New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1917, Page 7

SIDE OF PRESIDENT, ledge Support to Congress and Prepare for War Providence, R. I, April 4.—The eneral Assembly under suspension of les unanimously adopted the fol- pwing resolution yesterday: { “Resolved, That the State of Rhode land supports to its utmost the resident and the National govern- ent in the present crisis; that it lly approves the patriotic address f the president, and pledges to him [he resources of the state in men and oney for the service of the nation Ind for the most effective action for lur common defense.” Boston, April 4—Governor McCall. a statement commenting on the resident’'s message, said: ““The prisident fittingly spoke the oice of the great neutrals of the orld. His message has that quality hich will convey into the far future nd anticipate the verdict of history. he nobility of its diction, its judicial jummary of events, and its force, not ; jhe least of which comes from the | raint and patience of the past, | ve it the finality of an arraignment | i i y civilization itsel Lansing, Mich., April 4.—After a onference with state officials frovernor Sleeper of Michigan decided send a special message to the state egislature, asking for authority to borrow $5,000,000 ‘to properly equip lhe Michigan National Guard, and | re for dependents of Michigan ardsmen. s St. Paul, Minn., April 4.—The Min- esota senate adopted unanimously a olution pledging support to Presi- | ent Wilson and congress in the war | brisis and calling upon the statc’ rep- | esentatives and senators to sustain | he president in his request that a tate of war with Germany be de-| Jared to exist. A similar resolution | adopted in the house. Frankfort, Ky., April 4.—The Ken- ucky house of representatives unan- ! imously adonted a resolution applaud- ' ng the position of President Wilson n asking congress to declare that a te of war exists between the United ates ‘and Germany. It urges con- 3 to “act upon his wise sugges- | on,” and pledges “to the nation the i hole-hearted support of a state and Patriot g bt 2 people’ who, in this crisis, may ism and religion = joined be telied upon to pay the last full Dands in the dedication in New York neasure of devotion in the mainten- | of the tabernacle at Broadway and nce of their own gloriogs traditions One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street, nd the homor of thf§ Afperican ! in which Billy Sunday is to begin his nion. three months’' revival on April 8, Tellahassee, Fla., April 4.—Both Easter Sunday. The union of Protest- houses of the Florida letlhlln\fl'e , ant denominations in support of the dopted a resolution pledging the sup- | gunday campai, {was Pelesved 26 an of the state in the present crisis. jan object lesson for those who hesi- Denver, Col., April 4.—Governor | tate to sink partisan interests for the ullus C. Gunter sent the following | nation’s need, and both Governor Jielegram to President Wilson: ‘Whitman and Bishop Luther B. Wil- «As the chief executive of the state | son, the principal speakers, referred of Colorado 1 pledge to our president to the imperative demand for na- in this great crisis the most loyal and tional unity. learnest support of this commonwealth An enormous crowd witnessed the and i¢s citizenship. opening. The auditorium, which seats | more than 16,000, was full and many Phoenix, Ariz., April 4.—Governor | hundreds stood around the waist Camnbell issued a proclamation des- | high barrier that walls off the roofed smating next Sunday as “loyalty Sun- | lobbjes about the building. Howard T0 AID GOVERNMENT tive houses of worship or their homes. and pledge their loyalty and their Expect War to Be Costliest in History of Country lives to their country. New York, April 4.—Wal] Street is ready to bring all its resources to the support of the government in finan- cing what the Street expects to be the most costly war ever entered into by the United States. Bankers and bond dealers are thinking of the war not in . millions, but in billions; and they will co-operate with the treasury in what- [} § o | ever measures are decided upon. i So far, except for the recent visit of ! J. P, Morgan to Washington, there ihams been no meetings between ad- F E I ministration officials and bankers to dlscuss war financing. It is hoped in Wall Street that Secretary McAdoo will call a general conference on 38 On Hands. Swelled in Blotches. Red and Angry Looking. Burned aod Would Csack and Blesd. WORCESTER FDUCATOR DEAD. San Bernton. N. H,, April 4.—FEllas Harlow Russell, formerly principal of the state normal achaol at Worcester, Mass.. dled here last night after a fong iliness. He was eighty years old. Mr. Russell, one of the pioneers in the child study movement, was at one time president of the Leroy Academlc Institute at Leroy, N. Y. / JAPS TEACH CHINESE., Tsing-Tau, April 4.