New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1917, Page 7

LADIES’ SPRING SUITS COATS AND DRESSES ‘The smartest styles from New ber we buy for 37 stores—we keep buyers in New York all the time. We ship new goods every week 80 that every new style wrinkle, is always here right after t appears on Broadway. : Suits . o o | STATE'S CONTRAL OF - SHIPPING FATLURE erpool Ship Owners Pofnt Out ‘Fault of System: Ldverpool, March 23.—The annual rt of the JLiverpool ship Owners’ association, which: includes B ly all the important ship- wners in’ England, emphasizes the £ lousness of the shipping’situation, #ind. declares squarely that all the _znurel thus far taken by the gov- 4 m ent are insufficient. The report ! that state management of ship- has failed and must fail and ex- the opinion that only the most dical curtailment of imports and a nilar radical ,Hmitation of the nt of tonnage used for military es can save the nation from the serious shortages of faod and vi- raw materials. §f ° Commenting on the appointment of (& shipping: minister as a member of the Lioyd George cabinet, the report éays: ‘“The association wWelcomes the @ppointment of a minister charged fwith the duty of seeing that the mer- antile marine is used to the best ad- Wvantage of the nation, and it will ren- der every assistance In its power ' to Ahat minister. But the problem of froviding the nation with its essential pplies of food and raw material is ly a part of the shipping problem. essentia] factors,’the limitation of mports, the amount of tonnage to be oted to purely military purposes, d the labor shortage can be dealt ii by no one department. They be faced and dealt with by the ole war cabinet.” Direct state management of ship- is' impossible, says the report. state is so bad a manager that e control of the nation’s tonnage jould mean quick starvation. ‘“The ociation views with grave concern growing number of British ships ced under state management. The rience of two and a half years of j* has shown that under state man- nt there is constant and serious| ‘The conditions under which overseas supplies are obtained, the made, and cargoes loaded and charged, are so varying that waste carrying power can only be d through the compelling pow- of nercial pressure —individual it ‘Joss acting directly on-all concerned whether zs traders, sport workers. i NEW ‘sm"rlu'N - DA ILY HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, ItsSoEasytoGetSmart 4 Clothes For Easter Right now at the beginning of the season says MENTER. Menter customers never have to wait until the season is half over to'be sf{llshly dressed. f The first payments gets the clothes and ‘the small amount to be paid down at the time of purchase is never a hardship. -+ Come, to Menter’s for Sprin here you get the most generous terms in .the world—the choicest styles that the market af- TWO, MORE WEEKS gnd York's best makers. Remem- ceoe...:815 to $50 $10 to $40 ...$7 to $35 west ‘Bkirts, Raincoats, on la MENTER’S TERMS On any purchase of $15 orless; $1.00 down gets the clothes; then pay as you wear, $1.00 a week. Liberal terms’ rger purchases— Menter. EASTER ALMOST loss of ocean carrying power, and therefore the imports, if these be re- duded under state, management by only ten per cent.—and judging by sil past experience it might well be re- duced by twenty-five per cent. and up- wards, nation would be faced with " immed hortage of - essential sup- plies, ivation and panic priceés. : Weighed against such perils, the sav~ ing of. freights, even if cargoes were carried for nothing, is a negligible | factor. . s { “To satisfy military: demands since the outbreak of the war, about one-i third of the British mercantile ma- | rine has been devoted to purely war ' | purposes. One-third of the British mercantile marine has a carrying ca- | paecity in ocean trade, in the course | of & year of -upwords of fifty-five mil- | lon tons weight of imports and ex- ports. 