New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1917, Page 6

B ew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Tesued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. Entered at the Po: as Second Clas: Office at New Britain Mail Matter. | Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. Bubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail, 2 payable in advance, 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medium in the ‘city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic’ City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office Editorial Room: ————— Member of The Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclu- sively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. IF WE FAIL. Here the last stand is made. If we fail here, what new Col- ¢ umbus bold, Steering brave ‘prow through black seas unafraid Finds out a fresh land where = men may abide | And Fréedom may be saved? ARLO BATES. PRAY FOR OUR BOYS. President Wilson having set aside t Menday. of this month as ‘G prlication and prayer for & npty the (NWtion” it be- ¥ mfi? and}:omnn to, go church on that day and there on bended knees ask Almighty God to ‘extend His blessings to a people fighting for ‘the, freedom enjoyed in ithis land. Because October 28 has # n singled out as the particular [Bunday for’ this' nation-wide service, ‘wherein all_creeds and classes shall partake, is no reason why the prayers #nd supplieations should be confined #olely to this one day. On the contrary, levery Sunday should be a day of prayer for the success of}j American s. Tomorrow is a.good time to tart. Nor should Sundays be the only time. Every day, every hour, every pinite can in some way or another . devoted to. solicitation for our boys Who are to fight the fight of the just. WE SHALL KNOW. Until full official reports dre given t by the Navy Department no one will know just how mgny men lost heir lives when the American trans- port Antilles' was: sunk in the war fizone. These are the first * sad tidings Jlthat have: come since America’s en- trance into the war. They will serve as an awakening for the American-people who up to this time have failed to redlize the seriousness of the situa- tlon. Sorrowful though the news be, it should also serve as a medium of relief for all those fictitious stories which have emanated from depraved minds and which have as their object dire disaster for the hearts of Ameri- can mothers. This much should be understood. The Navy Department s pledged to give out news, good or bad.“ It has withheld nothing the People’ should know. Up to this one there had been no American transport sunk, what though many stories have been circulated to this effect. When our boys are killed or*maimed on the | fleld of battle or on the high seas the | people will be acquainted with the facts. Until such news is distributed through official channels there need be no cause far grief. HELP OUR NAVY. Every person who buys a Liberty Loan bond makes an investment in the navy. The nation depends upon the navy to guard its coasts, prevent lnvasion, protect its commerce, tran- sport its armies, and combat the Ger- man submarines that are engaged in lawless warfare against every vessel that sails the seas. Americans demand They know that it is worth far more than it costs, and they are willing to pay the bill. The money must be provided through the Liberty Loans, and those who cannot serve on our battleships transports, those who cannot go to the front in France can make their dollars fight for them. In the last fourteen months Congress has appropriated $1,905,620,919.70 for the navy. That is within $335,000,000 of the total amount appropriated from the beginning of the new navy In 1883, up to August, 1916. Every dollar of this is needed to enable the navy to perform the tasks before it. The navy is cxpanding at that would have been regarded as im- possible a year ago. out the’greatest warship construction program in history, comprising 787 Vessels, including all of the various types, from superdreadnoughts to sub- | marine chasers. There are now almost three times as a great navy. or a rate We are carrying many vessels In tho service of the |it had to make up losses suffered by] N we RN navy as there were before war was declared. Every battleship and cruiser that was in reserve has been 'fully manned and commissioned. Hun- dreds of vessels, yachts and fast motor defense, anti-submarine warfare and other purposes. Many large merchant- men have transformed into transports. Atlantic fleet com- as In been The prises twice as many vessels time of,peace. The navy and marine corps today constitute more than a quarter of a million The day war was declared there were 64,680 enlisted men in the regular navy; now there are more than 144,000, In ad- dition there are over 49,000 enlisted in the naval reserve force, 6,500 in the hospital corps, 14,600 national naval volunteers