New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1917, Page 6

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WINTHROP. | THE HONOR ROLL. & few days the young men Ben the ages of twenty-one and -one, selected for duty in the 1 Army, will be ordered ort before the examination a Those accepted will be d in the ranks and a complete d of their names and addresses t by the War Department at Wash- .Bach man selected in ' this ‘will be definitely placed as a re- t from New Britain, ore the selective draft went into there were many who ‘the army and the navy and the guard from this city; but of ' these young men went to d to enlist and have been d as coming from Hartford: For ) purpose of keeping the record ht the Herald will print a com- Hst of all those who!/are now in mervice. This can only be done is a hearty response to the now under way. Blanks h appear in another part of the fper from day to day'should be filled it and returned to'this office. Other- jse the list cannot be presented. Jounting: those who have gone to the ’ of the colors, and those who wiil ‘placed in the ranks of the new nal army within the next month, | - Britain will have done its share lping Uncle S8am make the world 3 for democracy. There will be here near one thousand men boys from this town in uniform the preparations are over. Out population of less than 60,000 is a noteworthy achievement. We fiould, in honor, keep & correct list 3&“ those who serve the nation at lits time. THE WAY IS CLEAR. ome time this week the two local ption boards will begin the work | examining candidates for the new : 1 army under the selective ft 'law. Registrants will be sum- ned as soon ‘as the two boards re- from Washington the certified of the drawing ‘which took Friday. hen the two boards here have e up the lists of those who are ple for service under the draft, e will be sent through the mails " the men wanted for examination. | certain number will be ordered to 2 before the board each day fatll New Britain’s quota, 513, has jen fllled. Within five days after ce has been received in each in- dual case the candidate’ must put an appearance before the board. ms for exemption must be filed n seven days after the malling of X Provost Marshal General ler has issued a bulletin con- g instructions for the regis- ats of June 5, which should be i carefully by all concerned. First, the registrant must find out e location of the local exemption ard that has his card. "He can find t from the policeman on post near s house, from the nearest police sta- on or from lists published by news- pers. JAt the office of his local exemption pard he will find a list of the regis- wnts in the district, each with his k4 ink serial number. This number jhot the one which was on his regis- on card when he registered. It number which determines, by position in the draft at Washing- wwhen its owner shall report for | nation. The order in which his number is sawn in Washington can be ascer- ined from newspapers and from lists psted in the offices of local exemp- on boards, The registrant, if h amber falls within those listed in the st call, must apply to the local ex- fnption board at- once for the ap- oximate date of his examination. ji# must see to it that the date on /Moh those bearing his number are called for examination does not slip | { by unnoticed for he may receive no notification. While notices will be mailed, there is always the danger of error, and registrants are advised not to wait for formal notification, but to go on their own volition to the local boards | and learn what must be done. | From now on, the burden of re- | sponsibility is*placed on the shoulders of the registrants. It is for them to see that the Selective Draft Law works no injystice. It was born in a spirit of fairness, it can be carried to | successful completion by co-operation’ of-all men effected by its provisions, The duty of each man is clearly stated: Get in touch with the local boards. “ONE NEVER KNOWS, DOES ONE?” Just as in the midst of life we are in death, so even in the midst of war we are in politics. At least wo cannot forget polifics. We have it everywhere,—in Washington, in Hart- ford, in New Britain, even in Windsor Locks. Warming up to the situation the Bridgeport Post now drags forth the possibility of Speaker Frank E. Healy running for Congress from this district on the republican ticket when the slate is made up in 1915. “It now seems to be definitely agreed in republican circles throughout the state,” ventures the Post, “that Speaker Healy will be the republican candidate for Congress in the first Distri¢t in 1918.” To which the Hartford Times counter-comments