New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1917, Page 6

JLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. 5 y s’ h ted) at 4:18 p. m., jatiaing, o7 Church St. ) & Office at New Britain Cless Mail Mattor. to any part of the oity 8 a weel, 66c a month. for paper to be sent by mall, advance, 60 cents a month, jtable advertismg medium :n Circulation books and rress open to advertisers. jil be found on sale at Hot: 3nd St. and Brosd: York City; Board Walk, At- . wnd Hartford Depot. EPHONE CALLS. GREETINGS. New Year may there be hine and gladness for prs. May the news that fordea in these codumns Ind abroad be written so [no stab or hurt to the hose our friends. May s an absence of sor- air from the homes chronicler of worldly In the inevitable, if or desolation visited to the course of the next , may they be met by and minds reconciled to that the greater joys will never be crushed. the uncertainty of life ng the fitful fever may ) death at any moment, New Year will spare us ght live and see a bet- %mtherly love permeate hiverse, and ‘more par- § gommunity in which we filne, not shadow: health, . ‘wealth, not poverty; ifatiure; lite, and lots ‘of b the blessings the Herald § the inhabitants of New the New Year. And b fill’n‘rhlmr of even bet- oG disturber of the peace, a breaker of the law. We have done with him and hiw 11k, Oh, 1917, we who have .pald ad- mission to your show house, beg of you, implore yoq, to put on a bet- ter play than that produced by 1916. Give us action, If you will, and plenty of it; but let it be of the right sort. Set us an example worthy to follow. Teach us the better traits of human nature. We have seen enough of the seamy side of life. We have witnessed orphaned children crying for their parents; mothers left destitute; sweethearts forlorn; sisters made brotherless; wives deprived of their ‘husband we have had too much of these things. We do not want such characters. We tire of rag dolls. We cry for better clothed puppets. Get our your silk hat, 1917. Put on your full dress suit. Don your silk stockings and your patent leather pumps and go forth on the Rialto, swinging your cane, and whistling A song of cheer. We want hymns of 1916 sung aplenty. And now, young given vour tip; advice to be done with as you will. Spurn it like all young men before you or prove yourself wise enough to learn by the experiences of others. You have your choice. You can be good or bad, great or small, sublime or ridiculous, a success or a failure, just as you will. Your destiny is in your own keep- ing. Your character is in the making. If it is your desire to do the right thing all the powers of hell cannot divert you from your purpose. If you set out to do otherwise you may never redeem yourself. Your dying days will be shaped in no small meas- ure by your early actions. Habit is the constructor or the destroyer of character. It is true the environ- ment is against you, and environment plays a blg part in destiny; but you, 1917, with your pure soul and your clean heart, can rise above the sham- bles and pitfalls left before you by no more late. them fellow, we have your o miE YOUNGSTER. 5 our midat, 1917. And, ‘comes to write your /as the record of your been reviewed, may ‘leaner siate than 1916.] d: Year was a bad page f;((llh. At worst the jn be an improvement. t you can do, 1917. ) cannot bring more ne into the lives of leparted guest, 1916. . him & fond farewell the saying, Good rid- ompany. We salute igled emotlons of hope 7, trufting vou can of the harm done, leftiby the depart- to overcome. The one s us to believe that .prove a stepping d better things to #1918, 1 you do that - ‘way for a year 1y alliance with predecessor the ebtor. You have 1917. Your fu- tou We trust you € ot it 168 gone, never to re- bad actor. The . ‘“with blood and ‘as the result of his »‘curh.ln Wes Tung inone too soon. He made 6 made his entrance, in’ 'his hand. 1917, ) stags, ahould view the ith' horror, and resolve to _part. The world has ‘of tragedy. It demands .+ It wants lighter drama, .scenery. It would lis- ‘music from the orches- the clashing of oymbals, drums, and the blare | 1917, beware of what 04916, It you, at the end “would stalk under the | ateh to the accompani- and booing, then fol- le of the tragedian who osed the meason. If, on d, you would win the ~your great audience, cast 3¢ costuming of the villain ‘the gallant robes of the will you be able to exit have stood at the stage d the actors of Time 1916. then, knowing you have the sympathies of all péo- ples and the best wishes for success. 