and about 5,000 members, of the Coast Guard in service—a total of more than 219,000. The Madrine Corps has been more than doubled, there being about 23,000 men and offi- cers in service as compared with 13,- 266 enlisted men and 426 commis- sioned officers on April 6th. The Navy is expending many mil- in the enlargement of navy vards, the construction of dry docks capable of accommodating the larg- est ships; shipways for building hat- tleships, cruisers, destrovers and sub- marines; machine shops, a force of men. lions foundries, immense warehouses and piers, and in building training camps. Work has begun on the big projectile plant to be operated in connection with the armor phate factory which ~will be built at Charleston, West Virginia. A $1,000,000 aircraft factory is being built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Twenty training camps have been erected which will accommodate §5,- 000 men. Hundreds of millions of dollars are required for guns and ammunition; for steel, coal, oil; for food and cloth- ing, and the various other needs of the service. The appropriations made this vear for the Naval Establishment and the objects to which they are applied are given in the following table prepared 1in the ranks would indeed have boats have been taken over for coast | these profiteers who did not profit and | changed the army menu everytime | such an occurence took place the men ' no monotony of food. | Honor where honor is due. There- fore, we take off our hats to the Clicago egg speculators. Having at-, tempted to fleece the publle and balked by failure they do the next best thing, attempt to hold up the people’s government. So long as we have these men with us patriotism can never die. The Guards Came Through. Men of the Twenty-first Up by the Chalk Pit Wood. i Weak with our wounds and our thirst, ‘Wanting our sleep and our food, After a day and a night— God, shall we ever forget! Beaten and broke in the fight, But sticking it—sticking it yet, Trying to hold the line, Fainting and spent and done, Always the thud and the whine, Always the yell of the Hun! Northumberland, Tancaster, York, Durham and Somerset, Fighting alone, worn to the ‘bone, But sticking it—stiking it yet. Never a message of hope! Never a word of ‘cheer! Fronting Hill 70’s shell-swept slope, ‘With the dull dead pain in our rear, Always the whine of the shell, Always the roar of its burst, s the tortures of Hell, As waiting and winning we cursed Our luck and the guns and the Boche, ‘When our Corporal shouted, “stand to!" And I heard some one cry, “Clear the front for the Guards!” And the Guards came through. Our throats they were parched and hot, ; But Lord, if you'd heard the cheers! Irish and Welsh and Scot, Coldstream and Grenadiers. Two brigades, if you please, Dressing as straight as a hem, We—We were down on our knees, Praying for us and for them! Praying with tear-wet cheek, Praying with outstretched hand, Lord, 1 could speak for a week, But how could you understand! How should your cheeks be wet, Such feelin’s don’t come to you. But when can me and my mates for- get, ‘When the Guards came through? by Secretary of the Navy Daniels: Appropriated by Acts of March 4, June 15, and October 5, 1917. Personnel— Pay, subsistence, clothing, training, transportation, re- cruiting, etc. ....$ 217,819,366.18 Ships— Construction, pur- chase, equipment, repair and opera- tion of ships Ordnance— Guns, torpedces, mines, ammunition, ete. ... a Aviation PR Public Works— New construction and improvements, repair, upkeep and operation of public works . . Marine Corps Miscellaneous .. 805,277,583.00 391,812,506.50 62,138,000.00 69,165,755.01 42,715,148.78 3,811.500.00 $1,592,732,859.45 Close watch is being kept over ex- penditures. Every effort has been made to secure at the lowest possible prices everything' the Navy buys and to see that it gets full value for every dollar expended. . “The men of the Navy subscribed more than $3,000,000 to the first Lib- erty Loan,” says Secretary Danlels, adding, “I hope they will join with the same enthusiasm in the Second Liberty Loan campaign, and thdt the men. who are willing to give their lives for their country will again prove an example to the millions who are asked merely to lend thetr dollars.” ; If the men of the Navy can afford to subscribe $3,000,000 to the Liberty Loan in addition to their sacrifice, life itself 1f necessary, surely the s{ay-at- home folk can stretch a point and buy the bonds. The sinking of ‘one of our transports on the return voyage from Europe shows why we have to have &’ great Navy. There is but one way 1o help, and that is by purchasing bonds: { BLESSED ARE THE MEEK. Caught with a great surplus cold storage eggs, on which they are losing $400 a car at present prices, | ]('mcago speculators have appealed ta the government to save them this loss by making cold storage eggs part of the army ration. On top of that these same