New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1917, Page 6

New Britaix Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Jssued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building. 67 Church St. Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Becond Class Mail, Matter. Deltvered 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, pavable In advance, 60 cents a month, 3$7.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medfum 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 Citv: Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office . 5 Editorial Rooms . Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled g the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news publishad hercin MEN-—I am forced to put it up to you straight. Every American who considers himself a man— and i3 able—and not otherwise serving me—will buy a LIBERTY : . Further explanations @pe unnecessary, —UNCLE SAM. MUSIC HATH ITS PRICE. There 15 much to be said on both Btdes of this question of local bands refusing to offer their services gratis for the patriotic parade of next Sat- urdey when our soldier boys visit us from Camp Devens. The musicians have invited the ‘wrath of the populace by their ac- tlons. Yet, this should be known by the public: The bandmasters of the American and the Philharmonic or- ganizations, respectively Willlam H. Bishop and Edward J. Lynch, gladly offered their services and those of the musicians affiliated with them. After that action it was discovered that the rules of the Musicians' Union pre- vented such a thing as playing with- out recompense. The laws of the Union were made, evidently, before patriotism was rife. When the en- tire nation is experiencing a spirit of |sacrifice men and women look to musiclans even for an evidence of the game regeneration. Hitherto the blowers of horns and the beaters of drums were a badly used coteric. Now they are getting along better, so far as money for their services is con- cerned. There is one way the musicians can got around the rule of their union,— and 1t 18 a poor rule that cannot be broken cnce, especially since that is what rules are for; they can offer their services at the regular pro rata and then donate the money received back to the cause they serve. They can do this,—if it is not asking too much. 3 GET INy LINE. Are you a man?¥ And, if you are, dld you hear your Uncle Sam calllng you? Today was 'the day to buy that [ Ldberty Bond. Today was Liberty DPay. Did you buy the bond? And, 4 not, why not? Was it because you bought a bond last June when the first Liberty Bonds were floated, and thereforg reason you do not have %0 buy another? With the same brand of logic you should have gone without eating today because you had three square meals yesterday. Or, d1a you feel that someone else would do the purchasing of bonds if you followed the dootrine of Let George Do It? In that event, what would be- come of the nation if all men and women thought as you think? If we all threw up our hands and said, Let ‘er Go, Galligher, where would the nation end? Uncle Sam asked each one of his nephews and nieces to buy a Liberty Bond today. Those who did not do so are moral financial slackers. This much must be understood now or never. The United States is in this war the finish. Whether some people like it or not makes no difference. For many long weary months before the declaration of war we heard the moanings and the grum- blings of the malcontents. They were of every They were, for the They were are no better. thelr spots. of war on the master of but whether they war must go until the Hohenzollern the high road to hell or the American st askiny and to form : most nd class part, disloyalists. TH They their pro-Germans. Today theyv ¥ have not changed hate favor the thous! the Wilhelmstras will it it or not on, and will on nation is groveling in the for mercy. If the people are ag great as they have been in the past there will be no nced for their nation to beg mercy from anyone, net even from the Haiser. ;Thesone American of course, is to Better to buy a Liberty Bond now than to give all pay indemnities later. way to prevent this, back up the Government. your money to The time for argument has passed. There is no it We have spent part two vears thinking the for into she has been in but six months. now that we raged the the blood. need for the better all entrance now. of over reasons America's a war And arce to defend out- American rights we are in it to last ditch, to the last dollar, to last man, the drop of There can be no turning back. Thé spending of de- termined to great the spending of dollars. Lives and treas- ure must be spent; but the more treasure we muster, the less lives we must in it to last lives will be extent by sacrifice. Whenever spend dollars instead of lives it is our supreme duty to spend dollars. The government can get our dollars if 1t wants to, and not through the sale of we can bonds. Tt can commandeer every dollar | in the country—and that by taxation. Those are the facts in the case. This government needs money