New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1917, Page 6

jew Britain Herild_. | HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY Proprietors. ed dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., t Herald Building. 67 Church St. [nered at the Post Ofice at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Jlivered by carrfer to anv part of the oity for 15 cents a week, 65c a month. {bscriptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. 60 cents a month. #5020 & yea. {e only profitable advertismg medlum In the city: Clrculation books and press room always open to advertlsers. ® Herald will be found on sale at Hota- Uog's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New Vork City; Board Walk, At- lantic Clt;, «nd Hartford Depos. TELEPHONE CALLS. |stness OMce itorial Rooms NOT YET. eop Americans out of the danger | e" is the plea of the Emergency ce Federation a new organization jch sprung up in the light of the isent international situation. The &, of course, is for the United States rernment to forbid any American zen to venture upon the high seas, prohibit any American ship from ing its port; in a word, to “pussy- Perhaps the officials at Wash- on would carry out the sugges- i8 of the' Emergency 'Peace Federa- 1 if it did’not know the make-up of patriotic society. Perhaps the ernment would “Keep Americans | of the war zone” if it were not for ! memory of the war of 1812 and principles for which that war was [ght,—freedom of the seas. Per-| the officials at Washington would all American ships to intern in | erican harbors, to lie at their piers, oms covered with barnacles and s going to decay; perhaps the rernment would do all these things djd not know that the American u having been born and bred ler: the'pure heavens of liberty @' stand for no such imperialistic dates. | The 'rights of a free people somewhat different from those en- ad “under \an autocracy; and this ntry §s° still\a democracy, despite §.of such ovganizations as the ” 7 'NEW MBRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 107%, ciously clings to the policy that has startled the civilized world. The mere fact that Germany, after its ambassador to this country had been sent home, proposés negotiations, formally or imformally, is taken in many quarters to mean that Germany has seen the error of her way, that the Imperial powers that be are willing to back down and accede to the de- mands of the United States govern- ment. In some measure that may be s0; but it is also true that the German people, for wham the TUnited States to believe that they cannot be victorious unless ruthless submarine warfare is waged against all secking the shores of England. led the German people so far it is doubtful if the Imperial German Government will back down, however much it might wish to do so. The next move, of course, must come Germany. One overt act means war. “Unless and until” the Imperial Government | renews its assurances of May, “and acts upon the assurances,” peace with the United States must hang by a thread. the world, have been led commerce Having from last FIRE AND POLICE LINES, In all big cities in the country when firemen respond to & serious confla- gration the police immediately set up | lines to keep back those curious mind- ed folk who are always on hand-to in- terfere with the work of pald fire- fighters at such times. This has not as yet been made an order in New Britain. Within the past two months the lo- cal fire department has been called upon to quell what might have been very serfous fires had they not been dealt with in all due despatgh. Those | who attended these blazes as witnesses | of the work of the department must | have noticed the syperabundance of onlookers, all in close proximity to the men whose business it is to fight flames. For every official fireman at a fire there are from one hundred to two hundred spectators, all in the way. Some day when the Safety - Board has nothing else to do it might take up the matter of establishing fire and po- lice lines here. The fire department would be greatly alded in its work if such a ruling were put into effect. The city would he better protected for hav- ing gotten rid of a Very deep cause of annoyance. Those. legitimally supposed to be inside the fire lines may be easily jdentified, the police and firemen by their uniforms, newspaper reporters and officials of the city, or officers off Tien @Germany on the last day of ry this year declared its in- to' pursue a ruthless submarine iare, after having once abandoned ‘tactics under the Sussex agree- ht,: the : United. States promptly e off diplomatic relations. with the erfal ‘Gévernment. That stand, n' after due deliberation, permits o backsliding. Secretary Lansing’s wer to the German government’s . proposal is the answer all ericans