New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1916, Page 6

BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. od dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. &t Herald Bullding. 67 Church St red at the Post Ofiice at New Britaia A& Becond Class Mail Matter. 'vered by carrfe: to any part of the cfty for 15 Centx a Week, 85 Cents a Month. Scriptions for paper to pe sent by mail Payable in advance, 60 Cents a Aonth, $7.00 a Year. only profitabla advertising mclum 1B the ofty. Circulazton books and prees Foom always open to aavertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd ‘3t. and Broad- way, New York City; Roard Walk, at- lantic Citw and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ineas Omce . forial Rooms CLEAN POLITICS HERE. the ally as politics With cooling of the weather, it will be warming up. e men running for office on the te ticket will be soon canvassing jong their friends. For this once, least, Democracy and Republican- are running a neck and neck race e, with any one liable to be the ner. And thisfact stands out over fl above all other things. The men W Britain puts forth in the arena P worthy candidates for the henors Py seek. It will be a good, clean, est battle, from start to finish, h no mud in evidence. These are things that make for better com- pnity spirit, and New Britain, des- ed to become a greater power in te affairs, can well afford to add an petus to a growing movement,— an politics. bidc may seem, New tain THE EIGHT-HOUR LAW. it is going to be very difficult for critics of President Wilson to pwer his version of the eight-hour v law offered Saturday at Shadow yn. It will:be very hard for Can- te Hughes to make this question issue of his campaign unless he juld invite the antagonism of every n in the country who in working a living by the sweat of his brow i every manufacturer who believes putting the best foot forward. The idea of labor is rapidly passing. le laborer will no longer be looked jon as a commodity, pl whereby so much wealth is ac- jmulated or produced. In the new manity that is following in the ke o6f the Wilson administration E laboring man will be a true part- Ir of his employer, working hand in nd for the betterment of the es- plishment with which he is connect- It is coming to that. n discussing the fight between the 1d executives and the operators Wilson told how he had iiliarized himself with all the facts the case and had not asked the sputants to meet him until he was are of what should be done. He ew the demands of the men and lieved that the eight-hour day with specified rate for overtime pay was t arbitrable. He did believe, how- er, that the question of wages was different matter and should be ar- rated. He took the case to Con- ess and there met with the support some seventy Republican members the lower House and no opposition all from the Republicans in the nate. It is inferred that these men eed with the President even before p went before them in joint session. atever complaint they are making bw. 1s therefore political theatricals. r. Hughes will not dare to demand e defeat of any of these Republican pngressmen who supported the Pres- ent, although he asks that the man the White House be thrown out. As If to clinch the whole case nst his ocontender the President ought forth the decision of e United States Supreme Court the 80-cent gas case which d 1ts orfgin in the state of New ork. Incidentally, it was Ch:rles P Hughes who as counsel got to- ther the evidence upon which the egislature reduced the price of gas b New York city. In that case the Trust was made to reduce its rice just as the rallroads were ade to grant the eight-hour day. 'he Gas Trust contended that the ac- The case was or as a mere esident jion was confiscatory. n to the Supreme Court where the told ly what Con- was precis cently told the railroads. Pres- lucia style: to Nobody you try manufacture gas at cents ther it is confiscatory or Go ahead and manufacture gas nd sell it for 80 cents, and then, if proves impossible to conduct your usiness on that charge, come back’] nd a re-adjustment will be made. But no need for the Gas Trust o worry. It did not have to come back. It made gas at 80 cents and too. It has been pros- since. The railroads have peen asked to do the same thing, work out the eight-hour day, because obody knows how much its operation 11 cost until it is tried out. Then if it is found to be confiscatory the Con- r-ess stands ready to order a re-ad- here was ade money pering ever to