New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1917, Page 6

K NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAI.D, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917, i Herald. COMPANY. ew Britain HERALD HING ssucd daily (S at eraid °d) at 4:15 p. Chureh St. m., Buitere as 1t New Tiritatn peri o ny part of the city nts a month. 1t by mail, s a month, medium hooks and press advertisers. md on saie at Hota- 12nd St und Broad- Doard Walk, At- rd Depot. Hart CALLY fember of The sociated Press. sclated Press Is exclu- ntitled to the use for re- news credited not otherwise credited in 1so the local news 3 Charity For AllL With m ®harity for the rizht the right, It us the work we o toward none; with with firmness in as God gives us to see trive on to finish are in HAM LINCOLN. ' S50, it ‘there is at least one five people in New Brit- here ousit to be twelve thousand halc ers to the Second ber There are twelve ousand mer here the humblest of thom can buy a fifty dollar bond. in s must not be touched” thus as- suring one avenue of escape for inno- cent American men, women and chil- | dren. Ior this, of course, the Ameri- can sratitude. Some of the newspapers published lin Germany the diplomats there to stand up and have been clamoring for denounce the revelations that are now | being made by the American state de- partment. As yet there has been no This the simple reason ! there can be no denial of facts. The Secret Service, to use the vernacular, has the goods. The De- partment of State has the material with which to convict Germany and her intriguers before the world court. The invidous workers of the Imperial foreign-born { denial. for American | | | | | | German Government, { and American-born, have been shown up for what they are,—serpents on the hearth. THE WAYS OF CONGRESS. I it e s men and professional men are far apart in their modes of living as the two poles. That is, business man is generally all business, the term goes, while a professional man is more of a free lance. In a way, the two have different standards of living. The nature of their cupations makes this so. As in their work, so fn the increment derive therefrom, It is hard a professional man to put his finger on a figure and say, “There is my earnings for the year”. On the other hand, a business man may take pencil and pad and tell in a few short minutes how the year’s profit ranged. So, When Congress just before ad- journing decided to put into the new ware revenue bill a proviso to seize all that a professional man earns above six thousand dollars a year as excess profits it tackled a subject that has never been thoroughly ground out. Exce: profits on what? ask the wiseacres. Excess profits on a o everyday they for he terms are easy. A stipulated sh deposit, and a fixed quantity at Bguiar intervals m a little while bond is bought and paid for. The United States Government, if it ranted to, could depend upon the ally rich men of this country to urchase every one of the bonds d for the second loan. The gov- rnment does not want to do so. It ants the men of the rank and file pstep forth and help float this loan. he man who has fifty dollars, the @n with a hundred to spare, the pan who can agord five hundred ollars,—these are the men the gov- nment wants to invest in the loan. As there are twelve thousand men ble to purchase so there are twelve and women the greater part of can do likewise. Any girl at the present day rate of ct aside at least one dol- 2 to this end. is- In order to 0 so & izht have to forego some g th 1 ires of the moment. She piptit alter a last year's hat nstead of asing a new ome; but wven t ith money are doing just that of thing . That being e fashion this yecar there is really no crifice involved. However it is done, ach man and woman in this city khould purchase at least a fifty dollar pond sort latest revela- ons of German intrigue, published in his afternoon’s news despatches will of interest to every loyal American. ey will show iust how far reaching his propoganda and who were e men grappled in net. The German syst of invelgling dis- oyal Americans micht be said to be othing short of marvelous, These exposu to do with a of teles the ial Ger: Government and its sneaking, ambassador to (?) Herr von o purpose was the de- W its have ams between an the Hon. Inable railroad prop- country with affic interrupted might be crippled. his the P carric in th wvon 1 tional Canada. Tho terested in tthe career of Jeremiah O'Leary, the fire- brand. will find interesting reading in the sccond published by | Secre This from in Berlin, Bernst Washington, eme was presumably ¢n the homb-thrower German government, \amited the interna- bri between Maine and Irish telegram Tansing, message | imerman, to von orff, in names three persons from whom the German L Ambe “oht particulars carrying on St @s to persons sui for gabotare in Canada.” T nited tes and nding the fi st two as discreet, who three, is ut not always | Oficer Wins Bride” | “Bride Wins Army Officer ?”’