New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1917, Page 3

Boston Store .OUR GREA - JANUARY SALE “FULL SWING The Opening Day Record-breaker. The remaining days should be | full of enthusiastic buying, as a dollar saved is as good as a dollar earned in these times of high prices. PULLAR - & NIVEN "GERMAN CONSUL IS SENT T0 PRISON ~ Klso Given Jail Term and Fine -~ of $10,000 ~ San Francisco, Jan. 23.—Far the v‘flrst time in the history of the United ‘States a foreign consul-general, Franz Bopp, one of three consuls-general of Germany in this country, was sentenc- ed yesterday to prison and payment of a fine for violation of American neu- trality. Judge William H. Hunt in the United Stateg district court sentenced Bopp to two years in the county jail and assessed an aggregate fine of $10,- “000 against him, the prison and jail terms to run concurrently. ’ Three of Bopp's aids, Vice-Consul E. H. von Schack, Lieut, George Wil- » helm von Brincken and C. C. Crowley, a one time secret agent, received like sentences. Mrs, Margaret W. Cornell, Crowley's secretary, was given concur- rent prison and jail sentences of one a.Vear and one day and of one year without fines. Bopp and the four others were con- wicted by a federal jury on January 11 of conspiring to violate American neutrality by setting afoot a military enterprise against Canada in aild of Germany and ‘of conspiring to violate ~‘the Sherman law by dynamiting muni- tions ships in interstate commerce. The first is a felony, for which all except Mrs. Cornell received the max- {mum prison sentence. The second is a misdemeanor, ahd the defendants except Mrs, Cornell received the maxi- mum sentence. Mrs. Cornell escaped the $5,000 fine. Judge Hunt gave the defense thirty days to perfect an ap- peal to the United States circuit court < of appeals and he'fixed bail for Bopp and von Schack at $10,000, The defense, it is said, will center their appeal on the military enterprise conspiracy conviction, setting up that Crowley’s alleged plans to dynamite munition ships and trains in Canada did not constitute a ‘“military enter- .. prise” p LOCKER CLUBS GRIEVE Governor Rice of Tennessce Signs Bily Prohibiting Lodges From Disposing '* ot Liquor. Nashville, Jan. 23.—Governor Rice has signed three anti-liquor bills re- cently passed by the legislature. The measures which become effective im- mediately are: To prohibit clubs, lodges or asso- ciations from keeping or in any way disposing of liquors; to make a sec- ond conviction for bootlegging a fel- ony and to make it unlawful for any firm or corporation to keep in stock or store liquor intended for present or future sale as a beverage. The bLill prohibiting the storing or dlsposition of liquor by clubs or lodges is known as the ‘‘locker club act” and is almed at the many locker clubs which sprang up following a re- cent rules of the state supreme court * that they were not in violation of the four mile law. Was a| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1917, ' ROOSEVELT BITTER IN DENUNCIATION Declares Wilson’s Speech Is Off- set by Stand of Belgium Oyster Bay, N. Y., Jan. 23.—Label- ing President Wilson’s address as “a grandiloquent promise made in an at- tempt to conceal the pitiful ignominy ! and shirking of the present adminis- tration,” Theodore Roosevelt night took issue with the peace argu- ment voiced before the senate. The colonel bitterly announced that ' until an emphatic stand was taken by the American government on the Bel- | gian deportations any statement about righteousness—the | our “stand for nebulous future is both ridiculous and iusincere.” He said. that unless the words of our govern- ment in this matter are to be accept- ed as the idlest and most empty of all idle and empty words, we must re- member two or three plain bits of homely fact. “The first is, that it is worthless t¢ make promises about the future unless in the present we keep these we have already made. Unless this government is prepared at this mo- | ment to take an emphatic position as regards such a hideous outrage as the deportation of the men and women of northern France and Belgium, it is both ridiculous and insincere for wus toe mouth about standing for right- eousness in the nebulous future. “Moreover, unless this government can bring the peace of justice to Mex- ico, it had better not talk about se- curing the peace of justice through- ‘out the world. . “As regards freedom of the seas, the most impartant element in it fis freedom from murder, and until this government has taken an effective stand to prevent the urder of its citi- zens by submarines on the high seas it makes itself an object of derision by speaking for the freedom