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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, w Britain Herald. {HERALD PUBLISHING COMFANTY. L Proprietors. ed dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. | at Herald Building, 67 Church St red at tae Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. part of the city conts a month by mail, mgnth! Ivered by carrier to any ffor 15 cents a week, 65 criptions for paper to be ment payable in advance, 60 coents o 87.00 a year. medium 0 press ndvertising books and advertisers. ! only profitable the city. Circulation room alwavs open to Herald will be found on ling's News Stand, way, New York Clt fantic and Hartfor IELEPHONE Office Rooms Tota- Rroad- A sale at st. and ra walk, Depot CALLS. ness X orial i Conscientious Objectors. i Nine out of every ten of them ‘e gun-shy. And the one out of | n that is really a conscientious )jector must be conscientious | bout shooting some one else, not bout being shot himself. There ire I'd let him do the work ine sweeping. He couldn't 1y one else in that work, and | ough he might get killed him- | It, he could not conscientiously } | kit | »ject because he would be doing ‘nscientious to 1ling others.. —THEODORE LET US §IAVE LIGHT. ast night's mecting of the mission was Inspiring. It ified, business-like, sensible meet- | of competent who went | i1t the transaction of the city's ness as if they were handling F own interests. Such relief to the public nerves which | s been long unstrung by the con- | Hit and persistent actions of a ‘one safety board. This meeting he. fire commission in open;—not behind doors. newspapers today are not filled trivolous foolish stories | At the clrcus-like proclivities of members of this board. Why? | ause there were staged, there was no sign of mu- | or unmusical comedy. | 18 one defense of the police com- | jon in holding secret, star | nber, sessions is that the ird on the day after such a meet- work prevent ROOSEVELT. tire ! was a men a ion was held closed and no vaudeville or news- Igenerally come out with insipid fes of what place. er to these charges n to last night's meeting commissi There will oday's reports no mention rman Magnell having lhead, because Chairman his head. any took we point of the fon. be found of stood on Magnell There funny Commissioner Camp did not | not stand on be no les told use Commissioner Camp such stories. Nor did Com- perform mention of by any sloner Moran ean feat. The on the rary, marked all the anity of thought which the occa- 1 demanded, which the conduct of mess in a the size of % have. § it is with the should be with the police com- fon. And with this ion, we believe the city’'s business in yet a terpsi- meeting, was with city this lire commission, new be taken care of safe manner. It ce to let the it goes about public business for ‘renson that it under Ar. So far its meetings have been 1 much in the same fashion as a %t session of the Reichstag. We 4t have these methods. \must away the Imperial man of doing Tess. Although we are but a few ff from Berlin it in, Connecticut, not y. We are not in the shadow Wilhelmstrasse. We orders from the House of Hohen- rn. We have no Kaiser to whom bend the knee us then @ and has had no public know just operates none of with Government's way happens to be Berlin, Ger- of are not un- ust Y irue se Let conduct ourselves American Hving te knew t fashion. Let us, in a Democracy, act as what Democracy gUS away with the star chamber ‘gons of the newly appointed po- Fecommission & ¥ GERMANY als rial AWAKENING. much seems German certain,—the | Government now W0 wars on its hands; one ntente Allies and the other with Reichstag. the h is n the empire hemselves are light penetrating. They lcoming to a point of real are learning that In second w bringing about the to a crisis German peo- be is are zation much of the ‘\‘ ence parading throughout the | @r's domain has been false confi- le. They now demand Sher they are being led to know t reports that do come out of | e— | Wilhelm | Tivpitz | ernment | surmises | in Imperial Germany. For | com- | of subservi- | means. | with considered. ! Empire are confused somewhat conflicting. give an inkling of what place. And that in the German peo- strong the Imperial S Neverthe- less they 18 actually taking is a spirit of unvest the Kaiser is the help of his agents, lull into soon ple. Unless tenough, with awakening and back again it to overcome this the German people the dre: of the past may all For ams shouting of the war been | be over but the the entire duration the German people, so far, have held together built up by | zollern system Hohen- of and the by the mighty of season ht, that that. he God. the House through a long They have been taug time believed, no to this wrong: emissary from Almighty Coupled with this they have belleved a question of