to carry on the war, 1t must have money, and it is up to the American people to fur- nish the money. Our boys who are now on European soil getting ready for the supreme test, and those who are to go with them, must be pro- tected. It js a case of life and death with them. When it comes to lives of Amerlcan boys there is only one thing to do,—furnish the money for their protection. Bankers have shown and can show that Liberty Bonds are the best in- vestment in the world today; but we are not talking of investments. We are considering something of a higher order,—patriotism. If a man's beloved wife, or his daughter, or his son were in danger of death and that life could be saved by the expenditure of a hundred or a thousand dollars, all the man possessed, he would not first consider where he might place it to make four per cent. interest. He would see to it that a life was spared. It is the same with percentage and patriotism. They do not run to- gether. It is now a case of bonds or blood. The less bonds purchased the more blood there must be shed. And these bonds can be purchased by bor- rowing money from the A good American would borrow money at five per cent. to buy a bond that ylelds only four per cent. And any bank will lend money with which to buy these bonds. What is the loss of one or two per cent. when the safety of the nation is at stake? If you have not followed the footsteps of the patriots and purchased vour Sec- ond Liberty Bond today, get in tune with the music of the procession and do it tomorrow. At least do not be unpatriotic enough to put it off until Saturday when it will be too late. Be a man, and answer the call of Uncle Sam. bank. The Connecticut recruiting stations for the regular army in New New London, Waterbury, Bridgeport and Hartford have received orders from the War department to accept qualified applicants with experience as chemists, gas workers, steamfitters, mechanics, gas engineers, blacksmiths, plumbers, fire fighters or acid workers for a division of engineers, National Army. This is an excellent oppor- tunity for men of these classes of trade and any physically fit $hould en- list at once, say army officers. Haven, FACTS AND F‘AN“(‘IE& — \ Secretary Baker says thé Amer- ican army is ‘well on its svay.” And it knows where it is going.—New York World. The trouble with the man who says he does his own thinking is that he wants to do all other men's think- ing too.—Paterson Call. 1t is time for the monarchs of Eu- rope to begin making plans as.to where they wlill eat their Christmas dinners.—Exchange. It has become apparent within the last few days that even in time of war the alibi is a defense not to he held in contempt.—New York Sun. users will be hit Bridgeport Post. Even snuff by the new tax " Kerer it cabinets; them in publican. ky finad the hard the fram easy to frame thing to keep Springfield Re- Perhaps the nick Army” which the French plied to the American forces, isn't fro Meriden Record. Probably the chief result of the have ap expeditionary the mark.— I he a Wilhelm, | the are driven on | CGerman successss against Russia will German pi offer. The use made of the Rumanian triumph by Germany will Muil and Exnress, e he T ¢ ta seneral belief. men do a white horse when they v redheaded girl. As a matter fact, continue to look at ses from view, of the Austria’s army down that it has been necessary to draw upon the lamdstrum, composed of old men, for soldiers on the first has been so worn i | | | | i :peated.—Toronto | | charge while we are in the war; i | | 4 | i The Kaiser, | Lut on beans and such I place the line duty, according to a cablegram from Byrne. sacrifice their women to keep the Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs in pow= er a little longer?—Albany Argus. KATY DID,—NOT. I wonder if you have met Miss Katie Slacker—She said: “1 love my country--such a sight— I'd like to be a man and fight. There is nothing that I wouldn't'do 1 To help our gallant soldiers through.” And Katy dld? She didn’t! “I shudder at the atrocities 1 read oceur across the seas My grief is really quite acute When movi show the destitute.” Yes, Katy did. She did! “I do not care to knit or sew Or help the Red Cross Fund to grow. 1 daily long to can; ban.” No Katy didn’t. She didn't! ate and slept and Wwore her clothes roamed choso i She kept her money in her stocking In spite of her incessant talking. Katy did. She didnt— She And where'er her fancy ¥iven feel she could respond When asked to buy a Liberty Bond “Pwas Uncie Sam who asked to borrow She put him off untii tomorrow. Alas, Katy did! She did! ‘Tomorrow is the last chance to buy a Liberty Bond. Do not do as Katy did. ODE TO THE SPUD. Gelt Deserves a Kick Below the Belt. There was a guy in our town And he was wondrous wise. He stocked up with potatoes. That slyly winked their eyes, “When the spuds are peddled, Barly in the Sprinz” He said, “I'll buy an auto and a country home, and a solitaire for Lulu, a real beefsteak, a book of trolley tickets and A yacht and everything.” But just then Uncle Sammy Came knocking at his door And