specula- tors who gambled last spring on a shortage of eggs asking that their losses be made good and nteed by the government. government . of are a profit guar: To accomplish this the would not only army menu but would, in addition, be forced to give the speculators ten per cent over cost. If there Is one thing an American admires it is ‘nerve”. The Chicago egg speculators stand in a class by themselves when this trait is analyzed. It was once believed that the meek were hlessed and for poseessing this virtue would inherit the earth. The figure the other way is speculators around. Should the rescue of all and speculators the government come to the food gamblers in this_country it would sogn go bankrupt. Further, if have to change ms\ln the morning, “Five yards left extend!"” It passed from rank to rank, Line after line with never a bend, And a touch of the London swank. A trifle of swank and dash, Cool as a home parade, Twinkle and glitter and flash, Flinching never a shade, With the shrapnel right in their face Doing their Hyde Park stunt, Keeping their swing at an easy pace, Arms at the trail, eyes front! Man, it was great to see! Man, it was fine to do! It's a cot and a hospital me, But I'll tell ’em in Blighty, wherever | I be, How the Guards came through. —Arthur Conan Doyle, in the London Time: QUESTION AND ANSWER, Editor of the Herald: How can I determine the amount alcohol in liquor? ward for of 1. THIRST. Dear Mr. Thirst: This is a serious matter and as such requires the con- | centration of the greatest minds in | the universe. Liquor is a playful little thing. By nature it greatly re- sembles a pet puppy. You frolic with the pup and he frolics back. But it vou get rambunctious the pup snaps at you and then bites. You get what we mean, of course. : To answer your question: First mortgage the dear old homestead, approach the habitat of liquor stealth- fly, speak respectfully to the gentle- man in the white coat, ves, even be humble, and ask the price of a gal- | mary aim@of the committee was | thing through as it deems best? | cost. " April. { are not evenly distributed? OCTOBER 20, 1917. Never has the subject of potatoes i been such an important one in New : ‘Britain as now, and never did the council members ever before -evince such an interest in this once lowly vegetable as at Wednesday evening's exhibition of oratory, sense and non- sense. But while the members may prant and rave, it is really the mem- bers ot the Municipal farm committee that have the biggest, hardest and most thankless task on its hands. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Hamlet, “To sell, or not to sell, is the question,” and to quote words heard from the lips of a preacher in a local pulpit not so long ago when he was showing how unappreciative a public 1s, “they are damned if they do, and they are damned if they don’t.”” In this pota- to controversy possibly some people are overlooking the real aims of the farm committee in their own uncon- sclously selfish desire to get thelr ap- portionment of potatoes. The pri- to provide enough potatoes to keep the price in New Britain from soaring. The elements frowned upon’the pro- ject, even as did Alderman Orson F. Curtis and several others, and conse- quently the production is mnot the bumper crop that was hoped it would be. But the committee, wWith the sanction of the council, has done its best and what more can be asked? So why not let this committee see the True, there is a great public clamor for an immediate disposal of the potatoes, but if this is done how will it keep the price down? A fair figure seems to indicate a total possession of less than 8,000 bushels, raised and bought.- Estimating that there are 13,000 fam- ilies in the city it is safe to assume that practically every one would want its share of the potatoes, and why not? It was the rich man’s taxes as well as the poor man’s that pald for them and none but the very wealthy or very philanthropic will pass up & chance to buy to advantage. Thus 8,000 bush- els would mean less than a bushel to a family. When the conservative ex- perts tell us that the average annual consumption of potatoes is three bush- els per capita it is hard to see where immediate disposal would govern the price a month or three months from now. Then store the potatoes azainst a prohibitive rise, holding them like the sword of Damacles, over the heads of the specnlators, eventually selling at That sounds good, but is it prac- tical, especially since no other au- thority than Robert Scovill, Connecti- cut’s food adminiatrator, has told the council members that it is uscless to attempt to control the price of pota- toes with any such supply as the city may have? If New Britain has 60,000 people, at least 180,000 bushels of potatoes are needed for the year, or at least 90,000 bushels to carry them into Cranting that home gardens and judicious buying have brought 25,000 or 30,000 bushels into