by railway to Port Soudan or down the Congo river for Kuropean ports. 3 “The Tuaregs are of the purest Ber- ber stock, the noble families unmixed with other blood, and, in their own language, they call themselves ‘the noble people.” Nominally, they are Mohammedans, and some of their number compose the most intolerant and warlike sect in Islam, the Senu site sect. Their hatred for the for- eigner is greater even than that bred by their religion, and, so, they are more exclusive than ever were the Chinese or Japane: Their social organization divides them into five classes, the nobles, the priests, the serfs, the cross-breeds and the slaves. All of these ses have this that is democr form together the Tuareg family, which holds itself su- perior to all the other peoples of the earth.” Will Labor Be Scarce? (Bridgeport Farmer.) The balance of opinion more and more inclines to the view that un- skilled labor is to be scarce before the war is over. Will labor after the ay in Europe, or come to the States? The preponderance of belief is for the former concept, Skilled labor will be scarce. skilled labor will have plenty to do over there. Governments will not desire to lose more able-bodied men. Difficulties will be placed in the way f immigration. There will be a ris ing labor market. Such are the ar- guments to prove that labor will s in its own countries. The contrary argument asserts that the cost of living will be high over there, on account of taxes created by , and that these taxes will drive men to other lands. It is said that many Europeans will wish to go te a country where war is less likely ic occur. The cost of living need not much in Europe in spite of the great debt. Much depends on whether the lessons of the war are practiced after the war is over. If the intensified co- operation which the war has produced in France, England and Germany fis continued, production on an enormous | scale will ensue. This production will make the war debt look tiny in comparison with its present propoi- ticns. | Practically everything used in the | war, and represented by the cost of | the war, has been created by the labor 5f men and women occupled during the year and a half since the fighting | started. Labor as efficiently the war, will produce a greater quan- tity of commodities in less than a year and a half, besides providing for the ordinary uses of society. But if the war leaves no economic imprint upon industry, if everybody returns to the old methods of “taking all the flic will bear,” if business must Un- rise applied, after | s European * 'McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” CHEERY, A e MAYO] QUIGLEY: J P s s! s] | ligations to neutral nations whenever military necessity or what was claimed j to be military necessity required it. Because neutral rights have been repeatedly violated it is apparent that the future is bound to witness the devotion of greater attention to them than ever and the suzgestion is made by Secretary Lansing that instead of viewing them from the standpsint of the belligerent they be henceforth considered from the position of the neutral and in this connection he ad- vocates the appointment of a commit- tee to study the problem of neutral ships and neutral duties seeking to formulate in terms the principle un- derlying the relations of belligerency to neutral rather than the express rules governing the conduct of a na- tion at war to a nation at peace. This is the task which Mr. Lansing would give the American Institute of Inter- national Law which was recently or- ganized by the Pan-American con- gress. There can be no question but what the time is ripe for just such action. The liberty of neutrals has suffered from unjustifiable restrictions on the high seas and it has been imposed upon by the needless burdens forced upon them in preserving their neu- trality upon land and the study of these violations can best be made while they are fresh in mind. It is but just that there should be neutral- to MCcMILLAN'S cheerful even idea price of OLD in January is bringing, strangers to our store. will Value $22.50, $25.00 and $2 ‘White and Of Silk Crepe de Chine ombre shaded priced $1.00, $1.98, $2.50 cach. yard. yard. effects. Lace Flouncings, BRIGHT, ACTIVE EVEN IN JANUARY CHEERY, because there is a spirit which makes it the gray days of on anuary. BRIGHT, because already the high colors of Spring are blossoming among the more practical Winter things. McMILLAN at the ACTIVE, because the of selling NEW goods carefully o The Woman who reads find something of interest PURSE and WARDROBE. SALE OF AND PARTY Sizes 16 to 38 DR At $15.00 ecach, 50. Very this sale, evening in of mart dre: indeed hown in a wide range hades. FOR EVENING WEAR ilk Gloves at 75¢, $1.00 pair. color: GLOVE Long LONG KID GLOV' 12-button at $2.75 pair. 16-button at $3.00 par. SILK HOSIERY nd colors, 50c, $1.00, White $1.50, $2.00 pair. NEW EVENING colors, and effects, CREPE DE CHINE BLOUS $3.98 values at $2.98 each. S white, flesh and nile green . FOR EVENING GOWNS inch Chiffon Cloth, special All colors. 