New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1916, Page 8

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1916. UBLISHING COMPANY, PBraprisfors. Inday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Building, §7 Church St SN e Post Office at New Britain L Class Mabl Matter. FFier to ‘any part of the city Cents a Month, sent by mail, 60 Cents a Month, dvertising medium in tion books and press fWays open to advertisers fWill be found on sale at Hota- w Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- W York City; Board Walk, at- fity, and Hartford Depot. LBPHONE CALLS . V BRITAIN. HELPS fain being grimarily A man- Reity has’aided’ largely tn United States the largest er of soodsfin the aorld. Sfigures compiled and just ibe of, great interest .here. Lo .this data fthe world in ti America not endeavor, itput of manufactured good great country gr Com- twice as if any other of business 1900, with nation. e volume done Guntry hes alone, in is seen the record has been floubled, figures for the being $24,000,000,000. Com- es from abroad are not vet » but it be presumed fi14 the United States did al- \uch manufacturing as Ger- d put together. vere nearest com- manufac- that done in in the may Fingland the two 8 But natural that in 1915 our | of Bf all ‘other hations made it nece s manufactures exceeded e war all. the for re- e Germany and England were the market. This is the prime for the records of the United PJumping so rapidly to the fore. e arrived at one bound from to first in the interna- trade market as exporters of tured goods. Nor is the posi- ly a temporary one, for at the e are turning out goods now figure we will be very dif- jo overtake. The United States for knock on our doors o place |ing consternation out-stripped itself in price. sult of this the Navy Department has WHEN PRICES GO SKYWARD. Gasoline is a commodity that is used alike by the rich and the poor. The fisherman on the northeastern coast of the United States is as much mil- rds interested in its price as is the lionaire lolling along the boule ! of Chicago in his high.powered motor The housewife employs zasoline as large Therefore. recent sensational rise in the price of this general all 'round utility is caus- and agitation in every quarter of this country. That the United States Congress has seen fit to take the matter its hands with the intention of ordering an in- into the conditions caus- in price seems on the promis¢ for an allevia- tion of ills.. Yet it is doubtful' if any such joy will rest in the bosoms of those large consumers who use gaso- line every day, for the advanced prices of this commodity have been brought about by purely natural con- be easily over- Depart- car. as the the on a scale relatively man of commerce. in vestigation ing this rise face of it a ditions which cannot come. A report ment of the Interior to Congress shows that gradually certain of the oil wells in the western fields have become al- That is a prime r that the European demand from the most barren. Aside from war has put such on the production of oil In this coun- try that the entire supply is rapidly becoming exhausted and this, coupled with the great increase in the num- son. a heavy ber of automobiles in use, brings the commodity down to a low ebb. It is the inevitable working of the law of supply and demand. Thus the sud- den rise in prices. Before the United States loogens it- self from the grip of the present eco- nomic maelstrom the prices of many other commuodities will soar skyward, obeying the same law as that followed Munitions of war start- ed the ball a-rolling. American pro- ducers are satisfied to meet the de- mand of those who have the avail- Foodstuffs, articles of clothing, everything, must eventually reach unprecedented figures. Not only will the individual consumer suf- fer, but the nations themselves must of this phase of Steel already As a re- by gasoline. able prices. feel the burden human activity. has to almost totally [ Above my ? The Quinnipiac River. (By James Shepard.) So came my name, Quinnipiac, Land of Momanguin's tribe; It means, “The sourrounding country,” In which T now abide. rom sea inland, my main extends Till thirty or more, To where my head, four hundred Is ru above the shore. miles fect sed In graceful curves | wind my course Half way across the state, Where 1 rank high; save only three, No river is so great, mouth no barge ascends, But yet, some local pal And Uncle Sam, may make of me A Farmington canal. True to my name, in.my embrace Is all the country ‘round, In parts of fifteen. different towns My water shed ‘i found In Farmington and New Britain, In Plainville on the west, In Southing