New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1916, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, »fim &%fi Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING. GOMPANY. Proprietors, Issued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., st Herald Building, 67 Church St. Bntered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Deliversd by carrier to any part of the oity for 15 cents a week, 650 a month. Bwbsoriptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. 60 cents a month, 37.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medium the city: Circulation books and pre: room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling'’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Ate lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office Editorial Rooms se———————————————— NEW BRITAIN’S INDUSTRIES SA] Stories to the effect that one or more of the belligerent nations of Europe sent special commission- ers to this country in an effort to can- cel contracts for small arms and am- munition held by companies in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York, caused more than a ripple of excitement in financial circles yester- Any rumor of this kind will be received with some de- day. naturally sree of excitement by those who have DLeen, and are, speculating in the so- called “war-brides”. All such stories point end of the honeymoon. However such rumors may effect the people in other cities in Connecti- those who live and work in New The industries the cut, Britain have no fe: here are mot thriving on the munition In fact, con- husiness to any the impertant cerns here ‘have builded their business a more substantial basis. When ithe great war broke out in Europe there were those who felt aggrieved “t the heads of many concerns in this city because the factories did not iastall special machinery for grinding out small arms and ammunition. 'When such stories as that of yester- ay come to the fore, as they will o from now until peace is declared labroad, the men who manage the af- [fairs of big here realize heir complete vindication, know they acted wisely and well in refraining firom temptation. New Britain's /hen the last shot is fired on a Euro- can battlefied, when the war-brides ettle down to a more peaceful exist- fnce, when the shipments of muni- lons must cease, there will be no dis- rder or upheaval in this city. There prill then cutting ‘down of orces obtain in other ndustrial The work here ill go steadily on because the manu- actories put out things that are es- ential in time of peace as well as in great extent. manufacturing v concerns industries are safe. be no as will centers. imes of war. The percentage of war in New Britain is which there should frunitions made lnappreciable, pe great rejoicing. for NO FEAR FOR NEW CONGRESS. There are some who fear for the rogramme of progressive legislation nacted by the last Congress because he House of that il] assemble on March 4 of next year jnay be at the mercy of a Republican ajority. There should be no fear pn that score, judging by appened in the past. The short ses- ion of Congress that takes place in Representatives what has Pecember and which promises to go hrough until the new Congress as- embles, even without a Christmas re- ess, will make reasonably sure that he major part of some of the pro- osed legislation is put through with- ut a hitch. It is to the credit of the Republi- ans in the past Congress that they pined hands with the Democrats in sme of the best work done. There Fere many bills enacted that had the earty support of many members of ongress on the Republican side. ' American rights at sea have not been Y 1eturned to Congress it is to be ex- pected | that if any more dike q\ues- tions: cdgmeup on thé subnmfl £ sie the newly made Republican Con- gressmen will know what to do. P. Davis Oakey from this district is an example of how ward those who, stand in the way of progress. So there need be no fear of the Republicans blocking any legis- lation that will be for the good of The people this year are watching their Representatives in Congress closer than they ever did tefore. The past campaign, heated it was, has proven a good thing for the country. It started the peo- ple to think. It has gotten them in the habit of looking up the records. When orators flung caution to the wind and criticised the Banking and Currency Act the people brought | forth the fact that 48 Republicans voted for the very thing they con- demned. When there was an attack the Panama Ship-Subsidy Tolls Repeal, the people went to the rec- ords and saw where 24 Republicans voted for that. So it goes the line, almost ad. infinitum. 