New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1916, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1916. b HOW FRANCE WiLL RECOVER POISE Will Apply War Spirit to Peace- ful Pursuits Paris, Dec. 29.—“How is Boing to pay the bill? By applying to productive the effort she has sus ned in war” in the opin- fon of M. Raoul Percf, former min- ister of commerce. In an inter With The ciated Press he also declared that the theory of recipro- city ought to be applied to the com- mercial relations between France and the United States after the war. M. Peret is now get in the Chamber of Deputies—a Post equivalent to that of chairman of the Ways and Means committee of the house of representatlves. Alexander Ribot, minister of fin- ance, has had the delicate task of hor- rowing the unprecedented sums that have been sw up by war. Raoul Peret who has not much more than half of M. Ribot’s 75 years, has before hiin the task of finding the wherewithal to liquidate the debt. “M. Ribot, by his prompt action in issuing short term bonds, rendered an in mable service to F . say! Peret. “He gav people a chance to ow con- fidence: tkey brought him so much ey that it was not until the 16th month of hostilities that he found it expedient to issue longer term bonds. Investments in ITrench bonds are never a gamble: yet, in a sense, the purchase of these securities was a wager on the result of the conflict and upon the ability of France to foot the bill. i'rencl nts, boring men, mechaniecs, capitalis men and women of all classes that money saved up—have been ring in that way a Dillion a for nearly two years that rance will triumph. Thirty-three and a half billion francs, all told, M. Ribot found in two years time in the pockets of our people. “France in a two years effort, ac- complished in militar; preparation what it took Germany 45 years to do. The same effort applied to industrial activity will do much in solving the grave financial problem the war will have left on our nds; but it is scarccly neces: to say that we shall need time estore our fin- ances. “It is difficult, and perhaps futile, to make estimates while the great ef- fort is going on, but, suppesing the war adds 70 billion francs'to our pres- ent national debt of 30 billions, we shall owe a hundred billion francs. rFance occupation ew their s to i\ Resinol will heal this rash 1 never worry if I have a little rash or other eruption break out—I just put on a bit of Resinol Ointment. That takes out the itching and burning #nstantly, and soon clears the trouble away. I learned of Resinol Ointment through our doctor prescribing it for my brother. ‘Tom had been almost frantic’ with ec- zema for months but that ointment healed his skin like magic. Resinol Ointment is sold by all druggists. QUALITY CORNER. Better than any Wall St. tip. Buy 'Varsity Fifty-Fives and 'Varsity Six Hun- dreds at clearance sale quotations. You are certain to make at least 20 to 25 per cent. on your investment and in one day without any risk—it’s a sure thing. STACKPOLE-MOORE- TRYON CO. Asylum St, At Trumbull HARTFORD. 115 | | | pporteur’” of the bud- | That involves an annual interest | stacle. Tt ALSATIONS ABANDON | place. five billion francs, a require serious reflection; yet it does not frighten the French people upo whom the charge is going to f: They bring their into the | treasury as freely today as they did | after the battle of the Marne when | we thought it might be over in less than o and they know exactly what they are doing. “France has great reasons for wish- ing to promote closer relations with the United States,” said M. Peret, in conclusion. “There are reasons of sentiment and policy besides business reasons. We shall want to see you use more of our products than be- | fore, and we shall need more from you. What is desirable, even neces- sary, to facilitate these growir changes is a commercial tariff Your orem tariff is the most kept our industries | \way from the San Francisco fair. | We are happy now that they went | there. and we have been glad to see vour industrial representatives here. | Tt is to he hoped that out of closer | intercourse may come a solution to | vour zreat benefit as well ours. It is the theory of reciprocal advan- ought to be applied.” sufficient to | | money ad tages that GERMAN LANGUAGE \ French Tongue, French Signs and | French Menus Al the Rage . With the French Dec. 29.—French has replaced Alsa- tian dialect and German as the lan- guage in that portion of Alsace re- stored to France as the result of| French military successes, the Asso- | ciated Press finds. So soon as the blue clad soldiers accupied the vil-| lages and towns German signs were | torn down from the fronts of the! stores and replaced by French. Fin-| gerposts along the roads were altered and directions at grade crossi hanged. of fare were written | instead of German. The of public offices were painted | nd new designation put in their | Prices also were transformed into francs and centimes from marks and Pfennig: Most of the municipal officials under German rule were of Prussian origin and fled with the German troops. The other male inhabitants—most of them very old or very voung, as all those of military age had been either | taken into the German army or had fled to France—-had never had ex- perience of local government and wero incapable of undertaking the public | utilties or caring for the health or anitary condition of the people. Tt was found necessary to appoint French iministrators and these were | chosen from among officers who had been wounded in the war or who had fallen sick during the campaign. n one locality a military mayvor was| nominated He wa iptain wh had lost his right arm in battle. For two vears he has carried out func- tions of his office and so successfully that the citizens governed by him declare they have never been more | wisely ruled. One of the first tasks undertaken was to set again in motion the educa- tional svstem which had been 'inter- rupted by the hostilities, Classes were formed for the children of both sexes and these were Pplaced in the charge of sisters of a religious order which devotes itself to education. There was some difficulty at first owing to the puplls knowing no other language