New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 8

i/ jnorrow the Britain ~ Herald. D musume COMPANY. nly profitable advertismg medlum Circulation books and rress flom always open to advertisers. fXerala wil be found on s fag’r News Stand, 43nd 8t. and Broad oy, New York City; Board Walk, At- | charge that Wall Street. profited by a atic Cit/, und Hartford Depot. proper out of the public exchequers of the principal nations. The waste of lives is nowhere taken into account. dally (Bunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m=.| The waste of money is seemingly more Herald Building, 67 Church St. jmpartant. Yet there is no approach at the Post Office at New Britaln | to a state of financial exhaustion. J# Second Class Mail Matter. When there is the Federal Reserve red by carrier to anv part of the city | Board may be expected to sound a 15 cents a week, 65c a month. ptions for paper to be sent by mail, | warning as the United States is one of fpvable in advance. 60 cents a month, the greatest creditor nations and must o be protected. RUNNING DOWN THE SCANDAL. If there is any truth at all in the leak in the state department and was glven advance information on the President’s recent note to the belliger- a campaign ents of Hurope it is high time that Congress got at the kernel of the health department | TUMOrs. The investigation which the direction of Dr. T. Eben |Started today may hit some big men; for | but if they were involved in the ne- r and better milk in the City of farious business of profiting by their { y For one month hyper- | Positions they should be hit, and hit ] examination of all milk dairies | 80 the blow will be felt. Histribute milk in this city will be ce and a score of inspectors will | mittee on Rules had positively refused bout supervising the supply. every pint of milk that is to investigate the prevailing charges for sale here will be brought | the House of Representatives very the sorutiny of the health de- | Properly took more drastic methods After Chairman Henry of the Com- In | to submit to his organization a plan hent and if it is not up to the|&nd ordered the investigation. The d set it will be rejected and | longer such a scandal was held back eyar brought within the juris- | the more. bitter . would grow the n of the courts. man, woman and } Britain should co-aperate with | to date. Now they want all the inside department in this latest | Information. The milk dealers them- | C®TrY the first story of the real inves- should welcome such a step. | ti8ation and therein are contained charges. The American people have in | been let know only a few rumors up ‘Teday’s news columns is the one beverage that is used | S0Ine names that are high in the , the young and the old. 1t 1s | Official circles of Washington. They bne of the liquids ‘that is easily [ 87 Dot to be judged until the final tmost delicaoy. ptible to disease germs. rm to the home its journey il be safeguarded all the way. be handled and treated with the utter falseness of the charges are Cleanliness to | Proven. The men whom the Ameri- degree should be its guardian | %R People place in positions of trust And the health department in- [ #F® not generally given to violating o see that this is so. The bulle- | the faith imposed in them. In this the department which will be | INStance an Investigation will probably tomorrow will describe the in- | PFovVe that there has been no malicious Whatever | Violation of good faith, even though s offered should be heeded by -Wall Street might inadvertently have people In the city so that health | Profited by the innocence of some men A campaign in detail. le to secure. From findings of the committee. The truth will out. 1t| It Were better for all concerned if high in the chancels of the nation. 15 & food that is either eaten | Secretary Lansing has already ad- en in liquid form by every per- fh the civilizea world. ffew portions of fldoes not aid or abett mitted that he is absolutely ignorant There are of the ways of Wall Street, and it is f food cooked that easily believed that men who devote the | their time and attention to the affairs So it behooves every house- of state dabble little, if at all, in the f§0 sece to it that the milk de- at the home is'of the purest It being impos- or every citizen to jaurney to iiry to inspect the milk, department has deoided to ben effort to see that no impure reaches consumerw. realms of flnance. However, the in- Vestigation will tell the whole story; and until then there should be no false Judgment on those who may the | °°Me Within the scope of the investi- a | sation. the| APproximately 10,390 acres of de- however, that milk does run the [ Puded lands within .the National et and arrive at the home carry- Forests were reforested In the fiscal oticeable fiith or dirt it is the | YO 1916. The total number of trees of those who receive an allot- [ PJanted was 6,146,637, while 8,280 to report at once to the health | Pounds of tree seed were sown. Also, nent. The proposed campalgn | there Were 138,442 more cattle and b will begin tomorrow is one of | horses, and 605,838 mare sheep and host important ever devised for | 08ts using Uncle Sam’s forests in ity and Dr. Reeks welcomes the 1916 than in 1915. This increase was rt of every citizen from the high- in spite of large eliminations of graz- Federal Reserve { This public of $808,000,000. bpriation . will or $378,000,000. year has appropriations of $313,- the lowliest. Clean milk is the | In& lands from the forests. It is ac- from now on. counted for by improved methods of handling the l't‘ock and by more inti- mate knowledge of the forage on the ranges and their carrying capacity. Board: at estimated the war lof the prinecipal belligerent na- at $49,456,000,000. s being added to at the rate of 00,000 a day and is said to be .one-sixth of the entire wealth these natiens; that is, one-sixth ir pational wealth. b mind of man can hardly grasp nificance of such a sum. Here country there is some jaction felt over ing of money on our army and Yet the sums appropriated by ess for these two arms of the | closed, but there seems to be a lot of last year is as nothing com- | Whispering going on behind it.— to what is lost in one week in For the current fiscal year pited States army has appropria- | Europe insists that it was forced into Next vear its|the war, each seems determined not $70,000,000 ‘The navy this There was a time, even within memory, when a dollar would go a long way; but that was before the automobtle and after Washington threw one iron man across the Potomac. FAOTS AND FANCIES. Of course men are not vain, but dis- | Just tell a man of fifty that he doesn’t elaborate look a day over thirty and watch the effect.—Paterson News. The door to peace may be almost Brooklyn Eagle. ‘While every belligerent nation of to be forced out of it.—Norwich Record. No Yale student had run away to be 00, and next year will have $379,- | married today up to the hour of go- po. Thus the appropriations for branches of year total the 000,000 which ing to press.—Newark News. this| A Mr. Hemmersley of New York of { has just dedicated a $65,000 barn with is spent in less |2 barn dance costing $12,000. He must keep a lot of hens!—Norwich Jour- & fortnight by the nations at war, | o7 ore the war in Burope began it the United States less than one- billion dollars to defray its ex- ing short skirts is not a crime and s every year. sum has n until now it is slightly more half a billion dollars. nsidered that the nations at war spent almost one hundred times ch money as it takes Uncle Sam | Chicago Herald. n his business for one year some may be gleaned of the enormity e entire waste abroad. which is set forth as Europe's| will advance money on enthusiasm.--- ebt is not the entire sum. There | New York Sun. accounting taken of the homes oyed. There is no mention made e great cathedrals lying in ruins, | the name of the birthplace of the the towns devastated. When the | “Prince of Peace” ral Reserve Bo#fd estimates the of Hurope as being approximate- 9,000,000,000 it means that this ‘When it And the A New York magistrate says wear- vet the Boston Globe declares that it is—occasionally.—Meriden Journal. That “scrap of paper” remark is coming back to Germany in the shape of the doubt with which the sincerity of her peace proposals is regarded.— Many disciples of the back to the land movements would like to know whether the federal farm loan board It is one of the ironies of history that the American city which bears uld have become the home of the nation’s greatest arm- ament factory!—New Haven Union. Harvard has a man who is mentally 1 sum has been spent on the war NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, perfect, but an expectant world 1is still awaiting the regular annual Venus de Milo returns from Welless- ley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr.—Boston Transcript. The Germans have decided the Somme battle in favor of themnselves. This is such an easy way of winning great victories that we wonder why they dom’t try the same method with Verdun.—New Haven Union. One worry is taken off the mind of the English farmer. Government will tell him what crops to plant, and he will plant them. As for rotation, it will fcllow rotation in governmeat, we may assume.