New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1916, Page 8

ew. . Britain. Herald. I‘rERALDy P[;{;([)T‘E"_E\(g COMPANY. Issued daily (Sinday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., t Herald Building, 67 Church St Entered at the Post Office as Second Clas: at New Britain ail Matter. red by carrier to 15 cents a wee Subscrivtions for paper payable in advance, $7.00 a year. ny part of the city : & month to be sent by mail, 60 cents a month, The only profitable advertising medium in the eity: Circulation books and press room alwaye open to advertisers. will be found on sale at Hota- 2nd St. and Broad- ¥, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. EPHONE CALLS. Bus R A TERRIBLE LOSS. / Just how many men have been killed in the terrible war abroad no one knows. The official records will not be compiled until the struggle is over, nor can over-much credence be dttached to the statements emanating from the various war offices of the belligerent countrles. In order to inake the losses on one side or the @ther appear greater than they really re and thus give tue impression that one side or the other is the viotor insofar as men are concerned it is <oncelvable that the figures might be twisted. , Repgrts; from. the various capitals of ¢He belligerent nations will ot recelve the respect giwen the figures compiled by the neutral Danish goclety in_Copenhagen which gives the iosses of all the nations In the war, complete to July 1, 1916, as 4,631,500 killed. If the figures were available for the filve months from that date it is probable that another iraillion men might be added to the death column. There has been no mttempt to keep accurate account of the number of men disabled for life, of tHiose who are orippled temporarily, or of the soldiers rendered totally blind. ~The entire number of killed and wounded might easily approach he ten million mark. Reduced to American figures that would mean pne-tenth of the nation entirely de- ktroyed for future work. HE DEATH OF AN EMPEROR. his shoulders the aged Emperor | worked assiduously for the welfare of his people. It was the heir apparent to the Austrian throme, Archduke | Francis Ferdinand, whose as ina- tion in the province of Bosnia by a, Serbian youth brought about the pres The Austrian Emperor lost in ent war. time in unsheating his sword to avenge the murder of his heir, and thus was set forth the spark that en- | kindled all Europe in the greatest war | of all time. What will happen now | that the youthful Charles Francis | Joseph must assume the great cares | imposed upon him by the death of the no great old statesman must remain in the realm of speculative fancy. He has probably yet to outlie a policy. He may attempt to follow in the foot- steps of his distinguished predecessor. There will undoubtedly be brought to bear upon the youthful monarch all sorts of outside influence, influence from sourceés that in a way will have great weight. Whether he will be swayed by them or guide the destinies of the ship of state without their as- sistance remains to be seen. He must take the first step in formulating any peace plan, it being reasonably cer- tain that the good offices of the great- est mneutral on earth, the TUnited States, will not be tendered until there is a formal invitation extended from some of the capitals of Hurope. As Germany and the Allies are indisposed to give in, it is up to Austria-Hungary to make a move,—otherwise the war will go on for some time to come. WHERE THE RUB COMES. Two weeks after the presidential elections politics have happily taken a seat In the back row and the nation moves merrily along. The campaign talk which had much ado with soup houses and bread lines is now almost completely forgotten, and the real facts in the case are coming to the surface. Last night, by way of con- tradicton to some of the wild state- ments made in the campaign, the United States Steel corporation an- nounced a ten per cent. increase in the wages of those employes who work in it iron and steel factorles. About 250,000 employes are made beneficiaries of the increase which sugments the amount of the com- HEmperor Francis Joseph of Austria- [Hiungary dead after a sixty-elght year eign leaves behind him a world-wide icld of' speculation as to what will become of the dual monarchy when its ortunes are turned over to the youth- Archduke Charles "rancis Joseph. In the Aext few days here will be all sorts of wild rumors n the air, rumoers of peace that will ul legal heir pany’s - pay-roll by the sum of $18,000,000. - Thus getting its full measure. The news of yesterday was filled with joy for workingmen. Despatch- from various parls of the country told of great concerns increasing their employes’ wages, and this without ‘the asking of a single workingman. All employes of the Eastman Kodak company earning $50 a week or less enormous is labor ake their way from Vienna and Ber- in, but which must all be discounted nd taken for what they are worth,— With the old mas- ler dead, the man who has seen more vars than monarch of modern who has fully - guarded e of the House of Haps- urg in turbulent moments, there will 1y be some misgivings about the - who Wil take his place. Es- is this so when it is considered | les Francis Joseph is not so related with German intercsts s was thae:old Brmperorsand that he nere spdculation. m suces rtunes ecially hat C losel absolutely free to conclude a separ- peage with the allies -when condi- The fact .tog’that he L a idevout Catholic and -very likely listen to any suggestions, of. peace apting from s towards' &stablishing hope > who want to see Europe »ng, warrant the Vatican will go long wa mong tho » from the shackles of war. [ Franc Joseph was .a mere lad he scended to the throne of * He was then nineteen years It age. Had he lived until the second v of December he would have com- active reign of sixty-eight the very day of his in consultation about of the dual monarchy. During e time he occupied the throne the mous House of Hapsburg saw its jost turbulent times. He saw the orld torn and bleeding from many lars among which were the Crimean, e Indian Mutin, the Civil War in the hited States, Austria’s war against the Spanish-American war, fe Boar war, the Russo-Japanese ars, and finally this great struggle at is going on ahroad and in which and his people~hold such an im- prtant role. Nor did he sit on his rone and ply, tie irale of spectator ;'E‘g ’{Jv&rs. Foreign foes 4\%@1 gates and internal n it him ever on the alert. o witnessed the taking away of Ven- from Austria by Napoleon IIT and his army crushed at Sadowa by fiam of Prussia and Von Molke, d he witnessed Bismark take from Im Lombardy and give it to the lians. He saw the House of ohenzollern snatch the place of premacy formerly occupied by the Fhen ust eted an Until he ears ath [fairs was russia, apsburgs, he saw the waning of an | icient power when Austria reed to take second place to Prussia. was he misfortune that followed his im- | ediate family is a story too long to te. ‘With all the cares that rested upon were given an intrease in wages, ac- cording to report pany’s from headquarters at N. Y. More than 30,000 operatives in the mills at New DBedford, Mass., were given a ten per cent, raise in wages, their third in- crease this year. In fact, the men in cotton mills all over ‘the country are faring well at the hands of tieir em- ployers. From Augusta, Ga. comes 'he news that the employes in three | cotton mills have been giveh .a. ten per cent. increase in wages, niafting. the com- Rochester, great cotton 211 Well over the half mi ion dollgy, mark. e SRR Thu§' imay B seen the difference Hetween. the spirit of pessimism’that was set loose before the election and | the optimism that is taking hold after the affair is over. So long as’ this present wave of prosperity lasts the workingmen will reap their harvest. The employers are also enjoying huge profits, and these two form the upper and lower mill-stones of soclety be- tween which are being ground the men who work on a steady salary basis. The high cost of living strikes the salarfed man harder than any other person who must toil necessaries of life. rub comes. for the That is where the There will be no further parleying with the Mexican ioners. The United States commission has | now laid down certain definite prin- | ciples which must be followed for ‘the suppression of lawlessness on the border and the three men who have | represented Mexico for the past ten weeks in all these negotiatiohs must elther comply or withdraw from the | game. It has been hinted that sin- | Ister influences have been in back of these men, holding up the negotia- tions, in the hope of forcing the United States to intervene in Mexico. If this is so it will soon be learned now that the members of the Mexican Commission are aware of the situa- tion, are impression with the fact that | the United States wants to see the | cards. Commi; At Lakewood, N. J. yesterday, | Charles Evans Hughes, through his | secretary, said thc published | that he had prepared a letter or tele- | gram