New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1917, Page 6

Y Bflla_in Herald. PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. dafly (Funday excepted) at ¢:15 p. m., Herald Buflding, 87 Church 8¢ tie Post OmMce at New Britain 8e0ond Class Mail Matte: : — any part of the city , 65'cents a month: to be went by mail. advance, 60 cents a month. ible, pdvertising medium in ‘Gr.lfion books and press ‘slwava open to advertlse Wil & founa ov sale at Hota- Btand, 42nd St. and Bros b New York City: Board Walk, A - City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. M 5 S ple stone of Betsy Ross vered now with mould and still her deathless -banner eps the color of the skies, ing apparel for the men in the CIES. trenches. One American woman, professing a meagre knowledge of the art of stitching and hemming, confessed to being shamed by the arduous labor put in_by those Women who live north of the United States. “It is inspiring as well as embarrassing for American women to watch the willing workers FACTS AND FAN Rudyard Kipling seems stopped firing to let his off.—New London may. to have barrel cool We should have suspected the Hun and attended to his case at the start | when he first invented the slide tram- bone.—Boston Transcript. A canteen for ice cream is to be «In. | cstablished at the Aver cantonment. & Army officers see nothing effeminate | PA- i) the delicacy.—Springfield Republi- we | can. | said this narrator. it of Canada, spiring becs triotism; embar must know that in becnuse se is a lesson ing, Ameriean our own 5 - ¢ yet become | Before the coal regulation went in- | girls and women have not yel I . : imbued witl the same 'spirit of sacri-! to ('fl'f‘rfl. the price of coal in the Bos- iy ot oo ton district was §10 a ton. It is now fice which prompts the women-falk of | 0 ST W B b anscript, The excuse, of course, is:| Canada. | Sl has vet been brought ! the home to us.’ No, the war has brought home to us; but, if it goes on it will be hrought home - to And then we shall see the stitching and the knitling and sewing and all the activities that pa- trictic women can foster for our boy: When it brought to the American mothers, and and sweethearts, and daughters, and wives that their men at the front are in need of heavy woolen socks, and warm clothing of all kinds that can be made by the gentle there will be There will be a great revival of sew- ing just characterized the period The kaiser says he didn't will this | war, and he has now discovered that he can't won't {t, either.—Boston ‘Transcript. war, not net yvet been Hanover has sent 70,000 church bells to the smelter. What use has Gepmany for church bells, | —~Syracuse Post-Standard. much lenger, us. the “Just like kissing my sister,” the reply of a Hopkins man asked i for his opinion of the delights of | drinking the new beerless beer.— | Kansas City Times. was is home sters, “My observation is,” sald the fel- | jlow on the corner. “that if there iz women-folk | anything as pretty as a pretty ankle |it is another one, just like it."—Co- lumbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun. The man rejected for underweight hands of no surcease of sewing. i as jfton thrills, a nation bleeds, jon follows where it leads, “every man is proud to yield ‘s upon a crimson fleld y's battle flag. —MINNA IRVING. ' FILD 'EM OUT. orrow the first five men called few Britain to the new national t will be on thelr way to the Ayer ing camp. From then on our up to the number of five hun- i and thirteen, will be leaving at @ intervals. The boards which fhe sending of these men have mplete records. The names . l'.“.“’ resses and history of all men | B8 quota are known. Not so k men who went to the colors f ago. Their names, of course, A the army books and the naval but New Britain has lost f of many of them. It is for the p86 of gathering in this valuable it the Herald once again calls n to the blanks printed in an- j¢ part of the paper. With co- of kinsfolk and friends of n in the army or the navy or onal guard it will not take colfxplete the record. %A ‘PUBLIO AUCTION. hce the citizens' committee in e of praviding entertainment for Smembers of the new national '3 abandoned the idea of 4 send- and established the tobacco with which to purchase |okes” for boys at the front many Wona have been advanced for erjng this work. Foremost ‘these ideas, we hold this: A I8l ;Auction, at which donated ar- 3 may be ‘sold to the Bighest bid- the pracéeds to be contributed e soldiers” sttioke fund. would require but a small nt of preparation to stage one greatest auctions ever held in “city. The State Armory on Amch is available for any benefit to 3 and gould easily accommo- the cr s that would flock to ‘an event, Asa side issue, danc- ight be iparfyof the program to ithe youpger folk. In New reeen‘_fly. juch an affair was wlispices of the city's of waltzs and two-steps promi- solicitation, gave willingly and freely of their services to the betterment {who eats and drinks enough to pass from 1861 ta 1865 when American at a later examination is about as women on both sides of the Jine plied | ' & M R 6 O o row.