sald: “I'll give you twelve bits A bushel for your store.” And when the guy recovered Consciousness again, He wondered whether he could stall the landlady along for a week or twq, camouflage the Chinese laun- dryman into giving him his collars <o he could visit Lulu to break the sad news, get trusted for a month's supply of beef stew, beg enough of the rollings to keep himself in smokes and steal a pair of rubbers in the nexs room because his soles were thin and It had begun to rain. There is a little moral Connected with this yarn: Don’t count your potatoes Because they're in the barn For Uncle Sammy’ll get them If you boost the price, Making you a socialist and you will mount a soap box and denounce the predatory government that robs a man of his property, his hard earned money, his starch of life, Just because it is engaged in war started by wicked Wall street And that will not be nice. A. E. MCEVOY. The Troopship That Came Back. (Waterbury Republican) The arrest of 38 Germans who were taken from Hohoken piers and barges Friday and interned on Ellls Tsland, making a total of 113 rounded up by the naval intelligence bureau in three days, has special interest for this sec- tion of the country. Wooden rivets that had been placed on one of the troop ships by German mechanics are reported to have at last put the gov- ernment into lively action in cleaning up all Germans employed along the waterfront and on vessels of New York harbor. The damage was discovered, according to repcrt, after the troop- ship had put out to sea and a return to port was made to repair the mis- chlef. Connecticut will be Interested in this action because of its mystified speculation when the troopship that carried the Waterbury companies of the 102d regiment from Hoboken re- turned, because, as was then unoffi- cially reported, a storm had put some of the machinery out of order. Troop- ships are carefully inspected before being put Into service so that it would he surprising to find,one getting out of order as easily as ;was hinted when this ship came back:" This is the more so as messages honje frem some of the hoys on board werg-to the effect that the storm blamed for the trouble was of no special severity. In putting enemy allens where they could do no harm the government has been slow to act. The troopship in question is said to have been over- hauled at a dock where many Ger- mans had been émployed in various capacities. Sixteen of the Germans scized Friday were taken from docks tctually controlled by the government, which further emphasizes the tardi- ness with which this action has been taken Hard Search for a Substitute. (Mountain Patriarch). We tried out three men who ‘“knew a newspaper should be run,” so we might sclect one to take but they falled to measure up to their estimation of themselves, we're still feclin’ around for some one who doesn’t know it al and is willing to learn, how that a. Tnnocents, (Ohio State Journal) With one exception no one can look more innocent than a coal retailer, the one exception being a coal whole- saler. ‘Will the Austrians next | | HAROLD J. MAL Another of the boys who has made a successful trip overseas and is now somewhere in France ready to go “over the top” for democracy is Har. old J. Malone, who is shown above, Malone enlisted in Troop B March 23 at Hartford and during months and the early part of the sum- mer was stationed at Niantic whereo Troop B was reqrganized into & ma- | chine gun battalion. Malone, who is a native of Britain, is the son of Officer and Mrs. A. C. Malone of 55 Glen street. He received his education at St. Joseph’s | Parochial school and also spent three years at the New Britain High school. | At the time of enlistment he was em- ployed in the estimata department of | the North & Judd Co. Fraternally he is & member of the Kenilworth club and of Daly Council, K. of C. “And Not to Yield.” (Kansas City Star.) It is intended here to call atten- tion, not to a late best seller, or to a piece of free verse, but to a poem written three-quarters of a century ago by a poet who is dismissed by some of the moderns as out of date. Tennyson's “Ulysses’ carries a message that will be vital as long as human nature lasts, for it is a message of the unquenchable spirlt | of man. Written soon after the death of Arthur Hallam, the poet's friend, he sald of it that it ‘‘gave my feeling about the need of going forward and braving the struggle of life perhaps more simply than anything in ‘In Me- | moriam.” " The aged Ulysses, returned home, is not satisfled to live the rest of his days in ease. He calls together those who are left of the comrades of his | adventures and makes this appeal in the closing lines: The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans 'round with many Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a world, Push off and sitting well in smite The sounding furrows; pose holds To sail beyond the sunset and baths Of all the Western stars until T dle, It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy TIsles, And see the great we knew, much is