New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 6

Bntam ‘Herald. RALD PuBt.lsr{mu COMPANY. { — ¢ dllly (Spnday exceptady at [ Herald Bullding, 67.Charch St d at the Post Office at New Britain Secomd Class Muil Mafter. red by catrier to anv Dart of the city r 15 cents a week, 65¢ a month. jptions for vaper to be sent by mail, yabia in advance. 60 cents a month, 0 a yea, bnly profitable advsrtistng medium :n ae city: Circulation books and Fress [hom always open to advertlsers. Piierald wiil be found on sale at Hota- g’r News Stand, 42nd and Broad- Noaw.York City; Board Walk, At~ 4nd Hartford Depot. Britain being off the main line e Néw ¥ork, New Haven and ord railroad cannot hope to Me any undue privileges from the Fal Express, the new fiver, which [Boon - conicet ' the North and by direct line, instead of the Htous route through' New York B But New Britain is extremely ed In any move that will in- he stopping of this train at ord. The Chamber of Commerce capital city is making a strong for .such a favor. The Hartford int in furthering the plea of the jber remarks that & “to secure rangement would be worth to many times as much as secur- he farm loan bank, -which had ure to go to Springfleld anyway, jhe value of which is still prob- dless of how problematical the of the farm loan bank is, or will 3 Federal Express should stop tford: on its way southward, and, | way back. There is enough .in and out of. Hartford to this, If there were not enough | betwieen Hartfard and the cities | the Federal Express will stop here might be some excuse for by the capital city. As it is, {is enough demand from New fo warrant the service of this "\ There is a steady traveling in and out of this city all the In~the past year this business own enormously. Traveling n and others are constantly between this city and points and West. As a time sayer ould welcome the journey -to rd to there meet with the ‘b1 Express. '% Herald then joins the Hartford 1 1n their appeal 'to' have the f Exprem stop at Hartford. ain can _insure. . goodly t of business to this new enter- and will gladly do so. There b some attempt made, of to improve the dinky service New. Britain and Hartford so fhose desiring to. catch the hl Express may make good con- Plas. And this would mean but a -.lt.era'.lon in the schedule as it nds. New Britain‘as a busi- ter ranks fifth in the state. efore -deserves some’ considera- the méw seheme of things and f§ent Elliott since he cannot help other way will do the right bdby ordering the Federal Express 'p e‘t Harttard, N WANTS BUT LITTLE. k&4 conservation 1s.a. problem that ‘resting all the governments en- | in" thé Buropean war. Food 1 ists have been appointed by pation to study the rations ap- ed to the soldiers in - the da and on the firing lines. Af- fjcareful study, one of these stu- dreports that it werp better for cerned. if the soldiers were less foodstuffs. As it is/ they po well fed for fighting pur- According to this opinion the would be better off if there ., re-adjustment of the rations the ijdea of reducing the meat Whatever saving thus ‘ef- could go toward feecing needv ns of whom there arc many. soldiers in the Italian army peen put under the microscopic the government economist. This is of the belief that the Italian is given too much to eat. In g this observation he draws a rison with the British and the h soldier, and shows where the " fighting man eats more meat he Itallan and the Frenchman {than the Englishman. Taking facts as his premise, he draws nelusion that the threec nations f¥ned are absolutely wasteful in leeding systems and that an in- nt study of their methods [l reveal loss of nut on ecven there is superabundance of & 1ffs. fons .in 3 i time.of peace ~seldom to the waste prevalent “houscholds. " Yet it is reason- Y assume thal there more ¥ in time of peace than in time ir. And, if the waste in wartime ‘great as to call for even more nt methods of conservation ire now in vogue what might not ne by those who are removed in do- is NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, “MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1917, trom the firing line? The rising prices | in foodstuffs have taught.the Ameri- can pegple a lesson. If meat is too expensive there must be less meat eaten. And' when ' this . abstemious practice Is put into working order it is readily seen that no il effects are manifested. As a nation, we can get along on less meat than we had pre- viously supposed.’ There are other foodstuffs that contain as much nuti- ment as, if not more than, meat. It is an old saying, and one that has been upheld by many physicians, that there is as much nourishment in one egg as there is in a pound of steak. Dietary standards differ, of course, in every country, in every clime. But those who make a study of dietetics claim that after the war there will be a readjustment of the food scale the world over. The experiments that are going on in Europe on such gigantic proportions will serve as a measure- ment for the rest of the nations. One of the radical changes may be a re- duction in the number of meals eaten | during the course of the working day. Where now in-most countrics people partake of collations day this number to two. Habit, else, has brought meal-a-day system. be reduced, may more than anything about the three- Those who have tried the simpler method, breakfast and dinner, claim to have henefitted thereby. Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. HEARSAY EVIDENCE. Seénator Owen of Oklahoma has heard of $25,000,000 that were used secretly to influence the Presidential clection before November. Further, someone has told the'Senator that one citizen of means gave the tldy little sum of $300,000 to a high public offi- cial in order 'that it might be used in the campaign. The Senator mere- ly hedrd these: things. If Senator Owen came into Connecticut he might hear how Fair- fleld county went wrong. He might hear that vast sums of money \were spent there to influence the election. He might hear that votes were bought by the wholesale. And he might hear not one falsehood in the whole story. But what he would fail to hear would be one word of substantial evidence. He would not hear who did the buy- ing and who the selling of these votes. He would not hear who ad- vanced the money or who received the donations. It 1s easy to hear things. Repre- sentative Wood of ITndiana heard that some Wall Street men made millions of dollars on the stock market be- cause there was a leak in the State Department. But Representative Wood did not hear who created the leak, nor from where the informa- tion came that caused such great winnings. What Senator Owen heard and what Representative Wood heard are but snatches of what anyone in the country, with ears to hear, might learn at any moment. We all know there is momney spent to iInfluence votes in every election, national and local; but we cannot just place our fingers on the men who spend the money. We have heard it is done,— merely that and nothing more. Brought on the witness stand and forced to swear under oath, the ma- jority of us would have nothing to tell. Hearsay ewvidence is not admit- ted in the best police court: circles. up The number of fires suppressed on National Forest lands during 'the calendar year 1915 was 6,324, as against 7,018 in 1914, an average an- nual number of 4,759 during the past five years. says Henry S. Graves, chief of the forest service, in' his annual report -just published. While more than the average number of fires occurred the timbered area burned over was but 155,416 acres, or 30 per cent less. than the average per year for the perfod 1911-1915 inclusive. Forty-four per cent. of the fires were confined to areas of less than one- quarter of an acre. “Why," sald a country clergyman to one of his flock, “do you always sleep in your pew when I am in the pulpit, while you are all attention to every stranger T invite?” ““Because, sir,”” was the reply, “when you preach I'm sure everything's all right; but I can't trust a stranger without keeping a sharp lookout.” One reason why P. Oakey Davis should be in the next House of Repre- sentatives: The sum of $243,000 has just been appropriated for free garden seeds, and the high cost of living de- mands that we have larger crops for the coming spring and summer, FACTS AND FANOIES, As we understand the alleged out- givings of Pancho Villa, his position is that he has won. the war and is now anxious to make peace on his own terms.-—Dallas News. A confirmed lefter-writer takes a column In an esteemed contemporary to tel why he has hecome a cilizen three times a | { somehow lacks jmpressiveness in view of Canada. Thousands of Americans do it every year without so much fuss. Tmmigration and emigration back and forth across the long border where no fort or flest menaces a neighbor is™no new thing.—New York ‘World. The price of catsup has gone up in Boston, but this ought to cause no real hardship. Discriminating Bostonians never eat catsup on their beans.—Providence Journal. he Hejaz, recognized by Great Britain, France and Italy as an inde- pendent kingdom, is the 13th all told <in the group opposed to the Central Powers. For which side is the fact an unlucky omen?—Springfield Re- publican. It was the 2,000 votes in Calitornia out of Wilson’'s more than half-mil- lion plurality that counted most. EfMi- ciency engineers should find sonie way' of eliminating the waste of popular pluralities.—Boston Transcript. Germany's formal assurance, as re- ported from Geneva, guaranteeing once more Switzerland's neutrality, of Belgium’s misplaced confidence and disastrous experiemce.—New York ‘World. % The efficiency of the British block- ade of Germany is shown by the figures of imports of oils, fats and copper into Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Hol- land. They are considerably less than the imports in 1911-13, less than the re-exports. That is, these neutrals are, getting much less of these mate- rlals than pre-war trade statements showed them to be using domestically; Germany cannot be drawing much contraband through the neighboring neutrals.