—Boston art O'Teary played in | gray matter, -on brain? The profes- sional man, as a rule, has very little invested in his profession. In the case of a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, or whatsoever, there are stipulated outfits that follow the profession; but once these are bought they us- ually stay there. In the main, the professional man's earnings come from. his knowledge of the subject in hand, and not from the fixtures or other paraphernalia that adorn his office. No professional man who is rak- ing more than six thousand dollars a year will begrude giving the gov- ernment the surplus cash demanded under this tax. In fact, many will be proud to partake of this effort to help the government in its hour of need, what though they will be reached again under the normal in- come tax. This super-tax, it is noted, applies to all professional men with one exception, Congressmen. Thay have exempted themselves from this tax. It might be argued they are not professional men: it might be further argued tkey do not earn their salaries; it might be argued to a nicety that there are no ‘excess profits” in their line of work; but whatever the ar- gument the professional man will feel he has been treated unjustly in this one respect. He is taxed - for his ability to produce, an ability which demands brains uber muscle. Truly the ways of Congress are mysterious. “If you are about to undertake any enterprise stop and ask yourself the question, Will this help to win the war?” Thus expounds Daniel Wil- lard, chairman of the National Coun- cil of Defense. There is food for thought in this sentence. “Will this help to win the war?” is a fair ques- tion that any man starting out on a new venture can ask himself with profit. For if 1t will not help to win the war this 1s no time for such an enterprise. Once remarked the Bridgeport Telegram: What a beautiful October we are having this September. Re- versing the English it should now read: What a beautiful September we are having this October. ACTS AND FANCIES, At any rate nobody has yet learned to collect bills over the telephone.— Paterson Call. Envy in your mind is just as useful as sand in your running gear.—Bing- hamton Press. The average man thinks he is broad | mirded because he is willlng to for- get Ch the wrong endured by others.— 2o Ne reasonable profit is to the seller that he can get and to the con- A i | sumer the least that he can be made to pay.—Albany Journal. about society Isn't it standing time to revise that page head, “Army by running it | Trapseript. is not revealed. | as the | ions vet The utli \ttempted, (ierman Foreign sing his plan of | ‘ough to suggest ilway embankments and | omy whose ¢ Usually they k most about econ- umstances do not com- pel them to practice it.—Albany Jour- nal. A small boy say the proper time to people owe a profound debt of | a frult is when the ined.—Chicago News. badly business goes as soon boss gets back from his vaca- and the stenographer goes on Paterson Call. Presumably a destroyver that has a hairbreath escape has it in a br —Columbia (S. C.) State. Congress closed in a terrible rush, but not quite so precipitately as to forget to exempt members of either house from any form of inccme tax.— iNcw York Sun. dog s How the tion her: Many a mickle makes a muckle and the combined opposition of Germany’s minor enemies, like Belgium, Uruguay, Cuba and Peru, is not to be despised. —-Providence Journal. Our idea of real appreciation of the idea of the eternal fitness of things is Uruguay’s action in severing diplo- matic relations with Germany, not for any particular injury but merely on general principles.—Meriden Record. My Litt rish Rose. Green are the ficlds of Erin, and soft the mossy lea, high the shamrock-covered hills that overlook the sea; dear to v native town, by which the Shauncn tow. Where the green dwells leen, my little Irish rose. An’ An’ my col- O far away in Leitrim town, beyond the tossin’ tide, ' Within a litle cabin white my darling doth abide, O she is fairer far, I wot, than any flower that blows— A jewel rare, beyond compare, little Irish rose. my Sure, when I left the dear old isle, an’ sailed the heavin’ main, leavo my weepin’ lass behind filled my heart with pain; An’ well T mind the words I spoke to soothe away her woes— “Dear heart, to you I will prove true, my littie Irish rose."” To it O city dames are wondrous fair, but