New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1917, Page 10

City Items clal Wednesday morning, wo- s Pumps 75c at Besse-Leland's— st day to pay water rents and interest.—advt ecial Wednesday morning, Wwo- n's Pumps 76c at Besse-Leland’s lohn Riley was sent to the state n for six months by Judge James (Meskill in the police court’ this rning. He was charged with inkenness and breach of the peace his was the only case in court. ipecial Wednesdwy morning, Wwo- 's Pumps 76c at Besse-Leland's— J¥oodness of Aunt Delia’s Bread.— rt. "he police were informed by tele- bdne last night that three men re stealing hay from St. Mary's yground. Investigation disclosed it the hay had been bought by fola Lania and the three men in tion were harvesting it for him. jpecial Wednesday morning, wo- n's Pumps 75c at Besse-Leland's— . Che Sewing society of the Swedish Itheran church will hold a meeting ursday afternoon. Mrs. (. F. Olson, e David H. Olson, Mrs. Alfred person, Mrs. Clara Pecterson, Mrs. W. Peterson and Mrs Mina Peter- 1 will be in charge ial Wednesday morning, wo- '’s Pumps 75c at Besse-Leland’'s— ul'W. Bellman of 215 Farmington 3nue Teported to the police this af- moon that he was driving an au- ‘mobile north on Main street this af- Doon when a boy on a bicycle ran o him and was knocked off the #el. The boy was unhurt and went sy without mentioning his name. Policeman Fred Wagner arrested ‘orge Lawrence on Church street & morning for violation of proba- B. A dellvery ice wagon owned by the Britain Ice Corporation caved in er & heavy load at the corner of In ‘and Walnut streets this noon. e was blocked temporarily until load was shifted to another wagon. 'NEW YORK QUOTA RAISED. York, July 31-—Announcement made that the quota of men to be from this city for the new my would be slightly raised while l-state the percentage of increase to atvision would be even greater. icoe S. Conkling, deputy eral, representing the adjutant ral at Albany, said he supposed s condition has been brought be- luse some one boosted the recruit- & figures, adding that the increased ota for New York would probably t be over two in a district although understood this number would be ghtly . larger I ASYLUM. Samuel Sargeant, formerly of West ar]l street, escaped from the State sapc Asylum at Middletown late sterday afternoon, according to a re- drt recetved by the police today. He said to have been sent out to rhow e lawn yesterday afternoon at the vlum and it is thought that the heat las too much for him and he went ay leavingithe lawn mower behind 8 I LIV, AR attorney ! | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1917. SCIENGE TO WEED QUT ARMY COWARDS Specialists to Make Our Forces Nerveless Soldiers New York, July 31.—Some of America’s foremost specialists are to the most modern methods of science to the new United States Army in effort to make it the most } level-headed, nervetess outfit that ever “went over the top” or stood fast under fire. A single panicky rookie is recognized as a grawve dan- ger to a company, and sclence be- lieves it can forestall that indlvidual panic about six times out of seven. It is generally recognized that no man remains normal when under fire for the first time, few the second time and many for the third time anad fourth. The man whose reactions to abnormal conditions completely over- come his will power used to be called a coward. If his reactions continued to evade or overcome his mental strength he was drummed out of camp or met a more violent fate. Mental hygienists and nerve spe- cialists have differentiated types of “cowards” and turned the well worn s of the craven Wwho became a hero wrong side out to see the wheels go 'round. The result is that despite the earnest testimony of ancient top apply sergeants the coward in scientific phraseology, is virtually extinct. There are, indeed, defectives of va- rious kinds and grades, but the ma- jority of them can now be classified and meatly labelled, and many of them respond to treatment. The task of the doctors who are to see to it that the new army is sound in nerves as well as in wind and limb is to sort out and classify these “de- fectives.” As there are only fifty of the specialists and the first draft of the new army will fill sixteen train- ing camps with some 40,000 men apiece, the job looks hopeless on the face of it. The characteristics of the men who need examination, however, betray them. TFor the most part they are types which will get into trouble in one way or another under the strict discipline of a military cantonment. Tho three specialists in each camp will centralize their attentions on oc- cupants of the guardhouse and men habitually assigned to extra fatigue. Thése will be