New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1916, Page 5

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1918, Opening Day Is Every Day Here L One Price to All for WHO WE ARE! Reliable and thoroughly experienced millinery merchants are men who comprise the Goldenblum Millinery Co. ‘The president, H. R. Goldenblum, whose picture is here reproduced, is one of the pioneer milliners of the city having been with the late R. Ballerstein Company for 26 years and the organizer of the Blumenthal Millinery Company and its acting president for 10 years up to the time of his resignation from that company. Mr. Goldenblum will have actual charge of the com- plete business and associated with him as partners are two live wi,ser, Samuel Kempner and Slefried Rifkin, both for many years with the Outlet Millin- ery Company. These young men will attend to the details of the business which assures all custome the most prompt and efficient service. The large wholesale end wi¥l be a big feature of this new firm but each feature assures all retail customers of the newest and smartest styles first—in other words it will be the latest earliest. Every woman is in- vited to visit this new and pleasing shop—she will find everything here that is essential to a high grade metropolitan establishment plus the highest and most expert millinery salespeople at her service THE STUNNING VFLVET HATS AT No partiality—prompt and courteous treatment all and ONE PRICE TO ALL. Your friend will puy no more or no less than the one quoted to you. This is positive and means satisfaction to all our cus- tomers. STYLISH MANNISH VELOUR HATS $2.98 Values at $1.98 Copied from Winter Velour the New Hats for Fall the and men desirable they Shown in the very newest folks—and smart and are, too. styles and every shade that will ap- particular millinery seekers. Our prices are the lowest in the town—again we say we welcome comparison on the same quality mer- chandise. peal to most Ll GOLDENBLUM, . 1. rres., Hats that are the ideal creations for early Fall and Fall and Winter Wear are shown here in abund- styles At Their Low Prices - $1.98 10 $15 When the smartest and most .chlo Hats of the Early Fall an 4 Winter Season are Regular Hats, 98c. Regular Hats, $1 Regular Hats, $1.98. These reductions tend to show how strenuous the markdowns are-at this store. Velvet Ha prices up to $1.50 Velvet ance—the smart and the fetching shades. We want every woman to realize that we are quoting the lowest prices on positively the highest quality merchan- dise, in fact we welcome a comparison of prices. OUR CHILDREN’S LEPi.--Is a Feature PRICES The little folks are given undivided attention at this $2.00 Velvet § = - e 4 . ; T $2.50 Velvet : : i most Y & Lewis. TRIMMINGS and ORNAMENTS Every trimming and ornament known to the 1916 Fall and Winter Millinery Season is to be found here in our fascinating dis- play.: We say f: nating because it is so varied and select and of the highest cuality. Gold and silver—silver braids with gold inter- mingling the daintiest bits for adornment that are so appealing as well as the always desirable breasts, wings and flowers. FINEST QUALITY RIBBONS 5-Inch Mgire We will make a specialty of high shown in complete dis play -and - marked at $1.00 $1.50 lower than the identical Hats are marked are here at 10.00. prices that are actually to elsewhere prospeotive customers may real- that ‘We want your trade ize just how great th e bargains are MESSENGER DELIVERY TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY If your purchase is too bulky for you to carry we will send it to any part of the city. Our messenger service is prompt and reliable. Every thing for our customers’ convenience is to be found here will be found here. and we will give you honest and depend- A wonderful prices able merchandise in r eturn. example of values is shown in we special department for them. It is a pleasing announce- ment to parents to know that their children will be giv- AS Low AS R = 5 grade Ribbons at all times at the very eg. 29¢ Quality lowest prlees. | Tlie offerlag guored 50c Misses. All styles and all shades—some dark, others 21C Y ard bright—In fact they are all here. GOLDENBLUM MILLINERY CO., 863 Main St., Hartford This department is just crowded with the new School Hats, the smart and pretty styles for the little School sell Ribhons. All kinds here—all shades and the very lowest price feature on our Trim med Hats. Over Harvey-Lewis All Cars Stop Here “WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WAR IS OVER Local Manufacturers Hear of Ne¢ ' of Conservation “Industrial Conservation” was theme which interested a number of local manufacturers who gathered in “the rooms of the Chamber of Com merce last evening to listen to EII L. Howard’s exposition of the subject. Mr. Howard is identified with the na- and proved by his address that he is fa- miliar with the subject and its n\al:_v n tional conservation movement details. Secretary A. N. Andrews, the absence of President G. M. Lar ders, presided and introduced th speaker. The address follows: ~ An Alarmist and Optimist. “If it be possible for one to be an alarmist and an optimist at one and the same time, such am I in appea ing before