will heartily enjoin. cting through the Swiss minister Washington the Imperial German ernment first orally and then in tten form volced a proposal to otiate, formally or informally, h the United States, provided that ‘cammercial blockade against Eng- d will - not be broken theyeby.” ich is the same thing as saying that German government would like to hry on negotiations with the United es with one hand while with the er hand it sinks American ships, hout warning, and sends innocent erican men, women and children atery graves beneath the surface the Atlantic. Secretary Lansing, kng under orders and in the name he President, has told His Majesty, ough the Swiss Minister, that the ted States cannot countenance such roposal. the German Government with- ws its proclamation of January 31 which it cancelled the assurances en this Government in reply to the sex note the Government of the ted States “will gladly discuss with German Government any question It it might propose for discussion,” “it does mot feel that it can enter b any discussion with the German ernment concerning the policy of marine warfare against neutrals jich it is now pursuing unless and 1 the German Government renews ' assurances of the 4th of May and duty, by special badges provided for the purpose. ‘A SENSIBLE VETO. As it lgoks now those members of the Common Couneil who strangely enough allowed the resolution attach- ing a referenflum clause to the Char- ter Amendments to be adopted at Friday night’s meeting will-be saved any embarrassment by the veto of the Acting Mayor. 3 ‘There are times when a referendum is desirable. If the amendments in- volved the expenditure of a large sum of the city’s money, or an impar- tant change of policy; if indeed there was any marked divergence of views in the community as to any of the matters &ffected, then a referendum would be in order. Instead, here are a number of improvements in the city’s charter, carefully worked out after long study ‘and discussion, agreed ta by the committee in charge, all members of which are men of long experience in municipal affairs, finally adopted by the Council adequate consideration. There can be no need for a referen- dum under such circumstances; Since, to provide for it involves expense and delay and above all because two very important items cannot in any event be enacted under the pravisions of the Home Rule bill, and after Hon. Carranza has a scheme for cleaning up Europe’s back yard. But | wouldn't it be more in his line if he E(‘l(‘:\l\cd up his own property first? FACTS AND FANCIES. new constitution could be written 000 words.—Emporia Gazette. Brazil wants to buy & Set of subma- | rines, but we don’t think Germany | wan's to scll any.—Birmingham Led- Strange as it may seem, a basket of stre can now be bought for the same price as a head of eabbage. s upon the assurances.” his is tthe latest interchange s subject which has taken place be- en this government and any other bernment or person, ¢ the :cording to an pendix to statement the at It might have been the last States on the yesterday te Department fled that this United 1hject until kmany makes a move that will de- mine whether we shall have peace war. The matter now rests entire- with the Imperial German Govern- t. The United States Government _washed its hands of all further s with the German Govern-- while that Sgvernment tena- by officials the is word of i on given out —Bridgeport Po us to get 100,000 | trained men. We must thank him for | being the punching bag that brought up our muscle.—Brocklyn Eagle. | Villa. helped T. R. may be given the command of a division, but it will never come easy to think of him as ‘“The General Toledo Blade. The British and French are mighty glad at the prospect of America among Germany’s enemies, but if truth were told they would probably have preferred to have Holland.—Sy: racuse Post-Standard. Austria’s note seems to be the source of much mystification at Washington, indicating that Mr. Wilson isn't the government holds all the respect in/ { plained now rier-Citizen. The country is evincing such a will- { ingness to support the president that he may not have to go on the 26- cents-a-day diet after all.—Houston Post. | o English publicists say that if Lloyd George cannot bring about Home Rule no Pritish statesman can. Now is the timme.—Boston Globe. FEurope has been so pressed for rev- enues that the newspapers long since ceased to give much attention to com- munications from “Taxpayer’—Wash- ington Star. A Flanders Reverie. 