New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1917, Page 8

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The Assoclated Préss is exclu- sively entitled to the use for re- Dbublication of¢all news credited [ to it or not otherwise credited in ' this paper and also the local news published herein. lember Glorious Flag. |/® brave flag, O bright flag, A flag to lead the free! The glory of thy silver stars. Hngralled in blue above the bars Of red for courage and white for truth Has brought the world a sec- ond youth And drawn a hundred million | hearts to follow after thee. -—HENRY VAN DYKE. o MORE THAN A SAD DAY. /Tt will be a sad day in Berlin when German people learn the truth. ey have been told that the armies [| the Empire are invincible;: that the bmarine campaign is about to bring fhgland to her knees; that the war n have but one outcome, a complete ory for Germany. {On top of all these assertions here i have the German army falling back der the great drive of Haig, east of pres; the submarines at their low- s inactivity since the ruthless cam- ign began, and England standing E , not on her knées. All around, the r is beginning #p take on a more fflllant hue from the stand-point of P Entente Allies. ust how long it will take to finish whole business no one knows; but at everyone. outside of Germany es know is that the outcome will be as the German military masters [ Bh, a complete victory for German pgos. And when this is proven be- d the peradventure of a doubt pre will be more.than a sad day in rlin. Yea, there will be weeping gnashing of teeth. ITOHING AND WAITING FOR NEW COAD PRICES. metime in the near future, or, en the United States Fuel Adminis- tor gets around to it, there will be blished a new, retail price for coal. is naturally will effect New Britain. ause of this, miany arve wonder- if the price of coal will not be j8 than it is now. Seemingly, that the idea of the government; but Lere are many factors entering into ® situation. Dr. Garfield, has outlined a scheme whereby charges for coal will be based on pail margins of the past. The deal- In this icity, udfwell as elsewhere, e been iequlr b to send certain to thé goverfiment. From this i1 be determined’just what prices IBw Britain consumers must pay for é eir coal this winter. MThat Dr. Garfleld does not intend cut in on the profits of the dealers lly more than is necessary is seen [m this statement:—‘“The first con- [ feration of the Fuel Administrator st be to get coal to the consumer, i d the dealers cannot be expected to [fhike the extraordinary efforts which foy must make this winter, if every- dy is to get coal, unle: ven a reasonable profit IThat is all well and good. ‘an wants the dealers to r fair margin of profit le profit. Jot have been registered by the ul- E hate c there has always flon this sentiment: “We do not mind f that belongs to ta. 1 w No fair —a reason- In the many complaints nsumer, fing a fair profit, s man yIn fipply to its m the 1 bin, [gncorne: who is in business.” coal from the source of destination, housekeeper's there must be for all That is, there be hat the gamblers call a “rake off”, #&d this mw about hys. The fir ho transportation demands a goodly Mlare of the profits; the wholesaler, 'e jobber, the middleman, call tkem nat you will, must have profits. And, but not least, the retail lust get his.” What the retall deal- || gots depends-largely upon what he elting ultimate mine to the profit must be ‘split four wle entails a profit. dealer the administrator of | they are | £o without | |1s charged, or upon what terms the coal is delivered to him. There are few, if any, retail deal- ers who are willing to admit they can sell coal cheaper than the prevalling price. Going back over their business | for a period of twelve months, any one of these men can produce figures 3 with which to strike “a general aver- age” and thereby prove that the high | prices of one season merely off-set the ! low prices of another; that if they can { buy coal cheaper at the mines today they must sell it higher in order to | make up for a loss suffered when they bought coal at higher prices in June or thereabout. In any accounting of the coal bill, | in any careful study, it is seen that one of the very fundamental factors In controlling prices is the cost of carry- ing coal from its original starting point to its ultimate destination. In- volved in the same procedure is the facllity of transportation. The freight rates when they are not to blame have a sister complaint,—the lack of cars, That is a point that should be first remedied by the Fuel Administrator if the consumer is to get the benefit of lower prices. The excuse