56 Republicans vofed for the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 105 Republicans voted for the Rural Credits Act, 7 Repub- isicans voted for the Ship-Purchase Act; 130 Republicans voted for the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and the Army and Navy Appropriation Bill received almost the entire sup- port of the Republicans. The wonderful election just over will be the guiding star for the new comers to Congress. They will guide themselves by the wishes of the peo- ple, or suffer defea: at the polls when they come up again for re-election. The people are coming into their own. In 1908 they clamored for a change. In the new born Progressive party they saw the principies that had been dreamed of for years. The Progres- sives went down to defeat, but John M. Parker admitted during the past campaign that more progressive leg- islation had been rassed by the Wil- son administration than by any other administration that the government. Nor is the work finished. With the co-operation of those Republicans who are big enough to step outside party lines when the g0od of the country demands action there will be even greater accom- plishments, and when there is noth- ing new to attain there will be trim- ming and polishing of the old so that in the end the legislation left by this administration may be a shining mark on the statute books of the na- tion. the people feel to- the country. as on on down ever controlled HOW THE PUBLIC PAYS. Some wonder is being expressed at the high cost of living and the causes which have brought about the present condition. Investigators have spent time and energy in a search for the real reason. It has been blamed di- rectly on the European war. We are paying war prices for our foodstuffs and other necessaries of life. Explan- ations are offered by the wholesale, yet in the main they are explanations that do not explain. Yesterday there was unearthed Chicago a broker who shed more light on the high cost of living, and the reason the cost is high, than any one of a hundred explanations set loose in the past six months. This man has in storage the sum total of 6,000,000 dozen eggs, which means, of course, 72,000,000 individual eggs. He has them behind locked doors and he refuses to let them out and on their way to satisfy the hungry until the price of eggs advances to a point where he will make a great profit. All these eggs were bought by him at a time when the price was low. In his —“I am going to sit tight climb up, and ‘What are you in own word; and watch the price the public can pay. going to do about it?” And the public can pay. The pub- lic must pay. It has no choice in the his is not forgotten. What was said nd done in the campaign was said nd done for pofitical expediency, a n easily forgiven when the affair is ver. The same men who were out rongest against the Wilson adminis- fation and who denounced its vari- s policies from one end of the land p the other were the same men who €lped the administration enact hito law those policies. There were ine Republicans in the House who joted for the Underwood tariff, the 0st denounced policy of all with he possible exception of the Adam- pn Eight-Hour Law which was frmed “‘a surrender” to the railroad n and which received the support 76 Republican members the Ouse. In the controversy with Ger- fany on the submarine issue when e President asked to bé upheld hen the question was raised in the buse on the McLemore resolution Republicans voted to sustain him. hat is not a bad record at all. And, view of the fact that the majority those 102 Republicans who voted favor of the abandonment of to of i v N matter. There is no law restraining this man from holding all the eggs he can gather in storage. The Feder: government can find no way to pr vent him from so doing because he does not violate interstate commerce laws, Inasmuch as when he sells he can and will sell to local dealers in | Chicago. They in turn will ship the | eggs throughout the country, and the public will pay,—in more ways than one. It did not take President Wilson long to pen a neat answer to the con- gratulatory message of the defeated Republican candidate. A volume could not have contained more sood will than thi: “I am sincerely sbliged to you for vour message of rongratulation. Allow me to assure vou of my good wishes for the years to come.” Good luck “in the vears to come’ means hé hopes Mr, Hughes will have 2 100 per cent. law practice and stick to it Undraped below *“Rubbered” Down town—at Waikiki— Matron and merry maid, With their short skirts X-rayed, Smiling and unafraid— FAOTS AND FANCIES: Even the sea of matrimony has its | submafi% Philadelphia Record. e ] ‘When Europe wa it was at war.—Philadelphia last heard from Ledger. After the shouting and the tumult died Tumulty was still-in the ring.— Galveston News “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs,” contains every letter in the English alphabet.—Berkshire Eagle. Miss Law is deserving of the fame | that has come to her. She has found | means of getting away from Chicago | at the rate of over 100 miles an hour. —New York Sun. Where is or what has become of Col. Harvey, who shouted that no one but the people wanted Mr. Hughes for president? It is the quiet season for the colonels.—New Haven Jour- nal-Courier. After all the invectives he has launched against pacifism and pac fists ,it seems a little incongurous to read that Col- Roosevelt planning a vacation in the Pacific Islands.— Springfield Union. of will Lithuanian joy the creation a new kingdom by the Kaiser probably equal the joy of Poles at the creation of a new Poland. And it won’t be scandalously hilarious.— Springfield Republican Signs multiply that conditions at | republican national headquarters, now located at Lakewood, N. J., are ameliorating, not to say loosening up. There is going to be a telegram of congratulation to the president—and it is coming soon.