as follows:—"This rumor is frequently heard in the district, but Mr. Healy _does not pass Judgment on the rumor. Howevér it may be received in other places it is thought that it produces mixed feelings in New Brit- ain, the second largest electorate in the district. That is to be expected since the republican politicians .of the city hope the nomination will go to their community and that either Mayor Quigley or Senator Klett will be the nominee.” There is no mistake about that. Any rumor of Speaker Healy’s 'ambitions in this particular direction must pro- duce “mixed feelings” in New Brit- ain; for the republican politicians of this city do hope, and hope heartily, that the nomination will make its initial bow here and that the recipient of its smiles and favors will be either Mayor Quigley or Senator Klett, Joth of whom have been polishing up their best political charms for lo these many years. There would be no moro ‘welcome visitor to either of these camps than the nomination to Con- gress, even though the republican ticket 15 not wreathed in the same old ring of roses, nor enshrouded in the old-time brilliandy. The “mixed feelings”” which such a nomination, or even the ‘rumors of such a nomina- tion produce are quite aside the main case. from If either one of the two Georges receive the nomination there is fear for the safety of the city,—not that they are incapable of handling the interests of this com- munity in the legislative halls of Washington,—we do not say that,— but because of the personal ambitions to be considered. There is not enough hardware manufactured in New Brit- ain, the greatest of all hardware centers, to represent the feelings of either one of these two stalwart party men who might lose out. The celebrat- ed Dick to Dick letters would then be replaced by a series of George to George epistles that would rank with the Pickwick papers or.some other equally as notable documents. There used to be a story going tho rounds to the effect that old P. Davis Oakey, who some time ago relin- quished his plush seat in the Congres- sional halls, was saving the place for George A. Quigley. That is, there is supposed to have been an understand- ingf} Oakey ‘was merely holding down the place in Washington until the Mayor got tired of running things here. Then, George A. was to get the nomination and go down to Wash- ington where, he has every reason to believe, he belongs. But that was in the good old days,~—just before the light- ning struck. Then along came Wood- row Wilson for re-election and running on the same track with the Wilson party was a gentleman from this dis- trict named Augustine Lonergan. And Lonergan up-set the plans, if there were such plans, of Mr. Oakey and Mr. Quigley. That is, Lonergan de- feated Oakey and thus prevented Oakey from holding down the job for Quigley. Whether Senator Klett knew all these things is now a mili- tary secret on He has had a censorship .all news of that kind for but, they rangements v “ they be then | tion some time; do say all these ar- e complete so far as That being so, it might some arrangements were made whereby the nomina- | was held in abeyance for George Quigley, and not George Klett. However, these thing are not for us, they being merely in the realm rumor. went. that of There are some things which are even beyond the scope of clair- voyance. As Rip Van Winkle's frau was wont to remark, “One never does know, does one?' And that's about the way the political situation between the two Goorges in New Britain now stands. With Speaker Healy it is another thing, ~ FACTS AND FANOCLES. The Windaor ties are good enough for George.— New York Sun. Who stil! says there 1s a scarcity of dyes? Look at the provalling neck- tor=—Albany Journal, It takes \rgentina a long time to got mad enough to fAxht, but maybo she'll wake up it her coat off-—Manchester The effart will bo to make our re- Union. sourees g0 as far as possible, and to | g0 te the peoplo that ought to have them,—Indianapolls News. When the final vietory is won, France and Amerlca can hold a two weeks eelebration—--from the 4th to the 1tith of Jul ‘Washington Post. Prevention of any of our supplies becoming “available, either 'dlrer!l)’ or indirectly, to feed ths enemy,” 18 of prime and fundamental impor- tance—st. Louls Globe-Democrat. Parls, France, celebrates the Fall of the Rastille, and Montreal, P. Q. would like to celebrate the Fall of the Borden Government.—Toronto Telgram. Michaelis has a distinction. There is no von before his name. But now he is in office he will acquire his von Ludendorff has.