and Bristol too, And Wolcott's rocky crest. Beriin, in part, inclines my way, Prospect and C(heshire more; The major part of Meriden My shed extendeth o'er. To Middlefield and Wallingford, And to North Haven's sand, old New Haven by my right And Bast on other hand. To Hard by our town, to west of north, Old Farmington within, The falling rains cause me to rise, My journey to begin. Less water through New ince Hartford turned head, part. what would have flown this way Hartford B my In To flows instead But as of old. there Our western Where n I cut is a fAow border through, ar the site of Andrew’s mill West Main in two. The summit here, a question raised As to which course was best, To Kensington, by turning east, Or Plainville, turning west. Westward 1 went and soon 1 found Pequabuck on ahead, And running east, somewhat in doubt Just where to make her bed We turned our back north And found the bed of Tunxis. While I went south and found way A little east of Wonxis. where she went my l} Tufkey- | | between Belgrade i supply | threateningly near the Suez Canal. | will, likely, be the most prized by the ! in normal times, much of the surplus | brewing. | coast. | the northern Anatolia coasts some of | geney | power of Burope, in-Asia Rich In Mineral Wealth | | | ' Washington, D. C., March 29.—With ) of the Orient railway Sofia by the Teutonic and Bulgarian allies, a vast storehouse rich in much-needed raw materials was made accessible for the | of the hard-pressed Central Powers. Probably, the most important feature of this accomplishment is the bringing of the Austro-Hungarian and German nations into communication with lands where are found minerals ang products of agriculture in abun dance; though the control of the Ori- ent railway, also, enables the remuni- tioning of Turkey and the transporta- tion of German troops to territories A sketch of the stores of Asia Minor, or | Anatolia, upon which the Germans will now be able to draw, is contained in a bulletin just issued by the Na- tional Geographic society. The bulle- tin reads: “The mineral and agricultural wealth of Turkey-in-Asia is very great. This wealth, however, is largely of the potential kind, for, except in limited" areas, agriculture is carried on accord- ing to primitive methods, while, for | the most part, the mineral stores have been left untouched. Among the minerals known to exist in consider- able quantities are iron, copper, nickle, lead, manganese, silver, sulphur, coal, antimony, arsenic, emery, fullers earth gold, kaolin, zinz, alum, asbestos, rock- | salt, boracide, chrome, and mercury. Of these resources the copper stores l_h(‘ conquest and connecting link in opening-up the and Germans, though little has been done under Turkish administration toward exploiting the copper. The reserves of Anatolian copper are said to be large. “Wheat, corn and barley are grown in large quantities in Asia Minor, and, has been exported to where it has been used for There is a considerable sur- which should relieve the reported meal scarcety in the mills of the Central Powers. The west of Asia Minor is noted for the s that ripen in its Medlterranean climate. Here are grown an important part of the world’s raisin crop. Olives and figs, also, thrive along the Acgean Where hot summers swelter over barle, Britain, plus of wheat, is raised, a rare the finest Turkish tobacco which, in all likelihood, now i | export from A German smokers, A sort of tobacco is grown in Germany, & pale, insipid, unfragrant leaf, which bears little resemblance to the rich tobacco of America, Turkey and the East Indies. Great quantities of ha- 1 nuts are among the exports of this rea, and cotton, another staple which the Germans are said to be greatly in need of, is grown in the districts of Kacsaba and Aidin in the west, and on the Cilician plain in the southeast. “All through Turkey-in-Asia, there has been but little accomplished tow- ard building up a manufacturing in- dustry. Olive oil soap is extensiv: manufactured at Smyrna; carpets are luxury among SPRIN woven in various places, mostly prod- ucts of home industry; leather is pro- duced; and cigarettes are made in large numbers. In ria, there are im- portant weaving, dyeing and tanning industries at Aleppo and Aintab, and there is some small manufacture in Mesopotamia. “The principal exports of Asia Mi- nor are raisins, tobacco, figs, barles liquorice, wool, hides, cotton and skins, Owing to the backward organ- ization of the country it is difficult to assign any values to the annual ex- ports of these articles whicn would be worth considering. The leading-ex- ports of Syria include lemons, oranges, sesame, soap, silk, barley, and