New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, NEW BRITAIN HERALD| HERALD PUBLISHING CUMPANY, Proprietors. fsvued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:16 p. m. &t Herald Building. 87 Church St. Entered at the Post Office at New Britaln #s Second Class Mall Matter. ¥ carriers to any part of tne city b A8 Cents & Weel, 65 Cer.cs a Month. scriptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, $7.00 a year. Deliverea b, for Sul ® only profitable adver: vertising medium 18 the oity. Circulation books and press room always n to advertisers. Tl“l:rflerlld will be found on sale at Hotas way, lows Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- 4y, New York City; Board Walk Atlaatic Clty and Hsrtford depot. TELEPHON® Ensiness DMce S “dtterial : Rooms PRACTICE New MAKES PERFECT. Britain’s street department having put on its working clothes once again, is to be congratulated for the wonderful and efficient manner 1in Which progress has been made agairst the ravages of the latest snow storm. (A little more practice along this line and we can give many other cities cards and spades, or snow shovels, in the matter of cleaning away the white, fluffy flakes. As a harbor for grippe [germs there are few mediums to rank jwith snow. This was evidenced by the last storm, whose remnants laft lie. put many in the hospital. For the sake of humanity it is hoped the street department makes fast work of ny drifts of snow that do not re- ain their virgin purity. When snow ecomes black doctors get their due. A COMPLETE EMBARGO. Led by Senator Kenyon of Iowa a alaxy of western statesmen seem bent )h putting an embargo on munitions of war. It is said the Middle West nd all those states nearer the coast re rather strong for this, which vould work every hardship against New England. Sectional politics gain. All right, if there must be an mbargo on munitions of war, make it complete embargo. Frame it so it inutile truth,’ in theory, but how shall two mortal men agree upon it? “And since it is impossible to get more than an approximation of con- | temporary, seen facts, past history | must be a kaleldoscope of guesse: library of a | fictions, many million diameters more inaccurate than the newspapers and the rest of us.” It is like recording the color and texture of the clothing worn by the little monkey with a green hat and a red coat. All the witnesses suffer | from color blindness, ! A “MUTUAL REQUEST." Yesterday the treaty of reparation to Columbia was reported out by thc Senate Committee on Foreign Rela- tions by a vote of eight to seven and | while we are not made to apologize | for our acquirement of the Panama Canal we are joined with the peopls | of Columbia in sharing a “mutual regret” all of which is a nice way of backing out of a very ignoble situa- tion. The United States, and Colum- | bia mutually regret having recognized the Republic of Panama and obtain- | ing therefrom rights to construct and | operate the canal. ‘Where hitherto | the Foreign Relations committee de- | cided the United States must apolo- gize for having practically confi cated the Panama Canal, now it lets us down easy with a regret jointly shared by the people supposed to have been wronged while at the same time it reduces the compensation from $25,000,000 to $15,000,000. It has come to a pretty pass when the United States, always looked upon as the most honorable of nations, would take advantage of a smaller one. This is the one bad chapter in our dip- lomatic history and although Theo- dore Roosevelt has done a lot of explaining through his magazine ar- tioles he has never yet made it clear how he allowed his Administration to become embroiled in what looks like a “shady deal.”/ If the United States has committed a wrong to Columbia, as all facts seem to show, it is the | die away | not | have | energies and his days 1916. minimized; without preparedness, while America would repel an in- vader in the end it would be at a frightful cost.—Watertown Times. There has been deep disgust at the murder of seventeen good American | men under circumstances of high ex- i asperation by Villa's handits. Down on the border, where the men were known, there is red-hot wrath. What do all our wraths come tc We had one about Belg another about the Lusi others about the An- cona and other ships, and now this one about this brutal murder of sev- enteen Americans. Are they all to and leave no mark,—Life. m, The President has done a useful thing in assuring the country that the present demand for preparedness does come from those who are inter- ested in the manufacture of munitions of war. This senseless charge is one of the pet aberrations of the pacifists. Mr. Bryan makes of it continu- ally, assuring the taxpayers, who will to foot the bill for prepared- ness, that they are going to be mulcted as the result of a panic artificlally produced by a few self-interested conspirators, Tt use be stam- by ment in this country peded by a campaign the munitions Tribune. could engineered makers.