local cel- lars, there are still about 60,000 bush- | How then, els needed for winter use. would the 8,000 bushels held control the market, especially since the 25,- 000 or 30,000 bushels already owned Tt 1s high- ly probable that a greater portion of this amount is held by those who are better able to afford it. while the others are without any and pay algh. Think this potato situation over carefully. to solve for unlike buying a Liberty | Bond, one cannot eat their cake and | have it too. seriously its thank- according No one will envy the farm committee in less task, so let them act to their best judgment. e ox That meeting with the farmers in | Mayor Quigley’s office bids fair to be- come famous. So do the surprising statements of the mayor’s right hand man, Alderman Jester, when he boldly | questioned the wisdom of such a gath- erifg at thc council meeting. Wil surprises ever cease? P The State Council of Defens: now aims to organize Liberty choruses and n of whiskey. After you recover cohsglousness, tell the white-clad | knight of the tap, vou will take a | pint. Resting both elbows on the bar-and the left foot on the rail with the knee bent at an angle of fort sfive degrees, gaze steadily at the| liquor until you have it hypnotized. Then grabbing the bottle by the neck with“the right hand, hold a glass in thé left and allow the contents to purl out. Repeat this until the con- itents of the bottle have been trans- | ‘ferred with neatness and dispatch to | the inner temple of your carcass. If | ‘nothing happens you cari feel reason- | %bly certain that the alcoholic per- tentage of the whiskey is almost nothing and that, if your banker will | stand for a second mortgage on the | homestead, you may purchase an- other pint and consume it with im- | punity—some people like ginger ale. | But, dear Mr. Thirst, if, when you have sighted the bottom of the bot- | tle, your soul seeks egress with an | eagerness to soar with the hirds, if | the lights become bright, if you find | vourself talking to vourself, if a la- | tent talent for song suddenly demands | recognition, if vour feet want to do | a double shuffle, if every fellow in the world is the best fellow in vhe= world, 1f your existence suddenly takes | on a roseate hue— If, when you rise from your couch | vou discover that ‘someone slipped a trip hammer into vour head while you were trying to reach High C the previous eve, if vour right foot wants to follow H. Greeley’s advice and go west while vour left desires to remain in the | effete east. If vour tongue has gone | into the fur business, If you have no desire for ham and eggs, if—and this is very impsrtant—your wife looks at you with an accusing glare and re- | minds vou that she could have mar- | rted Willie Mush who is running for constable on the prohibition ticket— Then, dear Mr. Thirst, you may be | reasonably certain that the alcoholic percentage of the whiskey you con- | sumed was high, very high. In fact, ! the only thing higher was the price. | Yours r'sp'ctfly, YE EDB. | { action “help win the war by singing.” Tak- ing the calibre of the human thrushes and larks heard in some neighbor- hoods of this city as a criterfon it might be easily imagined that such would “help start a by <inging.” war .- This one was overheard late Wednesday night in a popular res- taurant. asked of one who had shortly before left o warm parlor: ; “Where do they hold the world's fair this year Jim?” g And Jim, gentleman of experience and decidedly there with the ladies, answered: “Oh, the same place as usual-— around the waist.” . Councilman Louis Arata spent a few minutes at the session of the council Wednesday night. One or two of the old time councilmen rec- ognized him. Councilman ‘Arata thus far'holds the record for being absent. woxow - Have you paid your personal tax? : e ox Well, pay that and then buy a Lib- erty Bond woxow It is no more than 17 yvears since the Soldiers’ Monument in Central Park was dedicated, the exact date having been September 19, 1900, and this imposing, though to some strangers rather enigmatical appear- ing, structure now apears to be badly | in need of immediate repairs. In the first place a complete cleansing would whiten up the limestone and enhance the looks. But far more necessars is it to have some mason engaged to “point” up the structure. In many places the mortar has fallen from be- tween the stones and on the north- castern corner one of the base stones is split, while a sizeable chunk has heen broken from another section. Attention of some Sons of Veterans has already been called to conditions and they too, feel that repalirs are im- perative. P “What is that which the city so It is not an easy problem | Over his cup of hot coffee | one young man of an inquiring mind | | caretully hides at night under the ! | little box, with the pretty red lantern | on top at the end of Centrgl Park?” | asks a recent visitor. We hasten to | i allay