New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1917, Page 6

Britain | HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. i Proprietors. old world will be a safe place in which to live: that the mailed fist of mili- tarism is driven from the face of the dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m,, | earth. &t Herald Building, 67 Church St e e B red at the Post Offce at New Britain | recommend to all employers of labor a8 Becond Class Mail Matter. | that they take care of the boys who [vered by carrier th any part of the oty | aye going away; that they give th for 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. y : oriptions for paper to be sent by mail, | hoys some sort of assurance that their ::nm: jriada-co feakesn i it e hare s hent ey Bt rad vertising medium 1 (oY, profitable advertislK e iess | & change of heart in many of the room always open to advertisers. N OnnE i an v ho A olaa: o ‘]Thc mere mention of this will cause | Herata wint be founa on sale at_Hota- | their positions, afraid to let go for lantic City, and Hartford Depot. | them that which they strived for A mENON B CATLS { long and so arduously. The departt ness oMo . ‘326 | Will not be one half so hard if th | is some provision made for the home- coming, THE KAISER'S PROPAGANDA. We may be wrong; but to our w | of thinking, this, from the Chicago { Journal, states the case: The secret service of the United | States deserves hoth branches of its name; it works and Keeps its | mouth closed. But if thuse public | enemies whom it foils and defeats Saving Souls. We are not going to save our uls by trying to make other ople ylrtuous by statute. We are | bing fo save our souls, if they press the following facts about the [n B saved, by what we do Kaiser's present propaganda in this ragives, each one of us. We ngbt put it off on anybody ; choose to chatter, the service does not always gag them; and so far as is known it has made no effort to sup- country: | Every German spy and sympathizer i ’ -HENRY CABOT LODGE. is instructed to pick out two men k whom he can trust and talk to them DAY OF MEDITATION. | after this fashion: morrow will be observed through=| 1. “This is a Wall street war, a he land as a safe and sane Fourth, | war of the interests.” (It will be will bg mone of the old-time news to most of us that Wall street frations with their glamor and | sank the and the attendant #st of casual- | American ships off the sea.) | Instead, the people of America 2. “Why should we fight Eng- hie themselves to the shore and | land’s battles (Ignoring the fact resorts and indulge in quiet and | that for the present. at least, England ning festivities. 'going what President Wilson 3. “We must stop the export of termed second sober thought. munitions and food instantly.” (Thus irafting of the army, the sending ' doing for the kaiser what his ex- ldiers abroad, the fraining of pensive fleet and murderous sub- at home, and all the activities of marines have failed to do.) lave at last brought the people to | 4. “There’s no need of going to lsenses. It was a long time com- | Burope to fight; let the Germans put it has arrived: The Day of | alone till they come over here.” ation, Lusitania and ordered The nation is and Irance are fighting ours.) \rrho Kaiser knows perfectly that a o | three months’ campaign in the VHEN THEY COME BACK. ! neighborhood of New York or Phila- ) of the principle reasons why | d€lphia would cost the United States Jung men of this and other | More blood, tears, and treasure than are not so extremely anxious to |8 tWo years' war in Europe.) %% the present time is the at- When the two men thus chosen have at loss of positions in workshop, and office. The young fellows, | “arguments,” each of them is to go ng prosperity in its fullest|out and get two more, and %o on, ad re, are somewhat reluctant to | infinitum. Therc are other points in ip ood jobs. They feel that|the game of sowing dissension be- they relinquish their present|tween ourselves and our allies, but bns they may never get them |those given In quotation marks above again. To this end it is sug-/are the main omes. When vou hear to employers that some pro-| or read such stuff now you know who be made to insure, if possible, | inspires it. psitions vacated by patriotic s of Uncle Sam. IT MUST GO. eems but right and just that a| There is a movement on foot now fvho volunteers his services to | to investigate the lobby maintained untry, a man who enlists to &0 | by the Prohibitionists in Washington. ght for his country, should be| For some twenty years the corridors Fome encouragement other than | of the capitol have been filled with pre waving of banners at hls: the agents of the Anti-Saloon League. re and the hand-shakes of | These men, mostly gentlemen of the p. Business, necessarily, s &| cloth but without appointed parishes, fious thing ,and no one Knows| have button-holed Congressmen and he morrow will bring forth.