New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 9

‘Do you hear it? Spring is in the air. This week we spring the new styles for Men. Suits of medium weight that are models of correct dress—just the same patterns and fabrics that the “ex- ‘ clusive tailor” makes up at ! <higher prices. . Our price $15.00 to $30.00. t'gzhe new Spring Hats, some o Spnng Overcoats, $20.00 to Get Your -House " Wired. The greatest wiring campaign in New Britain’s history is now . In:progress. Lot us explain in "The Season’s Most Timely Money Saving Sale Door Mats 0% Off # An old worn out Door Mat is worse than no Door Mat at . all. How's yours? Hbre's your chance; the best COCOA BRUSH AND RUBBER DOOR MATS % at a genuine teduction of 1§ iMper cent from regular prices. High class perfect goods. MULTIGRAPHS LETTER 'ag-¢imile of Typewriting done in ‘$7and 3 cclors with signatures. Letter Heads Printed. NARTTFORD . TYPEWRITER €8 ING B State Sermez. Hartford. Conn. CONSTRUCTIVE 4 ADVERTISING m us for ORIGINAL TDEAS for your PRODUCT. A postal will Bave our salesman explain ! i—:‘mn‘ department. EXPEGT T0 FINISH GENSUS NEXT WEEK| Large Delegation of High School Students Work Today Despite the fact that a large corps of volunteers has been working early and late for the past week it has been impossible for New Britain to complete its military census wd&y ‘a8 requested by the central headquarters, due to a large amount of unforseen work that requires the utmost pre- cision and detajl to tabulate, Pres- ent indications, are that the census will be completed about the middlé of mext week and Chairman A. F. Corbin stated this morning that, he hopes by closing time tonight to have the group work so far completed as tg be able to start the house to house canyass on Monday or Tuesday. Today Unusually Busy. Today has been the busiest at the census headquarters since work was begun. Augmented by High school volunteers and Boy Scouts the veter- an workers at the office have beeiri working in whirlwind fashion. They have attacked their titanic task with cyglonic and dynaimic force and when thé office closes at 9 o’clock tonight all business should be brought up to date. Aide E. Burlingham Schurr was at.the office this morning at 7- o’clock and detailed the Misses Helen Allen and Vera Schade, who have been working all week, to explain the dutjes to the new recruits. Every- body took hold well and in an hour ‘the work was preceding with ma- { hall and volu . corps of workers has this in charge chine-like regularity. About fourteen Boy Scouts have been running er- rands all day and at each office about the city they Have left a slogan card reading: “My best service for city; state and nation.” Miss Dorothy Zimmerman, who has worked at the office_every day, has been on' the job every evening as well and in additior to the experienced workers this morn- ing were the following ‘High school people: Viola Nelson, Charlotte Tr: der, Edith Larson, Ina Carter, Fran- ces Richter,” Louise Zwiebelhofer, Irene Sullivan, Katherine Whalen. Margaret Hagist, Florence Thorngren, Howard Stotts, Howard Loomis, Lloyd Minor, James Crowe, Anthon; Sinkiewicz, Agnes Dalton, Minnie Gritzmachep, Willlam Cullen, Grace Hatton, Abbie Dawson, Katherine Sheehan, Irene Loomis, Edna Hayden, Bertha Kislewetter, Diana Berkowitz, Cornelius Sullivan and James Tierney. Last evening a force of workers from the P. & F. Corbin affice worked at headquarters. They were: the Misses Conroy, Queenin, Heslifi, Cash- en, Pfeiffer,’ Zehler, ‘Niles Uebel and Messers F.~P. White, ~Shaler; B. Hockmuth, George Lusk, J. Jack- son Frank O’Connor, E. C. Johnson, E. Schaefer, H. Mitchell, Thure And- erson; also Aides Vance and Schurr, H. W. Briere, Ethel Mount, Christine Mitchell, Dorothy Zimmerman, C. S. Neuman, H. C. Blakeslee, J. C. Han- sen and J. R. Andrews. Lieutenant Arthur H. Johnson of Co. E. First Connecticut Infantry, has undértaken the task of enrolling the members’ of the military companies in the city. Joseph A. Hazert will en- roll the employes of the Cremo Brew- ing company. Those who toiled at headquarters yesterday afternoon were C. F. Perry, H."W. Briere, Thur- za' Lockwood, Myrtle Dunham, Anna Fitzgerald, Floremce L. Hanford, Mrs. James Skene, V. M. Palmer, Mrs. Norman P. Cooley, H. C. Billings, Mil- dred Hellberg, Helen Allen and Vera Schade. George P, Spear has con- sented to let some of his stenograph- ers do census work in his office. Candy and Cigars. At \nfloug times during their work the volunteers have been presented with candy and cigars by apprecia- tive men. This morning Chairman A. F. Corbin sent in a five pound box of chocolates and last evening E. W. Christ and Johnstone Vance passed around candy and cigars. Comce In and Sign Up. Chairman Corbin made the especial request today that every man in the city who has not already filled out