that there are no cars should, if possible, be taken awa) 5 Dr. Garfield's work is cut out for him. If he can secure lower prices for coal without stepping on the feet of the coal dealers he is a wonder. Even with the great government of the United States in back of him he will find more obstacles to overcome than any other man in the war ser- vice. So we shall await with great anticipation the outcome of ‘he Fuel Administrator's efforts. OUT OF POLITIOCS. It took Dr. T. Eben ‘Reeks the best part of three years and six months to bring the local health department to its present point of efficiency. It would take about four politicians and three months to overthrow the entire system and leave it a wreakage upon the shore. What one man builds an- other destroys. This is the charge brought against those who are at- tempting to oust the co-workers of Dr. Reeks. If there is any truth to the many insinuations which have been brought to public attention, the Mayor of New Britain should lose no time in to’l- ing the persons responsible for these fears to ‘‘keep off the grass.” Mayor Quigley has already directed a letter to certain dissatisfled spirits. He can go even further. With the loss of Dr. Reeks as superintendent of health the best thing the city can now have is the personnel of his stafr. These men and women who have labored with the superintendent for three years and a half should know the bus- iness thoroughly. They have almost mastered the situation. Upon their shoulders must fall the greater part of the detail work. It is to the best intereats of the city then that they be allowed to continue these tasks. Politics has no business putting its dirty hand on the hecalth department. That cepartment, above all others, must remain clean. The work there is directed for the betterment of :the city’s general health. This work can- not go on if with cvery change of administration, whether of the city or the department, is to come an upheaval; if men and women who have rendered faithful service are to be thrown out simply to make way for “favorites”. This is no time to take such chances. It is a time to set & precedent and take the health de- partment far away from political in- fluence. theie FACTS AND FANCIES. “Dollars to doughnuts” is now an even money bet.—Boston Transcript. Experience is like a motor car, you boast about it before you pay for it. —Binghamton Press. If every man were his own food controller the price of remedies for dyspepsia - would drop.—Columbia (S. C.) State. It is in the automobile business, as in almost everything else—the smal- lest fliver has the loudest horn—Los Angeles Times. You can always flatter a man by | asking his advice, and you can some- | times curse him by using it.—Phila- | delphia Record. | This is difficult for a woman: To believe the nice little things she tells other women about her husband.— Chicago News. Some men marry partners and some burdens. It is not always pos- | sible to tell in advance which she is | going to be.——Toledo Blade. | | | An exchange thinks that “the way | our boys will talk French will be | perfectly killing.” Uh, huh, to say nothing of murderous—Philadelphia Inquirer. TEngland uses 70,000 tons of stop- pers annually in her bottling estah- lishments. Some corking business.— Memphis Commercial Appeal, ! you name one deservin’ trait he ever NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1917, Your Lad and My Lad. (Randall Parrish in the Chicago Tribune). Down toward the deep blue water, marching to throb of drum, From city street ahd country lane the lines of khakl come; The rumbling guns, the sturdy tread, are full of grim appeal, While rays of western sunshine flash back from burnished steel; With eager eyes and cheeks aflame the serried ranks advance; And your dear lad, and my dear lad, are on their way to France. A sob clings choking in the throat, as file on file sweep by, Between those cheering multitudes, to where the great ships lie; The batteries halt, the columns wheel, to clear-toned bugle call, ‘With shoulders squared and faces front they stand a khaki wall. shine on every watcher's check, love speaks In every glance; For vour dear lad, and my dear lad, are on their way to France. Tears Before them, through a mist of years, in soldier buff or blue, Brave comrades from a thousand filelds watch now in proud re- view; The same old Flag, the same Faith—the Freadom of World— Spolls Duty in those flaoping above long ranks unturled. Strong are the hearts which zlong Democracy’s advance, Ay your dear lad, and my dear lad, g0 on thelr way to France. old the folds besar The word rings out; a million feet tramp forward on the road, Along that