—New York World Honolulw’s “400”. (Honolulu is ever up-to-the-minute | in dress as in most other things. | Hawaii’s capital city wants what it} wants as soon as it is “the fashion.” A Honolulu wit, herself one of the | “400”, though not adopting the' ul- tra-short skirt, contributes the fol- iowing verses to the November issue of the “Paradise of the Pacific.”) “Half a leg, Half a leg Half a leg upward.” rdered Fashion, stern, To the Four Hundred— | “Twelve inches from the ground, Full skirts, six yards around.” They “fell” with awe profound, Fell the Four Hundred. So “Shorter be dresses made!” Was there a girl dismayed? Not though she knew 'twas sin, Not though knock-kneed and thin! | Theirs not to reason why, | Theirs not to pout and cry, [ Theirs but to flatter by, Thought the Four Hundred. Breezes to right of them, Breezes to left of them, Breezes in front of them, Wild havoc rendered. Stared at by every male, Pestered by parson's walil, Yet more at every sale Sought the Four Hundred. the knee, by every he, All the world wondered! Noble Four Hundred. ‘Where Was the Labor Vote? (Railway Age Gazette). The result of the election was long in doubt, but it now'seems certain that President Wilson has won. A auestion which naturally arises, on re- viewing the returns, is as to where the “labor vote” was on eletcion day. After the passage of the Adamson law | the heads of the railway labor broth- | erhoods lined up with the head of ! the American federation of labor in support of Mr. Wilson. It was as- sumed fhnt this meant that the “labor vote, aning by that, of course, the organ od labor vote, would be swung to Mr. Wilson. But It was the votes of agricultural communities in the west that elected Mr. Wilson. Almost all the states in which there is a large organized labor element was ¢ Mr. Hughes by large ma- S ever thus. The “la- bor vote” is always the cause of a Tot of noise and apprehension, but it never is an important factor on elec- tion day. Tn fact, experience indi- cates that organized lahor.is more of 2 liability than an asset in pol There are so many people who /’.i,s]"' its methods and suspect its motives that when it comes out in open sup- port of a candidate it is likely to drive riore votes from him than it will at- tract to him. The returns indicate that Mr: Wilson was elected in pite of the Adamson law and the organized labor vote, not in any degree because | ot them. How to Make and Preserve Cider. There is an article in the November Farm and Fireside in which a writer | says: “In addition to the jams, jellies etc., that are made up of overripe apples, a_superior grade of cider can | be made and put up and kept sw for an indefinite period. Of course the unfermented apple juice is that in | which no changes caused by the yeast plant have taken place. On all fruits the yeast plant is found very generally distributed and belongs to the same low order of plants as the yeast used in bread-making fruit juices, changing the juice into alcohol. In other words, fermenta- tion begins. One of the most portant features then in making sweet cider is to kill these organisms s0 as to prevent fermentation. “This can be done in two first, by the use of chemicals; second, b heat to destroy the The st-named method cannot be recom- mended, for then the liquid is adul- terated, is inferior in quality and un- fit for human consumption. The lat- ways: and, organism : Warm | which Wheeling, W. t | of stogies for It grows quickly in | im- } s the application of sufficient | ter named method is the one to fol- VIOWA" McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Big Store— “Always Reliable.” Smart Wearing Apparel for THANKSGIVING | ATTRACTIVE COAT VALUES SATURDAY FOR Plenty of women’s and misses’ coats of the newest styles ana fabrics, make your selection here. Values are note- ! worthy and deserve consideration. VELOUR PLUSH COATS Women's and misses’ sizes, $12.98 ea., value to $17.95. Roll Large patch pockets. collar. VELOUR AND MIXTURE COATS $14.98 each, values to $19.98. , WOOL SERGE DRESSES 1 Black and heavy, Women’s and misses’ | Saturday $6.98 ca. With taffeta silk cuffs. collars and Every Day Is Bargain Day at the Big Store’s 19th Anniversary.Sale AND SATURDAY THE BIGGEST BARGAIN DAY OF ALL WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD SPECIAL FREE SOUVENIRS SATURDAY The New Silver Ten Cent Pieces Havi: making THREE HUNDRED BATH ROBES. months ago. Take ad- | vantage of the savings. When you | consider what these robes would cost today at the mill, these are really re- markable values. (Buy now for Christ- mas.) Bought nine | i | Men’s Robes Women’s Robes . Children’'s Robes $2.98 to $4.98 ea. 2.98 t0 $4.98 ea. $1.49 to $2.98 ea. THE SMARTEST BLOU OF THE SEASON Are these new georgette crepe Blouses | f that go on sale Saturday. Priced $2.98, $3.98 $5.98 each. Hand embroidered, lace trimmed, beaded, hemstitched, tucked and but- ton trimmed Blouses in this Special | Sale. to LACE BLOUSES Silk Radium Lace Blouses. $4.98 each. Lace Shadow | Saturday $2.98 and Blouses, GLOVES FOR THANKSGIVING | able Cape Gloves $1.50 Women's W | and $1.75 pair. Imported Kid Gloves $1.50 to $2.00 pr. Men’s lined tan to and unlined suedes and mochas, pair. Gloves, capes, $1.15 $1.6: | Children’s Cape Gloves, ‘Washable Silk lined $1.15 pair. $1.25 pair. Wool Gloves /and Mittens, Leather Gloves fleece lined 25¢ to $1 pair. LKNITTED MUFFLERS Fibre Silks and silk and cotton weaves in a large variety for nien, wo- | men and children, 49c to $3.50 each. = | Openifig of Toyland, Saturday, Nov. 25 at the Big Store ENTIRE SIXTH FLOOR DEVOTED TO HARTFORD'S PREMIER XHIBIT OF TOYS, DOLLS AND PLAYTHINGS OF EVERY E DESCRIPTION. THE WAR has had no noticeable effect upon Our Greater Toy- land, so far as assortments are concerned for we have maintained our ‘round and our regular stock augmented by thousands of dollars worth of the BEST “MADE IN AMERICA” TOYS THAT MONEY CAN BUY to gladden the hearts ’ WISE, toy department the year of the youngsters. 