of the seas. Interfering with life is worse than interfering with property. Belgium and Bunker Hill, “As for the statement there can be no real peace with victory, so far as Belgium is concerned, the statement stands on a par with a similar state- ment, had there been such, after Bunker Hill and Lexington, that there could be no real peace if victory came to the forces of General Washington. If the men of Bunker Hill were right, then the Belgians have been right, and to say that the victory of the op- pressed pegple struggling for free- dom is incompatible with peace de- serves no more consideration in one case than in the other, If President, Wilson’s statement had been made by the Emperor Napo- leon III, or by Lord John Russell in 1864, I doubt if it would have won any very enthusiastic support frém Abraham Lincoln, although it would have been applauded by the pacifists. “As for the limiting of armies, we Wwill do well to remember, before we ask powerful nations to limit their armies, that so long as we keep our- selves nearly on a level of military strength with China our words will not carry much weight. If this nation would adopt the principle ow univer- sal military training and military ser- vice it would secure an army which would adopt the principle of univer- for offense, but would be very effect- “If our foreign policy was conduct- ed as it was when our battle fleet was making its trip around the world, in 1908, our voice would now be and would have been potent for both peace and righteousness. During the last few vears our government has shown itself powerless to protect the lives of American men, women and children on the high seas and in Mex- ico, and powerless to honor of American women in Mexico. “When we have learned to do our duty in such an elementary matter; when we have learned to keep promises we have made on behalf of weak nations; when we have shown willingness to give proof of courage, foresight, strength, and willingness to undertake services and make sacri- fices for high causes in the present, we shall command greater respect in the world than we do at this mo- ment. “We shall not command such spect so long as our government seeks to conceal the pitiful ignominy and the pitiful shirking of duty to- ward itself and toward others, so evident in its conduct in recent years, by making grandiloquent promises, | which there is nothing in its past records to indicate that it would ser- jously attempt to keep.” LEROUX IS MAYOR. ¥rench Model Council Chooses Suc. cessor to Beloin. The annual election of the officers of the Modél council of the French Naturalization club of St. Jean de Baptiste society, ws held last evening. Claude J. Leroux was elected mayor, succeeding Fred Beloin, who refused a re-election. Joseph H. Beloin, who was the other contestant for the place, was defeated by twenty-eight votes. Other official elected are as fol- lows: General secretary—Peter Dionne. Recording secretary—Joseph Cote. Treasurer—A. T. Bonensout. The following constitute the alder- men and councilmen: TFirst ward, Phillias Gagner, Peter Morin; second ward, Joseph Arbor, A . Laflamme; third ward, Joseph H. Beloin, Amede Tissler; fourth ward, Alphonse Routhier, Alfred Roy; fifth ward, E. J. Charland, Ernest Sorer; sixth ward, Alcide Sadery, D. Gossier. D. Dulre was elected on the board of education, and David Beloin was elected president pro tem. last . “It is well to remember, however, | the : re- ' Only the tory. which begins February 1. YOUTHS’ SUITS Ages 15, 16, 18 and 19. Homespuns, plain blues, grays and brown mix- tures, formerly sold for $18 and $20. ~ $13.50 YOUNG MEN’S SUITS Sizes 36 to 38 Double breasted and belted back models—un- finished worsteds and wool mixtures. $20 Suits n 1" $13.50 MEN’S SUITS Reg. sizes 34 to 44. Stouts sizes 36 to 46 Shorts and Longs Hard finished worsteds that wear. Soft unfin- ished serges and the heavier woolens. $18 to $22.50 Syits, now $13.50 $25 to $28 Suits, now $19.50 These are fine values on the present market. Wilgon's ive for defense. ‘ From now till then whenever stocks are too large, whenever there are goods that we do not want to carry over until the next season greatly reduced prices will prevail—made with little or no regard for original cost. Thus it is that “Wilson’s” is kept ever new, and thus it is that you can profit in our efforts to keep it so. ULSTERS AND OVERCOATS All Sizes. Plain blues, browns and Oxford grays — some have velvet collars— some are belted back. Heavy high collared Ul- sters for the automobile or lighter Dress Coats for street wear. $19.50 $22.50 - SHIRTS , Sizes 1315 to 19. Extra size, soft or stiff cuffs. with the single exception of plain colors, all of our shirts are made with the original “Indenthrine” German fast color dyes— We cheerfully replace a faded shirt without quib- ble or question. $1.50 Shirts ....