—Four Japanese aviators are now engaged in instruct- ing Chinese students to fly at Tsing- tau. The airmen brought airplanes with them, and began their course of -instruction with practical demonstra- tion in setting up and adjusting ma- ines. comprehensive scheme for meeting drawn struggle. All bond-selling or- ganizations will be put at the gov- ernment’s disposal without thought of remuneration. It was said emphati- cally yesterday that no commission or other compensation would be accept- ed. Visits to large banks houses brought forth views and bona ‘which were in close accord as to the meas- | ures that should be taken. They were pretty well summarized by the head of a big bank, & man with wide ex- perience in government financing, who broke and formed a ! satd: bard crust and when I shut “We must not go into this thing my hands the skin would | piecemeal. The country must be.pre- crack and bleed. pared to supply a great deal more 1 was given a sample of | money than most people are now Soap thinking of. We must bring out tre- once mendous loans; we must increase the tevenue from incomes, and we must @reatly increase taxes, particularly on Suxuries. “First of all, we should mobilize all bond selling agencies. That can be Un- | done very easily under Washington's leadership. We must not underesti- mate the value of intelligent sales- manship. Personally, I regard the bond salesman as worth fully as much as & trained soldier or officer. It is smooth.” Retura probable needs in the event of a long- | ‘Whitfield, chief usher, had no diffi- culty handling the crowd with 750 volunteers drawn from his staff of 2,600. Although it was the ushers’ first experience with a crowd or at passing the tin collection plates, they beat the four minute cash gathering record by a full minute. The offering was for campaign expenses. Only $45,000 has been subscribed toward the $150,000. that will be needed. The crowd seemed to be mostly en- thusfastic church folk, but the loud- est applause was won by appeals to patriotism and mention of the flag. ‘With the sun beating on the flat, tarred roof the temperature inside was uncomfortably high, but only one person fainted, and he was promptly removed by four ushers. For the first time in more than a ) year John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ad- i dressed his Bible class at the Fifth 1 Avenue Baptist church. His speech Im an appeal for support for Billy all very well to say that every one knows what a government bond is. So does every one recognize the“value of : life insurance, but it needs the trained agent to get signatures on the dotted ,lne. Tt is not safe to trust to an emotional response to a war offering. The salesman must dig up investment funds and explain the financial as well as the patriotic reasons for putting them Into bonds. “A small army of American regu- lars landed in France will hearten the allies and evidence our sincerity. At the same time, while we are whip- ping a big army into shape, we should place a billion dollar fund here to the credit of the allies. The income tax should start from a much lower exemption. Taxing about of 1 per cent. of the population is worse for the 99 2-3 not taxed than for the small group that pays. We are going to reap trouble if we do not make this tax general.” Bilion Dallars in Short Order. As to the interest rate to be paid there was a little difference of opin- !fon. A bond expert who has been active in the councils which arranged the Anglo-French and succeeding for- eign loans, said that a billion dollars ' ocould be provided in short order | through a 8 1-2 per cent. thirty-year bond, eonvertible at par into any sub- sequent issues carrying a higher rate. Hc thought that with bond dealers . co-operating behind it that amount could be floated at 3 1-4 per cent., but he thought the higher rate safer. Another authority favored the pay- ment of 4 per cent., on the theory that later issues must bear that rate. Wirst class, tax-exempt securities can be bought now on a 4.26 to 4.40 basis. To emphasize the need for a com- prehensive government financing plan. bankers agreed that it would be =a mistake to Irsue short-term notes to cover immediate needs. They said such were invariably bought by banks, and not by the public, and fhat if & substantial amount of notes were put upon the market the banks would be compelled to take them up at = time when it was desirable to keep the banks in the most liquid condi- tion possible, and not to load them up with securities of any sort. Among other suggestions advanced by bankers was a proposal that the government issue serial bonds, run- ning for twenty years, just as the city of New York has recently been per- suaded to do. These serial bonds, it was said, should carry a conversion privilege. The rate, 8 1-2 per cent. A serial bond, it was pointed out, em- one-third | ‘ ATES RALLY 10 |Surday’s Tabernacle Ready for War on Big, Unregenerate New York Sundsy. Eight hundred men were present, the largest attendance recorded, a very large number hav- ing been added recently through the preliminary Bible class work of the Rev. George G. Dowey for the Sun- day campaign. Mr. Rockefeller said he hoped his class would go in a body to the Sun- cay meetings to testify to their sup- port 6f “an earnest, sincere man who i+ doing God's work—a great evan- gelist, a messenger of God.” “Many good men are siding against Mr. Sunday because they dislike his methods,” he said, “but why should they consider that so long as he brings men to Christ? Our churches do not lay hold of the masses of the people. If he can touch them