New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1916, Page 8

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Since the Panama Canal was first attempted and all during the physical endeavors that made possible the Big Ditch there has been a horde of mis- information spread broadcast anent the peculiar slides that occurred ‘with some degree of regularity at what is now known as Gaillard Cut. It was formerly called Culebra Cut. Gen- eral George W. Gaethals, who has been more than anyone responsible for the great achievement, in hig annual re- port as Governor of the Panama Canal takes a fling at thase who pro- fess to know-it-all and assures the country that these slides will eventu- ally be done away with. He says in Do mistakable terms: *“As predicted @t the time the great Culebra move- ments occurred, the slides will be overcome finally and for all time, not- Wwithstanding the calamity howlers and in spite of the disastrous predictions %f the know-it-alls. To those men of science and profes- sors who lald down their theories about the Canal General Goethals pays his respects in language that brands such theories “erroneous, un- warranted and unfair.” He points out the fact that although the Cut is nearly nine miles long the slides have at no time occurred over a stretch of one mile in that distance. There is absolutely nothing to the theory that subterranean gases seeking an outlet are the cause of disrupting the chan- nel bed of the Canal, nor is there a soft mushy substance under the bed which is forced up when the sides cave in. All the other fallacles are dispelled in the same manner. The General seems satisfied that the Canal will eventually prove itself the con- queror of nature, and the American | people will be willing to rest relief in the man most responsjble for the wedding of the Atlantic and Pacific. THE NEW WOMAN. In the olden days it was perhaps a great moment in the life of any lwoman who stepped into a stage coach and started on a journey from Kansas City to Denver or Denver to Salt Lake. There was every element of danger in the trip, bandits, bad roads, and run-away horses. Now it ls nothing for a woman to jump in her biplane point its nose for some distant city and arrive there on schedule time, or ahead of any train schedule, Yesterday Miss Ruth Law left the aviation park at Chicago and six jhours later landed outside of Bir- hamington, N. Y. She compileted her journey to New York City this morn- ing, making & record for the distance. [Had it not been for a late start from ‘hicago she might have reached New ‘ork city last night, thus accomplish- ng a feat that men have trled and latled to do. She was not serious in er first flight. Now she iIs determined 0 make the linking flight between ew York and Chicago between sun- se and sundown. This is indeed the new age of wom- The flight of Miss Ruth dem- pnstrates better than anything else hat woman has won her indepen- lence In every way. She has flown ee from the bondage that civilization has placed upon her, more as tradition an anything else.. There is now no fleld of endeavor that she cannot en- ler and compete with men. The marts bt trade, the professions, all are open o her. The realms of literature and rt have ever known the touch of the eminine hand and mind, so she is not stranger Having viation as an avocation, the Ameri- jan woman, at least, seems to enjoy jer full share of freedom. there. THE LAWS OF NAVIGATION. During this war there were those ho suggested the revision of Inter- | ational law to meet new conditions reated by the activities of subma- ines.- It was argued that the U-boat: ould not possibly conform to that tatue which demands the right of | tablished, annexed | marines found little difficulty in car- rying: on warfare within the law. In the case of the Deutschland which figured in the deplorable acci- dent at London last week the owners of the tug, T. A. Scott. Jr. which was sunk with the loss of flve of its crew, set up the claim that the submarine did display the lights that it violated other laws governing the operation of in these waters. The facts the case have not yet been es- but the evidence will be to watch because of the of the under-sea boat involved. The main thing to be considered is: Submarines from foreign natfons which seek American ports and’ run the gauntlet set up by their enemies are liable to cause great trouble if they attempt to surreptitiously sneak away under cover of darkness and to