their suspiclons. °Tis nothing | but a broken lamp pedistle which has never been replaced,, although many, ‘many months have: passed' since it was broken, and many, many com- ments regarding the same have also been passed. S .n'e A Action of the council Wednesday evening In passing an ordinance pro- hibiting the erection of large bill- board signs on the tops of buildings was taken just in the nick of time for, 1t is said, alreidy a large sign board firm was negotlating for space on the top of at least fifteen ldcal bulldings.. While*’ the illuminated | clectric sign may be somewhat of an asset by helping to make the city brighter at night, there is no doubt that scores of billboards on tops of bulildings do much to mar the skyline. Look at Hartford, for instance, where | there are upwards ot fifty such signs. | Certainly they are not a thing of benuty. “xw From the Herald of a quarter of a cehtury ago this week: October 14: The Young Men's Tem- perance society celebrated its eleventh anniversary last evening. The races | at the driving park this week have | attracted a large number of gamblers | and others and one man reports hav- ing $126 stolen from his pockets. A\ south end merchant visited New York | récently, the second time in 40 vears; needless to say he noted many changes. Yesterday Judge Carpenter . of the supreme court apointed Marcus | H. Holcomb of Southington one of ! the committee on condemning land for the west canal. October 15: The Herald’s new building and press room is open for public Inspection. Berlin is growing; | a man bought a lot near the depot for | $300 a year ago and has since sold | a little over half of the land for $1,- | 400. Potatoes which were plentiful and cheap early in the season, are In- creasing in price; only a few weeks ago the price was fifty cents a bushel and now it is eighty-five. October 16 Sunday—no paper. | October 17: Ground (has been | broken for the new German Lutheran | church on South Main street. The New Britain Institute is now ready | to occupy its new rooms in the Russ- win buflding. George H. Grimes| complained loudly today because let- ' ters were not collected from some matl boxes in the fourth ward yester- | day. The present depth of water st Shuttle Meadow In the middle is but three feet, October 18: The different courts of Foresters in the city have refused | to assist Court Pride in obtaining a charter and the members intend to apply to England for one. October 19: #/The police .commis- sloners met last night and decided to | discontinue the duty of special police- men for the rest of the year. October 20: The boys of the First Baptist church organized a society last night with Herbert Johnson pres- ident and Harold Damon vice pres- i fdent. Henry Kellogg of Newington claims the city of New Britain will- fully continues to pollute Piper brook and demands damages of upwards of $1,100. Thomas Grace had the thumb of his right hand badly cut while at work at Humason & Beckley's yester- day. _Street Commissioner Byrne says that $10,000 a year would rot hire him to be street commissioner for another vear; he says it is a thank- less job. And now we have introduced to us the dehydrated egg guarantced by a local merchant to be the variety fresh from the ‘Briefly. it is a powflfred preparation, put up in cartons ' containing the | | equivalent of three egss and costing | a dime. The producer claims to evaporate eggs and reduce them to | the powdered form exhibited. While | these may prove all right for cooking ! purposes, it is hard to conceive of how ! a dehydrated egg can be fried, boiled | or scrambled. . .. The lure of the guarantee has be- come so dear to the fair feminine bargain hunter that it is almost the second question asked of the de- partment store clerk, the first, of ! course, always being the price. On | Wednesday a fastidious young thing fluttered into a Main street estab- | lishment and halted before a counter | whereupon was heaped a large as- sortment of what the advertisement said were robes de nuit, but which some of the more facetious are in- | clined to call *nighties.” “Oh, how pretty,” gushed the f. y. “Do you guarantee these?” “Absolutely,” responded the clerk glibly, “you can’t wear them out.” . oo T The lack of noticeable and definite guide signs on the principal corners of the city to direct out of town traffic is being freely commented upon by visitors. Where in other cities the principal roads are plainly desig- nated and at confusing corners signs plainly mark the direction to other points New Britain has hardly any. .. w It costs more to make an American soldier in some parts of the country than other and those from New | Britain have the distinction of being sent to the-most expensive camp in United States. Figures recently given | out in a budget submitted by the war department to the committee on ap- propriations show the relative costs per capita of turning out a finished