of congratulation to be sent to report President Wilson was without founda- tion. Yet Mr. Hughes has advertised his Washington house for rent, and there are no signs of President Wil- arguments and a lthe beginning. kEW' BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 19186. son getting ready \o leave the White House on March 4 for a more humble 2bode. The" Allies will net be troubled cver the declaration from the Crown ouncil that they surrender the na- of of Greece refuse in principle” to tion’s the 15 munitions the enemies “In principle” would call a phrase made up of weasel words. o Central Powers. what the Colonel FAC AND FANCIES. "I‘od‘ y the baker and the banker sing: ‘There no king but Dough- Dough!""—ittsfield Daily News. German positions become impreg- nable only after the allies have- cap- tured them.—Brooklyn Eagle. “A dark blue lad’s coat” was re- cently advertised. as having been lost. She probably bet it on Hughes. Which accounts for her indigo blue.— Springfield News. New York is to have a Russian ba- zar. But what Russla wants is a few of the bazars they have in Con- | stantinople.—New York Sun. Since 1892, when the tide of elec- tion changed after midnight, party leaders have not been so prone to the | business of calling elections on the first returns.—Buffalo News. We suppose good republicans and good democratfwfll 2o to church as usual, even though neither may un- derstand how the other can have the nerve.—Manchester Union. In Metcalf, Ariz., the schoolma-am is to receive a bonus of $6 a month for remaining unmarried. The re- ward is insufficlent; no gallant of the Southwest would hesitate for a moment to buy such a claim from véhe right school mistress.—New York un. One thing we are honestly glad of is that our dear old friend Warren Harding did not have to run this year, as we like to have him in the senate in spite of his views on the paramountey of the tariff.—Ohio State Journal. ~ A newspaper in Texas proposes that married men wear a distinctive cos- tume—stripes tinguish them, for example—to dis- so they “cannot flirt with unmarried women. Is it 'the Texas idea that a man should be ad- vertised as a convict married-—Loulsville Courier-Journal. because he’s IT WAS A FATLURE. Attempt to Make the Tariff a Prom- inent and Effective Campaign Issue Came to Naught. (New York Times.) The attempt of the republican leaders to make the tariff a promin- ent and effective campaign issue came to nothing. There is no evidence in the result the that their 1d weight the absolute proof that what of against they were saying about the effect of the Underwood tariff law during the ten the war was judgment of thinking men that their predictions of of diately This resort to the tariff fo help was months immediately untrue, preceding and the sound a ‘“devastating flood” imported Furopean goods imme- after the war were absurd. especially neticeable in the closing weeks of the campaign, although the same arguments had been used from They may be found in Mr. Hughes' letter of acceptance, in the remar’ks.of /Mr. Fairbanks about “immense "quantities of ‘commodities manufactuged’ahd. stored” in the bel- ligerent countries, “‘awaiting shipment to the United States when the seas are cleared,”’ and in other early cam- paign utterances. Those who redd the assertion that .in the first ten .months of.the Under- wood law an ‘“‘enormous increase” of imported manufactured goods closed factories here and deprived workmen of employment could ascertain from the official reports that imports of such goods were actually less in those ten months than in the corresponding months of the preceding year, under the republican tariff law. Thus a part of the argument was wrecked. Mr. Hughes predicted that at the end of the war the “millions of soldiers’” would leap from the trenches to the factories, there to produce, ‘‘with vastly incre~sed efficiency,” not only all the goods needed at home, but also a great surplus which would be “dumped” in our market, unless it should be barred out by a new high protective tariff. Many others on his side professed to foresee this im- pending “fiood.” But intelligent and thoughtful voters, knowing what the | effect of the war h@as been, found this absurd one. And they in their opinion by much current testimony. There has been plenty of evidence that the “stores” of goods do not exist, that stocks are exhausted, and that after the war the belligerent nations must import great quantities of raw mater- jal—much of it from this country— before they can make goods enough to satisfy the needs of their own peo- ple. And so the second part of the tariff argument was demolished. Those who expected no flood of im- ports after the war could see that there would be safeguards, 1if one should appear, in the powers of the new tariff commission and the federal trade commission, and in the provi- sions of the new law to prevent “dumping”. The tariff movement on the republican side in the campaign was a pitiable failure. It was char- acterized by gross misrepresentation of recorded facts and by predictions which well-informed men could not accept. forecast an were confirmed Footnote. (From the Cincinnati Enquirer) Some women buy door-mats. 