this end neglect to display the proper lights. The low visability of a submarine makes it.difficult to be seen even under favorable conditions. In the dead of night it might easily be rammed by a larger vessel and if de- stroyed get the United States in con- troversy. There have been so many passions aroused already since this war began that men do not walt to learn all the facts in any glven case before passing judgment. First reports from the accident at New London carried the impression that the Deutschland was the victim of a plot. This was later cleared away and it was )seen that the Deutschland suffered little damage in comparison with that of the tug which is utterly lost with five of its crew. The in®estigation ordered by the United States government should disclose all the details of this ter- rible accident and result in a clear understanding of the laws governing submarine operations within the three-mile limit. New not cus- tomary and vessels in interesting prominence and the laws IN BOSTON, Boston is now undergoing an in- teresting experiment, or, at least, an attempt at a new departure,—the abolishing of tips in hotels and res- taurants. The waiters themselves have expressed a willingn for this innovation to come about, and have asked the managers to allow them a slight Increase in wages, an increase sufficlent to off-set the usual tips. The campaign of education is going cn and Boston's ncwspapers have lent several suggeslions among them being the idea that the patrons of hotels refrain from tipping in those places that make a rule against this practice. There are those who will tip waiters regardless of consequences, even if by doing so they be the cause of the walter’s dism Those the folk who are primarily respon- sible for the tipping evil it 1is known today. On the other side there are the managers of hotels and restaurants who sell out the right to check hats and coats and thus force their patrons into paying for a priv- ilege that rightfully belongs to the publle. Hats and coats should never be taxed in any hotel, great or small. It 18 doubtful if even Boston will succeed in doing away all together with the system of tipping waiters in hotels and restaurants and if Bos- ton falls there is little hope for any other oity in the country. The cul- tured waliters of the Hub have been iaught that the acceptance of tips marks them as menials, and they would rather have their money come through a legitimate channel,—via the pay envelope. So would than one half of their guests. al. are as more Instead of balking every attempt of the United States to straighten out the Mexican tangles the chieftalns and leaders of that country should thank their stars that the United States has ever dealt with a gloved hand and not a mailed fist. Because they have been loath to see the friendliness of Uncle Sam in all his dealings with that poor forsaken country, the powers that be in Mexico have braught about a con- dition whereby the American-Mexican joint commission which has been try- ing to reach an agreement may be dis- banded. the Interfor Lane arrived in Atlantic ¢ today with instructions to end the confer- Secretary of ence in a short time whether an agree- ment is reached or The bling block the affair been Luis Cabrera, ter of finance, and president of the Mexican commission The negotia- tions will probably end with the sug- gestion originally advanced by the American conferees that each govern- ment patrol its own side of the border independently, it understood | that American troops will be sent into Mexico on punitive expeditions when- ever Mexican bandits attack border not. in whale has Carranza’s minis- heing towns. “A man of high moral and s iri:nal isit and search before a merchant- an is sent to the bottom. By dint f perseverence, the State Department f this government proved its first ontentions and commanders of sub- rank, of whom we would be proud if we had him” manner in which Maximilian Harden, Germany’s is the stum- | FACTS AND FANCIE! So fades the superstition of the snfallibility of election odds.—New York Times. Politics opens the make a few reckles: ledo Blade. way for all _to remarks.—To- Apparently Venizelos has lost the recipe for the manufacture of Greek fire.—New Orleans States. Those whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. That’s the explanation. —New Haven Journal-Courier. Nothing could have been more ap- propriate than for the Marina to have been torpedoed by the U-53 on its re- turn trip.