soldier at each of the sixteen great cantonments. Of these, Camp Dev- ens at Ayer and Camp Custer at Battle Creek, Michigan, are the most expensive, it costing just $182 per capita. The cheapest cantonment is at American Lake, Washington, where the cost is $142 per capita. The aver- age cost however, is about $160. . ox In these days of the high cost of living and the nation-wide agitation of economizing on all foodstuffs and eating the most healthful foods the various words and phrases used are apt to be somewhat confusing to the average person. In explanation it might be said that food values are measured for all practical purposes in terms of heat, the unit of meas. urement being a calorie. A calorie is the equal of | farm. | | the directors and authorize a preferred FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. The Battleship City A modern battleship is a city of more than 1,000 active male inhab- itants, the equivalent of at least 3,000 men, women and children as census reports gob. In municipal organiza- tions certain co-operative plants are vital to efficlent and economic up- keep. There are a dozen such plants aboard a man-of-war. First in importance comes electric power and light. There are two fully equipped dynamo rooms, one forward and one aft, each independent of the other. Individually they are capable | of supplylng the ship in case a torpe- do demolishes one end. Ten huge turbo-generators supply hundreds of thousands of kilowatts to <ranes and winches, motors, searchlights, wireless, and the 15,000 incandescent lamps. Two complete distribution rooms feed the enormous power to its million ter- minals. A modern battleship is two blocks long and a third wide. hundreds of compartments as in a vast dwelling place or factory must be cennected by telephone. There is a complete system, with central, boards, lines and operators, just as in any city—except that every line runs through protecting armor pipe or be- hind armor plate. Communication in time of battle is as important to the ship as a man’s nervous system is to a prizefighter; which unless it reacts in- stantly and accurately, abandon him to the blows of his enemy. There are 14 different lines for ordinary con- versation, for battle orders, for range transmission, etc., and more than 500 stations. Sallors have a daily paper and a monthly magazine edited and pub- lished aboard. An enormous volume of paper work goes with the admin- istration (of “this town of 2,000 and property valued at $10,000,000—the price of the ship. All is done in the printing office where two huge presses city i hum from morning to night—except ! cloth e needs. Many id othes h | macy, | carpenters in drill time when the head printer points a gun and his strikers pass powder. The sailors call them “ink- spots,” or just “spots.” Did you ever notice how well groomed our bluejackets are? They are because they have their own bar- ber shops in a 5” gun compartment. Seven barbers sheve and shear eight hours a day except when the howlers shriek alarm. ‘“Man the Bat- tery!" ’'rattles the lather jugs and re- verherates across the 6 plate glass mirrors, and Mr. Barber becomes a human element of the nearest bar- bette. d In ancient times, say 1912, sailors rose at 5 a. m. and scrubbed their own clothes. Now a first class laun- dryman turns out at 4:30 a. m. and with a corps of expert assistants, does it for them. This costs each sailor 40 cents a month for all the clean Officers pay 1 cent a plece. A ship’s laundry recently took in $13,000 in six months. Profits buy ,movie films, magazines, - and phonograph records. Sick Bay in nautical language means hospital. A standard one in the Fleet has 50 beds, complete phar- operating room, contagious ward; as well as auxiliary dressing stations and convalescent depots about the ship. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and internes, are present in proper proportions. A battleship’s carpenter shops and could house the ashore in 36 hours. It has been done. Machine shop, electrical repair shops, pattern shop, refrigerating and ice plants, foundry, and tobacco an candy shop, are all exactly as they! would be in a city shore, except cleaner and better regulated. A pub- crew ; {lic library and church are not misse ing. Last but not least is the gallery. I smell 3,800 eggs frying as I writgwm IThey smell pretty good too. . . . =\ = DOING HIS BIT ‘ ARTHUR CAMPBELL. Mrs. John Campbell of 48 Winthrop street, who has only recently returned from a trip to the war zone where he went in the transport service, is pic- tured above. Campbell has been prominent in Y. M. C. A. activities and he is also well known as an amateur baseball and basketball play- er. He was formerly employed in the office of the Stanley Rule and Level company, but at the time of his en- listment in the Naval Reserve 'was employed in Southington. f Arthur Campbell, son of Mr. and the amount of heat required to ralse