—New York 1t ought critical of the not to be time like United & necessary at a this for a President ates to expend his in pleading with the American people to take reason- able steps to defend and preserve those “ideals of national independence and individual liberty and political freedom which have always been the sources of our enthusiasm and of our national feeling.” As the President says, this question of preparedness is not a question of peace or of war. It is a question of the nation’s being able, ready and strong enough to assert itself, if nec to fulfill those ob- ligations which are the life and spirit of the nation. To oppose such a pol- icy 1s to deny the republic itself.— New York World. It is estimated that 60,000 motor vehicles tive part in European tions. Averaging them at §1,000 each, which is a fair estimate, it will be there are some playing an ac military opera- is clear to any sen- } | sible person that no considerable ele- | | them quick, $7.98, $10.00 and $15, McMILLAN’S) NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST | BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE" For the First SATURDAY in February A GLEARANCGE OF ALL WINTER COATS Including Women'’s, Misses' and Children’s COATS. We have just 338 | Coats left. { ALD TO BE SOLD. Profits to be forgotten during this clearance. These prices at which they are now reduced to must move theri quickly You can these prices. ONE LOT OF COATS REDUCED TO $2.50 EACH. There are Children’s Coats, value up to $5.98. Misses Coats and Mack- inaws, values up to $7.50. WOMEN’'S MIXTURE COATS. In two lots now $5 and $7.50 eacl, values up to $15 in a good assort- ment of colors. ALL CORDUROY COATS. Reduced to $7.50 each, values to $18.00 NOT MORE THAN TWO DOZEN TAILORED SUITS LEFT. must go, now priced to afford another coat at up All move values up to $25. PLAIN & STRIPED SILK BLOUSES All new at $1.98 and $2.98 each. BLACK VELVET VESTS. At $1.98 each. WIDE FLOWERED RIBBONS. Charming New Models in Evening Dresses, Beautiful New Style Dresses for party and dancing occasions—Exquisite creations ilk Chiffon and Lace and Taffeta Effects. Silk: Radium Satin, ber, no two alike, $13.00. Worth $20 and $25, Sat. at . . $13 | in marquisette, Your choice, Saturday, only a limited num- One lot of $12.98 and $14.98 Winter Coats $5.00 | One Lot of $9.98 and $10.98 Fur at N $5.00 One Lot of $14.98 Tailored Suits, and $16.98 $5.00 and $10.98 $5.00 «One Lot of $8.98 Poplin and Serge Dresses, at .. .. $35 Plush Coats, with fancy lin- ing, at - $18 $39 Plush Coats, trimmed with raccoon, at .. e 0 $42 Plush Coats, raccoon collar and cuffs. at $30.00 $12.98 to §16.98 Corduroy (‘oats .. $8.00 $12.98 to $16.98 Winter Coats, RICH FUR COATS AT ABOUT HALF PRICE Raccoon Coats, that $35, Now . A One Brown Poney $35, now ... One Extra size Black Coats. was $55, Now One $300 Hudson Seal trimmed with skunk, Now One Caracul Coat, now Two were $19.00 Coat, was $16.00 Poney $29.00 Coat, $200.00 $145, $79.00 One Nearseal Coat, $75, Now Smcsna $49.00 One Nearseal Hemster Coat,was was $125, Now . $69.00 $16.98 to $22 ok 50 Winter Coats, $10.00 Tailor Made Suits, values up to $10.00 Tailor Made Suits, were $24.00. - ... $14.00 Tailor Made Suits, Now . FUR SETS AT PRIC One Natural Wolf scarf, was $69 the Now ... One Gray Jap Fox muff scarf, was $30 the set Now One BARGAIN muff and set, $39.00 and S $19.00 Blue Wolf muff and scarf, was $50 the set, Now . $29.00 One Red Fox Muff and scarf, was $30 the set, Now $19.00 All other fur sets and single pieces at proportionate reduc- tions. Good Bye to Men’s Overcoats Saturday We have priced our Overcoat stock for Saturday to clear up and they Prices: ALL OVERCOATS THAT Cost FORMERILY SOLD AT $8.50 to $12.00. surely will go at these Below SATURDAY only wilful wrong perpetrated DOy this nation on another and it must be wiped off the books, no matter seen that there is'a $60,000,000 invest- | ment. The cost of maintaining this huge fleet of cars on the road, keep- pvill cover all munitions of war, such wheat, corn, cattle, horses, rye, AND SILK MOIRES. At 19¢ yard and values 25c. ALSO A NUMBER OF SUITS TO CLOSE AT beef, metal and foodstuffs of all inds,—then how quickly the Westerners will let up on their tune. Bhrapnel and other shells and tte ns that discharge them are not the bnly necessities of war that come un- fler the head of munitions. Ammuni- lon and all necessary war material, ncluding stores of every kind, in fact, Il requisites of exclusive of oney and men, are what come under he general term “munitions of wai nd when everything is said and done, nd all things considered, the pork na the wheat and potatocs, and beef and other food- tuffs are far more important to Great her allies than the ifles and guns and shot