| practically threatened ruin unless is thriving and prospering | thejr demands were presented in one may be utter ruin at this time | gorm or other. Now th ear. Yet, so far as. possible, | arises, “Where has all t who Bo away in the ranks of heen filled to the neck with these question money come from? Where do these lobby- my or the navy should be told | juts get their financial backing?’ hen they come back they willl 14 j5 y known fact that the Prohi- p to take up where they left off | pitjon workers in Washington are realm of industry. well pald. In some instances they boys feel this way about it: receive salaries that are stupenduous. o not like the idea of BIVINE | phey make money. There is no ir ‘g0od’ positions for ever and | loverer coterle of pald workers in They do not relish the thought | 114 country. They produce results. ese who stay behind Will reab | myey nhave behind them the force of petits of (the war, while those | o ;1,101 argument, and any Congress- p must face the hardships.| .. ypo dares thwart thefe desires ob':z;t:;\:rk:r‘:lc}e ‘:' t;':ul";‘:a: can be held up to his constituents as B AR os \n. the dls- immoral. What happened when the "Tm: may be unpatriotie, 1| FOUSe of Representatives voted prac- tically unanimous on the Food Con- selfish. It has this r redeeming | 1 i1l with its Prohibition rider is It is human. It s natural, well remembered. beiteve this: i e S Wheh the natlon| " 1 inition itself 1s not on the ry man and Wwoman an 'y ¢! stand; but the lobby behind Prohibi- ust respond to the call. Every | = tion is on trial. It must be determined boy must do his bit, must 3 4 { just how far any lobby exercises in- is life, #ff hecessary, that the 0 \ | fluence upon the representatives of pBZy live. The individual must 2 the people. If the liquor interests fJced to soclety. That is a fun- : X b1 Lrinciple of 101 Th maintain a lobby in Washington that & TN e sociology. e 2 | lobby too should be driven out. The Bne man is a small item when | Anti-Saloon lobby has acted under Red with the life of a nation, ! Y e happiness and welfare of a Someone must sacrifice that | may enjoy the fruits of the Were it not for this belief the pers of this nation would never me forth to battle that we of to- ht thrive under a democratic government. the gulse of religion and therefore it is a difficult matter to criticlse. Yet this is no time to allow any body of ' men to hold up Congress. And these men, by their answer to the President of the United States upon his re- quest for a cessation of their activi- | ties, show they consider themselves the masters of the American Con- gress. That cannot be. Such a lobby nust go. blessings that have been down to us are well worth ng for generations. e well worth fighting for, well ying for, so that children yvet may come into a herita = | d’f R e Tiisme OFL | 8 Ranuee cyelonie Shoutd e given a nd fr : elieving this, chance to crumple the Kaiser.—Em- it honor and admire the men poria Gazette. Hay are going forth ta fight | f1 fight. We must hold in our | olemn regard for the boys and 11917 who are going out on the j1d to see to it that the world future AND FANCIES. In this period of multiplied mis- sions the country frowns only on ommissions—Newark News. The American frontler today lies is made safe for democracy; that thisi Herald. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1917. along the Aisne and Scarpe.—Chicago Evening Post. Russia fully understands that a sep- | arate peace now will mean a separate war in the future.—Washington Star. Miss Jeanette Rankin preserves the unique distinction of being the only young woman in Congress.—Washing- ton Post. Among the interesting family por- traits of a century hence will he one of arandmother in khaki.