—Toronto Mall and Empire, Do settlement women smoke? Some of them, probably. Do settlement men smoke? Some of - them, un. dqubtedly. What of it? This is com- ing to be more and more the land of equal opportunity. If votes for wom- en, why not cigarettes for women? Or cigars? Or pipes? But women will be governed in such matters by their inherent good taste. 'We incline to the belief that the settlement wom- en puffed much less smoke than has been puffed about their pufing.—New York Evening Sun. No Fear of Death. (Student in Arms, Londbn Spectator.) I am not a psychologist, and I have not seen many people: die in their beds; but it is established that very few people are afrald of & natural death when it comes to the test. A violent death such as death in battle is obviously a different m&tter 1t comes to a man when he is in the full poss n of his health and vigor, and when every physical instinct is vrging him .to self preservation. If a man feared death in such circum. stances one could mnot be .surprised, and vet in the present war hundreds of thousands of men have gone to meet practically certain ‘destruction without giving a sign af terror. Their emotions seem to be numbed. Noises, sights, and sensations which would ordinarily produce intense pity, sor- TOow, or dread have no effect on them at all, and vet never was their mind clearer, their sight, hearing, etc., more acute. But with the 1issue before them, with viectary or death or the progpect of eternity, thelr minds blankly refuse to come to grips. It is before an attack that a man is more liable to fear-—before his blood is hot, and while he still has leisure to think. 'The trouble may begin a day or two in advance, when he is first tald of the ‘attack which 18 likely to mean death to himself and so many of his chums. One indulges in regrets about the home one may never see again. One is rather sorry for one’s self; but self-pity is not wholly unpleasant. One feels mildly heroic, which is not wholly disagreeable either.- Very few men are afraid of death in the ab- stract. Very few men belleve in hell, ar are tortured by their consclences. But as the hour approaches when the attack is 4ue to be launched the strain becomes more tense. The men are probably cooped up in a very small space. Movement is restricted. Matches must not be struck. Volces must be hushed to a whisper. Shells bursting and machine guns ratting bring home the grim reality of the affair. It is then more than at any other time in an attack that a man has to “face the spectres of the mind,” and allay them if he can. The vast majority experiences more or less violent physical shrinking from the pain of death and wounds, especially when they are obliged to be phylsically inactive, and when they have nothing else to think about. This kind of dread is, in the case of a godd many men, intensified by dark- ness and suspense, and by the deafen- ing noise and shock that accompany the detonation of high explosives. But it cannot properly be called the fear of death, and it 18 a purely physical reaction which can be, and mnearly always is, controlled by the mind. Last of all there is the repul- sion and leathing for the whole busi- ness of war, with its bloody ruthless- ness, its flendish ingenulty. and its in- sensate cruelty, that comes to a man ~fter a battle, when the tortured and dismembered dead lie strewn about the erench, and the wounded groan from No-Man's-T.and. But neither is that the fear of death. Tt is a repul- sion which breeds hot anger more often than cold fear, reckless hatred of life mare often than abject clinging to it. But even where men are afraid it is generally not death that they fear. Their fear is a physical and instinctive shrinking from hurt, shock ‘and the unknown, when instinct obtains the mastery only through surprise, or through a man being excessively self- centered. It is not the fear of death rationally considered: but an irration- al physical instinct which all men nessess, but which almost all can con- trol. % McMILLAN’S New Britain's Busy Big Store “Always Reliable” Our Annual Mid-Winter Clearance Sale Now Going on in All Dc artmcats Big Sale of Knit Underwear 2,300 Garments Manufacturers’ Samples Go on Sale Tuesday Morning at 8:30 . In this sale you will find Separate | Garments and Union Suits for Men, Women and Children Heavy Weight Garments, medium Weights and Summer Weights, s0 there will surely be ‘something in Underwear here at a nig reduction to suit you. Sample Men’s Union Suits All Weights. * Sale Price 95c. Values to $1.50. Women’s Sample Union Suits Sale Price 29¢ to $1.50. to $2.00. A1l weights for every season of the vear, Children’s Sample Union Shits All Weights Sale Price 35c to 69c. Infants’ Sample *Vests afid Bands Sale Prices 16c 19¢, 25c, 35¢ each. Women’s Summer Vests All kinds some Extra, Extra . sizes Sale Prices 1244c, 19¢c, 25¢, 35¢ each. Samples Including Vests and Pants Shirts and Drawers for Boys and Girls, Men and Women, not all sizes, but remarkable values that .will go'| quickly at prices marked. TABLE DAMASKS At Spavial Sale Prices MERCERIZED TABLE DAMASK. 