New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1916. W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. 4 daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Church St d_at the Post Office at New BSritain Becond Class Mail Matter. ered by carries to any part of the city or 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. riptions for paper to be sent by mall, ayable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, 7.00 & Year. only profitabla advertising medium in he city. Cfreulation books and press oom always open to advertisers. rald will be found on sale at Hota- ng’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ay, New York City; Board Walk, at- mtic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONID CALLS. ess OmMce 1al Rooms [ACARONI kt wheh' thItalian government d an embargo on the exportation pacaroni and the people of the d States learned with regret that choice foodstuff would be a ity here in the near future, the ch- government issued biting the importation into France because the found their D LOBSTERS. a decree of lob- they are lobsters to speaking, of food, were sent Nova Scotia and péints along our eastern coast, the fishermen of vicinity are much disturbed over rench government’s action which, ear, will deprive them of almost iilion dollars, the amount which affic has netted in normal years. Wwill miss the luscious macaroni, its cousin spaghetti. Cooked rly, as only an Italian chef can ies. A most of formerly way rench restaurants e, in terms of sea p trick, there is no more formid- ish on the market. With a I quantity of real Italian sauce ich there is a copious sprinkling jman cheese, Italian macaroni is fit for the king. And so long Italian government sees fit to the supply that usually wends v to America, we cannot but re- as sad as the occasion is, that merican lobster supply will not ough the portals of France. y keeping out a million dollar crop, and here again attention led to the fact that this refer- made to those members of the of marine macrurous crus- popular hereabouts, the government makes it possible own citizens to enjoy at low e ever delicious and delectable If we cannot enjoy maca- can partake of lobsters. And that this is so, for macaroni ntially a cold weather dish, he great big crustacean lends mirably to warm weather and picnics, especially the Hinner, which is just coming juto style. Hoor RGANIZED RIBBLING. hbly before the day is out we ear of the decision of the k' League of America anent the e proposal to form the Inter- | Pen Pushers’ Union and align organization with the Ameri- deration of Labor, under the ustody of our old friend, Sam- bmpers. According to des- out of New York, Winston 11, president of the Authors’ and Theodore Roosevelt, first psident, Brander Matthews, are much in favor of ve. how- leading the opposition, so after e might not be such a union we are creditably informed, be as legitimate as that of the al Irgnh Workers, the Hod : “other like organiza- sympathetic where ‘the authors are con- That is, 1 the painters, or the or the truck-drivers go the authors will do the same. ‘Which, is a very good thing. he authors were out on strike, juld doubt it but that a lot of Jreakers would be brought to werlk, for. them, and if this s fotind to be just as good as e1'by Ithe men on strike, the jon/would fall to the ground. ng is not at all like blasting e even carrying a transit on eering job. Authors are born trade. Theirs unskilled that there is no apprentice- 4, other: trades. The foes not have his work mapped s other men do, he does strike, not of “or is as in nder a foreman and get the 1S of the trade, nor does he nd of any period of time con- Journeyman author. ork must be Airected by his He has no his work, mself a bin. A1 of his ability, Superinten- turnea oy is no gooq to it blic refuses to pass properyy So the author is not in the ass with the men jJades or professions. of recog- He may ore money than them if he is ul; he willmake less if he is bstul. ' 't is_not for a union t him, nor for him to hamper ld be interesting to note the effect of the first strike, providing the | authors do join hands with the union men. The word would go forth that there should be no more literary out- put until the demands of the union had been met. Then there would be a tie-up. All pens, pencils and type- writers would be silent for the mo- ment. There would probably be arbitrators appointed to settle the dif- ferences between the publishers and the authors. In the meantime, picket duty would be in force, and well known and popular authors would be seen quietly walking up and down in front of the great publishing houses and the book stores, asking the passers by not to patronize these pub- lishers and vendors.. In the mean- time the strike breakers would be get- ting in their work, and while the old- time favorite authoms were' holding out for more pay,-the young blood, every ready for a chance to break into print, would throw away the numerous rejection slips in their pos- session, and take the places they have so eagerly been waiting to fill. That would be the end of it. The young- sters who never had a chance, be- cause the publishers cater only to the big names and those who have be- come famous, would then have charge of the literary world, and the present