New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1917, Page 6

" Britain Herald. HEERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. d dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. d at tue Post OfMce at New Britaln L Class Mail Matter. by carrier to any part of the city m:'?- Zentn A week, 5 cents s month. Iptions for paper to be sent by mall, ble in advance, 60 cents a month. 7.00 & yea & ulve in only profitable advertising medium the city. Circulation books and press room alwavs open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand. 42nd St. and Broad way, New York City; Board "Walk, Ai- fantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ness Office . rial Rooms | | i | i | | | i Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN. LEND A HELPING HAND. New Britain should keep a careful irecord of all its boys sent to. the | ‘front. If New Britain does not do ) this no other city can be expected to do it for New Britain. There are, iof course. In the War Department at #Washington complete data concerning ‘&ll the men who are in the army. ince, however, many New Britain g'hln have enlisted from other cities {the records at Washington will not | gn‘ the information desired here. | we want a complete record of our | {warriors we must get it from the ‘home bhase. : § For the past five days the Herall has printed blanks which are de- isigned for this one end,—to secure ‘valuable information| about our sol- jdier boys. These blanks are appear- in the paper day by day and | ishould be filled out and sent to this| foffice so that a complete list ok our |#oldlers may be published and kept jon file. These blanks cannot beo lprinted forever. The end of their ‘publication must come sooner or later. Now then is the time for ac- iy Now is the time to lend a ‘helping hand and send in the infor- | mation. / Mothers, fathers, sisters, | | brothers, cousins and aunts, even! friends outside the individual fam- ‘flfes that have sent boys to the front, are asked o co-operate in this tasic. Fill ou: a blank today. It will | rot take many moments to cou:ply [ with this request. At first designed | to prove that New Britain's |quots under the selective draft law | ‘had been placed at too high a figurc. | | the idea of securing this information has been changed to a desire of se- | curing authentic information that will | be valuable in the future, when the ‘history' of this war and the par. Amerisans played in it come to be | written. Help complete the honor roll. 1 new ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL. Transport service across the Atlan- e is a military necessity that will [in all probability disrupt the plans of | many mercantile .marine ‘conipaffies. | Many American ships will be requi- | bgitioned for this service, the result | of which will be derangement of some | lestablished schedules, notably those | on river and lake lines. Pointing out | that there is one ocean service in par- | ticular which deserves to be cherised, | and maintained, insofar as its main- | ‘tenance is in amy way compatible | with the military and naval needs ot the United States, the New York Mail | makes earnest plea for continuance of | fthe United Fruit company's service to | fCentral America. | There are two well defined resons | hy such an appeal will receive the thorough consideration of every good | American citizen. These reason's ( should find easy aceess to the proper | sanctums at Washington. One is| political, one of economic nature. Both | have been largely associated with the | activities of this great steamship | Even inhabitants of an | Britain, are company fnland city, such as New familiar with the work which has been done. and which being done by the United Fruit Company. It bas been for long the great con- | meeting link between the iBtates and Central American. We | fthoroughly engorse the sentiment be- | nd the plea for its uninterrupted | service. | The Monroe doctrine has stood for | nearly a century. Its sure guarantee‘ is not the words of statesmen nor | even the might of armament. Its syre suarantee is the bonds of sym- pathy which unite us with the people of Latin America. . Those bonds of sympathy are woven by the lines of eommunication which unite us with them, and by the exchange of our products with theirs. Europe pre- dominates in the trade of South now United | | caps. i is America largely because no Ameri- cans arose to establish, between North and South America, the same frequency of ocean service which ex- isted between Europe and South America. It was quicker to travel and oftener cheaper to ship, from New York to Rio via London or Hamburg, than it was to travel or ship direct. Traveling or shipping to Central America and the West Indies, how- ever, have not been under such handi- American transportation