you tonight. deed be blind who did not recognize opportunity that America faces an such as has been presented to n other nation; blind and insane “that opportunity with a frank loc into its perils as well as its promi “The ‘Industrial Conservation Mov ment’ is preparedness In a specialized field; a recognition of the suicidal pol- insub- icy of going into battle with ordinate troops; with dissensic among our generals and of cohesive policy and definite pu pose. America is today the prosperous nation on earth; the on one of first rank whose industri equipment of peace Is not disorganized the and rent by the things of war; one to which all eyes will turn the tremendous task of rebuilding the ruin of Europe. “The reconstruction will mean ac- . tivity for every factory and busine: enterprise in this country but it w! &lso mean that in seizing the oppo tunity, American business men W be obliged to petition, the bitterness and desper: tion known. Two short years ago, many was the marvel of the world ‘mer ingenuity, her efficiency and h aggressive invasion of the world mar- kets. The awful struggle has turn back the wheels but it is inconcei able that she will spare an ounce energy when she starts to regaln h foreign trade. The other belligere nations are today *on America and have been the i struments of our sudden expansion, but it is to be supposed they will not fight desperately to reclaim their own when the fighting is over? How Are We Prepared? “Of one thing we are certain, th competition is to be severe and ¢prepared? Can we boast ing measure of German Or of French economy? ish determination? yet he would be both who did not face with a lack mo: face an industrial com- of which has never before been Ger- largely dependent des- perate and America especially Amer- ican industry occuples the very ceng ter of the maelstrom. And how are we a reassur- efficiency ? Or of Brit- Or of Russian co- | our legislatures hesiveness and ponderousness? are we torn by industrial squabbles; uncertainties as to who shall direct; riotous controversies to the divi- sion of the fruits of industry, dis- rupted relations between business and the government; saddled with unwis and partisan laws and all the men- acing spirit of class hatred and waste- ful animosity? Are we mindful of as il built on the shifting sand of tempor- ary condition and are we taking steps to re-enforce that wardly or outwardly ? “The ‘Industrial Conservation Move- ment’ is a frank recognition of these facts with a suggested line of pro- cedure to safeguard American indus- try in the passage of the gateway. a - is and corporation but it would seek to bring the employe and his organiza- tion to a realization, that on them, just as much as on the rests the responsibility for bringing American industry safely through the " | greatest crisis of its history. We ne cover their relation and inter-rela- tions, lay them fairly on the table for popular inspection and then trust the innate and undeniable fairn of American public opinion to oin in making America a greuter America a more effective and enlightened American ) “Misunderstanding ~ and are our greatest menace today understanding of class toward other classes; misunderstanding of funda- mental economic law; misunderstand- ing of the mutuality of our responsi bility; misunderstanding of the fact that we are all human and actuated by human attributes, whether rich or poor, laborer or nabob, The employer too often views his helpers as he does his machinery and the worker too commonly regards his employer as of the same coldness and hardness as the stones of his factory wall. And each too often flies to the law and the bhal- lot as a sort of democratic bludgeon with which to hammer the other into submission; while the disinterested public is so busy with its own selfish playthings as to totally neglect ite su- preme duty of Intelligently admin tering the greatest power on earth—a ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people’. The High Cost of Legislation. Nothing is more wasteful of Amer- ican energy than our political system. ‘We regard government as a busines: in itself rather than as a minor in dent of life and necessity, We are ridden to death with too many laws. ‘We hold elections in forty-elght states every year—happily every other year in some—and Congresses mget more or less continually. We choose public officialy on the basis of popularity and vote-getting power, rather than be- cause of their fitness and abilities and then judge them on the volume of production rather than its quality. The result is that every office holder feels impelled to keep busy—especial- ly the legislator—in the hope that what he conceives to be his duty shall {be replete of muchness. “It is unfortunate that we no longer carry out the intent of the founders of this natlon of sending our best men |to make our laws. We keep them lat home making money and horse- shoes or what not and send men to or congress who r- He would in- ignorance —mis- no ok e. e- on r- al in il r- i1l a- in er ed V- of er nt n- at Or , the fact that our recent prosperity is | foundation—in- | i | would not preach alone to employer | executive, | aim to get at fundamental truths, dis- | ‘have the