liquor- ice, while Mesopotamia exports large shipments of dates wool, barley, wheat and opium. Yemen, in Arabla, the land which is mostly a desert, exports the famed Mokha coffee. Coffee is sald to be very scarce in Germany now. Dates are about the only other abia of any importance, “The climate of Syria is of the ex- treme Mediterranean type, and most of the soil is fertile. In great part, however, it remains unworked. Silk worms are raised in many parts of the land, and, before the war's outbreak, most of the silk was sent for manufac- ture to Lyon, France. Some silk is spun in Syria. Cotton is an important crop around Tdlib, and a surplus grain crop is raised. Much of once fertile Mesopotamia is now desert. The old irrigation systems have fallen to de- cay, and, where forty centuries ago the land was fruitful, today is mere- ly wastage. In some areas wheat, barley and beans are grown for ex- port. The date palm and the sheep herd, however, are the main elements in present-d Mesopotamia agricul- ture.” same old performance of legislating for an army which in a real emer- couldn’t meet any military couldn’t meet half Girls!. . Get Busy! Republican.) Courage, (Waterbury This is leap yvear but the records fail New Britain’s Big Store FRIDAY AND SATURDAY DRESSES Spring Dress Parade. Opening Days. During Our Opening Days. Special Demonstrat 531 | McMILLAN'S “Always Reliable™ OPENING DISPLAY DAYS Displaying modes that will enjoy high favor in COATS, SUITS, and every little accessory that will qualify you for the Souvenirs to the Ladi:s Make it a point to be one of the visitors at this store on - We are pleased {0 announce that we have in- stalled in our store found it necessary revise its estimate for the naval pro- Al entering into ship construction have bounded ward in price by leaps and bounds, while the cost of labor has gone hand in hand with them. FEconomists at- to disclose that there are many young woman—all ied voung—taking advantage of the fact. Hay Dbinl | The girls shudder to think of the hu- line reg. | niliation of being refused just as the iho men themselves do and with the best ' resolutions in the world they go on one, couldn’'t mecet a quarter of “ouldn’t meet a tenth of one! congre ew York Press. popgun army of the will not do. We need a first ular army of 230000 men. nearer the senate gets to creating . | of one That lead and intends to hold it. Iso encouraging to note, in pass- iat this doubling of our volume anufactures was done with a jation that increased only This means that our surplus T always drink at Hamlin's Pond, Take rills that have no name, While Patton Brook turns round to me And looses what 1 gain. an Ameri- can Cloth Register. A machine for meas- unmar girls are gram. material ? for- 8 The T claim as mine the * Where Sess one- inging Brook,” ons laid the way, cts the goods made in other coun- by cheaper labor. That, how- is something for the politicians Eht What we are really rned with is the fact that the tates leads the world in man- and that -little old New in has given helping hand to he grandest nation on the earth it belongs, at the top of them are competing favorably over. a NTERESTING TO WATCH. Lthe present moment there is bn in Paris a conference of the have on e allies which may ex- g1y fmportant results in conne 5 ith the great world war. This prence began Monday and among those of Belgium Some of the other par- premiers Il Britain [Servia. nts are Sir Edward Grey, for- isecretary; Field Marshal Farl fhener, secretary for war; Gen. Sir present are France, Italy, las Haig, commander of the con- htal forces, ali representing Great pin; Joffre, the French jnander-in-chief; General Cador- pf’ Italy; M. Iswolsky, the foreign and General Gilin aid- to the Emperor, of Russia, Ambassador General ster, lamp the v, Japanese at The of these es'means that something of great brtance going when siuch gather. As all peace have been . ‘this b constderation of the huge e we have been hearing so much ately. There are statesmen and fers in this group and it would mere. mention is on hints at terms strenuously de- gathering may spring el from a point of information to lch the outcome of their delibera- s. Tt has tary, political and economic coun- These men h: bre, but not under such auspicious Wiseacres in their heen rightly termed a ve gotten together ditions. see the formula- f year this time for projected a hering at b of plans a renewal the t which v offensiv 18 never carried to com- the for Tt Germans foresaw jon because allies were payred properly the work. prgued that the 8 council and thus perpetrated the pck on Verdun for pose of forestalling the great of- may be now in the