1 am sitting by a dug-out On a dreary Flanders plain Where the land is sorely sowen With gore and the deeds of men. As by the charcoal fire I sit, My thoughts and memory strays, And there, within the ruddy blaze, I see the friends of happy days. Therein my sweetheart passes by, Whose love, I know. will never dle: O God, who watches ever above, Guard and keep my sweetest love. Then passing thro’ so quickly too, Comes father, brothers, and sisters al), And friends there are in one long train, Pass through that fire on Flanders plain, Y8t still there is another face, 'Tis that of my mother dear, Who before she dled did’st Pld me seek 3 The Lord in all my woes and fears. Amidst that blaze she one moment stays, And fascinated; amazed I gaze, As heavenwards she seems to rise, An angel pure within the skies. e e e There’s been a battle o’er the night, And many there are slain, e And a dying soldier’s face, Most beautiful in pain, Smiles as he faintly murmurs, . . . I'm going-to see My mother again. . —Haron Barr (S.R.) France, October 1916. COMMUNICATED. New Britain, Feb. 12, 1917. ‘We wish to deny the statement ap- Pearing in last evening's Herald re- garding two girls acting improperly at a dance in Carpenters’ hall on Church street. We, the undersigned, wish to state, that the Carpenters’ and Join- ers’ Union, do not let thefr hall for any dance purposes or we do not hold any dances. Such statements as the girls made in court in regard to the dance at Carpenters’ hall are false and lible to cause false impressions on the public as regards the carpenters. W. J. SEMMENS, President. PATRICK SCULLY, Secretary, 'W. E. WEBBER. —_— Trawling for Fish, (New London Day.) The vigorous protest of the beam trawlers against the passage of the proposed law prohibiting the taking of fish in the manner which these men adopted & few years ago was perhaps not to have been unexpected. They have invested considerable sums in the paraphernalia of their calling and they desire to be allowed to employ that paraphernalia in the business as long as there shall be any fish left. This position is perhaps a natural one for persons who cannot view the sub- ject in an impersonal manner or from any broader or more far-reaching point of view than that which contem- plates alone the dollar of today. It is, of course, disappointing that all “or ‘substantially all the beam trawlers should line up against the bill, because it might, perhaps, have been hoped that among them were some who took some thought for the morrow and for the fate of the Con- necticut fisherles as a whole. But in this, as in the matter of the lobster industry, there appears to be no effec- tive influence at work among the trawlers other than their momentary pecuniary interest. This newspaper does not propose to attempt to try the case of the otter trawl, That is a matter for the legis- lative committee to attend to. It is willing, however, to state upan its own responsibility that among these very fishermen who are protesting so loudly against a reform in the conduct of the fisheries are many who have privately admitted that they knew the beam trawl was ruining the future fish supply. Tt is to be presumed that there will be a hearing on this subject. During its progress it will be advisable to re- quire each of the trawling opponents of the bill to state his actual belief on this aspect of the question—which is a very much more important aspect than the pecuniary welfare of a small group of fish raiders. The suggestion by some fishermen that it would be a good thing to have the fisheries .placed under federal control is very agree- able indeed to every person who de- slres to see those fisheries conserved. There would be no otter trawling in Connecticut waters if the matter were in the hands of the United States fish commission. If the fishermen imagine there would be they are invited to in- aquire of that commission what its sen- timents are In the matter, of the Admiral Dewey’s Tast Fight. (Colller's Weekly). rly four vears after Mr. Wil- son became president and appointed } Josephus secretary of the navy, Ad- miral Dewey sat in his office in the navy building at Washington, appar- ently doing nothing. In the adjoin- ing room the general board of the navy held daily sessions. The ad- miral was nominal head of the board, but he seldom joined in the discus- sions. The science of naval warfare For nea had made grea rides since his vie- ]Lox’y in Manila bay, and he was too only one whose notes have to be ex- | wise a man not to know that the busi- and then.