mighty full of tricks; They'd steal away a fellow’s then leave him in a fix; But I was proof ‘'gainst all wiles, and tipped them the nose » An’ whispered bate my heart, their ‘neath wate, ye ne'er could little Irish Now, bhoys, I'm goin’ home again to the dear ould countree, With plenty in my pockets, bhoys, I'm jocund as can be; The good ould ship will bear me soon where the wide Atlantic flows, To Erin’ shore, to greet once more my little Irish rose. ‘Bedad, my bhoys, won’t there be fun upon my bridal day! From far an’ near the girls will come, deck’d in their best arra We'll dance the tango an’ the while soft the music flows, the queen will be of that com- pany my little Irish rose. —WILLIAM NOO s, An’ Wifc Spoiled Cohen's Exemption. (New York Herald.) As the result of an investigation by Hjalmar H. Boyesen, legal aid of the provost marshal general, the District Appeals Board yesterday afternoon reversed a decision of Local Hxemp- tion Board No. 4 cxcinpting Maxwell Cohen of 939 Longwood avenue, the Bronx, from milita and or- dered him to report for army duty Cohen claimed to be the sole sup- port of his wife, to be a skilled em- ploye in a war material plant and 8lso to be an inventor engaged at work upen “three plans for the ov- ernment.” His wife, _Roselle Cohen, however, repudiated his s ments and declared to Mr. Boyesen that her husband was actually de- pendent upon her parents for support and that she would like him to be drafted. She swore she had received but $2 from him in seven weeks and caid he Knew nothing about ma- chinery and had sought employment in war material establishments for the express purpose of avoiding the draft. Cohen stated that he has worked recently in three different establish- ments for making war supplies. He admitted- that he had held none of these positions for as long as a vear. He added that his wife had quarreled with him and was seeking revenge. “We had an awful row,” he said. “She called me a jackass.’ \French General’s Tribute to America. Has it not occurred to the reader that most of the instruments which we fight have been either In- vented or perfected by Americafi in- genuity? How much the science of war owes to America for the steam- ship, the gunboat, the submarine, the torpedo, the telegraph, the telephone, the microphone, harbed wire, the re- volver, magazine-rifie the machine- gun, and the aeroplane! You will not be called upon, in the new form of offensive, to sacrifice American lives as we have sacrificed French lives. But you alone can make possible a complete victory with little further sacrifice of life. You alone can hasten the end. When the Germans realize that we have the ma- terial to make defense of their pres- ent or any other lines impossible, they will have to give in. How can we force that realization upon them? By the means to transport them to our battle-front; and by aeroplanes with- out limit. flag on our front, but the success of our offensive ls more dependent npon American factories and shipyards.— General Malleterre of the French Army in Harper's Magazine. (Boston Transeript.) No Cause for Worry. Old gentleman—*Boys, vou don’t pick toadstools mushrooms. They are onfused. Spokeshoy—"Don’t worry, mister. We ain’t zoin’ to eat ‘em ourselves; | we're golng’ to sell em. instead of very with | i Germans with ‘We welcome the American | be careful | easily | | DOING Hs BIT HAROLD 1. DY Harold T. D aged 19 years, son of Thomas Dyson of 368 Arch rect, enlisted In the army when the t call for volunteers came last summer, His father was formerly cook in the army and the spirit to serve is manifested also by the son, | officers, ins | | | | | | { cannon and shells without lmit, and | i Prince Bismarck’'s memoirs, He enlisted in the army July 11, 1917 in the quartermasters corps. At the time of his enlistment he was em- ploved at the Saving bank of New Britain. COMMUNICATED. ON TOP OF SIX (‘E T FARE. Pcople Have Failed in Their Intentions to. Walk and Must Ride in Dilapidated Cars. To the Editor of the Herald:— When the Connecticut company gave notice of a raise on all of their lines, there was a great hue and cry among many, that they would do their bit towards boycotting the cars by a refusal to ride on them. The troiley company, however, lost no sleep on the matter, as they held the whip in their own hands, and there was no other way out than for the public to submit to it, as they : have, and no doubt alw days, that on some of the lines there appeared to be a lit- tle falling off in the number of pas- sengers, but time changes all things, and at the present time, all of the lines appear to have their fuil quota of passengers, some of them being those that favored a boycott. Now that