would triumph the entire be made to throne of the mili- Germany that Von England means of Kaiser can do an would be only Germany when would that it time when over its enemies, world, if neces: the sary, how before imperial They were told by of tary masters would bring and 1 their knees by ruthless submarine warfare. Up to this time the people of Ger- have believed all the stories They have swallowed them now there doubt. The party who of the out of the mee (o many told them. hook, line and sinker. the element of the the But of clerical enters member secret session let the hed something the Gov This a stood in Reichstag and cat bag accompli had reckoned Mathais Erzberger, exploded Although the full text of his made public, do the home not on, man, bomb. | specch has never been were sufficient to The German stirred to the depths. pass for the present. people at The crisis It is sure again, for all the officials will work. are may to brought back of a be prom the German such G never victorious Germany as they painted to the populace. many has gradually aligned the world hope see er- against itself. Germany cannot to win, and the people will sooner or later realize this fact. When they do, 1 the machinations of the all the promises of the milita ters, all the cunning and intrigue of the blundering diplomats will naught. Truly Democracy foot-hold even Kaiser, m: amount is Europe, to getting a in ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE. 1917 installment then 000, America’s Liberty Loan of got when its first The dollars, a fair start call $ oversubscribed. two was billion money collected by the the Some four mil- the great Nor is that it is com- was for 000,000, The government rolled §3.000,000.000 mark. | | | in well over lion people took part in financing of the nation. all. The | pleted, will be seven billlon dollars,— $7.000,000,000. It is not total loan, when for the average man billion dollars simple task to sum of money. We can visualize a hundred dollar: perhaps a thousand dollars; be a million; but when we step over that | line ana go into the billions the mind of man falters on the threshold. | Seven billion dollars is an enor- | mous sum of money. That the Unit- ed States has seen fit to call for this | amount of money may give some idea and easy what not realize seven It this huge to means. is a imagine | | | | l | | may | of the import of the great war the magnitude of the operations in- in its conduct. If we can what seven Dbillion volved realize dollars | means we can get a truer conception what the war means and what its is to the powers waging war. For this seven billlon dollars is only | the share that one nation contributes. of the et St i (he v 0 Skl | of | cost | Previous to the entrance | ‘ mous financial writer undertook to | place before the reading public a con- | crete illustration of its expense to the | He great people engaged in waging battle. took as his illustration the | Woolworth bullding in New York and | showed that if the daily ] world's war at | into peaceful channels it would suflicient to erect seven duplicates of the Woolworth building At the waste of three | construct a second Panama Every cost of the that time were turned be every twen- ty-four hours. the present time, | days' war would anal. the struggle con- tinues the Buropean nations involved in the day that war are spending or wasting igantic sum of §105,000,000. The i | e of first one-half | | . the two and of the war has been estimated around $65,000,000,000. That about times the cost of every war the world has suffered in the last one as three hundred years. r 0 get some idea of just Liberty what our loan means, we take the com- pilations of B. ( expert . Forbes, the financial New if all of the York American who shows that it were divided equally among the human beings , on earth each man and woman and | child would receive the sum of four! | dollars. | Further, the more Liberty total Loan of 1917 of | money in America’'s savings b:mks‘ is than the amount placed there by This, of Liberty 11,000,000 depositors refers to the total $7,000,000,000, course, Loan of do | tho following: in | the | The Liberty loan,—issued and more than twice sold prospect,—is total States. amount of the It national debt total savings in United | is seven times our 1t in previous | is fifty-six times the deposits the nation’s postal banks. the Liberty Loan is fifteen | all annually, Again, than the gold It fortunes times more won from the carth is twice estimated combined of thirty America the the in multi-millionaires total richest 1t merchandise United is twice the exported and in the amount of imported by the States busicst year before the war. That than all the gold held in this country banks of Europe same Liberty l.oan is more and in all the great Tt seven carnings of all States. that States net the