taken, and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old day: Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made Weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to yield. voices, newer order for my pur- the Achilles, whom Tho' much abide: to find, and not “These lines,” said Carlyle, refer- ring to the one about the Happy Tsles, and those following, ‘“do not make me weep, but there is in ma what would fill whole lachrymatories as I read.” In 1845 Sir Robert Peel, hesitating as to the poet on whom to bestow a government pension, was moved to decide for Tennyson on reading *‘Ulysses.” It 18 a poem that might be ex- pected to appeal particularly to men past their prime, for age did not daunt Ulysses. But its message is far wider. To every man or woman who is tempted to sit down contented with present achievement or discouraged over the future comes the noble urg- ing to press onward into further ex- perience, into the quest of fuller life. Oné .equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but ‘ strong in will To strive. to seek. to find. and to yleld. not No Common Chain That Binds. (Philadelphia Record) That new party formed in Chicago, which combines Prohibitionists, Pro- gressives, Independents, Social Demo- crats (whatever they may be) and Single Taxers, has too many strings to its how. Political parties cannot be manufactured llke suits of clothes. There must be some inspiring princl- ple that holds men together, and this does not appear in the Chicago organ- ization. Tt will probably cut no great figure in 1920. Gift of Liberty Bonds. (Newport News) Colonel Richard Enderlin, a wealthy shoe manufacturer and coal operator of Chillicothe, Ohio, has promised to give a $50 Liberty bond next spring to every boy and girl who successfully finishes eighth grade work in the pub- lic or parochial schools of that eity. The school officials say it will cost Mr. Enderlin $9,000 to fulfill his promise, but he probably does not care. the spring | New hopelessly | Anniversary Bargains From Hartford’s Busiest Millinery Department. 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Made of the finest quality Lyons Silk velvet, in medium, and large sailo tricornes, sideroll and chin-chins, n black colors. Special : NEW FEATHER HATS silior Hats, in chin-chins, aud_turbans, plain_and «$2.98 Hats Trimmed Free value valud, FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVy BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. “Sir, thirty-nine men have been scalded to death. Many more are dy- ing!” Such was the shocking report that startled the Captain of the Ger- | man battleship Brandenburg. In the museum of the Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis you may see a sec- tion of eight-inch brass pipe with a great hole torn in its side. A notice attached describes the number of men killed by explosion in the steam line of which the relic was a part. These and similar accidents were a great setback to marine engineering. Most careful inspection and test re- d no cause for the trouble. Metal was sufficiently strong and even double the necessary thickness car- ried away just as easily. The disasters remained mysteries for years. Then someone with common sense waked up. Cold steam pipes are shorter than hot steam pipes. Expan- sion of steel for one foot length and one degree Fahr. rise in temperature is .00008 inches. Copper when heated stretches double that for each foot and degree. Not much of course. But in winter pipes may pass through compartments near freezing tempera- tures. If steam at 400 degrees sud- denly rushes through 100 feet of pipe the increase of length is cqnsiderable. (Seems as if it would be profitable to buy cold pipe, corner the market, and sell it hot.) Steam lines aboard ship pass through numerous bulkheads. It js necessary they be securely fastened. When heat expansion comes something must give. Steel bulkheads, braced and riveted, are not going to submit to the whims of every vagrant steamline. Pipes buckle and writhe, but unless there is relief, no matter what their strength in the end they burst. A main engine lead feeding from 12 boilers once went in this way. Men shriveled be- fore the awful blast like the edges of a fried egg, and died where they stood, . The remedy was simple. Expansion joints are fitted at convenient inter- vals. The pipe is broken and one part stretched to fit over the other for a short distance. Packing of rubber canvas or soft metal keeps the joint steam tight. Heavy rods brace it and keep the ends from pulling apart. Mo- tion of the ship when rolling in a sea also puts a strain on all piping, which is absorbed by these joints. I grant you this toplc is dry and technical. But it has a moral befit- ting the times. Rush and heat of steam distends the artery of its pro- gress. Rush of busisess and heat of war bloat the natural channels of our lives. Germany's preparedness was her military expansion joint. In Eng- land both industrial and military shortsightedness opposed sudden stretching until, as was reported on the Brandenburg's bridge, a messen- ger