time for it'—principally be- cause they ve nothing more useful That good old-fashioned word leetr n’ inherite the early ys of the New England town meeting meant something; too often it doesn't today. As the immortal Bill Nye once said to an aspiring friend: ‘Young man downward road to the I “The grist of laws that arc acted—let alone the millions that not emerge from the committee room is simply appalling. Unfortunately exact statistics are not available but hardly a congress sits without con- sidering, in one form or another, from 40,000 to 60,000 bills. In the four years ending in 1913, congress and the states enacted over 000 laws, while in a single year 1915, the food trades examined through their legislative counsel over 22,000 pro- posed lav 438 of which they ac- tively watched. In the ‘four vears preceding 1915 New York State en- actments numbered during which same period, the whole Brit- ish parliament passed only 250—and England is some law maker at that. Tn 1915 alone, New York passed laws, during which time the British parliament enacted only 91. The ayerage of bills proposed in New York te alone is.not far from 5,000 a vear. (I am happy to hear that Con necticut has materially reformede in this respect, as contrasted with some states. May the good work go on). oecs anyone contend -‘that the ‘public necessity and convenience quire.—to quote the staid old which usually preceded a bill New Ingland legislature—any such number of laws as this? Are men any more honest, or kind, or better? For 20 centuries the entire Christian world has wagged on pretty well with a code of just ten commandments and even today no one has greatly im- proved upon them, save in specifica- tions and twists that have given rise to a few million lawyers. No amount of legislation has yet improved upon ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self,’ and property laws by the mil- lion have not greatly amplified ‘Thou shalt not steal’ and ‘Thou shalt not covet.’ The Oppression of the Law. “All over this country, business men to do. from voung on the you'rc latur n —is are crylng out against the oppression of law. It has become more difficult the law it, unbear- to know than to keep Class legislation has become able and rarely to magnitude without employing counsel, ar! is forced to m: necessary. Tt is im- possible carry on business of any while every at business association intain a permanent cop corps of lawyers, not to defeat good laws but to prevent the enactment of unnecessary, oppressive expensive and unjust ones and saving the legislatures from being ridiculous—at least any more ridiculous than has recently be- come common to the syecial. “Then there is the favorite pastime of legislatures to ‘investigate” The more unpopular the victim, the more prone are state solons to investigate. It makes good reading, tic the electorate and helps fill up in the newspapers, in which the name of the ‘Statesman’ who sits on the com- mittee is mentioned. Yet very rare indeed have been the investigatior kles space which uncovered any adequate do | | grounds for their ever having been in- spired, I believe that most of the unrea- sonable and unneces legislation and regulation and investigation arose not from an inherent hatred of for class, as much as because and the public do not know the about each other. There’s noth- than iznorance unl it one-sided truth the setting up of law. If the public papers particularly could know all the facts; could get the viewpoint of ‘the other fellow’; could know that he is not such a bad chap after all, that he is human and sympathetic and doing the best he can—and 95 per cent. of busines men do- -there would be an elimina- tion of much unnecessary and expen- sive legislation, litigation and de- structive animosity. Too Many Busy-Bodi “There are in the world political field congressmen keep himself truth ing half breed hostile —and the news wors be wisdom distrust barrier and too many husy-bodies and particular, in the The lezisattor and conceives it his duty to and his distriet to the front; not only in that much abused catch-all the ‘Congressional Record’ but whenever the pork barrel is opened—ana too often he is right in his estimate of his corstituencv and 1s Lasis for judging his stewardship. “I would place the busv law maker in two-classes, the one w1 honestly ‘05 to be energetic and the cne who piakes laws for predators reasons; to 1o boight off, or to pud chestnuts o+ of the fire for specialized inter. of his censtituency. An Avalanche of Law. “I would classi the avilunche of laws from which we are suffering as a si:all minority which are nece valuable, and a majocity nis of specifications, pernicicis and centered ‘cla legislation, good law: i uanecessary, theoretical and dan- zerous fantasies and predeic as- silts on specialized intarests or in tneir behalf. And most of them come frem a lack of comprehenvive under ctonding of actual condivions. This i cspecinlly true of the lass which are opIyesing busine ““There is too ' lize success; making. It crops schemes—not only of 'he dead—and in anti-trust leg! laton of a totally unneces and meffective sort. I those wi: inspire much of this could rea.dze that the whole community—from one coast to