68-inch wide. Saleprice 50c yard. Values up 38-INCH DAMASKS Good quality Cotton Damask Price 29¢ yard, Sale 68-INCH MERCERIZFED DAMASK Sale Price 69c yard. PART LINEN DAMASKS Sale Price 89¢ yard. Regular $1.19 value. SPEUIAL SALE OF CENTER PIECES At Reduced Prices for This Sale D. McMILLAN 199-201-808 MAIN STRENT. Doom of Gasolene-Driven Motors. The more general adoption of auto- mobile transportation must inevitably affect the petroleum industry pro- foundly. As it is, the ingenious pro- duction methods which have made it possible for one out of every thirty- five of us to buy an automobile have brought us face to face with a very critical situation. e truth is, that the world’s supply of gasoline is rap- idly nearing exhaustion. Twenty years ago was well-night useless: kerosene was the profitable fraction distilled from petroleum. Now oil companies must send commercial missionaries to Chipa and India to teach the Orient the virtues of the kerosene-lamp. At the present rate of consumption the automobile demand for gasolenes oan hardly be supplied for another twenty vears. Is is abundantly evident that within the next decade a new fuel must be found for the automobile. Germany has demonstrated the possibility of driving motor-vehicles with benzole, a by-product obtained in the -manu- facture of coke. But since benzole is not produced in sufficiently large quantities, and since, moreover, it is required in the manufacture of explo- sives, dves and chemicals, it is not likely to take the place of gasolene. Kerosene must drive the automobile of tomorrow. Unfortunately, it does not vaporize so readily as gasolene/ Nor can it be efficiently utilized for road locomotion in ergines that now Our Inventory Sale Reductions Save You 33 1-3 Per Cent. or More on Women’s Fashionable FUR COATS WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD With near seal collar, cuffs and pockets, $130 Hamper Fur Oout, now . .. 8-4 length, with wide border around bottom, collar and cuffs ur sonl G, GG $95 Near Seal Uoats, 42-inch length, full sweep, now . lined with plain Skinner's satin. $120 Hudson Seal Coat, now .. 40 inches long, procaded satin. $115 Near Seal Coat now 46 mohel lons. Skinner satin lined. $150 Hudson Seal lined = with extra full, . $110 40 inches long, " lned with brocaded satin $169 Hudson Seal Coat, now $125 40 inches long, extra full sweep, brocaded lining. $325 Hudson Seal $ 1 59 Coat, now .... New and Stylish Satin Tnmmad Hats @ Sailors, A very choice array trimmed with and brown, . Novelty Flowers In gold and silver effects, fruit and nut effects, etc., 39C all colors ... Flolcr Wrtaths Big Seléction to choose from. all new styles, color effects . Millinery Department flowers, ribbon 48-inch length brocaded lin- ing, a wonderful value in a high- inches ‘lned long, with grade garment. $125 Black Ponly $79 41 inches long, collar and brocaded lining. $100 Marmot “Jap $75 " Mink” Coats, now .... full sweep, Skinner satin, $98 Marmot ‘‘Jap 40 inches long, with wide collar and cuffs of natural rac- coon, Skinner satin lined. Coats, now 43 inches long, full flared, Skinner matin lined. Extra full collar énd cuffs of Hudson seal, lined with plain 3300 Hudson Seal Coat, now . 42 inches long, with 8-inch extra large collar and cuffs of nat- Skin Coat, now ....... cuffs of Australian opossum, 48 very Mink”. Coats, now . ... $69 $100 Natural Muskrat $69 $100 Natural Muskrat Skinner. satin, horder around bottom, ural lynx. $189 French Seal Coat, now 44 inches long, extra full, with collar apd border around bot- tom, of dyed ranccoon, Skinner satin lined. $150 French Seal Coat, now BExtra. full sweep, large collar and ouffs and border around bottom, of dyed raccoon $150 Near Seal $1 1 5 Extra full sweep, large collar, cuffs and border around bottom, of dyed raccoon brocade satin lined, $200 Hudson Seal Coat, now Extra full sweep and bro- caded lining, collar and border around bottom of skunk. $239 Hudson Seal $l 75 Coat, now ... Very: fine matched skins, large collar of skunk, brocaded ning. $200 $800 Hudson Seal Coat, now .... 46 inches long, ‘double border ot skunk and collar and cuffs trimmed with skunk, brocaded Chin- Chins, Side- Values to $4.50 Rolls, Colonials of over two. hundred charming models that are sure to please you fancles, and novelties. The colors are black, All newly rose, green, burgundy, white Satin - Untrimmed Shapes Finest selection in Connecticut of Chin-Chins, Sailors, Turban and Side- roll shapes. Duchess satin. rose and burgundy Excellent HATS TRIMMED FREE | WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartford quality Black, brown, green $1.49 Second Floor consume gasolene. New feeding de- vices must be invented: a new, simple tvpe of carbureter must be devised; a new kind of engine must be created. All this automobile manufacturers have foreseen. For many months their research engineers have been at work. 'When the price of gasolene reaches sixty cents or more a gallon; the ‘kerosene automobile will appear. Since the crude ofl supply of the world is steadily dwindling, the in- vention of a satisfactory kerosene-en- gine must Inevitably prove but a makeshift which- will tide us over for a decade or two. What then? Either the alcohol-engine or the electric storage-battery will be intensively de- veloped for mechanical propulsion.