New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1917, Page 6

NEV BRITAIN DAILY, HERALD, WEDNESDAY or , JANUARY 16, 1017, itai ald Britain Herald. ’RALD E;UBLISH!NG +COMPANY. b Proprietors. datly (Sdnday excep Herals Building, 67 ) et 4:15 p. m., urch St. at the Post Office ‘at New Britain ond Class Mail Matter. red by carrier to anv part of the city 16 cents s week, 65c & month. riptions for paper to be sent by mail yeple in advance. 60 cents s month, F 00 a year. bnly profitable advartising medium in e city: Circulation books ,and rress om alwaye open to advertisers. larald wiii be found on' sale at Hota- e and, 12nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk, At- /. 4nd Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALKS. ss Office . Rooms .... THE CAMPAIGN IS ON. ery housewife in the city of New Bin should be oxtremely interest- j the campaign for better milk | has been instituted the R department under the direc-- :Dr. 1. Bben Reeks.. The pub- pn yesterday in the 8olumns of erald of a list of the dealers he quality of the milk they sell laused more than passing curios- ¥t is the intention of the health Mment to keep the public in- of the kind of milk sold in city so that there will be co- n between the department he consumers of this all import- by ct. der the law ‘no milk that con- ‘less than 3:26 per cent of fat sold in this state. The average contains slightly more than that intage of fat and somewhat less a full four per cent. In the list sterday some dealers are shown milk that contains almost five mt of fat stuffs. The health de- hent will make a full chemical Tactive examination, of samples milk sold in the clty. At its ry there will be conducted aminations of milk. And the ‘has been made that New Brit- fll enjoy clean milk if in order ipeople to do so the health de- et must drive one-half the lers out of business. should be no need of closing .dairies because of this cam- . Gn the contrary, every man s.milk should welcome this en by the health department. lens who offer good, whole- pilk have nothing to fear. Awhovhave been guilty of negli- will be rudely awakened, but an adjust themselves to the new iions. Clean milk is an essen- o good - health. There is no product of nature that figures tensively in the food of man- It not taken in the form of 1 is used in the preparation id: foodstuffs. It is the staple of infants and the constant pher of the aged. = There is & necessary or a luxury that B the table without having in contact with milk. There- 1s but right that milk should uiately clean. And that the pe the case, the public must as- health department m its cam- T After the milk has been left dealer at the homes the re- bility rests there, Before that takes place the health depart- will fix the responsibility. If Are Infringements of the rules, the guilty. | FOR THE RED OROSS. sident Wilson's appeal to the jican people for a refilling of the Oross Society’s relief fund find immediate response. The of this great organization is fa corporeal work of mercy. It Vthe hungry, clothes the naked, harbors the harborless. To do ith any degree of success it have funds. Th the past the e of this nation have ever been | to unloosen their purse strings. ropean war, true, has placed den upon them that is tremen-' Nevertheless the spirit of gen- ever prevalent in this coun- not shrunken ome iota. Tf ing it has grown by lea#s and as. is latest call. are those I re who feel that ca has been somewhat med by demands from FEurope, 18 from a war that is not of Hican ovigin and never will have iction of America. But not he forgotten that because to greater or lesser de- over- s war, America has prospered bevond eams of the imagination. Be- of this, then, we owe some debt urope, it.cannot be repaid better than through the Inels of the American Red Cross. organization knows no favorite. ats one and all of the belliger- of -Europe alike, having a special only In those cases where and way er nations have been oppressed overridden. by the larger. ere s terrible suffering going on bine "of the 'Furopean “countries, g that the mind of man can- ! Island is in sympathy with the ideas It will not fail to respond | it the ; not comprehend. The only. way to reallze the' awfulness of it all is to see it through the human eye. BEvgn Ahen the full significance of the pain and, _anguisii does:not' dawn upon the intellect. abont it from now until doomsday, preach- ers may preach, lecturers may tty to illustrate, the misery yand anguish; but, to no avail. The American Red ir agency knows; | makes every attempt the - This the one great method of