path of sacrifice which their fathers strode, ‘With eager eyes and checks aflame, with cheers on smiling lips, These fighiing men of '17 move on- ward to their ships. Nor even love may hold them back, or halt that stern advance, As your dear lad, and my dear lad, £0 on their way to France. Girl Conductors. (Meriden Journal). If the Connecticut company begins to lose some of its popularity, or rather if it loses more of its popular- ity by reason of the increase In the trolley “‘F' there is a way by which this could-be gotten back. Let the company put attractive girls on the cars as conductors, not as motor operators, for there the danger would be too great for the pedestrians. Girl conductors would certainly add much to the pleasure of the ride down town in the morning and there would be considerable more riding than there is now. Serfously the labor situation is be- coming so acute in some of the olties that the trolley company may be forced to resort to getting women employes, for there is a decided scar- olty of available material. This is not true in Meriden, for there are plenty of men on the lines here and it is also sald there s quite a waiting list. Women gate tenders have ceased to be a novelty and if the Connecti- cut company wishes to keep up the interest of the jaded public in ity lines 1t may well resort to this in- novation, o'er HIS SAVING GRACE. An Indiana town in the old days boasted of two characters—an official mean man who never did a good deed if it was possible to do a mean one, and an official optimist who had never been heard to speak an evil word of any human. In the fullness of time the bad man died. On the day of the funeral the usual crowd gathered at the post of- fice to await the distribution of mail. Naturally the life and warks of the late unlamented came under discus- sion. The deceased was painted as a miser, a liar, a thief, a scandal-mon- ger and a backbiter., The optimist, who was present, listened in turned on’ him. ’ “Say, Gid,” demanded the other man, “ain’t ever'thing we've said about that old scoundrel the truth? Kin shallowed 2" “Well,” said the optimist, ‘*‘you boys'll have to admit he certainly had a mighty good appetite.”—Saturday Evening Post. ALAS, VAIN HOPE! “Girls nowadays take too light a view of marriage,” sald Prof. G. Rock- well, the Chicago ornithologist. “Lecturing before a summer school of girls last month, I happened to Te- mark: *“‘The ostrich sees very little; on | the other hand it digests everything.’ “‘Gee, said the girl on a back bench, ‘what an ideal husband an os- trich would make!” "—Washington Stor. PRETTY BAD. At the end of three weeks of mar- ried life a Southern darkey returned to the minister ;(who had performed the ceremony and asked for a divorce. After explaining that he could not grant a divorce, the minister tried to issuade his visitor from carrying out his intentions, “You must remember, Sam, that you promised to take Liza for better or worse.” “Yassir, T know dat, boss,’” re- joined the darkey, *“but—she's wuss dan I took her for. verybody'ss Germany’s Pyramid of Debt. (Idaho Statesman). Buyers of German war bonds have been urged, almost commanded, to hypothecate them and to borrow more with the proceeds of the loan. The government has also urged its citizens to mortgage their homes, properties, stocks and bonds, and even household goods, so as to be able to buy more war bonds. Debt is being piled upon debt, and in this way the government is laying hands upon all of the peo- ple's wealth and property, and squan- dering it upen the battlefields. Noth- ing can now avert German bank- ruptcy except a victory and huge in- demnities, and, while the pyramid of debte grows higher and higher, vie- tory becomes more and more impos. sible. | DOING HIs BIT | LEON M. NORTON. Another local boy who has an- swered the call to the colors is Leon M. Norton, aged 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Norton of 785 West Main street. Norton was born and braught up in this city, attending the local schools. During the past winter he was em- ployed in Maine, enlisting in that state shortly after the United States declared war on Germany. He joined company H, 22 regiment, U. 8. Infantry. The Spirit That's Sure to Win. (Milwaukee Journal) Arthur Shattuck, the brilliant Wis- consin planist, has given his entire income, $60,000 annually,. for the maintenance of European musicians pauperized by the war. His private yacht he has offered to the Amerioan government. His spendid apartments in Paris, which he has maintained for vears, he has turned over to Belglan refugees. He Is now living on what he earns from his work as a musician. Wright Patterson, a