~—Syracuse Post- Standard. Many a man who a year g0 didn't know an aphid from a trilobite is learning that the former is prepar- ing to invade the potato forest, while the latter sleeps forever .on the shelves of the museum. Keep on spraying.—New Haven Register. There are more ways than one to kill a cat, more ways than one to si-4 lence even a Harden. All the des- perate government did was to invoke the Auxiliary Civil Service law. Har- den has .now been assigned to duty as a military clerk.—Taunton Ga- zette. Flags Fraternal. (Minna Irving in Leslie’s). The lilies of France have broken, Her roses are trampled and dead. Her violets under the mosses Are drowned in a river of red, Her woods have been felled in the ° Dbattles, Her fields are all planted with graves, And a desert of dark desolation Extends where the tricolor waves. | But over the ocean Old Glory Is speeding to save, and behold! From the oak of its flagstaff new for- ests Will spring on the roots of the old. From its stripes the red roses will blossom, From its stars the white lilies will blow, From its blue of the regions celestial Violets will follow the snow. Halil! to the banners fraternal Streaming unfadingly bright, Splendor supreme of the morning, Star-spangled sheen of the night, Flying unconquered together, Colors eternally three, Blue, white and red of the tricolor, Red, white and blue of the free. Naval Heroes. (New York ‘World). , Standing ‘“on the burning deck whence all but them had fled,” .the Aiverican! naval gunners of the mer- chant ship Moreni put up a fight against a German submarine which adds another proud narrative to the records of the United States Navy for this year. Nor should there ever be separable from the story the gal- lantry of the U-boat commander In frankly expressing his admiration of their conduct. If the truth were known, would it not be that he was equally expressing his relief in being able to fight fighting men instead of from ambush sending women and children dnd unarmed men to the bottom ? Obstacles. (Life.) Cooper—Why has the great Ameri- can novel never been written? Webster—Because when an Ameri- can possesses sufficlent comprehension of American life and the necessary faculty of expression to write such a novel he becomes a promoter or goes into politics. His Seif-Denial. (Washington Star.) ‘,Are you setting an example heroism and self denial such as country now demands?” “I haven't done anything exactly in the line of heroism,” admitted Senator Sorghum. “But I've scored on self- denial. I haven’t made a long speech in six weeks.” of the Explaining His Case. (Kansas City Journal.) ,You don't like me,” she simpered. “Yes; I do.” “Your liking doesn’t strong.” “It may suffer through comparison. Nobody could ever like you as well as yau like yourself.” seem very Not Bigoted. (Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Grubbs—Does old Squeezem really believe that honesty is the best policy? Stubbs—He may; but if he does, he also believes he can get along in his own business with a cheaper variety of insurance. Her Quandary. (Boston Transcript.) Nell—Oh, dear, I'm in such a quan- dary. Bell—What is it? Nell—Jack promises to stop drink- ing if I marry him and Tom threatens ta begin if I don’t. when she gets | | come upon the NO HOLIDAY PICNIC Grim Business Predominates Among Crew of Land Warships British Headquarters in France, I June (By mail).—Under the shel- ter of a green ridge of shell-pocked farm land about 15 miles behind the present front line trenches, ane may encampment of the tanks. The parade ground is like a distorted page from Gulliver,—Lilli- putan men at play with Brobdignagian toys. . A dozen of the monsters are lying stretched out in the warm afternoon sun being combed and oiled and scoured by their industrious atten- dants, who are like mere meddling pygmies by the side af the great steel steeds. Over at the edge of the parade, where the level ground breaks up into ridges and hillocks two or three of the big iron horses are being put through their paces, Grunting and puffing ,creaking and complaining, they move along with the easy strjde of the story-book giants, but with the cumbersome gait of a hugh muscle-bound turtle, house on back. But nothing discomposes them in their grumbling advance. ‘They mount a terrace flve feet high with the same clumsy nonchalance that they negotiate a mole hill, and the steady pace of thelr caterpillers is unchanged -whether climbing up a steep slope or clattering blunderingly along the level. The job of a tank man pleasure. The interior is not butlt for comfort. It is crowded with ma- chinery and guns and armér and in motion the deck sways and bucks like | that of a little torpedo boat in a