New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1917, Page 8

bw Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. 1 Proprietors. /84 dally (Bunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., |at Herald Building, 87 Church St. ared at the Post Office at New Britaln as Second Class Mall Matter. |vered by carrler to any part of the city for 16 cents a week, 65c a mouth. o soriptions for paper to be sent by mall, dvance. 60 cents a month, only profitable advertismg medium :n Ofrculation books and rress {room aiways o) to advertisers. Herald wiil be found on sale at Hota- Ung’r News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- wsy, New York City; Hoard Walk, At- lantic City, una Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Iness Office -or{al - Room — AMERICA FIRST. - nited States Commiissioner of Bdu- on, Philander P. Claxton, always rested in aflvlnclng'the cause of | prica over all other earthly things, issued a call for an ‘America t” conference to take place on the day of next month, immediately bwing the annual meeting of the mber of Commerce of the United es of America. This, the first con- nce of its kind, will deal with Lricanization as related to industry. re will be other similar confer- s in the future, the plan being to Buct a campaign of Americaniza- through education. ot until the European war broke e In all its fury did America awake he seeming lack of interest mani- d toward the glories of this land who recently sought resi- e herc. The fault was never at- ited to the new sons and daugh- b Rather was it some of Uncle Sam, ed directly at the doors of those | Lricans who have never evinced an rest in the new-comers. Men and hen from the old countries cannot xpected to take & lively interest in ew land unless the peoples of this extend to them all the welcome should go to the visitor. péd ers are set in the way of those seek a surcease from oppression, ey leave one form of slavery only nd another they cannot be ex- ed to wax enthuslastic & over brica. Happlily, this is not so ex- in isolated instances. Sometimes jgrants have been subjected to “prdial treatment the - larger In the open country, however, have found thelr earthly Valhalla. dustrial’ and ‘commercial Amertca da more toward setting good ex- la.to those who seek these shores any other agencies in the United § with the possible exception of Department of Education. Work- | in conjunction with this depart- t the campaign for Americaniza- of foreign-born peoples should no difficulty in succeeding. It r Americans to show the true ing of America. Young and -free, it is time Amerlca settled n to the business of assimilating who enter {ts portals. Until man and woman Wwho appre- s the advantages of living under mocratic form of government ex- s 2 helping hand to the stranger in the gates ‘“America First” will It should be an in only a slogan. al reality. A TOBOGGAN SLIDE. nything that a city does to furnish innocent amusement and sport [ its boys and girls inevitably re- nds to the good of the city. The yground movement which has re- ed in such widespread benefac- to the youngsters is proof positive hat may be done. n Walnut Hill Park New -Britain esses a treasure such as falls to lot of very few munioipalities. In heart of the city we have a verl- le Garden of Hden. The possi- ties there for outdoor enjoyment unlimited. In SBummer or Winter Spring or Fall it stands as the one ce of recreation that beckons to the young and the old. Here is a derness of nature at the very eshold of artificlal structures. Yet, = doubtful if the city has taken all advantage of the opportunities red to turn this plot of ground 5 a park that will attract the chil- in atall times of the year. Bn the Summer the wading pool is a rce of entertainment for the little s who cannot go to the seashore; the wading pool has ligned by grown-ups, because it is built on the proper plan. g, and there are no bath houses the immediate vicinity so that the ingsters can change from land to hing attire. These things, how- r. are to be considered at a pr date. At present, with snow at d, it might be well to look at an- ler phase of Walnut Hill Park,—its plability for rt. Sleighing, furnishing winter ating and tobog- iing are three separate and dis- ¢t sports that might well find a me at Walnut Hill. Park. The two “mer are now practiced™ there to ne extent. The latter is neglected use there is no toboggan slide. been | The er is not deep enough for swim- therefore suggest that the Pub- l lic Amusement and the Park Commis- sions consider the idea of equipping Walnut Hill Park with a toboggan slide. It is too late tiis year to erect one; but