New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1917, Page 5

In Your Home For A Deposit Of Only $2 For Saturday Only WITI 12 SELEC- TlONp OF MUSIC THE EASIEST KIND OF TERMS Need twe tell you the pleasure the Grafonola brings into your home ? “All 1 This e music of all the world” is at you disposal. Favorite” has been an extremely popular and satisfactory model. Throu bgh a fortunate purchase we are able to make ' this -extraordinary offer - now. You w Qxll be fascinated with its splendld tone, beautiful cabinet and efficient mechanisn fi. DECID!E NOW E ‘DELIVERY SATURDAY WHILE THEY LAST. PLEASE ORDER YOURS EARLY. WObhmnbleOolnmbiaRetordN w-in Stock. NEW. BRITAIN 'S ‘// LEADINGTALKINGMACHINESTORE War on U pi ¥ New York, April 2\ L—James W. Getard, formerly Amer n nmhun-’ dor to Germany appea’ 1ast night to the entire country to : #and by Pres- ident Wilson and to urg je congress to pass the administration . bill for uni- versal, obligatory milita: fy service, He declared that he knew that if Ger- many had won either a | draw or a victory in the war, she Wwould have attacked the United St wtes, regard-. less of whether ‘America | had entered the war., Mr. Gerard vas speaking ' at the annual dinner of ; the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishe p associa- tion. He said: “Let no man, be he r Eh or poor, laborer, farmer, miner, m aunufacturer. business man, or whatev his occu- pation, or in what interi for part of the country he may live, believe that this is not his war. The § lives and safety of himself and his family and the preservation of his p perty and the risht to enjoy the fi Wits of his 1sbor or industry depend u fpon its suc- cessful outcome. There i no out- rage that would not be ] jerpetrated upon us if we lost; and ;no citizen or section would be immun . “We are at war with 4. govern- ment possessing the greate §t’ military machine the world has ever 4 seen, and which believes (irrespective i of Amer- fcan opinion on the subject not anly that the only effective wa)fl to wago modern war is by universal ¢sbligatory military service, but that fo §-ce is the only thing to be regarded- j To Deal Staggering B .ww “To adopt/at the outset ! universal obligatory military service v tould be to deal the morale of our ¢ remies a staggering blow and .demon§ trate at the outset that we are in thi} : war to “And do not forget that ' to deal this blow at once may sava{ count- lews American lives. J “On the other hand, to hesj tate, to diseuss, to dispute, or to rejq ct uni- versal service and adopt the: volun- teer system is to ‘give aid amw 1 com- tort to the enemy’ by convlnefi 28 him that we are not in earnest. “Phe president made every: effort to XKeep the peace, but peace a r any- thing else in this world is | ‘worth nething if bought or kept at tm 3 price of honer. “The German military cwl hate the very name of America. 1] Knew that if we had remalned out e f this ~ar we would have been attac i ed by Germany if the war had thm“ ended ‘ y OF BERLIN'S /EVIL AT'TITUDE TOWARD U.S. F‘ormer Ambassac jor Says Germany Would Have Made States if VictSious in Europe . ‘Because of Hatred. in either a draw or a German victory. “I have heard that people in the interior of our -country, in our great middle west are apathetic—do not be- lieve-that war with a European power ‘would affect them. I do believe thik: The peaple of the middle west are too intelligent to believe that, if German submarines ruled the seas, their pros- |perlty would not be touched, that if 'n German army landed in Mexico !and armed and led a force o the ,nonh that the middle west would get {off scot freee An army which meets j no oppesition can go far and a tribute |levied on a Dblockaded country must be paid by ail. “Knowing the mind and might of Germany as I have for the past two and a half years, I appeal to the en- tire country, not only as a patriotic duty but as an absolutely necessary measure of self-preservation, to stand by the president and urge the passage of the administration bill for universal obligatory military service.” + . Criticism of Speaker Clark. Perhaps the most striking incidents of the evening were criticisms by the mayor. and former Ambassador Ger- .ard of the opposition of Speaker Clark to the Selective Draft bill now under debate in the house of repre- sentatives. In the course of his re- marks on this subject Mr. Gerard made an interesting revelation of the history of the Baltimére convention in 1912 which rejected Speaker Clark for the presidential