storm. Nor is the roof high enough to pre- vent danger of receiving a sound thumping if one is too tall. Men for tanks are picked far small stature and slender bulk. They must be tough as nails but occupy no unnecessary space. A fat man would stick in the man- hole, which is alike entrance and exit; a tall man would have to spend his time in a stooping position which would ijterfere not only with his own efficiency but with that of everybody else on board. Enter Legs First. . If you would spend & few minutes on board a tank you must have your steel helmet with you and your gas mask carefully encaséd in its water- proof bag, ready for emergency. Climbing through the manhole re- quires a little knack of its own. Legs first i1s the approved technique, al- though to the noviceé there appear good grounds for believing that the reverse process might be just as sat- isfactory. Legs first, one is in a dan- ger of placing a foot or leathr-clad ankle against a hot engine case, with painful results. But with care this can be avolded, and a landing made just beside the starboard gun. Everything is spic and span, shin- ing with abundance of oil, but no superfluous luxuries of brass or nickel to take away the grimness of gray- | black armor plate which obtrudes everywhere. As in a battleship the preferential position from the point of view of safety is given to the en- gines. They lie just above the floor, stretching in a longitudinal position | through the center of the craft, while shafts and cranks run under a special armor casing at the back to the cams which operate the caterpillars and the big push wheel at the rear. The painting of the tanks is a great pastime in the tank encamp- ment. - Modern protestive coloring of battlefled weapons offers a wide field for the development of the cubist art, and the decorative appearance of a | tank going into battle suggests that some painter who, all his life had specialized in barber poles, had sud- denly gone amuck with paint brush and color pot. is not a AUTOS IN COLLISION, Automobiles driven by William P. McAllister of 156 Burnside avenue, Meriden, and M. E. Taylor of 293 South Main street collided at the cor- ner of Elm and Church street yes- terday morning. Inability to ses each other approaching is said to be the cause of the accident. Both au- tomobiles were damaged, but no one was injured and no arrest was made. WOMAN OVERCOME BY HEAT, Mrs. Pondorff, a woman about 70 vears old, was overcome by the heat vesterday afternoon at the corner of High and Broad streets. She fell te the sidewalk and injured her leg hy the - fall. Policeman Frank English was notified and he had the woman taken to her home, 47 Chestnut streer, in the police ambulance. $1,000 FACTORY FIRE. Fire at the Stanley Works carpen- ter's shop on Myrtle street did about $1,000 damage Saturday night. A still alarm was sent in to Engine company No. 4 and the factory de- partment was called out by the shop's whistle. With the ald of the auto- matic sprinkler system installed in the building, the fire was extin- guished. SHORTAGE OF MEN. The water department, which be- gan toddy to Install a new water main in West End avenue, is badly handi- capped by a shortage of men. Four of the laborers have left their jobs, leaving only four men-working. Recording a Vanishing Custom. (Birmingham Age-Herald.) ,‘What’s going on here?” “Two Southern Colonels are drink- ing mint juleps on the veranda of on antebellum home.” “But why the photographer?” “That’s a moving picture man. He's taking a reel to preserve as a his- toric record of a social observance in the South- that is doomed to extinc- tion,” - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917. LIFE ON TANKS IS | ANOTHER SUIT SENS $49, 855, $69 AND $75 SUITS AT $29. ARE THE ORIGINAL PRICES AT WHICH THESE SUITS WF.RE COMPARITIVE PRICES SOLD. | One $55 handsome rose colored silk pongee tailor made Suit, roman stripe trimmed, size One $49 very stunning Suit of XKhaki Kool silk, size 88, coat is a chartruese with skirt geo- metrical figure to match, at ...$29 One beautiful $49 chartreuse, Yo San embroidered silk sport Suit, size 36, t ......... .$29 One $75 very handsome tan, twill, tailor made Suit. A new long coat style, size One $75 stylish wisteria burella cloth Suit with French flannel striped skirt to match, at $29 Remarkable Sale $2 and $3 WASH - SKIRTS ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED SPIC AND SPAN, STYLE WASH SKIRTS AT MATERIALS. YOU PAY NOTHING YOU PAY NOTHING YU PAY NOTHING $1 NEWEST ACTUALLY LESS THAN C\ST OF FOR THE MAKING. FOR THE TRIMMING. FOR THE BUTTONS. THIS SALE THE MORE REMARKABLE BECAUSE OF THE CON- TINUOUS RISE IN PRICE SIX STYLES TO CH(\OSE FROM IN LATEST MODELS IN OF ALL COTTON GOODS. A;AL REGULAR AND EXTRA SIZES, $2 SPORT SKIRTS of striped Madras $ l .00 $3 WHITE CORD GABERDINE SKIRTS, with side $ l .00 pockets, at ... $2 SKIRTS of fancy poplin, with saddle it $1 ‘00 pockets, at . Fifty-five $10.98 to $12.98 silk poplin Dresses at $6.98 Forty-five $22.50 to $29.00 Taffeta ‘and crepe de chne Dresses at . ... $3 WHITE STRIPED GABER- l DINE SKIRTS, $1.00 at WHITE COTTON BED- $2 .