New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1916, Page 8

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Vith the te of the at or- and declaration National Guard of Connecticut in camp ntic, with gseveral divisions ed to rep6¥t on the border o every prospect of a var between the United States and kico being forthcoming soon those b remain at home, w mothe ethearts and the male members of family anxiously asking ere will our boys report to Funs- Re. are ruiting is going on steadily, and in the cities and towns onnecticut. The of panies to Niantic Saturday drove e the realization that history is in making, that many who left be- departure the Stars and Stripes may never fn, that warfare stares the youth and and prepare for the sacrifice age of the nation in the face the must populace, man, woman Mars demands. Woman must Hown the lives of her loved ones her ields against the hy. Age must see lation of a generation offer themselves bullets of the the loved ones pain and the pride well lived life symbolized in its sacrificed on the national altar. tude will be the paramount vir- penceforth and that must extend 1, be they fighters at the front latives at home. pat the plans of the nation are attitude toward Mexico is un- n to the general public. What be the result of recent events, larrizal massacre, for instance, is pwn. Can we disregard the pa- pm, the love of motherland exists in most of us sufficiently o an utter disregard of the [l States as a nation to exist in the minds of semi-civilized such as border us on the ? It is doubtful. Does a spirit litarism such as would call for iless and bloody war live in our T It The nation btedly hopes that matters may but the na- is doubtful. nedied with honor, L ready to prove its point at the s of machine guns and army That was proven in New Brit- pturday. re are many who marched from ty that will not for any of sev- easons see military service at bnt. At Niantic before the com- are accepted and mustered into nited States Army every indi- will have to pass a physical ex- ion more severe than that here. The probabilities are large percentage will be dis because of physical unfitness fore not apparent. When tifs nies are recruited to war h it will probably be found heir training will be as easily plished on the border as it be at Niantic. The added ad- e of men on the spot for patrol nd general service is obvious kEh the National Guard be months in getting into an engagement unless the war is across our borders by the RSAL MILITARY TRAINING the demand for military train- the civilian has reached a high the Plattsburgh encamp- f last summer is proven by an pince pking just getting under way York known as the Non-Com- ed Officers Volunteer league of A number of natives of the olis have been busily flirthering e which will supply the wage of the cities with an adequate pr training which will not inter- th the regular duties of the s man which will fit the for in time of h any company as a non-com- jed officer. planned to establish barracks larger cities which will be en- elf-supporting. A prospective r of his country and enlistment may enroll company without the v of enlisting. The fee is to be vo dollars and a half a week. for this fee the civilian wi'l military training under com- certain amount g local tructors, sical a training and will home during th ation. the directors of From a 0 the individusts ning from wor parracks, t, the bene- Upon o nter a units | of recreation have been where his accommodations The member himself may the hours in which he is willing to take part in the militar drill and will find himself under means pro- vided and are to be. designate few | restrictions outside of those to be ex- | It is figur will 1 the pected in any club. ed that | the proposed fee ay neces- sary amount to conduct the barracks fund for and to establish a sinking the redemption of bonds. | It is planned to make four divisions | of the United States in establishing | barracks be placed in every town where the mem- | bership warrants it. Whethor the plan is finally found fensible or not it certainly seems step in the right direction. The militia serves its purpose very well but there are large numbers in every city who these leagues but will a would prefer the order of things as suggested in this new step. ACTION OF THE DOCTORS New Britain phy- The action of the sicians in agreeing to give their ser- vice: of ready for w; free of charge, to any members the families of guard rfare is deserving of the One of the | greatest needs, next