applying the of ‘brotherly It the channel through American funds will reach their proper desigita- tion. It has the and the approval of the United States. SWriters may_write Cross knows, and, knowing, to alleviate any conditions. is balm love. which sanction of society the President of It should now re- ecive every possible help from the people of the greatest neutral nation on the face of the globe. IT MUST STOP. Thomas W. Lawson has created a His antics proven amusing if not edifying; but | withal he has made a she self. And the worst part has brought the National stir in Congress. have show of him- of it is he | House: of | light. The people throughout the country will Jose their exalted of the | House of Representatives if it allows | such tactics as these to continue. For the sake of saving fits Congressman Caldwell of introduced it unlawful any House order, writ, or | process, to misbehave during a | hearing hbefore any of the Con- gressional committees. The bill is leveled at Thomas W. Lawson and men of his type who seek self-advertisement by appearing be- fore committees of the National | House of Representatives. There have been instances of the same thing in the past, although the ILiawson methods were not carried extremes as the grand master of self- exploitation saw fit to go. There is but one other personage in the entire country who could stage a kindred performance and get away with, and that is Theodore, the First. The two of them put together make the finest vaudeville team the world ever saw. * But the chambers of Congress were not designed to stage theatricals. The business there i to | partake of a more When the dome of the capitol build- | ing can be changed over night into Congress into a very bad opinion reputation New York | bill for vesterday a which would make to disobe; anyone or to such would supposed nature. serfous a proscenium arch the time is coming : for a radlcal change in the method | of sending men to take care of the public’s . business and to make its | Instead of election booths the- | es- laws. atrical agencies would then be tablished. If more of *these scenes are enacted in Washington the House of Representatives will soon be the laughing stock of the nation, and the nation might eventually he placed in the same ligsht before thé world We must have no more of it. This Congress should see the last of such performances. When the new Con- gress assembles there must be stringent rules adopted so as to war- rant the death of a ridiculous prac- tice,—that of allowing self-advertisers to gain notoriety through the medium of the nation’s law making institution. WASTED ENERGY. Governor Beeckman of Rhode of Governor Holcomb which have to do with the elimination of certain state commissions. The two states "have a kindred complaint. There are too many commissions, too much lost energy, too much expense on the tax- payers. Two years ago on the recom- mendation of Governor Holcomb the duties of the Bullding and Loan Com- incorporated with Bank Commissioner, where they belong, under a single head. The doing away Wwith super- | fluous commissions means also putting | a stop ta the shifting of responsibility. In his recent message to the Legis- lature Governor Holecomh made further recommendations which would | aid materially in doing away with some of the deadwood in state govern- | ment. He then repeated his plea for | the abolishment of the offices of Com- misstoner of Domestic Animals, Dairy and Food Commissioner, State Orni- | thologist and State Board of Agricul- In place of this motley array of commissions and boards he would with - the one official head, a Commissioner of Agri- | culture. | There missioner were those of the | ture: | cover the entire field are other states in England group that would following the the New profit by plan recommended by Connecticut’'s governar. The taxpay- ers are burdened enoigh as It is. and in some cases there is no reason for | some of the commissions now existing, | In this state, for instance. there is a waste of energy existing in the Board of Examiners of Barbers. This hoard with its almost inactive sister, the Connecticut Board of Embalmers, could be very well, as the Governor suggests, be transferred to the keeping. | responsible for prevaillng high prices . donkey | age” of scientists who are said by an | investigator | the vanishing point. { the waters of Penobscot Bay. though | blocks that built the custom house in | buildings in many other cities. | dawned | of the State Board of Health, under | whose province all the$o” things should [*The come. Thomas W. Lawson amay soon find out what the Law in his name means. IZven the milk of human kindness sometimes needs inspection. TACTS AND FANCIES. Jf the law of supply and demand is | it ought to be repealed-—Toledo Rlade. | 3 . While it reduired five cardinals, ten bishops and forty-eight priests to bury Trancis Joseph it took only cne grave. —Erie Dispatch. i “The South is in the saddle,” and the saddle is on the little democratic -Memphis ~ Commercial-Ap- peal. The seer who prophesies that this country will be compelled to establish a provisional government In Mexico seems to he the kind of man who would bet on a sure thing.