New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 13, 1917, Page 6

Britain Herald HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANTY. Proprietors. ed dafly (snguy excepted) at 4:15 p. m., | at Herald Building, 67 Church St fitered at tae Post OfMce at New Britain ! as Second Class Mail Matter. fvered by carrler to any part of the city ¢ 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. riptiohs for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance, 60 cents a month. 8$7.00 a year. medium ‘8 only profitabla adv and press the city. Circulation room alwavs open to advertis . Her.fld 1\H| be found on sale at Hota- stand, 42nd St. and Broad- k City: Board Walle, Ai- and tford Depot. wa¥, rantic City, TELEPHONE S, Siness Office Jtorial Room: CAL WELCOME RESIGNATION. it may be true and it’may not be B that Chancellor Von Rethmann- Iweg has resigned his post. If it irue, the resignation is a welcomed { and will be bailed as ay quarters. t should prove a pleasant forerun- of better things to come. Lccepted as truth, of which there ‘very possibility, the resignation of hmann-Hollweg marks the begin- g of the end of Junkerism. It Is culmination of a parliamentary such ggle over the Junker programme war to the finish, the programme ¥ osh says there shall be no quarter the enemy, the programme which 1ld fight to the death withoutj tpromise of any kind. his is the conscience of the Im- fal Government of Germany. It \ rubber conscience that can be tched at the will of the Kaiser. ‘his consclence has been brought k& to the realm of reason, and the gnation of von Bethmann-Holl- would tend to show it has, then ‘e should be cause for rejoicing world over,—and particularly iin the Imperial empire. he German people,—of whom ‘e can be nothing said derogatory, they are honest and sincere in their undertakings,—are honest sle. But they have been fooled the Kaiser and his Imperial ad- rs, among whom was Bethmann- Iweg. These people have been to believe that all the sacrifices are making will lead to a tre- dous victory over all mankind. have been taught that victory is red them. They do not know, have not known, that their dream conquest is impossible. They d not know, for Bethmann-Holl- , acting for the Kaiser, would not hem know. aving misled his own people, it fme the German Chancellor hand- n his resignation. If he did not it now, if he does not do it now, must do it when the allied forces lhe world beat down the gates of in and let the German people what has really been taking KIDLING FREEDOM. there was ever a German within jimperial German empire who was enough and broad enough to view 'national situations through ational spectacles, that Maximilian Harden, in- German editor P Zukunft.” For this offense, Maxi- pn Harden’'s pen has been taken Iy from him and his publication has suppressed for the remainder of war by the imperial German gov- hent. Instead of criticizing er’s motives and holding the im- emperor up to the gaze of the le in his true light, den will hereafter push his pen clerk of the government. He h b drafted under the auxiliary ce law and will be employed a ltary clerk. Thus will the us, the great German publicist, the penalty for the Kaiser's toes. civil great having When rrence happens to the le of Germany is understood, feblatt,” that stepped such an Kaiser the must limp. from the Berlin the imperial Ge government had planned to force | action in regard den some time ago, but lacked the age. There was at least e German empire er and his advisers the fear was short pluge of those momentuous at one man of whom the were afraid. lived. Under hap- ngs the imperial circle has at las enabled to of and so, Maximilian dispose its chief c, Harden it go. sanctorum where real thoughts 1t, to the hard wood beich of a cal office there to become a mere bnicler of prosaic figures. Tt has decreed by the and ded government that this shall Kaiser his In | | hands | fense. in | and | isher of the German newspaper | the Maximilian | to Maxililiam | He must go from the sanc- ; be so and, by all the German crown princes and potentates, it shall be so. Maximilian Harden's pen is deprived | of its ink. newspaper which “ Die Zukunft,” few | | Harden | temporarily edited, was days its of the Allgemeine Zeitung's Grimm-Hoffmann the resigna- Swiss fed- ed criticism suppre a 0 because of Nord statement aftair tion of Deutsche on the which resulted in Dr. Hoffmann councillor, of ; international Socialist, 1S a the expulsion Grimm, the after the manoeu- and Rebert eral from Russia Swi {"\yr-m re of the reant peace failed paper humanitarium side of Allgemeine Zei- things Harden en- | ver which Harden's i Tidiculea !'the Nord tung. Anmong other | said that the aims of Germany's | emies were, In part, “the creation of a situation which would remove the decision of peace or war from the will of one mortal and place it in the the Deutsche of the community. Therein we have Harden’s chief of- Hec was big enough, and broad {o view the internal situation through international spectacles. He among other things, the aims and objects of Germany’s en- emies, including