one pound of water four degrees Fahrenheit. In preparing menus it should be remembered, a man at moderately actlve muscular work re- quires about 450 calories of protein and enough carhohydrate and fat to make a total food value of 3,500 cal- ories a day. The New Haven Railroad. (New Haven Journal-Courier) There are unmistakable signs that confidence is slowly but surely being restored in the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company. The upon railroad management. The day has gone by forever who monkeying with halls of legislation was consid: ered a necessary and to that exten: | Justifiable by ! step from private to public preduct of railroad ) lnanagement. Hereafter rallroads must confine their actlvities to opera. tion, leaving the general welfare of the nation and state to the people of the nation and’ the state, or else the owner- ship will be found to be but a short one and one eageily taken. Both the public and .the railroads lave had their education and the lessons are cufficlently understood to insure a nes | railroad faith and standard. The umeé | has come to help. % P | Camphor Laurels in Japan. | There is a stringent law in Japan | that when one camphor laurel is cut | down another must be planted in its place. The tree ig hardy and long ! lived, attaining to an enormous size; | It is,covered with a small leaf of & { vivid green color. The seed, or her- | ries, grow In clusters, resembling the ! black currant in size and appearance. And the wood is employed for every | purpose, from cabinetmaking-to ship- i building. Sliced Hair. Tommy, a bright little three-vear- old, had just made his first visit to the barber’s and was very dissatisfled up- on his return. “I don't like my hair curled in this way, all in little curls,”” he said. “How do you wish it?” queried mamma. “Why, I want it in two slice: I want it like Uncle Tom's. Milton's Works, Milton regarded the “Paradise Re- gained” as infinitely superior to the “Paradise Iost” and once expressed great surprise that any one should,’ entertain a contrary bpinion. He said that of all his works the poem “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity” was best. It was his earliest, being writ- ten in 1629, when he was twenty-onae years of age. Cleaning a Water Bottle, Ta clean the inside of a water bot- tle or any glass that is too small to insert the hand into, put into the bot- tle a small quantity of tea leaves, pour in about one-third of a teacupful of vinegar, shake well, empty and rinse with cold water. A perfectly clear glass will result. Must Be Paid. stock continues to be sold way below par but the tendency is nevertheless upwards, which would not be the fact if the impression had not gained ground that a way of escape from its financial embarrassment has been found. That is all that is needed to put the company speedily on its feet. The needed relief will be at hand it the stockholders at thé approaching annual meeting approve the plans of issue. That will instantly repair the credit of the company and make it as an investment more attractive to the public, and more than that it will give encouragement to every industrial in- terest throughout New England. We have never been able to understand the seeming indifference to the wel- fare of this enormously rich property on the part of the producers of this section of the country. Their depend- ence upon the railroad efficiently man- aged and safeiy run has been over- looked and a reliance had apparently been placed upon some magical way of curing it of its ailments. As a mat- ter of fact, as we have asserted be- fore, the three states through which this railroad runs could well afford to become the banker for it to the extent of its short term notes. Tt would cost them nothing nor would they run any risk, but the vision is lacking. ‘The time has arrived anyway when the past should be permitted to bury its dead. Whatever punishment the company deserved for past offenses, it has paid the penalty in full meas- ure. Not only have new men come upon the scene but a new outlook | she wanted to know how “Dad, I want to be a musician.” “Then I'd be either a piper or a fid- dler.” “Why?" ‘“When there is any paying to he done I notice they are alwavs pre- ferred creditors.”—Xansas City Jour= nal. Domestic Bliss. (Houston Post). “You are always roaching for some- thing you can’t afford.” “You were not always opinion.” “Oh, g that s0?" “I think so. At least say that when I propose: of that you didn't Too Senmsitive, (Baltimore American). “What is wrong ' between young engaged couple?” “Ho Cidn't like it because when he told her that he would dle for her much life that insurance he carried.” Work as Well as Pray. Pray for what you want, but don't wear out de knees of yo' britches .at it. Ef you don't git a quick answer rise up an' ga to work befo' you git too weak ter rise—Atlanta Constitu- tion. | HART “CoLD DECK “« b ,l %j.v vy FOXS § |