subjected to Binet- Simon tests, to Mealey tests, associa- tion tests and methods of phychoan- alysis which have been developed in European hospitals since the outbreak of the war. As soon as a man is stamped as an incurable‘‘coward” or whose cure is doubtful or requiring long treatment. out he will go. not to the “Rogues’ March,” as in the old days, but with a bit of sound medi- cal advise in his ear. “It may not be possible,” Dr. Frank- lin B. Williams, associate medical di- rector of the National Committee for Mental Hygicne, said yesterday, “to examine all the men individually. Men will be examined under group s tems; officers will send suspected cases to the doctors; men will be as- signed to see the speclalists and men involved in infractions or disciplines BIG GUNS SHAKE LONDON Houses Quiver Under Blasts of Heavy Artillery Now Belching Forth Death on Flanders Battlefields. London, July 37..—Reports from the front unanimously declare that gll of the superlatives which have been hith- erto used in describing artillery oper- ations are hopelessly inadequate impress the magnitude of the present bombardment on the British front. Such assurances are entirely unnec- essary in London, for the reason that the reverberations from the Flanders battlefleld are heard every night when the roar of the city’s traffic subsides. There are curious debates constantly to be heard as to whether the people really hear or feel the reverberations, which frequently make houses tremble as from shocks of a far distant earth- quake. The effect makes a powerful appeal to the imagination. Most peo- ple insist that they feel the shocks rather than hear the reports. It is pointed out that the people who think they really hear the cannon are probably wrong. for the reason that the sound would probably be dissi- pated by the flight of 120 miles over the land and sea. HFELD FOR SHOOTING. Wealthy Oanadian Accused by Wife of Music Teacher. New York, July 81.—C. H. Cahan, Jr., said to be a wealthy manufac- turer in Canada, appeared in the Ja- maica police court yesterday and sur- rendered to Detective John P. Ferle, of the Eighth Branch Bureau. At the request of Martin W. Littleton, his attorney, Justice Kochendorfer grant- ed a private hearing. At is conclu- sion all that was made public was that Cahan had been held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury on a charge advanced by Mrs. Lilllan Rebarer, wife of John Rebarer, an instructor ' of music, now living at Far Rock- away. Mrs. Rebarer explained this charge at length last night. According to her, Cahan’s wife had been accus- tomed to take music lessons from Re- barer at”his studio, 420 Madison gve- nue. On July 3, she said, Cahan ap- peared at the Wave Crest hotel and announced that he was going to shoot Rebarer for undue intimacy with his wife. “I knew positively that the charge was without foundation,” Mrs. Re- barer said. “We walked down Cen- tral avenue together. I was pleading with Mr. Cahan to give up his in- sane idea. He declared several times that my husband was gullty and that he was going to kill him. “Suddenly he said he would kill me and reached for his pistol. I swung him partly around, at the same time stepping backward. His shot missed me.” Cahan would say nothing to news- paper men yesterday, apart from in- forming them: “Not a word of this is to get into the papers.” $1 PROFIT ON EACH TELEPHONE., Washington, July 31.—Telephone companies showed a profit of nearly a dollar a telephone during March, according to compiliation made public today by the interstate commerce will he examined.” commission The Cook Is Known by ker Kitchen A clean kitchen is the sign of a good cook. clean without constant drudgery is the sign of an up-to-date cook—one who uses the New Pe Perfection. Chimaey that does it. In use in more than 2,500,000 homes. about the New Perfection Kerosene Water Heater. ection Oil Cook Stove. No coal-hod or ash-pan drudgery. Ask your dealer for It gives laundry or bath at low cost, PRINCIPAL OFFICES: And a kitchen that keeps You never have to sweep up after cooking on the New Cooks fast or slow as you like, without soot or ashes. Visible flame that stays *‘put.’” It’s the Lang Blue booklet. Inquire, too, abundant hot water for For best results use SOCONY Kerosene. STANDARD OILL. COMPANY of NEW YORK NEW YORK ALBANY NEW P BUFFALO BOSTON to | STAGGERING TRADE OF U. . IN 1916-17 More Thanfi$10,000,000,000 Is Record for Past Fiscal Year More than ten ‘billion dollars worth of merchandise and precious metals passed through the custom houses of the United States in the fiscal year just ended. A compilation by the National City bank of New York, comparing the trade of the country in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, With