lines have held their own on the lanes of travel between these Muces and the United States. Intense American trade has grown up between these countries and our own. one outstanding factor in that net- work of transportation and in that trade it is the United Fruit Company, Indeed, so far as Jamaica and Central America are concerned United Fruit is the Chief carrier. Its steamers have brough®to us the principle fruits of the tropled. They have carried back and forth many millions of our people and thus helped to weld firm the bond of personal relationship be- tween these places. Thus has pan- Americanism grown in leaps and bounds through the agency of a thorough American business organ- jzation. Diplomacy must take its hat off to business in this one instance at least. The Mail feels that ‘“every withdrawal of those vessels mgans a weakening of our influence in the region where we can least afford to have it weakened. There is, on top of that, another consideration equally as worthy. It the plebian banana. And the banana is a food that has especial appeal to the poor. Last year six million bananas were imported into the United States. The sun and rain of the tropics, without human inter- vention, produce this food in luxurious abundance. The “ships cannot be spared to take bananas abroad. They can be brought to the United States ;n quantities sufficient to free other American food for European use. Then there is the argument des- tined to save a great array of ships from over-the-Atlantic-service when thé same ships can be better used in “ up-and-down-the-Atlantic. 7 The ocean service to South America is important in more ways than one. THEY CAN COME BACK. There was a noticeable difference in the going away of Company E yes- terday and its leave taking in June, 1916, for Mexico. This time the boys chose an early hour for their depar- ture, an hour when very few of the townsfolk were up and doing. So there was not the great spectacle of cheer- ing crowds; but there were the at- tendant incidents of weeping women and wondering children. Men, for the greater part, witnessed the de- parture of the troops this time. Had it been that the boys were go- ing directly to France all might have been different. The first step, how- ever, Is New Haven. The next place will be an encampment at Charlotte, N. C.. where, after a seige of drills and exercises, the boys will be quietly ordered to some sea-port town and placed aboard the transports which will take them across the briny deep. It was just as well there was no great demonstration this time upon the departure of New Britain’s soldier boys. The scenes that took place on Main street and around the depot at the time of the Mexican trouble were too heart-rending even for a staid old manufacturing center. At that time the main thought was “Will they come back.” This time the thought, with a great crowd, would have been more intensified. On their first jour- ney in the neighborhood of fighting the boys made good. They came back. They can make good on their second expedition. They can come back. FACTS AND FANCIES. The soldier’s bride turned back from France may have paved the way for a vaudeville career.—Norwich Bulletin. For a man in no hurry to go to war 13 was a lucky red number. It was the 7,890th capsule drawn.—New York Sun. In the list of names of experts who have been selected to run American . trop trains abroad we fail to notice that seript. of Mr. Mellen.—Boston Tran- The law against newspaper publi- cation of lottery news is suspended as a war measur Hartford imes. It would be interésting to know just how the kaiser feels, ‘way down deep in his heart, about the state of affairs in his own country.—New York Sun. “‘She wastes food,” may comes to be the accusation whispered with bated breath in our best circles when it is | wished to express utter condemna- | tion.—Johnstown Journal. | Congress doesn’'t seem to know | Just what it wants, but the food spec- | ulator knows what he wants and gets | in while congress dallies.—Philadel- phia’ Press. If there is’ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1017, A the a lmgton to coin two-cent pieces. two-cent piece is needed. It's change you get when you give cashier a $6 bill.—Paterson Call. Some light sleeper advises the ways and means committee to tax every dog $10. What would the gov- ernment do with all that money.— New York World. Russia celebrates 86 public holi- days in the course of the year, says an exchange. Only 85 now. The birthday of Hon. Nicholas Romanoft is no longer celebrated as a public holiday.—Albany Argus. Of all the world figures of today this person Known as Chancellor Mike | of Germany is the most pitifully small and abject. He is just the pro- fessional court liar for the kaiser.