New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 3

S n Store ! . OUR - . 'QRESS GOODS SECTION Awaits Your Coming " To Look Over the New Nov- elties in’ PRINTED VOILES At 29c a Yard. The New S " Designs in At 25¢ a Yard - Swell Sty i “BON TEX” ZEPHYR GINGHAMS, SPRING DRIVE WILL TAX HUMANE WORK Even Greater Energy by American Women Is Required The following letter has been re- céived for the women doing war re- llef work in New Britain: Boston, March 10,"1917, “Mrs; Forest. from our Parls depot has just be¢n here for a few days prior to her return to * France, Shé has only come over to this coi try for two or three weeks—on b ness connected with our fun X I only wish that all of our dinlp‘::: cculd have met her, and have heard her tell of the wonderful rellef and encouragement, which the contriba- tions from America bring. e;otr;t::- Who had heard her. would think of stopping the supplies for reed . is so desperate, and :;:undd to.,Iner;ue in an overwhelm- g degree, when the spring offensive begins, six hundred thousand beds have been prepared for that drive by evacuating® every ‘man, who could be moved from the hospital, which are nearer to -the. frong. Surely this means that we ‘must redouble and which s which the{" ) treble our efforts, unless we are to.|’ fail In the time of greatest need.” An: American i France three month ago, said: “Apropos of this wonderfial . pa- tience, galety and power of making tho best of it, with which we -have been struck from the first in every' wounded and ‘crippled man with whom we have talked. I wiil tell you of just one ward (the first of the sort in which I had ever been,) where every man in the room had had some sort of amputation, and the .room held .forty. (I have been in many since.) Six had been amputated the day (before and so were pale and ‘si lent. T think had I known that I.was aboutito be led into such a roor'}x. T ‘| should have' hesitated, both for: their 'AX OF 20 MILLS Board May Not Be Able to Confine Assessment Bven to New Britain tax-payers are facing Very: strong possibility of a 20 mill tax: rate for the mext year. It may .evefi go a little Irigher ‘than that,. but £ for:‘the rate t6' bé 19 ‘mills or less will entall sonie delicate and seeming- iy impossible figuring by the board.of finance and taxation. ' 'The abeclal ommittee of ‘the finance board, Mayor Quigley, F. 8. Seafle, P. 'F. King, “F. 8. Chamberlain’ and E. N Humphrey, met yesterday . at. 4:30 o'clock at the National bank to go {over ‘the estimates and see , what “ftems could best be cut. At the com- llusion of the' meeting enough had Druned to malke the tax rate 20 sillls.The figures with which this Spbecjal committee. were confronted > ¥ showed that they miust' cut off ap- ately $140,000 from appropria- asked in ‘order ‘to maintain a 19.6 rate and more than $100,000 fo¥ iV 2120"mill rate. 'This specia] commit- : will meet. again ‘tomorrow - eve- “sping of the finance board. ; 2 There is little ‘doubt that each de- partment in the city will have t6 ;. C n -and in o doing the fingnce will be compelled to & refuse " them' ‘'money which ‘they féel' they must have. ‘The one possible excep- Lion is the health department where “the’amount asked is conservative and its ‘use has been smatisfactorily ex- plajmed. The -fire 'dej ent - will -g:hr:bly be cut heavjly. !The figange . will not grant both.an aerial % truckand & new southwest station and y. in fact deny both. It has been sted by this committee that a of Jand in the southwest section # purchased his year for about $6,000 and used as & nucleus for the new i station next year. The park board will also be cut and the $10,000 per- gola on Walnut Hill 'k may be eliminated. The board of public works will also recelve a great deal ‘less than 1s asked for in the esti- < ~DRINKS BELLADONNA. Stranger Takes Polson fn Public Without Tl Effocts. ‘ 4 Calmly draining the contents of a wial of tincture of belladonna ‘and then dropping the vial almost at the £ of Trafic Policeman Frederick %:tcner. an unidentified middle aged boarded a Plainville car yester- afternoon and proceeded on his y as if nothing unusual had hap- The car crew, seen later, re- that the man acted naturally the way to his destination and swed no ill effects of the double