New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1917, Page 6

Bntun Herald. D Wutsfimo COMPANY. Proprietol d daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:18 p. m., at Herald Building, §7 Church St. d at the Post Office at w Britain &8 Second Class Mail Matter. by carrier to for 16 cents a week, 65 cen® 1 month. jcriptions for paper to be sent by mall, ble in advance, 60 cents a month, 7,00 & year: 6!!1 lrofltlbl advertising medium n Circulation bookKs and press llw.v. open to advertisers. y part of the city Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd 8t. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Ofmce seeen 928 ...92 !huqahwouv(re dead. They they died for us. h est. They sleep in .lu.nd e Made fregeifnder flag AMY Feridered stainless, “the solemn pines, the sad ks, the tearful willows, the bracing “vihes. They sleep meath the ‘shadows of the uds, careless alike of sunshine storm, each in the windowless ce Of rest. ~~ROBERT INGERSOLL. \ —— ulie lovers will not fail to ap- ate the ulniflunce of the first by the New Britain Commu- Orchestra, This event, to take e tomorrow night, must deter- ne way or another the future a unique musical undertak- i this cfty. The bringing to- of volunteer musicians, pro- and amateur, for the pub: " of support since the cbhject llknbtle. Community musi- fkations have besn attempt- few_cities. Serving with- nsation, musicians who un- uch work deserve the en- nt of all who desire to see appreciation . of this art. under the auspices of the Unit- and .Teachers’ Association tomorrow night demands tion of the entire city. the first step toward se- t | symphony orchestra ‘Britain. Great things ba;m. / . ONLY FOUR DAYS. . this dy‘ gone by there are but Ays in which the people 4 7, subscribe to the Lib- Loan ot 1917. The subscription will be closed on Friday, June must have been some mis- about the Liberty Loan or it have been jubscribed at time. The people cannot fully tand what it means. The ques- has' often’ been asked, “Why the Government want to raise in this way, by selling bonds to ople?” . It can be answered in tter way than by simply stating ‘the Government wants the peo- “fight this war, to finance this If“the Government wanted to its money for carrying on the ¢ without asking the American to subacribe the Government |- have done so: All Washington 14 have to do, in such a case, hp to call upon Wall Street. would be no hesitation ‘Wall Street would, and couid, the money on short notice. @overnment, however, does not Wall Street to fipance this war. ernment wants the people, ole p.apu, and‘nothing but the to carry‘on the work of mak- the world safe fbr democracy. nchg of the United it lnvlncible. It 1t is prac- unlhlkel,ble. With one-third ¢ world’s gold Mbpiy in Ameri- our banking »hve take care of of 1917 in proper Instead of calling upon the the Government could have is- h.nk-mtes for the two billion vhleh it hopes to raise before next. And the two billion dol- uld be -at hand on that day We b.lnve they will be on ny event, The American péo- lfiml to let this greatest ‘Loans go by default. md idly by’ and see iment resort to other this money. For, be lsod, the seme amount of d have been raised by:tax- by each- man and women 4 fable would have to contri-’ ) Bis or her share. F better is jt that every man has a dollar to spare should to the nearest ‘bank and take out n-to the Liberty Leen. It ey is the one way of showing patriotism. In the cae where. Uncle Sam has not called for action' at the front. WHEN WOMEN WILL- Willlam' J. Clark is the democratic name of the chief tirret captain of the battleship Arkansas. Temporarily assigned to the steamship Silver Shell, Gunner Clark recently risked his life in a running fight with a German sub- marine. When the news reached Clark’s wife that heroic woman did not whimper and cry, nor did she pro- test against her husband’s naval life. Instead, she sald: “My husband’s en- listment expires next November, but he will re-enlist.” That is the decision of the ('Anik family. The husband and father on his last trip home probably com- mented on the war and the needs of Uncle Sam. Then, after talking it over with his wife, he came to the de- cision of re-enlisting when his present enfistment expires in November. ' A brave man went to zea to fight for Uncle Sam. A brave woman remained at. home to care for the family- To- gether they represent the best tra- ditions of the American nation. “My husband’s enligtment expires next No- vember, but he will enlist,” embodies the spirit of sacrifice, the spirit with- out which this nation would, never have come to its present stage. It is {he spirit that inspired the women of ’76, and the women who remained home in 1812 when their husbands went out on the high seas and won them safe for democracy. “My husband’s enlistment expires in November, but. he will re-enlist’” is a much better plece of sentiment than the old pacifist slogan, “I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.” There is pride in the assertion of Mrs. Clark. Her expression’ stands head and shoulders over the weak excuses ad- vanced by many women why their husbands and sons and brothers and sweethearts should not enlist. This teminine assertion of loyalty should prove a rebuke to all those young men who without aid * from others