—Cleveland Leader. Public forums are being started in many places, and they confer the great blessing of giving evervone a chance to talk and no onc having to Jisten.—Taunton Gazette. A old observer is charged with say- ing that about the wisest person going is the one who desists from saying what the republican party will do in | 1920.—Milwaukee Sentinel. The “astonishingly large percent- to reject belief and immortality may have looked for evidences of both in the wrong places.—New York Evening Sun. in God Absolute prohibition? What the state cannot or will not do, what the people, apparently, do not want done, a federal amendment IS expected to do. There must be some magic in con- stitutional ~amendments. Evidently they amend human nature, unlimited. —New York Times. A Town That Dicd. (Boston Herald.) When the office of the secretary of state at Augusta had received the re- turns. from all the 525 Maine towns and cities, except Hurricane Isle, in Knox county, it waited as long as its official dignity seemed to warrant and then gently prodded the . delinquent town clerk. The answer was prompt: “As T am now the only voter here it did not seem worth while to hold an election.” Yet not long ago. as older people reckon the passing of time, Hurri- cane Tsle was a :town of some 800 persons and it had more than 200 voters to take part in ité elections. As recently the last census the popu- lation was 256 and Its voteps 89. The story of declining population is an unhappily familiar one along the Maine coast, but thus far Hurricane Isle is the only town to decline to The reason may be summed up in one word——concrete. For Hurricane Isle in its days of pros- perity was little more than a great granite quarry, standing well out in not so far out into the open sea as Isle au Haut or Matinicus or Crie- haven. From its great cliffs of gran- ite well paid workmen took out the New York, the post office in St. Louis and great public and commercial Then the age of concrete. Now Hurricane Tsle has more than 150 7y 7 - The Kindiy Spot. kindly spot, the griendly where every ofie i§ knyown, And no®a face’in all the place -but parfly seems my own; i There’s not a_ house or witdow, there's™nof a field or hill, = - ! cast or ivest, in foreign lands, | T'll recollect them still. 1 I leave my warm heart with you, tho’ my back I'm forced to turn— Adieu to Belashanny, and the wigd- ingbanks of Brie. .. town; But, The music of the w ror of the tide, When all the green-hill'd harbor s full ffom side to side, . I'rom Portnasun ‘to Bulliehawns, round the Abbey Bay, ¥rom rocky Inis Saimer to Coolnargit B sandhills gray; ‘While far from southern guard it ke a wall, Bii] Leitrim Mountains clothed in g blue gaze calmly over all, | And watch the ship sail up and down, the red flag at her stern;— Adieu to these, adlei to all the wind- ing banks of Srne. . . agerfall, the mir- and The Farewell to every white cascade from’l the Harbor to Belleek, And every pool where fins may rest, | and ivy-shaded creek: The sloping fields, the lofty where ash and holly grow, The one split vew-trce gazing on the curving flood below; The Lough that winds through islands under Turaw Mountain green; Castle Caldwell's stretching woods, with tranquil bays be- tween; And Breesie Hill. and many a pond among the heath and fern,— - 1 must say adieu—adieu to the winding banks of Erne! —WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. rocks, | And For And the Cat Came Back. (Zim Did you ever try to lose a cat? T mean a cat that vour wife didn't want hanging round the house and had or- dered you to carry off eight or ten miles and drop into the lap of nature. Maybe you think cats have no idea of the points of the compass. Well, vou're wrong, for they have the hu- man race cheated in their powers of orientation. .Last night I placea am unwelcome feline in a bag, bade it God-speed, and sent a boy on a bicyvcle with full instructions and a bill of lading as to his destination and thanked goodness that not one -cor- puscle of its blood had been shed in the commission of the This morning Grimalkin sat in his accus- tomed. corner on the porch, ready for, breakfast. 