it is not too late to con- sider the feasibility of the plan. From the crest of Walnut Hill ta the level ground whereon is situated the public tennis courts there is an in- cline sufficient to supply the necessary slide. With the purchase of several thousand feet of lumber and the ser- vices of a small bevy of carpenters a toboggan slide can be erected at & very moderate cost to the city. All things considered, such a municipal gift to the boys and girls would be cheap at any price. It would afford & form of aTmusement attractive also to the grown-ups, and take the little ones away from the streets and the dangers attendant upon heavy traffio in the public thoroughfares. A toboggan slide at Walnut Hill Park would be the envy of every eity [in Connecticut. There is at present | but onme in the state, that in the | vicinity of Norfolk. Canadian munici- | palities have supplied their children ! with this form of amusement and the i plan is everywhere voted a success, | Snow 1s not a necessary adjunct for the operation of such a slide. Freez- ing weather provides a means of put- ting one in working order even before the flakes fall. STEEL AND STEAL. Steel can be spelled two ways, From the trouble that the United States Navy department is having with the steel manufacturers in this country it is evident that the other method of assembling letters for this word could easily be put in practice. The Navy Department, feeling it was | being made the subjoct of a hold-up by the great barons who control the steel industry in this country, placed the 1917 arder for projectiles and shells with a foreign firm. This firm, the Hatflelds of FEmgland, has now been forbidden by the British Govern- ment to fulflll the contract until after the war. With this situation hand the Navy department is sore pressed for a solution of the problem. The bids of the American concerns seeking the wark were anywhere from fifty to seventy per cent in excess of the prices asked by the English firm. The time of delivery was double in the case of the American concerns. Thus, with foreign competition eliminated, it looks as if the United States gov- ernment will have to submit to the stipulations laid down by native cap- tains of industry, pay the exorbitant prices asked and walt twice as long for the material. When the preparedness agitation swept the country need was seen of increasing the facilities of govern- { ment ship yards. To this end orders were Issued that these plants be en- larged. Also, it was thought advisable to set up a national armour plate | factory. And plans for this were com- { pleted and the project is under way. But neither of these two precautions offer a remedy to the condition in the fleld of projectiles. Armour piercing shells cannot be made in the ship vards, nor in the armour plate fac- tory. Even the United States Navy Yard at Washington which is equipped with modern gun shops is not equal to the emergency. Unless something is done forthwith the United States gov- ernment will be forced to submit to the impositions of the steel industry. The Navy Department will have to pay the prices asked, and, in addition, will have to walt until these concerns are ready to furnfsh the orders, which will be anywhere from one vear to elghteen months longer than the time the work might have been completed by the Hatflelds. Because of this ‘condition, because of what has all the ear-marks of a hold-up by the steel men, because of the enormous prices asked and the long delays that will be manifested, patriotic men throughout the country who had’a hand in the preparedness {campaign are advocating radical methods. They would have the Gov- | ernment commandeer part of private munition works of the country, which the Government can do under the De- fense Act, paying such prices for these | plants as may be determined by a of compensation, and then supply the Navy with material so that | the nation might be protected at all times. Looked at from a point of national safety, delays such as are likely to grow out of the present situation are a menace to the country. The United States government cannot afford to be without the necessary equipment for its army and navy no matter how much these munitions cost. It is to the interest of the people, of course, | to secure shells at the cheapest price, provided the goods bought measure tp to the standards imposed by the ravy tests. But, cheap or dear, they + must be purchased. If the steel men want the name of their industry spelled the other way, let them per- sist in their present practices. Then shall the CGovernment be justified in taking radical steps. at board y L0 FACTS AND FANCIES. It is plain that by _eliminating luncheons, as they did at the start, the managers of the 25 cemts a day food test, .got a running start on the high cost of living; -but after all, even a patrolman on probation likes a midday meal.