—Breooklyn Bagle. There’s a distinction in flying, too, #o far as sex is concerned. Ruth Law, recelved $2,500 for her feat and Vie- tor Carlstrom recelved $10,000.— Bridgeport Post. One Russian authority says Russia is now about ready to get into the war in earnest, and Rumania, no doubt, feels that it is about time.— Meriden Journal. / ‘When a woman is in her garret, she imagines she hears a noise in the cellar. And when she is in the cellar, she thinks she hears something in the garret. Outside of being very pecul- ar, the average woman is a fine be- ing.—Meriden Journal. ‘We have always been led to belleve that the great German munition and steel plant at Essen, owned by the Krupps and the government, was the greatest thing of that sort in the world, but Mr. Schwab tells us that the ordnance plant at Bethlehem, Pa., is fifty per cent. larger than the Ger- men plant.—Bridgeport Standard. There Ain't No News. “Say, what's the news of the Nancy Ann. Tell me the news, if you can.” “We are just in from around Biscay, But there ain’t no news for you today. Our ship was blowed on the rocks by squalls. And the crew was et by cannibals. But there ain’t no news.’ “0O, mister, can your ship go some? ‘Was she built to go, or buflt to come?” ““The ship, me lad, is so full of speed That she goes so fast, the crew can't feed. When we left Biscay the other day We went so fast that we boiled the bay. But there ain’t no news.’ ““O, mister, have you seen any storms, And U-boats, serpents or fearsome forms?” No U-boats, lad, have we seen, by heck, Or else we'd beat 'em across by a neck, A lad’s aboard with a wild harpoon, And playin’ U-boats in his favorite tune. But there ain’t no news.” “O cap, is your wife aboard the ship? Did you bring your children on this trip?” “My wife's at home—where she ought to be— For women, y' know, don’t like the sea. Besides, me lad, 'tis a pleasure trip, And I've a flask in my starboard hip. But there ain’t no news.” —New York Herald. - INDEXED FROM THE TRIPOD. A New Haven Seer Adduces From the Pythagorean Code Some of 1917’s Oapers. (New York Sun.) Our readers, skilled as they are in all obscure and therefore interesting sciences, would take little stock in a prophet who confined himself to such self-evident predictions as ‘“‘the year will bring acule tension in our for- eign relations.” Acute tension is the normal condition ‘of our foreign rela- tions; no seer-is needed to tell us that under the auspices now presiding over them it is unlikely to be relaxed. Moreover, the business of propheoy with relation to forelgn affairs, wars, the misadventures of potentates, has been woefully overdone. The future of nations and fate of rulers are being worked out before our eyes. Hence in the “Prophecies of 1917 Adduced from the Pythagarean Code,” by Dr. Deimer Eugene Croft of New Haven, we turn with gratitude to other chap- ters. New England will remain prosper- ous. Mills and factories will be on full time: “A fine year for farmers. Deep snows in January and February index an excellent maple sugar season. “The season will be rather late. Little rainfall ts indexed for the year; farmers should sow and plant along the lawlands. Drought will affect the West and South. Crops should be put in early, as late summer will be hot and dry. Sudden, violent storms are indexed, with high winds. Heavy storms are shown for the last half of January, the third week in February and the first half of March. “Shipping and transportation will suffer. February, April and July are the dark months of the year, intense magnetic bands encircle the earth, agitations, strikes, riots, crime and epidemics likely to appear. The ides of March are dark for America.” As “labor unrest will be absorbed by high wages,” the strikes do not hold the menace theyv otherwise might. Moreover, there is to be an equitable distribution of wealth: “Prosperity that has been in heaps wili spread out into numerous chan- nels, Commodities and merchandise will be in demand\at high prices. The automobile industry will reap a har- vest. Cotton and wollen mills will find a broadening market. The cot- ton crop will be favored. The west will have a great yield of corn. An abundant. fruit season is indexed. There will be a boom in land, farms and general real estate.” Commedities and merchandise at high prices look discouraging to the ultimate consumer, but he has had the worst of it so long he should be oalloused by this time. ‘“The resilient ! and elastic temperament of America is unprecedented in the worl and wheh, Congress having paseed a great war budget for preparedness, the decldration of war by the nation comes, “to be recelved with the en- thusiasth of a holiday festivity,” “the swiftness and directness of our