a blank and who can possibly spare the time will visit headquarters in City rily do so. A special and by having as many as possible fill out their blanks before the street census is taken will facilitate the work. “Those who do this will be do- ing a great deal jqward assisting Gov- ernor Holcomb in the completion of the military census as soon as possi- e”, Mr. Corbin stated. Thus far no more, refusals have been reported. In addition to the two previously noted, a third man at first declined to fill out the blank but when its purpose was fully explained to him he readily did as requested. He did more. Said he: “My middle name is ‘Scrapp’ and you can write that in if you want to. When it comes to helping Uncle Sam I'm .there with both feet, but I didn’t understand ‘the ideal purpose for which this census was intended. That’s why I at first declined to answer.” Three men who have seen service in the British army, two in the Boer war and one in the Sudan, have filed out blanks. Each man has stated that he is a citizen of the United States. A greater number of veterans of thre Frapco-Prussian war have like- wise filled out blanks and all are United States citizens. There has also been enrolled one man who confessed to having had military experience and he modestly wrote ‘“Lieutenant, Rus- so-Jap war.” The returns from the police and fire department show many Spanish war veterans and a large number who have done military duty. DAILY HERALD SATURDAY MARCH 3 1917, Business Insurance to have a depositary for your | working capital upon which yod can depend for Safety and Efficlency. The Commercial Trust Com- pany cordially invites you to start a checking account and make use of its superior ser- NO FOOD SHORTAGE SAYS SEC’Y HOUSTON Head of Dept. of Agriculture Warns Against Alarm _Washington, March 3—Greater food crops and’ the practice of house- hold economies are urged by Secre- tary of Agriculture Houston as meas- ures to help reduce the .cost of liv- ing. American families, he estimat- €d in a statement on the food situa- tion, wasted in their kitchens annually more than $700,000,000 worth of edi- bles. . There was nothing in the situation to justify hysteria, however, he said, because there was no real shortage 'of food in this country.. Mr. Houston emphasized the importance of the food cost investigation ‘directed by President Wilson, and held out hope that jncreased acreages this year might insure greater 'food supplies, ‘The wheat and potato crops, he said, 'were unusually short last yéar, but nevertheless there would be enough to supply very nearly normal needs. The food problem cannd§ be solved, in the ‘'secretary’s opinion, through price fixing by the federal or state goVernments, but by “intelligent plan- ning and constructive action in con- Jjunction with the operation of normal forces.” Urging a full inquiry into the causes of advancing prices, he said: “A full and satisfactory explanation of prevailing prices is not possible orl the basis of existing ' knowledge. ‘Where the food supply is located, who owns it, what may be the difficulties of securing it, whether the local mar- ket conditions are due to car short- age, whether there is artificial manip- ulation or control, no one can state with certainty. It is essential that we have, the facts, not only because of the light they might throw on -present conditions, but also because they are prerequisite for the working out of a :permanent, just. and economical system of marketing. The investiga- tion directed by the President ought to give the fedéral trade commission and the department of agriculture the necessary funds.” ! waste in Kitchen. 7 Limitation of waste in the kitchen, Secretary Houston pointed out, would do much toward affording partial and immediate relief from dppressive prices. “As a nation,” he nddeJ “we seem to' have a disdain of ‘economizing. Of course ,the waste in families of very limited mfeans is slight, but in fam- ilies of moderate and ample means is considerable. Even if the estimate of $700,000,000 waste in the country, as prepared by our experts, is cut in half it would. still leave an enormous ‘waste.” Prices must be maintained at a cer- tain level or farmers would not in- crease their output, Mr. Houston said, and either the governmernt or the community must guarantee a reason- able pri 'Those! who are urging that the farmers be induced greatly to increase their acreage beyond that which their own judgment indicates,” he said, know very little about the psychology of farmers or about the fundamental necessities of the situation. There 1S no need of alarm over re- ports of a food shorta; the ' secre- tary believes, because crjps generally, with the exception of gtain and po- tatoes, were as large or larger than the five-year average. “It is evident,” Secretary Houston continued. “that the