—Port- the needle and thread for those who ! .ndq Oregonian. fought with the sword and gun. Can-| 4 adian women have set the erunple; this time, but American women have set an example in the past which their successors of today may well follow. To the Mothers. Mothers of men, do you not know hour of woe Born of courage, and doomed to { stress, | SO FAITHFULLY, SO WELL. A man for the tasks of men—no less! In the resignation of Dr. T. Eben | | Mothers of women, can you not feel Reeks as superintendent of the health | What all the signs of your life reveal? department the city of New Britain{ You have brought forth love, with its| receives a setback in its municipal ! sword and fire, affatrs which will_not be easily over- | ARd loye's Lighicrown {aithetlontices come. For three years Dr. Reeks has given the best of his time and attention to the arduous duties of his | office, & post virtually created at the | ;o o OTA" 104 b gor palm and time of his entrance into public life. | ras) 2 Giving up a remunerative medical | To hold him close were your bitter practice, this public-spirited man | loss. helped reorganize the health depart- \/ .. ment of the city, formulated its new . o} that largely ' responsible be for the unprecedented success which | These who must fight a wrong attended the department’s activities. ', Mr’(‘;\';flds ahmels Under able guidance, the general | Eword health of this community has been | safeguarded to a nicety. It is not 00 much to say no other city in Con- | “°¥¢ ‘(f:;‘;]"d,’""'e o R necticut, if not in New England, h8s | {jnder the Cross you stand apart, had a better administration of its | With K\;Lry;s sword in your dauntless medical forces fighting disease and | eart. bantiloncall By alnchot Rersaratincey —MARION/COTTHOUY ERMEITEL and personal magnetism Dr. Reeks | gathered to 'his side some of the best ! Mothers of men, have you not known That the soul of the child is not your own? | mother, will you not see | your gift to the world may | course, and was ab- who hear the Mother of men, then loose your hold! | Do As Grandpa Did. : s sl (Philadelphia Ledger.) medical men of this city who, at his | your great-grandfather carried | the market basket on his arm and | your great-grandmother never saw of the public health. What was @ delivery wagon from any store. ; There was none. done here a year ago the past Summer | mogay, one Philadelphia merchant | when the infantile paralysis epidemic , will pay $10,000 to carry home his gripped New +York and its environs | customers’ packages. anyhow? ! What you gave to the world in your | | job assigned to him wants to do it | (Preceding Lessons: | tious and possess fair ability there 1s NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER -4; 1017. 8 HOME READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS ~ Thirty daily lessons offcred to men selected for service in' Na- tionnl Army as practical help in getting started in the right way. . No attempt is made to give binding rules or directions, the course be- ing informal in tone. These lessons are issued by the War Depart- ment which reserves right to reprint. Yesson No. 19. THE ARMY SYSTEM OF TRAINING 1. Your Post of Honor. 2. Making Good as a Sol- | dler. 3. Nine Qualities of a Seldier. ! 4. Getting Ready for Camp. 5. First | Day in Camp. 6. Cleanliness in | Camp. 7. Your Health. 8. March- ing and Care of Feet. 9. Your Equipment and Arms. 10. Recrea- ; tion in Camp. 11. Playing the Game. 12. Teamwork in the Army. 183, Grouping Men Into Teams. 14, The Leaders. 15. Fighting Arms of the Service. 16. Stafr | Branches of the Service—i1. 17. Staff Branches of the Service—II, 18. Army Insignia). The average American Team who has a well. He doesn’'t care to dawdle over the job and make a mess of it. Nor does he care to make it a halfway success. He is deterimned to make it a full and complete success in the shortest possible time. It is assumed that you are starting | your Army training in this American spirit. Since you are undertaking the job of becoming a citizen soldier you intend to be a good one. You don’t want to waste any time in the process. More than that, if you are ambi- no reason why you should ayways re- main a private soldler. It is right that you should want to advance, just as you want to advance in civil life. The Army is