the other shares in the expenditure of every dollar expended as well as in the benefits for every dollar earned and put to work—there would be le legislation and more opportunity for individual initiative and ability to work their own way, so long as that way does not oppress the whole pop- ulace. ‘Too few people realize to what an extent American business has re- forineq its, ideals and its systems with- in ihe past quarter of a century— within a decade even. We have read- justed our whole conception of izhiiul relation between private and public property and of the duty of em- plover toward empioye. There never a time when the national n- science so generally responded to ti spirit of the Golden Rule and when there was less need for laws that ham- per rather than encourage the ingh- est efficiency of our great industrial much tendenc)’ especially out in of :th> living 01 W | 2 neighhor | the the | triumvirate—capital, labor and the public. IR the men who control the: three factors can be made to recos nize their duty toward a higher gree of co-operation—can come 1O pail together for a common good, Amcrica will face the critical hour of opvortunity with safety and confi- produce such harmony is the Industrial Conservat on acnce. tie aim of movement Tho Personal Duty. alk with your legislatc not bit- terly or dictatorially or as a scold, but helpfully. Tell your side of the case to your employes and open the facts and figures to their inteliigent Icaders. Not all the fair mindedress ¢ found at the counting-room end of industry. The manager ana the labor- er are fellow-workmen for the same emplover; in different capacities per- haps but neither less essential or vital to the success of the enterprise than the other. Drop in and give the editor of your paper a frank statement of the truth and point out nis vnfairness. Tell him how the funny fat figure of, “The Trusts’ and the scrawny one of the ‘Common Peoble’ are cultivating false notions and prejudices that hurt— not you so much as they do the fair- ness of the law and of public opinion. ‘“Try to realize that your business is really as much the community's business as your own; that as your business prospers so does the com- munity dependent upon it for a living. Do you realize that every dollar earncd can be traced into five distinct money-drawers of a community be- fore it gets back to the bank from which it was first drawn to fatten a pay-roll and therefore it has a tre- mendous responsibility toward the common prosperity and economics? Cultivate publicity and the commun- ity spirit. “Tell the newspapers abont let the editor know that you are partners for the city’s welfare. Editors are human and honest. The public has brains and jt digests what it reads with far greater discrimin- ation than some of us are prone to remlize. You can fool all the people some of the time but not when they Fave the truth from dependable sources. And the public has no more desire to send puppets or crooks to make laws than you have. If it under- stood, it would be far less disposed to annoy Industry. It is all very well to | complacently trust the good judg- ment of a legislator—asstming that he had any—but if ‘the other fellow’ persists in getting his side of the case in and backs it up at the polls. there is something for you to do. The Business Man As a Citizen. it and and he by the pcor. Passing fanciful meas- ures of taxation ‘get square’ with no one class or verson; they either op- press or benefit the whole community. In the end, every burden saddled up- c¢n industry or wealth is passed along to the ultimate consumer. Before a dollar s spent, it must be earned. In- dustry and the conversion of raw wealth nto manufactured wealth is the joint task of brains, brawn, in- genuity, enterprise and service. Of ali the manufactured products «f the country in the year 19i4—a matter of twenty-four and one-quse- ter billions of dollars—almost ten i lions (to be exact 40.7 per cent.)— came from the processes of labor and brain added to the mere cost of raw materials. To produce It, capital was invested to the value of almost twen- ty-threc billions of dollars and labor cast In its services to the money value of.nearly five and one-half billions of dollars; a rather fair indication of the mutuality of concern for the pros- perity and growth of industry. Relation of Employer and Employe. “If T were to single out the employ er from the employe—though I pre- fer to charge both alike with the re- sponsibility of the moment—I would remind the employer that his best as- set is happy, contented help, respect- ful and loval to him and to the com- mon task. I would seek to impyess him with the practical business value of cooperative fellowship. Dissatis- fied, discontenteq help is inefficient help. An economy which wounds the spirit of the worker is false economy. 