-—Baltimorve American. Canada’s appetite for titles will nev- cr he satistied until every male child becomes a knight and twin boys be- some baroneis at birth.—Toronto Tei- | egram, The Russian patriots are entitled to {an praise for their disposition of the | Czar, but they should not overlook the fact that Nicholas has a cousin Rill.— Savannah News. This new espionage law is so dras- tic that President Wilson has the pow- er to forbid the export of all Ameri- can products except heiresses.—Bos- ton Evening Transcript. Germany must not make the mis- take of thinking that General Persh- ing is going to dinners indefinitely.— Roston Herald. Reporters who heard the Com- mencement address at the University of Kansas say that Mr. Bryan has lost his old-time fire. But has he lost his old-time wind3--Kansas City Jour- nal. The general railroad hoard suggests that American rolling stock be sent to the Allies. All right. Let's send all the private cars first—Philadelphia North American. The advantage in eating two meals a day lies in the fact that those who da so hear less quarreling than those who eat three. Most of the rows starts at the table——Capper's Weekly. It is a big contract that Russla loads upon Minister Pieschehonoff in holding him responsible for produc- ing, by state manufacture, if neces- sary, an adequate supply of necessar- jes like textiles, ships, soap and kero- sene.—Springfield Republican. We don't want to discourage any amateur gardeners, but they might as well be told now as discover it to their keen disappointment later, their vegetables never will look like the ones on the front covers of the seed catalogs.—Waterbury Republican. Constantine has gone from Athens, but Mayor Bill Thompson is still on the job in Chicago, ‘a fact which makes a good many Chicagoans feel that the Athenians have beaten them in the matter of modern improve- ments.—Providence Journal. The Reveille. (Bret Harte, 1861.) Hark! I hear the tramp of théusands, And of armed men the hum; Lo! A nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum— Saying, ‘“Come, Freeman, come! Ere your heritage be wasted,” sald the quick alarming drum. “Let me of my heart take counsel; War is not of life the sum; Who shall stay and reap the harvest When the autumn days shall come?"” But the drum Echoed, *“Come! Death shall reap the braver harvest,” sald the emn sounding drum. “But when won the coming battle, What of profit springs therefrom? What if conquest, subjugation, Even greater ills become? But the drum Answered, ‘“‘Come! Yod must do the sum to prove it” sald the Yankee answering drum. “What if, 'mid;the cannons’ thunder, Whistling shét and bursting bomb, ‘When my brothers fall around me, ‘«Shv\uld my . heart grow cold and numb 2" But the drum Anwered, “Come! Better there in death united, than in life a recreant—come."” Thus they answered~-hoping, fearing, Some in faith and doubting some, Till a trumpet voice proclaiming, Said, “My chosen people, come!” Then the urnm, Lo! was duwakb, For the great neart of the nation, throbing, ansviered, “Lord, we come!"” MY STERIOUS DROWNING. Bridgeport, July 8.—The body ot Thomas McGovern, who was drowned in the harbor here last night, was recovered today. Thomas O’Beirne, who reported to the police that he saw McGovern jump into the water, is being held without bond pending the inquest as a material witness. ACQUIRE NEW LINES. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) London, June 30.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steamship company has come to a provisional agreement with Union of New Zealand Steamship company whereby the latter's 76" steamers of 248,278 tons, gross, come under control of the Peninsular and Oriental company which Wwill now operate 306 steamers of 1,727,465 tons, gross. GERMAN MERGHANTS' Had Big Trade at Hong Kong. But No Profit (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) London, June 25.