'We trust yours will be the happiest of all New Years. Go your way, WHEN? There is little hope of peace, or even a conference that might pave the way to such a state, in the reply of the Allied governments of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Portugal, Roumania, Russla and Serbia to the propasals of | the Central Powers. Germany is placed in a position of not being trusted by the Entente Powers who refer to the peace pro- posals as less of an offer of peace than a war maneuver. They hold jointly ta the belief that a nation which violated the neutrality of Belgium cannot be trusted in any case, espec- ially when that nation, as they point out, guaranteed the neutrality of Bel- glum and then *“had the assurance to proclaim that treaties were 'scraps of ' and that ‘necessity knows no The answer of the Allles is, in fact, nothing more nor less than what everyone, even thase holding the most sanguine hopes for an early peace, ex- pected. It would seem that Earl Curzon, a member of the English Council of War, has struck the key- note of the situation in his New Year's message to the famous Primrose Club:—*Signs of exhaustion . are visible in many quarters, peace Kkites are flown, but meanwhile the struggle goes on and neither side has obtained that decisive preponderance which points to conclusive results. It seems likely that well into another year, per- haps longer, must we continue this dreadful tragedy that is turning the world into hell and wrecking the brightest pramise nations. Our spirit cannot falter, since an {incon- clusive war or a patched-up peace means for us not only humiliation but destructian.”” A patched-up peace, an inconclusive war, striking phrases significant of the attitude of the allies of Great Britain. A peace brought about now through the chan- nels of diplomacy they would look upon as a patched-up peace. A war terminated at this junction when one side Is just getting ready to fight they would hold as an inconclusive war. So long as those belligerent nations of are that have to deal with Germany are | afraid of her written promises so long ‘have learned to reserve until the last. The play before we heap praise | p. The star must have won L before he secures his it is we feel no sense of casting scorn upon the 916. His good scenes were equent to off-set his bad. He Cromwell, not his God. Ayed for the favor of a one half so falthfully ht the emiles of earthly "would not have deserted old age. But he ! and matinees of blood- suffering. unhappy. 1o He was a gave | He made too' will there be a delay in negotiations. R 7 - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY i1, 1017, lands legitimate reparation, satisfac- tory guarantees and secure safeguards for the future.” In their own way of putting it, the allled nations say: “Fully conscious of the gravity of this moment, but equally conscious of its requirements, the Allled Governments, closely united to ane another and in perfect sympathy with their peoples, refuse to consider a proposal which is empty and insincere. Once again the Allies declare that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation for violated rights and liberties, the recognition of the prin- ciple of nationalities and of the free existence of small states; so long as they have not brought about a settle- ment calculated to end once and for all forces which have constituted a perpetual menace to the nations and to afford the only eftective guarantee for the future security of the world.” Thus do the Allied nations Mook on the dangers attendant upon Prussian militarism. If they hold to their tenets nothing will satisfy them but a complete crushing of the Teutonic forces or the disarmement of their enemlies. With this stand taken by the 'nations fighting the Central Powers there is little hope of an early peace what though optimists may look for better things in their reply to President Wilson’s note of inquiry of December 18, Germany is as proud today as she was a year ago. She will not give in to her enemies any more quickly than they will bow to her proposals. And so the matter rests. Will there be an end to the war in this year of the Lord, 1917? The prospect is not rosy. It was rather unkind of Prof. Rob- inson of Princeton .to say that Louis XI robbed the henroosts of the people of France. Aside from the fact the Professor might meet the same pun- ishment doled out to the Tacoma man sent to jail for libelling Georgc ‘Washington, there is danger of hurt- ing “Louie’s” name in New Orleans. They do not think much of a chicken thief in the South. A Happy New Year, many others. and many Off With the Old; On