crop of authors would be sent forth to look for other work, or to live the rest of their lives on the niggard- ly earnings from their pens. Thus would end the International Pen Pushers’ Union. FOR THE BOYS AT CHESHIRE. In home there are numerous magazines, and periodicals which have outlived their usefulness in that particular sphere, but which are piled high to accumu- late dust and occupy space that should be given to other things. While these pages of print are allowed to quietly grow old on the book-shelves, remote attic corners, doing good to no one and eventually finding their way into the fire, there are thousands of persons who hunger after the knowl- edge contained in such books, and have not the necessary means of pur- chasing like ones. Booklovers have some idea of how to dispose of their old books and put them in places where they do the most good. There are the orphan asylums, hos- almost every books, or in will pitals, homes for the aged, and numer- ous eleemosynary institutions. It is doubtful, however, if there is a better place to send books than to the Connecticut State Reformatory at Cheshire, An appeal from the in- tasks are wanted, and wanted badly. ‘Why then should they be kept out merely they cannot read or write according to set standard? If they are ambitious, it is readily admitted they must be, they will soon learn to read and speak our language sident here for some one or two or three y An test making them because as after they have been re way, the real of American citizens will not come until after they have spent a certain pre- scribed time on these shores and come up for naturalization. Then they must know how to read and write, and that is the time for such a test. The literacy test in an immigration bill, aside from its wholly un-American spirit, is absolutely foolish. If the gentlemen of the Senate committee do not see fit to kill this phase of the bill as they have done the clause found distasteful to Japan, it is to be hoped that President Wilson will veto the it goes to the White He has al- and he may measure when House for his signature. ready killed a like bill, perform the same service to the country when the Burnett bill comes before him. Not that anyone wants to see dis- but there “Senatorial courtesy in the Senate; is such a thing as carrying courtesy” too far. FACTS AND FANCIES. Furious fighting is again reported on the battle line of the Italians and Austrians, but so far this bit of the war appears to be more or less of a draw.—Buffalo Commercial. Again the warning has gone forth to Americans in Mexico to get out. It is not easy for people to abandon their homes and property interests, affairs acr the border are getting to be mighty uncomfortable as for those who traveled on British ships. —Wilkesbarre Record, Nobody started this war. It started itself in the growth of racial, religious and commercial jealousies through the centuries. Germany merely struck the first blow. Had she not done so, some other nation would have struck it at somg other time.—Rochester Union. It is not absolutely necessary to fol- low the example of Germany and England by setting your clock ahead to gain an hour of daylight. You can retire an hour earlier ard get up that much sooner than at present in the morning.—Burlington Free Press. Peace riots in Sofia with killed indicate that the Bulgarians, swung to Germany by the King, may soon take the bit in their teeth. When they do, the King may as well quit. The Bulgars do things when they mate librarian of that institution to | “friends on the outside” should carry | particular weight among those lovers of boys and books who have not lost their interest in opportunities to do good. The Cheshire spend two or three hours every night in the librar, will, they is given them, voungsters at read everything that and, of course, the librarian sees to it that they get only the proper kind of reading Such hungry little mental have about devoured all the available literary stuft at the school, and now there is a call | for more. There are all of | books that will appeal to the boys, and | there are many of these books lying idle today in New Britain Books of knowledge, books of fiction, | books of poems. Any kind that may be good for these boys will | be welcomed, any magazines, with plenty of pictures to make the hearts | of these youngsters glad. Pack them up today, any books you do not want, and send them to the Connecticut Re- formatory, at Cheshire, in care of “Register No. 425, Inmate Librarian.” If you cannot afford to pay the ex- pressage on them, send them ‘“collect’ and Dr. Charles H. Johnson, the su- perintendent of the reformatory, will take care of the charges. If you have not the time to bother with the pack- ing of these books, send them down to the Herald office and we will see that they get to their proper destina- tion. Do not forget the boys at Cheshire. material. appetites kinds homes. | of books | MARK THIS, “KILL”. By Senate committee amendment, the Burnett Immigration Bill has been dressed up so as to be more agreeable to Japan; this by taking from it the obnoxious clause which classed Jap- anese laborers with Hindus and thus | sought to debar them from entering the nation. The same ends will be attained | by the “gentlemen’s agreement” be- tween the departments of state of Japan and the United States. There will be cause of relief all around now that to Japan has been obliterated. no one wants to stir the ire of the | We have enough trouble | affront At this particular time this Japanese. on our hands as it is. Having done away with this particu- lar feature of the new Immigration bill, would it mot be a thing to &0 one step farther and liter- a good kill t Y test in the same measure, the (est which would gepar from this country | the big men of Europe who would come here in search of work? There is a scarcity of labor all over the country and men to perform these brawny alumnus who the appearance in a indictment for alleged illegalities, Charles Evans Hughes. | conflict get started.