to food and cloth- ing, are at the front or in camp will prob- ably be that of the attendance of re- liable physicians. It might also prove to be one of the greatest expenses and the fact that local doctors are ready to serve the families will remove a great deal from the shoulders of the community. At a time when all who stay at home must assist in aiding the families of those at the front lightening of the burdens will be ap- preciated. nen now highest commendation. of the dependants of those who any FUNDS FOR THE FOURTH The subject of war the attention of every public-minded citizen of this city as well as the rest of the United States. A pertinent question just now might be asked re- garding the Chamber of Commerce as to the expenditure of funds for the annual Fourth of July celebration, part of which have been collected if we are not misinformed. At a time when part of the populace is ready for bration would be mightily out of place. There is no surety that our flag will be surrounded with blood at that time but in case that it is it would look more like cowardice than patriotism to hold a celebration here. The raising of funds should not be discontinued however as there will un- doubtedly prove that there is any number of places to use the money should hostilities open. Tobacco, for instance, is one of the most acceptable of gifts to' a body Need might also develop for money for fur- thering relief for aiding the Red Cross, in fact for any purpose that the imagination of the donor should suggest. Coin of the realm will be a valuable antidote for many ills that follow in the wake of war. Let the raising of a fund go on. Let it however be understood, that in case of a break, the money will be expend- ed where the Chamber of Commerce deems that it will do the most good, and may there be plenty of it forth- coming. is occupying war an Independence Day cele- of men. work, Among the horrors of war must be reckoned the “‘war poet.” He is here, there, everywhere, although times it is a she. Sex is no barrier. In fact, it seems as if a barrier does not exist. Stirred by the poet takes his pen in hand proceeds to commit an atrocity, com- pared with which the invasion of Bel- gium is an afternoon tea. With the price of paper on the ascendency it's going to be a costly indoor sport, but if past experience counts for aught, we do not believe this will cause a blight in the war poetry crop. some- martial spirit, and is fast disappearing | life. Whereas 115,000,000 pounds ot prunes the populace, now the crop has fallen to 5,000,000 pounds consumed annually, Looking over other statistics it s/ found there are just as many board- | the United States as something The prune national in from our | cther years some | | consumed | were by ing houses In ever. There is radically | wrong with the prune market. FACTS AND FANCTES Even though they are reviving the unapproachable names of the places they capture, the Russians must be credited with advancing more than a | hundred yards at a time.—Pittshurg Dispatch. } S i Doubt of American patriotism, ‘founded upon much unpatriotic talk | | and the inablility to recruit the Regu- lar Army and the National Guard in time of peace, is dissipated by the re- sponse to the call to arms.—Buffalo Enquirer. i — | If the jar produced by the Russian steam roller does nat shake Rou-, mania off the fence, it can only be concluded that Roumania is not a fence, but on a solid wall of re- | inforced concrete.—Providence Jour- nal. I wonder if| the Lord makes the mark very black against the name of the brakeman who, as the train \ rasses along kicks off the soft soal for the old woman who, beseechingly stands near the track with her basket or large apron.—Pittsfield Eagle. 'most anybody history also that But History can lick Russia. how that the ave use of licking a slay licked for more time ?2—South ows nation that won't than six months Norwalk S inel. Public Health Service has gathered atistics to show that the average incipacitation of the worker in American industries on accaunt of sickness is nine days a year. Presumably same of them are pleasant days when a ball game is on.—Philadelphia Ledger. The United States Baseball has at last obtained a firm footing in England, having been popularized by the Canadian soldiers. The great American game ought to sorve the good purpase in Great Eritain of helping the people to for- set their troubles.—Newburgh Journal. Mexican state of Sinaloa has war on the United States. live long. Once upon a American named Owens es- a Socialist colony at Topo- in Sinola, and we have been forgiven.