the trolley company have bzer so generous with the public, by detnand- ing more of their good cold coin, is it not about time that they should make some improvements in return? Take for instan~e those single truck cars on the Chestnut and FEast Main street lines; t! rind one of the old-time horse cars, that were under the man- acemeni of the Dolan Lrothers years ago. No better name could be given them, than Jumping Jacks. For the bu that is done on those lines, better ears should be installed. What abuot that extension of the tracks on Smalley street to the rail- as it not approved sometime azo0? If so, why the de- lay in puting it throush? Giving everyore credit sion so d nds it must 1dded that the Connecticut company putting the Farmington avenue line in Al con- dition, and when completed, will Le as good a line as anyone would wish de upon. Ve up Mr. C - re when ocea- imnecticat Compan: and show a little of your genero: by shaving off a little piecc of y dividends, and rive the public better service that they for. litla paying are G. H. ¢ ‘Wanted: A Sense of Humor. (Wall Street Journal.) In the ghastly tragedy of the war it is seldom that anything even un- consciously humorous develops, but Mr. Gerard is on record and no onc will suppose that he was deliberately trying to be funny. He pubiishes his notes of an interview with German Kaiser after the Sussex inci- dent, and not Mark Twain nor Arte- mus Ward could have invented any- thing like the Kalser's actual utter- ance: The emperor then spoke of what termed the uncourteous tone of notes, saying that we charged the ‘barism in warfare, as emperor and head of the church, he had wisied to carry on the war in a knightly manner. He referred to his own speech to the members of the Reichstag at the commencement of the war, and said that the French, especially, were not like the French of ‘70, but that their ad of being nobles, came from no one knew where. He then referred to the efforts to starve owd Germany and keep out milk frem that nation, and declared, hefore he would allow his family and grandehildren to starve, that he would blow up Windsor Castle and the whole royal family of Kngland. To put it in the vernacular, this seems rough on Windsor Castle, but King George is in the monarch busi- ness, and his father, whose courage was beyond all question, said that at- tempted sassination was one of the ordinary of that employment. There is a sympathy between kings ng not out of love, but from ne- cessity. The shaking of one throne involv the trembling of all the others. Th why the British have not played a trwmp card which Wilhelm justly drea This is the manuscript of the third volume at of Kaiser's he our and, ent deposited in the vaults Tank of England by Bisuarck in order to circumvent the rate efforts to sccure and de- the di ceful record of his relations with his father and mother. are cheap enough, and King George is a good one of the kind, the, with a large family who probably | would not all be bombed out of ex- | istence at the same time. What Wil- helm should do is to blow up the Bank of England. It covers about an acre, and it might be hard to find the exact vault where the Bismarck record is deposited, but success would vindicate the efficiency of the Ger- man spy system upon which some doubts have been recently cast. THOSE COMMON BOYS. R s They Are the Nation’s Pride, Those €haps at Ayer, Every Tom, Dick and Harry of Them. (Meriden Record) “I shouldn’t mind having Jack en- | list,” said’ his mother, “if I didn't know he’d be herded right in with those common bbys.” Then the draft came along and caught Jack. He's out in a big cantonment. The woman by her utterance admit- ted her failure as a mother. If Jack at 22 was so weak a thing that his health could be injured, his morale corrupted or his peace of mind upset by association with cther boys some of whom had been less expensively reared than he, his education had been a farce. If his mother had been real- ly of fine metal she would have taught Jack from his babyhood to recognize true values when he saw them. He would now be strong, with an attitude 80 wholesome that there could be no fear of his ability to take care of himself. And she would have thought of his association with the other lads with pleasure that Jack might have the opportunity, the broadening exper- ience of knowing intimately all types of men. “Those common boys”—what are they? Sons of the workers of the world—whom Lincoln said the Lord must have loved, because he made so many of them? If so, then Jack has much to learn from them. If she meant boys who were vulgar in word or deed—they are always few. The many are olean, decent, admirable. And vulgarity springs from