—Brooklyn Eagle. “Dutch” Carter, the eminent Yale has protested against the Yale Bowl of husband is under pro-German brother-in-law of Does his brand of neutrality reflect accurate the opinion of the nation’s most reti- cent citizen?—New York Sun. tetb e Disadvantages of Being President. (Providence Journal.) President Wilson told his audience of newspaper men at Washington Tuesday evening that the executive office has its serious drawbacks We knew it, and they knew it, of coursc, before. But it is interesting to have Mr. Wilson confess, in an »ffhand and evidently sincere way, how super- ficial are some of the allurements of his post and how its more substantial attractions are largely offset by its heavy responsibilities. Nevertheless, there is no dearth of candidates for the presidential honor, If Mr. Wilson were not so entrenched in the leadership of his party, should as strenuous a contest the nomination at St. Louis as there was at Baltimore in 1912.- At Chica- g0 the strife for the republican nom- ination promises to bring fourteen or fifteen names into competition on the first ballot three weeks hence. Mr. Wilson himself, though laying stress, in this address to the National Press club, on the disadvantages of the of- fice, is ready and ecager to pass four vears more in the White House. To the unreflecting mind it might seem that one of the principal satis- factions of the presidency is the op- portunity it affords to come into con- tact with great numbers of one's fcl- low-citizens and to be the overshad- owing figure of the throng. But Mr. Wilson gives us a different point of view. He says, rather whimsically: “I am constantly reminded as I go about, as I do some times at the week-end of the personal inconven- iences of being president of the Unit- ed States. If T want to know how many people live in a small town all I have to do is to go there and they at once line up to be counted. I might, in a census taking year, save the census takers a great deal of trouble by ask- ing them to accompany me and count the people on the spot.” None of these incidental annoy- ances and embarrassments of the presidency, however, not even the ir- ritations for which persistent office- seekers, ill-advised friends, and ob- stinate congressmen, are responsible, compare, of course, with the tremend- ous burdens that the complexity of modern society, especially modern in- ternational society, impose upon a president. It is no wonder that Mr. Wilson says: “Tf 1 did not go aw at weelk-ends oceasionally and throw off, as much as it is possible to throw off, this burden, 1 could not stand it.” It iz & commonplace to say that th beyond the Atlantic has placed on the American executive a str and strain unequalled since the days of Lincoln. But it is a com- monplace worth keeping.in mind, woman whose is a we for McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG ETORE “ADWAYSR RLEIABLE" Garment News From Our Ready-to-Wear Department ONE HUNDRED CORDUROY COATS $3.98 EACH That Are Worth $7.50, These special Coats we offer in white and all the new desirable colors. SPECIAL SALE WOMEN’'S TAILORED SUITS Every Suit worth $25.00 and more. Saturday at $17.98 each. Take advantage of this mark down of exclusive wearing apparel. WOMEN’S COATS Saturday at $15.00 each. Value $20.00. Wool serges, poplins, whip- cords, etc. Smart tailored Coats in this sale. TAFFETA SILK EVENING GOWNS Value $25.00 to $35.00. Saturday at $15.00 each. ‘We offer in this sale just thirty-two of these Special HEvening Gowns of taffeta silk, trimmed with laces, nets, gold and silver embroidered nets and flouncings. SILK JERSEY SPORT COATS Saturday at $9.98 Each. SILK SWEATERS Priced $5.00 to $9.98 Each SNOW' ' WHITE ICELAND FOX SCARFS $3.98, $4.98 Each OSTRICH BOAS $1.98, $2.98, $3.48, $4.69 Each Another lot of these Special Ostrich Boas on Sale Saturday in black, white and colors. MALINE RUFFS 98¢ Each In all the wanted shades. WASHABLE CAPE GLOVES For Street Wear Women's at $1.15, $1.29, $1.50 pair. Children’s, in white and tan, Special $1.15 pair. In all sizes. GEORGETTE CREPE N Collars at 49¢ each. Fichus at 98¢ each. Vestees at 98¢ to $1.69 each. All new, see them displayed in our show case. BURSON HOSE See our Special Display of Burson Hosiery for Women. No woman too large or too small to fit with Burson Hose. s Knit to fit without a seam, price 25¢, 35¢, 50c pair. ) Can be had at this store in regulars, out sizes, extra out sizes, and trunk tops. SICKWEAR TRIUMPH SILK HOSE Women's at 35¢, 50c pair. . McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. Clothes An Aid