$1.00 FORD CORD $2 FANCY STRIPED SPORT One $55 Handsome Colored Silk Pon- gee Tailor Made Suit, Roman stripe trimmed, size 88, at ..........829. SKIRTS, at separate baes .. $1.00 $15.00 One hundred and eighty $16.98 and $18.98. Tailor made Suits of velour gaberdine Two hundred $22.50 and $25 tail gaberdine, poplins and serges at . 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Our Restaurant is an ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or ‘substantial re- past. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN CHAOTIC STATE (Continued From First Page). chine guns have been recovered. The majority of revolvers were obtained at the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul where cases just arrived from Amer- ica had been broken open. According to the Russkia Volla about a third of the arms stolen since the outbreak have been accounted for. Several carts with shells were stopped on the banks of the Neva. The military au- thorities knew nothing about them. The drivers were arrested and the carts taken to the arsenal. . CANNING OLUB HOURS. The schedule for the canning class- es which will be held in the Prevoca- tional Grammar school has heen an- nounced as follows: Every Monday afternoon at 2 evening at 7; Wednes- day morning at 9. Demonstrations will be given Thursday p. m. at 2 and Friday evening at 7. Beets and peas will be canned and string beans put down In salt this week. Mate- rial will be furnished unless those at- tending wish to bring their own. | FRATERNAL NEWS | Ladies’ Auxillary, U 8. W. V. Mrs. Adeline Davis will entertain the members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary, U. 8. W. V., and their friends Tuesday | afternoon at G. A.'R. hall from 2 to 5 o'clock. The regular meeting of the auxiliary will be held Tuesday evening at G. A. R. hall at 8 o’clock. Sir Francis Drake Lodge, No. 429. Sir Francis Drake lodge, No. 429, will meet Thursday evening at 7:30. After a short business session the lodge will adjourn to the hall to celebrate its 19th anniversary with a banquet at which there will be some fluent speakers and good singers. THe committee requests that all members be present at 8 o’clock sharp as the banquet will start as soan after 8 as possible. Worthy Temple, Pythian Sisters. The usual bi-weekly meeting will be held this evening in Electric hall at 8 o’'clock. Installation of officers will be held and semi-annual reports will be received. After the business session a social hour will be held and refresh- ments served. Star of Good Will Lodge. Star of Good Will lodge, No, 90, s, o}f B., will have its semi-annual in- banquet | 8 stallation of officers this evening at Jx O. U. A M. hall, Hungerford Court The supreme deputy, Mrs. Mothby New Haven will officiate Leading S ledge, No. 23, of New Britain, Star of Golden, No. 19, of Southington and others to be present. All membersy are requested to attend at 8 o'clock: Refreshments will be served. ] IOEBERGS COMING SOUTH. $ Boston, July 23.—Icebergs havg begun to work their way free from the Arctic pack and drift southward in fl’j’ Atlantic. A steamer which afrt from a European port yesterday ported that a berg estimated to be 100 feet high and at least 300 feet lo: with several jagged peaks, was sight off Cape Race, N. F. 1 TRY FOR LIEUTENANT. 3 Fort Sheridan, Ills., July 23—Threa hundred men at the reserve officers training camp hers from Michigan; INlinois and Wisconsin today preent« ed themselves for médical examina« tions for provisional second lieutenw antcies in the regular army. Wisdom Only Book Deep. “Isn’t she a beauty?” “‘She has more beauty than sense, my boy.” “That's all right. When I want wisdom I can read the encyclopedia.” —Kansag City Journal. ¥ 6 TO 9 O’CLOCK: MONDAY EVENING STEAKS " b 23 cC _SUGAR Gru::.l:ted LARD & Pure Fresh Conn. Eggs ......doz 42c¢| FRESH PORK SLICED BEEF LIVER ... 18c 20c 30c FRESH HAMBURG SUGAR CURED 5hhg XS 21bs AT C TUESDAY SUNBRITE CLEANSER . MOH. LAUNDRY CRISP POTATO CHIPS —————6 TO 9 O’CLOCK POTATOES Large, New SPECIALS Swift’s Lilly Oleo. . .1-1b pkg NATIVE STRING 4 qts NEW BERMUDA . ONIONS SWEET SUNKIST ORANGES ......doz 28¢ 15¢ ‘19¢ LARGE JU!OY""ol 29c