combined. is times the the rallroads And the in not be of Tnited it must forgotten railroads the | Unitead roads in the world. The United States tion, are the richest rail- Steel concern, Corpora- dollar is sup- the a billion greatest pay-roll country. Yet times greater paid tion It America’s to posed to have in the Loan is three the Liberty than the entire amount of wages by this concern since its organ more than sixteen years ago. is also about twice the amount entiro population s estimated save in When when their meaning sinks deep in the mind of the average he will realize that war to the finish; a year. these facts are grasped, American America is in this that America means business. Despite the contempt which Kaiser and his friends to have for he knows, the are sup- America’s entr: if can read, participation 1917 war loan that was ever float- the divided posed in the Just The greatest ed war he what this means, Liberty Loan of is the by nation it any If the on the face of globe. were equally of every among people the Kaiser's empire each and child there a hundred dollars Christmas will and man, have which to buy woman would almost with presents. something they not have if the Kaiser keeps them at war much longer, No Germang paid agents starting of America are Yet in agitation to the empire is beginning rock onel end to the other. it ing started here? What would happen America had a propoganda such operat- in Germany as Germany “We too hiave many enemies, but not Iield Marshal Boy, South American countries! many,” complains von Hindenburg page the It is to be hoped that no American but what he White and citizen is so color blind can distinguish Blue in the “0ld Glor Red, FACTS A ND FANCIES Tears arc the war cry woman.—Bridgeport of an Telegram. angry Evidently the speak different Record. censorship languages. - directors Meriden It is not only a drowning would be glad to clutch at nowadays.—Arkansas Gazette. man who A straw One explanation might be that colonel, having bheen submerged some time, had to come up for New York World. the for air.— Disguising hithself by hiding star, and by sticking a ticket in his hatband. he walted at the interurban station for a car—Champalgn (IIl.) Gazette. his Congratulations are extended to the Emporia man who gave his girl a dia- mond three vears ago and got it back last week. Diamonds have increased in value per cent. in that Kansas City Star. 30 time.— We shall watch the matrimonial voyage of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Sprinkle of Kansas City with keen interest. M sprinkle whipped Mrs. Sprinkle within four hours after their marriage. We are curious to know whether a man can begin that sort of thing soon enough to do any good. pper's Weekly. B 0 or i, I long to float in a silve On the breast of a silver s In the silver light of a moonlit ni I would drift from a lonely quay 4 spot 1 know where the rushes | RTOW, And memory calls to me. DREAMS, r boat To 1 I would track To the heautiful secret place Where my dead dreams lie when put them by, Having loved them a would trace the gleam ost dream, Just to guze on travel back on that shining 1 little of space— L the falr- its dear, dead face. The breezes sigh as they flutter by, And they echo a name that thrills: Lo. a name forgot that I whisper not But it rides the wind, and fills All the midnight air where I breathed it, there In the silence the hills. Beatrice Bar in | as taking | mayor's office 1 eral” The New York Times. COMMUNI(‘A_T"D L “WHO'S HI \III'"\ NOW 99 Per Cent. of Our Below To the My vour .\(lul( Population Health Editor of the attention has bheen called to issue of June 16th and to your editorial entitled “All is for the Best® 1 was correctly quoted as stating thaf our héalth ideals are at present low nd that 99 per cent. of our adult population is below par, 1 was not correctly quoted, however, a gloomy view of what can or will he done to correct this .nmn-\ tion. The “nincly-nine per cent the medieal exmminations of the Extension Institute on bank and stenographers, among one | thousand such clerks in several hank- ing institutions in New York and an- other thousand foremen and mechan- | s in an automobile factory in De- trolt. The figures also harmonize | with data from many T was stating the cold have been able to find them after many years study, and facts which 1 would not myself have belleved a fow years £0. 