public has failed to look at all facts involved, es- pecially in the case of wheat. Ap- parently the public has compared the crop of 1916 solely with the record crop of 1915, and failed to take into account the unusually large carry- over from that year into the present year cf 164,000.000 bushels or more. Explains Export Situation. “Furthermore, the public’s atten- tion has been fixed on the large ex- ports of the two years immediately following the outbreak of the war, The exports of wheat in normal times are approximately 105,000,000 bush- els. The year preceding the war the exports were 145,000,000. In 1914-15 they e 322,000,000, and in 1915-16, 243,000,000. Looking only at the crop of 640.000,000 bushels and hav- ing in mind the possibilities of ex- ports as suggested by the figure of 832,000,000 for 1914-15, the public naturally apprehended there would be a lack of bread. Dealers and others became unduly excited. “The total ayailable supply, in- cluding both tl\% ind urry-mer. part of ,nhioh. it hou!d not suitable ' for, mng pury uhoulg have been considered as well as the relatively small éxports for the first six months of the current year. Up to the first of January ex- ports were only 97,000,000 bushels, and they havé tended to decrease partly on account of t¥e disturbed shipping conditions since the first of January: Our normal domestic needs for wheat for human food, for seed- ing ‘purposes, and 'for a reserve to carry over into the next year require 640,000,000 bushels. As I have stat- ed, the total year’s supply is 804, 000,000 bushels. This would give us an avaHable export surplus of 164,- 000,000 bushels.” The secretary pointed to an increas- ing meat supply and tto a largely in- creased acreage of wheat last fall. and predicts a large increase this spring.. A big yleld on this acreage, he says, should give the country a 1,000,000,000 bushel wheat crop. VILLA TO DISAPPEAR. | Will Try to Captuse First Chier Car- ranza. El Paso, March 3.—Erom a wound- ed Vfl}s soldier: who is here today for medical ' treatment, government agents claim to have learned of Villa’s plan to reduce his force to 300 picked men, abandon his campaign - against Chihuahua City .and disappear for three months on a secret mission in the interests of his provisional gov- ernment of which Miguel Diaz Lom- bardo is to be' provisional president. Villa’s reason for this movement was said to have been two-fold. One was to regain his health, which hax broken by exposure in the fleld and by, his old wound ,in the leg and to madke a desperate’ effort to capture Carranza while the first chief was on his present trip. City ftems - | Goodness of Aunt Delia’s Bread.— advt. Free: 1-2 peck of potatoes with every Suit or Overcoat. Besse-Leland Co.—advt. 2 - Prize masquerade at Norden Bun- galow tonight. Adm. 35c. Ander- son’s orch. Four m'lzea given.—advt, 7 Henry Clew’ s§ Weekly Letter (Special to the Herald) New York, March 3—This week has brought the United States near to the brink of war. Its avoidance now seems almost hopeless, unless there is due respect to American rights. ‘War is certainly not desired by the ‘American people, as has beer” amply |/ proved by the extreme forbearance which they have shown under persist- ent and exasperating violation of Am- erican rights, as well as disregard for pledges distinctly made %o our govern- ment. Americans had eagerly loooked forward to the welcome mission of acting as peacemalker; sincerely, hope- ful of ending the tragic struggle in Europe and softening as far as possi~ ble the consequences of defeat. That hope seems dashed complietely and in- stead we must add to the universal upheaval by forcibly . defending our .rights and doing our part towards preserving freedom, human rights and civilization. If the call to arms comes, it must be obeyed in the spirit of highest patriotism; not a patriotism based .upon love of destruction, con- quest or hatred, but a patriotism in- | spired by love of country, by -devo- tion to justice, freedom and the fund- amental principles of government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” upon which this republic was firmly established mere’than a century ago. No bitterness need be indulged in against the German people whose good qualities are wawell understood. Our antagonism is directed’. chiefly against, Prussian militarism which has brought nothing but a deluge ‘of bl in Europe and immeasuréable disas- ter to Germany; including an after- math of hate that will require gener- ations to obliterate. In the last analy- sig this is a war - between different types of government between oligar- chy 'and democracy; and in such -a struggle there is but one side for any real American to stand, regardless of birth or minor sympathie: ‘We must stand by the president should be given the power he asks, for he has done his