anxious to have you ad- vance just as soon as you are ready. You will not, of course, become a corporal or sergeant or win higher promotion until after you have thor- oughly mastered the duties of a pri- vate. Nor will all the men who would like to win advancement easily obtain it. There is only one way to get ahead in the Army, and that is to follow ocnscieutiously to the end the regular system of training laid out | for everybody. Your training will be practically the | same as that through which your | officers have advanced In the early ! stages of military traininz. Every man in the Army must go through it. Drill Formations. First, you will be instructed in the | infantry drill, as set forth in the In-| fantry Drill Regulations. Thig is the foundation of all your training. It is divided Into close-order drill and extended-order drill. | “Close order” is defined In the Regulations as ‘‘the formation in which the units, in double rank, are arranged in line or in column with normal intervals and distances.” Ex- tended order, on the other hand, is “the foramtion in which the units are separated by intervals greater than in close orde¢.” These tech- nical definitions are clear enough {o those who are alrcady familiar with military terms, but probably require some explanation for most of the It costs us not more than 1 cent to of record. Had 1t mot|, ; ", orange more than 3,000 | been for the preventative measures | mies from California, but your fruit | urged then by Dr. Reeks and his able | dealer, two blocks away, will charge | corps of .assistants New Britain : You double that’commission to bring | o oy it to your house. would have suffered probably greater | '* 10 YOUT SOUPS s who aip than other places. |into your pocket every day .are, All this work has been done quietly ; “Have it charged,” “Have it ex- and without ostentation or show of | changed.” “Have it delivered.” v ki e 8 L. Pay cash, keep what you buy and: any kind, There has been no beating | DAY F00 SEOF RO TOE la the | Slyifieatom toms blaring of | price of every commodity will fall. | trympets at health department head- | / quarters. A quiet man by predilec- | A Preparedness Incident. tion, Dr. Reeks has succeeded in in- ! (Philadelphia Ledger.) oculating all those who work with| As a Pennsylvania express train | him so they too are immune from the | from New York came over the Schuyl- | virus baccill of lime-light. It is| kill bridge yesterday morning a man | hoped that even after his departure | looked out the car window and saw | Is a matter i | | | | or men auctioned off the donated - There are any amount of le here who would readilyzbecome his good influence will remain. No | the soldiers on guard. The man made | one knows just what Dr, Reeks in- | & N8Ny disrespectful comment, | |~ He aidn't notice that irectly behind | tends to do, whether he will.remain | 1.0 C¢™ L "' ontrusive individual | in this city or take up the ‘work bfi reading a newspaper. This second | | ured from the elbow of one man to ed enough to offer théir serv-! guarding the public health in some | personage kept near the man who had | ither as givers of goods for auc- or as auctioneers, or .in other should Iike to see this idea out. ' The columns of this pa- gd the Record have been thrown to all patriotic work of this and the gathering of tobaaeco for dlers who are soon gaing to train- camps comes under this head. If re is one thing above all others n§t men in the trenches and men in ampments need it is the pleasure t comes in the evening hour when bes are lighted and cigarettes and smoke is wafted on the air. anye them smokes. And raise the ::jur part of the fund by a public WORK FOR WOMEN, o~ back from those vicinities S imerica which are closely affiliated fth the Canadian border have high brds ot praise for the spirit of self- rifice dominating the Canadian bmen (at this time. Many of th kfaithy women of Canada, spending Mfcations on American soil clase to r country, have shown their ngnerican sisters what it means to obrk almost continuously for the sol- r boys at the front. It is related by sre than one observer that these ughters of the dominian give nearly thelr spare time to knitting socks sweaters and other useful wear- Whatever his: course, | Mde the remarks about the soldiets, gigrslosality | and when the latter stepped from the he will proceed along it with the | car in Broad street station the other good wishes of an appreciative public | touched his arm and said: which he has served so faithfully and | _“You and I will take a little walk ¢ down to the post office.” o ell. In amazement, the man presumably a German sympathized, protested until the other showed him the badge of a United States Secret