— Bristol Press. The British empire, according to the most pessimistic interpreters of the submarine losses, may have less than six months to live, but it still has a very reddish look all over the map and its morning drumbeat still follows the rising sun around the world.—Springfield Republican. The Last Cigar—A Memory. (H. T. Sudduth in the New York World). Col. J. W. Fabens, born July 23. 1521, died In New York March 13, 1875; author of the college song “The Last Cigar.” O singer of but one sweet song Whose echoes come from far On breeze from blue Canary Isles With fragrance of cigar! What memories your song awakes Ot long-past golden days, Of nights ambrosial, divine, And leaty campus ways' | The summer stars through elm-tree boughs On college youth look down, And dimly rise fair Learning’s ha'ls, Asleep the silent town! The night seemed tinged with oid romance, Its memory lingers yet, As sadly sweet arose your song Ere the new moon had set. We seemed to see you on the deck, Or leaning on its rail, “'Twas off the blue Canary Isles” You told to us your tale; ‘We watched with you the dying glow Of your last, famed cigar; O nights and dreams of youth long gone, How sweet you seem afar! We knew your song but not vour 3 name. 2 ‘What mattered it to us? Enough to know 'twas written by The great Anoynmous. Such tricks oft plays Mnemosyne On singers and on songs; The singer dies, his song lives on, Its fame, not his, prolongs! Saving Time. “You seem to agree with every. thing a man says to you.” “Yes. I learned that trick a long while ago. It saves a lot of ‘time.’- Hint for Husbands, (Topeka Capital). It is right for a woman to pretend her dinner was a failure, but it is a wise husband who disagrees with her. A White U-Boat. Slang is keeping right up with the news! I was in one of these arm-chair lunchrooms when a messenger hoy hurried in. “Gimme a white U-boat, quick,” he demanded. Without hesitation the clerk pushed a vanilla eclair across the counter. The U-boat was ‘“sunk” in thres quick munches. ROSE IN CHARGE OF EXPORT LICENSES | Stanley M. Rose of Philadelphia, who is an asphalt expert and who has been directed by the government to take charge of the New York branch office of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce is a man of great experience in the line of exports, This office will be’ of special im- portance in the department work of licensing exports, under the new law, as most of the applications for li- censes for exports in the New York district will be reviewed at the local office, and certaln classes of licenses | will be issued there without consult- ing Washington. Mr. Rose has had experience as manager of the New York office. Prior to his last appointment as com. mercial agent of the bureau he had had a large business experience in Europe, Australia, India and Egypt, and also had held many important posts with American and European firms engaged in foreign trade, Dur- ing his last connection with the bureau Mr. Rose made an extended tour of the United States to tell man- ufacturers of foreign trade oppor- tunities. BOOKS FOR CANTONMENTS. Boston, July 24.—New England 1 brarlans are co-operating in the | movement of the American Library association to provide well equipped and properly administered public li- | brary buildings for each of the can- tonments of the new army. The com- mittee on war service for libracles is about to launch a campaign te raise a half million dollars for this purpose. BRAZIL TO AID BELGIANS. Rio Janelro. July 23.—A large committee has been organized for the purpose of obtaining money and sup- plies for the Belgians in the invaded regions. The supplies will be sent by a steamer of the . Llovd Brazilfan line and debarked at Rotterdam, as- | speeches. A movement is on foot in Wash- surance having been given that Ger- many will respect the vessel. COMMUNICATED. PLAY BALL! The ““All Hots”, the Imperial Safety Board's baseball team will meet the “All Comers” nine at the sportfest to be held July 25th at Saybrook-by-the- Sea. The combined boards, with the may- or, will constitute the “All Hots”, part of which has been unjustly accused of holding star chamber sessions, when in fact, they were in secret baseball practice, learning secret signals, how to put them over, etc, (also et cetera). His Honor will be in the box as the pitcher who pitches the ball (not as the pitcher who came to well once 100 many times). George is sure some pitcher and can put them over in & way that fools the batter some of the time, some of them all of the time, but not all of them all of the tme. George will divide box honors (and receipts) with Al who is said to be Court Jester, also suggester, and is Known to be ambitious also ambide- oxtrous himselt. The new safety board clerks, (not Harold, Howard or Bill), will keep the score, distribute ice water or salt wa- ter as needed, also some