said to the King: “Sir, a million men have been shot, burned, gassed, and blown to pieces. A muititude morza are dying!” For want of expansion jolnts stok- ers died in forelgn navies. Our Navy profited by their misfortunes. For want of a kind of expansion joints forelgn armies were wiped out. Our | army profited thereby. For want of | means of expansion every warring na- tion in Europe is suffering untold hardship. ing by thelr terrible example? Which reminds me of bone-dryness now at hand. beer-kegs better get contraction joints for their belts. Poor Coal. (Meriden Journal). In times of stress one weakness aft er another reveals itself. Now poor | coal is Weing biamed. Railroad men | say it wen’t make steam enough to | p=1l thelr trains on time. Hence frmtght congestign, delays to indus- tatem and slow passenger trains. ¥ is ono result from the universal sh_rtage of 41 or. We'used to oper- #K ot wmire largoly with allen help, % Wis B ®3 ormEE to us muoh ew. 0 ‘¥ows hew much we should niue the teiXng thousands who once were contemptuously called *wops” avd “dagwes.” The native American is little dis- posed to remeve Bis cuft and get @own in the bowels of the earth with 2 pick. We shall have to speak with a little more respect of the laborlous foreigners upon whom we depend to keep our wheels moving. OQur coun- try needs a great many of these men to do these hard tasks, and it will have to be good to them after the WAar. Origin of the Silhouette. (Ladies’ Home Journal). A man there was in Fraiwce, in the last of the eighteenth century, who became minister of finance, and was so economical and bade the French people to be equally so that all man- ner of fun was made of him, gnd the cheapest articles were named for him. One day a painter said: “To be eco- nomical we must stop using paints and colors. ‘“Here,” he said to a lady sitting in the sun, “let me draw you in black and save colors,” and he drew her profile as it cast a shadow against his panel. ‘“‘There,” he said. “There is a likeness of you without expense of paints. Let us name it for our worthy minister of finance.” And they did. The minister's name wag Etienne de Silhouette. And that’s how| the silhouette came to be—as a joke A Gentle Pennsylvania Hint. (Portage Press). We have a young man walking around this town who ought to be placed on a rail and taken out in Are we as a whole profit- | Some of our human | AS TO THE RIGHT NOT TO WORK, 1 There Are Times In a Nation’s Af« fairs When Every Man Must Do His Bit. (Providence Journal). An employe of a Connecticut muni« tlons factory, who with half a huns | dred fellow workmen went on strike the other day, is now about to .be measured for a khaki suit. The se- lection board in hig district found that he had been enrolled with the first draft but was exempted on the claim that his services were indispensable to a war industry. That he was hon+ est, if mistaken, in this claim is sug= gested, of course, by the fact that he struck to enforce some demand on his employers. But the attitude of the draft board wag that a man who is indispensable ought to be patriotic enough to stick ta the indispensable job if he has a griev. ance he should try to settle it without resorting to violent methods. A rea« sonable doubt of this man's indispen« sability is raised because the factory has continued to run without him. So, off he goes to a National Army can< tonment, where striking is mot prace ticed. This is an exemplary case. In many parts of the country, very likely, thera have been others of the sort dis- posed of in a manner gratifying to public intelligence. Broadly, the ques- tion of a man’s right not to work is raised for practical solution. That right has ‘been expressly proclaimed, and insisted on as inalienable, by la- bor agitators since it began to comae in conflict with the lofty sentiment of patriotic duty. It is a plausible assertion, which may pass unchal« lenged in ordinary times, but it resty on an untenable theory. There is na such right, now or at any time, though it may exist by common con sent In favoring conditions. When the public welfare is clearly at staka there need be no compromise with, muoh less surrender to, the indl« vidual’s claim of superior right. The government has the right, if it does not always assume the power, ta compel its citizens to work. In tha Army and Navy, today, hundreds of thousands of liberty-loving Americang have abandoned any notion that they may quit work when they please. And they do not reel that they have mada a sacrifice of any principle of personal liberty in conceding the paramount right of the government to keep them at work. Can the workers in civil employ« ment be brought under this national discipline? Undoubtedly they can be. The entire industry of the country can be put on a military basis, should it become necessary. Marking the Difference in New Mexica (Albuquerque Journal). Wanted—A gentleman widowor wishes two meals daily with a lady widow for home comfort. No objec«: the woods. He is a menace to the public. tion to children. Address H, B., carq Joyrnal. 5l 7