the United States, are to take out of the hands of the Kaiser the power that belongs to the people, and {o put into the hands af the peo- ple the power that has been usurped maladministered by the Kaiser. words, the words of Maxi- the aims of Germany’'s enough saw that and In other milian Harder, enemies are “the creation of a situa- tion which would remove the decision of peace or war from the will of one mortal and place it in the hands of the community.” Naturally, such a proposition is dis- pleasing to the kaiser, who, all during his life, has led the German people by the simple belief in the Divine right Because Maximilian Harden and conviction to of kings. had the courage place the real objects of the Entente Allies' war, the kaiser and his sup- pressimists have put the gallant Ger- man editor out of business. They have done that, but they cannot do this: they cannot undo the good Maxi- milian Harden has already done through his pen, which is as mighty as any sword in the Imperial German Empire. They may make a clerk of Maximilian Harden, but he will al- ways remain their superior in brain power and vision. TWO ARE GUILTY Fast St. Louis, after the coronmer's inquest held concerning the recent race riots, labor disputes, or whatever the people there choose to call them, comes in for another censuring. This inquest proves conglusively that the local government of the Missouri city is absolutely and void. It might as well not exist, Only one white person who actually fired a shot, in the present riots, has been braught forward by the coromer, This person is a newsboy. From this it is ascertained that but one white person fired a shot at the negroes and this white person is a boy. It there- fore follows that no white man had a hand in the trouble. Yet, the evi- dence as just gathered from the news- paper reports is just the opposite. There must have been white men mixed up in this deplorable affair. We have consended all along, and do maintain, that the riots of East St. Louis were nat related to social war- fare. They appear out of labors’ dis- putes. The workingmen of that city demanded of their employers a cer- tain wage scale. This scale of wages was not met, and the employers, which was natural, imported other la- borers to take the place of those who went on strike. As it happened, these trike-breakers were negroes from the | South. Immediately there was trou- ble. The same trouble might have happened, and probably would have happened, had these strike breakers | been cheap laborers from the North, i and men of white skin. At least such trouble would have taken place in ; Bast St. Louis under the present local government. The verdict of the coraner's jury, then, In giving a clean bill of health | to the white populace of East St. | Louis is without warrant. There were nil some white men, and there are some white men, then guilty of waging warfare against the colored laborers orth to satisfy a shartage | in the labor market. Whether they fought laboring men or as white men against negroes, the facts are the same. There was bloodshed, and there are two guilty principles,—the white and the local government 5 Louis. The white men are guilty because they did the shoot- the local government of St Louis is guilty for allowing i who came | as men of St ing, East such lawlessnes: FACTS AND FANCIES. Chinese leader gives up. low.—Berkshire Eagle. He's yel- Chinaman that knows country.—Philadelphia | It's a wise who rules his Public Ledger. was seen Frank Akers around Maximilian | times this week accom- of the smartest look- we ever saw.—Ione town several panied by one ing mule colts (Or.) Bulletin. Prayers he Russians, Russians that the Germans. are g offered fm‘ Judging by the w re going just now ing should be for pringfield News. we think the the garden brigade is that | the troops enlisted for New Haven Union. One trouble finds with the so many of 30 days R “I am at home anyvwhere,” John D. Rockefeller, This habit of | hyperbole is certainly an American tralt—there must be several places that John D. doesn't own yet.—Bos- ton Transcript. says It is ‘hoped for the recent great endowments of medical schools that they will cure us more generally of the diseases we have instead of dis- covering more.—Norwich Record. Now that the French are calling American soldiers ‘“Sammies’ one wonders what the Germans will soon be calling them ?>—Detroit Free Press. of AMadison the old wear, the “Miss Flora McFlimsy Square,”who gained fame in days by having nothing to would now pass unnoticed on street.—Paterson Press-Guardian. JAPS AND DUTCH ON FRIENDLY TERMS Nippon Has No Intention of Seiz- ing Holland’s Islands i the | the | Murray in Palestine or Major ’I]UST HEAT, FLIES MENACE SOLDIERS - Gampaign in Near East Far From ‘ Abilene Reflector | Being Picnic Melbourne, Australia, June (Correspondence.) — Hardships discomforts of the British campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia are the themes of many letters written by Australian soldiers serving under tho commands “of General Sir Archibald General 30.