To Swimmers. Professor J. Joly sent to the Times a letter on experiments he and Pro- fessor H. H, Dixon have conducted on the advantages and disadvantages of swimming in clothes—a subject which may be of importance to anyone who travels by sea in these da; says the Spectator. The popular notion draw a swimmer down, but maximum downward drag of an dinary sailor’s clothes in a Wi hown to be on four This was after all air had pelled from the clothes. In the drag for a considerable time would be les At first there would even be a sustaining force from the clothes. Of course, for a short and sharp burst of swimming clothes would obviously be a great impedi- ment. The most experiments, however was that clothed person in the sea warmth very much less rapidly an unclothed person. The e { tion is that fabrics placed against the skin stop the circulation and prevent the body warmth from being carried off by the water. With a great mount of clothing it might be pos- sible to keep fairly warm even in very cold water. The moral is: Keep on your clothes, and if you have a life belt or life saving waistcoat keep on plenty of them, is that clothes or- >unce ex- ‘tice been important result of the how lo o On Sale ; the | water | The Season’s Most Third Floor. AT $2.98 plain effects, semi-tailored styles. Fine lawn made in the new with color to match front. BLOOM” In white or dark colors, fitted tops plaited, finished with small ruffle, derlay, also sateen corded ruffle. number of stars, with pole, outfit for $1.29. ’Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders prompily filled. Styles in Charming Sum- mer Waists AND $3.98. Crepe de chine, stripe and plain colors, ruffle and NEW LINGERIE WAISTS AT 98c. white with blue or rose, convertible collar trimmed HANDSOME NEW MERCERIZED PETTICOATS $1.48. beautiful floral effects, numerous dainty styles, deep accordion FLAGS FOR DECORATION DAY. American cotton bunting Flags with regulation sockets, etc., On sale Fourth Floor. | WISE, OUR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PURCHASES. Daily Delivery in New Britain, Cedar Hill, Maple Hill and Clayton. Tailored Approved sion and National Down Go the Prices on Women’s SUITS SUITS WORTH UP TO $18.98, NOW .................§13.00 —Wise, Smith & Co. SUITS WORTH UP TO $22.50, NOW .................$15.00 SUITS WORTH UP TO $25.00, NOW .................$18.00 SUITS WORTH UP TO $27.50, NOW .................$20.00 SUITS WORTH UP TO $30.00, NOW .................$22.50 Couch Hammocks at Lowest Prices Khaki duck Couch Hammocks with chain suspen- Spring, Special $5.95. Couch Hammocks of extra quality heavy duck, re- versible mattress and National Spring, regular $10.00 value, for $8.95. Couch suspender effects, 4 ft. wide, slats, 98c. 5 ft. wide, slats, $1.20. 6 ft. wide, slats, $1.49. 7 ft. wide, slats $1.69. 8 ft. wide, slats, $1.99. 10 ft. wide, slats, $2.49. “HEATHER- full flare with un- complete 8 Hammock Stands, $4.00, here at $2.95. 8 ft. drop, 8 ft. drop. 8 ft. drop, 8 ft. drop, ft. strongly bullt, worth BAMBOO PORCH SCREENS. All widths in narrow and wide slats. 8 ft. drop, narrow slats, 69c, narrow slats, 89c, narrow slats, $1.09, narrow slats $1.19, narrow slats, $1.39, drop, narrow slats, $1.89, e o P SMITH & HARTFORD Elmwood, Newington, Our Restaurant 1s an ideal placo for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. CO. - Four Largest l On Mexican Border States ‘Washington, D. C., May 19—The de- cision of the war department to order out the militia organizations of Tex- ow Mexico and A | United States against further raids by | Mexican bandits makes the boundary | line between the two republics a topic ! of paramount interest. This boundary | is the subject of today’s war geography bulletin, issued by the National Geographic society from its Washing- ton headquarters, which says: states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas original to the Mexican republic, and if the United States were called upon to guard the lines which constituted the southern border before the acquisi- tion of Texas and the land purchased after the war of 1848, the boundary would extend for a distance of 2,500 miles instead of 1,833 miles as now. “The Rio Grande, which constitutes a natural boundary between the two countries for a distance of 1,136 miles, rises in the mountains of southern Col- orado and flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico. It becomes a part of the boundary at El Paso, some 700 miles from its source. Owing to the ctensive use of its waters for irriga- tion purposes and to rapid evaporation during the summer months, the river's volume frequently is so diminished that for many miles along its course bed becomes dry. Its flow is by no means commensurate with its length or with the basin of 240,000 square miles which it drains. “The Rio Grande is navigated by small boats for 500 miles above its mouth but it is one of most vari- able of rivers, the volume of water which it discharges some years being ten times as great as during others. “To the Mexicans the upper river is known as the ‘Rio Grande del Norte’ (Great River of the North), but in the Big Bend region, where tha latest border outrages have occurred, it is known as the °‘Rio Bravo’ (Rapid River). “The whole boundary line as it now exists between the United States