1t is manifest that if the re- | maining two-thirds had been utilised only in proportion to the one-third under military .control, the nation must have starved long ago. “It is no reflection on the officials of the state that they have been unable to build up an effective organization. Their task has been an impossible one. They have obtained and welcomed the advice and assistance of business men, but it 18 idle to imagine that depart- mental management, either with or . without such help, can ever exercise i over hundreds of ships the kind of ! control{which the shipping compantes, with their highly trained and special- i ized staffs must exercise over tons of |'ships if the maximum of -carrying power is to be obtained. ! “Under average conditions a ship | spends half her time in port loading and discharging, and thus there is on | every voyage the risk of héavy delay. | ! The avoidance of undue waste in these operations is at the root of-the effec- tive use of all ship-carrying power. To secure this the energy and enter- | prise of the ship owners and thelr | staffs at home and abroad are taxed to the utmost. There is only one Brit- ish steamship company that has un- der fits control more than 100 vessels, and among the big British lines the average number of vessels under a single management is about twenty. Among the ‘tramps’ here are few com- panies or firms having more than 12 vessels. With this form of man- agement the shipowner is kept in the closest possible touch with each ves- sel on every voyage, and also with the requirements of the shippers and re- celvers of the cargo.” Neutral Bottoms Necessary. Touching on the subject of shipping under neutral flags, the report says: “The cardinal fact of the situation Is that after satisfying war demands, the total shipping available in the world is not sufficlent to oarry the cargoes demanding to be transported. g Clothes for properly fords and values as good, if not better, thousands of cash stores offer. Many people ask us how we can sell at such’ a reasonable price. We buy at one time 300 Suits of one style for our chain of stores. Most merchants would | buy 10—who buys the cheapest?—our custom- ers get the benefit., Read our terms and come and get Spring Clothes now. THEN COMES EASTER MENTER’S TERMS On any purchase of $15 or less, $1.00 down gets the clothes; then pay as you wear, $1.00 a week. Liberal terms on larger purchases.— Menter. than Men’s and Young Suits, Topcoats, Raincoat The main office of The Menter Co. is in Rochester: N.. Yy where the best clothing in the world is made. Wealso h constant access to the New York market and buying, as do, in emormous quantities, 'we get rock-bottom prices.. benefit we'pw nlo.nt to you, Topcoats ................$312 to $25 Raincoats ................5$10 to $18 EASTER DRAWING NEAR 1IENTE 515 TxUM.ULL STREET, HARTFORD employment of foreign vessels was nl business convenience, but with the war demands, it is now an absolute necessity. The following table shows the extent to which our imports of food and raw materials have been, and are now being carried in vessels un- der our own and other flags: British Foreign Ships' Ships Total Peace conditions, 12 months 67 100 .. B Becond six months of fth eix monthe of war .. 41 19 The power employed under peace conditiens is taken as 100. “As the total shipping tonnage now available is insufficient to carry all that we are accustomed to import, th ent we must have is that which wi!l bring in the greatest 'vol- ume of the supplies of which we are most in need.. Under normal. condi- tions the oversea food supplies of the nation amounted to more than 16,- 000,000 tons a year, while overseas supplies of raw material amounted to about 26,000,000 tons. To bring in these supplies, British and foreign vessels made upwards of 40,000 voy- ages in the year. Notwithstanding the disorganization due to the war, the extent of which it is almost impossi- ble to exaggerate our supplies of all essentials and of many conveniences and even luxuries ‘has ; been main- tained. - The whole reductidn in our | forei de as regards imports may be showh by the following tonnage figures for six months prior %o the war as compared with the six current months: Total tonnage, . #ix months, 1914, 265,800,000; total tonnage, six the United ng‘dom trade below th.l“ to the United States by way of rates that are being offered in the in- ternational freight market plays di- rectly into the enemy’s hands by les- sening our essential oversea supples.” GOING TO INDIA. Rhodes Scholars to Extend Y. M. C. A. Work in Far East. * Oxford, Eng., Manrch 23.