Service And they took their walk. P. 5—If you think Uncls Sam 'is asleep, you had better wake ‘up you self. : : ¥ No, Clarice, Yaphank 1s not the | name of a new disease. It is a place on Long Island where Uncle Sam is | going to train his soldier boys. i * What has become of the younw |* Congressional Enthusiasm. who, upon being invited to (Boston Transcript.) an evening social, replied: “I will ask | Nothing quite er\ualia :;: e:‘m\‘uslgsm : i . g . |a congressman’s patriotic. desire ' to gty T tax something that isn’t produced in | nis district. woman, It's a long road-in some cities that i does not include a few rough Gl"il'!r spots. The Essential Invention. (Washfington Star.) “What shall we invent?” the eminent scientist. “The first thing,” replied the chair- man of the meeting, *is to invent some way of keeping a secret.” = inquirad Motto of the strikers: “The laborgr is worthy of higher.” ‘Wanted From America. (Springfield Republican.) Britain's appeal is for ships, ships, ships; that of France for men, men, men. Now Russia is heard in poly- syllables with locomotives, locomo- Crocker Land and Kultur. (New York Sun.) The two great mockeries fade to- | gether. “Finally,” says a man from the Arctic; telling of the end of na- ture's phantasm, “when the sun shifted it was no longer there.” So, | beneath the .sun of civilization, the | Kultur Land with which the phasma | (Ph#ladelphia Press.) makers of Prussia delighted and de-| The Kaiser must have given up the ceived their people passes from sight. ' notion of annexing certain Ameri- It is no longer there and in its place | can &tates to Mexico or he would is the barren waste of poverty and | hardly have given up Zimmerman, death and shame. who had the job in charge. All ofr. agent. | men who are reading this course. The diagrams below show at & glance what is meant. Figure 1 rep- resents a small body of men in double rank arranged in close order. e PR Figure 1. The space hetween men standing side by side in rank is called the “in- terval” In the American army the standard interval is 4 Inches, meas- the elbow of the man next to him. This gives room enough for free movement and the proper handling of arms and equipment during drill. The space between a man in the front rank and a man directly behind him | in the rear rank is called “distance.” ! The standard distance 1s 40 inches, emasured from the back of the man in the front to the breast of the man In the rear. In practice intervals and distances are, of course, not measured exactly. A well-trained soldier, how- ever, soon learns to gauge them with sufficlent accuracy and almost uncon- sciously keeps himself properly placed in relation to the men about htm. Tt is essential that” every man should learn to do this in order to maintain a reasonable degree of uniformity. i source, Fighting Formations. Figure 2 represents a body of men In double rank arranged in column. The same intervals and distarices are observed as in the line formation. ' o o DR « e Figure 2 An extended-order represented below. . formation is Figure 3. However, this is only one of an infinite number of extended-order for- mations. Intervals and distances may be irregular. This is the for- | mation used for skirmishing and at| other times when it may be desirable to have each man control his conform exactly to the movements of the other | men. ! During drill in close order you will retain “the position of a soldier.” In| extended-order drill you will usually, | though not necessarily, be allowed to | take the positions that are most com- | fortable. You should get in mind at the very | begining these distinctions between | close order and extended order. By | understanding them you will see more | clearly what is required of you and | how you can get most beneflt out of your training. l ' DOING HIS BIT WILLIAM A. GREGORY. Willlam A. Gregory is one of two boys who, at the age of 16, have vol- unteered their services to make the world safe for democracy. He en- listed Jul, 1917, with Company E of the ‘Connecticut National Guard and is now stationed -with that body of troops at New Haven. Gregory is the son of Felix and Amalia Gregory of 542 Bast Main street. After graduating from the New Britain Grammar school he went to a trade school and at the time of enlistment was employed learning the plumbers trade with the Nair Broth- ers. OUR PAPERS ARE TRUTHFUL. Only When Decelved, as a Rule, De They Wander Into Mendacity. “Our papers seldom lie.” Deems Taylor says so, and he should know, having been a newspaper man him- self, He states that newspapers rarely print statements that are not at least poor relations of the truth. “In the first place, competition among newspapers .is toa keea. Facts