— Maude in Mesopotamia. “If you want to see a muddle you ought to see a camel convoy under shell fire,” writes one man from the \_k:lnl(." of Gaza in southern Pales- tine. ““The natives who load the cam- els run away at the first shot and then the white men try to induce, by all the profanity they can muster, those camels to hurry out of range or un- der the cover of a hill. All the time gaod lives are being lost trying to save the convoy, which, perhaps, has the water cupblv r thousands of men in the firing line.” Dust, heat and flies arc the three worst plagues of Mesopotamia from the soldiers’ standpoint, writes one of the privates who suffered from them. “To You,” he adds, “the flies would be quite inconceivable. They settle in great clusters on everything. Some of them can sting and bite severely. With the coming of nightfall the ordinary flies disappear and the mosquitoes and sand flies take their place. The sand- fly is an insidious plague. You hav to wear a very fine suffocating mes on your face and at night you must spray thin acid over your face to get any peace. The temperatume goes up rom 110 to 142 degrees in the shade, 'he morning’s work being done you lie in your tent with the flap up. You almost gasp for breath. Anxiously you await the going dewn of the sup. You wear a toupee or a wet towel on your The Hague, Netherlands, June 30. —(Correspondence).—Asked if the relations between Japan and Holland had suffered at all during the war, the Japanese minister at The Hague, K. Ochiai, declared in an interview: “The relations between the two coun- tries have always been of a very in- timate and friendly nature, and have lost none of their former cordiality during the war.” The question the talk about was inspired by all Japanese ambitions respecting the Netherlands East Tndies, and the.concern occasionally aroused in Holland by the writing of certain Japanese jingoists. After assuring the Dutch people that the writings of the publicist Yusaburo Takekoshi, had found no echo in the Land of the Rising Sun, where his publications indeed wero sharply condemned, Japan's diplo- matic representative at The Hague concluded by suggesting that experts should be appointed to study on the spot ways and means of improving commercial and shipping connections between Japan and the Netherlands East Indies. New Japancse Envoy. Tokio, June 20—The Japanese gov- ernment has created the post of as- sistant naval attache to the embas- sies at Washington and London, Paris and Petrograd, the duties be- ing to assist or to act as advisers to the regular attaches and to investigate the naval affairs of the countrles to which they are assigned. The first officer attached to Japanese embassy at Washington the new capacity is Commander Vis- count Masamichi Hotta, who is the son of the late Viscount Hotta, a Daimyo peer and the minister of communication in 1908, the in Object to Cable Censor. Yokohama, Japan, June 22.—Set- ing forth that the prevention of the use of private codes in the sending of cable messages is harmful to their business, the Yokohama Foreign Trade Assoc. has forwarded a petition to the Washington government for the right to use such codes. The petition is mainly in the inter- cst of the sllk and tea exporters who do a heavy trading with the United States and who as a means of econ- omy have always used a special code for the transmission of quotations. The United States war rcgulations permit the use of only well known codes. Must Retain Employes, Copenhagen, June 27.—The Ger- man Imperial Supreme Court in giv- ing its decision at Berlin that war is no cause for dismissal from service sustained a suit brought by an em- ployee who had been summarily dis- missed in September, 1914, on the | ground that war did not permit the continuance of business in foreigin countires. In rejecting the ruling of | the lower court, the highest tribunal | declared that, while war shut off in- tercourse with warring countires, the firm still had neutral states to operate in, which made obligations to their employes binding. Coal Gas to Run Motors. London, June 30.—Zeppelin-motor "buses are being run hetween this city and Eastbourne. Owing fo the short- | aga of petrol, a single deck motor 'bus | has heen equipped with a gas-hag on | top filled with coal gas to be used as a substitute for petrol for driving | power. Lloyds Gives 2,600 Men. London. June 30.