— Waldemar Kaempffert im Harper's Magazine for January. Coming To Tts Own. (Taunton Dally Gazette). The spud, the lowly potato, is com- ing to its own. Wbhat with soaring prices for all foodstuffs, and' potatoes selling by the dozen instead of the peck, the humble tuber is taking its place with logan berries and alligator pears among the viande for the wealthy. All over the country “potato kings” are springing up, with high-power au- tomobiles in their farmyards and dia- monds in their crowns, “Deserted farms” in New England and the Northern states are becom- ing potato ranches; and soonm, if the prices keep up, these potato ranches will be landed estates of new-made nabobs. In Maine we read of stony wrecks of acres being tilled and the profitable tuber taking the place of the prolific weed. In Michigan, up around Grand Traverse bay, there’s a potato hoom almost as exciting as the occasional ofl and mining booms 'of localities farther west. In Colorado and Montana potato raising has become a science, ranch- men vying with each other in the production of great, long, evenly ghad- ed potatoes which they wrap in col- ored paper and sell in fancy pack- ages. If you can afford to look a potato in the eve these days you have to wear a respectful look. Nalure s Greetings to T hose § ' Who Learnto Love Her Best |4 (By Burlingham Schurr, Naturalist) It. was only a few days before the birth of 1917 that I stood in a wood- land a few miles out from the heart of New Britain. Before me on a bush ‘was the snow-fllled nest of a wood thrush, and on a twig just beneath it was a large cacoon of a poiyphemus moth. How lonely seemed the forest! The wind shrieked about the towering memorials of sleeping summer, as if In anger over the deéserted homes of those whose sweet songs it often wafted over hill and dale. No, the thrushes, warblers, scarlet tanagers, rose-breasted grosbeak, cat bird and some other feathered friends which I had often seen there during the'! warm months were missing. Al- though I could not enjoy their pres- ence, I cherished them in my mem- ory. The cold penetrated my clothing and I shivered a bit, but T could not go on, white had cast a spell over me. What a wonderful lesson that cacoon on the twig can furnish to man! Toward the “dawn of last autumn, an ugly worm-—a wrinkled. old cater- pillar worn with its struggle for e istence in life. made its way bush with much effort and then with for nature in her shroud of : i miracle of a birth—yet it is an ‘the Inexhaustible mysteries i garden of His beauty, up the | love nature? All its remaining strength spun about, its body a cacoon. Through the storms of winter sleeps the creature in self-made tomb and not until spring ! comes and kisses the land and sets! free the bonds of barrenness does the | dens, its | i | | with the cares and sins of the world and undergo a change for better and ¥ cleaner living? Is it possible for the sunshine of hope to gleam into a cold ,bitter barren winter-like moda of llving and regenerate it into a life of spring-like beauty and warmt Can it be accomplished in the Ni Year? The wonderwork in nature is so profound that it has caused man from the beginning of time to marvel. To= day we have the same in nature—the rame lessons which she taught ages ago. Who has ever yet explained the | oc- ourrence of every day. Who can fa- § thom the recurrence of the seasons and the infallibilityv of seedtime and harvest? An acorn today, an osk tomorrow-—what is the force behind it all? Who painis the flowers in such wondrous hues? How buds the cherry tree in a single night? To go back a little way on the patch of fundamental things to interpret | of the § God has set in this is the object . fairyland that of a naturalist. A naturalist is a student of nature & a lover of nature. Who does not Who, then, is not a ° naturalist? 3 5 The greatest of all the naturalists ——the greatest of all the teachers as portrayed in the Book of Books, would have us know that foxes have | birds’ nests—that we should once homely worm burst forth into ! “consider the lilies of the fleld”—or, a new and beautiful form of life. Though chilled ,my eyes closed and T fancied T sat in the quietude of a listening to the music of the water | | summer's eve beside a babbling brook | been an example to in=pire man in a word, gather lessons from na- ture. The wonderwork in has to more lofty thoughts and deeds from nature as it played upon its rocky bed. and | the \creation of the world, and who, beholding the .glitter colors in the wings sporting in the rays of the golden sun above the daises in a ficld. How wonderful this transformation from ugly worms into creatures of heaven- 1y beauty! of of iridescent butterflies | a | in the present davs can not recelve lesson? Surely, nature can and will give an inspiration to everyone. Listen to her calling through the | noise of the wind. The wind may & howl. but if you understand the volces vou will know it to be a wish to you Can man be scarred and wrinkled | for a Happy New Year.