na- tional preparation and action will astound the nations, Young blood and new methods will predominate.” ‘These gratifying, if sabering, develop- ments will not serve to deprive us o! Dleasures: ‘“Health and Trecreation resorts ln this country will have a long and pros- perous season. Extended periods of intense heat will make mountain and seashore resorts popular. The great abundance of money will make the season gay with festivities. Yachting, polo, racing and baseball will have record breaking seasons, Sports and gsames lvorywhere will win abounding enthusi Rellg’lon il to be greatly quickened. Churches are to reorganize, uniting for & common purpose and carting aside old methods. The spiritual re- vival impends: ‘““War agitation and preparation will augment religious fervor. Creed bar- riers will disappear, unity, harmony, co-operation will abound, Human suffering will bring forth a deeper human sympathy. Religlous bodies will work in new directions, Educa- tlonal institutions will be greatly favored. A new national interest will develop in schools and colleges,” Art, education and training will take on a new relation to service and soclety.” Only a pretty and carping disposi- tlon could seek the credentials of a orystal gazer. Dr. Croft submits his without invitatton: “The author prophesied the world’s war in 1912, and since has had forty- elght important fulfilments of these prophecles. In his prophecies of 1916 was the death of the Emperor of Austria, the crisis of Greece, the continued revolution in Mexico, the activity of American troops, the epi- demic of infantile paralysis, thhe great crops of wheat and corn, the great advance of cotton and coal, the change in England’s Cabinet, the suc- cess of the armies of France and Italy, the international crisis of the United States and the great wave of pros- perity.” Alas! For 1918 our Pythagorean friend predicted that “‘the next Presi- dent’'s name will begin with ‘R’ and he will be elected by the greatest vote ever given a President.”” And yet we cherish the diviners! HOME RULE FOR PORTO RIOO. To Be Taken Up In the Senate—Pro- visions of the Bill. (Washington Letter to the Newark News). Four years of fervent importunity by the people of Porto Rico at last finds President Wilson in his annual address to congress recommending that the senate pass the ‘‘home-rule’” bill for that dependency the measure having been passed by the house in the last session, and now holding a place of vantage on the calendar of the senior chamber. And should this bill now be enact- ed into law, over 1,000,000 persons in the island, who now are not citi- zens of any nation on this green earth wil] become automatically American citizens, except such as may prefer to renounce such citizenship, who will be given the opportunity for so doing. Although transferred from Spain to the United States as the result of the Spanish war, the people of Porto Rico never have been made American citi- zens, nor have they been permitted to retain Spanish citizenships—polit- ically speaking, they are neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring. By another provision of the bill, an insular senate will take the place of the governor's council, and will be elected by the people, just as the house is now. To the great disgust of many Porto Ricans, the power of veto will be vested in the governor, who is appointed by the president of the United States, subject to con- firmation by the senate. Arthur Ya- ger of Kentucky is governor of the dependency, and it is understood he may continue in his place four years ‘more if he may become a candidate for governor of his home state. But while most of the chief offi- clals such as department heads, still will be appointed by the president or by the governor of Porto Rico, others will be chosen by the people, or by the governor by and with the con- sent of the insular senate. Also, in many other ways the people will bs given almost ag much ‘“home rule* as is enjoyed by the people of.the Philippines. Hope prevalls that the passing of this bill will discourage, if not en- tirely stifle, an “independence’” move- ment in the island, through which some of the leading men of the de- pendency seek freedom from Amer- ican control and the establishment of a republic like that of Santo Domin- go. The debate on the measure in the senate will be marked by a prohibi- tion fight, Senator Asle J. Gronna and severa] other *“drys” being deter- mined, if possible, to tack on an amendment imposing prohibition on the dependency. Although a pro- fessed prohibitionist of the. “first wa- ter,” Gov. Yager is greatly opposed to such an amendment on the argument that the island needs the