justment of rates. No fair minded man in any business or profession, not even a candidate for the Presidency, can ask more. PRESIDENTS, PAST AND PRESENT Suppose on the night of the first Tuesday after first Monday November Wilson, hearing the election returns, should find himself defeated. Would he sit down immediately and write a note Charles Evans the in Woodrow after of congratulation to Hughes? Supnose on the other hand that Charles Evans Hughes was the one who might discover no baln in Gilead on that night. Would he sit down and write a note of congratula- tion to Woodrow Wilson? Suppose again that the note from one or the other of these two men was written. How much sincereity would be con- tained in the words? Woodrow Wil- son seemingly would have no reason to pen a note to Charles Evans Hughes, because of the 100 per cent. candidate’s campaign methods. The remarks of Hughes against the Pres- ident of the United States make it very difficult for the carrying out of a customary courtesy. If Hughes ‘was to write Wilson and congratulate him there would be a suspicion the minds of many that lurked in the offing. Now, we contend, these things should not be so. Men should be able to go out on the stump and battle against each other in the field of politics without severing all ties of friendship. A President of the United States upon leaving the White House should be able to write a sincere let- ter of congratulation to his successor. And the only way on God’s earth for a retiring President of the United States to do this in all sincereity is for his opponent in the political race to conduct himself with propriety. It is not Wilson who has put up the barrier in this case. It is Charles Evans Hughes who has offended againt good taste and reduced his campaign to the level of a village political free-for-all fight, with “any- thing to Beat Wilson” as a slogan. E-President Taft, up to his recent letter in the Yale review, set an ex- ample for men who have occupied the Presidency. Theodore Roosevelt has broken all precedents. Before his time ex-Presidents of the United Gtates did not jump into every politi- zal fight that presented itself. Charles Evans Hughes stepping from the dig- nity of the Supreme Court adopted the measures of Roosevelt against the man in office. A terrible thing is happening right before the very eyes of the people, and the people do not realize the enormity of it all. It has often been asked, what shall we do with our ex-Presidents? There has never been a satisfactory answer. It should be answered now and one part of the answer should be, “Keep them out of politics. Let them lead lives that are above reproach. Let them not truckle to the popular whims of the day. Let them refrain from at- tacking the men who took their places.” Between Hughes and Roose- velt they have given Woodrow Wilson every reason in the world to go out and stump this country from one end of it to the other in a tirade of abuse against his successor. And that is a thing no ex-President should do, even if Theodore did start the ball a-rolling. It is hoped, that when Wilson joins the ranks of our ex-Presidents he will not follow the example set by Roose- velt, but rather that he will hue close to the line followed previously by the martyred MoKinlay, by Cleveland, and the beloved Presidents who went ahead, from Washington up to Roose- velt. There the fatal illness first as- serted itself. in hypocricy Congressman Hill addressed a gath- ering of political banqueters in Wa- terbury on Saturday night and vented his spleen on the President of the United States. Also he dragged out the bloody shirt issue and flaunted it before his audience. At the banquet, according to authentic report, there was an army officer, Major B D. Fou- lis, of Washington. It®must have been a delightful occasion for this gentleman, a member of the military establishment of the whole United States who then heard his com- mander-in-chief severely denounced and sectionalism brought up as a po- litical issue. Army officers, above all They their sup are supposed to be loyal to rior officers and beyond the pale of section and politics. FACTS AND FANCIES, The fisherman’s luck in Kentucky.—Lou Journal. has been bad ille Courie The war tortoise, or tank old friend the steam roller ing a course in York Sun. is cur ter tak- Delsartism. Some of the old enthusiasts are « ling for marching clubs to stir enthu- siasm in the campaign but less, for that sort of thing is as dead as the campaign roorback.