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The writer says: “Last vear. just before Christmas, one of my sisters said to me, ‘T want to give mother some silk for a walst this year, but I don’t know whether she would rather have black or laven- der, and it spolls all the fun, asking.’ 1 know it I repled. ‘T had decided on a school umbrella for Mary, and I don’t know whether the child pre- fers a straight handle or one with a crook.” “As you see, we were a family who gave one another practical presents. She and I talked it over and we hit upon the cleverest plan. Instead of having our gifts before breakfast in the library as usual on Chrstmas morning, we had a little tree about two feet high on the table, hung and plled about with tiny packages. Mother’s waist was cut from a fashion magazine and, with three one-dollar bills, wrapped in a small jewelry box, Mary’s umbrella was made from a toothpick and a dollar bill. Father gave me a tiny doll's muff in a pill box with a ten-dollar bill inside, and he gave mother a bright-colored rug cut from a magazine, just the :size of a ten-dolfar bill, which was past- ’ed lightly to the back. The whole thing was rolled on a stick. Tt was great fun, and when the holiday rikg: was over we did our Christmas shop- ping, and none of the surprise had been taken away by asking everyone what she would rather have.” \ At the Anniversary Sale AnExtensive Assortment of thi Newest Gold and Silver Lace Trimmed Hats THE STYLE OF THE HOUR. NEW MODELS, IN SAILORS, POKES TRICORNES, SIDE ROLL AND MUSHROOM EF- FECTS. LACE. SOME ARE ALL Others combined with Fine Silk Velvet. Most charm- ingly trimmed with the fashionable fur ornaments, fur bands. i Flowers, Velvets and Ribbons. FINE QUALITY SILK VELVET UNT All All All © Values to $2 RIMMED HATS AT Styles Kinds Colors 92¢ SAILORS, TURBANS, COLONIALS, TAMS, POKES, TRICORNES, ETC. Hats Trimmed WISE, SMITH & €0., Hartford Free Souvenirs To All | | | Kingdom of Saxony’s - Big Industrial Center Washington, D. C., Nov. 22—Chem- | strikes at a vital part. nitz, one of the leading industrial cen- ters of the German empire end, ac- cording to Amsterdam despatches, the scene of recent riots following heavy casualties of Saxon regiments in the Somme zone defensive, is the subject of the following war geography bul- | letin of the National Geographic so- elety: “The Saxon Manchester, as Chem- nitz is familiarly called, owing to its extensive cotton-spinning factorles, is the great industrial center of tha kingdom of Saxony, and, with a pop ulation of 287,000 is in size the third city of this division of the German empire, ranking next to Dresden and Leipzig, from which places it is al- most equi-distant by rail, fifty south- west of the former and southeast of the latter. “The town is admirably situated for manufacturing purposes, - on the Chemnitz river, an affluent of the Mulde, and at the foot of the Erzge- birge or Ore mountains, a range of hil seventy-five miles long and twen- ty-five miles broad forming part of the natural boundary between Sax- ony and Rohemia. It is surrounded by @ fertile plain and has an elevation of 1,000 feet above sea-level. “Almost from the time of its settle- ment by a Slavic tribe known as the Sorblan = Wends, Chemnitz (pro- nounced Kem-nitz) has been noted for its industrial activity, first for its lin- ens and bleaching grounds and in the sixteenth century as one of the cen- ters of cloth manufacture. Today its factory produéts’ include stockings, gloves, wooleh.gqads, chemicals, car- pets ;and Dbricks) and mény of the ‘made in Gepmany’ articles imported into this céuntry before”the war. “The chief ‘activity ‘of “the eity’s army of working ien since the out- hreak of the European conflict. has been the manufacture; of the locomo- tives required’;in . the never-endiug tratisportation of.troops from one bat- tlefront to the other. In peace