themselves are explosive enough and scatter plenty of libel suits in their wake as it .is without a paper’s deliberately hunting for trouble by printing fiction.. “Usually when an absolute mis- statement has appeared in a news- paper the paper's chief offense is in having belleved an untrustworthy a contingency difficult to guard against since any paper is more or less at the mercy of its out of town correspondents and news agencies. Any correspondent can fool any paper once, but it is to the credit of editors that an over imaginative cor- respondent rarely gets a second chance to exercise his talents. “After all, the principal reason why our press does not print lies is that newspaper men as a class are honest, conscsientious beyond the average and, according to their code, strictly honorable. Certain things may be permitted by that code that strike the layman as peculiar, but de- liberate mendacity is not one of them."—Century. Jim Ham in the Pantry. (Boston Fvening Transcript.) Senator James Hamiiton Lewis, champion of the fair, ye olden knight come back in this prosaic century to remind us that chivalry sleepth but is I not dead, breezes across the Washing- ton horizon like wafted fragrance from the Middle Ages, like a chapter from Sir Walter. He has been pry- ing into the workhouse cuisine in the interest of the suffering supersuffs, and finds a shocking state of affairs. The complaints of the White House conscience sake, are, . indeed, well founded. Senator Lewis’ scented whiskers curled up and withered when he poked them into the pantry, and his delicate palate shrivelled from contact with a sample of soup. The food, in truth, is not up to the stan- |dard established by the Willard, and there is a Suspicion that the Occo- quan cook is not in the same social set with' the Chevy Chase club chef. The criticism of the fair and famish- ing martyrs is entirely justified, and Senator Lewis proposes to see that spmething is done about it. At breakfast the other morning there wasm’t enough cream, for the cereal dnd the peaches too, -and the boarders are frequently obliged to limit them= selves to two lumps of sugar in their coffee. At dinner there is a choice of only two meats, one of which |is alwa, chicken, after a quaint old Virginia custom, while there is a grave suspicion that the salad ofl came from Rome .(Ga.) in the cotton belt. Broiled youhg guinea fowl has been served but once since the Suf- fragists lald aside their Georgette crepe for bed ticking overalls, and re- peated requests that all the ices be obtained hereafter from Rauscher’s have been ignored by the authorities. Senator Lewis is entitled to a vote of thanks for |calling the attention of the country to a state of affairs that exposes man’s inhumanity to wo- man. Potato Prices, (New York Herald). Those sharks that were reported coming up the coast several days ago evidently landed on Long Island and bought up the potato crop. The cMillan Store, Inc. “Always Reliable” Wednesday Morning, Sept. 5th At 8:30 A M. Our Half Holiday Sale For Wednesday Morning’s Selling We have prepared for value giving event. End you a most remarkable of the season Clearance offering the balance of our Summer Stocks at a big sacrifice. Odd lots and many other items that we will be unable to advertise will be here for your choosing. BALANCE OF WASH GOODS STOCK including White and Colored Voiles, Crepes, Skirt- ing, Waistings, etc. On sale Wednesday morning. Your choice 19¢ yard, value 29c to 39c. ANY COAT OR SKIRT IN OUR LARGE SOUTH WINDOW Your choice Wednesday morning $3.98 each; values to $7.98. This lot includes al 1 our wool velour ‘coats, facy striped and checked wool skirts. EMBROIDERY TRIMMED NIGHTGOWNS On sale Wednesday morning 79c each; value $1.00. WOMEN’S BLACK LISLE HOSE! On sale Wednesdaymorning 12! ¢ pair, value 19c Good time to stock up on thes¢ Hose at this price as Lisle Hose are very scarce ,especially such values as these. ODD LOTS OF BOYS’ BLOUSES Wednesday morning 19¢ and 45¢ each. WOMEN’S NECKWEAR CLEARANCE Wednesday. mornin g 25¢ each, values to 98c. All odd lots of Gloves, Hosiery, Knit Underwear, Stampe: Handkerchiefs, ribbon; cf Goods, Leather Goods and Jewelry, at Wednesday Morning Bargain Prices. —_— e ‘What Constantine Did to Greece. (New York Herald.) It was too much to expect that Constantine, dominated by a Hohen- zollern wife, could have the friend- liness for the Entente.Allies which he so glibly professed. It should not have been too much to expect that he would be true to the best inter- ests of the people of Greece, to whom he owed everything. Constantine, however, put his love for Kalserism above his duty to the Greeks and be- trayed them as he betrayed the Allies. The full extent