Looking back dayvs when from the cap- the ostensible which > of study. upon b last few member of the of readily he Paris has It will il of cach and every ente allies. there came denials e proposals, it might n that this council in ething biz up its sleev watching. ’ condition. have the | not | tribute to the war the blame for this Germany’s products are they cannot reach this England is letting out noth- The blockaded. country. ing which she can use at home. whole of Europe is cutting down ex- The United States is sending d everything that will command We widl ports. abroa: high figures, and o it runs. be fortunate indeed if this time next year we are not paying almost double prices for everything we demand in the line of necessaries and luxuries. When the demand is greater than the the consumers must pay the There no other supply, producer. out. is way CONTRABAND? Just what is contraband in the eyes of the British is a will give students food for thought in the question that years to come and furnish much ma- terial to the funsters in the days at hand. Seemingly, everythin traband that might eventually reach of the central powers. By the are being added to the is con- any way things English contraband list one wonders why the Atlantic ocean has been neglected. It was only last week that our poor old typewriter and its pro- honored by addition to might have been totypes were the list. There some excuse in that instance Lecause even a typewriter can become a dan- gerous weapon if placed in the proper. or improper, hands. But the most novel of all articles added to the Brit- ish list are the Tratch steamships have been held up and stripped of their possession of American bonds on the grounds that 2 had been 1o America to Germany's credit in the It has been suggested that this British this reason: interested can American bonds. financiat Germans these papers shipped by strengthen United States. financial experts on the part of the height of folly, for American corporations cancel the bonds seized and issue new Because bonds | are merely of | ness. or paper evidence of wealth. and not wealth itself, their places van be easily taken substitutes. Now if the British holding Dutch ships and seizing shipments of zold | there would be some method to the aside from being much by action is the the ones in place of them. certificates indebted- by were up madness, for real contraband gold than bonds, is so more valuable even American hends. Class in economics, stand up! | - And now that March close its performance we have with us the advance agent of April, the shower, , n 4 is ready to To bring t To what it Bristol Hardware Plant is today. At Stow’s old shop I run the wheel, The first which now T drive, Ten mills of mine, in days of yore, Above that shop did thrive. To Plantsville branch Near Blakesley's forging drop, Tts eight mile flow with laterals My volume doubles up. comes my largest The Ten Mile River at Milldale Next helps to make me fat, Then Mis'ry Brook gives up to me, I'm none the worse for that At “Cheshire Street” McKenzie's mill Is grinding by my flow, Here Tyler ground the farmer's grist Two centuries ago, I cut the rocks through Oregon Above Hanover Pond. With Sedom’s vale upon the And Yalesville on beyond north I'm utilized in many ways And worked by cv'ry crook. But fact'ry wheels T leave behind As I take Worton's Brook. Nearby the Sound, the oysterman Place oysters In my mouth, I then run out and drown mystelf In the Harbor on the south. FATTS AND FANCIES. Former King Manuel his sword to Portugai. take a gun and fight —Buffalo Enquirer. has offered Would he in the trenches Now that a Southwestern court has decided that a woman may break an umbrella over the head of a male flirt, we suppose they will be putting { more iron in the handles—Rochester Herald. man who, plication, has built up business of his own seldom much fault with John D. ler—North Adams Transcript. through a finds Now for Mr. of grapejuice -and a dove to his old friend, Pancho Villa. little later Mr. Villa's post office dress may be nowhere at all war-torn planet—Springfield would be an appropriate time A ad- on this Union. thousand French made fatherles to a state- hundred children have been by the war, according ment in the senate by Senator Jen- ovrier. This number exceeds by ten per cent. the average total births in France. Half the childhood of 17 he estimates, will be brought up with. } out paternal guide—Rochester Times. Eight nea now, in in Mexico and There. i of our military congress needs You probably have noticed that the | Y55 industry and ap- | flourishinrg | Rockefel- Bryan to parcel post a bottle of peace the face along-the border, going through the | said | state through { that | | | 1 such an army the closer will it come to a performance of the duty laid upon it by the exposure of the whole sale deficiencies in our military tem which the Mexican situation hos so painfully emphasized, but which the experience of the nations war- ring in Europe had already brought to light.