—Brooklyn The declared Grudges time an tablished lobampo, never Eagle, THE MATTABESETT RIVER. (By James Shepard.) One thousand feet above the sea There stands a mountain grand; It’s back divides the falling rain By slopes on either hand. Of two drops onc flows westerly Through Southington ta run, The other east through Meriden, Then north to Kensington. Hanging Hills to White Oak pas Eight times the rains divide, Into as many little braoks Adown that eastern side. From When into one a number of These little brooks deliver, They make that stream which now is called The Mattabesett River, This Indian name for Middletown The whites hestowed an me, But formerly my Indian name Was known as Se-be-the. That former name has been displacgd By Mattabesett’s own, The name of Sowheag’s tribe, And place that was their home. haughty My head belangs to Meriden That twice has dammed my main, And raised a plant in Berlin, where It pumps me back again, The name of Percival did fall Upon a lovely glen, Where busy mills and water wheels Made work for many men, And lawer down, where J. T. Hart, A line of hardware made, The Paper Goods, now my first shop, Has built up quite a trade. lesser brooks, with lesser streams, To old New Britain run, And give to me the langest branch Of all that to me come. Two The Indians roamed each branch of mine, They camped within our town, Their work-shop with its impliments Near Linwoad street w: found. Brocksieper’'s hardware shop was once Below Rhodes’ Tce House pond, While Mill street owes its present name To Burr's mill, an heyond. And higher up, far to the south, Within the mountain wood, There still remains, the wall dam ‘Where Warner and saw mill stood. In olden times, among the racks, A dam and mill they'd cram, On brooks so small, that now they're not Considered worth a dam, This branch of mine, ance, Is now without a mill, By Christian Lanc it makes it way To where our sewer beds spill. Few other rivers in our state So many branches show Where water for so many miles Takes on a northern flaw. flow from Panther 1s north, From Shuttle Meadow too. The Tce House brook, maves northerly The Country Club’s land through. My Swamp My main flows north for five mile Then tow some rds the east dath bend, | Ana thus takes all the various brooks Which have a northern end, ¥ Meriden's big reservoir, Rerlin's Lower Lane, Blue Hill broak a course Doth follow in the main. om To The northern From Lamentation’s northern slope A branch of mine doth flow, Where North, for governmenta)] use, Made pistols long ago. The Belden and two Westfield brooks, And Newfield braoks again; Rock falls and other brooks of mine, This northern course maintain. st Berlin takes its power from me And then my work is dane, ior there T cease to have the fall A fact'ry wheel to run My level raised a hope to see, That which I never shall, Since Uncle Sam flnances not New Britain’s barge canal. 1ge incapacitation | though busy | | NEW BRITAIN'S BUSY BIG STORE. “AFWAY® RELIABLK™ YOUR VACATION CLUB CHECK! | CASHED HERE WHETHER YOU BUY OR NOT, JUNE SALE 0 Embroider Sale begins Today and continues for the balance of this month. Now Is the time to buy stamped pleces to embroider during vacation time- Large selection of Stamped pieces- So many it would almost be impossible to try and give you a descriptive list. Sale price 21c. Value 25¢ and 29c. sale price 45c. STAMPED GOWNS. Sale prices 15¢ to $1.25. $2.00. STAMPED PILLOW CASES. Sale prices 19¢ to 750 each. to 98c. STAMPED TOWELS. sale prices 79¢ to 75¢ each. to 98c. TURKISH TOWELS. Guest and Bath Towels, Sale prices 19¢ to 49c each. to 69c stamped. Values ALL LIN to embroider for holding Handkerchiefs, Knives, Forks, Spoons, etc: Madeira designs. Sale prices 21c and 39c each. Values to 50c. PIN CUSHION TOPS to embroider, round, square and ob- long. to 50c. N CASES LUNCHEON SETS Sale price 45¢ each. Pillow Tops, Table Runners Laundry Bags. Sale price 21¢ 45¢ each. Boudoir Caps and Combing Jackets. Sale prices 21¢ and 45¢ each. CHILDREN’S DRESSES Stamped to Emb. Size up to 10 years. each. Values to $1.50. SAMPLE FINISHED MODELS Sale price $1.00 each. including Hand Emb. Pillow Center pieces and Children’s Dresses. All sample model, FOR THE BABY. Many dainty pieces to embroider at June Sale Prices. CARRIAGE ROB Sale prices 45c¢. 