1 was not stating a mere per- sonal opinion or gucss. If vou will write to the New headquarters of the Institute you zet the exact percentage of high blood pressure, arterial thickening, albumin, casts. sugar, defective teeth, eyes. ete. As to the future, I am optimist for 1 believe that the growing reali- zation of our short-comings will of it- self afford the needed stimulus to our health ideals, and there is abundant evidence that almost all of our short- comings, if in time, can be cor- rected. In fact it was my own good fortune in overcoming Tuberculosis twenty years ago, which led me first to study the preventability of discase. In my report as a member of the Roosevelt Conservation Commission, 1 estimated on the basis of data sup- plied by authorities on ninety differ- ent causes of death. that by applying knowledge already cxisting we could prolong human life at least fifteen years, an@ (1L am wllling to add) prob- Iy much more. Already in the eight vears since that report was written, we have actually accomplished one-fourth of the estimated possibility. The point which we now keep hefore us is, th ng our lives, our fortunes cred honor” to protect the n imply that we shall first of serve ourselves for the sake country. Unless the medical ations are very lax, I expect a major- ity of drafted out of the ten million enrollment to he rejected: but majority of the rejections can by military training. Both and those oo young or included in the enroll- ought, as a matter of patriot- into physical training, and to relinquish all indulgences and hab- its which impair the power to work. War, even more than peace, requires the full strenath of the nation. Very sincercly yours, [RVING FISHER. Yale University. *ar of Ideals, Herald: \ is based on Life clerks other sources. facts as 1 ork can an taken should all t in “pledsg nd our sa- tion, we N con- of our examin- those the vast be made fit those enrolled, too old to be ment, to zo ism 1917, 7 Hl]l]VER PLEADS FOR FOOD BILL PASSAGE Believes Farmer and Consuming | Public in Great Danger Washington, July 11.—A report on the food situation prepared for Presi- dent Wilson by Herbert (. Hoover, holding that hoth the farmer and the consuming public are suffering while | food speculators make unearned | profits from the.delny in enactment | of food control legislation, was given | out last night at the White House, Unless strong and efficient govern- | ment action is fmmediately taken, the | report says, the farmers will face a | in wheat prices and consumers caught in a situation slumyp will be even | | more serious than that which already is resulting in “actual undernourish- ment” in the great conguming cen- tres. The sbeculator, it is said, is tak- Ing a large part of the prices now paid by consumers, “We are practically helpless to safe- guard cither the farmer or the con- sumer,” concludes Mr. Hoover, “until the pending legislation is passed. The report, in the form of a letter the president, was Issted through the ;mmw information committee with the statement that publicity was given 1t in order that the country may know how serious and far reaching the conscquences may be both to the farmers of the country and to the consumers, if the delay in passing the pending food legislation continues.” Text of Letter. No comment by the president ac- companied the report, although he has more than once demonstrated his im- patience over the repeated delays in congress whch have kept the entire food control program in a state of un- certainty for weeks. Mr. Hoover's let- ter follows: “Dear Mr. President—In response fo vour request I send you herewith the following notes compiled by n self and my associates on the meson(‘ situation with regard to wheat. “First—The 1917 harvest promises to yicld 678.000,.000 bushels. The nor- mal internal consumption and seed requiremeonts uming a carry-over of same volume in 1918 as in 1817) amounts to about 600,000,000 bushels, thus leaving a theoretical export bal- ance of 78,000,000 bushels. The con- servation measures are already having 2 marked effect and it is not too much to hope that the national saving may be 80,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels, and therefore the export balance in- creased to, say, 158,000,000 to 180,- 000,000 bushel “2. The experience this year rampant speculation, profits and the prospect of even nar- rower supplies than the 1916 harvest and carrying must cause the deepest anxicty. No hetter proof of the hard- ship worked upon our people during to in the New Haven. afety First. (Louisville Courier-Journal) The man in Richmond, Ind., has asked Mayor Buschemeyver to se- lect a “nice Kentucky lady” who would be willing to marry a gentleman of Tndiana should pause and ponder. The record of divorce shows that when a man picks out the woman he would like to marry, or thinks at the time he would like to marry, and cuts her out of the bunch, as western cat- tlemen eay, he is the king of gam- blers. Compared with him the man who lays his money on the table when the dice are rattling in the be re- posing confidence in his luck, is a con- who ive speculator. Picking wife for another man might scém at first glance, to be less risky than picking one for one's self Rut that is not true. It never will he true while Jjuries are lenient toward