sailor whose parents live in Chicago, was in Syd- ney, Australia, 10,000 miles away, when he heard of America’'s entrancd into the war. He started back im- mediately, and has enlisted at the Great Lakes training station, to do his bit in the great fight for democ- racy. O. B. Perry, general manager of the Yukon Gold company, Canada, has Just quit a $50,000-a-year job to vol- unteer in Uncle Sam’s cause. He is now serving as a major in the United States army at a salary of $3,000. Three of a kind, these men are. It is the spjrit which rules the breasts of such patriots as these that will win the war. The Vaterland as a Transport. (From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle). The great ocean steamship Vater- land, which has been taken over by the United States government for use in transporting troops to France, sur- prised American engineers when they proceeded to repair the ship's ma- chinery, damaged by her German of- ficers. Then for the first time it be- came known in this country that the vessel had been originally designed for the use for which she is now em- ployed. Provision was made for gun emplacements, and the vessel was made as nearly torpedo proof as pos- sible. The Vaterland is one of the most fleet greyhounds of all that sail the Seven Seas, and can easily escape from submarines. There is a bit of a romantic justice in the fact that this really palatial steamship will now transport American troops to France, with all of their belongings, in de- tachments of 10,000, and that 20,000 can be carrfed across each month. Ome Soldier's Will. (Westminster Gazette) “1 was looking through a man’'s dossier the other day,” a medical friend in khaki tells me, “when an un- usual paper attracted my attention. It was inscribed outside in Gothic characters: ‘My Last Will and Testa- ment.’ Inside, without preamble, was the following: ‘(1) My Will: I be- queath, in the event of my being killed, everything I have, and that ain't much, and it will be less by the time it gets back home, to my moth- er, Mrs. (2) My Testament: — which mother gave me, I give to my sweetheart, Miss Daisy She don't know I'm sweet on her, but I am! That's all. (Signed) v “He did not dle,” my friend goes on to say, “and I discharged him from the army, when he appeared before me, and when I asked him, very of- ficially, if he had a sweetheart, he earnestly .assured me that he had not. I suppose when his life was spared he welghed the girl against the Testa- ment and Holy Writ won.” The “Honoyed Fabric.” (Binghamton Republican-Herald). He plucks from the cerulean blue the shining stars of rhetoric, and, while thousands exclaim and admire, arranges them in a spangled, splendid galaxy of shining marshalled words. To him old Noah Webster's great collection is a fascinating storeroom from which, like a bee in seanch for sweets, he flits from word to word, selecting an adjective here, culling there a verb or noun or adverb, and then combining them into a honeyed fabric which startles even while it charms. To Cultivate a Memory for Faces. (Hotel Gazette). John Horgan of the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, is noted for his re- tentive memory and his abillty to re- member faces. His explanation of his rare gift is: ‘‘Attention comes first. When you meet a man, look saunarely into his face for a second and got evervthing else in the world. F 5 into your brain: yo do it if you will keep practicing. can AGED SOAP BUBBLES. Dowar Makes Monster Ones and Then Keeps Them For Months. (Philadelphia Press) The transient existence of the soap | bubble is proverbial, but Professor J. Dewar, in a discourse recently deliv- | ered at the Royal institution in Lon- don, explained how soap bubbles i could be made to last for months and | exhibited several specimens. The first requisite {s that the air used in blow- ;ing the bubble shall be free from ' dust. In Professor Dewar’s process the air ! is filtered through cotton wool, and the bubbles are blown by opening a stop- cock in the air supply tube. For the oap solution he prefers the purest olelc acid (tested by the lodine num- ber) and ammonium soap (not potas- slum or sodium). To make a bubble durable the sac of liquid must be removed from its bot- tom by suction through tubes applied from outside. The lecturer showed bubbles that had endured for months and that were more than half a yard in diameter, blown in glass vessels containing pure air at atmospheric pressure. A little water is kept at the bottom of the vessel. A uniform tempera- ture of about 50 degrees F. is favor- able to longevity. Some of Professor Dewar's smaller bubbles were nearly a year old. A Habit of the