utmost to avoid conflict with Germany, but is now determined to defend American rights. Only con- gress can dedlare war and legislate for the necessary revenue. Financial circles accept the situa- tion calmly. Pending such uncertain- ty, dealings on the stock exchange were naturally restricted, until the present crisis assumed more definite tendencies. When suspense is ended greater activity may be expected. The first effect of war or preparation for such event outside of government and military circles will be reflected in the money market. Large loans will immediately be forthcoming, and the expected $300,000,000 three per cent loan will be followed by others, unless thé war ends earlier than now expect- ed. In addition, the Allies will make further demands upon our monetary resources, several important loans now being reported under negotia- tion: and since these will be employed for the purpose of buying more munt tions they will of course be readily taken. Fortunately our banking. sy: tem is in splendid shape for meeting this crisis. Ample time has been af- forded for preparation. Our banking resources are generally in liquid for: deposits are hea money is abund- ant and relatively about the cheapest commodity obtainable. Were it not for the conservative feeling in busi- ness circles, created by high prices, by high wages and the war crisis, the present boom in industry would un- doubtedly go on indefinitely to fur- mr ud‘mthlp- d Our New Spring Clothes in our Ladies’ and Men’s De- partments are ready for your inspection. Financial STRONG TREND 1§ SHOWN ON STREET {Few Shares; Show Weakness at Short Session Wall Street—Active “stocks were ap- breciably higher ‘during the greater part of today's short session though subject to occasional irregularity, be- cause of the heaviness of a few spe- clalties. Chief among these were Studebaker and Barrett company, the latter making an extreme decline of 8% points to 110. Gains were most marked in coppers, leading indus- trials, oils, shippings, Central Leath- er and American Woolen. The closing Wwag strong. Sales were estimated at 300,000 shares. Bonds were irreg- ular with heaviness in Paris 6’s. New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by . Richter & Co., members of the New York. Stock Ex- change. Represented by E. W. Eddy. . March, 3, 1917 High Low Close Am, Beet-Sugar .. 90 88% 90 Am Car & Fdy Co. 65% 65% 657% | Am Ice .. ces. 26 26 Am Can .. 43% 43% L Am Can pfd ..‘.108 108 Am Loco 71 71 Am Smelting .... 99% 99% Am Sugar .......110 \ 110 Am Tel & Tel....125% 125% Anaconda 'Cop ... 83 83 A TS Fe Ry Co..102% Baldwin Loco . 52% B & O . T5% Beth Steel ... 130% Butte Superior-~... 48% Canadian Pacific .153% Ches & Ohio ..... 58% Chino Copper 60 Chi Mil & St Paul. 81% ol F & I 463 Cons Gas ........121% Crucible Steel .... 66%. .665% Platlllers Sec .... 23y 22y _— commitments, and on no account should they depart from such a poli- cy for the time being a least. Eveh the prospect of further large gold im- ports rendered necessary by heavy merchandise exports does not tempt them to expand their activities at thig time, owing to the dangers of further inflation and\risks of a decline in com- modities which would follow the end of war, also larger crops next season Wwhich high prices . would naturally bring. At present there 1s no means of checking this undesirable flood of gold, except by importing merchandise more freely, which i impracticable, or biuying back our securities from abroad, or by lending ‘more freely in the shape of notes and other forms of credit. The immediate effect of war would be increased taxes, large bond issues, heavy orders for military supplies, the rushing forward of naval con- struction and recrul‘ing of large num- bers of men for thelarmy, who would be thus withdrawn from various em- ployments and add to the problems of the labor situation. Several months must elapse before any considerable military force could be dispatched to Europe, and it is not known in whau direction our naval forces would bhe employed, though defense would nat- urally receive first attention. Mean- while we could still offer consider- able aid to the Allies, sin¢e our mu- nitions capacity is probably much ahead of our own requirements and could be readily enlarged. In miany directions preparedness, though far from mplete .is well advanced as to firét steps, simply betause the mobilization of finance, industry and transportation had been planned ahead sufficiently to render execution comparatively easy. Just how the stock market will be- have in event of hostilities it is diffi- cult to estimate. The prevalent opin- jon is that war has been discounted and that after the first shock, which may cause a fall, theré will come a general recovery owing to relief from suspense and expectation of war in- flation. This market las been