mankillers; while a man who secks a hloody revenge for an injury has 98 chances to escape responsibility for his crime against two chances to he executed or imprisoned for life Sad indeed was the unhappy band in the musical comedy song was: “Why did T pluck den of love. Where they say only But suicide, or uxorcide, of such sadness. The journcy between Richmond and Louisville is not long and is made easily. The law never has succeeded in stamping out the practise of carry- deadly weapons concealed. The not fortified or sur- rounded by military outposts. The bhelieves, no doubt, in “safety Why risk sudden and violent at the hands of an avenger it is as easy for a Richmonder come Kentucky and inspect the unmarried and eligible women as it be for him welghted (pons to with the crror of judgment. uso, for consideration, the casier to decide upon nice Kentucky lady” as being desir- able wite one's own or some one's clse, than it is to cut her out of the bunch and rope her. wife-seeking excursion in the case the pardonahle and deslre to marry a Kentuckian. The discretion of the mayor prais- worthy, although it is, fundamentally, nothing more than obedicnce to the instinct of self-preservation. Needed. Times) ser o as hus- whose a lemon in the gar- peaches grow 2" grows out ing mayor first’. death when is to to to come discuss wonld with we; mayor an There is fact that it is a as a is recom- Indianian natural mended who has of a is More Discipline (Brockton the Gorman “lib- | et speech When a leader of party is reported in as sayving peace can only be had on the hasis of indemnities to Germany, it leads us to wonder if the whole na- tion is stark, staring mad. and how much more it must be disciplined to bring it to sanity. The man on the corner says: Man can love his fellowman without slap- ping him on the hauk.—A\ur\H(hl Bulletin. the past year nced be adduced than the recitation of the fact that the producer received an average of $1.15 o bushel for the 1916 harvest: yet whegg has been as high as $3.25 at ChicAuoRnat el pricelori meur fhas been from time to time based upon this Speculative price of wheat, so that through one evil cause or another the consumer has suffered from 50 to 100 per cent. and the producer has gained nothing. Could Eliminate Speculators, fter much study and investiga- tion it has been found that this situa- tlon is due not only to rank specula- tion, but mare largely to the wide margin of profit demanded by avery link in the chain of speculators to in- sure them from the great hazards of trade in the widely fluctuating and dangerous price situations during the year when all normal stabilization has been lost through the interruption of world trade and war. All these fac- tars make It vitally necessary to in- itiate svstematic measures which will absolutely eliminate all possibility of speculation, cure extortionate profits and effect proper distribution and re- strictions on exports to a point within our own protection, These measures cannot he accomplished by punitive prosecutions of evildoers, but only by proper and anticipatory organization and repulation all along the distribu- tion chain. “3. During recent months the allied governments have consolidated their buying in order that they might re- lieve the burden of speculation from their own consumers, and as the re- stricted exports to neutrals are but a item, the export. price, if not is subject ta the will of the in a great measure is left to that s without minor controlled, allied buver, the American producer buyer's judgment and voice. “Furthermore, in normal stances United States and Canadian wheat is moved to Kurope largely in the fall months, such shipments aver- aging about forty million bushels month and relfeving a corresponding flow from the farms to the interior terminals, This vear, owing to the shortage of shipping, the allied sup- plies must proceed over a large period of the vear and will nat during the Al months apparently average over 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 bushels a month “We must therefore, expect a glut | in our interior terminals during a considerable period. The financial re- sources of the grain trade are probah- 1y insuffictent to erry this extra load without the help of speculators, and moreover the consolidation of prac- tically all foreign buying in the hands of the allied buyer has further tended | to diminish the resources of capital available by putting a number of firms out of business, and limits the financial capital avallable in export trade “The net results of this situation 15 that unless strong and efficient Gov- ernment action is immediately settled | and brought into play the American producer will face a slump in whea* and. in any event the price of export | wheat will he dictated by a single | agency, and the American consumer | will be faced with the situation that s0 circum- extortionate | ! circumstances stuffs has passed into the hands ol’ speculators, for some one must buy and hold not only the normal flow | from the farmer but this probable glut, Sell Flour, Not Wheat. 