—Lloy Insurance Committee have lost sers vices of 2,600 men during the war, and their husiness is being conducted | with the assistance of old men and | boys. Last yvear the premiums paid | | to the Committee totalled 35,000,000 | Marine pounds sterling. head. One very rarely wears much clothing and you lead the simple life. The heat takes all pride from you. You're just bathed in dust and sweat.” GOVT. FARM LOANS PROVING POPULAR Associations Subscribe for Ap- proximately $19,000,000 {Correspondence of the Asso. Press). Washington, July 13—Approximate- Iy §12.,000.000 of first mortgage loans to farmers at 5 per cent. are repre- sented by charters to farm loan asso- cilations approved hy the Federal Land Banks which were established under the Federal Farm TLoan Act. The legislation creating these banks was enacted less than a year ago. The number of farm loan associa- tions chartered up to July 1 was 230 and the exact total of money asked for by these associations was slightly in excess of §50,000. The average num- ber of farmers in tho 230 associations chartered w pproximately 18, mak- ing the avera size loan thus far made about §2,500 Most of the loans thus far made run for 36 years and are retired on the amortization or partial payment plan by semiannual payments amount- ing to 6 per cent. per annum. Under the arrangement provided by this leg- islation 6 per cent. annual payment made by the borrower retires both the principal and interest. Members of the Federal Farm Loan Board expressed gratification over the equal distribution of the business throughout the United States, and speclal gratification was felt over the fact that the states of high land ralues are making good use of the deral Farm Loan System as indi- cated by the large volume of loans in Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota and Oklahoma. Even in the New England States where farm loan interest rates have been lowest the Federal Land Banks are making good headway, the loan applications, not yet acted upon, at the Springfield Mass., Bank amounting to nearly $4,000,000. The 12 Land Banks have pending, but not yet approved, appli- cations for loans amounting to nearly §100,000,000. The distribution of Federal farm loan business up to July 1st is indi- | cated by the following tabulation of states and the amount of loans ap- proved in each: Indiana Kansas Ilinois Oklahoma Nebraska Massachusett: New York New Jerse, \ll\tmlrl 408,400 I\Prfiu(‘k\ .. South Dakota Ponnsylvania Virginia ho North Dakota Minnesot; Wisconsin Michigan 4 Washington Oregon Montana Idaho Colorado New Mexico North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Texas Mississippi Alabama California Nevada Utah Arizona and | The McMILLAN STOREInc. 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FEATURING SILK HOSIERY Silk Lisle Vests and Union Suits Saturday at Special July Prices WOMEN’S FIBRE BOOT SILK WOMEN’S FASHIONED BOOT WHITE FIBRI FIBRE SILK SOX, SILK HOSE,SPECIAL VALUES VACATION SPECIAL In all the HOSE, SPECIAL ... 45¢c PATR—Black Only. SILK HOSE SPECIAL 65¢c PAIR—BIlack Only. 50c, 59c, 75c pair. 250. 35c and 39c pair. wanted shades, including bla(‘k nnd vlhlt/e Silk Lisle Vests and Union Suits For those who appreciate these Silk ILisle Garments with VESTS in white and pink UNION SUITS in white and exceptional values in Underwear of the better kinds we offer, Saturday, hand crochet and band tops. . e . 39c each, extra sizes 69c. pink .’I 00- each, extra sizes $1.25. TIMELY TOPIGS AT g MOVIE HOUSES SO0N Mayor Quigley to Secure List of Government Speakers Mayor Quigley has been named by the State Council of Defense as city chalrman of the recently created ‘de- partment of four-minute men”. This is an organization of volunteer speak- ers for government presentation of topics of national importance to mov- ing-picture theater audiences. The general plan of the Four-Minute Men is as specialized publicity service giv- ing four minute talks by local volun- teers, introduced hy a standard intro- duction slide furnished by the govern- ment, in the intermission at motion picture theaters. The mayor has been furnished with a number of pledge cards which will be distributed to var- fous public speakers, who will state on what occasions they will be able to talk. It is not likely that any man will he called upon to speak more than once a weck, or possibly once every two weeks. Topics, such as the selective draft, the Red Cross, the Liberty Loan, etc., will be as- signed by Washington under the fol-! Jowing general instructions: General Instructions. Speaker arrives promptly; presents his standard introduction slide, which is at once given to machine operator with proper instructions for use. Speaker is ready at platform. Imme- diately after finish of reel, introduc- tion slide is shown. Speaker steps up, speaks four minutes, and leaves the platform immediately. He se- cures return of slide and repeats as per appointments. First. See that every talk is strict- v limited to be within the policy lines permitted by the Committee of Public Information. This 1is most important, as loose original ideas will immediately injure the value of the whole plan, Second. Friction or confusion with the moving-picture people must be avoided. They are voluntary con- tributors to the movement, and their interest must be protected. Third. The four-minute limit must be respected. See paragraph No. 5 under caution to local chair- man for full statement on this point. ‘A speaker undertakes this work as a voluntary agent of publicity for the government for the duration of the war on nonpartisan matters connect- ed with the national defense. He i» required to sign an enrollment card which pledges him to conforn to the standard plan covering this work sent out from the department. He is nat under ntract to ice and is free ficient notice to his