New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1917, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN HERAILD. [Zauos ;‘I_EW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917. —gmper—— { his full part in the war unless he is GOVERNMENT SEFKS |ENGLAND MAY TAKE [sroees oo tovisat . . success of the loan. T0 IMPROVE GUNS Naval Gonsfilting Board Meets With Mining Engineers New York, Feb. 16.—In an effort to Increase the eificiency and life of guns constructed for the United States gov- ernment, members of the naval cor- sulting board will, during the next two weeks, meet with the American Institute of Mining Engineers for dis- cussion of an important phase of this subject. The meeting will be in con- ection with the 114th convention o the | institute to e held in New York dui- Ing the week of February 19 and offi- cers of the army and navy, goverr ment representatives and other exper will be in atiendance. ¢ The special subject to be discussed deals with the erision of guns, or the hardening of the inner surface of the gun tibe, a problem which is at pre ent seriously engaging ihe attention of many of the country’s leading en- | tists. The discussion will be opcned with a paver of Dr. Henry Fay, of the | Masachusetts Institute o Technology, which parer was prepared f i a se- ries of tests of metals made at the Watertown arsenal, and which is one of the technical papers at the forth- ! coming conventipn. A committee of the naval consulting board, headed by Dr. Hudson Maxim, will be present at the mining engineers | session and discuss the subject, after which the committee will hold a meet- ing with technical experts in the rooms 'MONEY FROM PEOPLE | Force Being Considered If Volun- tary Subscriptions Fail London, Feb. 16.—A warning given by Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his recent Glasgow | speech, that compulsion may be re- !sorted to if the present voluntary method fails to bring in sufficient sub- criptions to the new war loan, has wttracted widespread attention. The chancellor used such terms as ! “the possibility of other ways of ob- taining the money,” methods which he said he “believed would be bad for the country,” but that if such steps werc necessary ‘“account would be taken of the contributions which had already been made voluntarily.” ‘What was wanted, the chancellor add- ed, were small amounts from as many as possible. i “we may take a lesson even from our ! this country—I hope to see it changed —it has not been a custom for gov- ernment loans to be widespread {among the people. The fourth Ger- man loan had 4,700,000 subscribers of under 100 pounds ($500) cach. I {want to see something of that kind in this country. I want to see every man have a spirit of emulation and ! have a feeling that he has not played of the American Institute of Min\ing‘ Engineers. The entire naval consulting board | has been invited to attend the meeting : of the institute and about five hundred mining engineers from all parts of the country will be present. LAWYERS WAR STRATEGISTS | | Majority of Members of War Council of Britain Are Worshippers at the Throne of Blackstone. London, Feb. 28.—The war council of the British Empire, over which Premier Lloyd George will preside, will constitute:a supreme proof of the commanding influence which lawyers exercise in British affairs, for an over- whelming majority of the statesmen present will be members of the legal profession. One of the lawyers who will at- tend the council has played a con- spicious part on the fleld of battle. General Smuts, who has been in com- mand of the British forces in Kast Africa is a member of the Cape Town bar, and served as State Attorney of the Transvaal. To find a lawyer-soldler of General Smuts’'s eminence in the annals of British soldiery, it is necessary to go back to the Parliamentary war, in the seventeenth century, in which Gen- eral Ireton took a prominent part. A motion for the exclusion of all law- yers from the House of Commans was discussed in 1649, but was defeated after a long debate. PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC Ships Making Passage in 1916 Num- bered 1253, Carrying 4,931,917 Tons | of Cargo. wr Panama, Feb. 23.—Traffc statistics for the Panama Canal show that the number of ocean going ships which made the transit through,the canal in the calendar year 1918 was 1,263. Their aggregate net tonnage was 3,983,869 tons, and thay carried a total of 4,931,911 tons of cargo. The number of ships was seven | B per cent, greater than in 1915, but in | net tonnage, tolls, and cargo, the rec- ord for 1916 was a little less than one | per cent. less than 1915, The two years had about the same bulk of traffio, and both saw the canal closed for a period of three and a half months. “Here at least,” continued Mr. Law, ‘ enemies. It had not been a custom in | “Do not run away with the idea that our new loan is so great a success that nothing more is necessary. The result of the publicity given the loan in the press is that there is an idea that it is already a complete success. I do not know whether it is a success or to what extent it is a success. “With their daily publication of big subscriptions there is a danger of people saying: ‘When others are giv- ing millions and we see it every day in the newspapers, what is the use of our giving hundreds?’ Do not be un- der that delusion. The sums we need I expect to get not in millions but in hundreds from the people of this country." GERMAN PRESSES STILLED. Amsterdam, Feb. 23.—The Frank- furter Zeitung says that 1,430 news- papers and periodicals have suspend- ed publication in Germany since the outbreak of the war. Before the end some 13,000 newspapers and period- icals were published in Germany. POET CROP HEAVY. Tokio, Feb. 23.—Thirty-seven thou- i i sand verses have been submitted by i the Japanese people in the annual po- spices. This year the subject is “The Distant Snow-clad Mountain.” At the final examination six poems will be se- lecte.d and read before the emperor and empress. ORIENTALS HOODING GLAND. London, Feb. 23.—England is ex- | Deriencing in a limited sensc an- in- vasion ‘of Oriental servants. Chinese and Japanese are landing here in greater numbers than usual and are etic competition under imperial au- | ourdealer hasasupply of fresh Sunkist Oranges every day. ‘These are the uniformly good oranges. Order a dozen today. Sunlkist Uniformly Good Oranges CaliforniaFruitGrowersExchange LA 56 taking the places of the native serv- | ants who have joined the colors, gone in for munition making or back to | the farms where such good wages are now being paid. The Orientals are said to be proving popular because i they make themselves more generally . useful and seem never to tire of work. NON! NON! PARBLEU. Paris, Feb. 23.—The proposal to grow potatoes in the Bois de Bou- logne is not received with favor by IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO FIND A BARGAIN AT OUR ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE lc};a.mps Elysees, or Park Monceau [ menaced, parts of the Bois were used |is felt for precautionary steps Parisians. Why, they exclaim, are|used instead. Early in the war, when |for herds of cattle and sheep as an | might damage this most favorit not the Luxemburg, plots in the|the retrenchéd camp of Paris was | emergency measure, but now no need | places frequented by Parisians, YOUR TURN MAY COME NEXT MAKE SECURE WHAT YOU CANNOT INSURE ’ — e e =8 t3 T 098,60, wion. wasimat saset [N Uia70 MATTER WHAT LINE OE/EUSINESS YOU ARE ENGAGED IN—no matter where yoiir office o dactory is locatedlor what may be the natute of your building—the very Tifc pisu to the expenses. The ships in the | § lv business may be destroyed in an hour if fire 1'!n<ls your records unprotected. Desks and filing devices do not afford adequate protection against fire. Your old iron safe is inadequate to contain :‘l;‘g‘}tfifv 2‘:::!!}1‘;228::1:1e;rtn.deof wke}\::‘ more thanra frf'xcu'on (.sf-"uur p‘ncc]e:\\ but uninsurable business records. da}a, indexes, correspondence files, lvmnkh of accounting, legal papers, prospect lis contracts, formulae, blueprints, aggregate tonnage in 1916, In 1915 | glrauru_] JS, Maps, casc reports and the private papers that _r(‘]’)rcwm_lhc fruits of your years of industry. I'here is one way to make them safe from fire and secure from meddling fingers and they were one-faurth of all the trafiic, file them systematically and conveniently within the fire-defying wall of and in 1914 they were two-fifths. ! Most of the former coastwise ships have been diverted to the more profit- able foreign trade. tory, every public building and every private home. There is a SAFE-CABINET of a size and style that will provide FIRE protection and business system for the filug devic f SEAMEN STRANDED office and one that will lend itself perfectly to the demands of your home. Oonsul at Copenhagen Distraught to CABINET will afford complete fire protection plus maximum convenience. Call Us Up Now Before It Is Too Late S PRINTING CO., 66 Church St. Then, and only then, you will know that they are safe. You will close your office door cvening with the serene contidence that you will find the vital statistics of your business or professional life secure and undamaged when you return in the moring. i There is a SAFE-CABINET suited exactly to the requirements of every office, every fac- Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 23— American seamen when they sign for | f voyages to Scandinavian ports should | be extremely careful to see that the contract reads for a return voyage. It Americans are discharged in Scandinavian harbors it is next to im- | passible for them to obtain berths and | they run the great risk of becoming | in ~ desperate circumstances. Many | B Americans not being Amerl | men by profession but having come here as seamen under foreign flags are at present stranded in Copenhagen | and Edward O, Winslow, the Ameri- can consul general is at his wits end to care for them. ‘T will do my best”, he said, o no longer nori in Copenhagen and work of any kind especially for { get them home. But conditions are foreigners is difficult to obtain.”