New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1917, Page 3

' Boston Store SUPPLIES GOISEND |ENGUANY'S BUDGET OUR MEN’S SECTION y of more than pass- lng consideration. Aside from the fact we carry a complete line of standard quality goods | are likely to save money buying your supplies here. ‘SHIRTS and DRAWERS UNION SUITS l;'orest Mills, Carter’s, Poros- knit and B. V. D. From $1.15 to $2.25. Socks, -in Costitl.i(m Wool and From:12Y%¢ to 59c. 25¢ and 50c. G 25¢ and 35¢ Neckwear, 25¢ to $1.00 75¢ to $1.50. . smmmnmhsmm. From 50c to $2.00 DOESN'T COST MUCH \ @ TO TRY IT ANYWAY Tells how to take sorencss from a corn and Hft it right out. v . Hospital records show that every time you cut a corn you invite lock- $aw or blgod poison, which is needless,’ ys a Cincinnati authority, who tells u that a quarter ounce of a drug @alled freezone can be obtained at lit- fle cost from the drug store but is sufficient to rid one’s feet of every Rard or soft corn or callous. % You simply apply a few drops of flfll on a tender, aching. corn.and the reness is instantly relieved. Short- . Iy the entire corn can be lifted out, goot and all, without pain. { This drug is sticky but - dries . at ' ence and is claimed to just shrivel up " any corn without inflaming or even flmtlng the surrounding tissue. or ¢ If your wife wears high heeis me will be glad to know. of this. BOSS: LUNCH BISCUIT CARPET CO. 219 ASYLUM ST., CORNER HAYNES ST., HARTFORD. We Make WINDOW SHADES For a Whole House or Just a Single One , There is not a curtain job too large or too small for us to handle. Our facilities arp sec- ond to none, and when we tell you we can make up curtains for a whole house and with just as much appreciation for' the: order we will turn out a single one. Always at your service— always willing to suggest and advise. X Let us help you. WORD FROM FRANCE Surgical Dressings lale Attend- ! ance on Wounded Easier { Extract from letter from Miss Alice Fitzgerald from 13 General Hospital B. E. F. France to Dr. Cushing. Dr. Harvey Cushing is at the head of the Harvard Medical school, and e is also in charge of the first Red Cross base hospital to be established in Boston. The quotation follows: February 9, 1917. I had a most interesting ' four months at a Casualty Clearing Station on the Somme. I wish I could begin to describe our ‘experiences there. The work one accomplishes is in- credible in such a hospital and the fact that I, single handed, with only orderlies to help me could admit and evacuate 100 patients every forty- eight hours during a rush does not seem possiblée unless one has done it. It meant the handling of 200, =ll of them, nearly, with wounds, many with multiple wounds, and all the nursing: done on stretchers. - The wards were all in tents and we lived in Bell tents until December when they put up some of the new Nissen huts for us. The huts were noise proof and shrapnel proof, which was' a great edvantage, but fearfully cold, as the breezes blew In from all directions and I could see the grass grow under our floor. \ ‘We were situated in a very. “hot” place with the enemy on three sides and with German shells passing over our heads and air fighters and anti- air craft guns joining in, sleep was out of the question, in moonlight nights, particularly. A German bomb dropped about. 25 yards from our tent, but that was the closest call I had, and it was close enough for comfort. From there I had leu.ve and found that T needed it badly, and spent it testing and trying to regain a. few of the many pounds I had lost on the Somme. The supplies from the Surgical Dressings Committee were a godsend at the C. C. 8, In all the rush, I never, had to stop and fold and cut gauze. During the month of February the surgital dressings committee ryhnve sent “362 cases containing 435,632 dressings to the Allies. To France went 287 cases with 303,137 dressings. To England. '50 cases with 100,958 dressings. ' To Italy 8 cases with 8,- 039 dressings. 'To Belgium 2 cases 2,244 dressings, and to Greece 15 cases with 21,156 dressings. In answer to. her letter of inquiry to the War Relief Cléaring House in New York Mrs. Mead has received the following from its secretary: “I am in receipt of your letter and I beg to advise you that nome of your cases have been forwarded on any of the boats which have been lost.” The head nurse of the Association des ‘Dames Francaises, attached to the French Red Cross, says: “The case that you have had the goodness to send to.my hospital arrived in ex- cellent condition. All its sterlized con- tents was of the greatest service to us, especially at a time when our lack of coal made us doubt our ability to stertiize our dressings ourselves. More than ever are our hearts united with youn, and I send you from afar our ‘sincere and cordial sympathy-” - A volunteer worker writes: “ I have been two months