are looking about for some lame ex- cuse to cover up their cowardice. MUST CONSERVE FOOD. Just when the nation entertained high hopes that the present. wheat crop would out-do its predecessor and the one before that, the crop of 19185, there comes the officlal crop report for June to show that we may now expect & deficient harvest. What winter wheat promised has. also gone by the, boards.. The !olokad for im- provemént in ‘quantity is not expected to materialize. Spring wheat, While representing an increased area, and coming along fairly well under forced draught, will be about on a par with the yield of last year and far short of the year before. The wheat crop in 1916, upon which all comparisons for the present and future crops must be based, was far short of satisfactory. As a matter of record, the wheat crop then was de- ficlent. 1915 was more in the nature of a bumber hirvest. IP the supply was not as great as it should have been in 1916 neither was the demand 80 great as it is this year. Yet with an increased demand, and an inc: acreage of some 4,000,000, the esti- mated crop this year will be but 656,- 000,000 bushels, as against 640,000,- (000 last year. |During the four years from 1911 to 1915 the -wheat.crop of the nation averaged 800,000,000 bushels. The falling off has been appalling. It is attrlb\ltod in no small degree to the great dearth of farm workers, the movement ‘of men from the farm to the city. Aside from that cendition unfavorable weather has played a very important part in cutting down the nation’s wheat crop. Corn, rye, oats and other grains may out-do their records . of last year. Even wheat may prove a better harvest than the officlal: report predicts, and estimates allow; but its , very best 'Hde will in no way come up to the :demands put upon it, all of which is ‘proof positive that Other states may [ profit in the method of conserving food which will soon be in force in the grand old state of Connecticut. FACTS AND FANCIES. Spain is well into her post-Lusi- tania stage. —Boston Herald. Uncle S8am organized quite an im- pressive petition in boots to appeal to the Kaiser this week—New York Sun. Russia may prove to be as surpris- ingly sudden to revive active warfare as she was to make herself Czarless. —\Alblny Journal. ~ 3 ‘We sornetimes fear that this coun- try is not going to be able to absoch the towl supply of back yard garden radish~e.—Boston Transcript. General Goethals appears to have shown them that when steel and wooden ships come together timber stocks go' down.—Newark News. The kaiser and Hindenburg know that the ritish offensive has bLeer stopred. bnt th" British seera unalie to comprencnd’ it.—New York Sun. =-“The lLiberty loan mnot & -success until June 15," says a headline. True, on June 15 it must be a success, and not before.—Sprinkfield Republican., The Kaiser desires peace of the “separate’” variety, in erder that harder war may be waged against the remaining ‘enemies.—Tacoma Ledger. The “Official Bulletin,” the daily Journal published by the government, has 100,000,000 owners but very few of them read {t—Cleveland Plain Dealer. . Paradoxical as it miy seem, the “bondman” of the United States is & freeman who 1s going to, aid in spreading liberty throughout the world—Troy Record. The tenor who takes the last two high notes in “The Star Spangled Banner,” is certainly doing something for his countr}\ -Minneapolis Jour- nal. Conditions of autocratic authority over the press have had their ad- vantages. They produced a Maxmil- fan Harden in Germany.—Wublnz- ton Star. For white-livered Americans of the Civil war period Canada was con- venient. The 'breed of the present have been sneaking to Cuba and Mex- ico.—Buffalo Courier. The Kaiser is reported as .saying that “the decision is near.” Agreed! It only depends on how soon the “young giant of the west” delivers its whack.—Worcester Gazette, It i1s now _becoming obvious why the Corman artillery fire is slacken- ing. * They have: to save thelr aramu- nition to blow up French fruit trees when they retreat.—] s City Times. /Not bragging, or anything, but you'll notice that soon after those American jackies sat in ths game ihere was a decided improvement in the’ U-boat situation—Macon _Tel- egraph. Accarding to the most recent esti- mate, 1,850,000 tons of steel have been shot into the earth in the neigh- borhood of Verdun. As a source of supply of material for the steel in- dustry, the country around Verdun, after this war is over, will rank well up with the Macsaba range.—Seattle Post-Intelligen cer. George Creel is now imploring the newspapers not to print sensational war stuff, which is remarkable con- sidering this is the same George who wrote such hot stuff a few months ago that no periodical, not omitting the Hearst papers, would publish fit, excepting only the Masses,” an, ultra- socialist magazine.