—New York Evening Sun. To keep Greece from slipping away from them the entente powers have seized the navy, the forts, the tele- graph lines and the mails.—Tacoma Ledger. No matter how close the election, it proves that a very large part of the country is not too proud to fight for | its own ideal of peace with honor.— Baltimore American. Notwithstanding Professor Lowell's | theories as to life on Mars, there is a belief that the people of that planet got into a world war and killed each other off.—Marion Star. Smooth highways mean not cheaper and quicker transit to the railroads; they will mean in many cases the elimination of the railroad &ltogether.—San Francisco Chronicle. only Looking back at the list of men considered by the Chicago convention, it is reasonable to say that no one o?f the rest of them could have polled Mr. Hughes' vote.—Boston Post. Any low-down paragrapher who dares twit us about the New Hamp- shire national election returns may as well prepare for trouble. We're sore enough about 'em now.—Manchester Union, The Journey of Life. (William Cullen Bryant). Beneath the waning moon I walk at night And muse on human life—for around Are dim uncertain shapes that cheat the sight, And pitfalls lurk in shade along the ground, And broken gleams here and there, Glance through, and leave unwarmed the death-like air, all of brightness, The trampled earth returns a sound of fear— A hollow sound, as if I walked on bombs; And lights that tell of cheerful hours appear off, and die the glooms. A mournful wind across the landscape flies, the wide sighs. Far like hope among And atmosphere is full of And I, with ney on, Watching the stars that roll hours away. the faint light that guides me now is gone, And like another life, the glorious day Shall open o’er me from the empyreal hight With warmth, and boundless light. faltering footsteps, jour- the Till certainty, and The High Cost of Idving. (New Haven Journal-Courier). While there is a large measure of truth in the explanation that the high | cost of living is due in part to the cost of high living, there remains a sufficient ground for investigating pr vailing prices in all of the necessaries of life to cause it to be undertaken. It is perhaps not so difficult to ac- count for a high rise in prices at this time as it is difficult to discover the means of making the return of high prices at another time practically im- possible. In his brief address to the dele- gates to the national grange in se slon at Washington Tuesday, Presi- dent Wilson made it clear that he is glving the subject his attention. He not only recognizes the effect of the middle man's profits upon the con- sumers’ bid, but he realizes that, 1f we are golng to protect ourselves against influences and factors which are not home-made and which adversely af- fect our domestic life, we must be. gin the study of the subject from the point of view of the conservation of all our natural resources. “In the tuture,” he says, we have got to bring fnore of the area of the United States under cultivation than is under culti- vation. We have g0t to increase the product at every point where it is susceptible of being increased. We have got to study the variation of crops. We have got to study how to assist nature, or at any rate to under- stand nature, by making the most suitable use of our several and varied soils.” % This is by no means conclusive. merely scratches the surface of op- portunity. But it does direct atten- tion to what is golng on in the dif- ferent parts of New England, right here in Connecticut and in New Ha- ven county. The realization has over- taken forward-looking men that the | opportunity to provide the necessaries of life is all about us, not only In the recovery of the farm lands and their scientific fertilizer, but in the establishment of a municipal market where the producer and the consum- er can meet face to face. The condi- tion that cxisted a generation or more ago right in this immediate neigh- borhood can be revived. Once re- vived, we shall know better then than how to resist the aprroach of the selfish forces which through combina- | tion made cvery phase of farm life unprofitable, from the raising of beef on the hoof to potatoes. The lesson It brilliant editor, eulogizes the Presi. | dent of the United States, | COLORED McMILLAN’S| = New Britain’s Busy Bilg Store— ‘ “Always Reliable.” i Brighten Your Home for Thanksgiving Day New Draperies AND Floor