home on leave, as I needed a rest for a bit. My nursing sister at No. 23, who has full charge now of the Salle des Operations, writes me of the arrival of the dressings from your kind Committee of = the Peter Bent Brigham. I have sent on all the papers and trust they have been acknowledged by her, or some officer in charge of these gifts. I hope that the thanks so gratefully due by me and your committee have not been delayed in transmissjon by my absence. The last four months be- fore my leave at No. 23°1 do not know how we could have existed withdut your gifts of gauze dressings as we were run so very low by the Service de Sante, who had at that time far more than they could cops with and our brave allies, the French soldiers, were in great need from the rush at the Somme, whence all our cases came. I wish I could, in eoven a small way, tell you, and your magnificent people, what you have done, and when T think of individual chses I feel until I see you, as I hope to do, and tell you with my personal thanks, I can but leave all to your {fmagination and sympathetic patience and faith in our gratitude, tbouzh ‘our thanks’ sounds poor:” The chairman of the New Britain committee 1s Mrs. H. B. Humason, 201 Vine street. . The work is con- tinuing with enthusiasm. Volunteers are always welcome. —— TO EXTEND CARRANZA’S POWER. Bill in Mexican Congress to Allow Him Financial Authority. Mexico City, May 3.—A bill has been introduced in congress giving President Carranza’s extraordinary powers to deal with the financial sit- uation in Mexico. United States Ambassador Fletcher has issued a statement to the press express his belief that the inaug- uration of President Carranza is a guarantee of the peaceful rehabilia- tion of Mexico. The statement - re- iterates Ambassador Fletcher's satis- faction with the announced determin- ation of the Mexican government to maintain its neutrality. GEORGE McD. HAMPTON DEAD, Columbia, 8. C.,, May 3.—George McDuffle Hampton, son of Gen. Wade Hampton, died here last night, aged 58. He was & former member of the South Carolina rallroad commission. 15 $11,451,905,000, Increase in Excess Profits Tax Chief Change Recommended London, ' May 3.—Great Britain's war budget for the fiscal year, which Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced in the house of commons late yesterday, carries estimates of £2,290,381 ($11,451,905,- 000) for expenditures. The only changes were increases in the excess profits tax, which was raised to 80 per cent. from 60 per ceént., the placing of excess profits on munitions worke on the same basis, an increase of tobacco duty by 1 shilling 10 pence per pound, and in- creased entertainment taxes on the higher-priced tickets. Economy in the employment of ships by govern- ment impressment of all vessels ex- cept small coasters at flxed rates. of pay was also announced. In beginning his announcement of ‘the budget, Mr. Bonar Law said: “There is ground for thankfulness that we are able to bear the financial strain laid upon us. These figures represent part of the price we have to pay for the greatest act of mad- ness, the greatest crime ever com- mitted in the history of the world. We can still say with our souls and consciences that it is a crime in which we had no share.” Mr, Bonar Law laid emphasis on the statement that Great Britain was paying a greater share of her war ex- penses from her income than weére the other belligerents, the amount paid out of the revenue being 26 per cent. of the whole war expenditure. The chancellor also considered the position regarding the floating debt as satisfactory, the total amount of ‘treasury bills outstanding being only £463,000,000. Referring to the large suhmzrlptlon to the war savings certificates, he said that in his judgment there was nothing connected with the ' war finance so satisfactory as the fact that men of small means had thus con- tributed to the expenses.of the war, which at the present time he es mated at £6,275,000 ($31,175,000) daily. My. Bonar Law proposed to make the excess profits tax 80 per cent. in- stead of' 60 per cent., this new rate to begin from Jan. 1 last. The mu- nitions levy would be merged into tire excess profits tax from that date. Cer- tain concessions, he said, would be made respecting-the collection of the duty which would remedy some griev- ances and not cost the treasury much. An additional 3 per cent. profit, he said, could be allowed on capital in- vested since the beginning of the war. $100,000,000 More From Excess Profits The chancellor estimated that the additional yield from the excess profits tax would amount to £20,000,000. It was not intended, he said, to deal with shipping profits by means of this tax, but by the requisitioning of vessels at fixed prices. Discussing the expenditures of the last year, Mr. Bonar Law said they had been £372,000,000 