well liquidated during the last two months, and there is a great abundance of capital awaiting investment when con- fidence revives. On the other hand 1t would be hazdrdous to overlook the effect of impending heavy. govern- ment issues, domestic and foreign, which will increase the demand for funds and cause frequent shifting of high priced investments yielding low returns to some of the new govern- ment issues which offer safe and more attractive returns. Then there is always the possibility, increasing each day, of an early and unexpected ending of the war which would ‘of course precipitate a fresh readjust- ment in business affairs throughout the civilized world. For these and other reasons, no engagements en- tering into the future can be made with any reasonable assurance, and the only safe policy is step by step and day by day. At the same time the country must and will quickly ac- | commodateitself to the new condi- 1253 81% 1013 523 % 127% 4% 152 5814 58 811 46 121 52% MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE | 31 West Main Street, City Hall Buildin Telephone 2040 " 100 shs American Hardware 100 shs Landers, Frary & Clark: 100 shs Union Mfg. Co. 100 shs Stanley Works 100 shs New Britain Machine | 50 shs American Hosiery Co. ¢ Erie ¢ .\ Effe 1st pfd ..... 39 Generdl Electric .164 Goodrich Rub ... 66% Great Nor pfd ...113 Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 32% Illinols Central ..100% Inspiration Kennecott Cop . Lack Steel .. Lehigh Val .. Max Mot com .. Mex Petrol' . 27 39 164 563 113 32% 100% 59% 463 81 1% 55% 87% 56% 96 256% 445 1033 128% 54 95Y% 28% 4o 2T 26 38% 163% 85 112% 32% 1003 58% Eveats Toalghi "“Our New Minister,” Lygeum ter. High class photo drama, Fox'l ater. Vaudeville and movlns vlct Keoney’s theater. E —_— Burritt Grange, meets at 242 1 street. NYNH&HRR 444 Nor Pac .. Nor & West Penn R R Peoples ‘Gas . 1 Pressed Steel Car . 76% Ray Cons . _28% Reading ... Rep I & S com . So Pac . So Ry . Studebaker' . Texas Oil ...... Union Pac Utah Cop ... U S Rub Co U S Steel ... U S Steel ptd . ‘Westinghouse ‘Willys Overland LOCAL STOCKS (fiumished by Richter & Co. The market has been quiet today except for a little .strength shown in American Hardware, due to the in- crease in dividend rate from 7 per cent to 8 per cent. Stock closed 137 bid, 139 asked. Below are closing quotations: American Hardware American Brass . American. Hoslery . American Silver ...... Billings & Snencer . Bristol o\ Colt’s A mn Eagle Lock . Landers, Frary & Clark National Marine Lamp New Britain Machine . North & Judd ........ Peck, Stowe & Wiicox . Russell Mfg. Co. Standard Screw com. Stanley Rule & Level 410 Stanley Works ... 100 Traut & Hine . . 65 Union Mfg. Co. 100 Scovill Mfg. Co. . 580 Nites, Bement Pond. C. 173 Marlin Arms .. 85 Chamberlain council, Jr. O, I ‘M. meets in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall. | Vega. society meets in Vega hall. DEATH CLAIMS TWO Report of Vital Statistics’' at Clerk’s Office Show Fourteen De During Past Weck. R The mortality report filed &t city clerk’s .office for the past shows that the death rate here been two per day. Fourteen were _recorded. Seven marriage censes were issued during the and eleven resl estate transfers Wi recorded aa follows: Bédwell Land €o. to James Hampton street, ‘lpnd. Catherine M. Fallon to Wm. lon, ‘one-half. interest in street property. Abe SHmelman to Bam et al, land and building. Mortimer H. Camp, et al., to H J. Lynch, land on Commonwe: \Gennoro Pa,lmleri to Carmh cavallo, South' Majin street, land building. Estate Horace Booth to Zygm it Sysakowsk{, Broad and Smith str Estate Pasqualina Cucavallo Gennero' Palmiero, South Main John J. .Higgins: to. Wm. By land on Willow street. 4 Ml.rfln B. Higgins to John* J’. H gins, land at Brown Heights. Rosamunda Schrbachker to Stvinder, Alden street, Jand and bu ng. Estate Patrick Fitzsimons to Jo Fitzsimons, land. Alice . Smith, estate to Hard City Co-operative association, .Smalley and Connerton streets. ¥ ' Estate Patrick Conn n to Tho as Connerton, et al.. lahd on and East Laurel streets. . 100 2293 136% . 137 306 139 310 100, 32 110 69 795 89 58 36 87 89 31 320 360 428 102 65 105 595 , 176 90 J American Brass, Niles, Bement Pond, Bristol Brass, .Standard Screw, and Scovill Mig. Co ‘Bought and Sold FRISBIE & Investment’ Securities “ctheoming - 36 PEARL STREET -:- -2« HARTF g thres ' F.W. PORTER, Local Representative. ment, * it Sugh the Ame to arrive at dlng treatme e of the -a Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. . A STRONG, RELIABLE CORPORATION organized and qualified through years of eflcmu. trustworthy service, to act'as Conservator, Guardisaiy Executor or Administrator. CAPITAL $750,000. SURPLUS $750,000. Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit‘Co. M, M. WHAPLES, Brest. HARTFORD, CONN, |