Coverings A select showing of Scrims, Mar- | quisettes, Madras and Nets, by the yard, also ready-made curtains of the same materials. SCRIMS AND MARQUISETTES in white, 15¢, priced yard. berge, to 45¢ cream and 19¢, 22 22¢, BORDERED itc, EFFECTS FIGURED MADRAS ‘This dainty drapery material in pretty new designs, also same in colored ef- | fects, 19¢, 22¢, 25c¢, 29c¢ and 35c each. ! QUAKER CRAFT in white and ecru. Priced25c, 29¢, 85¢ | and 45c yard. Make dainty curtains and door panels. COUCH COVERS TABLE COVERS AND PORTIERES ATTRACTIVELY PRICED CRETONNES LACE in the new light and dark colored ef- fects for over draperies, pillow cOV-i ers, shirtwaist box coverings, etc. | 1215 to 45¢ yard. | DRAPERY FIXTURES OF ALL KINDS Rods with curved ends, our spe- | Double extension Rods, suitable for | over draperies, priced 35¢ and 45c ea. | Solld Rods, Sockets and Brackets of all kinds, portiere poles, rings, pins, FLOOR COVERINGS | ete. | Bought months ago warrant these spe- | clal prices. Manufacturers’ prices to- ! day are considerably higher, it will be to your advantage these extraordinary to look over offerings. FLOOR OILCLOTHS 29¢ and 39c¢ square yard. } FEITEX the felt base goods for floor coverings. Priced ....39¢c square yard. | PRINTED LINOLEUMS 65¢ square yard. INLAID LINOLEUMS ...89c, $1.25 and $1.89 sq. yd. CONGOLEUM RUGS Priced I8 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. i | BETTER THAN EVER ARE THE HANDSOME VALUABLE FREE SOUVENIRS AT THEBIG STOXRE’S I9th ANNIVERSARY SALE WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford This Week We Feature WOMENS FASHIONABLE WINTER COATS At Very Special Prices at the Anniversary Sale $29 SWAGGER AL PLUSH, § Fully lined with guaranteed satin, these coats have a very novel collar which buttons very high to the throat and fastened down the front with Military loops. Full and wide model. — HANDSOME $45 LUSTER SEAD PLUSH COATS, TRIMMED WITH GREY SILVER MOUFLON, $87.50. With deep cuffs and a wide sallor collar of silver grey mouflon fur, fully lined with guaranteed satin, un- usually full sweep and the new straight line silhouette. ———————— e WOMEN’S $20 FUR TRIMMED COATS 98. OF STYLISH $32.50 PLUSH Full swagger coats trimmed with bands of beaver plush on the deep turnover cuffs and on the wide sailor collar which buttons high to the neck, if desired, lined throughout with guaranteed satin. _— BEAUTIFUL $50.00 SEAL PLUSH COATS WITH TAUPE MOUFLON, $42.50. Taupe Mouflon fur encircles the very full bottom of these loose hang- ing coats and is also used to trim the very mnovel high puttoning collar. Guaranteed satin lining. e $140 SMART COATS OF LUSTER SEAL PLUSH, TRIMMED WITH Art Rugs made in one 9x12 $12.00. Utility Rugs. 1x1%% yards 98¢ 1x2 yards $1.30 11%x1% yards $1.50 2x8 yards $3.90 Large assortment of all size Rugs in | Brussells, Velvets, Axmin- Brussells, Tapestry sters and Body D. MoRiLLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. The Fairfield County Vote. (Hartford Times.) We were suggesting to Fairfield county—branded by Col. Nod Osborn as “suspicious” in toto and consigned to “stew in its own unpalat- W the by him able juice”—that it watch itself o the rest of irfleld county. that tr witing be pursued with par- ticular We | think it might be profitable, we know lot of other people think it ht | think the Waterbury suggesting to that it watch T further were state And watchful w we suggested s reference to ‘‘one man.” a mi; e ks it might be profitable and we are inclined to bhelieve the “one man” himself apprehends it | might be profitable. If we get him watched and make him timid we shall accomplish much more for the pubs lic good than we should by printing his name and thereby putting him in a position to secure an official, al- though specious, vindication. be profitable, American thi On returning after a short leave of absence from the front we are glad to Rur before tind the still drjving Mackensen them.——Waterhury American. Owing to the war, the price of cel- has been ‘ cation, taught. Now for its appu-l luloid collars has advanced 30 per | “toe” | which | auake’ of December 28th, 1908, tossed cent.