English. (Harrison Rhodes in Harper's Maga- zine). If we as a nation often seem to see the worst side of England, it is partly because Hngland has a singular gift for putting the worst foot forward. The way you knew an Englishman, in the years before the war, was that he abused England. Sterne's phrase that “they order this thing better in France” grew to be typical of Eng- lish thinking, if for *“France” you substitute *‘anywhere abroad.” The typical Englishman often appeared to be anything but pro-English. And the habit is hard to give up. Even during the third winter of the war an English playwright thought it the mo- ment to bring out in New York a brilllant satirical comedy which proved—if it proved anything—that fashionable war-time London is so hard and so immoral that the Amer- ican members of it have lost every- thing which could recommend them to their compatriots at home. And yet the gentleman who so seemed to throw mud at his England and his England’s new ally had risked his life for them on the western front! The Foe Must Worry. (Brooklyn Eagle). Americans do not shudder when told that we are In danger of spend- ing $50,000,000,000 this year for the war. We want to get what we pay for and we are confldent the Hun will do the worrying. PICKING UP “DUDS”. Kenny Carried Unexploded Shells Around and Met His End. (Manchester Chronicle) This is a true story, the facts ac- tually happened within a mile of this dugout, and have been told me by officers of his battalion—only his name is wrong. I first saw him a month ago; I was walking along the road, the normal Belgian road lined with poplars, and paved in the center, and two feet of mud at the sides, when I heard the whiz of an approaching shell. No- body wants to be killed out here, and the whiz was suspicious, so I dived to the ditch and awaited the explo- sion. A dull thud beyond the hedge and no more; it was a “dud”—a shell that fails to explode. I thanked my stars and passed on. As T returned I saw a soldler ap- proaching me along the road, muddy as usual, and carrying something in his arm. To my horror, it was the unexploded shell. ; “Good Lord, man,” said I, “that might go off. - “It is alroight, sir; Of'il take’ ern to the colonel.”” An officer of his battalion came through my station that night (a lively “Blighty” in the lez—I offered him £10 for it!) “Do you know a big villain in your lot who carts ‘duds’ about?”" I asked. He laughed, “It's Mad Kenny; have you seen him?” I told him of our meeting, and he laughed again. ‘“Yes, he wanders around ploking up ‘duds’; he’s famous in the division; he got blown up three months ago, and has now developed this taste!” ‘“Some taste,” said I. “What does he do with them?" “Take them to chuckled. “What?” “Rather the first time*hg-came and asked for the C. O, walked into his room and said, ‘Ot've brought ye this, | soir,’ and deposited a large 59 dud on the table. ‘Good Lord, said the C. 0., ‘take it away.” Since then he often brings them, but leaves them regretfully outside.’” “He must have some pluck.” “Pluck,” he said, “Lord, he never gets the wind up. One day a trench mortar came over. We were all scooting, but he just bent and pulled the fuse out and chucked it over the parapet. He's about the first chap I've met who loved the war. When he heard of peace, he sald he’d climb the parapet on his eyelashes before he’d give in to Kaiser Bill."” Poor Kenny, his end is pathetic. He wasn’'t killed, no such glorious end for him. He brought in to the colonel a specially large dud, of which he had actually polished the nose cap. It was too much and the colonel called the regimental M. D., and told him to inquire into Kenny’s mental condi- tion. And so poor Kenny, the Dud King, afraid of nothing, came through my dressing station, and so down the line labelled Mental Deficiency. His last words to a pal were illum- inating: “They can shoot ye for run- ning from the line—can they shoot ve for running back?" Perhs he may appear | wonder. Mecanwhile, the | sivply littering the country duds, the C. O.” he again! T German s witih The McMillan Store, Inc. “Always Reliable” WINTER IF YOU HAVEN'T, THEN HAVE PAID US A OALL LINE. found anywhere in New Britain, feel as enthusiastic about them HAVE YOU PURCHASED YOUR COAT? DON'T, AT LEAST UNTID YOU AND INSPECTED OUR NEW FALL IT'S A WONDERFUL ASSORTMENT WHICH EMBODIES THE NEWEST FASHION MODES AND INSTANTLY WILL AP- PEAL TO EVERY WOMAN WHO APPRECIATES EXCLUSIVE STYLE PLUS ECONOMY. We are showing a most distinguished line of SALTS FUR FABRIO COATS and OLOTH OCOATS to be and we feel that after carefully inspecting our line of Fall Outer Apparel, seeing the fabrics,' the high-grade tailoring, the