—Lowell Cur- | | to the ness of adjusting .the national defences new conditions belonged to a younger generation. Time must have hung heavily on his hands notwith- standing the good-natured patience of his disposition and the solace he got from the visits of old friends and ship- mates. Yet be continued to go to his office with more than clerkly, regu- larity solely because he feared a clash, disastrous to the navy, between the knowledge of the general board and the ignorance of the secretary. He was admiral of the navy By act of congress he could not be retired ex- cept at his own request. Not even the president could remove him. Jose- phus the secretary might disregard the recommendations of the general board, which has no political affilia- tions and no newspaper advocates. But Josephus the politician would think a long time before quarrelling with the irremovable admiral and ropular hero. Admiral Dewey saw the advantage of his position and used it to the fullest extent in the service of the country. He was the buffer between the board and the navy de- partment—the interpreter, the diplo- mat. 5 Germaa Faith in Submaries, (“A Neutral” in The London Times.) The German public no longer be- leve all the stories that they are told about submarines—such reports, for instance, as that missing long distance submarines have arrived safely, but that their arrival has been kept secret by the government far excellent reasons. While, however, it s true that the big submarines have not been the success that they were expected to be, the feverish bullding of sub- marine parts in all the manufacturing towns which I have visited is for me conclusive evidence that the govern- ment shares the general opinion, which is spreading all over Germany, sthat the submarine alone can snatch victory out of the present abysmal gloom, I had a conversation with , the well known head of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in Europe; he is personally a strong ad- vocate of peace at almast any price. This 18 what he sald to me: ‘While in Berlin last week I discussed the military . question and the submarine question with people who know what is.going on. The point of view of our government is that the war 1is settling down into a starvation match between Germany and her enemies, and that the submarine may place Germany in a position to dlctate terms. . . . Over 1,000 submarines are in course of construction. Three hundred are in use. Fewer than one hundred have been , lost from all causes, including accidents. Sub- marine crews are being trained in twelve weeks under the pressure of war. The submarine is operating T the southerly Atlantic and the Medi- terranean. Communication between Holland and England continues only by permissjon of the German govern- ment, which for its own purposes al- lows certain. steamers to run.” DRIVE ON SUBMARINES Senator Saulsbury Would Open Our Harbors to Warships of Belligerents Threatened By Submarines. Washington, Feh. 13.—A bill direct- ed against ruthless submarine war- fare and proposing to open the ports, harbors and waters of the United States in time of war to warships or vessels of belligerents against whom such warfare is waged was introduced today by Senator Saulsbury of Dela- ware, president pro tempore of the Senate and a member of the foreign relations committee. At his request it was referred to the committee. The bill is entitled “An act to die- courage the violation of internationai law on the high scas.” “This measure,” said Senator Saul- isbury, “may enable the government ‘Yithc_)ut 2 declaration of war to as- sist in preventing violation of “inter- national law at sea by glving assist- ance to those engaged, in opposing un- restricted and unwarranted systems of warfare. It is-a step that may be eff in the international crisis without a declaration of war on our part.” i PHOTOGRAPHING FORTS. RS Germans Taken Into Custody By Bra- zillan Police, Rio Janiero, Brazil, Feb. 13.—Ac- cording to the newspapers the authori- tles of Nictheroy, five miles east of Rio Janelro, have arrested two Ger- mans who at the moment of their ar- rest were photographing the fortress at Imbuhy. The prisoners are Fritz Meyer and Johannes Karl, important employes of commercial houses in this city. )ne of the men, the accounts state, had in the pocket of his overcoat, a blank bock containing a sketch of the fort at Cobras Island. One of the newspapers reports that. Meyer had taken part in maneuvers of the Brazil- jan mountain artillery at Tmbuhy. POSTMASTER TROUP HERE. ‘Will Lecture Tonight af School Hall. Hon. Philip Troup, postmaster of New Haven and one of Connecticut’s foremost journalists, will deliver an address on Lincoln tonight before members of St, Mary’s Literary so- ciety in St. Mary’s school auditorium. Mr. Troup who for many yvears was editor of the New Haven Union is an authority on Abraham Lincoln, hav- ing written extensively on the life and activities of the great martyr In view of present day international relations the New Haven postmaster’s treatment of this sub- ject will be more than interesting as he will illuminate his talle with some facts pertaining to Lincoln that have not previously heen treated on the lecture. platform. Mr. Troup will arrive in New Brit- ain at 6 o'clock this evening and will be the guest of ex-Senator George M. Landers, who has invited several prominent people to meet Mr, Troup. St Mary’s BIG BUSINESS HIT BY ONE OF ELEGT Republican Congressman Tells How. It Had Clear Road Washington, Feb. 18.