—A dosen or more American Rhodes scholars are planning to go to India in June if ‘not prevented by war with Ger- many. They will engage in teaching or in the Young Men’s Christian as- sociation work with the Indian and Mesopotamianarmies. After ten months service they will IT'S YOUR LIVER! YOUR'RE BILIOUS, S HEADACHY, SICK !' Don’t stay constipated with breath bad, stomach sour or acold, ° Enjoy life! Liven your liver and bowels tonight and months ending January 81, 1917, 21,- |" 100,000." Should Encourage Neutrals. Discussing the state's, efforts to ex- ercise some control over neutral ship- ping the report says: “The assoclation views with grave concern the action of the state in re- gard to foreign shipping. Under nor- mal conditions such shipping would be regarded as our competitor, but now it is essential to our existence as a nation that we should obtain the maximum of ocean carrying power under both the British and foreign flags. It must be recognized that while on the one hand, the enemy by his submarine campaign is doing his ut- most to stop foreign ships carrying for the United Kingdom, on the other hand, neutrals all over the world are in most urgent need of foreign ton- nage as they have been deprived in very great measure of thec carrying power of the British ships upon which they relied in time of peace. “It is inevitable that foreign ton- nage will accept the most advantage- ous employment offered; therefore, to meet the additional war risks, the United Kingdom must be prepa. 0 ‘Tonight sure! Kemove the liver and bowel poison which is keeping youg head dizzy, your tongue coated, breath offensive and stomach sour. Don't stay billous, sick, headachy, consti- pated and® full of cold. Why don't you get a box of Cascarets from the drug store now Eat one or two to- night and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever ex- perienced. You will wake up feeling fit and fine. Cascarets never gripe or bother you all the next day like calomel, salts, and pilis. - aot gently but thoroughly, Mothers.ghould It :must be realized that we are in- pay for their services above, and not | give cross, sick, billous or = teverish. great.measure dependent on the car- rying power of vessels under foréign below, the rates offered by neutrals, Any attempts to keep the freights that children a whole Ct fiags: - Undér ‘peace ‘conditions,” “the'| éan be earned by'forelgn tonnage:in | then the Pacific and will return to Ox- ford in October, 1918. The party will probably include the following trom the freshman class: L. W. Fau- cett, Tennessee; L. Johns, Wisconsin; .C. V. Basum, Illinois, W. L. Finger, Mississippi; Rex Miller, Kansas; Dou- glas Miller, Colorado; N. D. 8cott, Towa; 8. M. Keeny, Pennsylvania; E. V. Nash, Missouri; and R. L. Grism Vermont; E. B. Naugle, Texas, has already gone out. ‘BAN ON GAMBLING. Mexico City Sportsmen Have to Be Satisfied With Dominoes. Mexico City, March 23.—Games of chance and skill have been pretty well banished from the cafes of Mex- ico City which are strictly regulated. Dominoes, one of the favorite games among the Latin races which was played almost universally in the cafes'here has been prohibited by or- der of the police. Dice also have been conflscated. Practically the only game remains Las no- other name than “marking the paper.” It is slightly complicat- ed ‘tit’tat toe, three in a row.” The cafes and cantinas or saloons cf the capital close at 3 p. m. and remain closed until 5:30 p. m. They then reopen until 9 when they close for the night. g stand thi The bright lights of an evening gathering show up mercilessly the defects of a poor complexion. But the regular use of Resinol Soap makes it as easy to have a mafur ally beautiful skin as to coverup a poor one with cosmetics. It lessens the tendency to pimples, redness and roughness, and in a very short time the complexion usually be- comes ¢lear, fresh and velvety. ‘should at. (TR et =g . A ool tham, fom wlth, sender faces fod Goldenbfum Y[illinery (BRANCH STORE, 863 MAIN ST., HARTFORDL) Select Easter MILLINERY THE immense selection afforced by our wholesald stock permits the woman who demangs the select - Easter Millinery to choose to her hearts’s content. Everything in Trimmed Hats, greatest display Untrimmed Shapes, several Tailored Hats, unlimi variety of essentials for home millinery making, Trimy mings, Flowers, Feathers, Novelties, Ribbons, etg.- ALL AT WHOLESALE ' PRICES. oldendium Millinery 188 Main St;, y a5 sy Y. M, C. A BUILDING All Cars Stop in Front of Our Door.