there is just one place for me, and that is at his back.” Picture shows Billy Sunday in a characteristic preaching attitude and the exterior and interior of the tab- ernacle. —— e ' bodied the “pay-as-you-go” feature, end at the same time was a bond of long maturity that would appeal to investors and not to banks. It was said that a pay-as-you-enter war would be impossible, but that taxes should be raised to lighten the amount of necessary financing as much as possible. At the same time, several bankers took occasion to em- rhasize the danger of penalizing large | incomes to a point where the recip- fents would lose initiative. Two of the best-known private bankers in New York said a system of taxation such as had been proposed by Amos Pin- chot would stop the wheels of com- merce by removing any incentive to work. Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan i & Co. took occasion to deny the re- port that he was interested in the Pinchot propaganda relating to war finance. He sald he had had no com- munication of any kind with \ Mr. Pinchot or his committee and that he did not expect to have any. Mr. Davison said he heartily approved of the president’s suggestion that gov- j ernment loans should be sustained or ! supplemented by equitable and well- conceived taxation, and that he had no doubt that the men and women of the country, whether their wealth was large or small, would gladly re- spond, as they had in Great Britain, to the country’s needs. DEPORTED FROM HOMES. Mexico City, April 6.—Practically all of the peaceful inhabitants of the country districts of Morelos have been transferred to other states and given new locations in the state of Mexico, the Federal district and Puebla. By this plan General Pablo Gonzales, commanding in Morelos, has prevent- ed the Morelos bandits from receiv- ing or taking aid from the country people. Work is being provided for the refugees. TO BUILD NEW FERRY. Stockholm, April 6.—Plans for bringing London and Petrograd two days nearer together by the estab- lishment of a train ferry across the Gulf of Finland, have been approved by the Swedish Royal Commission. The ferry will run between Kapell- skaer, Sweden, and a Baltic port near the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. It will involve an {initial expenditure of about $5,000,000. The distance to be traversed by the ferries is about 150 miles. STYLES / SPRING ARE SHOWN HERE COME! he next few days are planned with but one object in T view—to show the men and boys of this vicinity how well we are ready to help them to learn just what is best and newest in wearables for Spring and Summer. Carefully we have selected, thoughtfully we have pur- chased—always with the purpose to not only get the new- est in style, but equally certain at all times to get the best quality for money—thus protecting our guiding principle of . A Littie Better Value at the Price Than Is . Usual With this thought in mind we heartily welcome you to come—see and carefully inspect the new Clothing we now have for you to see. However little or however much you wish to see matters not at all—you will be shown with a hearty “Glad-to-see-you” spirit and with an appreciation for your coming. And after you have looked should you not care to buy—well and good, but we urge you with all cur heart to come and look." Suits and Topcoats at $10 to $20 New-York Sample Shop WATERBIRY BRANCH, 761 SO. MAIN ST. 357 MAIN STREET WALK A MINUTE AND SAVE A FIVE SPOT Boston Common Boston, ancient and modern cradle of American patriotism, has put or her war paint. At the moment that the wires flashed the word that con- gress had assembled in momentous sesaion, the biggest flag to which New Englanders ever raised their hats was flown to the breeze above Boston Common. A woman's voice began “The Star .bangled Banner,” a half dozen bands struck up the national afr and a chorus from a hundred thousand or more men, women and children rolled across the old training ground out into the public garden and was echoed from crowds that surged in the streets in front of the state- house, down Tremont and Boylston streets anl around into the Back Bay. The younger generation had not witnessed such a scene. Their elders #aid that it had not been approached since the outbreak of the Spanish war. War veterans hoisted the colors, which ceremony came as a climax to & patriotic meeting addressed by the governor, mayor and army and navy officers. , Focus of Americanism, PR IR BN RRAISED ON BOSTON COMMONIN PRE. rnbesunse "THRONG DRUNKENNESS ON DECLINE. London, April 4.—The number of convictions for drunkenness in Great Britain continues to decline. Returns for forty cities with population over 100,000 including greater London, shows the number of men convicted in 1916 was £3,000, as compared with 87,600 in the previous year; while the number of women convicted in 1916 was 24,000, against 36,000 in 1915. AND IT’S FOGGY TOO. London, April 4.—London s & of dirty windows. This is espee true of the windows of the pe buildings and the hotels. cleaners have been employed they have confined their work windows nearest the ground. of the work is at dangerous hi and the insurance companies have fused to insure against accidents women window cleaners.