and shell, all see war, beans, nd corn, ftain and are f which she is capable of manufac- at home in case of dire neces- There is difference between wheat crop and turning for parvesting ut fodder a cannon Very much The first takes time Nature at second nd patience, bith her best and undis- requires only and men and a shop in which Then again the foodstuffs greater part, raised in the the hors That is why | be never hear anything about putting n embar things. Still munitions of war just as shot and shell. irbed. The hone work e, for the pest, with 0 on these | ey uch are VARYING T KIGHTE OF N EYES. Taking the case of the nine Appam jassengers allowed to come on shore edne all of whom told different ories of “‘the German Raider” which bok the Appam, the New York Times raws a valuable lesson showing that wspapers are not the only ‘“inac- urate’” institutions in the world. The ighteen eves of these nine intelligent Inen saw the mysterious raider as “a jruiser, a big gunboat, a converted ruit steamer, and so on.” “Which, says the Times, “as parable, allegory, moral lesson, or ad- monition, is submitted respectfully to the sages and sons of infallibility who, om the fat depths of club sofas or frofessors’ or otherwhere, uck odium’ at the ‘inaccuracy of e newspapers’ Here are nine hon- t, intelligent men trying to tell what and two The newspapers record what tell, see, hear, and unlimited the discord- es to the same ibility of get- straight,” a chairs jhev agree. maccurate’ saw; no ousands of { The everlasting fability of evide hces of sincere witn persons ce, pct, the practical impe g anything ‘exactly are nown to lawyers and must be known y laymen, puls that and even to the superior demand fr impossible in this world m newspapers In accuracy ¢ appearances and “Let us frankly: Nothing n known the nothing ported by them or by anybody with errors. say it be by senses, Variance often of the hardly bgolute accuracy. roves the Fitnesses ing as ‘a fact.’ lé observation of a show or appear- nee,- which is not the same to any © men. There is ‘the invisible and honesty varying There is such a There is only falli- what the terms may be. IF THIS BE WAR,— With Canada’s wonderful edifice,—the Parliament houses,— totally destroyed by fire, presumably started by the explosion of a bomb, the civilized world today at the No one knows just yet how happened, no one will know for some time and gothic stands aghast trend of calamity. it all perhaps the world will never know. In the heat of imagination be prone to blame the catastrophe on the war. This may be and it may not be so. It is hoped the war has nothing to do with it, for while C: ada is vitally interested in the strug- gle going on, her fighting in the European war Ottawa. To bring the war in re- mote territory is going farther than civilized nations should permit. It is nothing more nor less than com- in a street brawl into someone’s front men will n- men are and not in batants carrying their fight lor. And yet the United States can learn a valuable lesson from the fire in the par- province of Ontario and this whether it was started by a forelgn spy, like Topsy, “just growed.” Our own Capitol Building at Washington should be better guarded. It w not so many months ago when the maniac Frank Holt planted a bomb there and wrecked part of the build- ing. Had this explosion taken hold in the same rapid fashion manifested by the fire in Canada, we would have now a -beautiful set at Washington and Congress might be assembled in some armory or vention hall. Granted these things are the outgrowth of war and the ef- | or of ruins m- fect that war produces on the narrow | little minds of men, then no nation | under the sun is safe, The flames of | Burope are rapidly lighting the world. The letting of of blood has turned men’s souls from white to red. No crime under high heaven is too dastardly, no risk too_sreat for those rivers who let passion away with them in a orisis such as this. It then to be on the lookout. Better | vigilance now than be caught off | guard later. | run is well And now, we learn from reliable | Hartford authority, the shouting spreads the notion that rath- er than be defeated he'd start a w Bullets vs. Ballots. And they alway decried him for being ‘“‘too fight.” president's | proud to | Sept. 14, 1914, 14, fell Anxious—September 1914, on Thursday.