With the New. I'm tired of the old love so bring on the new Though new love may sorrow; I'm weary of such as the past held to view And 1 long for the kiss of tomorrow. carry more The Old Year has gone. on its way! Nor shall it return to torment me. I'm through with its wiles and its snares from today For the New Year content me. Let it speed is here to Then on with the new love and off with the old Away with the yesteryear doing And fill to the brim the new chalice of gold And pour out the dregs of old brewing. There’s never a heartache or tear to be shed O’er the visions that dreams bring to ponder; But there's ever a sigh for the hopes that are dead And are buried 'way back In the yonder. Then here’s to the new love, the young love, and true That carries no semblance of sorrow. I pledge it my troth o’er the bosam of you, My old love, and drink morrow. to the WY LADD. FACTS AND FANCIES. Germany would be invincible with a sense of humor.—Wall Street Jour- nal. “I take off my hat to Boston,” said Billy Sunday. Yes, and he passed it around.—New York Sun. The price of coal erstwhile went up, up, up and then, pursued by Uncle Sam came down down down again.—Manchester Union. The next thing in the Mexican sit- uation is likely to be a U-boat con- troversy on the Rio Grande.—Los Angeles Times. Fifteen deaths of football players last year ought to malie parents de- voutly thankful that the season does not run as long as that of baseball. —Rochester Democrat and Chonicle. Champlons of personal liberty must not be too hasty in judging as super- sentlve the magistrate who charged a complainant in his court with chew- |ing gum In a “threatening, abusive | and ‘insulting” manner. Some gum | chewing we have heard is more than disorderly conduct.—New York Even- | No conference will get under way while one side or the other harbors a Jirit of distrust. The Allles firmly | believe that Germany is now formu- | lating “a new series of crimes.” They | believe that while with one hand she | wrote the vague _and general | peace proposals that created such stir in world events, with the other she made ready for a resumption of ruthless submarine de- | portations of Belgians, and violations | of neutrality even greater than that of Belgian and Serbia. And so they { ehout with “We very a warfare, the one voice cannot ich de fected accept any terms of peace not assure to Belgium and all a | ing Sun. | | | Republican speakers in New | Hampshire in the 1916' campaisn | could give points to that Chicago diet | squad if the expense return of the | Milford republican town committee is to be believed: one of its items being | “meals for speakers (nine orators at | three rallies,) 70 cents.”—Concord ! Monitor. | The gentlemen in Washington who | believe they can gain mnew revenue | and decrease the cost of living at the same time by taxing food products in storage will think differently of the scheme when they recall the fact that nohody has vet discovered how a tax npon an article ean be kept off the Beice.—New York Wozld, Fixing Prices of Coal. ' (Springfield Republican.) Governor McCall's commission on the cost of living has stopped short of indorsing government ownership of the anthracite coal mines of the coun- ‘ try, but it might have gone that far without appearing very much more radical. In dealing with the subectj of federal legislation the commission must have known that for several| years the government has been trying to separate the railroads from the coal | mining business, but without much success, owing to the formation of| technically independent ‘“sales com- panies’” controlled by the owners of‘ the railroads and the mines. There! has been much litigation, but the en-! forcement of the law bearing on this ' point has thus far been obstructed by{ the lawyers, the caurts and constitu- tional rights. It seems superfluous, | therefore, for the McCall commission to recommend that the state legisla- ture memoralize congress for the separation of the railroads from the coal business hy federal statutes. | There are federal statutes enough al- Teady. i More advanced is the indorsement by the governor’s commission of the proposal of federal regulation of the prices at whigh hard coal may bo| sald by the mining companies or their agents. This appears to apr'y to the coal business the principle of govern- | ment rate fixing in the railroad busi- ness. The government may fix rail- road rates under the interstate com- merce clause of the conmstitution, but does the power to regulate interstate commerce apply to the. buying and selling of coal in the state of