revenue it receives from the liquor interests. On the other hand, the prohibitionists of the island have been using the ‘“‘eco- nomic” argument far more effectively than Gov. Yager and the “wets.” Fig- ures will be presented to the senate to prove that the bitter poverty of hundreds of thousands of the people is due to the fact that they spend vir- tually all their money for rum, and to show that they could spend only 10 per cent. of such mohey in taxes and vet provide more for the government than now comes from the liquor in- terests. As their trump card, however, the “wets” will urge that as this is a “home-rule” hill, the people them- selves should be permitted to vote on the question, as is done in the indi- vidual states of the Unlon. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 19 Carpets and Silks of Old 17. Came From Sivas, Asia Minor Washington, D. C., Jan. ¢.—If the Russians operating in Asia Minor continue to press their advantage and sweep westward fromy their present positions, Sives, capital of one of the most fertile vilayets of the Turkish empire and in the middle ages one of the three chief cities of Asia Minor, will be an objective figuring promin- ently in war news despatches. The National Geographic society, from {its headquarters in Washington, issues the following bulletin on this city today: “The importance of Sivas as a stra- tegic center in Asia Minor is based not merely on the fact that it controls important highways from Samsun and other points on the Black sea to such interior points as Kharput but also because it is the oapital of a region which produces most of the necessar- les of life. Wheat and barley yield bountiful crops; great forests of fir. beech and oak cover the plateau and the hills while the mountains are rich in copper, lead, iron, silver, coai, and a variety of other minerals. “The town, which has 2 population of more than 40,000, is situated on the Murdan Su, a small tributary of the Kizil Irmak, and is 130 miles in an airline due west of Erzingon, and 425 miles southeast of Constantinople. “That picturesque traveler and ro- mancer Marco Polo, whose accounts of the far west stimulated the popular | imagination of Europe in the last half | of the thirteenth century, relates that when he visited Sivas, or Savast as he called it, it was one of the three chief | cities in ‘Turcomania’. He describes the inhabitants of the country as ‘crude people with an uncouth lan- guage of their own; they dwell among the mountains and downs, where they find good pasture for their cattle and for their excellent horses known as Turquans.” In addition to their stock- raising, this traveler recorded that “they weave the finest and handsomest carpets in the world, and also a great quantity of fine and rich silks ; of cramolsy and other colors, and plen- ty of other stuffs’ Tody the Sivas citizes are more prosaically employed in making woolen socks and preparing ‘jerked beef'—their only important exports ‘aside from their agricnltural produots. “The ruins of the anclient oity, gen- erally called Sebastela, are on the banks of thé Kizil Irmak some six miles from the modern town. Under the Roman Bmperor Diocletian it became the capital of Armenia Minor, and under the Byzantine emperors it wes, next to Ceasarea, the largest city of Asia Minor. At the beginning of the 11th century, when Senekher- im, king of the Armenian province of Vasburagan was overawed by the menacing growth in power of the Se- luk chiefs of Persia he ceded his domains to the great Basil II at Con- stantinople and in exchange received the latter's protection and the office of viceroy of Sebastela and the con- tiguous territory. After the defeat of Romanus IV, a soldler who owed his ocoupancy of the imperial throne to the fact that he had fascinated his empress while being led to the exe- cution chamber for treason, the Sel- juks’ ‘power gradually increased and eventually they occupied Sebastela in 1172. It soon became the metropolis of their empire of Rum. More than three hundred years later the pege | of the city's history was seared with the sanguinary stain of that most ruthless of Mongol princes, Timur, or Hamerlane, he. whose genius in devising enquisite tortues for his vie- tims equalled his unquestioned mili- tary prowess. When he captured Se- basteia he put to the sword many of the soldiers; caused 1,000 children, ieach bearing a copy of the Koran, [to be trampled to death under the {hoofs of his war horses, and, as a | final debauch of slaughter, had 4,- 1000 of the Armenian defenders buried iallve in a plot of ground which to ! this day is called the ‘Black Earth. | " “Tne city never recovered its lead- ! ership among