New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 6

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How many _us, I wondern, are hiding at In the trenches of indiffer- 4noe end snug selfishness, emerg- fng only when we see a chance ~§"-'uka a lttle more money? many of us are hushing @oousing consciences with ex- planations that do not explain, excuses that do not excuse, g to get by, perhaps, with applications of bunting to gur homes and automobiles? I not know how many such ere are, but if there is one, ere is too many. We have no 1ight to-eat and sleep in safety én ' American soil and enjoy the protection of the American gov- ernment unless we join, and join mow, the ranks of those at home who have determined that the brave boys at the front shall be sustained and supported until vic- tory ecrowns their heroic blows in defense of llberty and justice. —GBORGE P. McLBAN. (Reprinted by request). WANTED: A GARRISON FINISH. On the American turf years ago followers of the track were often sent into the seventh heaven of de- light by the manner in which one jockey came down the home stretch. This famous rider’s name was Garri- gon. His mode of riding was to allow others to set the pace, hold his horse In check, and then at the proper me come into the lead and win ithe race. Such exhibitions of hard arfving came to be known the coun- try over as “Garrison finishes.” Such & finish, too, is typically American. 'The American- nature goes at a thing in an off-hand sort of way, gradually 'waxes warm, and then throws all its jienergies. into the scale. We are now fentering on the last leg of the race or the purchase of the Sesond Lib- lerty Loan. We are, in the language lof the track, on the home stretch. here are but few more days after this in which we can subscribe, in iwhich we can purchase bonds. Let t not be said that we lost out on the last lap. The race is to the swift is time. The Kaiser knows that, 1l pro-Germans know it, and every- ne interested in the failure of Amer- can arms hopes and prays for a dis- mal defeat. With one good spurt the oal can be attained. We must not lose. Let’s have it In every sense a Garrison finish. THE ART OF “GEITING IT”. . Interesting stories based upon the me subject came to light Tuesday om three different pities,—New York, Buffalo, and New Britain. The salient, pr more properly the saccharine, leature of éach was sugar. From New York city came tory that Tefiners, grocers and re- presentatives of the Federal and City governments agreed to meet the ponditions of sugar scarcity due to st until late February. They pro- ided means for dividing the avalil- ble supply of this commodity among e wholesalers who in turn will ap- fportion it among the retailers who in heir turn will limit the supply of onsumers. A maximum retail price bf ten cents a pound was established. fThis was based on the Federal gov- fernment’s price to the Wholesalers will be enahled to pur- | se the sugar at $8.60 a hundred pounds. Thus New York city is fuaranteed sugar at ten cents a pound, bamparatively cheaper than many )eople have been buying it for some ime. By the process of fixed prices ind restriction of purchases the Big ty 1s insured against a sugar short- 1ge. Now we come to the story Buffal Uncle Sam's Secret men discovered in a warehouse there home millions of pounds of sugar in barrels and bags labelled “Top crust pur”. Notations on the packages in- hicated that the sugar had been prought to the warehouse during the refiners. from Service a placed the amount of this hoarding at 150 carloads or approximately 10,000,000 pounds. Flour had actual- ly been sprinkled over the bags and barrels to make them, résemble re-| The egg prices are weakening, be- cepticles for this commodity and to | cBuse the eggs are getting stronger. - —Paterson Call hide the real contents. This we do not hesitate to state is camouflage Sugar hoarding is pecullarly mean, in the nth degree. It is also a|because everybody mneeds & lttle, plan of profiteering which would never | While more than a little is a selfish be broken unless the government re- | UXU7-—Springfleld Republican. sorted to fixed prices. ‘Ai country dog is smarter than a Now We come back to New Britain. [town dog in the respect that the The attention of this newspaper was |country dog knows it cannot catoh a called, by reliable authority, to rabblte=CabporisWeokly: condition which approaches the shame perpetrated in Buffalo. Ome nflictt:d with a ;;zlluca.l salesman for a wholesale house visited [ in this time of trying to merchants who buy large quantities-of | 578t War-—Fittsfleld Hedle: sugar. He offered the commodity at| The “open alr” heating system at 12 cents a pound. When his attention | Camp Devens will be a great suc- was called to the exhorbltant prics, [ 088 If the bove cap fnd Bme to out and the fact the gavernment will regu- | ¢o, Transcript. late the prices on sugar, this gallant young patriot exclaimed, “Well, Wwe have the sugar, that's the price, and (!0 FoW %% ° " 0 B0 W Uy her flow. the government can't get us untll|er instead; or better vet, save his November 1.” = Oh, Deflance! Thy |money for Liberty bonds.—New name is the wholesale sugar merchant | York ‘World. who feels safe until November 1. But, | . Gemans may have thought we hasten to add, the government |y o'’ the transport was bound for might get you before that time, “ef [ America, it had sick and wounded or e e Women and children aboard.—Bos- 8o, we have gone through three [%oR Tanscript. phases of the sugar situation—the| gomeone has proposed a “lunch- fixing of prices by the government, |less day.” That poor stout lady who the sitempt to comer the eussr|IUURL LK S L8 B OO e der SirL market by the profiteers, and the | Rt by Sl R the “less” boasted “hold-up” game of patriotlo(?) | days that are proposed.—Narwich wWholesalers. The facts are there. |Record. The public can judge for ftself just atd what would happen if Unole Sam What will you lack, sqnny, what will not ever exert a watchful eye upon You lack the wolves who would prey on the | When the girls line up the street, human family. Poor old ultimate Bhouting their love to the lads come : back consumer. His time 15 coming; DUt it ) gy o 464 they rushed to beat? is a long way off. It will be in Heaven | Wil you send a strangled cheer to that he will have his day. Then he the sky can look down upon his oppressors|And grin till your cheeks aTe red? FAOCTS AND FANOIES. Are you preaching the gospel the clean plate?