4 With great reduction in the con- sumptlon of wheat bread now fortu- nately in progress, the employment of our mills must be greatly diminished, and with the reduction of domestic flour production and our daily feed from wheat residues will be greatly curtatled. Therefore we must induce foreign buyers to accept flour Instead of wheat. “5 In order to du justice to the pro- ducers who have shown great patri- otism in a speclal effort to increase production in 1917, and to stimulate further the efforts of 1918, it 1s ab- solutely vital that we shall protect the farmer from a slump in price this year due to a glut as above or from the uncontrolled decisions of any one buver. I am informed that most ot the allied countries have fixed a price of wheat to the farmer at $1.80 a bushel and many of their producers belteve that as allies it is our duty to furnish wheat at a price which, de- livered to them, will not exceed their domestic price—in other words, about $1.50 a bushel in Chicago. “Neither their responsible offictals nor T hold this view, because T consider the stimulation to produc- tion, if no other reason, is in the long run in the interest of the allles. There 1s, however, a limit to prices which <o trespass upon the rights of the con- sumer as to defeat its own object through strikes, raises in wages and soclal disturbances in the country. It is with the view of finding a solution for these problems, filled with the greatest dangers to both our pro- ducers and consumers, that legisla- tion has been proposed and pressed for speedy enactment. 6. The proposed food administra- tion has conferred with many hun- dred patriotic men engaged in produc- tion and has investigated the condi- tion of the consumers in many cen- ters as well. Many plans have heen tentatively put forward and aban- doned and others have developed, but in any case, none has or can be set- tled until legislation has been com- pleted. Three facts stand out plain- ly enough from our investigation: rmers and Public Unprotected. ‘First that in this situation the farmer will need protection as to the price of wheat; second, that large masses of people in the consuming centers are being actually under nourished today, due to the exorbitant cost of living, and that these condil- tions, unless some remedy is found, are likely to repeat themselves in even more vicious form at this time next year; third, the speculator, legit- imate or vicious, has taken a large part of the money now being paid by the consumer. “7. It seems to be overlooked in some quarters that the marketing of this year's wheat Is surrounded with new. to history, and old distributing sateguards are torn away by isolation from the reciprocal markets abroad and the extinction or a free export market and free export transportation, “The harvest has begun to move, and from these very causes the price of wheat has begun to drop, and if the farmer is to sell his wheat, either the speculator must return to the market to buy and carry on not only the normal flow from the farmer in excess of domestic and foreign re- quirements, but also the glut due to the restriction upon the outlet of the latter. He must necessarily charge his toll to the producer and the consum- er, and this latter probably upon a more extensive scale than last year, as his risks will be greater. “Practically the export buyer must fix his own price for export wheat from the sole outlook of his own clents, and in execution of his duty he will in all normal circumstances follow the market down by buying only his time to time requirements, as he cannot be expected to carry tthe load of our domestic accumulation. “Or, on the other hand, the gov ernment must buy the surplus wheat at some reasonable minimum price, allowing the normal domestic trade of the country to proceed with prop- er safeguards against speculation. Nor would the services of the speculator be necessary, for the government should be able to stabilize the price of wheat without his assistance and can control the price and quantity of export wheat. We are practically helpless to safeguard either the far- mer or the consumer until the pend- ing legislation is passed.” that the A Cow and Two Kids. (Paterson Call). There were two of them, one about six years of age, the other four; tired and dirty and worn out from a three- mile tramp. They were picked up by a kindly officer and returned to their homes. And their predicament came about because of their curiosity at beholding a cow It was a new animal to them. The. had seen circus parades with yellow lions and striped tigers in the cages: they had seen wabbly elephants