—New York Sun. Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, has issued his an- nual message in the shape of good cheer. If you are in the least way pessimistic get hold of Judge Gary's annual and ciimb aboard the good cheer special for the balance of 1917. —Middletown Press. The report that the administration wants able men for the managerships of the federal land banks is worth believing. There have been too many such positions in theypast, which have been handed out as political plums.— Ansonia Sentinel. Despite the high cost of living, dy- irig has not galned anything in popu- larity.—Paterson News. If some men aren’t led into temp- tation they will try to get there them- selves.——Meriden Journal. Coal experts say it is not only the price that 1s higher, but also the per- centage of hone and slate.—Boston Herald. If the entrance of Rumania was to be the turning point of the war, what does Rumania’s disappearance do to 1t >—Pittsburgh Dispatch. No matter how high the cost of foolishness, the indulgence in its con- tinues about the same.—Pittsburgh Post. The hen is queen these-days. The movement of the egg market is reg- ulated by her activities.—Portland Oregonian. e “rp.” (After the Fashion of Kipling.) If you can win a husband without trying And make him think that he’s the prize,—not you; If you can trust him, when you know he’s lying, And never even let him know you knew; If you can.wait, and wait, and keep on walting, And greet him when he comes with smiling eyes, listen to the ing, And never say too much nor look too wise: And old equivocat- If you can love him, minus shave or collar, It you can cook, when cooking’s not your aim; If you can count dollar, And go on being thankful just the same; If you can hear the honest words you've spoken Twisted to make them sound ab- surd, And see your dearest hopes and idols broken, And never, never say a single word: on every single If you can make one heap of your illusions, And risk them on one man, to stand or fall, And finding all your fair dreams dis- illusions, Can still declare that he was worth it all; If you can force your heart, nerves, and sinew, To keep a smiling face until the end, And never show what thoughts are settling in you, And seem to feel the joy that you pretend: and If you can have your say and then keep quiet, And never lose your gentle “touch,” If you can hide deny it, And other men don’t interest you much; If you can spend each day, and hour, and minute In pleasing him, and never make a blunder, matrimony’s there's in it; And, what is more, my girl, you'll be a wonder. By— MRS. WOODYARD KINDLING. COMMUNICATED. OUR TROLLEY “SERVICE.” little his weakness, or Well, yours for what “Traveler” Enumerates a Few Objec- tionable Features on Local Lines. ' Why are patrons of the road al- {lowed to put their feet on the seats? Ladies use the seats and a good many nice gowns are spoiled. Other cities don’t allow it. Why are the motor- men and conductors allowed to smoke? The Wwriter has seen it on the Hartford line from Atwood's Cor- ner to Newington on several occa- sions. Why are Intoxicated persons allowed to ride and use profane lan- guage? Some people enjov such things, decent people do not and it is time the road stopped it. Why don’'t we have clean cars? Derby and Ansonia once had the same trouble New Britain is now hav- ing. Their trouble ended by a change in management. TRAVELER. Confederate Reunion, (From Birmingham Age-Herald.) Although the Confederate reunion, ta be held in Washington, is more than four months off—June 4—prepara- tions are well under way. This will probably be the last reunion, but, whether it is or not, it is safe to as- sume that it will be the last big one. Not only is the Washington commit- tee of arrangements busy every day in the week with details but veteran camps in every state of the South are perfecting plans far moving on to the national capital, ., The Invisible Fleet, (Ar’hsbnm Hurd in the Fortnightly Review). The British people have ndt seen the British Grand Fleet or any other of the naval services since the ships, great and small, steamed out of Spit- head at the end, of July, 1914, passing off the Nab Lightship the Royal Yacht, from which the King inspect- cd the country’s first line of defence. That phrase—the first line of defence —has gained a new meaning in the monthe which have followed. ~ With- out a fear of the consequences, the people of the