—When the ws began nearly thirty per cent. of the trade of Honk Kong, excluding Chin- ese native trade, was in the hands of Germans whose business methods were considered by many to be most progressive and worthy of emulation. It now appears from the investigation of enemy firms that the methods em- bloyed by the Teulons were, despite the great volume of irade, unsound and unprofitable, according 1o the periodical Truth which publishes an article based on a book just written by Dennis K. Moss, a man of lohg ex- perience in Chinese trade and one of the licuidators of enemy firms in Hong Kong. “The knowledge gained from the liquidations is.summed up by Mr. Moss as being. mainly, ‘a more com- plete knowledge of how not to do business,” " says Truth. nstead of the uable lessouns in trading meth- ods which some people expected, the merchan nd accountants in charge of the windings-up discovered prac tically nothing but cvidence-—unmis- takable, conclusive evidence-—of the unsoundness and unprofitableness of the lines on which the Germans did business. Nearly thirty per cent. of the trade of Hong Kong (excluding Chinese native trade) was in their hands, but they did not make one- twentieth of the profits of the British —indeed, more than one Rritish firm there makes for itseif net profits equal to those of all the German firms lumped together. The great aim of the latter was to have a big turn- over, no matter whether there was any profit or not. “As an instance of this on the ex- port side, one firm had buiit up a turnover of $4,000.000 a year in silk, but only covered the cost of running the department. All engaged in cuf- | throat competition. not merely against British rivals, but against one an- other, and even in the handling of their own German and Austrian man- ufactures. In the main, however, the goods they sold to the Chinese—giv- ing dangerously long credits—con- sisted of Manchester and RBradford goods, for, though the plums of that trade in Hong Kong were retained by Britjsh firms, the Germans had captured a substantial portion of it by taking business—as their books showed—on miserably inadequate terms, sometimes even at a lo: This had temporarily benefited Manchester and Bradford merchants, but many of the enemy firms were getting deep- er and deeper ino a state of such chronic overtrading that very little would have been needed to upset the whole fabric and bring about a crash which would have seriously injured British mercantile and banking in- terests.” “It is not at all surprising to learn that German firms at Honk Kong added dishonesty to their reck- lessness in trading. The winding-up inquiries disclosed the fact that the bulk of their business was actually done on capital borrowed on what were virtually false pretenses from London finance houses. Nor {s it surprising to learn that merchants who treated their own ‘letters of lien’ as so many scraps of paper de- liberately violated the conditions under which they were allowed to continue business in Hong Kong for two or three months after the out- break of war.” The periodical says that Mr. Moss certainly shows that the methods of German traders “are for the most part methods to be avoided,” and adds in conclusion: “And Hong Kong is not the first place from which we have had proofs that German commerce, about the growth of which we used to hear sa much, rested on a very unstabla foundation.” NOT TOO LATE T0 PLANT VEGETABLES Food Capable of Being Produced in Late Gardens Washington, June z8.—Sweet pota- toes, beets, squash, cabbage, okra, pepper, eggplant, string beans, Lima beans, sweet corn and cucumbers still may be planted In this section (marked Z one C on the Department's zone planting map for vegetables), say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. These vegetables may be grown in ground occupied by early maturing crops such as peas, kale, early cabbage, spinach, and radishes. There is ample time for sweet potatoes to mature, and there is no better way to add to the winter food stock of the family than by growing this root crop. Late cab- bage is another profitable crop to grow for winter use. Beets, squash, cucumbers, and the other vegetables i mentioned may be planted now with good chances of success. There is, of course, considerable | variation within the region for which | this advice is given. It may well be that the possibility for plantings suec- cessfully certain of the crops men- tioned has passed in the more south- erly sections. Now is the time for every gardner to cultivate his garden thorqughly. If | weeds have been allowed to start they should be destroyed at once as they are robbing the plants of needed moistire. Work the ground until a fine'poll mulch is formed., Nothing P[mRBUSINESS