—New York Tribune sys- It is because many of the things by Colonel Roosevelt of the present administration, in the bid he has made for a third term in fhe presidency, are truc that it is above all things necessary the republican party should prevent his nomination at Chicago in June. Of course the republicans cannot control the ac- tion of the so-called progressive con- vention, which meets in the same city at the same time. Tf TRoosevelt fails to get the republican nomination he is seeking so ardently what the body financed by George W. Perkins | and some other multi-millionaires | does or does do will be immaterial. The Coloncl would never run on nomination alone—Brooklyn Stand ard-Union. The Safety Evening Valve. (Saturday Post.) At luncheon a conspicuous placard hung in the dining car. As it not been there at breakfast, some passengers were curious enough to read it. They found contained solemn notice that. the unfortunate which the train then passing had been visited scrutable Providence with a legisla- ture that passed a law making it misdemeanor to give a tip within borders of the commonwealth. You would suppose a legislature which had done as asinine a thing as would be anxious to conceal '1, but this one advertised it. Some other states have a like law, | and almost, if not auite, every state has had a legislature that gravely debated an anti-tipping law. 1In the had | it by in- a the { sixty-thousand-and-odd laws that are | enacted in five ths silly United+ States are of in the vears a great many futile sort. We get vexed about them times: but we should really thanks for them. They are the safety valve that saves our lives. When a ! islature so ignorant of public | questions and of the limitations of low that it will put in its time pas: ing an act to forbid giving a waiter a tip, that is the least harmful thing we can expect from it. Tf it did not let off its steam in some such com- paratively harmless w s that the damage it might do i most incal- culable. If you should look -yvear grist of sixty thousand you would find that what saves % country is precisely the high propor- tion of silliness and futility in fl\cm.; i some- give over the five- | laws | the When Nero fiddled while Rome burn ed he was occupied in a compara- tively admirable manner. Given that digposition, he might easily have heen doing something infiniteiv worse. So a silly anti-tipping law— which really harms no one, for \\n] one pays any attention to it—=should be gratefully accepted as an escape from some positive injurys lips i hear the questioh pepped a | his return home he w i to | *Twent, perity of the sort that makes { rate, i tion the deap rears the other vears and their hearts 2n though they swmile much. Buck up girls! There are men who are just as tneir heavy, just Wwith through through sealed e plenty of as anxious cver was and who are secretl ng and praying this yvear Wwill Le fortunate enough to hs mctrimonial problem solved for them by some hrave girl. - are of the same 1 .d as the girl in the story ~vatch the Brooklyn Wiss has just Liought to light, as follows A man had recently met an elderly malden lady in a nearby tow on ote, asking her marry him and requesting an an- <wer by telegraph. On receiving the letter the lady rushed to the graph office. “How miuch does it cos to telegram " she demanded. -five cents T ten words,* answered the operator: and th's was the telegram her suitor received: “Yes. Yes. Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes Yes.” There never tei send was a more favorable ves1 than this, hereabou for are right and other conditions ble for a matrimonial start sh-paid basis and with pros- favorahle for continued pros- vounz fam:lies happy and courageous. Go to ic, girlg and don’t wait till the sum- mer flirts steal the inside tracl:! Attempts to Promotc Temperance. (New York Tribune.) Tt is no longer pretended by those promoting veral aleoholic countries concerned in temperance in the at war that the restrictions originaily designed to meet an emergency he withdrawn ‘when the war is Fvery one is well aware that efforts will ecertainly he made to establish them permanently, and the distillers and brewers are not in the least de- ceived by plausible talk of “tempor- ary measures.’ As far as England is concernad, Mr. Frank Tloyd George has spoken quite frankly, ng he will be “very much surprised if. before tho end of the war, experiments will not have been carried out with the gen- cral sense of the community which will have placed the consumption of alcohol under such control as it ! never has been under hefore—at any in this country. In spite of all the restrictions observed that there is no in the nation’s drink bill. cstimated, indeed, that last cxpenditure exceeded that of the vear before by about 10 1-2 per cenf. that is, actually more than $87,000,- will s over. it reduc- Tt vear's is into thousands of dollars. tion in forty-five seconds which usualiy three minutes. Souvenirs to the Ladies on Openiug Day. D. McMillan ly, quickly and economically the yardage sold, putes the amount of the sale correctly at any price, it pre- vents mistakes in measurements calculated on. vantages are beneficial alike to customer and storekeeper. Don'’t fail to see this wonderful machire in operation. ureing and computing . cloth as it is sold. MADE IN NEW BRITAIN—We invite you to come and see this wonderful machine which +is especially inter- esting to our community, as it was manufactured for the American Cloth Register Co.,at the plani of the New Brit- ain Machine Co. It required years of patience, hard work and untiring perseverance to perfect it, and the cost ran It is the first machine of this " character ever installed in a retail dry goods establishment in the world. The register completes an ordinary opera- requires about- It measures from a bolt of cloth accurate- it com- The ad- _ sawdust, which country well Sphagnum English lake in Ireland.. Tt sorbent than likely to become fortable. For these found admirable for before the patient journcy te the sawdust is said when put up in ticularly ing of head wounds The Liverpool has undertak up these remark that there has been a great increase in the consumption of rum, a circumstance attributed to' the use of this beverage in the army. Though this result must he dis- couraging to those who desire to pro- mote real temperance, it would he unfair to ume that the measures taken to restrict drinking have failed. These were introduced only last sum- mer, and the results cannot as yet be correctly estimated. As to the figures summarized above, they only tend to justify the extraordinary methods adopted to meet what was undoub- tedly a growing evil is a as as o moss cotton to 8¢ ization making ready for the Women's sending large places where In this lost in Moss and Sawdust. (Gt War child terbury Republican. ) heard that of invention Every has neces- they country no spreading about pine ing means 1t of those who sity is the mother and children have proved themselves, at least. War its horrors, but it also plows up the human field and in the plowing is re- not a few it to has wood - sa have 000. The increase is to be accounted for mainly by the rise in price, but there scems to he little doubt, in spite of Mr. Llovd George's ur- ance, that there is more spirit drink- ing today than formerly. Thus the per capita consumption amounted in 1915 to .76 proof gallons, as com- | pared with .68 in 1914. Much less beer was drunk last year, and wine has fallen off pretty steadily sinco the war began. But spirit drinking (s still popular, and it is curlous -to vealed many a truth and many a new discovery that men have sometimes suspected but never felt the need of investizating. So it happens that a new and very valuable substitute fc some of the expensive surgical dres: ings so long considered essential as war equipment, 1 been discovercid in England. Tt is & moss—sphagnum moss, which grows wild in the Brii- Another substitute for sur- gical dressings, and this is of peculiar interest. in this-country, is pine wood | m0ss and sawdust. line in Europe can scientific experiment ian industry, designc the supply of sawdu prove it for surgical into bheing. The ment faster to them when than has men we the brought efficacious for product f sodden n Wales, and and reasons dressing starts hospital e antiseptic 1z¢ en n ervice consignments i the wdt ent be in il 1st b th ew m ne 15t conserving on Pine materi nd, in connection with bureau, i ost should work of thid, England is found distriet, i is considered more ab- wood the and in Te 193-201-203 MAIN STREET uncom- it s wounds the wood and, is par the first dress- War Dressing organ- of to the needed bs information and the back th ar uses, doctors necessity Ic ne his ) conser 1d ma of ysing W to v conld dev supol is probable that, if the conclusions this in- by ‘ountry, that a profitable and very humanitar- a ir sprin m blood atend formation from just behind the firing , verified