British Isles learned of the transportation overseas of reserves and of the territorials. Those soldiers, regular and citizen, have been followed by the new armies, and vet the British people have remained undismayed.. In that condition of mind rests the most supreme triumph of sea power over ignorant fears of which history holds any record. The oversea danger remains today what # has always been. The peril of in- vasion does not exist. On the other hand, “raiding forces, each consisting of a comparatively few thousand men, might be dispatched by an enemy in the more or less desperate hope that, owing to the small tonnage of shipping employed in transporting them, some way might be found through the chain of moblle defence on the British coast.”” That relative- 1y small peril confronts us. The more desperate the condition of the Cen- tral Powers, the greater it will be- come, Sensations of the War. (Century Magazine). In the Magazines of the Trenches, Gelett Burgess quotes from one of thosé improvised newspapers that break the monotony of trench life the following list of ‘“greatest sen- sations of a pollu at the front,” sen- sations every one of which, Mr. Bur- gess says, has been lived through by hundreds of thousands of men: To eat one meal only, day or night, for eight days running. To go over a field of battle days after an engagement. T6 sleep with no trenches, in the open air near the enemy. To live forty-one days in a trench without getting out. To stay for six days in water half way up to your knees, with only one meal (at night) and no shelter. ‘To endure for twenty-four hours a precise and coplous bombardment by the enemy’s big guns. To watch for the first time the seri- ously wounded taken to the rear. Not to wash for fifteen days. Not to shave or change your linen for thirty-five days. To keep awake every instant three days and three nights. To spend a night as sentinel beside a cow that has been dead for fifteen days. To sleep, sheltered only by branch- es under the snow for eighteen days. To be grazed by a spent shell that falls at your feet without exploding. To see your best friend killed at your side. To be awakened in cantonment by a shell bursting on the roof. TS crawl 300 or 400 feet on your hands and knees. On patrol at night, to be suddenly illuminated by a light bomb a few feet away from the enemy’s barbed wires. two for Journalists in Congress. (Manchester Herald.) President Luther, of Trinity, has expressed the wish that there could be a Congress at Wasington where lawyers were not in such prepond- erant majority as they usually are in that august body. He believes that the nation would get a fairer representation from men whose minds were not so taken up with the technical side of the law and who, perhaps, stood In closer con- tact with the every day life of the people. In this connection it is interesting to note that there will be fifty news- paper men in the next Congress. The profession of journalism was never so fully represented in the nation’s law-making body as it will be in the sixty-fifth Congress. From these men we have every reason to expect prac- tical and efficient legislation and laws seasoned Wwith that sympathy for life in all its phrases which is bred inta the newspaper man by the perform- ance of his daily tasks. An eye for significant detail, a quick grasp of fundamentals, a shrewd sense of public opinion and an aptitude for being on the job are the necessary characteristics of a good Jjournalist and should find valuable reflection in the laws of the nation. But however {llustrious these jour- nalist Congressmen become they will scarcely surpass some of their pre- decessors in the worth and signi- ficance of their public service. Ben- jamin Franklin was perhaps the first journalist to gain natlonal distinc- tion in the new world. Alexander Hamilton founded a paper which is today, as it was then, one of the country’s leading journals, Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, was & Connecticut newspaper man, and the present incumbent of that office belongs to the same pro- fession. TIn the present Congress, Senators Burleigh, Hitchcock, Hard- ing, Oliver and LaTFollette are classi- fied as journalists or edltors. Though we have had two Presl- dents who began life as tailors no newspaper men have ever lived in the White House, though a number spend a good many working hours there. The Agricultural States. (Philadelphia Inquirer.) We do not usually think the agriculture of Pennsylvania verwvi remarkable, but official statistics just issued show that it ran seventh in the whole country, while New York is shth. The total vield of farms in th state