—Meriden Journal. it A master baker in New York de- clares that the consumers would save l $25,000,000 a year by buying ten-cent bread, but it has been a long time that he has taken in deciding to take the public into his confidence.—Nor- wich Bulletin. The United States will have two bushels of apples this year for each man, woman and child. The apple is the typical American fruit. From Virginia to Nova Scotia it srows in perfection; from Maine to Oregon it never skips a state.—New York World. The arrest of eight charged with blackmail in Chicago, in relieving rich people of their money, under threats of exposure under the Mann act is an illuslon of what has been golng on without doubt all over the country.— Middletown Press. Fireside Evening Hymn. (By James Thomas Fields.) Hither, bright angels, wing your flight, And stay your gentle presence here; ‘Watch round, and shield us through the night, That every shade may disappear. How sweet, when Nature claims re- pose, And darkness floats in silence nigh, To welcome in, at daylight’s close, Those radiant troops that gem the sky! To feel that unseen hands we clasp, While feet unheard are gathering round, To know that we In faith may grasp Celectial guards from heavenly ground! Oh, ever thus, with silent prayer For those we love, may night be- gin,— Reposing safe, released from care, Till morning leads the sunlight in. Our Sales of Meat. (New York Times.) While the war has brought to this country very large gains on the other gide of the account there is the higher cost of ving, due mainly to the “war. A part of the war addition to this oost is seen in the increased price of meat. For some time before the war a decrease in our supply of cattle had been giving to the price of beef an upward tendency. This reduction in the years from 1907 to 1913 was about 20 per cent. Then the decline was checked and a slight annual in- crease was reported, but our popula- tion has been growing, and the supply of beef cattle is now only a little more than two-thirds as much per capita as it was ten years ago. The decline suggested imports from Argentina for markets on the North Atlantic coast. Beef and mutton are still coming from that country, but the quantity is very small in comparison with our own output. Although the condition of our meat supply at the beginning of the war was not such that it seemed to war- rant a considerable increase of ex- ports, an enormous foreign demand has been satisfled during the last two years. Exports of meats have risen from 466,000,000 pounds in the year immedlately preceding the war to 885,000,000 In the first year of it, and | with the bank on Jun others, must enjoy that sort of thing. | | buying 1,889,000,000 in the second. Ship- ments of fresh beef In the year that ended with June last were thirty-six times the exports in the vear just be- fore the war began, and those of all kinds of beef were multiplied by ten. At the same time the comparatively small imports were reduced by more than one-half. The inevitable effect of this great export movement was an increase of meat prices in the TUnited States. Everybody knows that prices are high, but some may not see why they have advanced. Again it Is the old Jaw of demand and supply. The war has increased our cost of living in many ways. Far example, the farmer must pay very much more for his en- gine and tools, and the average price of the supply things a railroad com- pany must buy is higher by at least fifty per cent. But there is compen- sation, and more, of course, in our war trade gains and the prevailing prosperity here, our extraordinary in- dustrfal activity, and our sales of food, metals, munitions, and other products that gave us last year an un- precedented accumulation of gold and 000,000 in our favor. Great Self Restraint. (Hartford Courant). The officlals of the Meriden Sav- ings Bank have, though they do not make it public, the name of a per- son possessing great self restraint inasmuch as the person in question deposited a small amount of money in the bank yvears ago and has drawn none of it out during an lifetime. An account was opened e 22, 1860, when was deposited. That was the sole and only deposit and the bank saw nelther the passbook nor the depositor from June, 1860, until 1901 when the book was mailed to the bank that the interest might be writ- ten in, Since 1901 the book has been re- turned to the bank several times and always for the purpose of hav- ing the interest addea and the amount now due the depositor is $502. What an amount of courage