higher than the estimate. The increase was largely due to expenditures on munitions and advances to the Allies.and dominions. The_estimate for the Allies and do- ! | [ Save more money, get more mileage with Diamond Tires Your car runs onfour tires. Whenyouu_veint.heemto!mrtino this multiplies your savings by four--when you use four Diamonds. fieqnnlhyofbnmflaua‘mechn{alnmflthemnfim,too. Mnchmwh\chmnnatmnka-nnmhpetfacttheworkdmen who minjons had been exceeded by £100, 000 000, but he was glad to say the j dominions had not only the will, but zhe power to supply so much from thelr own resources that there had been no increasing strain on the lBrmsh axchaquer during the last fln- The to!ll of the 5 per cent. war loan, the chancellor announced, was £966,048,000 and of the 43'‘per cent. loan. £821,005,000. War savings cer- tificates had produced more than £72,- 000,000. \ During the war, the chancellor added, the national expendityre had been £4,318,000,000, of which £1,137,- 000000 was out of the revenue. If the revenue site was turned to, continued the chancellor, & more sat- isfactory picture was presented. The estimate of £802,000,000 had been ex- ceeded by £71,000,000. the detalls of the increased revenue, the chancellor said there: were com- ing new taxations which he thought it necessary to impose. = He agreed that the burden of taxation already was heavy, and that in whatever form it was raised it diminished capital for after-the-war purposes. On the other hand, a heavier ngtional debt also was a handicap. The chancellor emphasized the sat- isfactory character of the revenue returns for the year. The national debt, he said, now stood at £8,854,000- 000, but the government was entitled to deduct the amount of the advances to the allies and dominions, Mr. Bonar Law said he did not pro- pose any new taxes, but only an ad- dition to three existing taxes. The first was the entertainment tax. It yielded last year £3,000,000. The ad- ditional duty would bring in a fur- ther £500,000. There would be no increase in taxes on the cheaper the- ater seats, but free tickets would be taxed. The tobacco duty, Bonar Law said, would be increased 1s 104 per.pound, ylelding £6, 0\)0 000 more. The chn.m:cl\or, in g1v1n' his esti- mate of the expenditures. for' thia year, remarked that the entry of the United States into the war had altered’ the financial situation. He said: “We knew that, to the extent of her’ abilities, the government of the United States would help us to bear the financial burdens of our ‘allies. In the vote of credit for thé present year I put down .£400,000,000 for: lcans to our allies and the damin- ions, £150,000,000 less than Imst year, and I hope this amount will not be re- quired.” The chancellor éstimated the total revenue for ‘the year at £638,600,000 leaving £1,661,781,000 to be covered by loan. “Want' of money will not prevant us from winning the victory,” de- clared Bonar Law.” “for we know we can hold out longer than our enemies.’” Very lttle/ criticism of the chan- cellor’s statement was heard in the subsequerit debate. Reginald M. Ken- na, the former chancellor, congratu- lated Bonar Law on the ability and lucidity of his statement and its dis- closure ow the immense magnitude of Great Britain’s resources and the courage of the people in meeting the financial strain. Alluding to Bonar Law’s good for- tune 'in being relieved by the entry of the United States from the difficult task of maintaining American ex- change. Mr. McKenna suggested that now America was in the war consider- ation should be given to the possi- bility of an international agreement for a limitation of the prices of com- modities. Eventually the budget resolutions were agreed to and the house rose. know fabnc, rubber and tire-construction. This i inimitable, tough, “stubbornized” black rubber squeegee tread, lithe as a lariat, actually outwears steel. thbyhnmhgflwmdadm see the first cost sav- ing in Diamond Tires and enjoy the further benefit in their long, de- pendable service. E Diamond Ti ust deliver full value in service. k! o Fad a cheerful, willing adjustment’ i lfmanmmd Tire fails, After giving | ; MAY 3, 1917 PARI( { COMMISSION T0 RAISE PRODUCE {Sale. of Fire Arms Restricted by' Common Council At a special meeting of the common council last evening permission was given the park commission to culti- vate the Stanley park and to sell the produce raised at a fair profit, the in- come to go into the park department fund. It was also voted to prohibit the discharge of fireworks and fire- arms and hereafter no person can purchase firearms without a permit. There were nineteen members pres- ent when ‘the roll was called. The first matter taken up was the resolu- tion to loan an appropriation of $1,- 500 for use of the home gardens. Treasurer George P. Spear explained that the gardan committee is to use the