the commercial centers lof Asla Minor after this blow. “Mechithar, founder of the Mechi- thar Order ,which today has its head- quarters in a monastery, built by him on the Island of St. Lazzaro in Venice, was born in Sebasteia in 1676. Among the most important remains of the jold city are some remarkably beau- tiful examples of Seljuk architecture, the ruins of their ‘medresses’ or col- leges.” —_—_— Second Lieutenants. (Charleston News and Cofrier.) ‘We are glad to see that an organ- ized effort is being made to induce congress to come to the rescue of the West Paint cadets who will graduate this year. It has looked very much as if_these young men would be done a serious injustice; for unless they are protected by some action of con- gress in the near future they will be graduated under conditions which will leave them hardly a chance of reaching the higher positions in the | army. This situation has been brought about as a result of the large number of candidates who are qualifying under the Hay bill for appointment as Second Lieutenants in the regular army. It is announced that 447 of these candidates, drawn from the Philippine Scouts, the Philippine Con- | stabulary, the army, the Natlogal Guard, and civil life have already passed their exdminations success- fully. Probably a thousand candi- dates, it is stated, will receive ap- pointments as second lieutenants under the Hay bill in the present fiscal year. If all these commissions are is- sued, promotion will come so slowly to the West Point graduates of the | class of 1917 that most of them will reach the age of retirement while they are still Captains or Majors. To permit this would be an injus- tice to the West Pointers and .an in- justice to the army. The = military academy at West Point i8 maintained for the specific purpose of providing the army with trained officers. The young men who go to West Point do so with the expectation of making ser- vice in the army their career. The country, which goes to large expense in educating them, has a right to se- cure the full benefit of their training. The West Pointers are entitled to a fair opportunity for the exercise of the talents which they have specially developed. To let loose a flood of commissions immediately ahead of those they have worked so hard for would be to deprive them of the op- | portunities for service which they had | a reasonable right to look forward to when they entered the military acade- my. The case for the cadets is so clear and so strpng that we do not see how congress can fail to act. Shooting Fish in Guiana. Althopsh the Guians Indians all use gun# for hunting game, they still adhere to bows and arrows for killlng fish, and employ blow-guns and wourali (poisoned darts) for securing birds and small animals. The bows are usually of letter-wood, about five feet in length, and very powerful. | The arrows vary according to the pur- pose for which they are designed, but | all are long—from five to six feet— with shafts of arrow-cane and a shank of hardwood fitted at one end. This piece is tipped by a steel point or head which is fixed immovably if the arrow is for shooting birds or small fish; or, if used for Killing turtle and large fish, is equipped with a socketed head, attached to a long, strong cot- | ton line. When a large fish is struck, the shaft floats free from the socketed head, which acts as a toggle, and turns at right angles when a strain is ' put on the line. By means of this har- poon-like arrangement the flsh or turtle is hauled in. Neither fish nor turtle arrows are feathered, but those used in hunting birds are provided with two feathers which seem far to small to serve any useful purpose. With these simple weapons the In- dians creep along the rocky edges of the streams and eddies and with marvelous dxeterity shoot the fish which only their hawk-like eyes can discern deep beneath the surfce. Naked, save for a lap, or loin cloth, the hunter stands motionless as a statue, with drawn bow and poised arrow, and, if no fish are visible with- in range, he “calls them” by a peculiar beckoning motion of his hand and a low whistle. Whether or not the fish actually respond to this command I cannot say, but the Indians affirm that they do, and, when this method fails, the savages resort to attracting i the fish within range by throwing cer- tain pods and seeds into the water. A Hyatt Verrill in Harper's Magazine. Taking Land in China. (Boston Herald.) The seizure of lands on the shores of China bv European Powers for trading settlements and naval stations is an old practice that ought to have ceased long ago. It is wholly dis- creditable to .the invading nations. But it has not yvet been