—Ed. | FACTS AND } Everyone hates war, and the pres- | ent horrible condition in Europe, with a slaughter already of over 10,000,000 of the flower of Europe’s young man- hood, intensifies the horrors of war and its terrible destructivene: The best reason for preparedness is to | avoid such a condition coming upon | this country. With preparedness the waste of life and property would be | 000 | owes | concentate their efforts upon the pro- | @uction of butter for the bread. | acts | of Finnish | berian ing them in repair, runs into eight figures and this huge sum is a mere | bagatelle in the heavy list of war expenditure. The motor vehicle has proved of invaluable worth to the bel- | ligerents. ' It has materially added to the mobility of the troops and provid- | ed the means of speedy communi- cation between the trenches and the | bases. As a factor for Red Cross work they have been a blessing and many a poor fellow’s life has been saved by rapid transportation in a | car driven without regard to the speed i metal NOVELTY BAGS AND PURSES. The newest for Children in leather, priced 10c. 25c, 49¢ each. FOR EVENING WEAR. Gold and Silver Laces, in Bdgin Bandings, allovers and Flouncin trimmings, Bead trimmings, colored chiffons, figured nel alt fancy etc. D. McMILLAN limit to the fleld hospital.—Buffalo News. 5 199-201-207 MAIN STRERY | War Shut Off Germanvy’s Supply of American Butter Washington, D. world's butter m voungest of the great international markets, has been turncd topsy-tur- vey by the European conflict,” begins a bulletin today by the National Geo- graphic society, which sketches one of the intercsting phases of economic chaos brought about Ly the new war geograph “It remained to most re- cent times to bring butter, and other perishable goods, into channels of in- ternational trade. The development of modern technique, especially that of refrigeration and the industrializa- tion of cities, regions, and of whole countries arc the caus that have op- erated to make butter one of the most important commodities of world com- merce. Before the war, KEurope's butter dishes were filled with the products of Siberia, Argentine, Aus- tralia and New Zealand. It is esti- mated that more than 660,000,000 | pounds of butter were sold in inter- national trade every year. “Today, however, all channels of the butter trade have been disorganized. It is reported that one of the most se- rious shor i in the Central powers is that of fats and oils America, Si- beria and Western Ru supplied the Germans with hutter in normal times, but these scurces have been largely dried up by the war. Germany | itself, produced considerable of its home supply, and, since the outbreak of hostilities, has endeavored to in- crease its production. In the past year, it produced 960,000,000 pounds of butter, and imported about 110,000, pounds. It consumes normally, 1,070,000,000 pounds a year. “Little Denmark — possesses the greatest butter export, and, in a sense this distinction to the powerful | competition of American grains in the seventies, which forced the Danes to turn from bread production and to <et, Feb. 4.—“The one of the Den- mark exports more than 180,006,000 pounds of butter yearly, and its fancy butters are the finest made. It, also, middleman for great quantities and Russian butter. The small northern kingdom has sold in- creasing quantities of butter, cream, and milk in the German market since the outbreak of the war. “As an immediate result of the Si- railway, Russia took an as- tounding stride in the production of this commodity becoming in a short time mort important than its produc- tion of furs and gold. Russia became one of the rirst butter-selling countries in the Special butter {trains | became a significant feature of Rus sian railroading, ana Windau, Petro- grad, and Riga became butter ports of international renown. the time of the war's outbreak, Russia was selling world num. | ty-four persons were killed and thirty | 1asts long enough | and | lation in 150 years or so. | (echt 160,000,000 pounds of butter in the world’s market, of which Germany was taking 60,000,000 pounds. The Russian production has since, accord- ing to reports, been turned almost en- tirely into the army kitchens. “The third greatest butter-dealer in the world's market was far-away Aus- tralia, the country with the greatest butter per capita consumption. Aus- tralia sold 94,000,000 pounds of but- ter yearly, most of which was disposed of in the London market. Holland dealt strongly in butter selling yearly some 58,000,000 pounds, and more than half of this turnover into Ger- many. Sweden and Finlind were other important butter-sellers while France, thought it sold very little butter, true to is nature sold that little as a rich luxury to the discriminating palaces of London’s West End. Canada, Aus tria-Hungary, Argentina, and the United States completed the list of exporting countries. “England led all purchasers of but- ter, taking such enormous quantities as to consume two-thirds of all the product brought into international trade. During recent years, England has purchased regularly more than 400,000,000 pounids of butter per an- Denmark, Siberia, Sweden, Aus- tralia, New Zealand, France and North and South America have all contribut- ed the butter for Ingland’s bread. Denmark today, is selling heavily of its butters to England. The Siberian source has been stopped up by the war, and the