style lines and the reasonable prices at which they are being offerad at here, undoubtedly will make you as we are. wanted shades for Fall See them displayed in our Fall Opening Special in Women’s and Misses’ All made of the newest matevials. Smart Tallored Coats in the Coats Special Saturday $14.98 each South Window. White and Colored SHAWL each. padr. MARABOUT CAPES in black, natural, combinations, 38.98 to $8.98 each. u Fall and Winter Gloves Of all kinds for men, women and children priced 850 to $3.00 | Other Fall Opening Specials Saturday FOX SCARFS, white, at $3.48 and $3.98 each. FOX SCARFS $3.98, $6.98 to $8.08 \ and biack and whito Knit Underwear In all weights, styles and qualities for men, women and children. Bedding Dept. Blankets and Comfortables Reasonably priced. The largest showing in New Britain is now being displayed at our Third Floor Drapery, Floor OCovering and (TAKE ELEVATOR.) Difficult. With prices going up all over the country and all sorts of inconveni- ences arising from the war, it is diffi- cult to subscribe to the doctrine that the king of government one nation has, which allows its irresponsible rulers to precipitate war at their own pleasure, is nobody’'s business but thelr own. NATURALIZATION LESSONS. St. Jean de Baptiste Soclety to In- struct Members. At last night's session of St. Jean de Baptiste society it was voted to make arrangements for 30 minute naturalization ilessons to any member who has intentions of becoming a citizen. Books -and all information relating to the questions that are put to an applicant for naturalization papers are to be answered and taught. These lessons are to be given at every regular meeting of the soclety. The committee on pool and ocard tournaments also report that the tour- naments will be ready to start in a short while. All crib players are urged to enter the event. There will be a meeting of the Dramatio club of the association next Sunday meorning at 10:30 o’clock in the hall. The plans for a play have been in the works for a long time and at this meeting it will be decided which play is to be selected and the cast will also be chosen. The club has given some very good plays in the preceding years and hopes to ex- ceed all former records this year. All members are urged to attend this meeting. WE GAVE CONSIDERABLE. B Connecticut Responds Liberally New Issue of Liberty Bonds. Boston, Oct. 5—New Hngland add- to ed $6,425,000 to its total of subscrip- | tences of two years and & half. GET ALONG FINE. Co-operation Complete Between Ad- miral Sims and British, Washington, Oct. 5.—Co-opera- tion between the British admiralty jand Vice-Admiral Sims and other American naval officers, Secretary Danfels' declared today, has been complete since the outbreak of the war, “The spirit shown at the admiral- ty,” Seretary Danlels said, “has been one of perfect openness and frankness and oo-operation. Our officers have had access to every bit of information admiralty officlals have had in rela- tlon to submarine warfare. They have opened every door to Admiral Sims and his assooclates.” PRESIDENT APPROVES. To Place All Appropriations in Hands of Single House Committee. Washington, Oot. 5.—Centralization of appropriation power in a singlo house committee has been endorsed by President Wilson. In a letter to Chairman Fitsgerald of the house appropriations committee the presi- dent declares Mr. Fitsgerald’s pend- ing resolution providing such central- ization has his hearty approval and that only by such a plan can mis- takes be avolded during the war emer- gency. Action on the plan will be. urged at the next session. —_— SENTENCED FOR LIFE. e e Strike Agitators in Spain Are Given Severe Punishment for Their Work. Madrid, Oct. 5.—Five of the mem- bers of the strike committes which directed the recent general strike In Spain have been sentenced to solitary conflnement for life by a court-mar- tial. Three others were given eight years in prison and two received sen- Ti ¢ tions to the Liberty Loan by reports { two women members of the commit- received over night at headquarters : The tabulation today showed | here. $18,895,000 while about half of the banks in the six states have falled thus far to report. | Subscriptions by states as an-. nounced are Massachusetts $13,013,- 000, Connecticut $2,891,000, Rhode Island $1,096,000, Maine $818,000, Vermont $646,000 and New Hamp- shire $431,000. tee Were acquitted. FIREMEN ON VACATION. Lieutenant Thomas F. Higgins of Engine company No. 5 and Lieutenant Thomas Hinchey of Engine company No. 4 commenced their annual vaca- tions yesterday. Chief R. M. Dame and Lieutenant George Hoffman have lre-umed duty after & vacation, . .