nomination and named Woodrow Wilson. “I was one of the financial support- ers of Mr. Clark’s campaign for the nomination,”. said Mr. Grard, “and in the light of events I am not sorry that he was beaten. In point of fact, Mr. Clark had an excellent chance to obtain the nomination, but lost it by reason of his natural disposition to have ‘cold feet.” “Late one night Mr. Clark had se- cured a majority of the votes in the convention, but not enough to nom- inate, since three-fifths of all the votes were required for that purpose. His supporters wished to continue the fight in the convention throughout the night, helieving that with the. mo- mentum that had been attained, Mr. Clark’s nomination was assured. But My Clark decided for an ad- journment until next day, and the battle was lost. Perhaps he thought that in, the interval volunteers would come forward and win for him, But for this he might now be sitting in' a higher seat and doing us more harm than he can do where he is.” Major Gen. G. T. M. Bridges, repre- senting Great Britain’s army on the Balfour High War commission, ex- pressed confidence that the United States was determined to do ‘its full share in the war against Geermany, and he voiced the hope that Ameri- can troops would soon be fighting be- side their allles on the battle fronts of Furope. There were nearly 900 editors and their guests at the dinner, and they gave vociferous evidende that they shared both his confidence and hope, In the course of all the speeches mention of the gallantry of the vari- ous forces of the Allies and of the military and civil leaders of the En- tente powers was the signal for loud applause, and when the Hce. N. W. Rowell, member of the Canadian Par- liament, spoke of Joffre as having broken, in the battle of the Marne, the tradition of German military su- premacy and thereby, saved civiliza- tion, the cheering was tumultuous. RIGHT OF WAY FOR COAL AND IRON ORE Railroad Board Will Punish Lines ‘Washington, April 27.—Orders di- recting the.country’s railroads tg give coal and iron ore preferénce over all other traffic have been issued by the General Railroad Board of the Coun- cil of National Defense, formed here two weeks ago by railroad heads to operate American railway lines as one continental system 'during the war. In announcing its first movement since organizing, the board declared the welfare and safety of the nation depended on adequate sup- plies of coal and iron, and that eva- sion of the order would call for the strictest disciplinary measures. Rail- road presidents will be charged per- sonally with responsibility for car- rying the order into effect. New emergency car service rules, drawn by the American Railway As- sociation’s Car Service Commission, and made public today in connection with the board’s order, require that coal and ore cars when emptied must be sent loaded or empty either direct- 1y to or in the general direction of home roads. Foreign box cars also must be sent, loaded if practicable, in the direction of home roads. The General Rallroad Board, or Executive committee, comprises five members, With Fairfax | a considerable important’ Harrison, | ]wn,m RIGHT WEE | IN THE EFFETE EAST | No Sir, They're Not Going to Wear 'Em at All New York, April 27.—The twenty farmerettes at Farmingdale, L. I, vanguard of the scores of women who are to train this summer for Uncie Sam’s service at National Service school No. 6, had their dress parade yesterday, as per announcement, and after trying on overalls and bloomers trying on overalls and bloomers de- decided somewhat regretfully on the short skirt uniform. The heads and chaperons, Miss Alice Carpenter, Mrs. Franklin P. Adams, Mrs. Maybelle Morgan and Mrs. Graham Smith ad- vised this prudent course after taking a look at the swarms of movie men and photographers. in the offing. A. A. Jobnson, runs things at the Farm- ingdale Agricultural school, which has the farmerettes .under its wing Mr. Johnson has a most liberal policy in regard to the movie men. The more the farmerettes get on the screen the better for-the school he says, only a girl must be performing some honest.