than their local dialect. They showed such zeal, however, in acquiring French, that within a few weeks the teachers were able to carry on the lessons. When Prince Arthur of Connaught recently visited the classes he was amazed at the change brought about in so short a time. French qfficials and the people of Alsace themselves ascribe the readl- ness of the Alsatians to adopt French ideas and. educationto the fact that they have in part realized their dream of being rejoined to France. At any Tate, it is a patent fact that, although they are still within sound of the German' guns, everybody in the recon- duered territory at present speaks French. The children at their games on the streets use nothing but French ‘expressions. Workmen and work- women going to and from the fac- tories and while engaged there rarely —and then only in the case of elderly people who cannof change their life- long habits—utter a word in anything except French. In the cafes and hofels and in the stores French is everywhere used, while in the churches the sermons are now preached in French. AUCTION TO END LEGAL WRANGLING Army in Alsace, Restan rench over Mobb's Millions Which For Bighty Years Have Caused Heart-Burn- ings to Go Under Hammer. London, Dec. 29.—Legal wrang- ling which has been going on for eighty vears over “John Mobb's mil- lions” will be ended next spring with the sale at auction here of the im- mense properties which have caused 50 many heart-burnings, an Associat- ed Press correspondent learns. The auctioneer knows these prop- erties as the “London estates of Lord Arlington,” and their value is somewhere in the neighborhood of seven million dollars. They include factories and docks covering scores of acres on the Regent's Canal in London, together with more than 2,600 houses, rented for Vvarious terms of ycars to working-class ten- ante. Mobb’s millions have for nearly a century been a glittering bubble to hundreds of “rightful heirs” who have either turned up in quest of YOUR opportunity to test at our expense the best toilet soap made. 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ETHEART Toilet Soap absolutely free. NOdNOY LUVAHEI IME: ’ I hereby certify that I have mceived SWEETHEART SOAP Fredof ol et ke of Address “To the fth Dealer: Tear off the top end of the “S" in the diamond) s coupon (with box top at- tached) is redecmable retail price, providing above conditions have fully complied with, either vour jobber or direct. Any violation of the above con- ditions render this coupon VOID. THE NEW BRITAIN HERALD. Dec. 29, 1916. the carton (the part at all full of been| thru them or been turned up lawyer: in quest of the large fees. John Mobbs was a Northampton- shire coachman. In 1757 he married the daughter of his old master, a rich London distiller, and thus be- came the owner of a large agricul- tural estate in the then outskirts of London. But Mobbs' use of the land was restricted by certain ancient which the citizens of Lon- essed to practice “free arch- ery” over them, and there were stone “archer’s marks” dotted over the fields when Mobbs became their by owner. a tee, campaign help ward off defended their action with the state- Mobbs, improvidently however, granted leases over the greater part of the estate, and then mortgaged the whole thing to a merchant named Sturt. The greater part of the Mobbs meadows thus fell into the hands of the Sturts, the head of whom is now Lord Alington. Building began on the Mobbs meadows in 1823 and twenty ye: later they were all covered houses and factories, wharves coal yards, canal basins and timber sheds. The golden acres have ever since been so occupied. Hideous slums grew up there too, which the taxpayers had to buy up at high prices in order to replace them with | parks and healthier dwellings. As London increased In value the value of the property went up, and various descendants of John Mobbs went in- to the court, carried on lawsuits, seized empty houses, and otherwise endeavored to assert their alleged claims. Many of the original leases did not expire until 1870, and there was then & great reopening of the legal hostil- ities. The attempts to regain the property for the descendants of Monbs always failed, however, al-l though there seemed to be plenty of legal | leg empty houses, but the Sturts the end and the Mobbs meadows are now to be dispersed | eer’s hammer. | London, high cost have been destroyving litters of young pigs at birth, much to the dismay of government ment that the government was al- lowing export of meal to Holland which ought to be kept in this coun- try. The consequent increased price of feeding pigs, the farmers contended, made it impossible for them to make a profit on their pigs technicalities to justify their At one time professional pu- were employed to garrison the won in by the auction- | | OXFORD STUDENTS TO HELP. PIGS FOR ECONOMY. = - Dec. Rhodes Scholars to Spend Vacations of feeding In Relief Work. KILL 29.—Because of the uffs « farmers Oxford. Iing., Deec. erican Rhod scholars will leave Ox- ford this week to do relief work dur- ing the ensuing vacation in England, Belgium A large party Faucett, of Tennessee, 29.—Many Am- agricultural commit- been conducting a induce stockraisers to a pork famine. Farmers France under L. which ha, to and w. The Effects of Opiates. HAT INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various preparations, all of which are narcotic, is well known. Even in the smallest doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the func- tions and growth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, causing imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying owers are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet in their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and only then if unavoidable. : ; The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and other narcotics to children by any but a physician_cannot be too_ strongly decried, and the druggist should not be # party to it. Children who are il need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully with narcotics. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears the signature of Chas. H. 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