'Phone orders Charter 3050, Mail Orders promptly filled. and has been HARTFORD SMITH & CO. ecured a large quantity of the New Treasury Issue of Silver Dimes we will include them in change Saturday at the Anniversary Sale-—The new design is very artistic and all patrons whose change amounts to ten cents or over will receive one of the new dimes. Just in Time for Thanksgiving Hartz Mountain Canaries Having received an importa- tion of these famous feathered songsters we place them on sale at basement Saturday at the in- vitingly low price of .$4.95. These Hartz Mountain Can- aries are all young, hardy male birds and good singers. Worth today $7.50 to $10.00 and steadi- ly increasing in value. On account of the scarcity of these imported Canarles we urge you to buy now as it may be im- possible to procure them at any price later. Our Restaurant is an ldeal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. OYR DAILY AUTOMOBILE DELIVERY INSURES PROMPT DELIVERY OF YOUR PDR(‘RASIL‘& Dally Delivery in New Britain, Elmwood, Newington, Cedar Hiii. Maple Hill and Clayton. Interestzng Scenes of Peasant Life in Galicia Washington, D. C. Nov. 24.—The report from Amsterdam that Austria- Hungary intends to grant to Galicia the right to manage its affairs inde- pendently, at the me time that Po- land is reconstituted an independent kingdom, gives timeliness and special interest to the following war geogra- phy bulletin issued by the National Gieographic soclety, in which peasant life in Galicla is strikingly described. The bulletin, which is based on a communication to the society William Joseph Showalter, say: “In many parts of Galicia the Po- lish peasant lives cred with straw; he breakfasts, dines and malkes his supper of porridge, washing it down with bad brandy and in general leads a life full of want and empty of pleasure. who farms for the nobles receive no money in payment, but only a share | of the crop. | fourth, 0. Mo 198-201-203 MAIN LLAN STREET. And is This Their Reward? (New York Sun.) In the dark cloud stogic Va., and and belt, of Mar- | Columbus, tin Bellaire Ohio, Ferry, are the bright spots, is it. there There the the present ploneer days of the Conestoga woe, and a reason for stogie is a link between and the wagons, and the makers in raising the price of “‘the only good smoke” exact tribute from a historic institution. When the Conestoga freighters bored along the old national pike man could have a grab at a barr a penny at any store on the way; the higger the hand the more ‘“the smokes.” Then the stogie | was a twist of long green Ohio leaf; in the degenerate days when the price rose to three for a nickel it was most- ly a thing of scraps. The rest of the world may not care how high the stogic soars Its chief mission seems to be to ow how good a smoke is anything else that will burn. But in the stogie belt hoosting the price is an outrage, an offence as grievous as making scraps of paper of the Declaration of lnd(v‘ pendence. Some one will have to explain. Central and southern Ohio will demand if that is the reward for carrying the state for the Dimmy- la- a 1| l crats, ir | “Plica Polonica’ | sult { women of pc- | layers or to find them | “The usual division, all over FEu- rope, ranges between a half and and even in Russian Poland it goes below the latter propor- The nobles’ estates are either outright by absentees or ar never tion. owned | controlled by them through full-value mortgages, and they have combined to force down the peasant-farmers’ share with the result that it now quently as low as one-twelfth, a wage of starvation which is 'argely sponsible for a disease known as contracted as the re- of *insufficient nourishment. The lot of the Polish peasant is al- ways hard, whether he lives in Ru Germany, or Austria. His food is simple. if not poor. His whole fam- ily must toil from the hour that the sun peeps over the eastern horizon to the hour when twilight falls into dusk. TIf he can say that his W works like a horse. he has hestowed the acme of praise upon her. Hard work, many cares, and much child- bearing combine to take all pride out of the wife’s heart and give to the nt Poland a haggard look even hefore the third decade of their lives is closed. “You may even see them working as section hands on many of the rail- roads, and they.are reputed to make good ones. It is not exceptional to see them carrying mortar for brick: painting or paper-hanging in the citles. “Every peasant wants his daughters married off as scon as they reach wo- manhood, and little hands are drawn |‘upon the lintel of the door to indi- cate to the world that there is marriageable daughter inside the house. And the wedding day smong the peasants is about the one bright spot in