Penn- sylvania? Governor McCall's commis- sion has hit upon an interesting ex pedient for regulating the price of coal, if there be no doubt about the constitutional basis for price fixing of this character. By the time the government fixes coal prices, hawever, the companies that own the mines will recall the late David B. Hill's proposal of down- right government ownership of the anthracite flelds as a stAtesmanlike measure and they will desire to exer- cise the, privilege of selling out. In the meantime, the MoCall commis- sion’s suggestion about municipal coal yards here in Massachusetts deserves attention and especially the considera- ticn of the approaching constitutional convention. Music and Commercialism. (Philadelphia Ledger.) The man who originated the scheme for an American Bayreuth in North Carolina is now bringing suit against certain persons who, he al- leges, have been attempting to con- vert his artistic enterprise into a scheme for disposing of real estate in the vicinity of Mount Mitchell, on whose flanks the festival was to be held., Art often goes hungry, seeking for bread and getting a stone; but the true artist prefers to endure privation rather than give the money changers access to the temple. There have been many great singers and players who were keenly avaricious, and would give battle to the last cent for just as much as ‘could be squeezed out of an unhappy impresario. But most of the first rate musical virtuosi are not by nature mercenary. To call the roll of great musicians before the public—such as Melba, Paderewski and Kreisler (and the list might be indefinitely extended)—is to name many who are at present turning their huge earning power almost wholly to the relief of those whom war has impoverished. The North Carolina promoter in the present in- stance would not mind it so much, presumably, if the money to be made from his venture poured into the pockets of musicians. It takes money to run any scheme of opera, orches- tra or festival. But the minute the dollar mark comes in sight the muse is likely to take wing, bellieving her ideal shattered and the poetic atmos- phere polluted. Kultur and Common Sense. (A Letter to The Spectator.) I think the world does not grasp what the Germans mean by the Kul- tur of which they are so proud. It is not art of taste, but what we call “technical education,” or, if rightly understood, ‘‘common-sense.” There is no paradox In Horace's saying, “Rarus enim ferme sensus commis.” To translate it ‘“Common sense 1is rare” is totally to miss the philoso- pher’s meeting. “Sensus” in Latin does not mean mental acumen or any such thing, but “touch’ or test by the five senses. What Horace desired to teach is, “People rarely examine the things of common life,” but are con- tent with a superficlal estimate of their nature. This is just where we have blundered in this war, and the Germans have got the better of us. It has been the trend of German gen- jus (and, if I remember right, Southey credits them with it) to ex- | { amine things miscroscoplically, to as- ure themselves of their nature before using them. This is technical educa- ltion and the true common-sense, the absence of which has cost us so dearly. Justice for West Pointers. (New York Times.) The assignments to various mands in the regular army of second lieutenants were an.. nounced on Wednesday. Many ol these new officers enter the army di- rectly from civil life after passtng certain cxaminations. Some have hiid training in the militia. A few in Wednesday’s list were transferved from the Marine Corps. New ap- pointments are pending of men from | the Philippine Scouts and constallpu- lary, from the ranks of the regtfar | army and the Natinal Guard. Tt is likely that more than a thowsand new appointments w be made be- fore next suwmmer The commiysions of the men assigned this week will date from Nov. 30. com- 241 Pages' of Red Cell Story of Old City Washington, D, C.,, Jan. 1—When Roumania’s govd rnment fled from Bucharest to Jagsy, it was the fifth Furopean capitol to be removed from its regular seat jaind it makes one of a quartette still syway—that of France having been mowv ed back to Paris after the retreat of fhe Teutons from the Marne. In a bualletin issued today, the National Gdographic Soclety says to wihich the Roumanian government was moved when the Cen- tral powers fHhreatened Bucharest, lies in the extriame ecastern section of Northern Moldiuvia, just a few miles inside the bordjer from the Pruth, which forms the boundary between Russia and Ronmania. “Though haidly a fourth as large as Bucharest, /it has always prided it- selfi