—The burden of the charges by Congressman Lind- bergh against the federal reserve board, made late yesterday afternoon is that the members of the federal reserve board have aided certain al- leged ‘‘conspirators” with the intent “to co-ordinate big business and speculation for the benefit of the said group of operators and speculators.” According to Mr. Lindbergh, the ‘‘conspiracy” began in 1908, when the late J. P. Morgan, Paul Warburg, a present member of the reserve board; the National City Bank of New York, and other banking firms and persons “conspired to obtain currency legis- lation in the interest of “big business” and the appointment of a special board to administer such a law. The plans of these ‘‘conspirators” Mr. Lindbergh avers, were successful, and the members of the federal reserve board have so administered the law that “big business” has derived prac- tically all the benefit therefrom. Members of the advisory council of the federal reserve board are included in the general charges made by Mr. Lindbergh, but the impeachment re- lates only to W. P. G. Harding, gov- ernor; Paul Warburg, vice governor, and Frederick A. Delano, Adolph C. Miller, and Charles S. Hamlin, ‘“the five active working members of the federal reserve board.” Allegations Sweeping. The Minnesota member makes no specific allegation against the mem- bers of the board, but brings the sweeping accusation that the entire administration of the present currency law has been .in the interest of big bankers and financiers. In conclu- sion he asserts that “the federal re- serve act is void and unconstitutional, but notwithstanding the conspirators aforesald have so manipulated things as to prevent the question of con- stitutionality of the act from being brought before the courts.” Mr. Lindbergh has made many speeches in the house alleging the ex- istence of a ‘‘money trust,” and on more than one occasion has attacked the Glas-Owen currency law as reac- tionary and harmful legislation. He has also criticised the federal reserve board. Mr. Lindbergh prefaced his formal statement with the contention that he could prove his charges by circum- stantial evidence and “to a mathe- matical certainty by figures.”” As an echo of his “money trust” charges, he traces an alleged conspiracy back to 1906, when, he asserts, the late J. P. Morgan, Paul M. Warburg, then a member of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,; Lee, Higginson & Co., Kidder, Peabody & Co., the National City Bank of New York, the First National Bank of New York, ““and various other persons and firms,” conspired ‘“to devise means through social, political and other ways of strategy and by general chi- canery to deceive the people of the United States, the president, and con- gress, providing for a new monetary and banking system to have in it a provision for a managing board vest- ed with unusual and extraordinary powers, and to secure persons for membership on the board who would by subterfuge,. manipulation, and false administration so manage as to avoid the spirit and purposes of the people of the United States.” ITe adds that Mr. Warburg partici- pated in drafting a currency bill and was instrumental in promoting the ap- pointment of a board carry out the designs or the conspirators afore- said,” also that a propagainda cam- < inaugurated by *big busi- nd that in newspapers and nes, a reserve act in keepin was finally approved. Properly administered, says Mr. Lindburgh, the federal reserve act may icorrect some of the evils of the cur- rency system heretofore in effect, but, he says, it contains provisions which make it possible for a board to.so ad- minister it that it is worse than the old system. He adds that the federal eserve advisory council, as well as the federal reserve board, ‘are men with enormous business interests, and a1l of them have been for more than fifteen years last past, and are now extensive operators and speculators for individual profit and gain in the market, and control several of the largest banks in the country.” Several members of the council, Mr. Lindbergh says, own stock in the National City Bank of New York and the First National Bank of New York, «these banks being the two banks charged hereinbefore with being par- ties to said conspiracy, and said mem- bers also own stock and are interested in business managed and controlled by the parties specifically named as the conspirators.” Mr Lindbergh charges that Paul M. ‘Warburg was a party to the conspir- acy at its original formation, and “that all of the members of the Fed- eral Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Advisory Council are asso- ciated with and form a part of a group of promoters and speculators, the