campaign, (not champagne) literature, et cetera. Et cetera is great, it expresses so much and so clearly, it is instructive and constructive without being de- structive and His Honor dislikes any- thing that is obstructive of the plate when eating or ‘“puttng them over”. Free tickets now on sale; sale price $3.00 (and good butter is worth it). Pardon the above discussion. The ,‘All Hots” baseball team should read, “All Stars” baseball team. This all star game will be the event of the season. You will see nine safe men, all of them workers for their city, and its good, and all with no thought of working the city; men of toil, also, who have promised to work in the municipal flelds of Spuds, (et cetera), and whose promises still hold goo0d, and are inscribed on the tablets of fame. All residents of our fair city, except Howard (who sleeps here, it is true, and attends secret sessions of the police board, but not as chair- man), all of these men, ready to sac- rifice their salaries even, for the wel- fare of the city and ready to play ball, not politics, all of this outlay of time and brain tissue for mere promises and, badges. You all know about our pitchers George and Alfred (nuff 'sed). George is the King Pitcher and can serve them over in any style, high or low balls, and what he can't do in the way of curves Alfred will suggest in his wide experience, and then do it himself. It is proper per- haps, to state here that Alfred is consclentiously a worker for the city, as well as for himself, and has sug- gested a cut In his own salary in his campaign for-economy and efficiency. And now, a real secret which has dodged the censor and secret service star chamber department of justice. Dennis has consented to play behind the bat. The writer once saw this truly great catcher in action and he saw real baseball. Dennis stopped them all and retired only after an exhibition of gameness never equalled to consult the doctor, after stoppins some hot low balls with his stomach, he stopped a cold high ball (intended for his stomach) with his eye. Dennis, as in the past, will work with George, Frank will do the backstopping for Al, they having worked well together for a year or more, coached by How- ard, and if their signals do not (double) cross, they will leave the bushes for the big league soon. How- ard says he won’t play unless he can get in the box at least one inning, he says he has some minutes he can put over safely, but the management is skeptical and fear he might use his own teammates for targets. The -Suffield-Berlin limousine route of taxis is needed and needed bad to convey the strategists, and Howard may have an inning.. (He will also have charge of the buttermilk booth.) No grandstand plays or political Special and some val- uable prizes have been offered for any startling plays and it is said an ex-chairman has offered a safety pin (solid gold) said to cost $1,600 or more to the pitcher for:- the “All Combers” if he succeeds in beaning either of our pitchers, before, during or after the game. Beaning in base- ball parlance means hiting in the “‘coco” with some hard opague sub- stance, the ball, the bat or some juicy brick, et cetra. This generous and kindly offer of the ex-chairman is sure to bring out similar offers from all ex-members of the safety board. And now the grand surprise. The mayor of Chicago will act as umpire, but his prime object in com- ing is to meet Our George. He has read about our mavor in the Herald and Hartford Times and wants to compare shakes from hand to politi- cal also milk shakes. All in all the outing will be an occasion. ~Come the | early and bring your knitting. The peanuts and pop corn can be had at the same old price, but the bags will be smaller and the lemonade will be colored to suit the buyer. Get your tickets now. The tractor plows will leave for the scene early, also the taxi cabs and limousines. XX ONE WHO W"ILL START EARLY. HOOVER FORBIDS USE OF NAME. Suggests It Might Harm Food Rally Day. Lexington, Mass., July 24.—The public safety committee has received a letter from Herbert C. Hoove: dis- npproving of a suggestion that his name be used as the title of a war t'me food rally day to be held by Middlesex county organization. Mr. Hoover wrote: ‘‘Does it not seem to you that the cause in which we are fighting is great and inspires demands such unity of action ani democratic co-operation that it will be a limitation. rather than heip to attach the name of any individual or group of individuals to the lessons which we are trying to bring to the attention of our countrymen?” HINSCH IN MEXICD - AND NOT IN BERLIN Agent for Dentschland Did Not Cross Ocean in Small Boat - New York, July 24—Captain Fried- rich Hinsch, who directed the busi- ness arrangemernts in America for the voyages of the German cargo- carrying submarine