of Constantine's perfidy has just been revealed by Premier Venizelos to the Greek par- liament. Early in 1915 Venizelos, then as now the chosen representa- tive of the people of Greece, urged upon the then king that every con- sideration of duty to Serbia, the ally of people demanded war upon Tur- key. Venizelos recommended that a Greek army be landed at Gallipoll to take Constantinople, a feat easy of accomplishment at that time. Con- stantine refused, betrayed Venizelos’ proposal to the Kaiser and drove the leader of the people into exile. How different would have been the history PICTURES GAZE AT YOU. Why Eyes in Portrsits Follow On= lookers With Their Gaze. (Kansas City Star.) You probably have noticed that some faces in pictures seem to follow you, also that in other pictures there are faces which are nbt looking at ' you, but no matter where you ‘walk, even though it be in the direction in which they seem to be looking, you will never find the face looking at you. Indeed, faces in plctures are either - looking at us from wherever we look at them, or else they never look at us from wherever we look at them. The: same is true of photo-plays. L The rule is very simple. If the per- son who was being painted or photo- ; graphed was looking at the painter or the camera, then wherever you stand he will seem to be looking on that side of you. This works very queerly if you have a group of people who were all look- ing at the camera when they were photographed. It you look at the photograph from one side they _all seem to turn to follow you, and then to turn gack if you look at it from the othier side. But if they were not of the years that have followed since’l that recommendation was made had Constantine been true to his people instead of to Potsdam? With Con- stantinople in the hands - of the Greeks, Bulgaria would hot have dared sell serself to the Teutons; Russia would have had an outlet for her products and an inlet for sup- plies; the Turk would have been driven back into Asia—in all proba- looking at the camera you .can never get them to look at you. The Master of Balliol on Conscience. ¢ (London Times.) When the Master of Balliol had finished speaking on “Religion and National Life” at Hampstead yester- bility “Austria would have quit long before this even if Germany had not. Venizelos ‘“‘saw large” for the in- terests of Greece. Instead of blaming the Entente governments for. forcing Constantine’s abdication, clvilization will blame them for not having forced 1t sooner. Greece is' getting together an army in the hope of re- trieving the lost ground. She may vet do something, but her golden op- portunity was the one that Constan- stine threw away. The Hour of the Organizer. The business organizer is the man of the hour. It becomes necessary to centralize the purchasing powers of the government for war supplies, and we now have a board of seven men wielding these vast authorities, This group of seven expert execu- tives stands at the apex of a huge py- ramidal structure builded from the ablest business men of the land, There is one to represent the army, one fo, the navy, one for labor, one for tRe railroads, and the rest are business or- ganizers, This i{s another sign of the times. For years business men have been complaining that our Government was too much dominated by lawyers, and that what we needed was a govern- | witness the terrible plight ‘famishing people and begs the United ment by business men. The business men are 30w to have their chance. day, a young man asked, “If Jesus Christ were on earth today, were under forty years of age, and were not in holy orders, do you think He would be engaged in making German * widows or prefer to be in prison hold- ing conscientious objections?”” There ‘were several cries of dissent. & ‘I do not like that form of ques- tion,” replied theMaster of Baliol. “There are many historical incongrui- ties you can bring out by simply imagining this, that, or the other. For instance, Julius Caesar at the tele- phone! (Laughter.) Can you imagine any religious leader, or religious minded man, holding back if he saw things done to children for whom he was responsible, and not doing all he could to prevent them? (Cheers.) If you can, then your imagination is :(eenor than mine, and I bow before £ ' Sweden’s Plight. (New York Herald.) [3 Sweden now calls on high heaven to of her States to give her relief. But a gov- ernment that can call on high heaven to witness her undeviating neutrality and at the same time be a practical comrade in arms of a power that iseeks to enslave the world must not| be surprised if honest folk refuse to place any trust either in her calls fo. help or her promises of future good| behavior. b A