is given at almost exactly $300.600,000, or about $40 per capita. Once more Texas takes the lead, but this is almost exclusively because of cotton, and Texas is enormously larger than Pennsylvania. Towa comes second, and her standing is the mare of as remarkable because she grows no cot—.sale of the drugs without physicians’ ton, no tobacco to speak of, but prin- | cipally grains. Iowa is not a large state compared with some, but is more generally cultivated than any other. A curlous fact that her farms con- stantly decrease in number, although the acreage under the plough in- creases. Farmers are making so much money that they try to buy up | all adjoining land. 1llinois is thir and well below Iowa in output; Nebraska comes next, | then Georgia, with her great cotton | output, while Kansas is sixth, and Just | above Pennsylvania. We think mast persons will be surprised to know that Nebraska, produces more than Kansas, | while Oklahoma, which has growni so rapldly in the last few years, 1s) only eighteenth in rank. It is an interesting fact that east of | the Rocky Mountains agriculture is fairly well distributed, taking into consideration the varying areas of the states. California shows up well be- cause of her immense fruit and grain crops. New England appears to be lagging, but all New England is less in area than a great many individual states, and this “sterile soil” produced about as much as Missouri, which has a larger-area than combined New England. Massachusetts produces more value per acre than any other commonwealth, Rescuing the Rarebit. (New York World.) The stewards of the police diet squad rendered service to a publio bevond the department, the city, the country, when they made Welsh rare- bit the resistance piece of Saturday’'s jucullan luncheon, The rarebit is ever wronged. It is maligned by accusations of the sins done by evil companions, as Eugene Field, on mornings after, blamed the small hot bird, not the large cold bottle. Caming often as the climax of evenings not well spent, it is the scapegoat of preceding imprudences. Not all who indulge it take the ex- ercise of a rookie policeman. at is rarebit? Toast, an invalld's diet; cheese, the meat of strong men: other ingredients cunningly mixed. Dieticlans have long known that a denatured rarebit, in which much milk replaces ale ar beer, is an ad- mirable, cheap sustaining food. Our miners eat quantites of cheese. The Greek shepherd lad who, without gcientific training, won the first Mara- thon was reared on goats-milk cheese, “tirl.” Cheese is full of proteids and calorles. It is an American product, bringing in its vearly Afty milltons, Before the war and, the branding acts jt was a great traveller, returning from tours abroad as Cheddar, Cheshire, Camembert. Tf there be those that cherish un- kind thoughts of rarebit let them be heard; it also should have its day in court, Perhaps the fault is with the complainant. Meanwhile in going to the rescue of the rarebit the men of the dled squad are beginning well thelr first-ald work for humanity. Arkancas the Mighty. (H. 8. Traylor, Inspector U. S. Indian Service.) If all the rice in Arkansas were one grain it would take a Grand Canon to store it. If all the corn in Arkan- sas were one ear it would take the combined force of all stump-pullers to extract one grain from that ear if all the chickens in Arkansas were one chicken it would straddle the Rocky Mountains like a Colossus and fits crow would shake the rings from Saturn. If all the hogs in Arkansas were one hoa he could stand with his hind feet on the Island of Cuba and his forefeet on the Isthmus of Pan- ama and dig the canal with one stroke of his snout. If all the cows in Ar- kansas were one cow she could graze on the evergreen of the tropics and switch the icicles from the North Pole with her tall, and it would take a canal from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico to carry boats laden with her butter and cheese. If all the mules In Arkansas were one mule he could stand with Ofl(' fore foot on Mexico and the other' fore foot on Canada and kick the man out of the ‘moon. Sheep vs. Dogs. (Hartford Post.) The sheep problem of Connecticut is the dog problem. Connecticut can- not ‘permit mongrel dogs to run at large and still have a sheep crop worthy the name. And woolen mill owners and agricultural experts of all kinds, including the state board of agriculture, are urging the need of more sheep In our hillside pastures. And so Connecticut must take her cholce between dogs and sheep. Sheep breeders of the state will rec- ommend the passage of a law which will increase the license fee for dogs and which will