and hump-backed camels and awkward, long-necked giraffes; they had heheld the blood-sweating animal of Bible times—the red man, the hippopot- amus in all his ugliness. But they had never seen a cow. Had it not figured in the police records of a city, one could not belleve it. The larger cities have for some time recognized the value of giving the kiddles a chance to see the do- mestic animals on our farms. In one of the parks in New York city several are kept and milked regularly the edification of the children, and there Isn't a bigger attraction in the city. Scores of little folks gather ahout the animals morning and evening and watch the process of milking. Their exclamations of surprise, their pleased and curious expressions, are a revelation in child study. A lubberly hog or an old hen with her chickens attract as much attention in the larger cities as rare animals imported from the j gles. And it all goes to show > of the cities are compelled to live cows for THE McMillan Store (Incorporated.) “Always Reliable.” SPECIAL JULY SALE PRICES ON RUGS AND. DRAPERY MATERIALS TWO EXTRAORDINARY LOTS OF CURTAIN SCRIMS AT 12 1-2c and 17c YARD. ' Offering more than Twb Thousand Yard of Dainty Scrims. To duplicate these values offered in this sale we would have to ask 19c to 29¢ yard for them. SPECIAL JULY SALE PRICES ON RUGS Advance orders the result of eurly buying when market prices were much lower than they are today, are the plain facts for offering spch values as we quote for the July Sale. Rugs in all sizes from the small ones to the large room sizes are in this sale at special prices, namely Wool and Fibres, Tapestry Brussels and Axminsters of the newest designs. SPECIAL RAG RUGS July Sale Prices 69c and 98c cach. SPECIAL VELVET RUGS Size 27x54. Regular $1.98 values. July Sale Price $1.50 each. Room Size Rugs in a large variety, at prices which will not exist later on. OIL CLOTH and LINOLEUM REMNANTS At less than today’s cost prices. STAR CHAMBER SESSIONS. Public Business Cannot Be Done In the Dark. Let in Light. (Rockville Leader.) cently debarred from attendance rep- resentatives of the press. The “New Britain Herald,” discussing the po- sition taken by the police board, pgo- tests, as any self-respeécting newspaper would under similar circumstances, Star chamber sessions of police or any other boards engaged in the publig husiness cannot be justified in this e lightened age. Over and over again The ILeader has protested against them and it heartily commends the “New Britain Herald. It has the right side of the issue that has been raised. The public at all times is en- titled to know what its servants are doing or failing to do. And, debarring newspaper representatives isn't doing anybody of an) institution in the municipality any good. The greatest harm it usally works Is to the men so shart sighted as to desire to do public business in secret, without letting in any light. The public at once be= comes suspicious. All sorts of stories get into circulation. Public officials are likely to be mistrusted and publig business injured in more ways than one. There may be rare occasiong when newspaper reporters exercige poor judgment and make mistakes, There is a remedy for this. There ig no remedy for a permanent injury to public business or suspicions of ordi- narily trustworthy public officials, brought about by the insistence on star chamber sessions. These are everywhere and every time a relic of an age that has gone never to retur. Only public officials who are sharte slghted or afraid of having their own doings exposed to the public view will ever advocate them. Publicity never yet hurt anything or anybody except persons and things that ought to be hurt. Down Goes Coal, (Chicago Evening Post) If the high prices were in obedience to the cconomic law of supply and de- mand, if they were necessary to the successful operation of the industry, Why can the mine owners now afford such astonishing decreases in price? The answer is self-evident. During the last year or more the owners have attempted to justify their stand. They have set stance after another as the reason for advancing prices. We had pictures of, closed mines. miners out ment, no coal, business in bankruptey looms. " But. upon realizing that Washingtas ‘meant business,” that a real investis gation was coming, they price. And they don't out of business, either. If the high prices were justifiable, they would have to remain, gation notwithstanding. But the thin frame of justification collapsed twith' the voluntary lowering of price and other” expect to mighty narrow lives in comparison & large part of the essential bread- with the folks of the country. The horizon appears brighter today I!ar the consumer. < ¢ ——————— up one cireum- ", of employ.. % star?ing communities, -2 lowered thedfs The New Britain police board re- ° . investi- *