weak- ness and lack of discipline. Army drill and the big spiritual experi- ence of 1iving near to death will soon burn all that out. As those common boys—sons and brothers of all of us—go marching by to entrain for their winter’s work they look pretty fine, well worthy the nation’s pride. Rich, poor, high, low —the khak s a great leveller. And as for the Jacks of the country— lucky for them the strong right arm of Uncle Sam has removed them from the sickly atmosphere of such homes and put them among the democratic ranks where they may be saved. “PRUSSIAN POISON” Satanic Principles of Germany Laid Down By Old School of Writers Who Translated Bible to Suit Themselves. (Chicago Tribune) We will keep meeting the sort of man who exclaims, “How different this modern Germany from the Germany of Heine's time!”—as if Heine him- self had not written, “Christianity has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, the brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming talls- man, the Cross, breaks in two, the savagery of the old fighters will gush up afresh. That talisman is decayed, and the day will come when it will piteously collapse. Then Thor, with his glant’s hammer, will at last spring up and shatter to bits the Gothic ca- thedrals.” C. F. Childs quotes this prophecy of Heine's in a pamphlet called “Prus- sian Poison,” and traces the long, slow process that has achieved its fulfill- ment. We are fighting a Germany sud- denly gone mad. We are fighting a Jermany that has madness Instilled into it by its leaders and teachers for a very tonsiderable period. If the Cross has “broken in two”, it is not from “decay.” Heine was mistaken there. It is from tho onslaught of Germany's leadcrs and teachers. Tor example, Nietszche. Said Nietszche, “The infliction of an injury, forcible subjugation, exploi- tation or annihilation is not in itself & wrong; cannot be such since life in its essence, in its primary functions, is nothing but oppression and annihila- tion.” “Conditions of justice can nev- er be anything but exceptional—con- ditlons, that is, as limitations of the real desire of life, the object of which is power.”” “The fight is not for life or existence, but for power.” ‘Life does not seek self-preservation, but self-increase or ‘will to power’.” “The love of fighting is for its own sake, in contrast to the modern humanitarian view.” “Spare not thy neighbor.” “Say not, I wili do unto others as I would they should do unto myg.” “Do not believe thou mayest not rob."” «“Christian piety and ideals of equality and peace are impossible, since life is nothing but inequality and war.” Tritschke, professor and historian, followed Nictszche, and argucd thus: “it will always redound to the slory of Machiavelli that he has placed the state on a solid foundation and frecd it and its morality from the moral precepts taught by the church.” “Ger- man intellect has wrestled for cen- turies against Christianity. Must she forever submit to this alien creed and borrow her religion? Germany, while preparing for a world empire, must | also prepare to create a world religion. It may be descibed as the religion of Valor.” Then came Bernhardi, with such maxims as these: ‘“Our people must learn to see that the maintenance of peace never can or may be the goal of a policy.” “None of the wars which Frederick the Great fought had been forced upon him; none of them did he postpone as long as possible.”” “The right to fight becomes the duty | to make war.” _“Right is respected so far only as is compatible with advan- tage.” “Might is the supreme right, and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrament of war.” Germans contend that Bernhardl was never influential in Germany, yet the crown prince has Geclared that { “every German ought to read Bern- ardi’s book,” and his “Germany and | the Next War” has served as at once | the Baedeker and the Bible of the Ger- nman war office. Whether or not Ger- mans should read it, Americans should. They should read “Prussian Poison.” They should read ‘“Gems (?) of German Thought, compiled by William Archer. They should read the still newer compilation, “Out of Their Own Mouths”. Then, little by little, they will come to understand how deep-rooted is the system of ideals underlying German morale in this war and how tremendous is the task of vanquishing the morale. Heine was right. “The savagery of the old fighters has gushed up afresh’. But it is no mere prehistoric Thor that confronts us in reincarnation; it is a Thor atrociously modern as well as atrocjously anclent, a. Thor with prin- oiples. They are Satanic principles. They have pormeated the German mil- itary caste, the German universities, the German press, and to