local chairgan to be relieved from any engagement either temporarily or permanentl ‘When ever he appears on a platform, introduced with the department slide, he is an accredited speaker for a Gov- ernment office created by order of the Preeident and is morally bound to conduct himself with the dignity proper for the service. “Every speaker is expected to have his subject in hand before appearing. He should arrange with the local chairman not to appear until he ha, confidence in his ability to properly present his message. “If a speaker discovers by trial that | he is not suited te the work, and that he is not winning his audience, he should either resign or request the chairman to assign him to some other work which he may be able to do ef- fectively. “The relations of this organization with the government, the motion-pic- ture industry, and other patriotic or- ganizations, rest upon agreements which must be kept up to the letter, and this necessitates standardized in- structions to speakers and local | branches which can be safely changed ‘ JAP wofim“(m MEN ; without authority. Almond Eyed Lasses of Far FEast “Local chairmen hecome responsi- ble to theater managers for speaking Realize Own Importance and Step Into Men’'s Shoes. now being made merely’ win yotes at the Provincial Council elections by an appeal to sentiment, and not to the sound sense of the people. The proposal able, is wholly impractic- and Is moreover very danger- ous, for in the present war condim tions it can only lead to bitterness, division, race hatred and even civil war. Thero 1s in South Africa a strong English population whose Motheriand | is now engaged In a life and death struggle. It is not surprising that: they regard this movement as treas- osable and disloval. It is unjust andw=i: dishonorable to make such an attempt- at this moment, and the dishonor is all the greater as the praposal is only i intended to catch votes for a partic~ ular party. My warning is intended very earn- estly, because I foresee in this move- | ment nothing but ruin for South Afri-, ca and disastrous consequences for the South African people. 1 appeal above all to our pioneers and the fath- ers of our people to follow the safe way of honor, along which 2 great future awaits us.” engagements, so speakers must main- tain the confldence of the theater men in the organization and at the same time simplify the work of these chair- men by making thelr engagements punctually and without failure.” Recruiting Is Urged. Mayor Quigley also received several {atements from the State Council of Defense, one of which said that the council has voted to donate not more than $500 to both the first and sec- regiments to assist in recruiting. connection the council urges civic co-operation and states: “Col. Goodman of the first will call upon vou for assistance. Give him all you \n for the honor of the state. al- though your efforts won't count in fa- vor of the town against the draft.” | This is taken to mean enlistments | since July 5. In another section, the State Coun- cil says “On the present over (fiimate of Connecticut’s population, proposed in Washington to be maa' the basis for the draft, Connecticut is to he | badly hit, but rememb:er this state will he the first to suffer in case of an invasion.” (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Tokio, June 30.—(Correspon- dence)—That Japanese women con- stantly are taking a larger part iu the activities of the empire is shown by recent investigations. As in Eu- i rope, so in Japan women are filling positions formerly exclusively held by men. There are 4,000 women under the Railway Bureau, most of them ticket sellers, cashiers and ac- | countants, and 6,000 women find em- ployment in the clgar and cigarette factorles of the government tobacco monopoly. Their wages range from ten to twenty-five cents a day. Male clerks in banks and mercan- tile houses constantly are being re- placed by women, who receive $5 to $15 a month. Actresses receive the highest wages® ' paid to women in Japan, but their clothes are expensive and so they are financially in no hetter position than the more humble workers. The low- | est salary among them is $25 or $30 a month, and the highest about $150. In journalism women in Japan get from $19 to $25 a month, according t0 experience. As yet the number of women doctors is not large, but they enjoy a large and lucrative practice. The number of women employed in such capacities as nurses, governesses, in drug stores, or as models, dancers, guide: usher barmaids, teahouse waitresses. hairdressers and flower- makers ncreasingly large, to say nothing of the more than 125,000 em- The | ployed in cotton and other ructoflu.‘ ] working L WARNS SOUTH AFRICA. Botha Hears of Extensive Pro- paganda. Capetown, South Africa, June 30, (Correspondenice)—A grave warning against propaganda aiming gt the po- litical independence of South Africa has just been issued broadcast by Gen. Botha. His statement folow: “Members of the South African party must not allow themselves to be misled by false and misleading propaganda for independence. Gen.