on havim been the capitol of ancient Moldarria, and has worn the airs,of a metmppolitan city, and kept apace of the fashions of Western Bu- rope in genenal and of Paris in par- ticular, as welll as Bucharest. “The populiation of Jassy is about 75,000, one-third of whom are Jews. Many of the |old-line boyar families, with lineages going back long centur- ies, retain thjeir homes in the oity, homes which (were the center of offi- cial life and gaiety until the princi- palities of Mloldavia and Wallachia united and th e capital was removed to Bucharest in 1861. These old homes are stately, for they were built by rich land-owners whose principal occupa- tion was that | of enjoying the luxuries that a retinu of retainers as long as a king’s list epuld earn for them. “Jassy has 'a rich ecclesiastical his- tory, and it religious buildings today RS SR circulating Vi#gorous protests against the obvious imjustice of this result of enlarging thie list of army officers. But the 1914 graduates of West Point are all first lleutenants and there is no reason Why the members of the class of 1917 should not be appointed directly to flat rank. The superior- ity of the training of the West Point man 'should not be ignored. He has, as a matter pf fact, four years of in- tensive training. Either by executive order, or a speclal law passed by congress, est © Point cadets should be commisgioned first lieutenants on their gradufition as long as the pres- ent draft offymen from civil life con- tinues, andthat may be for five years. Dining Out in Washington. Washingfton is our great national school of *dining out.” 'With all the developmetits of American civilization, “dining-ouff’ . has still—let us be honest—fair the greater part of the native-borfa a character at once semi- secred andl terrifying. The magazine advertisenmients give glimpses of our easier, mpre genuinely characteristic circles, where the arrival of guests is signalized, by the decanning 6f some beans andl the opening of a bottle of Ohio chayuopagne. And ladies may ar- rive in Wiashington with the concep- tion, so prevalent in the most popular books, antd plays that a butterfly of fashion ig mainly occupied with bridge parties apid afternoon teas. But at the capital they soon wake to the fact that even a “lpdies’ lunch,” however pret- tily the table and the salad may be decoratad, gets them nowhere; and that on§y formal, concerted, night feeding is socially valuable. In Weeshington, however, as every- where ¥n' America, man lags behind in all social activities, = The burden of ecating amnd overeating. always falls heavily on a comparatively small band of dinimg males. You take in the same ledy pretty often. Apropos of this, there is a story of a weary young Washingtonian who proposed mar- riage i this impassioned phrase: “You see, dear, if we are married they'll have {io stop putting us next each other (at dinner.” It #5 needless to insist upon the value, in such a. society, of aliens, who at out easily. Indeed, it can scarc(jly be wondered at if ‘second, third, and fourth secretaries of the embagsies come to believe that the servittes expected of them are wholly gastronomic. There was a prepos- teroris story at the time when Wash- ingtiin’s chief club burned that, in its very smoking ruins, voung diplomats were seen by the firemen hurriedly couwnting their bolled shirts to make surit that they could still dine out iso)p Rhodes in f,uzyb,s,b 2AfY212 fi every night that week!—Harrison Rhiodes in Harper's Magazine, Y True ational Guard Regiment. (New York World.) Americanism - of a.poor kind has rieeeived a stinging rebuke in Pitts- Hurgh, where the Eighteenth regi- /dqan border as the result of local ¢lamor, has unanimously refused to accept banquets or other public tes- timonials. The fact that this organ- from duty while it oould be of ser- vice and that it resented the methods by which its return was brought about is as filne an expression of Americanism as has lately been seen. In this case the assumption in Pittsburgh was that the regiment was homesick and in distress ;and that ac- | tion leading to its recall would be as | gratifying to the soldiers as it natural- { Iy would be. to their. relatives and | friends. A newspaper campaign was inaugurated. Public meetings . were held. A committee of leading citi- zens visited Washington. Now those who hoped to celebrate the organiza- tion’s resumption of private life find that the dinner is on the table but | that the guests of honor are absent. Since much of the criticism of the National Guard arises from such inci- rznuon had no desire to be withdrawn