42-inch Fancy Chiffons at $1.2§ Flowered, striped and rainbow 98¢ 42 40-INCH GEORGETTE CREPES All colors, at $1.50 yard. Allovers and Nets for Evening Gowns in a Splen- did Assortment. D. McMIL.AN 129-201-203 MAIN STRFE y rules to be observed as well as rules of war and not only should they be drafted and agreed to, but they should be respected. Senatorial | the Two-by-Four Era. (Capper's Weekly.) Asinine remarks in Senate | on the war not confined to particular party. | Senator Jones of Washington, who | criticised the late Consul McNeely, | 1 murdered in the Mediterranean, for | not picking out a neutral ship in which to travel to his consulate, is a | republican (God save the mark!). | Senator O’Gorman, who endorsed the Jones statement, is a sort of Fen- ian democrat. Senator Works of California, who declared that the United States gov- ernment is “morally responsible” for the a nation of the Lusitania in- nocents because it did not heed Ger- | man secret warnings and prevent ‘Americans from taking passage, is a | kind of a California hybrid progres ce-republican, with a specially large and lofty ear expansion. This is debates are any e fi t £ t o c t 1! N A SRR LY and Spellman, has likened it to the Becker Providence accused agreed to help the prosecution was make Mohr Such debates painfully remind Americans that not only the glorious age of Clay, Wabster and Calhoun, but the days of Ingalls, Allison and are pas | states. era. Vest in the senate of the United It is the to-by-four senatorial her Becker Case. (Hartford One of the newspaper writers s reporting the trial of M the two negroes, Brown Post). who Mohr and the chauf- Rose of the many details semble the There 18 has designated as. the Jack trial. In murder does r York trage and Healis, ase, eur he Mohr amous New he alleged inspired plot, the murder ar, and the building of the statel ase upon the evidence of one of the who has pleaded guilty and But is that there concerned in he one big difference no woman directly he murder of Rosenthal. This will the verdict of the jury in the case all the more interesting, AS ALWAYS, WE ARE THE FIRST TO SHOW NEWMODELS T RIMMED HATS Just now, we have to show you in our parlors the very newest of this Spring Season’s most stylish trimmed tractive prices. hats at especially at- WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford FLOWER HATS SATIN HATS RIBBON HATS JET HATS @ votes against such a preposterous| (onstantine says pro- e tinide : s i ' s se because somebody can't see his Trimmed very artistically with the new- brovision as the federal highway bill hich aims to levy tax of $25,000,- 00 annually upon the whole United a tates in order that some few back- ard with ew and beautiful roads gathered at jhe ‘expense of their sisters who have Jready done their mite. ‘What particular reference Congre: jhan Oakey made to the Baltimore platform must be passed by Want. When he opposed the bill on Jhe ground that the progressive states fhould states may come forward as irre- not be taxed for benefits to be &Fived by the s e but took the logical The hole Shackleford bill is so pusillani- ous and childish it is a pity to waste ime on it. We shall therefore con- view. agglers of the Union | | German, but pro-Greek only the Allies claim, is Sophies change. but ry. Immigration officers always Mrs. Pankhurst an opportunity a few sober thoughts before let down the bars for Blade. Trying to flags has ceased | it w | ritory to Leader. ~Cleveland Montenesro has fewer people ihe State of Rhode Island, and Austrian rule it will have than Rhode Island used ure—Binghamton Press. = > give for they her—Toledo obtain shelter under two be so popular with Americans in Mexican ter- than | G und to have the palmy days of its boss-ruled Leg- failings of our fellow citizens in other states, but the story of the rural free delivery in Georgia is so character tic of certain parts of the South that it is too good to loose. It was the custom formerly to run the free de- livery routes with horses, but lately the motor vehicle has superseded the in this branch of the mail de- livery service. | But the motors do people and petitions to the postmaster general more bring back the hor: why? Well, the average rc orgia arc so bad that better on them utomohile, But why not [ the roads? That would not be the Georgia way. Instead of making the roads passable for the autos, they leave them as they are and ask to horse not please the are being sent to once Ana ds of horse than an r | hakes time in A New York woman was arrested | have the horses back. improve | towns, are situated in the Middle Des ert. These are Wargla, Timbuktu, Shat, Ghadames, Murzuk and Insal- | ah. However, the Tuareg has little cares for trade and industry. He is a | fearless, enduring, hard-fighting ad-| venturer along the merchandise trails | that cross the desert. Two important tralls leave Tripoli, on the coast, and traverse 8,000 miles of sands nnd bar- ren wastes to the Soudan, where rich cargoes of skins, gold, ivor 1 other | | interior African products are loaded | upon camels and brought northward. | | Sometimes single cavaran consists | of thou nds of camels and merchan- | | dise to the ue of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars. When passing | through the Tuareg country, the lead- ers of such caravans have had to pay a tribute to the chieftains by the way | for safe escort or run the risk of los- ing all their goods. | ployment will bring more workers into y to a profit, then Europe will be | steeped in a miserable poverty and | will groan under burdens grevious to bare. The United States has great latent labor power. Suitable terms of em- the field and make the workers al- ready in the field vastly more produc tive. An unlimited supply of che labor is not an unmitigated blessing. Time for Neutrality Rules, (Norwich Bulletin.) The question of neutrality has re- some serious jolts since the opening of the Kurcpean war and ¢ isting provisions in many in have been found inadequate. Th ceived est flower the new a ete. 98 has been the disposition on the part | of the belligerents to ignore the rights | of neutrals and to disregard their ob- ' and fancy novelties, including pplique fruits, novelties, ribbons, SAILORS, TRICORNES, TURBANS, COLONIALS 98 Values to $5.00 52 s Leading Millinery Dept.