sales of many of the northern countries and of France made more difficult “Germany follows England as a pur- chaser of butter. It, too, has lost some of its most important sources or supply. Thus, the world’s youngest market finds itself utterly disrupted and the two greatest butter purcha nations in a death struggle.” Knights of the Air. (New York Times.) The achievements of the Zeppelins in Paris Saturday add new glory to the history of these humane and ef- fective military instruments. Twen- wounded. The present population of Paris can only be guessed at, so man are the absences caused by the war, but putting it at the 1911 figures of 2,888,110 it is clear that if the war and the Zeppeling as lucky as they were Saturda if they raid once a da they might kill or wound the entire popu- There can doubt of the genuine German Deutseh) efficiency of Zeppe- are be no 1in. The German rmen must be tho oughly familiar with the cartograph of Paris. 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Daily Delivery in New Britain, Elmwood, Newington, Cedar Hill, Maple Hill ang Clayton. plans from seeing the visitors it did not prevent the latter from dropping hombs “near the fortifications in the populous tenement district,” which has no business to be near the fortifi- cations. Ineed, ample military just. ification for the spirited performance of Saturday can be found in the ten- ement district itself. A Paris dis- pateh in yesterday's Times says: “The worst case of all was a five- story temement at the end of a cul de gac. x x x Here the family of a zou- ave, Aguste Petitiean, were celebrat- ing the father's leave from the front. His wife and 15-vear-old daughter, Taucle; his old father-in-law, Joseph Frichti, and his sister, Mme. Leriche, With her two little boys, Raymond and Andre, had gathered around a table to hear stories of the war. Suddenly the war struck them. All seven werc killed instantly.” This proves the military value of the raid. A soldier was killed. The “humble workers” who were the tar- gets may have been making muni- tions. More obscure, but doubtless clear to the German mind, is the im- mediate military advantage gained by killing a girl of four and a babe of five months. But children and wo- men are often the victims of the Teuton heroes of the air: they are more susceptible to Schrec lichkeit. The student of military history, the lover of heroic emprise, will dwell with fondness on these characteristic Zeppelinites. There is a touching rivalry the Zeppelins under water and greater neatness and dispatch. Knights there be found knightly Zeppe warfare men, mans ulation and No talked to the people a Wilson Tt loyal dresses unmoved the head of the the making this sort citizenship private citizen with his limited sources of information can stand opposing his own private judgment to tnat formed by cqualed present and probable relations foreign powers; that the submarines and|grave and as to whether from |we or from the air women | that can be killed in thefa day and with the most The president sald: “Congress can- not know what to do unless the na- tion knows what to do.”” The nation in the past two days has heard solemn words from its elected chiaf) bearing the greatest burden of rgs sponsibility since Lincoln, as have nof fallen from the lips of any president | in a generation. The die is cast. Tha United States today behind ‘its president and will prepare a ore adequate nucleus about which ta raise a defense should that necessity be forced upon us in the near or dist tant future. The president’s appeal to be prepared against that day has been heard, it has reached the heart of the nation, and the voice the people will speak to the in no uncertain tones. persistent inadequately man anywhere or an hou thati and what danger prepared, knows between are no children may bring upon us number Where, even in the chronicles of the of the Table Round, can a nobler picture of deeds than the tale of the And remember that this effectual. By killing wo- and baby the Ger- the future Irench pop- French army sucl in: is girls, boys reduce is People and President. (New Haven Union.) president since Lincoln has did Woodrow Cleveland. of at Pittsburgh and congre is difficult to understand read how any American could those ad- when nation Don’t Like (Bridgeport the kept newspaper rage the appointment of Brandeis to the Supreme court bench Mr. Brandeis has committed the of. fense of being on the popular sid of some very important litigation. Ho progressive in his political econo- mic views. So are the American peo ple progressive is the American government, and likewise, the Amers, ican system. realizing that Brandeis. has assumed i) r All mad with incalcuable responsibility of e of an appeal to the the republic. What over of and an- nation’s with and who declares we are surrounded by many intimate of the this man with knowledge is So