—Rome Sentinel, ‘WOOL PLUSH COATS, $16.98. Fully lined, made in a full cireu model The wide self belt gathers in circular flare and the collar buttons high to the neck. with wide cape collar of fur. CHASE’'S BEAVER PLUSH, $35. lar hanging rippled flare is a wide ba of Chase’s beaver plush, also a band the same on tne cuffs and on t English coachman’s collar. the ————————————————— ————————————— RICH NATURAL RACCOON TRIMMED COATS OF ES- QUIMETTE PLUSH, $49.00. These handsome coats trimmed with a band of natural raccoon fur around bottom and on the deep cape collar, the full graceful ripple hangs straight from the shoulders without belt. A beautiful coat in every particular. are 'Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. WOMEN’S $22.50 COATS OF WOOL VELOUR TRIMMED WITH SEAL PLUSH, $18.98. BEmbodying several of the newest fashion features, these long full coats have a very deep collar and wide cuffs, large regular sleeves and pock- ets, trimmed and very stylish. seal plush WISE,SMITH & CO. HARTFORD Around the botton of the full loose nd of he WOMEN’S $30 FUR TRIMM AND CHAS ) WOOL PLUSH, $24.98. Two different models each a copy of a very recent FParls model. One is of a fine qual- ity wool velour trimmed with a deep collar and cuffs of Kit Coney, the other of Chase rein- deer wool plush trimmed with Chases beaver fabrics, | Our Restaurant is an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. GOYR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PURCRHAS Dally Delivery in New Britain, FElmwood, Newington, Cedar Hi Where Looms T hreatening Etna, Europe’s Big Voicano | | | | | | \ Washington, D. C. Nov. 20.—The Straits of Messina, through which the German warships Goeben and Br Jau are supposed to have slipped, eluding the eagerly pursuing British Mediterranean fleet at the outbreak of | the Buropean war, have again fD\lndi a place in European despatches as the | of naval mishap in s belonging to England and | ch other for enemies | fog, and pro- noth Concern- ( sa between scene warshi Haly iter a ceeded to e ing this parrow 'lane of the rocky. masses.of Sicily and the | of the Italian peninsula, the | National Geographic. soclety’s most | recent war geography bulletin says: | “The Slcilian and Italian banks border on the Straits of | Messina for nearly twenty-five miles | to the east and west arc among the | most luxuriant to be found in a cruise of the Mediterranean. Magnifi- | cent golden groves of lemon and orange, and orchards of pomegranato | with their brilliant red fruit contrast wonderfully with the flowers of the | almond trees which perfume the | whole region. i “The straits are entered from the | Tyrrhenian sea, on the north, at tho | narrowest point, the distance between | Punta del Faro on the Sicilian shore ! and the mainland lighthouse on Pun- | ta Pezzo being not more than two miles. The whole of the Calabrian const is thickly sown with villages, some clinging to the beach, while | others clamber up the sides of well- | wooded hills which culminates in the | towering Montalto, rising up to an | clevation of more than a mile above | the Beyond the straits to the southwest, looms ever-threatening | Btna, the hichest voleano in Furope. | “The important city situated | on the straits is the once magnificent seaport of Messina, which boasted a population of 150,000 inhabitants be- fore ‘the world*s most cruel earth- | hundred thousand lives "he harbor of Messina is the larg- cst and safest in the kingdom of Ttaly, with a depth of more than thirty fathoms. Pofore the great calamity it was visited annually by more than 5,000 vessels which brought cargoes of wheat, cotton, wool and hardware, and took away in exchange lemons, oranges, almonds, wines, olive oil and silks. Much of its commerce was and etill is carried on with the mainland of the kingdom: by means of a ferry line to Villa San Giovanni, only four and a half miles awa while Reggio, | the chief seaport on the Ttalian side | aits and also the chief earth- . next to Messina, is ten miles to the southeast. Ferry hoats ply between these points, too. | Scilla, Fare, Catona, Pellaro, Scalli- which | | alone ! tures, Scylla and Charybdis, | near the harbor i ster. i er, | ta, and Galati are minor towns on the | shores of the straits. “The historical records of Messina | and the neighboring settlements con- tained many acounts of bombard- ments, raids, and piratical descents during the Punic and Roman wars, and ravaging expeditions by Goths, Normans and Saracens, while earth- quakes prior to the latest tragedy left thelr indelible scars from time to time particularly in 1783. Nor has plaguc spared this region. In 1740 Messina | lost 40,000 of her population | by disease, while 114 years later chol- era removed 16,000. “Homer did not habitation for his accord a definite