—New York Wor'd. COMMUNICATED. ARE POLICE DEMORALIZED? Citizen Who Tried to Get Through Crowd Believes So. . ‘Where does the efficiericy comhe by change of commissions every few dass relating to two of our most import- ant boards, the fire department and police? Is it possible to maintain ef- ficlent men in either of these depart- ments by school boy tactics? ave we beécome unbeknown to the average citizen, (Mayor. excepted) a city the size of New York? If so it is import- ant that we get ready” with the ballot as the promises for the future must have by this time expired automatic- ally and all connected with our City government can resign with dignity, leaving a vacancy for those who are willlng to give us efficlent manage- ment in our City government, and dropping their petty politics after taking office. Our police are in a demoralized state, not because they are not ef- ficlent men, but because they have not efficient leaders. ‘If you doubt this statement you should have tried to <ome through Btanley street at 12 p. m. Saturday night. The small circus was evidently trying to get out of tawn, no doubt they received no fur- ther . promises, and in doing so traffic was completely. tied up in the most ridiculous way with five or six trolley express cars, trucks and teams trying to go on each side of the street and in any old direction. The writer spoke to a policeman, who no doubt, was there for.some purpose, asking him if there was not some way of getting through and that there should be no reason for ssebping the main highway in this manner, He informed me he was not a traffic officer and that I had said enough.;, No doubt he wanted me to get the Hell*out of there and I was only too arxious to accommodate, but he made no effort to assist me, which took from 25 to 830" minutes to get through, after twisting from one side of the road to the other. Let me ask what would occur if a fire had broken out in Stanley Quar- ter and .under those conditions what use would our Fire Department be? Also with a separate board to man- age each Safety Department, and should it happen not to work in har- mony, it would be an expensive exper- iment for the City of New Britain. "Yours truly, L. M. BARNES, SHORTAGE OF DRUGS, - Government’s Needs Creates Uneasi- ness Among Pharmaceutical Chemists Atlantic City, June 11.—The gov- ernment faces a serious problem in the matter of obtaining pharmaceu- tical drugs, according to delegates to the annudl convention of the Ameri- can Association of Pharmaceutical chemists which opened here today. “Bids have been asked for $3,000 worth of material for army use im- mediately,” said C. D. Ellyson of Des Moines, “and even though it were pos- sible to obtain the raw material it would require all the plants combined a year to fill the orders.” At the request'of the federal au- thorities the chemist association has named a committee to define a plan to-meet the situation.’ ! ILY McMillan Store (Incorporated.) “Aleays ‘Reliable.”” RAINCOATS These practlca] Weather- proofed Garments you really cannot afford to be without one, the need of a Raincoat may arise at any moment and there’s no substitute for it. 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The leader of a patrol, u'sull]y @) tance between the men may nst be corporal if it consists of a squad or | more than from 25 to 50 yards. With less, must be specially chosen. the more important the worlk, more careful the selection. The lead- And | a larger patrol, they may be'as great the | ag 100 yards. The reason for this va- riation is both that a smaller force er mnust be skilled in the methods of | must, in the nature of thingy, remain | covering large areas with a téw men; closer together, and that the gusrds he mugst be able to report the strength | at 100 yards would 'have far more and character of hostile forces, de- duce their probable intentions, report intelligently to his command- ing officer. good judgment are requisites of the patro] leader. His judgment will be called . cor- stantly into play, in order to read indications and pass upon the sig- nificance of the information at hand. He should be capable of seeing a connection between apparently irrel~. avent facts and formulating his re- ports accordingly. Bofore setting out, however, the patrol leader should be given such intormation of the enemy and coun- try as may be of value to him—the gensral location of his own forces, and particularly those with whom he may come in contact. From this it will be seen that the patrol leader al- ready has a basis upon which to in< terpret the information he gaii.s ‘When possible, the patrol leader should have a map of the country he is to traverse—in many . cases difficulty in keeping in sight two or and-| three men than a larger force. Tomorrow’s article will be on Scnd- Endurance, courage and |ing Back Information From Patrol (Copyright, 1917, by The Wheelar" Syndicate, Inc.) RUSSIAN PEASANTS VOTE FOR REPUBLIC \ lstablish Yoting Age it 18 o Recognize Youpg:l’ighmrs Petrograd, June 11, via London.