an amazing extent the German pulpit. They will perish only when defeat and over- whelming disaster have proved to the German mind their abysmal falsity. Hitting Salaried Men. (New York Sun) The war revenue bill, now law by the signature of the President, has been found to contain a clause im- posing a tax of 8 per cent. on corpor- ate incomes above $3,000 and many individual incomes above $6,000 in ad- dition to existing income and corpor- ation taxes and those provided by the law. The clause is so worded as to make the 8 per cent. tax fall on incomes de- rived from ‘‘a business or trade having no invested capital or not more than a nominal invested capital;” and anoth- er section of the bill says that the terms “trade” and ‘“business” include “professions and ooccupations.” This clause was put into the law while it was still a bill in conference. The purpose was to tax every business the profits of which were not affected by the profit tax levied by the law. The profit tax itself was so drawn as not to fall upon business with no money capitalization or only a nominal money capitalization. The conferees are said to have had in mind such cases as a lawver making $100,000 a year and in their concep- tion as well able to pay a profit tax as a corporation making $100,000 a year. The effect of this personl profit tax would be considerable. Under the re- vised income tax a man with a salary of $7,600 a year would pay $205, nor- mal and war income taxes. Add 8 per cent of his salary above $6,000 or $120 and you take about 4 1-3 per cent. of his income. The $10,000 man is now subject to income taxes to take $320 more from him. He would be paying $675, or nearly 7 per cent. of his whole income. The $100,000 lawyer whom the con- ferees were worrylng about will be separated from $16,180 of that amount by the income taxes for 1917; per- haps under the circumstances depriv- ation of $7,520 more will not bother him; nevertheless, he will be paying close to one-quarter of his income in taxes. A personal profit tax? A tax on per- sonal qualifications, rather. The 8 per cent. is levied on the lawyer's gray matter and on Mr. Chaplin’s fun- ny smile alike. It descends on the physician and on Billy Sunday. How much additional revenue it will pro- duce there is no telling. The men who pay it from the earnings of their own toil may, however, be momentarily cynical as they look at the man down the block whose income of $10,000 or $100,000 is derived from mvestme_nts and escapes the 8 per cent. tax which they are inequitably made to pay by the bill as it was signed yesterday. Wherein He Was Oonscious. (Cleveland Plain Dealer). The native was pointing out some of the local celebrities. “Yonder,” he sald, impressively, “is the Hon. James Copmaster.” “Ah, T see. I don'tseem toremem- ber the name. Has he boen conspicu- ous in the halls of legislature?” “You sald something. He's been conspicuous in some of the biggest hauls the legislature ever made, I guess!” The Water Cure. (Punch.) Doctor—*“Your throat is in a very bad state. Have you ever tried garg- ling with salt water?" Skipper—*Yes, I've been torpedoed six times. Something Learned Every Day. (Boston Transcript.) Hle—"“Poor Brown! He has lost all his money in a wild-cat mining company.’ She—"Mercy! I didn’t know you had to mine for wild cats.” WOULD RETAIN DR. LEWIS | | Members of New Haven Board of Health Displeased at Prospect of | Losing Official to New Britain. New Haven, Oct. 10.—Bcard of health members of this city are dis- pleased with the prospect of losing Dr. Dwight M. Lewis who has been | considered as health officer of New | Britain at the salary of $3,000 a year. It is also said that the majority of the | members of the board of health are not pleased with what they call the penury of the board of finance 1n‘ salary matters pertaining to the mem- | bers of the health department. To quote the words of one of the members of the board of health at a | board meeting held yesterday after: noon, ‘It is a disgrace to the city of | New Haven to allow such a man as Dr. Lewis, whom we have trained in the work of bacteriologist and Gy demologist, and who has been so suc- | cessful in that work, to go at a salary . which the city should have paid him in 1914. At that time when the posi- ' tion was made for Dr. Lewlis, we, as members of the board of health, | recommended a salary of $3,000 for the office and it has never been given him although we have made applica- tion for it year after year to the board of finance. It is time the board members sat up and took notice stopped this policy of penny wis pound foolish.” i | or scheme was pink and green. | will 1 hold a meeting FIRE BOARD VOTES T0 REVISE SYSTEM Electrical