Noting the man’s action and becom- curious, Policeman ‘Wagner ked over to the curb and picked the bottle. He saw that the bottle en purchased at a nearby drug #nd made a trip there to in- . A clerk informed him t the belladonna had beem bought ortly before by the’man in qu ‘ pd that the vial contained enough drug to give a mornmial’ m considerable of a shock, {f not odu e of fatal results, For some Policeman Wagner Jistened in seke and ‘mine. But not knowing, I went in and, hardly realizing thc sense of what I was being ' told, ' I found myself looking into the hand | of a man who héld out towards me, at the surgeon’s suggestion, fifteen or twenty pleces of shell, nail, bone, which had been taken out of his leg | the day before. He was as proud as @ boy with a handful of new marbles. ‘We.moved to the next bed where we were ‘shown the man’s arm—a won- derful operation that I do not unde: stand, where the diseased and' broken bone had been sawn off and the two parts of the arm brought nearer to- scther. Heére again, great pride both on the part of the surgeon.and of the man. A little further along we came to a mere boy standing at the foot of his leaning on crutches, for one kfi"" gone. W talked with Kim. He b on ' the “Medaille. Militaire” for bravery 4@ was weéafing It on his Dbreast. “These kind ladies have come to offer us help, Jean; thank them for their generous desires,” the ° sister saild. “Perbaps the ladies will some day send ine a leg,” sald the boy, laughing, “but I hope they will send hat iy quicker than the one I had, for it was not fast enough to save me from the obus of the bdsches. They ; say ‘that "la bas en Amerique tney are very quick,” and he was de- lighted with his own little joke . and utterly regardiess of his pitiful- con- dition. Somehow I felt as if he. were trying to save my feelings, for by this time my eves were swimming. - It only needed one thing more, as the Iast straw. The surgeon; rather brutal- 1y 1 thought, suddenly turned down the bed clothes from ancther boy, pale, pitiful fellow, and showed us a leg amputated the day before. It was a grave case, but they had.saved his life, “and ‘today he is a little ner- vous,” said the surgeon. I felt as if I could scream. Wh 1 thought of that poor fellow, all those poor fel- lows, there in that noisy room, with all discomforts and’ suffering every- where around: them, far from friemds, and just beginning this new life of mutilation and deprivation, it seemed impossible to bear any more, and I just coried, I didn’t cry out loud, but I got out of the room as fast as I could; and the sister, kind ‘soul, took me into the little chapel and there I stayed until T had gotten back my self-control. But those men them- selves—do you think they luse their self-control? THey say they are qao gayest men in the whole ‘ hospital. And the surgeon said to me, “Ah, ma- dame, that light-hearted gaiety for which we as a nation have so often been reproached has stood us in good stead in these horrible times. ' It has brought many a man up from the brink of the grave,” Strangely enough, I have mever yet heard from any French lips words of revenge, though I have from others lips, and 'some ‘were Américans. 2 “Surely’ some of those who hear this, in Temembrance of their own happy sons and nephews, wil} send us some money, or will themselves spend some money for the surgical apparatus we need. Clothing is need- ed—especially socks and ‘woolen things, pillows, gauze and cotton— but above all else is the need of sur- gical appliances, large and small. What, eighteen months ago, was of service is now, after constant use, worn or wearing out. This is a war of terrible wounds, and unless the an has the right tréatment on the orerating table all the rest is useless.” The Ilgcal committee will be glad to hear new volunteer workers. Kindly send your names to the chair- | man;>Mrs. H. B. Humason, 201 Vine street. L 4*One, guc] TEQU girl, writing lrgm,' - The “real thing’ Hawaiian landlords Sz 220 22, New C == 'YADDIE, KADDIE, KIDDIE, KADDIE, KOO Knickerbocker Quartette.:"- Ou the other splendidly rendered by the famous Empire Trio. * . Ask your Columbia dealer to play these and other popular hits— and then you will know why people are buying Columbia