money for tilling the gardens and the nien using the land are to pay their share pro rata. In this manner the city will receive its money back. The loan was authorized by the coun- cil. ‘The charity department wu author- ized ‘to give the Swift & Upson Lum- ber company the contract to furnish lumber for a new town farm barn. An out a permit from the chief of police. The applicant must also furnish a photograph of - himself and supply other required data. A fine of $50 and costs may be imposed as penal- ty for violating either of the ordi- nances. The special park committee asked and received permission to negotiate for the purchase of the De Mars prop- erty to be added to the south end park; If arrangements cannot be made stéps will be taken to condemn the The. park commission asked per- mission’ to cultivate in the Stanley park either potatoes or beans. For this they asked the use.of $500 al- ready in their funds.' The plan. would be for the park commission to” sell the crops at a fair profit. Mayor Quigley spoke in favor of this plan, The board of public works was au- thorized to enter into a contract with ‘Baker & Lasher to lay concrete gut- ters for the city at twenty-seven cents per foot. Alderman A. M. Paonessa proposed, and the, counci]l passed, a vote of thanks for all who assisted in the “Wake Up, America Day” particularly the bands and drum corps. It was voted to put a sewer in West End avenue providing the street put into an acceptable condition. You’ll Do Better at | .Dlamond =Tires The Gunn Rubber Co. ordinance was also passed requiring a bhond of $1,000 for the superintend- ent of Fairview cemetery. An ordinance was also passed for- bidding the discharge of any fire- works or fire arms on July 4 or any other day during the length of the war, Another ordinance was passed making it prohibitive for any one to purchase firearms in this city with- THE UNITED ELECTRIC HARTFORD Thursday Positively the Last Day of Big Department: Manager’s Sale THE EXTREME LIMIT OF VALUE-GIVING TAILORED SUITS FOR WOMEN. TWO WONDERFUL SALE OFFERINGS ! . $15.0 R 319.7 ALL NEW GARMENTS, RIGHT UP TO THE mm« Values Up To $29.50. Values Up To § Just recelved in time for the second day of the big D oty Managers’ Sale. Suits showing the most favored fabrics of e son. Suits of distinctive style. Suits of careful wo every detail. Suits that embrace such a wide divergence of ‘¢ and model that a wide range for choice is offered. Suits UNMISPANKS ABLY THE GREATEST VALUES roomam AT THIS TIME, “The extreme limit of value-giving.” ‘But these are not all. 'nnrouvnuylwr- special our Sult Shop, our Coat S8hop, our Dress Shop and our Skirt: SKIRTS at $3.98, ARE DECIDED Agl. cm’ : Dnmum.moArvnnrmP uv last day of the Sale, remember. Leonard and Herrmann BUY MAY WHITE SALE Now UNDERMUSLINS 'OW GOING ON..' An event which is the result of months of careful DrepaIas Don’t miss this opportunity to fill your summer wants, WORTHY OF SPECIAL MENTION. WHITE MUSLIN PETTICOATS 98c EACH. A large variety. of lovely d styles,’ deep flounces ‘of . pretty summer, to wear under. Hamburgs or fine laces. smart blouses you have. SEE THEM IN' OUR WINDOW, s _TWO STORES— ™ " No. 165 New Bri May is the last month of' our house’ wiring offer. ‘After May 31st, our pres- ent ofl'er will positively be withdrawn. lf you sign a contract for wiring ' fore May 31st, you will receive: Special prices on wiring Special Discounts on \Fxxtures " Twelve months to pay. Free Mazda Lamps ; Substantial Contribution- towards the Cost of Wiring. If you postpone signing a contract until after June 1st, you will receive none of the special inducements mentioned above: As you will surely have your home. | wired some day, why not do it now and take advantage of our great house wir- ing offer? Ask for further details. LIGHT & WATER CO. 94 West Main St., New Britain, Conn. . _ HORSES ! THE FAVORITE ROUTE BANNER ""‘.EE."‘ TO THE WEST From all New England points to CHICAGO, - via BUFFALO, ERIE, CLEVELAND and FT, WAYNE, ' THROUGH OBSERVATION LI- BRARY-LOUNGING SLEEPERS. DRAWING ROOM SEEEPERS and DAY COACHES. Daily from New York and; Buffalo to Chicago, with direct conuections for all Western and Pacific Coast points. Inviting Dining Car Service, a la Carte morning and evening meals ranging in price from 26¢ up, with Table d'Hote Luncheon at 75c. ~ Before arranging your Western Trip, save money by writing me for rates and information. L. P, BURGESS, N, E. P. A. 533 Old South Bldg., Boston, Mass, HORA CARLOAD OF JUST ARRIVED, ) horses are acclim t, which means 50| the plithaser. Several m ,2,500° %0 '3,200 Iba., g00d chunks, 1,050 to able for farm, grocery purpose horses. Beveral seconds and horses, 1,100 to 1,600 1b; chestnut horse, 1,500 Ibs, QUALITY HORSES. A HORSE # ANY PURPOSE. Dump carts, bottom dump express. wagons, nrn gqh,, and ‘harnesses. THIS IS BARGAIN P. H. CONDON& C!