impose greater restric- tions with regard to confining them and also increase the compensation of the farmer whose sheep are destroyed bw dogs. All this is well for Connec- ticut needs sheep. Even though the increased compensation for farmers whose sheep are destroyed might in- crease the expense of the state it is advisable for the reason that the far- mer must be made to feel #a¥ his ef- fort will not be entirely wasted if dogs get among his sheep and destroy them. There is a great market for wool, as we annually use in this country scores of millions of pounds more wool than is produced here. There is also a mar- ket for native lambs and the farmer who raises sheep provides a large part of his own meat supply. There is no danger that Connecticut ever will have tao many sheep. For vears she has had too few. Drug Stores and “Dope.” (Philadelphia Evening Ledger) The steadily increasing number of drug store robberies in all parts of he country has come to a point where there is little room for doubt that many of the drug; s who report the theft of hundreds of grains of nar- cotics allow themselves to be robbed by ‘‘dope fiends” who pay them in advance to leave the ‘‘goods’ on their counters and the door unlocked. Col- lusion of this sort is the easiest way to dodge the law which forbids the prescriptions. The pressure put upon the druggists by the savage craving of the fiends is a tax upon character in its weakest links—pity and the de- sire for easy money. Special Agent Di Giovanni's warning to druggists ought to have results at once. It is simply that they should lock their narcotic drugs in a safe. He does not cast suspicion on any druggists. But those whe do not at once pro- vide themselves with safcs and guar- antee the public that their supplies of drugs are nightly secured in them will invite suspicion. Yale Opens a Door to Women. (Providence Journal.) Yale university, through the action of its corporation, has opened another doar to women. Hereafter they will be admitted to the graduate school as candidates for the degree of master of arts. This degree has not been given them at Yale in the past, although the university has bestowed upon them the degrees of doctor of philosophy, mas- ter af sclence, doctor of medicine, bachelor of music and bachelor of fine arts, The bachelor of arts degree is still out of their reach at New Haven, but it is conceivable that a women's col- lege will some day be eatablisNCY there as a Yale department. Stranger things have happened in the educational world. ‘Weslevan university, at Middletown, Connecticut, has dropped co-education and the Connecticut College for Women at New London uas enrolled some two hundred young women in its first two classes. There has been some talk of the possibility of a women's college under Wesleyan control, but the New London institution more or less fills the field in Connecticut at present. Of course any proposition to give women regular undergraduation instruction at Yale would meet with strong opposition from a large body of Yale graduates, Keeping Employees Happy. (Harold Carey in Collier’s.) You cannot make a factory hand happy by putting in a hospital. Workers will be unhappy if you have not such a necessary adjunct to the plant, but it will not make them hap- py and care-free. Nor, thinking for the welfare of your men and women, will you assist them up the ladder of joy in work with a large sign recom- mending safety first or abstinence from booze. Look at it another way. What makes you joyful?A game of golf, a quiet rest, a little music, and HNght, clean surroundings. All right, then; give something on that recipe to your employees—that is, if in these days of munitions plants and high wages, you want to Keep your workbenches filled and your output at maximum figures. ‘Where There is No Peace. (A Letter in The London Morning Post). A story of the late Earl Kitchener, well known at the time and for the accuracy of which I can vouch, is not without its deeper lesson toda At an early stage of the negotiations leading up to the Peace of Vereenig- ing (May, 1902) a distinguished offi- cer and personal friend of the com- mander in chief sent to the latter at Pretoria a private telegram as fol- lows: *“M we sing at church pa- rade next Sunda Hymn No. 5377?" —("'Peace, Perfect Peace.”) The reply came stern and prompt: ‘‘No; sing Hymn No. 269" (*‘Christian! Seek Not Yet Repose’). He Has Not Died in Vain. (Columbia, 8. C. State.) Some day the history of Fairfield county will e written and when it is written, the story of Adam Hood, sheriff, who defended his prisoner with his life, who, wounded to death, carried in his arms the