69¢ each, BABY SETS including Jackets, Slippers and Bon- net. Sale price, set 45c. BABY PILLOW TOPS. Sale prices 21c¢ and 45c each. INFAN LAWN DRESSES Sizes 6 months to 3 years. Sale price 21c each. and BABY BONNETS Stamped. Sale price 39c. 50c each. Embroidary Threads and Accessories Peri Lusta Emb. Floss. Peri Lusta Slipper Cotton Peri Lusta Crochet Cotton Brainerd & Armstrong Emb. Silks. C. M. C. Emb- Cottons, Cordonnet Crochet Cotton. Texto Rope Emb. Silks. - Texto Rope Crochet Silks Distributors of Columbia yarn. Silkateen in all colors. Paper Mache Initials Beads for Fancy V Come to this sale and save money. 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. Just fifty-three ginia became a of the Mississippi to the Union. This week | Commonwealih is celebrating the an- | niversary with an unusual degree of state and national pride and much re- joicing over the prosperity that the | vears have brought. Old Linsly Institute, { first home of the State” is the fountain of | tion. the Panhandle to Squire Jim and | Horsepen, on the North Carolina bor- | der, West Virginia spreads her feast, | State grown, State haked and cooked; | West the last cast admitted to the whole state, Wheeling, the government, patriotic inspira- she serves it in State made china and glass, and, except in some oases where the cheering dew still descends, in spring water. Her birthday is one of the longest days of the vear; but it takes a long day to tell of her rise from poverty | to her present high rank as a pro- ducer of wealth from her own ural resources. mountain drinks her toasts West Virginia was a child of war. | | The siege of Vicksburg was at its | height on the day she was born. Get- tyshurg was fought ten days after her | first Governor was inaugurated. her scant population she furnis 38,000 soldiers to preserve the U sis she hed | ion. j In the preser answers the }(-m for one regiment by offering two ready for the field. If there must be fighting, the riflemen from the moun- tains are “just achin’” for a chance. of Standard Goods Value 50c and 59c. | Values to | Values | Value | Gloves, | Sale prices 21c and 39c. Values | and ‘White and colors. | Sale price 49c | Tops, | | the i ! | region around Nuevo Laredo will the region around Nuev | s e | parched | when From the northernmost tip of | favored | | the nat- | of | BIG MILLINERY CLEARANCESALE ESPECIALLY PRICED FOR JULY 4 BUYING! WISE SMITH & CO., HARTFORD Beautiful Panamas and Leghorn Trimmed Hats Beautiful light color hats for summer dress wear. new soft floppy tically trimmed with ribbons of vel- summer flowe of velvet Values up to $4.50, specially priced at only Leghorns in the panamas vet or silk, wings, have facings or flanges NEW PANAMAS Small and medium sailors, side roll, etc. Pure white in Nicely blocked and 65c¢ color. Regular at only bleached. value 1.25, THE NEW POPULAR CANIE CHAIR SHAPES The for semi-dress. All colors, Regular value at only ideal hat 50c 39c shapes as well as fancles. Some or chiffon. s, crepe We Trim HATS Free of Charge Large and medium and the new soft styles. ished. Natural ular $1.25 value at color. $2.69 GENUINE PANAMAS Beautifully bleached and woven. Newest blocks in floppy styles, mannish styles, sailors, ete. \7n!ue$1 98 . to §2.98, at only STYLISH LEGHORN SHAPES sailors floppy Nicely woven and fin- Reg- 50c Where New Britain’s Soldier ' Boys May Cross Into Mexico Washington, D. C.,, June 26.—One over alleged encroachments on | relative riparian rights, of the chief centers of Mexican popu- lation along the frontier to which the Vational Guard troops have been or- dered is Nuevo Laredo, the subject of the following war geography bulletin ! jssued by the National Geographic so- ciety from its Washington headquar- ters: “Nuevo Laredo, the border city of Tamaulipas, is one of the most im- portant gateways to the southern re- public, not on account of its popu- lation, for the American-Mexican El Paso and Juarez constitute a hyphen- ated city more than twice as large as Laredo (American) and Nuevo Lare- do (Mexican), but because the latter is the northern terminus of the shortest rilway route to Mexico City, the lis- tance being about 800 miles, compared with 1,200 miles by way of Juarez and 1,000 miles through Ciudad Porfirio Diaz (Eagle Pass). “With 8,000 people, Nuevo Laredo is a little more than half as large as the American Lown at the other end of 900 foot international bridge which spans the Rio Grande at this point. the time of the secession of Texas, the settlement on the left bank of the river being captured by Texas rangers in 1846 and occupied by United States General Lamar a year troops under k the northern city (or later. In 18 | perhaps it would be more