MEN [FRENCH SEE DAWN OF BRIGHTER DAY WHEEN PERSHING SETS FOOT ON THEIR SO!LF Pershing in Paris! The alliterative phrase sounds good in American ears, but to the French it rings with the hope of deliverance and victory. No wonder they gave him an ovation such as no foreigner ever before re- celved in the French capital. They are demonstrative folk, and all their enthusiasm has not been | burned out by the fearful Three scenes attending Persh- ing's arrival are shown. in France and in Parls No 1, passing before the guard of honor at the French the French fire of the port at which he arrived from Enghnd; No. 2, going down the gangplank; nt\ the right is General Pelletier, chief of the French mission attached to the American forces in France; No. 3. departure from the Gare du Nord, Paris. General Pelletier has lost an arm in the war. — —_— . will save moisture for the use of the crops like a soil mulch. Very few weeds will come up from this time on if they are thoroughly cleaned out now. The following cultural suggestions are made for the crops which may yet be planted with fair chances of suc- cess throughout most of the zone: Sweet Potatoes—It is desirable to have a row or two of sweet potatoes fn the homc garden. Set the plants in ridges 3 to 4 feet apart. Space the plants 14 to 18 inches apart. Ahout seventy-five plants will he required for a hundred-foot row. Beets—Beets may be planted at any time from now on. The young, ten- der beets malke fine greens and every gardener should make an immediate planting so there will be an ample supply. Sow in rows 15 to 18 inches apart for hand cultivation or 2 to 2% feet ‘apart for horse cultivation. The plants should be thinned to 4 to 5 inches apart in the rows, Squash—The bush varieties should be planted in hills four feet apart each way, and the running varieties 8 to 10 feet apart each w One-half ounce of seed is sufficient for a hun- dred-foot row of either the bush or running varieti Cucumber—For home use only. Sow the seed in rows 4 to 5 feet apart plants should he about 15 apart, but the seed should be sowed much thicker the plants being thinned later. A half ounce of secd is suf- ficient for a hundred-foot row. Eggplants—=Set the plants 18 to 24 inches apart in rows 21 to 3 feet| A dozen good, healthy plants | cnough fruit for the average- | apart. supply sized family. Peppers—Set the plants 15 to 18 inches apart in rows 1% to 3 feet apart. A dozen plants should be sufficient. Okra-—The rows should he 3 to 4 feet apart for the dwarf varieties and 4 to 5 feet apart for the tall kinds. Sow the seed a few inches apart and thin the plants to 18 inches to 2 feet apart. Seven ounces of seed is suf- ficlent for a hundred-foot row. String beans——Plant in rows 214 feet apart for either horse or hand cultivation, and 3 to 4 inches apart in the rows. A pint of seed is suffi- cient for a hundred-foot row. Lima beans, pole—Plant in hills 3| to 4 feet apart for horse or hand cul- | tivation. A half pint of sced is suf- ficient for a hundred-foot row. Bush limas should be planted in rows 21 | feet apart for hand cultivation, or 3! feet apart for horse cultivation. Space | rows. well enriched with rotted stable ma- Sweet corn—FPlant closely in driils( 3 feet apz ! three feet apart and thin to 10 or 14 E thinned to four in each hill. Carn inches in the rows. rt each way, and the plants If preferred. a? should be planted in well-prepared ! dozen seeds may be planted in hillsL ch land. the seeds 6 to 10 inches apart In the. nounced that men needed for the sig Seed for late cabbage—Sow In beds | about 1,000 below an especial nure. Water the beds daily, and set the plants in the garden when ready to move. tors," inside electricians, _ LD WIRELESS — lowerzight, FIELD TEL Uppez, FIE EGRAPH="%:< L : <> MAJOR OPDYCHE atlert Colonel R. D. Walsh, in charge of New York, an- are especially hich is ength. | demand for telegraph and wireless opera- outside wiremen, machinists, photogra- 'YOU MEN WITH SPECIAL TRAINING— STEP UP, AND ENLIST IN SIGNAL CORPS phers and men trained in handling, setting up and maintaining telephons systems. In the pictures the upper man is shown operating a field wire- le: the lower man has a portable telegraph outfit. The officer is' Ma~, jor Henry G. Opdycke, a veteran who{ has charge of the recruiting in New York city and yicinity,