Deutschland, did not escape from the United States on a small sailing ship and finally land in Germany, as the Baltimore story, printed in the newspapers of July 18, said he did. Instead of making his way back to Germany, Hinsch was in New York until less than a month ago, when he left for Baltimore. He remained in Baltimore probably a week or ten days, remaining in se- clusion, his presence being known only to a few intimate friends, most of them, like himself, subjects of the German Kaiser. About ten days ago Hinsch, dis- guised as a laboring man, arrived in El Paso., Texas, from which city he wrote a letter to a friend in this city, in the course of which he said that he soon would be safe from “those Yankees,” or words to that effect. The “Yankees” referred to were the agents of the government who were supposed to have him under surveillance during the many weeks following the declaration of war against the Germna government, when he made New York city his home. Persons who knew of Hinsch’'s whereabouts while he was in New York and knew that he was in daily communication with other German agents, on several occasions notified the Federal authorities where Hinsch was to be found and informed them with other enemy aliens, their go- between being a woman friend of Captain Hinsch. It was to this wo- man that he wrote the news of his safe arrival in El Paso and his im- pending flight across the Rio Grande into Mexico. ) Among the German subject and sympathizers who were in communi- cation with Hinsch while he was in New York is said to have been a prominent German steamship official. This man was among the first to be notified by Hinsch’'s woman friend of the captain’s safe arrival at the bor- der. Other Story Inspired. A few days after it was known that Hinsch was safe at or near El Paso the story from Baltimore to the effect that he had sailed from South Amboy in a small schooner a few days after the president made his memorable speech before congress calling for a war declaration against the German government was sent out. Persons familiar with the real facts in the case in talking of that story last night expressed the opin- ion that the story might have been inspired by German agents to cover Hinsch’s tracks and to, make it 6 an easy matter for him to elude the border guards and escape into Mexi- co. Furthermore they pointed out that as long as the South Amboy story was believed it would be com- paratively safe for Hinsch to cross the border back into America when- ever he felt inclined. The Federal officials to whom Hinsch’s presence was reported are known to have made several visits to the house in which Hinsch lived when in New York. But so far as is known they did not have any conversation with him, nor was there any serious effort made to ascertain the identity of the many enemy aliens with whom Hinsch is said to have been in daily communication thorough his woman friend. Hinsch is said to have been gone a week before the Federal agents knew it. Whether or not the government knows of the man’s es- cape into Mexico is not known. Hinsch was an officer of the Ger- man ships of the North German Lloyd line, and as such was subject to in- ternment immediately after the war declaration was signed by the presi- dent. Hinsch holds a commission in the German Naval Reserve, and was one of the most trusted German agents in the United States. Count Von Bernstorff, the former German ambassador at Washington, and Cap- tain Boy-Ed, the naval attache who was ordered out of the country, are both numbered among his friends. Captain Hinsch is the second wide- ly known German agent to evade the American avthorities and escape into Mexico. The other was Captain Rob- ert Fay, who escaped from the At- lanta Penitentiary following his con- viction of conspiracy to blow up al- lied ships plying between American and French, British and Italian port: The regulations which are to gov- ern enemy alien travel on excursion and other craft in New York harbor have not yet been issued by the de- partment of justice. The strange sit- uation exists in New York of the en- tire water front being barred to enemy aliens, while those same aliens can travel at will about the harbor and see twice as much in one day as they could see in weeks if they re- mained on land. ALIENS MAY SOON BE TAKEN IN ARMY Many Governments Willing to Permit Their- Conscription ‘Washington, July 24.