accurate to refer to it as the eastern city, for the 1y than easterly direction in this part of its 1,800 mile course from the San Juan mountains in Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico), received as a Texas municipalit dos, named for a seaport The Lare- ing the decade preceding the Amertcan | Revolutionary war. ‘ rom now until late in September present a fertile aspect, for it is the rainy season, but beginning with Oc- tober the landscape will take on a dry, appearance, similar to the picture which it presented a month ago the shrub was the haunt of jack-rabbits, horned toads and coyotes. “There are beauty to populated part shortly after leaving the valley Rio Grande the railway line its long climb up to Mexico City has an altituds near half about Nuevo Laredo. “About twenty miles southwest of Nuevo Laredo the railroad runs through Jarita, long a rendezvous for border-riders who were supposed to patrol this region in search of M can smugglers, but now employed, is feared, in a much less lawful pur- suit. “One of the oddities which will im- press the ohservant traveler on his way to Mexico City is the manner in which the telegraph poles of this section are riddled with holes, as if they had been with hpower, large-calibre explanation not that ns have been engaged in practice mesquite lend thinly but no mountains to skyline in this -Mexico, the begins which pierced bullets. Mexi extravagant target the myriad woodpeckers of the region find the poles admirable raw material out of which to drill their bird apart- ments, form of feathered industry which costs the ailway company thousands of dollars a year to replace the weakened wire supports. “Nuevo Laredo is 150 miles south- | west of General Funston's headquar- ters in San Antonio. “The chief agricultural product the American side of the Rio Grande the neighborhood of Laredo is a vhich yvields as high in large white onion as 20,000 pounds to the acre when the jand 1s properly irrigated, the waters from the river being in such demand for thls purpose that bitter feeling, in Spain, | | were settled by Spanish colonists dur- | { \ \ \ The two towns were one up to | Rio Grande flows in a more souther- | its charter | their has been -n- gendered frequently between the Mex- icans and Texans.” The National Guard. (New York American). Pretty soft for all day hikin’ through the stingin’ alkali Pretty new to bean an’ bacon, and a total lack of ple; They will do a lot o’ marching 'fore they get the army swing, They will do a heap o' duckin’ when they hear the bullets sin What's ahead o' them down vonder aln’t no fall maneuver game— o' blood an’ trouble; but re goin’ just the same! they’re going’! From all ners of the city far an’ near. They are crowdin’ one another to be first to answer ‘“Here!” Every man with eyes wide open, not a one that doesn’t know Just exactly what is waitin’ on way they've got to go. soft an’ shy o’ trainin’; they only are afraid That the word that sends 'em forward may be too blame long delayed. Sure the Pretty but Time will put the trainin’ in em; time will learn "em how to hike, Time—an’ Mexicans—will show ’‘em what a battlefield is like Appetite will sauce their rations; when there ain’t no choice o food yvou've to is dawn get marched from —anything An’ sunset vou good But the grit an’ nerve an' courage that meet danger with a song They won’t find 'em on the border— they are takin’ them along! NOT TAKEN SERTOUSLY. (New Haven Union), | i ! ness cor- | & | passing houses whose occupants have | long been in bed, he wakes the hours | with his horn, | enemies of the Central | would | lef. Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in exs | WHAT OTHERS SAY i - changes that to the | come ‘ Herald Office. Gasoline And Good Manners. (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Why session of an automo- bile should so often work a dlsastrous the po, change in ordinarily considerate per- sons is one of the psychological phen- omena that scientists as yet have not explained. Automobilists who would be hurt to the quick if accused of be- ing ill-mannered, nevertheles stantly indulge in practices convict them of callous incon of the comfort and of others. And ,after all, good man- ners are nothing in the world but & due regard for the feelings of others, Yet the average man, generally well-mannered and considerate, starts his automobile and throws good man- ners to the winds. Late at night, con- which derate- convenience or in order to save a fancied ounce or two of power, opens | wide