Expert to Go Over ~ City Subways A complete revision of the local subway system under the guidance of an elgctrical expert was decided on last evening when the board of fire commissioners held the regular meet- ing. After City Electrician Georgze Cooley had informed the board that he was not sufficiently conversant with conditions to advise on cost of mater- ials, the action to secure the expert was taken. Owing to condftions on Main street Electrician Cooley said something should be done at once. In this section there appears to be an element that causes more destruction to wires than in any other part of the city. Commissioner Camp moved that the chairman and electrician en- gage an expert to go over the system, the matter of compensation and ex- pense money to be determined by thi chairman of the board. The superintendent of wires instructed to remove the bell alarms from the houses where Tequests for changes have been made. The same applies to the hames of the firemen recently pensioned. A communication from Corporation Counsel Cooper ad- vised that the sum of $100 be paid per annum to the retired firemen. The resignation of William J. Boll- man as a permanent fireman was ac- cepted and on motion of Commis- sioner Camp it was voted to require written resignations in the future.. & Chief Dame reported that Fireman © Charles Rehm of No. 1 company will rasign from the company next Mon- day and the chief was instructed to secure the resignation in writing. Egan Appointed Callman. John Egan, who has been dolng substitute duty at various houses dur- ing the summer, was appointed a callman. Chairman Magnel said that the board of finance and taxtion does | nae favor appointmen of more call-; men, but he personally disliked naming of substitutes who were not callmen. Commissioner Camp said j. that no objection should be raised to | the plan owing to the extraordinary condition of affairs. The chairman was authorized to dispose of the platform scales in the various houses, and to purchase a Larkin hose tip for service at No. 2 house. The cost will be about $25. Acting on a report from Chief Dame that rubber coats were needed, Com-! missioner Camp moved that six be purchased., The board acted on the following sick leave notices: Charles Rehm, § ; days; Dawid Moore, 7 days; Hugh Clark, 5 days; Thomas Roper, 6 days and Richard Hartnett who is still 11 & and has used up his time allotment. NO KNOWING YET ABOUT A SHORTAGE b 3 Altogether Upon Demands Made This Winter. ‘Washington, Oct. 10.—“Whether there will be a commercial shortage in the country this winter depends” exports to Canada. Permission for, Dr. Garfleld, the fuel administrator, declared today, “entirely on the ex- tent of the demand which has not been disclosed. “If our industrial development, from the war and other causes,” he sald, “has grown beyond our ten per cent. Increase in production over last vear than we must go short. We have no figures at hand to tell what ™ that development has been.” Dr. Garfleld's statement was made in connection with an announcement of the lifting of the embargo on coal exports to Canada. Permissio for shipments to go forward again was siven when it was found that they would not endanger the supply of the & northwestern states. 5 City Item Miss Christine Schieffer and Fred G. Luebeck of this city were married in Waterbury last Tuesday. 8 celebrated at St. Mary's church Fri- day morning at 7 o'clock for the re- pose of the soul of Michael O'Keefe. John Kiniry and Judge F. Mangan visited Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., to- day. A dinner was given last night at the home of Miss Jennie Kallgren in honor of Miss Elsie Johnson who is to be married to Fritz Bloomquist of Lynn, Mass., on October 17. The col- Later in the evening games were played to fit the occasion. A patriotic meeting will be held by % the Men's Brotherhood of Trinity ¥ Methodist church next Wednesday | evening. The entertainment will be furnished by Mr. Hubbard of Hartford consisting of feats of magic. Members be permitted to bring along friends. a New Britain Aerie, F. 0. E., will tomorrow evening when the matter of insurance of mem- bers now in the war service will be considered. Mrs. Wallace F. Richardson Portsmouth, N. H., is visiting her par- ents Mr. @nd Mrs. James Murphy of Elm street. Rosina Caruso. through Judge F. B. Hungerford, has brought suit against Savirio Caruso to recover ..600 for § money loaned. Money in the bank ot‘_& Pallotti & Andretta in Hartford h heen garnished by Deputy Sheriff Stockwell. The writ is returnable in the city court on the third Monday in \# October. & tha i Depends, Fuel Administrator Says, ; . ¥ W A second anniversary mass will be i & e e B