times there were ninety factorfes employ- tng 20,000 hands ih this Chemnitz industry and it is probable that this number has been increased greatly during the last twio years. “During the devastating Thirty Years’ War Chemnitz suffered at the hands of all partles, and was lald waste, but it entered upon a new era of prosperity at the beginning of the eighteenth century, since which time a splendid modern city with broad streets and handsome buildings has grown up around the old or Tnner city with its quaint, narrow thorough- fares and its picturesque promenades which now occupy the crests of the old fortifications. “When the Reformation swept over Chemnitz in 1546 one of the first me- dieval institutions to be dissolved was the Benedictine Monastery founded in 1136 by the Roman emperor Lothair IT just a year prior to his death. _“At the time that ‘th& “war' cloud began to 1dwer so suddenly over Bu- rope during the last days of July, 1914, many American and English tourists were in Chemnitz, as this was the popular headquarters for summer excursions through the Frzgebirge mountains.” Ts Eating a Tost Art? A New York caterer who has gone into- bankruptcy -attributes his troubles to a lack of social patronage. “Society” no longer eats and drinks on the lavish scale of a decade ago, when entertaining was in its golden, prime at Newport. In fact “there is no more society. ‘What marquerades as such has lost its refinement and what is worse from a caterer's point of vlew, its appetite, Alas for the good old days! Are the $10,000 dinners no more, and the simian feasts which called for the caterer’s hishest skill? Tf society has lost the art of dining it is obviously A society that affects the simple life when the cost of living is at its maximum has clearly forfeited its chie claim to social dis- tinction, Happily, there are indications that the conditions of which this caterer complains age transient and largely limited to fiis own establishment. With all the war profits that are itch- ing to be spent, with all the swollen prosperity that is hankering after the flesh-pots of New York, caterers have little to fear. Even if the golden age of soclety dining has passed, the steel age, the age of munitions millions, is here, to feed and feast. The war brides are eager to dance, and what difference if Newport no longer pays the piper? Newspaper Children. he?” “Well, getic in reaching a conclusion something ought to be done.”—Bos ton Transcript. he’s always ener- church every glad of it. front of me on the links.—Life. “Did you say Algernon has money than brains?” “No,” Miss. Cayenne. information. I hoped Sunday.” “Well, he Washington Star. ‘“Never despair. Somewhere be. yond the clouds the sun is shining.” “Yes, there’s solid bottom. But that doesn’t help a man when he"falls overboard.” —Baltimore American. Willle.—*T guess my dad must have been a pretty bad boy.” ‘“What makes you think that?” Willie—"Because he knows exactly what questions to ask me when he wants to know what I have been doing.”—Puck. “My wife is one of the flnest durn’ women in world,” allowed Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark., “but she’s shore got some of the quaintest notions you ever witnessed. Tuther day I had a job of work that just natcher’ly had to be done, and b’cuz I whirled in and went to doing it she started one of the boys off on a ‘horse for the doctor.”—Judge. Mr. Hughes’ Legal Mind. (New York World.) “But why doesn’t Hughes admit he is licked?” asked the head polisher. “They say,” replied the ' laundry man, “it's because he has a legal mind. If that is true it gives us a pretty good indication of what would have happened had Mr. Hughes been president when the Lusitania was sunk. “When the great wave of indigna tion swept over the country Mr. Hughes would have remained calm and firm. He would have conceded nothing. To the clamors of citizens asking him to get a move on he would have returned the silent dignity that becomes him so well. “And finally he would have an- nounced his position. He would have said that there still remained a doubt that the Lusitania was torpedoed, even though the Germans admitted the act. He would have said that he required positive proof and would have suggested that the Lusitania be raised and towed over here so he could see the hole in the hull.” Redeeming His Promis (New Haven Journal-Courier). The news from Washington is to the effect that President Wilson will tion of his promise to protect the peo- ple of the country from a widespread rallroad strike by means of federal legislation which will make the pub- lic itself a party to all railroad contro- versies. Thus far the attitude of the in a bad way. It may bear with com- plaisance the charge that it is no re- fined and that it prefers cabaret shows to dancing parties, but to in- dict it for gastronomic deterioration president has been viewed, more gen- crally than it should have been in a partisan spirit. Now that the elec- tion is over, and the possibility of Mr. Wilson ever belng a candidate again “Bluffem poses as a hustler, doesn’t that The Rev.