individual members of which re- side in various parts of the United States and a few in Europe; which group individually and collectively deal in credits, stocks, bonds, securi- ties, and various promoting enter- prises from which they have meade billions of dollars in profits.” That the Federal Reserve Board has failed to inform congress and the public of the “inflation of bank cred- its” under the existing currency law as administered by the board, and that ‘‘said members (of the board) have consorted and. conspired with ; the members of the Federal Advisory Council and their business associates, and have aided and abetted in a con- spiracy ‘to a systematic inflation of bank credits for the benefit of the said conspirators,” is another accusa- Aati;e for a Safe and Efficient Fam- ily Remedy. I Every member of the family Iis more or less subject to constipation and every home should always be supplied with a dependable remedy to promptly relieve this condition. | Whenever the bowels become clogged and the natural process of elimina- tion thereby disturbed, the entire system is affected, and readily sub- ject to attack by disease. Constipa- tion is a condition that should never be neglected. Mrs. E, R. Gilbert, of Millbro, Va., says that Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin 'is a splendid laxative for children bé- cause they like its pleasant taste, and it acts so easily and naturally, without griping or strain, and she finds it equally effective for the rest of the family. Dr. Caldwell’'s Syrup Pepsin is a combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that contains no opiate or narcotlc drug. It is mild and gentle in its action and does not cause pain or discomfort. Druggists every- where sell this excellent remedy for fifty cents a bottle. To avold imitations and ineffec- Babies Good Jor Everybody | Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin tive substitutes be sure you get Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. See that a fac-simile of Dr. Caldwell’s signature !and his portrait appear on the yel- low carton in which the Dhottle s, packed. A trial Dbottle, free of charge can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 466 Washington St., Monticello, Tillinots. —_— tion made by Mr. Lindbergh. result of this, he adds, the have increased their credits by proximately $7,000,000,000 since the passage of the currency act, with- out effectihg a corresponding reduc- tion the interest rate. Sort of Close Corporation. Continuing, Mr. Lindbergh charges the Federal Reserve act, and that these_ ‘‘conspirators” instigated a cam- DPaign resulting In the passage of the Federal Reserve act, and that, through the influence exercised over them by the Advisory Council the members of the Federal Reserve board have failed to administer the Federal Reserve act in accordance With the intent of Congress, “but on the contrary the said five active work- ing members of the Federal Reserve Board * * * have administered, | and are now administering the reserve | act with the intent to co-ordinate ‘big business and ‘speculation’ for the | benefit of the said group of operators | and speculators hereinbefore desig- nated as having taken part in the original conspiracy.” | Mr. Lindbergh names as members | of the Advistory Council who are fa- | miliar with the general alleged con- spiracy, but are not impeached by him. J. P. Morgan of New York, Daniel C. Wing of Boston, Levy L. Rue of Philadelphia, W. S. Rose of Cleveland, J. N. Norwood of Rich- As a banks ap- J. B. Forgan of Chicago, Frank O. Watts of St. Louis, J. R. Mitchell of Minneapolis, E. F. Swinney of Kansas City, T. J. Record of Dallas, and Her- bert Fleishhacker of San Francisco. The Minnesota statesman also con- tends that there has been a boycott of state and other banks not in the Fed- eral Reserve system, and says the members of the Federal Reserve Board have been cognizant of this boycott as a part’ of the alleged con- spiracy. A maladministration of the Fed- eral Reserve act is alleged by Mr. Lindbergh, who concludes with the statement: “In order to create industrial slaves of the masses, the aforesaid conspirators did conspire and are now conspiring to have the Federal Re- serve act administered so as to en- able the conspirators to co-ordinate all kinds of big business and to keep themselves in control of big business in order to amalgamate all of the trusts in one great trust in restraint and control of trade and commerce. * * * and that the said five active working members of the Federal Re- serve Board have all the time by wrongful administration of the Fed- eral Reserve act aided and abetted the aforesaid.conspirators in promot- ing and carrylng out the objects of their conspiracy and have refused and failed to administer the Federal Re- serve act