his muffler and with it the eves | of would-be sleepers. Almost it would seem that, like gasoline an? whiskey, gasoline and good manner will not mix. German “Influence” in Mexico, (New York Times.) Diplomats representing the Alli Pewers in Mexico, according ta A re | ports, are of the opinion that “German | influences have been working on Car ranza tion in an that effort might situa- the to create a embarras Powers.” Motives might be pointed out whick lend some support to this bes Germans might want to get us into war with Mexico in order to leava If we were fighting the Mexicans we from the Allies In order to furnish them to our own troops. Moreover, of the war, would cut off one gree# | | a blockade of Mexico, as an incident Nobody takes the Hartford Cour- | 8ource of England’s supply of ofl fue} & 0 | for her navy. news” or views seri- | but that | ously because it is well | that its editor, Charles Hopkins Clark, | of the | and a | it | | ering all the States and taking most | tional | Tudge Henney, before | ON | cago, and then voted for John is so steeped in partisan bias, and ! blinded by it, that his paper, | cver its degree of excellence in other | directions, is gouty when it comes to | things political. Under the captlon: | “The Courant’s Crocodile Tears” that paper’s contemporary In the cap- ital, the Hartford Post, says: “The Courant does' not fool Tha | Post with its sarcastic condolences to Mr. Cummings, nor does it fool any intelligent Democrat or Independent | voter in Connecticut. | “Mr. Cummings was not keen for | the job of National Chairman. He was a candidate only in the sense that if Mr. Wilson desired him to serve he would do so, regardless of his own | plans and desires. Had the Courant | been represented at St. Louis this fact | would have been quite clear. Fortunately for Connecticut Demo- crats, the eletcion of Vance McCor- mick releases Mr. Cimmings from the performance of an exacting task, cov- of his time and attentlon away from | Connecticut and permits him to be- | come a candidate for the Tnited States senate to succeed Senator Mc- | Lean, an opportunity to which Mr. Cummings has long looked “orward. “Here is where the real disap- pointment to the Courant :omes in and not at the fact that McCormick and not Cummings was chosen Na- Chalrman.” Charles Hopkins ant's editor, time friend Clark the Cour- who supported his old and fellow townsman reaching Chi- King of Bridgeport, who one good politi- cian, is not a man to be trusted in his political statement Partisan expe- diency is Mr. C entire creed and when it comes to crocodile ‘ears he ls some weeper. For instance, there 13, the Brooker incident. what- | United States in thls manner; | svmpath ! Lieutenant There 1s, however, 2 valld and pre= recognized | sontable argument against the theory. We have been told that the mans divide the population Ger. of tha 0e the 100.000,000 or sa of our people, 60 per cent. sympathize with Allles, 30 per cent. sympathize with the Teutonie Powers, the other 10 rer cent. are indifferent. Proof of German intrigue In Mexico to pro- | vake hostilities with the United States would turn against the Tmperial Gov- ernment at least 90 per cent. of tha people here upon whose sympathy ccunts, and the Whole of the indif- ferent 10 per cent Under that arrangement, 38 per cent. of American pecple would give to Germany. That es or guess at ledst as plausible and probable as the German apportion- ment of our interest and sympathy. Interference in Me n affairs the manner believed or charged would be a highly unprofitable venture for Germany. If her respansible states- men are accustomed to the study of political balance sheets, it is not likely that they would embark in an under- taking so disas re- tha thetr te n THE WRONG VON MOLTEE In the issue of the Herald on June 19 appeared an account if the death of General Helmeth Von Moltke of the supplementary general staff of the German army during a ses- ount ated sion of the Reichstag. In its ac of Von Moltke's life, the article & t “his intimate affiliation with the Christian garded place in an ald was ties of the Christian through a local member ant General Helmeth Von Moltke was not affiliated with the church and that it Science as a movement kness wholly out of leader.” The Her today authori- church, that Lieuten- was re- we: army informed by Science Count Breslau, Helmeth Von Silesia, Germany, is Moltke of who is & | member of the chureh, | them a free hand with their U-boats * | { should withhold supvnlies of munitiors tha 1t &