-to goodness job when posing—she can’t be taken milking a cow unless she really is studying dairying. The nix on bloomers policy proved its wisdom promptly when a man en- tered the farm headquaters at 50 East Forty-second street yesterday and asked for details about the school. “And will they wear pa—that is, what is the costume?” he inquired. “Short skirts—no bifurcation,” Mrs, F. P. A: assured him kindly. “That's all right, he said with a sigh: of relief. “My wife’ is-dead set on going out for that course in farm- ing, -but I was kinda—well, it's all right, I'll take those circulars.” Several men dropped in to make inquiries for their wives, and =so many women registered for the sec- ond farming term, which begins next month, and for the regular camp, | which opens June 14, ‘that it looks as if the school would end by taking in portion of Long Island. s Oh, the Merry Raindrops. The 'farmerettes worked all day in spite of the rain. The chaperone tried to protect' the fair pupils with um- brellas, but Mr. Johnson pointed out the movie men, and feeling that they might injure the cause of woman they put the umbrellas away- Mr, Johnson was enthusiastic about his feminine helpers. They were worth more than men, he asserted, only it was necessary to hold them back and not let them work too hard. One girl learned to drive a traction engine and others planned their plots —each is to have a miniature model farm 15 by 20 feet. Each can have an incubator, and Rowena Spillane, a fragile girl who has spent her life in Greenwich Village painting yellow chicks on Easter cards, instantly spoke for the first. “Now I'll learn how a chick looks” she said pensively. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi- dent of the National Woman Suffrage association, is more daring than Miss Carpenter and Mrs. F- P, A. She has come right out and advocated bifur- cated things for suff farmerettes, and yesterday sent out from the national suff headquarters at 171 Madison ave- nue a couple of pictures of farmer- ettes in extremely leggy garments— neat, chaste and efficient—which have her official approval. Any woman wishing to know where to buy them should apply to Miss Rose Young at the above address. presilent of the Southern railway, at its head. The other 'members are Howard Elliott of the New Haven, Hale Holden of the Burlington, Jul- ius Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pa- cific, and Samuel Rea of the Penn- sylvania. Serving as ex-officio mem- bers are Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio, and a member of the Defense Council’'s Advisory committee, and E. E. Clark of the Interstate Commerce Commission. “The committee has decided,” the announcement said, “that in view of the depletion of theé reserve stock of coal in many sections of the United States, due largely to an umprece- dented consumption during the last year, the paramount need is to in- sure the largest part of the country during the coming warm months, ‘“The supreme purpose of the rail- roads is to see that on every day of every week the greatest possible amount of coal and iron ore is handled by their lines, and the executive com- mittee is confident that the response of the carriers to the order today will be immediate and will evidence a- complete desire on their part to do everything in their ponEn to aid in the nation’s \defense.” The board declares it realizes that opportunities are often discovered, by interpretation or otherwise, to evade the spirit of rules governing the dis- tribution and use of cars, and says: “The board therefore deems it its duty to state that it will and does look to the presldent of each road personally to see to Mt, as a special charge upon the good faith of him. self and his railroad, that this rule is not evaded nor abused, but is applied to accomplish daily the purpose in- tended- This committee expects that upon each road the president will re- quire all officers to observe this rule. This order must be brought to the personal .attention of all shippers us- ing gondola and hopper cars, so that no abuses nor evasions of the rule governing the use and movement of such cars will occur. «If failure occurs, this committee take prompt and effective steps to correct all such cases by disciplinary measures, including the publication, where deemed necessary, of names of officers and railroads refusing or failing to respond to this appeal.” /$30.00 ,SATURDAY'S BIG SPECL THE BIG STOR HALF PRICE SALE 'HIGH-GRADE COATS AND SUITS $35.00 SUITS (.. ) AT $17.50 $32.50 SUITS (.5, ) AT $16.25 $27.50 SUITS (.. ) AT $13.75 $2500 SUITS (.5, ) AT $12.50 $2250 SUITS (2 ) AT $11.25 $20.00 SUITS (2, ) AT $ 998 One Hundred'Dandy Spring Suits, each a wonder at its original price. But they were bought for our BIG. Cloak and Suit DEPT,, for a quick turnover, and consequentl must be sold below cost. 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