in favor of the general wel- fare.” SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT. Musical and Lnemy,!:romm and Motion Pictures. The Prevocational Grammar school Parents’ and Teachers’ assoclation will give an entertainment in the Grammar school hall this evening at 8 o’clock, the program to include mu- sical and literary numbers as well as moving plctures. Orchiestra selections will be ren- dered by the school orchestra and the girls of the seventh grade will give three folk dance exhibitions, the high- land scottische, the Swedish clap dance and the ace of diamonds dance. John H. Jackson will give vocal solos and Miss Jennie Swanson will give select- ed readings. Miss Sampeon will also give an Interpretation of a Spanish dance. Other numbers on the evening's program Include a dramatic sketch, entitled “Joan of Arc” by the eighth grade puplls, chorus selections by the eighth grade girls and moving pictures of an entertaining and educational nature. PUTS ONUS ON AMERICA. ossische Zeitung Comments on Sail- ing of Two Ships. Copenhagen, Feb. 13.—A RBerlin message to the Berlingske Tidende says the news that two American ships have sailed to try to break the blockade is creating a great sensation. As both sailed for Bordeaux, which is completely intercepted, the ships can- not use the channels outlined for neu- tral navigation. The Vossische Zeitung says that the United States “must write the conse- quences on its own aceount,” mond, Charles A. Lyerly of Atlanta, | Events Tonight | “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,™ Lyceum theater, High class photo drama, Fox's the- ater. S . Vaudeville and moving pictures, Keeney's theater. Turners masquerade. St. Mary's Sodality, ish hall. meets in Par- A. O. H. Auxiliary dance, Electric hall. W. L. Morgan lodge, K. of P., meet; in Vega hall. . Eintracht lodge, O. D. H. S. meets at 187 Arch street. Court Columba D. of C. meets in Electric hall. New Britain Camera club, meeta"!n Murray’'s studio. Valient Hive, L, I‘u.L 277 Main street. 0. T. M. meets Canton Foster, P. M., meets in Jr. 0. U. A. M. hall, * New Britain Camp, M. 'W. A., meets | at 34 Church street. nd HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. The informal ballot for the election of the officers for the board of publi- cation will take place tomorrow. The seniors can be thankful that such a board is about to come into existence as the pupils in charge of the publica- tion of the annual “Behive” which M published by the graduating class will be greatly benefitted by the advice of Juniors jwho will compose part of this * new organization. The dance artists can rejoice. Mem- bers of the tennis team are planing * for a dance to be given Friday the 23d. This no doubt will be s brilliant affair judging from the crowds that hung around the postérs that twers placed in the lobby this morning. Seniors slapped each others backs this morning when they heard that , & the game between the junlor and the seniors in the Intercl Basketball league was postponed until a week from this Thursday. From now until that date one will sce the seniors earnestly practicing in the gym by or- der of the rest of the seniors. The Juniors are constantly arguing that thet game will be decisive victory for their clags with Dyson at center. NO APPOINTMENTS YET. Acting Mayor M. Irving Jester has not as yet completed the naming ot the special civic commiitee to co-oper- ate with Governor Holcomb in obtain- ing a military efficiency census in this city. He had many names under con- sideration and will anncunce them shortly, he staters TO CALL BRTITONS IN U, S. England to Summons Her Sons to Join Army. Washington, Feb. 13.—A call to British subjeets in the United States to ¢ enroll for military service is expected soon. The greatest care will be exer- cised to avoid clashing with American neutrality laws, which forbid recruit- ing and which already have been in- voked gganst certa:n British officials. It was learned here that a similar summons to British subjects in Japan had met with nearty response. This is believed to have furnished inspira- tion for a campaign in this country. It is said that there are thousands of British subjects in the United States available for military duty. B sh commercial interests here, it is planned, will be maintained with the leeast injury possible. 1t is said that men employed by neuatral firms could shift to British concerns and fill the places of men who Aid enlist. e BANK OF PHILIPPINES. ‘Washington, FFeb. 13.—The federal reserve hoard today took under cons sideration the appointment of thq Bank of the Philippines as foreign correspondent in the Orient of the re< serve bank of San Francisco. undet somewhat similar arrangements raise in the case of the Bank of Englan as foreign correspondent of the Req serve Bank of New York.