1 might cite numerous instances to prove that so-called ‘welfare work’ ac- tually pays—in dollars and cents— not to mention the satisfaction that every employer feels in having good help as his allies. Every man who realizes the value of a good labor mar- ket can help make it a better labor market. The hardest field for the agi- tator to organize Is the one where em- ployer and employe are on terms of friendship. Don't make the mistake of being ‘charitable’ (which in the in- dustrial relation is a slap In the face to the dignity of the employe) but be just and practical and kind. It can be demonstrated that it pays—in the annual report, in the efficiency of the plant and, above all, in the tone of | the community. And let me v ight here, that T believe today nine- ty-five per cent. of the employers of this country rejoice in paying high wages to their help as much as the help do in receiving it. Cultivate a sense of interest in vour helpers and it will go far to inspire a similar feel- ing in them. “I would s remind the employe that “We all too the bhusiness man from the general mass—to forget that the business man is also a citizen and He sometimes forgets it himself. is his town, just as it is town of his einplove. The one wants it to bel a good town quite as much he other. Tt is his home, where his children must grow up, get their edacation, form their future ac- quaintances, marry and polably cast | their lot. Ts it to his interest to prosti- | tute that town to he status of a merely economical ndustrial battle-field or a ce of harmonious relations, of pros- | perous homes, of wholesome domestic | ideals ana of cordial community spir- it? “Paxes are not alone the burden of {he rich: they inevitably dascend along the scale of wealth and are shared consider Aistinet wre prone to as a class a "or the fine showing of his organiz | ceeds, | rewards "tremendous period of prosperity which elf woefully when r and boss noth- authority and If a worker | in his shop he is wlinding hims he sees in his employ ing but hard-headed inhuman driving power. feels no partisan pride tion, it is because he has never been made to feel it or to realize the spirit of team work. Tt ought to be every man’s pride to work for a winning | house, a progressive factory, a grow- ing industry. He ought to feel his own duty to make it such. If he suc- he ought to he entitled to a fair share of the glory and financial It is a happy circumstance that prevailing high wages through- out our industrial establishments has been one of the indications of the | side |a fellow few months. I believe the pritiel of profit sharing, of industrial P sions and workmen's compensat] laws, while they have been questi able in the introductory stages, really as much in favor among brof minded business men today as amd the workers themselves. They mark steps forward in giving workingman a greater contentm and efficiency. “Eivery worker in an industyg plant should be made to realize t its prosgerity is his; that its futurd his, thag the bigger it becomes, more places will open to him for vancement and expansion. Evi community ought to feel a spirit responsibility for the betterment its industries. Prosperous establis ments make a prosperous town many a silly municipality which considered its industries only as od venient sources of taxation has learn to its sorrow that encouraging, rati than discouraging enterprise is policy that pays best. Royaly to the Comgpunity. “Put your sown &nd é@r ind ‘on the map.” If you H¥®e it, why tell others about it and encouw them to come in and help make if better town and a larger town. Cg in the industries by liberal treatme Study thelr needs and the things ¥ have which would contribute to th prosperous operation. — Forget i taxation question. Many a live to has remitted taxes during the ‘roo: i stages of a young industry and rid ly reaped harvests in the years H followed. Above all let this infers horde of law-makers know that wi —your town, your county, your s —wants less laws, less regulating aj more encouragement of commumn harmony. “Business is not so much deall] with dollars as with humanity; d( lars are merely incidental. Productiq selling, buying, using are essential creatures of humanity and human is about the same today as it alwi has been since the birth of timg There aren’t any very complex motiv in humanity; he who will read pages of history or note with an telligent eye the things about him: assuming that he will do it withol prejudice and selfishness and Hatm —can decide which policy or line conduct is best calculated to me: up to the prospects of success. “Get out of the economic rut @i let us be human. The politician Si ceeds by playing the glad hand gan and meeting men on their humj He never goes very deeply i abstruse economics. Trust humani and then demand that humant trust you. Let the community fél vou both as an industrial leader af citizen in the breat popularity and note what do in a better public attitude f vou same Cultivate will ward Business Men Misunderstood. “These then, are a few of ¢t thoughts I would leave with you to the aim and spirit of the ‘Industrl “onservation Movement.’ Busine has been misunderstood and is large to blame for it. By failing to mai tain the intimate touch with the co munity it has failed to encourage thg kind of interest in itself as a co: munity asset that it should enjo Business has become a popular ‘goal for the politician to ride and a ve has been the lot of our American manufacturing plants during the past convenient and useful goat at thal And has paid tremendo price for this.” industry a all