terrible sea-crea- but ma- riners familiar with the perils of the rocks on the Italian side of the straits and with the strong eddies of Mesina, saw in the mythical monsters an explanation of such dangers. Scylla was sup- posed to be a horrible creature with | six heads and a dozen feet, who barked like a dog. She dwelt in a lofty cave from which she rushed whenever a ship tried to pass be- neath, and she would snatch the un- lucky seamen from the rigeing or as they stood at the helm endeavoring to gulde their vessels through the peril- ous passage. Charybdis dwelt under a rock only a bowshot away, on the opposite shore. The second creature sucked in and blew out seawater three times a day, and woe to the ship caught in the maelstrom of its mouth! “Poets who came after the great Greek bard embrotdered the legend to suit their fancy. Ovid, for example, described Scylla as the heautiful daughter of a sea-god who incurred the jealousy of one of the immortals and who was changed into a sea-mon- A second transformation made her a rock perilous to navigators. | Some poets described Charybdis as an old woman who seized and devoured the cattle of Hercules, and in punish- ment for this act the demigod’s fath- all-powerful Zeus, cast her into the sea where her appetite persisted, but her tastes changed from cattle to ships and seamen.” t The Influence of the Press, (Exchange). “Three institutions there are which | exercise a most cogent influence upon how the American public thinks,” says the New York Post's cssavist “They are the public school system, the Christian church %nd the press of the country. The schools never reach ore than twenty per cent the population at one time, and even to that portion of the public which they (V.n reach their sphere of influence limited. The appeal of the church is probably even less universal, c i 1 | census figures going newspape fair therefore | pose who have not been greatly own teachers, about i1. Marle Hill and Clayton. indicate per cent. of the expressed religious convictions any sort. This leaves a scant forty per cent. who may attend church once in a while week at most while the press is preaching to all of the people, every day, week in and week out. For by the greater ma- Jority it is the only education, and its influence upon all classes is a fact so evident as to need no demonstra- tion.” That is a clear exposition of standing of the American press in relationship to the people and It a statement that was made by New York Evening Post in an en- deavor to prove that the right think- ing newspapers of the country have a greater hold today upon the people than they ever have had before. Those who live in the memories of the past declare that the American newspaper reached its zenith when such editors as Dana, Ray- mond and men of stamp were in the saddle and that since that day they have begun to wane in their strength and in their influence, The people of the country are today back of the good newspapers more than they cver were before, although there may be less of that blind fanat- ic m which character d many of the followers of those fire eating ed- itors of other days. The freedom of the press depends upon the peoplo and the laws they make as well as the, patronage they give and no paper can retain position unless it has a clientele that approves of its efforts The newspaper which can be de- pended upon to print day after day and year after year the news of the world, uncolored and uninfluenced, is to be supported, especially it the editors try their best to make the cditorial page reflect honest views, fair minded criticlsm of things that that at least sixty populace hafe no once a the its is the Greeley, that its are not what they should be and gen- erous praise of thosc o serve rts that de- approbation Furthermore the number , that arc and to treat all s and the tone of improving of atming e, are the these to be increas- is ng press Good Maxims, the only bird eggs.—Lowell the t 1 Al tasks.—Alcott ‘Now" gold Ideas Ideas and the or they is n that lays head s nds about brains men, dreams.— ust work through the irms of good are no better and brave than Emerson. Ideals are the world's masters— Timothy Titcomb, Few have been taught to any pur- their The safest principle through life, nstead of reforming others, is to set perfecting yourself.—Hayden. Defeat of Congressmen Buchanan and Tavenner Tllinois carries a ittle election all of its own.— from lesson as | Wall Street Journal,