it must have taken to keep that money in the bank for more than fifty-six years. Dur- ing the more than flve decades the capacity of the dollar has contracted and expanded and again contracted but the thirty-five belong- ing to the depositor kept at work for him. If he could be sure of living a century longer his declining years would be considerably cheered by his bank deposit. $35 Cost of Guarding the Border. (Brooklyn Bagle.) According to the rough estimate given out by the war department the punitive expedition into Mex which has not yet resulted in the ture of Villa, and the other measure talken to protect the American border from repetitions of the Columbus raid, have cost the United States $100,000,- 000, and the end is not yet. Fifteen million dollars a month is the lowest figure set for the cost of maintaining Gen. Pershing’s column in the field ordinary | NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1916. McMILLAN’S New Britain's Busy Blg Store— “Always Rellable.” LINEN WELK Sale Starts Monday, Sept. 25, Continues All Week HOUSE HOLD J‘ i | | i | that will stand out strong for the next Six Days of Selling BUREAU SCARFS Mercerized Drawn Work, regular b60c values. Linen Week Price 39c ea. GOOD WEARING TABLE DAMASK 70-inch wide. designs. Part linen, Regular $1.00 value in new week, Price 79c yard LINEN TOWELING All’ pure linen with border. Regular 17c value. Linen Week price 13%c yard. MERCERIZED TABLE DAMASK 68-inch wide, very heavy. week, Price 50c yard. Linen red Linen LINEN TABLE DAMASK A good $1.50 value. Price $1.19 yard. Linen Week TURKISH TOWELS Heavy quslity, large regular Linen week Price 12%c¢c size, 17c value. each. BLEACHED BED SHEETS | Good quality and well made, size 81x90, regular 98c values. ‘Week Price 79c each. PILLOW CASES Heavy Weight Cotton, size 45x36, Linen Week Price Linen | regular 15c value. 11%c each. BED QUILTS See the values that we are offering | this week at $1.50. Positively cannot | be repeated at this price. SPECIAL SALE OF CUT GLASS During Linen Week 100 pieces of Cut Glass, values up to | $2.00. Linen Week Price 99c¢ each. | Real Cut Glass will not be here long{ at this low price, so come early. t D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. we will offer | and continuing a heavy border guard. | The bill is a heavy one, and the size of it will be used by the republican op- ponents of the Wilson administration to prove that the president's Mexican policy has been wrong in every detail. The answer to this charge is that | the policy of intervention, the one vis- | ible alternative to the policy Mr. Wil- | son pursued, would have been infinite- ly more costly than the business of chasing Villa and establishing border guards. No supporter of Mr. Hughes, nor even Mr. Hughes himself, has yet succeeded in showing that any third | choice of action confrontel Mr. Wil- | son or that the war upon all of Mex ico, which intervention implied, could | have been carried through save at a | price heside which the $100,000,000 | so far spent would be a mere flea bite. 1 TUDYING YELLOW FEVER. New York, Sept. vellow fever comim on of the Rockefeller Foundation arrived here today on the steamship Brazos from San Juan, | Porto Rlico, after a two months’ study of sanitary conditions along the west | coast of South America. The com- ssion, it was said by Major General liam C. Gorgas, surgeon general of the United States Army and chair- man of the commission, will remain here only long enouzh to obtain ac- | commodatiqn on the next steamer leaving for the South American east coast. Among the countries visited were Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama, ECONOMIES | § A Remarkable Showing of the New Fall and Winter Modes in Women'’s and Misses’Suits, Coats and Dresses 'COMBINING THE MAXIMUM OF STYLE, BEAUTY AND QUALITY WITH MINIMUM PRICE Every Garment selected by a Connoiseur of Fashion, Fabric and Workmanship — WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford. WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ STYLISH FALL TAIL- szs Od . . OR-MADI We speci SUITS lize on good AT value $25.00 s our garments not only several dollars lower in that you will find price, but su- its so premely tailored in the season’s most graceful and stylish models. of our mmed with s Many are t snits at this price are trimmed with fur, others 1 plush and velvet. Fine quality mannish cloths, whipcords and poplins are for the most part the materials used, and the linings are silk peau de cygne and yarn dye satin. You