— The congress of Peasants’ Del (ot the | All Russia has joined in the move- route specified—and he shonld have|.on¢ for the establishment of a re- a compass, a watch, a pencil and a note book. When practicable, he public in Russia. It has IADDM [y should take with him field message | resolution in favor of a federal repub- blanks. He carries, arms and ammunition. When the patrcl leader assembles the men detailed for the patrol; ha makes sure of several things: their arms and ammunition are in a suitable condition for duty; that none i ¢4y a voter That ; the Comtltuent assembly, of course, his|lic an democratic lines The commission, which is elaborat- ing a law regulating the convening of has fixed eighteen years's the minimum. age 1t 1s argued that youths has any papers or maps whic wowld | o eighteen are fighting, in defence of be of value to the enemy if ceptured; that their accoutrements do not glis- ten or rattle as they move. He then repeats his instructions and explains their .contry, and are, therefore, en- titled to political rights. The provisional government has re- called from Kronstadt all officials of them until he is satisfied that every | the department of control and the man understands them; he 2iso re- hearses with the men the signals which are to be used; and designates | terpreted as a preliminary to a man to take his place if he shouid {adoption of be disabled. The formation of the patrol will de- pend upon the nature of the country .and the character of the cover—-the formation best suited to the needs ' of the cgse will be determined by the leader. But at all events, the for- mation must be so regulated as > insure, so nearly as possible, the es- cape /of one man if the patrol is “jumped” by a superior. force. Generally speaking, it will consist of a main body with advance, rear, and flang guards, though each of the guards be represented uvly by a sin- gle man. It can be seen, however, that this would be an ‘easy formation for a patrol as small as a squad to assume, since, beside the guards, would allow for a main body of the, corporal and three men. ‘With a small patrol-—as small, in- deed, as four or five men—the dis- |same measure of freedom as your-] it ! { j ministry of justice and some of the officials, of - other offices. This is in- the the stern measures threatened by the government. - Of- ficils of the bureau of posts and tele- graphs have not yet beeh recalled. Sir George Buchanan, the British’ Amba.sndor, addressing a great meet- |ing held under the auspicés of the Russo-British society, said he had constantly tried to impress on former Emperor Nicholas that in the twen- tieth century an irresponsible autoc- racy was an anachronism - which could not endure. Russia, the am- bassador said, had captured the bas- tile of autocracy by assault in a single i week, and must consolidate the new ‘won freedom. “If you would keep it,” Sir George | cdntinued, “not only must you de- | fend it aginst the enemy, but also you must drive him’ from the national. ter- | j ritory, in erder that your brothers in I occupled provinces may enjoy ‘the large H ot troops. who had been concen vest of ‘your revolution the demooc- | refe of France and Great Britain have been holding or driving x‘ck ‘main forces of the Germans u& aing their’ blood, no only In defun but to they not done 8 not transferred w bodies - on'your frpnt, it might = have huf hard with free Russia. \“We look for you now to help re- lieve the constant pressure off “our': front by yourselves taking ths ef- fensive, and’thus bring the vu; to . a speedy end and secure to the wofla the Llessings of a permanent peace.” * The ambassador uttered a warning against what he termed the utoplan fallacy that these ends could’be.at- tained by fraternizing with the Gbr-‘ man . democracy which he ‘declared, from the outset had identified itself wholeheartedly with the lmperh.\lluu aims and annexationist policy of the sovernment and would never . rise against the Hohenzollerns until it had ° been taught by military pressure and the éffects of the blockade that . the sufferings endyred and the défest awaiting Germany were the direct consequences of its aggressive mil- itary regime. “Do not believe the tales .with. which the German agents onld poison your minds against your ai- lies,” Sir George continued. *“Do you. L{ supposs if we were fighting for caps:. italistic or imprialistic aims that tive million men of the British race woitld . have volunteered for active service that milllonsg of workingmen and ' women would be working overtime in~ factories to keep' the 'British and Russian armies - supplied with “shelis and guns? We are not fighting for: imperialistic aims. We are fighti for the four great principles and manent peace. There is nothi: lu our policy incongruous with the pol- icy of no annexations or indemnuitiés it hon words are rightly iaumn- “Our reply to the Russian ‘fote ' shows how we are to act in - complete harmotiy with tha p: sional government. Our. fi mk,” however, must be to beat the enemy, . 6F If we fail to do ‘that we shall not have a voice in the final settlement and shall have to accept siich terms ©f peace as Germany .is p!euefl to impose, including the incorpo: of. Russlan territory into the man empire.” The provisional government has refused demands of employes of the Petrograd-Moscow railway for a large increase in wages. “Any Increases granted,” says the governmept, ‘“would have to be .ex- tended to all ways in Russia In order to adhers to equitable prin- «ciples. This would.- create an .ex- penditure which . would be burden- some to the state. At the same time the government recognizes that rail- way men are workers in. defense of the country ‘and should enjoy better economic conditions. It has\accord- ingly ordered measures to supply them with food and other necessatries at cost price.” The peasants in the village of Lis- ino, in ‘the Tearskove Selo diztrict, have expropriated the hunting pre. serve and lodge of Emperot ‘Nich« olas, according.to the-Bouree Gamette, Gcr-