It is natural that there shoulld be some ann nce among the 'senior cadets at West Point about the po: bhility of these newly appointed men, most, if not all, of whom will Jie t to the officers’ schools at Forl. L enworth or Fort Monroe for ‘instruc- { tion, outranking them in the army | The friends of the cadets have been V- dents as this, the example | Pittsburgh regiment should be | morable. These men | ers. They are not gl on the terms presented | Their t | was good. and they would have re- | mained willingly, holidays or no hol- lidays, as long as they were needed— d to be home to them wient of the Pennsylvania National | Guard, ordered home from the Mexi- | | time by any democratic candidate for of the | me- | are not slack- | catment in the field, they say, | but | boss ] i as mean and the neighborhood kids and Black are in keeping with that. history. Just a8 the rich Mexican mine-owner made penance. for his sins and provided a | monument to perpetuate his memory by the single act of buildihg a fine church, so the rich Moldavian boyar | thought his career was not completed | until he had built a religious edifice of some kind. | “With the surrounding forested hills these structures give the kind of imposing picturesqueness familiar to | Americang in novels of the ‘‘Prisoner of Zenda” type. According to Rou- manian tradition, this region has staged wildly romantic incidents. | “One of the most peautiful churches of the temporary Roumanian capital, that of the Trel Erarcni, has exquisite lace-like carvings over the exterior in- cluding the towers, and was once gilded. During a Tartar occupation, wood was piled high around the build- ing and fired, in order that the gold might be melted and carried off. An earthquake did further damage to the church, but it was later restored. “This conflagration is but one of the vivid moments of the city's history. Her story abounds with pages of crimson and black when invaders with firebrand and sword swarmed upon her. The Tartars burpned the city in 15183, the Turks in 1538, the Russians in 1686. The Peace of Jassy in 1792 was the closing event of the second Russo-Turkish war. The years 1821 and 1822 were stormy with events of the Greek revolution. “During the peaceful time preced- ing the present struggte Jassy had de- veloped an active trade. Railroads communicated with Galatz, Kishinev and Czernowitz.” a time which they evidently believe has not yet expired. No matter what our militarists, may say, the weak spots ‘in the Na- tional Guard system are not so much in the Guard itself as in the people at home who constitute themselves its guardians and pamperers. ‘While that spirit prevails, how much bet- ter off shall we he with national regi- ments drawn from specific districts? The “Hose of Death.” The Allies are indebted to American inventive genius for a most deadly weapon. “The Hose of Dcath’” s,nd‘ “The Belgian Rattlesnake” are the descriptive titles bestowed by the men | in the trenches upon the Lewis ma- chine gun, the invention of Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis, »u retired United States Army officer. The Lewis machine gun, although by no means perfect—the machine gun as a weapon of war has not yet cut its wisdom teeth-—has many ad- vantages. It is light—weighs but 261 pounds and can be carried.by one | man alone easily, it can be quickly loaded in the dark, it is cooled by air and needs no water, it fires, with lightning-lke rapidity, from 200 to 800 shots a minute, and the recoil is 5o slight that it can be fired from the shoulders like and ordinary rifle. Its light weight makes it peculiarly adapted to use on alrplanes, and it was first machine gun fired from an air- plane—at College Park, Md., in 1912, when it “marked the beginning of a new era in warfare,” as the Army and Navy Register put it. The fol- lowing year a prominent banker of Antwerp chanced to witness a dem- onstration of the gun fired ‘from an airplane In Belglum and was so im- pressed with it that within forty- eight hours he had acquired the Euro- pean rights to make fit. Colonel Lewis offered the rights to the Ordnance Department of the United States Army free of charge a8 he had offered all his inventions gratis to his country) only to have it refused repeatedly and never given a thorough test, although such men as General Wood and General Fun- ston championed the gun strongl¥ Finally he became discouraged and asked to be retired from the service 50 that he might go abroad and find a market for his new invention—Regi- mald T. Townsend, in World’s Work. Ohio’s Vote. (Clevelanad Leader) During the