5 No, it was not was Grimalkin in the flesh. “Be-n't vou superstitious cats, mister? I be!" said the boy. *I let it out of the bag head first but I think T ought to've took it out tall fifst, so I'm going to try it again to- night and take it out ’tutherend to, Wl ride my hicycle home hind end foremost, so's to make the cat b'lieve he's running a back track and dis- cumfuddle him so’'s he won't know where he’s at!" in Cartoons Magazine). Grimalkin’s ghost. It about An Mlustrious Example, (New World). What was thought to be a danger- ous revolt in an Ohio national guard the members of which sent York regiment, a round-robin to a newspaper ask- ing for relief, is lightly dismissed by an officer of the army, who says that the bovs were only homesick. This is in line with precedent. The Amer- ! ican people once elected to the presi- dency a great sufferer from nostalgla whose name is Theodore Roosevelt, empty dwelling houses and only om: or two that are inhabited. and who got up the most celebrated | fatiguing hridle path. round-robin Of"fl] history. Kharput a Famous Gity ‘Before Rome Was Burned Washingten,«D, C., Jan. 5.—"Khar- put,. a flourishing city of ;30,000 in- habitartts, beautifully $itiated on a hill terrace a few miles south of the Murad Su, or Eastern Euphrates, and néar the head waters of the Tigris, seems destineds to play an important part in the Russian campaign in Asia Minor durfng the next few weeks,” ac- cording td today’s war geography bul- létins, issued from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo- " graphic society, line,* to [¢ “The strategic impogtance of the town is due to its.eituation on the reat highway artery running Sivas, another strategic clty on the same road, is some 150 miles north- west of Kharput, and Diarbekr is 60 mfles to the southeast. To the north- east lles Eserum, a distance of 140 miles and a seven days’ journey by a Mezere, the capital of the vilayet or province of which Kharput is the chief eity, is only three mijes to the south, Erzingan is 9 miles due north. Kharput 1is widely known to] Americans as the center af missjonary activities in Armenia. A college, a theological seminary and a boys' and | girle’ school are located here. This colony of Christians suffered terribly at the hands of Kurds some twenty vears ago when, after burning many of the populous Armenian- villages which dotted the fertile plain stretch- ing for to the south, the wild tribes- men succeeded in entering the town itself, putting to the sword Gregorian and Protestant Armenian clergymen and converts, and looting the monas- teries and missions. “The history of Kharput goes back to the cloudy obscurity of the years which marked the decay af the —_— Contemporary Religion. (Philadelphia Bulletin) One of the seeming paradoxes of the moment is revealed in the recent re- ports from authoritative sources rel- ative to religlous trends here and abroad. The United States, gifted as it is, and rich, apparently, in the en- dowments of a favoring destiny, 1s described here and there as manifest- ing some signs of a decline in religious faith. Europe, meanwhile, torn from the famillar state of mind, pain-rid- den .and denied the things and con- ditions which ordinarily might be concelved as signs of infinite favor, is experiencing a renaissance of the spirit, turning generally to renewed religious devotion and finding com- fort in the new attitude. It was, a Philadelphia college pro- fessor who recently published, his own confession of disbelef, some statistics to indicate a steady rise of agnosticism among scholars and fac- ulty men in American universities. H. G. Wells; on the other hand, who has been onc of the ablest and most sin- cere observers of the social reactions of the war in England and elsewhere, describes a sharply contrasting state of affairs in Britain, France and Italy. “The war,”” he writes in a current summary, “has produced a very great volume of religious thought and feeling. People habitually re- ligious have bheen stirred to new depths of sincerity and reality, and people are thinking of religion who never thought of religion before.” If peace, happiness and well heing, the temptation to high hopes and high endeavor, and the easy way to their realization are not purely accidental circumstances, if there is a destiny that guides nations : from | Samsun on the Black, Sea, to Diarbekr. | with | \ i | | primitive, | i i | | | ! material | | | i | i | | eral Sejedtid ' Empire, in which' period it wis jifown as Carathidcerta in the kingdom of Sophene, " founded by Zarjadris.. It Was one of the towns visited by the Roman general Corbulo | in the course of his famous campaign against Tiridates, who had been crowned ‘king of Armenia by his brother, to Parthian Vologaeses. Cor- bulo, after having forced Tiridates to lay his diadem at the feet of a statue of the Roman, emperor d towswear never to resume it urmtil he received it at the hands of the sovereign in Rome, was ordered home by.the jealous Nero. ‘When the herq, who was the idol of his soldiers and who might easily have attained the imperial crown itself, reached the port of Cornish he was met by messengers from Nero who commanded- him to .commit suicide. Without a moment's hesitation the intrepid general ‘oheyed the order, saying as he expired: have de- sefved it." #'Kharput was one of the citles cap- tured by the illustrious and powerful Seljuk prince Katkobad during his war against sixteen princes of Syria and Mesopotaia led by the Egvptian Malik-al-Kamil. K triumph was | short-lived. however, for two vears after the fall of this ‘cfty and the triumph of his arms he was paisoned | by his own. son, “During the first quarter of the twelfth century Kharput was the place of imprisonment of Baldwin TI, King of Jerusalem, who had fallen into the hands of the Amir Balak of Mar- din. The historian William of Tyre has preserved the fictitious legend that while trying to make his escape Bald- win was apprehended and that in punishment forethis he was cast from a nearby cliff and dashed to death on the rocks below. T and men, it would be logical to pect a reverse of the situatign. Mr. Wells is convinced that the European reaction toward religion is not alto- gether a transient phenomenon, or, in its general aspect, an impulsive movement for consolation in times of agony. Here in our own experience, it may be, are additional evidences to show that the spirit which escapes stress never really understands 6 the realities of exMtence or the profound- er needs of life itself. ex- The Influence of the “Tnubok™. (J. Finger in Cartoons Magazine). In Russia the humorous and satiri- ca] papers are read cnly by the edu- cated classes. Though such publica- tions as Boudilnik, Loukomorye and Novi Satirikon have been publishing countless war cartoons reflecting every phase and turn of the great struggle, these periodicals do not reach the illiterate people of the widely scattered villages. It {s the cartoon, of course, that reaches and influences the masses, and in order to reach the masses sev- of the Russian journals began publishing the cartoons in separate | sheets. hey were known as ‘“lu- boks” or posters, and while many of them were crude and even savage in | their execution, they carried their message directly to.the hearts of the peaple. Tons of these Iluboks have heen turned out. They have gone every- where, into the remotest communi- tles where books and newspapers are never known. One doesn’t need to know the alphabet in order to under- i the ;ths.tched roof of the stand a lubok. Tts meaning is clear and on the surface. And when you i 3 g L McMILLAN’S New Britain's Busy Big Store y “Always Reliable” Our Annual Mid-Winter Clearance Sale Now Going on In All Departments THURSDAY MORNING Jan. 11th, at 830 a. ms' OUR BIE COAT SALE Women’s and Misses’ £} COATS .' to be sold at & $2.98 ea Values up to $12.98 L/ . SALE BEGINS—Prompt at 8:30 a. m. Thursda; morning. SEE COATS displayed in our north window unti time of Sale THURSDA morning. D. McMILLAN. 199-301-203 MAIN STREET. consider that millions of these cheap, colored posters have flooded the high- 8 ways and byw: Russia, you ca; begin to tand their influence,'s They are the poor man's newspa- 4 per. To him they bring the news off war—important won, ¢ incidents the Galicia-Bukowina drive, the campaigns against thd Turk and the Bulgar. Under the dim light of lanterns, far away fro rallroads and telegraphs, under thd peasant’s hutg discussed cage victories of these luboks are and passed on. Au(omobil‘es and Their Owners HAave LisTen THOUGHT . \l AR pe — W Some IF HEARS THE FAINTEST im =) T MIGHT HAVE Been D PWHER Wil mAKe D oF A THa CAR 18 IN FINE SHAPE - "WHILE The OWNER OF THIS NOISY TRAP TAXES PARTICULAR PRIDE IN HIS "MACHINE" PuzzLE - MY - ME — To AN AWFUL Fuss SQUEAW A CAR — NEV AND DOESN'T MOTHER- ToLD TAKE — THe ONLY SATiS WAY . oF sel.sr:rm?cpay CAR 1S5 To ‘REPEAT TS ForMuLA 1M THe EENY MeEsNY MINA Mo FASHION Two Times s E)‘:‘éfic P;EVSQ OWNED ECT To OWN ow NWEM AN (=) £ —————e BY BRIGGS