—President Wilson conferred yesterday after- noon separately with Counsellor Polk of the state department and Secretary of War Baker. No official statement was made, but it {s under- stood the president’s presence at the MILLAN STORE, Inc. ALWAYS RELIABLE FOR WEDNESDAY ‘MORNING - OUR HALF HOLIDAY SALE REAL BARGAINS RAPID SELLING 8:30 A. M. UNTIL NOON MEN’S AND WOMEN’S UNION SUITS (All styles—about three hundred sample suits in this sale. On Sale Wednesday Morning, 8:30 a. m., 54c each. Values to $1.00. SHOW WINDOW FULL OF HOUSE DRESSES to go on sale Wednesday Morning at 8:30 a. m. Sizes | 36 to 44. Your choice 98c each. Plain and striped" chambray dresses in this sale. MIDDY APRONS of Best Quality Ginghams. Slip on over the head and lace in front can be use as a dress. On sale Wednesday Morning 8:30 a., m. Special 98c each. SPECIAL LINEN DAMASK for WEDNESDAY MORNING, 82c¢ yard. Value.$1.00. SCARFS and SHAMS Mexican Drawn Work and English Torchon Lace Trimmed Scarfs and Shams, values 75c. Wednesday | Morning Special 59¢ each, 2 for 98c. SALE OF MEN’S COLLARS Wednesday Morning 5¢ each. ) Oau Lots and Broken Lines of Seft Collars,] Laundered Collars and - Celluloid Collars, some soiled other odd lots, but all perfect. department was to discuss a pcliey regarding alien exemptions under the -draft. As a result, a statement is ex- pected in the next few days, for the guidance of exemption boards in their treatment of foreigners. FPro- test has been made in congress against the apparent injustice of basing draft quotas chiefly upen reg- istration figures, when aliens, whc were required to register, are exempt from draft; but it is understpod the administration opposes legislation now. ! Mr. Wilson spent half an Hour with | Mr. Polk and then went to see Mr. Baker. . He remained at the war de- partment 45 minutes, while the Coun- cil of National Defense waited in an | i deperted to their kome. anteroom for Mr. Baker, -its. chair- man, to call a meeting. The state department has never been formally asked for an opinign upon the treaty obiigations of this country in relation to alien exemp- tions. The war department has pro- ceeded upon the assumption that ali foreigners, except of an enemy char- acter, should be included in the oper- ' ation of the draft, leaving their rights as foreigners to be adjudicated later. | Officials of the state department have prepared a memorandum which probably will be used as the basis for the regulations of the exemp- tion boards. This memorandum out- lines the international aspects of the question and suggests various lines of policy which may be adopted by the administration. The memorandum states in -effect that subjects of Japan, Serbia .and Italy are absolutely exempt from mil- itary service for this government be- cause treaties between the Uhited States and these countries: specifical- ly provide that nationals of the con- tracting parties shall not be taken for military service against their will. The memorandum = preseats no | other hard and fast rulings, hut sug- gests that the aliens of other friendly . countries may be called upder the draft, providing they have angounced their intentfon of becoming American citizens by taking out their first pa- pers. 3 As a matter of policy the state de- partment is opposed to having the war department attempt to foree any foreigner into the national army un-j , shaken up. | October. less the consent of his government R received. Informal conversstions covemn this point have been carried on b the state department and the forsle: offices of virtuelly ali of the allled? sovernments, and 14 is belisved that ! most of themn will 2gree to have theif rational drafted this country of whers they may be tuken uader ihe ~unscriptton: laws, i LOCAL PEOBLE IN ACCIDENT. Mes. Kenney Injured When Trolloys | Collide in Oheshire. Il < When two trolley cars of the line Greea from Waterbury to Cheehirs smashed together in e head- on colliston Sunday evening jured and her husband weas Other passengers we: hurled from their seats but none ‘3 seriously hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Kenney were comiag from Waterbury when ihe other ecar coming from Milldale hove in sight, around a curve, on the same track. The motorman on the car from Mili- dale was unable to stop’ his car and the ‘'motorman on the second car 4| plied the reverse speed but observifg ' no' reduction in the speed of the Milldale car he jumped from his post. Then the cars collided and the car containing the local peopie was vadiy . { pushed down the track for a distance ' of some 600 feet before a young man who had some knowledge of the . n- . trol of the ear succeeded in stopping it. Mrs. Kenney reached home withh out medical assistance but shortly afterwards she suffered sharp paina in her side and since then she has been confined to her bed. BUSINESS: MAN TO WED. Announcement has been made of the coming wedding of Thomas F. Farrell, president - of the Farrell. Clothing Co.. and Miss Nellie Whalen' of Millbrook, N. Y. which will bk solemnized in Millbrook, ' early ' in The prospective groorm i one of the leading business men.of the city. Miss Whalen is alse well known here, and is a sister of Mra. William J. Long of Stanleyx street.