and Mexico has been established through the purc of territory by the form- or republic. for, although the war of 1848 was fought to fix the Rio Grande as the Texas border, by the Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty Mexico recetved §15,- 000.000 and was relieved of $2,000,000 of debts, in payment for her cessions in Texas and for the territory ewm- braced in the state then known as Mexico, from which California, Nevada. Utah, most of Arizona and portions of Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico have been carved. Six vears after this treaty the Gadsden li’urcha,se was consummated whereby ew ) zona to ald in | | g southern border of the | 1l the territory of the four-border | belonged | for $10,000,000 the United States, in addition to other concessions, acquired more than 45,000 additional square miles lying between the Gila river on the north and the present boundary line between Arizona and New Mexico and the Mexican state of Sonora. This | sale was unpopular in Mexico and was partly responsible for the banish- ment of President Santa Anna “One-fifth of the total arca cf the United States (Alaska and the insular possessions exclusive) is embraced in the four state on the Mexican border, { while tree-sevenths of Mexico's area is included in her six border states of | Lower California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaul- ipas. “If all the militiamen of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas which the war department has called upon for pa- trol duty on the Mexican border were strung out as sentries they would form a thin khaki line’ with each man, in- cluding officers, a third of a mile from his nearest neighbor to the right and left. If eight hour tours of duty were required our southern militia ‘wall’, as ancient Sparta called her fighting men, would be composed of ‘bricks’, a mile apart.” The Oldest Woman Editor. (Providence Journal.) A carcer that though modest in scope deserves mention for its notable length and faithful service was ended the other day by the death of Mrs. Charles Ackert at New Paltz, New York, said to be the oldest woman editor in the United States. For fifty-five years she had been the edi- tor of the local weekly paper, as- suming the duties of her husband when he went to the front in the Civil War. It is no small distinction to be a “woman editor,” to be the oldest in the country is an added distinction, and a woman who could successfully conduct even a small journalistic en- terprise until she was eighty-five years a most unusual feat. The heavy prison terms inflicted on the alien conspirators who have heen making this country the )1(:1\(1!411:11"‘{ ters for a private war on nmations| friendly to the United States ought to be a warning that such practices are extremely unhealthful. The Judge who pronounced sentence rightly said that this was no place to carry on hos- tilities. Aliens with so much fighting spirit ought to be in the trenches of Europe.—Newburgh Journ: Peace rumors from another quarter indicate that one of these dayvs Wood- | but R. H. Wilec ENO LIKE A DEAD TREE AT THE TOP Had Been MafingWWills for the Past Twenty Years New York, May 19—Amos F. Eno, a bechelor, who died October 22, 1915, in his 82nd year, and left an estate valued at $13,000,000, was de- scribed in the proceedings before the surrogate here as one who for months prior to his demise ike a three tha had died at t Counsel for rela testing the Eno will, by the terms of which Columbia university would re- ceive nearly $9,000,000 declared tha witnesses would testify that Mr. Eno’ valet “used to lead him to bed by the ear and used to tousle his head and say to him, ‘come along, old boy, |it's time to go to bed.” For twenty years, it was said, Mr, Eno had been “making wills,” and the contestants claim that he was a victim of senile dementia. “Instead of being a shrewd Yankee of a mean and humble nature,” the attorney for the relatives said, “Mr. Eno was an aristocdat and a spender with a passion for real estate. He had his shirts made in Paris, bought his furniture abroad and lived a com- fortable and luxurious life. He got up lJate and spent about as much timo at his office as,you and I would if we were worth $18,000,000. The upholders of the will denied that any undue influence had been exercised upon Mr. Eno, adding that the contest in reality was started by the relatives ‘because they had been forgotten.” “They are discontented,” asserted counsel, “because they received only $4,600,000. They wanted the rest of the estate, too.” was * top.” ves who are con- NAME MEMORIAL COMMITTEE, New Britain Council, O. U. A .M., will Honor Departed Members, Members of New Britain council, O, U. A. M, are aking preparations for the observance of their annual Me- morial day in honor of deceased mem- bers and at the meeting of the lodge last night the following committee was appointed to make arrangements: Earl Kisselbrack, chairma By Beach, W. H. Watrous, V. Clark, Fred E. Clock, E. L. Andre Robert M. Andrews, C. F. Carlson and D. W. Peterson. As yet nothing definite has been done regarding a building corporation, H. T. Sherman and R. J. Beach have been named as a A row Wilson may shake hands with Charles Murphy.—Pittsburg Dispatch membership committee to take charge of a membership contest,