mor- tally stricken negro charged with a heinous crime and laid him before the bar of justice, will be told in it and the school children of Tairfleld will be taught to honor the name of this of- ficer as symbolizing the unflinching courage of the Anglo-Saxon race and the unfaltering loyalty to laws that the people make that has made it a free race among the peoples of the earth. That the prisoner was a vile and miserable wretch accused of the most hated of crimes will the more be pointed to as illustrating the heroism of the sheriff who dled in defence of the trust placed in him by his people and the duty to them which he had undertaken to do, To say this calls for no voice of prophecy, it is but to reason from these simple truths that are everlast- ing and that shall not perish unless faithfulness and honor, peace and law, and all those things which to- gether we call civilization shall perish too. We set it down that no public offi- cer who dies in the performance of duty digs in vain. “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.” (New York Sun.) The large number of honest per- sons residing in the United States and citizens thereof will read with rejoic- ing the news that Willlam Henry Crocker of San Francisco has sued an internal revenue collector who re- fused to allow him to deduct his taxable income losses sustained in stocks and bonds he had purchased. As everybody knows. or should know, the government taxes any money a man may make outside h regular business. but will not allow him to deduct losses incurred outside that business. Uncle Sam is thus in the shameless position of saying to every investor: “Fleads I win, tails vou lose.” It is a contemptible role for old gentleman to be forced to and he knows if. end some time. better for public morality. the play Tt will come to an and the sooner the as well as private McMILLAN’S New Britain’s Busy Big Store Always Reliable” CLEARANCE SALE Coats, Suits, Dresses and Furs AT BIG PRICE | REDUGTIONS WOMEN'S AND MISS Reduced to $5.98, Values up to $20. COATS. 37.98, 9.98 eachi SERGE AND SILK DRESSES. Reduced to $9.98 each. $15. Values to* EVENING GOWNS, Reduced to $9.98 cach. Value, $13 to $22.50. ' /8 About twenty smart evening gowns at this remarkably small price. ¥ WHITE FOX SCARFS. Reduced to $4.98, $5.98, $6.98 cach. Values up to $9.98. SILK BLOUSES. Saturday, $1.98 each. Plain white, flesh and mais. also many smart ‘col- ored striped Blouses in this sale. LINGERIE BLOUSES. Saturday at 97c each. Several new Spring models. % KNIT UNDERWEAR, At Sale prices. CHILDREN’S VESTS AND PANTS. ‘“Carter make,” sizes, 22 to 34. Sale, price, 55c. Values to 76c. ' WARM HOSIERY. Men's Cashmere sox. Mill runs subject to slight imperfections that will in no way harm the wearing qualities. Sale price, 25c¢ pair. Black, | grey, natural and white. i WOMEN'S WOOL pair. Rib top. HOSE. 15 LINED ¢ pair. WORNN'S FLEECE HOS! At 19¢ and WOOL GLOVES AND MITTENS. 26c to 79c¢ pair. Skating Gloves, 89¢ to $1.15 pair. MID-WINTER CDEARANCE SALE PRICES ON RUGS, LINOLEUMS, OIL COLOTHS, BLANKETS, COM- FORTABDBES, BED SPREADS, COT- TONS, SHEETINGS, TOWELINGS AND ALL KINDS OF FANCY PIECES. from | [ times of Kentucky Finds a Real Bootlegy ! (Marysville Independent). H Ed Barlow was arrested yvesterday afternoon. Four half pints of whis- key were found in his bootlegs. D. McMILLAN | 109-201-208 MAIN STREET. Philadelphia’s Prosperity, (Philadelphia Press.) In Philadelphia there is evidence of prosperity upon every hand. The de- partment stores never handled so large a business as they did last month. Another very good index of local activity is the gross receipts of the local traction company. The gross earnings of the Rapid Transit com- pany are ten per cent. greater than for corresponding periods of 1915, due largely to the unprecedented activity of the industrial establishments. The future of Philadelphia is well as- sured. While many industries in this vicinity have been engaged upon war orders, the plants have been enlarged and improved, so that they are in a strong position to hold their own in peace. The Delaware is des- tined to hecome a greater industrial section, and from Trenton to Wil- mington on both sides of the river the territory is tributary to Philadglphia. Local banks are thrifty and well able to handle the growing financial needs of expanding Philadelphia. Ficiions in Public Life. (Washington Star). the electoral college a sort of “Sort of.” replied Senator Sorghum v “But it isn’t the only one A speaker does more listening than anyone else, and a chairman is kept so busy hus- tling around that he seldom gets & ‘cha,nce to use a chair.” 1 } i 1 1 | B |