wii {ind every wanted color in this complete assortment. WO O S AND M WOOL FOPLIN (Equal to $2 made with full on belt. ing. in AT Kentucky green, ' TAILOR-MADE value in other store wide flare coats gathered in plaits by a s A deep velvet collar is used and velvet is used for pip- "The skirt is in a circular tailored model. chocolate " $18.98 Chic suits that are ed o These are shown brown, navy and Dblack. A BEAUTIFUL, MODEL SUIT IN WOOL VE- LOUR FOR ... (Equal to $37 cent Pari 0 suits at other stores.) importation in this handsome soft material. Chase’s $32.50 An exact copy of a re- beaver plush is used for the collar, cuffs and band around the bottom of the ultra- are offered in navy and black. plum, wide ripple flare. peau de cygne and the skirt is in a wide tailored model. burgandy, s silk These earth brown, The lining Russian green, WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ WOOL MIXTURE COA ac. (Equal to $16.50 coats at other ture materials, these swagger pockets, coats are r raglan slecves and a deep circular plaited cape collar. These In plaids and other mix- ie with a front belt, stores.) coats are made with a very wide sweep and have graceful hanging back. STYLISH WOOL VELOUR COATS AT ... (Equal to $20.00 coats at other Autumn and Winter wear are that is now so stylish. Rob with Chase’s beaver plush. made spiere The material is a fine quality wool velour stores.) These attractive coats for with the ultra wide sweep collar and cuffs are trimmed and is offered in the darker shades of African brown, Russian green and navy blue which are so popular this sea on. VERY HANDSOME (Equal to $29.00 coats at other store and we believe that every woman will largest assortment 1d that every coat is priced lower than elsewhere. coat of fine that from, ticular plush here she has the full are lined model is trimming. ver: ey COATS OF WOOL PL SH AT $24.98 This is essentially a coat appreciate the fact in Connecticut to select This par- quality plush with beaver throughout and will be found just stores.) the right weight for both Fall and Winter. BEAUTIFUL COATS OF IMPORTED WOOL AT .. (BEqual to $37.50 coats these coats of beautiful beautiful soft material. and plush is also used on the at other stores.) imported The deep cape has a wide insert of seal plush VELOUR Tt $32.50 Exceedingly handsome are wool velour, which a most cuffs. These coats are offered in burgundy, earth brown, dark green as well as navy blue and black. "Phone orders Charter 38050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. OUR DAILY ' WISE, AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY Daily Delivery in New Britain, HARTFORD Elmwood, Newington, = - Famec Is Fourteen TR s P —If the ¢ press | Do- | Washington, D. C., Sept. Germans and Bulgarians their northward drive through brudja province of Roumania for distance of fifty miles until the charest-Constantza railway lina is reached the first point to be controlled on thi$ highway of traffic will be the | great bridge across the Darube at Cernavoda. The National Geograph- | jc soclety sets forth the inwportance | of this bridge both to commerce and as an engineering achievement in the following bulletin issued today in vashington: “Regele Carol I is the official name | of the greatest bridge in Roumania and one of the most interesiing series of railway spans in the world. It is | the lon cel and stone link which when completed in 1895 bound Ostend on the North sea to Constantza on the Black sea, two ports that at the out- break of this war were connected Ly a de luxe express train service three times a week. “At the time it w: traffic this was the ning the Danube capital of Belgrade. sponsible for the structure was a Roumanian, A. Saligny, by name the village of Cernavod de ignated on some of the more modern maps of that country. can thrown open to only bridge sp below the The enginecer re- | rushea on the double trac | road between Bucharest and Cerna\o- Miles Long “Together with the approaches and the stone causeways across that part of the neighboring marshes and mead ows which are subject to periodical in- undations, this great structure is fully fourteen miles long. The briige prop- er, over the main channel of the r er, is a slender iron structure more than 2,400 fect long, disposed in five arches. Two mighty abutments on the right and left banks, together with six stone piers and ice-breakers suppc this section which is elevated more than 100 feet above the water, thus enabling the tallest v Is to pass he- neath it