—"‘Yes, he's engaged, for- tunately, to a girl who takes him to I'm He was always getting in more replied “I couldn’t speak for had.”— and somewhere below the sea begin at once to plan for the redemp- | for the presidency having been dia- posed of, it ought to be possible for thoughtful men to study the under- taking from the standpoint of its pos- sible soundness in political morals and cconomics. There has been nothing to prove that President Wilson was moved by politica]l motives in his handling of the threatened country-wide railroad strike. Oné will search the returns without result for the location of the great political strength which was to come to him as a result of his inter- vention. The labor vote was not de- iivered, and, since it had never been delivered, it is preposterous to charge that this time he thought he had roped it. The question now is, Is he right in undertaking to secure this country against the catastrophe of such a railroad strike as was threat- ened a few months ago, or should he ignore the dengers and let human nature take its course? If he is right, how can he proceed except in the way he is proceeding; namely, by urgixg upon the congress legislation which provides for a full investigation of every dispute between railroad managers and railroad employes be- fore a strike can be declared? There are other questions involved in his program of protective legislation, but the ome that concerns the public most is, whether the whole business of the country can be upset, imposing tre- mendous hardships upon every resi- dent of the country, because the man- agers and workers in our lines of transportation cannot agree between themselves upon matters of private interest. It would be much more agreeable if the government did not have to concern itself with such matters wat all, but human experience has proved and continues to prove that the free- dom of this country to live its own life in a law-ablding and profitable manner must be safeguarded, so far as lines of transportation are con- cerned, by the strong arm of the gov- ernment. It is not 8. power the gov- ernment has sought. It has been thrust upon thé government by cor- d:tions far beyond its control, and conditions that ¢éannot be restored to a simpler expréssion. Let’s reason about it without the fear of the bal- lot box filling our heads with ridicu- lous conjectures and baseless suspi- clons. One Paper to Another. (New London Day.) The Providence Journal is not in any American newsSpaper. It is the leading organ in the United States of the British government. It is edited v a British subject. It gets its inspiration from the British emX | bassy at Washington and its news from the British secret service. Its sole ambition is to involve Ameriga in the world war as the tool of Enfg- land. It has no interest in America, no interest in France, no interest In Belgium, in Servia, in Ttaly, in Rus- sta. Its interest is single and un. dividled—England. It is far more British than the higher class English newspapers. Tt has been feeding its | readers on bigotry and hatred and | malice toward anything and every- thing German, ever since the begin= ning of the war. sense an A Songbird’s Marriage. (From the Kennebec Journal.) With no guests the attendants, Olive Fremstad, grand opera star and | Swedish songbird, was married Satur- | day at her beautiful country home on | the shores of Highland lake, Bridg- T | ton, to Harry Brainerd, a New York musician, The simplicity of the whole affair was in keeping with the retired way in which Miss Fremstad has lived | since she first went to Bridgton some four years ago. The bride bulit a bungalow camp when she first dlscov- ered Bridgton, which ince has be- ceme a colony for si'giers and artists. This camp she on Friday gave to her secretary, Mary Watkins, as a token of five years' service, and Mr. and | Mrs. Brainera will spend their honey= moon in the beautiful $80,000 villa dn. which they were married. present to witness ceremony and no P