that of the flscal years 1916, 19156 and 1914, shows that the total for 1917 is in round terms twice as great as that of 1914, which immediately preceded the war. The total of impoTts and exports of merchandise in 1917 is set down at $8,900,000,000 against $6,531,000,000 in 1916, $4,443,000,000 in 1915, and $4,259,000,000 in 1914, the fiscal year which ended only one month prior to the beginning of the war. The gold and silver imports and exports of the fl:s&l year 1917 aggregate $1,382,381 - 000. The foreign trade in merchandise alone in 1917 was double that of the year prior to the war, the 1917 figures being official returns for eleven months, and the estimate for June based upon that of the month immedi- ately preceding. Imports are set down at $2,634,000,000 in the fiscal year 1917 against $1,894,000,000 in 1914, a gain of $740,000,000 or 40 per cent. in the 3-year period; the exports are set down at $6,280,000,000 in 1917 against $2,365,000,000 in 1914, a gain of $3,- 915,000,000 or 166 per cent, and the total trade at $8,914,000,000 * against $4,269,000,000, a gain of $4,65%5,000,000 or 10 per cent. Exports Increase. The fact that the export trade of the country has only increased 165 per cent. in the three years of the war will doubtless be a surprise to many who based their estimate of growth in exports upon the frequent- ly published figures showing enor- mous increases in certain articles, es- peclally those required for war pur- poses. [Explosives, for example, show total exports in 1917 more than 100 times as great as in 1914; horses and mules 20 times as great; sugar 385 times as much in value; firearms 30 times as great; zinc and brass 60 times a much in value; commercial automobiles 40 times, and condensed milk 20 times as much in value as in 1914. On the other hand, how- ever, cotton—always an important factor in our export trade—shows an actual decline, having been in 1915 but $560,000,000 against $610,000,- 000 in 1914. Naval stores, an im- portant item in our export trade, in 1917 are much below the figures of 1914. Agricultural implements ex- ported in 1917 are about two-thirds as much in value as in 1914; hides and skins show a fall off of more than one-half in quantity exported in 1917 when compared with 1914; sew- ing machines in 1917 a littfe over that of 1914, despite the fact that values of all machinery made of iron and steel have necessarily greatly ad- vanced meantime; illuminating oil in 1917 materially less than in 1914 in both quantity and-value; cottonseed oll in 1917 less in quantity than in 1914; tobacco a slight reduction in 1917 compared with 1914, and of lumber in 1917 a reduction of over one-half in both quaatity and value when compared with 1914. Food and War Materials, The great increases occur in food and war material. Wheat and flour exported in 1917 amount to $388,000,- 000 against $142,000,000 in 1914; corn in 1917 to $75,000,000 against $7,000,- 000 in 1914; meat and dairy products in 1917 to $23,000,000 agalnst but a little over $1,000,000 in 1914; sugar in 1917 $71,000,000 against less than $2,000,000 in 1914; leather and manu- factures thereof in 1917 $150,000,000 against $57,000,000; brass and manu- factures thereof in 1917 $399,000,000 against $7,500,000; zinc and manufac- tures $69,000,000 against less than $1,000,000; copper approximately $300,000,000 against $145,000,000 gun- powder $350,000,000 against less than $1,000,000; commercial automobiles $43,000,000 agaifst $1,000,000 tin- plates $28,000,000 against $3,650,000 and iron and steel and manufactures thereof $1,117,000,000 against $251,- 000,000 in 1914, On the import side the increase oc- curs chiefly in material for manufac- turing. The total importation of raw material for use in manufacturing in 1917 is- $1,100,000,000 against $633,- 000,000 in 1914;.0f manufactures for use in manufacturing $465,000,000 against $319,000,000, while manufac- tures ready for use show a fall amounting to but $870,000,080 in 1917 against $449,000,000 in 1914. Raw cotton imported in 1917 is $37 000,000 against $19,457,000 in 191 raw silk $166,000,000 against $97,- 828,000; India rubber, $133,000,000 against $71,220,000; hides and skins $216,000,000 against $120,290,000 and copper $122,000,000 against $54,292,- 000. Sugar in 1917 is $237,000,000 against $101,649,000 in 1914; and cocoa $40,000,000 against $20,798,- 000 in 1914. The movements of the precious metals for the fiscal year 1917 were, as follows: Gold imports $977,176,000; exports $291,921,000, excess of im- ports $685,255000. Silver; imports $35,004,000; exports $78,280,000, ex- cess of exports $43,276,000. N. Y. GUARD LEAVES SOON. 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