Records of popular hits. <«Hearing is belreving 1™ : CohnnbiaRmMsonnbtthoqur}mth_ Columbia Records in all Foreign Languages. HE rhythm, the swing, s Y the tuneful charm of Hawaiian ‘music is the inspiration of most of the song and dance successes that - the country is wild about today. . Here are the them all: t MY HAWAIIAN SUNSHINE Robert instant hit with-you—a male voices, a tuneful to.furnish a delightful Hawaiian accompai biggest hits of MRMA:};;J;:. Hawaiian Sunshin.” S Ash aid Lewis, tenors, is g record bn):ntwillmth “Hawaiian” blending of ly, plus a singing 8‘““: ' On the veverse AL Jolson Aismself sings the big London success, “The Broken Doll.” | . | MY LONELY, castanets, rhythnii 50 LOLA LO . Golumbia Reord Asgre; $1.00 «My Lonely Lola Lo"is a B to make almost pulse-stirring -fox-trot, anyone danhce—clicking and band-music you just aza’fresist it. “The Dance of the " on the reverse, is a fox-trot that made as _great a hit -as. the famous “dascing twins” it has and love, sung with infectious, gay side: “'Twas Columbia Record A2151, 75¢. guitar accompaniment—a song of enthusiasm ‘by the ' famous onl’ an-Irishman’s ‘Dream,” B RECORDS NZ. = J2 4 PROSPERITY: ADDS T0 POORS’ BURDEN Tncreased Cost of Living Fur- lished New Problems ’ It is.evident from the monghly re- port of Miss Elsie C. Oshorp, read tefare the directors of the Charity Organization last night, that there are a number of people who consider that the signs of prosperous times mean there should be no more char- ity. But there are many reasons why families must be helped and any pleas that are unworthy are quite ig- nored by the organization. During the month ‘of February there were 342 applications for the services of the organization and of the 108 fam- ilies that the agents are in contact with there were thirty-four new ones. The complete report for the month as read by Miss Osborn follows: “When work is plentiful and jobs are begging for men, I suppose you charity people have very little to do, sald one man recently. Said another ‘It seems in times like these as if no onc could be in need.’ questioned ‘Why is it that the people who look after the poor in a com- munity are making demands . for money just as they do when work is scarce?” We answer all such queries frankly by saying that wherever there it an able-bodied man we offer him a job. ‘If he doesn’t want it we are regretful, but we Wquite ignore his subsequent pleas for aid. man sent his poor wife fod, akd,} and when ate her hus And a third: call, he was much flattered and .came vromptly, bringing the winole family. When he pointed out the various ineeds of raiment, food and fuel and | was merely offered his choice of sev- i eral .jobs, he was much disgusted. He irmlled a job.at $2.50 a day which was. his, and being admonished to get ito work on it at once, he.suddenly displayed a pathetic cough .and de- veloped a pain in his knee. In re- furing aid, we honestly pitied. the wife. But with a tired husband like that she is'.bound to suffer gopsider- ably anyway, and in our stewardship of other people’s money we eannot Tionestly help such a man to loaf, “Work for Everyome. “If we' are asked to Dbefriend =z family. in: which:there are large chil- dren able to look out for themselves we can offer the mother all the day’s werk she can do. . If the children are smaller we can still find the mother one or two day’s work to help out providing kind neighbors will care for‘the children during that time. - Yes,-in these days - there is weork for everyone! We -have two or thiree requests every day for workers whom we cannot supply. And yet we ire too busy to accomplish all we ;-muld! Yet we have 34 ' new cases this month!" How does it happen? *“The answer is thi In New Brit- ein we have dozens cof families who are not directly affected by the in- custrial conditions, because there is nn, member of ‘the family<who can re- spond to the‘call for labor in the homes and stores and factories. There are men in ‘these families who are broken in health. There are women struggling along with littie children while the wage earner is ill ir the hospital or. sanitarium. There are some with' husbands in jall.’ Still ethers are deserted :wives, or wido: and a ‘féw have hudbands: 4f such sort tha ild; he ~pardoupd 4% ola S the sick and the ‘afflicted, and with all of these the prosperity we are ex- riencing brings deeper adversity. ‘'or with the prosperous times comes the rise of prices for food and cloth- ing and fuel and rent. Fespectable devoted mothers can rear their chil- dren. better in the home than they can be reared anywhere else. To do this they nced friendship, they need assistance which "will - supplemerit thelr own earnings to meet the de- mands of these children, True it is that comfortable fortungs are accum- ulating and those who control them are living on the fat of the' land. But, on the other hand, the diet of the poor grows more and more meagre in this economic ‘experience. ‘With "all ‘the old standbys of food soaring in price we have found that one of the best services we could ren- der this winter was' to suggest and demonstrate substitutes, or varied preparation, of the few staples most in use, such_ as potatoes, jrice beans, and onions, etc. “The motto of the worker is ‘T owe the world a life’ The motto of the te is ‘the world owes me a liv- It the parasite is rich he ‘gets If he happens to be poor thesa days Le becomes a pauper. Ou' of the 34 new cases this month 13 scemed mainly due to shiftlessness and vagrancy of this sort. “tlunger and cold are merely sur- face indications of trouble. Surface charity only cures surface trouble. You can no more reform a vigrant by a meal, a shave and a sui® of clothes than a doctor can cure a hilious patient by whitewasning -his coppery complexion. We strugsgle with many vagrants in the course of a -year and with varylng success. These are the most’ slippery and ua- reliable’ people we have to dea! with. 1 not. esonse workers. in Boage-Alien & €. ; HARTFORD IMPORTANT SALE OF WHIT GOODS AND LINENS | ' Two Days, Friday and Saturday ‘We offer some very remarkable values in pure Irish linen t: cloths and napkins. Last August . houses in Ireland, some discontinued patterns in fine we bought from one of the iai cloths_ napkins. Some cloths had one dozen napkins to match, others hadl none, yards. ‘We expected dnu cloths and napkins for our January sale, Some two yards long, some two and one-half, others up.to 5 we have just received them. Linens have advancéd about 20 p cent. since January 1st. We are going to sell them, however, at same game prices we would have sold them for last January. CLOTHS . 2x2 yards, today's price $9, sale price $6.76. ; 2x2% ,yards, today’s price $12, sale price $9.00. \ 2x3 yards, today's price $14, ' sale price $10.50. = 2x3% yards, today’s . price $16.00, 'sale price $13.00. 3x4_yards,.today's price $18, sale price $13.50. 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, ‘today's price $14, sale price $10.80. ODD CLOTHS ' ‘We' will also. give. spe prices on all 0dd lnen cloths. 2x2 yard cloths at $4.59. /%' 23 yard Cloths, $3.75, $4.75, $5.00, 95.85. 2x3 yard Cloths, $5.00, $7.50. 2 14 x.2 1.4 yara C $5.78, $7.00, 3 2%323% yard Cloth $5.00, 36.50, $7.00. ks 2%x83 yard Cloths, o SmartNfiygar g NOW ON Separate Collars will' be worn thiy season more than ever. ‘assortme we are prepared to meet the demand, dertul, looking for, ‘'or one of the new , | also many new clever effects in uscd to sit at a desk and divide the poor: into ‘worthy .and ‘unworthy,’ giving the former small \doles and sending the latter about their busi- ness. There is no such thing as a ‘worshy’ and an ‘unworthy’ person. anyhow. There are r ns_why we can help this one, and cah’t felp that, those reasons depending as much on the policy. of our officers. and the. ‘The It may be: just'a simple collar made of Step Yn and let us show them to you. judgement ‘of .ouy committees. 