a girl's life. Where the chil- dren of the United States roll egrs on Easter Monday, those of Poland from | in a log hut cov- | The peasants | is fre- | pour water over one another spirit of fun. “Poland was a republic of owners, in which the serf did count. whose ancestors owned land, was a noble. He might match poverty for pboorness, he might not have a single sole between his feet, and the ground, he might have only a rusty old sword to tle to his girdle, and only a pieball blind horse to drive, and that a hired one, but he still was a noble if own- ership of land had ever set its ap- proving stamp upon him or his fam- ily. “With him the peasants were as but worms of the dust. The Russian noble is proud of his peasants, the German noble was proud of his, and the Austriag noble had nought but words of praise for his; but the Polish noble was not proud of his. “Nothing illustrates better how the Polish peasant felt toward the Polish noble than the insurrection of the Poles of Austria in 1846. That was a movement of the nobles. The gov- ernment did nothing to check the outburst, and it is said that the loy- alty of the peasants to the govern- ment, and their hatred of their arls- | tocratic brethren caused the uprising | to die aborning. “Whatever may be said about the relations between the Polish aristo- crat and the Polish peasant, howeve the hospitality of the former has al- ways been whole-hearted and sin- | cere. Tactfulness is as natural with ! the nobles as taking to the water is | natural with a duck. They like comg pany and love entertainment, and ars as fond of dancing as any other peo- ple in the world. It takes vigorous men to stand all the liquor that is provided by the Polish host. “Polish women are among the most | beautiful in the world. The perfect shape of their hands and feet is com- mentea upon by every visitor to the home of the Polish aristocracy. Wheu they visit the shoe stores of Vienna, it is averred that the shopkeerer ex- claims: ‘We know those are Polish feet’, and proceeds to go to cases that are not drawn on except when wo- men of this nationality come into his place of business.” in a land- not NEW YORK AND THE ELECTION. A Western Newspaper Makes Fun of the Big City. (From the Kansas City Times.) While New York was sleeping com- placently, after having passed a gos- sipy evening picking Mr. Hughes' cabinet, Ohio, California and the rest of the West were proceeding in a calm and constitutional manner to elect a president of the United Statea The man who owned ‘and, or | | the job was, , ident-elect. | secretaryship ! titled to | both by reason of its 45 electoral votes New York got up the next morning, and, while shaving, thought of several more suggestions to make to the pres- New York must have the of the treasury, of course. It must convey the intima- tion strongly to Mr. Hughes that the proffer of it elsewhere would be a decidedly unfriendly act to the state that had elected him. Also, it was en- the secretaryship of state, and because the only man in the Unit- ed States with sufficient ability for as everybody knows, a New Yorker. New York dusted its chin, tied its necktie, smiled at itself in the glass and went downtown to see what suck- ers had come in from the West with | a roll of money overnight. And down~ town it heard the astounding news. A state called Kansas, situated some- where between Lake Erie and the Pacific Ocean, had been carried by ‘Wilson. Another unknown common~ wealth called Minnehaha supposed to have been a province of Canada, but now ascertained to have 12 votes in_the electoral college, was very close. and might also go to Wilson. Cali- fornia, too, a roof garden built by New York at vast expense to play golf in the winter, was doing its ungrate- ful best to nulify the election-—doing it even after New York had flashed the news out there that New York had decided it. New York could hardly believe it, But now that New York has had its eyes opened to the advantages of ed- ucation, its, thirst for knowledge may lead it to take down the geography and history from the shelf and really apply itself. It will be surprised to learn the extent of the country out- side of its own borders, and that there are states so far west of Bufe falo that their people can walk about in the safe and bright sunlight hours after New York’s gunmen have begun to shoot up the all-night cafes. Value of Punctuality, (Pittsburgh Dispatch). Business and industry in this coun-" Try have been reduced to a system that compels the admiration of the world, vet 1t is doubtful if the great masses of the people have learned in a practical way the value that should Le placed on punctuality. True, em- ployers insist that their employes ba on time at their work but many of . these same employers will fail by half " an hour to keep an appointmeht, and undertake to offer excuses for their failure. A note at the bank compels promptness because of the conse- quences that may follow neglect to give it attention, but the loss to oth- ers by lack of punctuglity may be of serious character. The failure of so many people in being prompt in all tneir relations to others probably les in the fact that they magnify the lack of punctuality in others, and ¥ minimize it in themselves, thereby making way for a laxness that be- comes a harmful habit to all whomy 5 effects,