(... 95¢ $1.50 and $2 Shirts $1.15 $2 and $2.50 Shirts $1.35 $2.50 and $4 Shirts $2.85 $5 and $6 Shirts .. $3.85 Manhattan and “Wil- son’s Shirts. HATS Soft Hats and Derby. Knox and Stetson $2.50, $3, $3.50, $4 and $5. New $2.00 assortments broken, New Britain’s Finest Store for Men FINAL CLEARANCES BEFORE INVENTORY A Wilson sale at any time is important to those who take advantage of its offerings, but of all the year—none is so important as the Final Clearance just before inven- This is the time when stocks throughout the store must be reduced to the low- est reasonable point in preparation for the fresh start of the new business year or Caps All Sizes. A selected lot of $1 and $1.50 caps—some have ear laps. 55¢ Underwear Bristol Mills 50c a gar- ment, now 3509 3 for $1 - Neckwear 50 Ties ........ $1.00 Ties ........ $1.50 Ties . $2.00 Ties . $2.50 Ties $3.00 Ties . .$2.35 $3.50 Ties ........$2.85 All sorts of merchandise will cost more another season, there is no ques- tion about that. February 1st will see the end of these special values. .35 65 .$1.15 .$1.35 .$1.85 Wilson's American Hardware Makers Have New Tield in Russia protect the ' (Special to the Herald.) Washington, Jan. 23.—In 1913 the United States sent direct to Russia only one per cent. of the hardware imported by that country, as con- trasted to seven per cent. supplied by England, three per cent. by Irance, and seventy-five per cent. by Ger- | many. But abnormal demands for hardware may be looked for as soon as peace is made, asserts a report on the subject made public by the Bu- | reau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce, Department of Commerce, and it is urged that American manufac- turers and exporters begin at once their preparations for supplying an important part of these demands. The immense resources of the Ru sian empire in iron, copper, silver, sold, platinum, manganese, petro- leum, salt asbestos and otser miner- als’ in chemicals, in wood, in fertile and extensive agricultural and graz ing lands, and in large fishing areas suggest the possibilities with which this rich field is replete, says the re- I port. In these possibilities must also | be Included the building of transpor- tation, light and power systems, tele- graphs and telephones, and other necessary accompaniments and ex- pressions of industrial growth. In mining, in agriculture, in industry, the change from old processes to new, from handwork to machine work, has begun and will continue. All kinds of American tools, hardware to ma- chine work, has begun and, will con- tinue. All kinds of American tools, hardware, machinery, agricultural implements, etc., should find a ready market in all sections of the Russian empire. American manufacturers wishing to do business in Russia will find the people friendly toward them, Kkind- hearted, and generally fair and hon- orable in their busin dealings, Opportunities for Extending Business By Sales in Land of Czar Said to Be Good—Germany’s Command of Situation Ended By War. _cording to this !and the organization of report, Americans will have to learn a great deal, how- ever, about the speclal methods of doing business in Russia and will have to become accustomed, prob- ably with some difficulty, to the slow and tedious work involved in closing deals satisfactorily and to the Rus- sian dealer’s disposition to procras- tinate in coming to decisions on bus- iness matters. They will also meet special obstacles in the difficulty of the language and in trying to obtain , reliable credit ratings for individual firms. American universities and business colleges could materially as- sist American trade with Russia by establishing courses In the language, a Russian- Amecrican bank would climinate the present necessity of relying on the banking facilities of other countries in Russia. What Is Required. Ideus as to the Russian demand for hardware are erroneous if flgured on the basis of the country's population, which is about 70 per cent. greater than that of the United States. The | consuming eclements may be classi- fied as follows: (1) The peasants (moujiks) who comprise the greater portion of the Russian population; (2) the workmen; (3) the officials (civil. military, and naval,) the com- mercial world, the large farmers, and those following the civil professions; (4) the government. The peasants have few wants, being very poor; therefore, although they constitute the bulk of the Russian people, their demand is inconsequential. Their greatest need is for