33 on }1 ourselves. But every applicant is worthy of a couiteous hearing. . and: any service we can in wisdom render. “It seems to us that we are’placed in a charity organization office under salary to do faithfully :whi other people have not the time to do. If we don’t like our job we can leave'it, but if we stay we owe courtesy and cheerfulness and willingness to help, to all who come to us. Fortunately it is not for us to sit in judgment on, ‘those who apply, but simply to lend a helping hand if we-honestly can. * “We try tob, to cultivate an appre- ciation of our applicant’s- point . of view. ' Of course little girls should not ring doorbells of fine houses, and walk in and tell awful tales of woe just out of desire to look around, but such is feminine curiosity, and wiser folk than they have done likewise. Others argue that people who wouldn’t listen to you at all, wil} give to you generously if you embroider your story of need a bit, so they act on that discovery. ‘Sob stories’ ‘always bring attention. And when’ it comes to beggars! Well, begging is really an art,—an exciting pastime full of thrills. It requires greater histrionic ability than an actor’s. The actor has thel advantage of stage sefting, and remoteness from his audience, while the begger must act within arms length of you and make you believe he is not acting at all!’ Even while doing all in our power to put such people out of business we can do it batter by getting their view-point. “Even with that lowest type of vagrant, the common hobo, we can sometime see the same / trait/ that turns a millionaire into an. elegant globe-trotter. But while we ‘'see thelr view-point, we are decidedly stingy with these. Everyone in the city is welcome to send any. applicant for alms direct to us to do what we can for them, but the hobo problem is the drone problem. We have a beautiful theory that like the Housewives League boycotts, if an embargo could be placed on all tramps for a week,— if all timid or soft-hearted women would withhold food from them in spite of the curses and blessings that usually flow readily as a result, very soon the physically weak would be adequately cared for in hospitals and alms houses and the able-bodies ones would shuffie rapidly towards a job. As it is, we just scrape along on the surface. . = Receive 342 Applications. “During the month. of February, 1917, there have been 342 applications for our services, 20 from public offl- cials, 10 from private socleties, 8§ from churches, 112 from interested individuals, 9 from schools, 3 from other cities and the remainder from applicants themselves asking for aid, advice, work, clothing or ' friendly service of some sort. We have come in close contact with' 108 ‘families of m 34/ were new during the month. ere haye been 810 calls at.' the 180 from applicants and 13 people interested in families; 458 telephone calls important cuough e _would raise’ With sensitive feelings, W able to steer between friendly visitors and 13, work ' were ‘Contributed volunteers. ; ‘Permanent work was two anfl temporary worl: AN to ‘mary :dAys for 8 others.. Jé and optical aid was given to ing to 22, e ‘tempo 'the o the school children’s. shoe $30.25 was organized frof & total of $2§4.1 through. the TCharity ' @ during the month, B Statistics'for Febroary. The statistical monthly 0 lows: % ¥ 4 Applications for Service lic officials, 20; private churches, 8; interested ' In 112; other cities, 8; plicants . themselves for ald, 67; clothing, 16; lo ly service, 77; trans, work, 6; total, 342, £ Applicants. Total numbef dealt during month, 198;° cases, 34; including, f transients, 18; applications for only (no record kept) 0. z Personal Service—Calls & 310; consuitants, 130; appl visits by agents to or in families, 103; calls by fri tors, 52; business calls, calls, 458;° volunteer hours, 13. e o "M 1 Relief—Numbep. aid during.month, 0 from treasurers fund $104.49, of aid fromiwpecial fomd; §4! tal amount of aid from Charity, ganization, $148.32; number for ald was organized from, church dividuals, societies, ‘etc. 37; 1 organized, $30.25; loans— tim amount, 0; refunded, 25 cents, Special Shoe Fund for School dren—amount, $45.60; number thereby, 24; total amount aid e ed through Charity Or channels, $224.17, - ; Treatment—familes: recelving sions, 2 months or over, 2; recelving: temporary aid, 1 gency aid, 21; clothing, 22; tional care;, 0; given leghl = given medical aid, 5; given de! 0; given optical &id, 1; work: permanent, 2; temporary, portation, 0. a Causes of Poverty in Unemployment, 0; wid sickness or accident, ) 1; physical or mental Bandid insufficlent income, 1; old shiftlessness, 1; vagrancy, cellaneous, 8; mfinol-'llty N 4; desertion or non-support, tal, 34.. v Strictly fresh Connecticut eggt de~zen. 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