recent, campaign if any one had asserted that the votes to be cast for Hughes in Ohio would ex- ceed the total vote in 1912 for Roose- velt and Taft combined and that Wil- son would nevertheless carry this state by 89,600 plurality he would have been rated a very silly specimen of political dreamer, not to be taken seriously for a moment. All through he struggle for Ohlo the hope of those who supported Hughes was that he would come very near to com- bining the Taft vote with the Roose- velt vote. Their fear was that he might fail to do so. ' Yet the fact is that Hughes re- ceived 6,778 more votes in Ohlo than were cast for Roosevelt and Taft tak- en together. In 1912 this state gave Taft 278,168 votes and Roosevelt 229,- 807. The total for both candidates was 507,975, That number ceeded Wilson's vote the same year by | 88,141. It was larger than the high- | est vote ever polled in Ohio up to that px- | president. And now it seems from the official returns that the vote for Hughes in Ohlo was 541,753. It was a gain of nearly 6,700 over the total for Taft | and Roosevelt combined, vet it was | not enough by 89,408 to carry the | state. In a year fllled with political surprises there were few so remark- | able as this. | No Optimism in His, (Louisville Courier-Journal.) “Is the world getting better ‘Maybe so as a general proposition, what good does it My just as grauchy, janitor just ' do me? my quite as pestiferous. | training, and another article New Britain’s Busy Big Store “Always Reliable” | Tuesda_y_l;i—oming, January 2nd, at 8:30 A. M. THE BIG SUIT SALE Your Choice of Any Tailor Made } mt in the Store for $15.98 VALUES UP TO $85.00. Every Suit in the store included in this sale. None beld in reserve, Don’t Fail to be on hand when the sale begins Tuesday Morning, at 8:30 o’clock. { OUR ANNUAL MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE Begins Tuesday McMILLAN’S Morning, Jan. 2nd - ¥ All Departments offer Values during Our Clearing Sale, 0. McMILLAN 199-201-303 MAIN STREET: Black Ruin's Awful Path. (New York World.) In this holiday, time of-cheer, when Unustal * : Wall Street is giving bonuses to clerks | who work overtime counting money taken from the lambs, and trades- men get such good prices that house- [ * wives find it hard to pay their bills, how sad is the duty of recounting the plight of the Wells Fargo Express company, ruined by parcel-post com- petition. Before socialistic upon an ignorant congress as to wreak havoe upon & benevolent mon- opoly, the Wells Fargo wus a paying propoesition. For fiftcen years it had steadily given its owners ten per cent. dividends when, in December, 1304 with no thought of the time of trial ahead, it “cut a melon” by increas- ing its stock from $8,000,000 to $24,- 000,000, on which the grateful public was expectel to provide prof- its, and by giving ench shareholder $300 per share in cash, $200 for new shares and $100 to spend. s s 2 How different the case now—-how different and how melancholy! TIn e seven years since the stock was in- creased, the company, aithough it has absorbed the businers of the defunct theories so won United States concern, has been able | to accumulate only $8,813,974 of un- divided profits, from which a special / dividend of 33.23 per cent., or $8,000.~ 000, has just been voted in’ addttion to a regular dividend of 8 ger cent. Think on the contras¢! A melon of only $33.33 a shars, Instead of $300, as in 1909; only $24,667,000 of fnvestment sccurities in the till; 1“‘ paltry miilion of undivided incon@® left for new aceretions, and no addi- {ion whatever to the stock upon wiich J future profits ara to-he figured! (4o a flash of lightning on the black ruin’a awful path is the New Year report ot this harried corperation. Heaven fend us all from harm in the dark days that are to come! se Dr. Eliot's Busy Life. (Kansas City Star.) / Ex-President Bliot of Haward' wrote & striking article for the Atlans; tic in the campaign urging the e clection of President \Vilson, just & striking an article fox the Warl Work advocating universal mili ¥, for -8 3 Cha/Red general educatton board on Fdu- Needed in Ameérican Secondary cation.” In the loeal option Boston he has been a member® ary committete, « Dr. Eliot vears old next March. Mos] half that age aren't as agli® open-minded and hospitablgis ideas. B f the $8 The Differency . (Philadelphin North Jmeri@k All the European ugions :Q‘xe restrict the consumptin o{homr law. Over here we jyit letthe D fixers do it. ;i;}:. e 4 The Wolf. Philadeipia Balletin.) st (¢ ‘! fteur)—Drive t wolf from th Jim, I'm @o 3 }_ ! - ¥ ) b ¥ 't i ft i,