scythes, sickles, and other agricultural implements, which are financed by the so-called “zemstyo,” working on a co-operas tive basis and supported to a certain degree by the government. The ar- | tisans are purchasers of the cheap and medium grades of goods, both in their homes and iIf their trades, bui they aspire to the possession of the better qualities. The larger facto- vies are willing to purchase first class goods and material, but the smaller ones. will buy them only in limited quantities, claiming that good tools and implements would either be lost or stolen or ruined by unskillful workmen. From the third class comes a good demand, extending from the cheap and medium to the very best qualities of goods. The price is not so much a consideration with this class, though its members are prone to bargain. /They often buy new articles before having used up the old ones, which results in a big turnover for the dealer. The up- keep of the civil, military, and naval institutions makes the governmpent also an important consumer of ‘'all kinds of tools, implements, and fix. tures, and results in the placink of an occasional large order with the do- mestic dealer. American hardware is well liked in Russia. It is often preferred to hard- ware from other countries on account of its excellent finish, uniformity, and workmanship, the ingenuity of its construction, and the possibi of renewing parts even after gether with its applicability to work for which it is intended. The Russian consumer’s confidence in American tools often induces him to pay higher prices for them in prefer- ence to taking thosc of other makes. Because of the ingenuity of the Amer- jcan tool, the Russian is often heard to say, “Molodex Amwerikantz” or “Clever American.” No Hardware on Hand. Through interviews with a number of the leading hardware stores and wholesale dealers the writer found that it is almost impossible to obtain samples of hardware that is, or was before the war, in any great demand in this country. Since countties, and practically all such hardware as is most generally used and in demand has been disposed of. Consumers, therefore, are now forced to buy tools that do not entirely answer their requirements, that may even have been in stock for a number of vears, and that under ordinary circum- stances might never have been sold. As an instance may be mentioned va- the Mfljfi&@m HART Store Opens Daily at 8 a, m. FORD Get Transfer Cards at Information Burea MME. IRENE CORSETS ARE THE LEADERS OF CORRECT STYLE And now is the time to make your selections for th Spring Season. Miss Charlotte M. Brown, representing Mme < Irene of Fifth Avenue, is at the store this week sho ing the new Spring Styles of the famous Mme. Iren: Corset, which are favorite§ with New York’s Fo Hundred. To the woman who insists upon correct lines Mme. Irene’s Corsets are a necessity. F The styles illustrated are among the newest ang , are shown in our stock. ' Come and see the disglay and let Miss Brown ad vise you as to the model est suited for your figure. MME. IRENE CORSETS, $5.00 TO $12.50. Leonard and Herrmann Co. MISSES’ AND WOMEN'S SERGE DRESSES INTERESTING NEW SPRING MODELS VERY REASONABLY PRICED An assemblage of handsome Dresses which portra all that is new in the world of fashion for present da! wear. If in need of a new these at once. 165 Main Street, New Britain Two Stores dress make it a point to se 227 Main Streed Middletown had met with very little success in Russia, but which consumers are now obliged to take, owing to the lack of the saws to which they were ac- customed. As might be expected, the stores and dealers have taken ad- vantage of the situation, and have raised their prices by 50 to 60 to 100 Pper cent. or more. The increase goes mainly into their own pockets, since most of the goods were obtained be- fore the war started, , at ordinary prices, on ordinary terms. Moreover, a large proportion of the hardw having been obtained from or thro Germany has mot yet been paild for by Russian dealers. It was obtained on credit, and the war broke out be- fore the due dates. Of the hardware sold and used in Russia and Siberia, the quantity made in Russia is far less than that im- ported in spite of the fairly hea and, in some cases, very heavy duty. Of foreign hardware the cheaper kinds and qualities are supplied al- most exclusively by Germany; Eng- land sends both medium and su- perior kinds, and has more or less of a monopoly in medium qualities; and the United States ships not much of the medium but a good proportion of superior goods. The sales of other countries, such as France and Aus- tria, are more or less limited to par- ticular kinds of hardware, such as