abandoned. and it js continued by more than the countries of crowned heads. How deplorable it i{s to see the French republic grabbing the property of the Chinese republic. Perhaps if France were not fully employed in fighting for her life in Furope she would have discountenanced the high-hand- ed proceedings of her representative at Tientsin. As it is he has taken forcible possesion of 850 acres as an addition to the French concession at that place. The area is small, but | the offence is great. It has so angered the Chinese government that the i mediation of the British minister at Pekin has been declined, and it has so aroused the Chinese people that they threaten boycott of French and their trade. The boycott in the hands of the Chinese is a formidable wespon. Japan once felt its force, and does not wish a repetition. M. Briand would do a service to.his country if he would find time to order the tact- less representative of France at Tien- tsin to take his hands off the land which the Chinese authorities did not wish to cede, apologize to them personally and for his government, and endeavor to enter into the friend- 1y negotiations with which he ought to have begun. What of the Great European nations would cast the first stone at Japan in Korea or Man- churia? SENTENC;; A BOYHOOD FRIEND But Al Made Jim’s Penalty Lighter on Second Thought. (Kansas City Star.) ‘When they went to school together ithey called each other Jim and Al But when they met in the Wyandotte icounty district court recently it was Judge A. J. Herrod and James Sex- ton, confessed bank forger. The judge looked down from the bench at the prisoner, who fumbled his hat and looked at the floor. Jim had admitted to Al that he had forged the name of Daniel Stumpf to eight checks he cashed at the Commercial National bank, Kansas side. “Ten vears on each count,” the |judge said. They turned to lead Jim away. Al looked up from his docket. ‘“Make ’em run con-currently,” he yadded. “Ten years is a long time, you know.” Some New Year Wishes. (Waterbury American.) The government talks of starting a paper mill. We wish we had one— and a little coal mine in the back vard, and a vegetable garden and a few hens, a cow, a sheep or two and a spinning wheel and§loom. Tt is this having to buy everjthing of some- body else that puts us at the mercy 1 of greed. [MeMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Big Store “Always Reliable’ Mid-Winter Clearance Sale® NOW GOING ON AT THE | BIG STORE ! Extraordinary Values Satur- day at our Ready-to-Wear Dept. Clearance of all Winter Coats that should interest every woman and child. WOMEN’S CLOTH COATS Also many Misses’ Coats in this lot. Saturday $9.98 ea® Values up to $20.00. CHILDREN’S COATS Sale Price $1.49 to $6.98 = each. DAINTY BLOUSES of Georgette Crepe an Crepe de Chine, in white and flesh, values up to $4. Sale price $2.98 each. RAINCOATS Marked Down ‘When you can buy hight grade Raincoats at these prices, why not invest a few dollars in a practical weather proofed garment that will be § of service to you every day in ¥ the year. / Sale Prices are $3.98, $4.98 $7.98 to $15.00 each. CHILDREN’S RAINCOATS with cap to match (complete Sale Price $1.98. Rain Capes, at $1.98 ea TWO HUNDRED UMBRELLAS that were to be here for the, holiday business just arrivedd this week, being tied up in; transit, therefore rather tham} to have us return them th manufacturer offered the en- tire lot to us at a price ¢ cession. The entire lot goma' sale Saturday. MEN’S AND WOMEN’S_ & UMBRELLAS “ Fast black, waterproofed | covers with exceptionallyd fine handles. Sale price 98¢, gi;&) $1.98, $2.25, $2 98 ta Colored Silk UMBRELLAS§ in this sale at $3.75, $4.75 and $4.98 each. ; WOMEN’S PURE LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS ° Lay in a supply when you §} can get them at these prices All Linens are advancing in the markets almost daily. For this sale—15c grade For this sale—19¢ grade : AL L s s e S S st SN For this sale—25¢ grade QUICK CLEARANCE PRICES on Stamped Goods i French Ivory, Brass Nov~: elties, Leather Goods, Jewel- ry, Shell Goods, etc. KNITTED SCARFS for Men and Boys Sale price 49¢, 69c, $1.25 to $2.98. Values up to $3.98; WOMEN’S FIBRE SILK KNITTED SCARFS /. Sale prices $1.25 to $2.98 Values up to $3.98. Colors Gold, Old Rose, Green and Copenhagen Blues: DRAPERY REMNANTS'" Values up to 45c yard. & LOT 1 ... fxsngs 10cy d LOT2 0 19¢ y: ODD LOT CURTAINS f ‘4‘ One, Two and Three Paif Lots. Some samples slightly soiled to be sold at less than | cost. ] Mid-Winter Clearance Sals Prices on y FLOOR COVERINGS Call at our 3rd Floor Drap ery and Rug Dept. just look around. It will be worth: your time. ‘ D. McMILLAN-