without hindrance “The bridge the Roumanian government $7,000,000. With its completion Bucharest was brought within a seven hours’ journey of the Black sea shore. The eastern end of the bridge is thirty miles in an west of Constantza and ninety imiles cast of Bucharest, Distance by rail be- tween the capital and the port is 147 miles. Owing to the importance of this line in the handling of the troops landed at Constantza by Russian transports, work is probably being ng of the cost nearly this extension of the state-swned railway system having been upon by the Roumanian parliament more than a year ago.” da, IMPROVING POSTAL SYSTE! Increase in Efficiency Aim of Conven- tion in Louisville, Louisville, Ky., Sept. 25.—Plans fom increasing the efficiency of the postal service will figure prominently in the jons of the ninth annual conven- tion of the National Association Supervisory post office which began here today. About 100 delegates drawn from all tions the country were present | the first session. The morning session was the only | one held today, the afternoon being | given over to an automobile ride of f | Paso, about the city with a luncheon at its conclusion. The first business ses- sion will be held Tuesday morning. 43,930 ANIMALS ISSU San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 2 army remount depots were lished at Fort Sam Houston a total of 43 been issued, most of quired to outfit state der duty At the present time, there are 8,200 saddle and draft horses and mules in the dep at the post here and 5,600 animals at El Paso it was sald today by Capt. in charge of the remount work, D. —Since estab- and them being re- Cernavoda Bridge | decided | | | 31} in 30 animals have | Cohn & Chester of this city was held SMITH & CO. INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF Cednr Hii | , | | ! | | ! time cupied | mill | avails | inves STREET DRESSES OF FINE SERGE : $ 1 3 .98 AT (Equal to $16.50 values at other store.) In a new straight line semi-fitting model Made with two deep peg-top pockets, a wide girdle and deep silk col- lar and cuffs. All the wanted autumn colors are shown in these stylish serge dresse: SMART DRESSES OF FRENCH SERGE At $16.98 (Equal to $18.98 values at other stores.) A new Russian model with button trimmed Russian blouse and full plaited skirt The collar and cuffs are made of whtei faille silk and the mater- ial is a very fine quality French serge. AFTERNOON DRESSES OF SILK CHAR- $22 50 MEUSE AT.. o (Equal to $25 values at other store.) These stylish frocks are made with a dainty white chif- fon collar, embroidered walst and skirt in a peg-top effect. This material is fashion’s latest decree for afternoon wear and is especially pleasing in this model. It is offered in all the fashion- able Fall colors. Our Restaurant is an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial ro- past. YOUR FURCRAS Maple Hill and Clayton. BASSWCOD CUTTING R Connel Q.. Scpt quantities of Lusswood arc being e the hills and mountains of Fayette shipped to New mills. Twenty-five indus large number used at paper lly all the , but recexst trees lar in o the the 1sswood of a the 1 time of men, WO o nea tim1 ation ha enough up. for pulp ha GIVEN WAG Paterson, N. J., 5.—Five hundred workers !n the Dolphin Jute Mills increase of granted by of with by company INCREASE. ot wili participate in a voluntary cent. in wages Saturday. The ase, simultane- wnnounced at the sam Flyax Spinnin er wages for ten per the firm on ing iner ously one the rbour provides h | nearly 2,000 mill workers of this city. | fline troops on bor- | Yeoman in Hartford. ank L. Case, | for the company, C. OF C. SECRETARIES MEET, Sept. Cleveland, Secretaries of~ chambers of commerce from all over the United States are here today for the opening of the convention of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries. The conven- tion will continue until Wednesday, NKERS GATHERIN City, Mo., Sept. 25.—Al- though the annual convention of the American Bankers' Association will not begin until Thursday, the numers- ous committees began their meetings today and bankers from all parts of the United States were arriving on every train. The “Group confer- ences” will start tomorrow. B Kansas BANKRUPTCY HEARING TODAY. A hearing on the claims of creditors bankruptcy proceedings against this morning in the office of Referee The firm cong ducted a bakery and wholesale floy business. Cohn has removed “o Payonne, N. J., but Chester still re- here. M. D. Saxe is counsel which has no as- des