saws, scythes, sickles, etc. Dealers Intelligent. The most important shops been controlled by Germans, now eliminated, at least temporarily. The Russian hardware dealer Is, gen- erally speaking, an intelligent, good- natured man of middle-class educa- tion. He is not very enterprising, somewhat distrustful, conservative, kind, and hospitable to his friends, not very industrious (although he keeps his business premises open un- til late). In Russia, time is not money, tomorrow is as good as today for decision and appointments as well. Because of a lack of organization in the conduct of his business the dealer frequently does not order carefully enough or not in sufficlent time, or else he keeps too large a stock. As a rule, he gives his buyer long credit terms and often postpones the time of payment stipulated when it comes to settling his account; at the same time he makes requests on his own bhehalf for concessions here and there but does not expect to have interest charged on his deferred payment. He is not aggressive in pushing goods; few Rusian dealers are able to cre- ate a demand for a new article and introduce it successfully. The mar- ket must to a great extent be created for them. The retailer is slow and conservative- and the jobber even more so. Most of them rarely bhuy new articles; they do not care to han- dle articles for which they have not received requests, German manufacturers owe their | success mainly to the fact that the majority have sent their own travel- ers not only to the big cities in Rus- sia but also to the larger provincial towns, and have provided them with elaborate collections of samples and have in many cases with catalogues print- | ed In Russian and containing values quoted in rubles f. o. b. Russian port or railway station. The majority of the Moscow houses are prepared to buy f. 0. b. factory and pay thh freight and duty, remitting in foreign rious Kinds of American saws, which { checks, but most of the provincial | ' actively look for business, | dealers and stores insist on prig o. b. frontier, duty paid by man | turer. The willingness of many man manufacturers to do this helped toward their success. , thermore, German manufact have - been more inclined to credits, and very extended e owing to some extent to the sul that they have received dxem the man banks, which Have = adv: money on the strength of ordes | celved by manufacturers from sian dealers. It should be ren bered that Germany’'s success mainly in articles of more or inferior quality; but in ‘a numb lines the Germans have grad| been supplanting other coun! even in the better class grade: goods, because they have worked markét more intensively and given more favorable terms of ment. England Not in Field. | English manufacturers have n any time got so close to buyers| dealers in Russia as have Ge manufacturers in recent years, though 20 years ago England al monopolized the Russian m: British manufacturers are dising] to allow the credits that Gerg has been willing to give, and English manufacturers quote p in rubles, or cuote f. o. h. R railway car, with sea freight and paid. Moreover, few English m facturers send travelers to Russ only a few instances have théy pi their export business in hands o! English or continental many turers’ exporting merchants agents. Their direct business, tH fore, has practically been limi the largest dealers in the prin towns, such as Moscow, Petroj Odessa, Kief, Rostof, and Riga. business obtained by many hardware manufacturers in Ru due chiefly to the fact that goods are actually demanded by tomers, and not to their being pus The new hardware report is titled “Russian Market for Ames Hardware,” Miscellaneous Serles 46. 1t is the work of former ( mercial Attache Henry D. Balker, is one of the series now being is on the hardware ‘markets of world.. There are many chapters voted to a general discussion of possibili of the market, the pi methods entering the field, the ture of the competition that maj expected after the war, and 8o and, there are other chapters over entirely to a detailed an: of the trade in each article of ware. In all there are 111 pages. nominal price asked for this Y is 16 cents. Copies may be obtal from the Supefintendent of T ments, Washington, or from the est district office of the Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commere JOHNSON HEADS TRUSE Officers for the ensuing yesr elected at the meeting of the tru of the Swedish Lutheran church evening, as follows: Chairman—Oscar Johnson. Recording secretary—Charles Rossen. Treasurer-—Justis Wallin, The Luther League of the cM will go to Bristol Thursday nigh the “dinky" leaving New Britai 7155 to the Bristol Luther le