—Bridgeport Post. of campaign win the It will not hurt “the sweetest girl in New York” to go without candy Fall In. and say, “I got mine once. You are getting your’s now.” And we cannot blame the consumer if he hopes with all his power of hoping that “they” get it good and proper. Hell is too good for some profiteers. THE GHOST COMES BACK, On Thursday, December the twelfth of last year newspaper offices were greeted with a “flash,” the subse- quent bulletin of which read: “Ger- many and her allles propose peace.” Immediately there was turmoil., The stock market began to crumble, folk who were making fortunes out of “war babies” saw their dreams of con- quest vanish, and the war seemed at an end. We are how within the pale of an- other December, and reports from Germany and her ally, Austria, show that the trend is toward another alarm. The anniversary of the first peace “scare” might bring forth a repetition. And yet those who are in close touch with the situation can see no hope of an early peace, especially a peace founded on a substantial basis, a peace that will be no mean ar- mistice but a permanent peace. Prime Minister Lloyd George who always has his ear to the ground, sets forth the object of the Entente Allies in this fashion, wherefrom it can be seen the Potsdam gang will have to make a supreme struggle to emerge from the death grip now enveloping the military masters of Germany. Says Lloyd George:— “It is not a question of territorial adjustment and indemnities, but pre- eminently a question of the destruction of a false ideal, which has intimidated and enslaved Furope, or would have done so0, had it been triumphant. It is an ideal where force and brutality reign supreme as against the ideal of the world peopled by free demo- cracies and united in an honorable league of peace for fifty years—that is the ideal enshrined at Potsdam, where they have been plotting and schem- ing how to enslave their neighbors. That has been their dream and our nightmare. There will be no peace, no liberty, until that shrine is shat- tered and its priesthood dispersed and discredited forever.” It is the consensus of opinion among all statesmen in the democracies of the world that there can be no peace with Germany until militarlsm is crushed, until the Hohenzollerns are stripped somewhat of their power, until the avaricious dictators of that nation are beaten into submission. The peace of the world was destroyed in 1914 for a purpose. That purpose was the con- quest of Europe by German arms. After forty years military preparation Germany then felt in a position to go forth on the warpath and subdue all those who stood in her path. The Kaiser planned to eat his Christmas dinner in Paris. The dinner was never served, and never will be served to him so long as there are adherents to the ideals of Democracy. ‘“Balked but not defeated,” Germany may now want peace, a temporary peace, until she can repair her weapons and go again on the misslon outlined by past exponents of Kultur. What Germany wants, and what Germany separate and distinct 1f she gets her just deserts however, gets are two things. But what will you lack when your mate goes by ‘With a girl who cuts you dead? Where will you look, will you look ‘When young children yet to be Clamor to learn of the part you took In the war that kept them free? ‘Will you say it was naught to you if France Stood up to her foe or bunked? But where will you look when they give the glance That tells you they know you funked? sonny, where How will you fare, you fare In the far-off winter night, ‘When you sit by the fire in an old man's chalr And your neighbors talk of the fight? ‘Will you slink away as it were from a blow, Your old head shamed and bent? Or say—*I was not with the first to gO, But I went, thank God, I went?” sonny, how will Why do they call, sonny, why do they call For men who are brave and strong? Is it naught to you if vour country fall, And Right is smashed by Wrong? Is it football still and the picture- show, The bar and the betting odds, When vour brothers stand tyrant’s blow And country’s call is God's? —HAROLD BEGBIE (In the Boston Transeript.) to the Free Ships At Last. (New York World) Hxercising the power conferred by | the act of Oct. 6, the Shipping Board has opened the coastwise trade of the | United States to foreign shipping. The | bars are down for “the period of the present war with Germany and for 120 days thercafter.”” They ought to be down forever, for this action forced by war, marks the suspension of an odious monopoly sustained by law. Americans may find, in the relative dwindling of thelr deep-water mer- chant marine during the fifty years preceding the present war. proofs of the blighting effects of favoritism an monopolization. can could build or buy a ship abroad and operate it under his own flag, and the tariff on materials that might have been imported for ship-building was in most cases prohibitive. and until Oct. 28, of this year no for- eign ship by whomsoever owned could trade on our coasts. + The problems presented by a war the result of which is to depend large- ly upon shipping have at length forced the Government of the United | States to do away with restrictions which never had an excuse except in the greed of a selfish interest. If at the end of the war we return to these antiquated policies of exclusion we shall be heedless indeed of the plight in which we found ourselves when Germany ran amuck. A ONE-MAN STRIKE. This Union Man Stopped a Show When He Struck. Los Angeles, Oct. 25.—A one-man strike tied up the Symphony theater in Los Angeles and sent several hun- dred people home with rain checks in their pockets. The motion picture machine opera- tor, according to Manager Charles Gates, stopped the picture in the mid- dle of the last show and closed the operating room. When Mr. Gates inquired the cause of the strike he was confronted by a walking delegate for the Motion Pic- |ture Operators’ union Wwho informed him that the show could proceed if he would sign an agreement with the union. The manager refused to sign—even declined to look at the agreement to see what the terms of it were. He ex- plained the situation to his patrons, { gave back the money to all who want- { beriod extending over several months. oonservative estimate by an expert there will be no peace this vear, nor next, with the Potsdam crowd. others. “I'll have a show tonight as usual,” said Mr. Gates. Until 1914 no Amert- | Since then | Two or three other states are also: | | ] | | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917. DOING HIS BIT JOSEPH F. CARROLL. Joseph F. Carroll is one of the Youngest New Britain boys in the service and one of the first to reach France. He enlisted June 18, 1917, in Company E in this city and saw ser- vice at the Mexican border last sum- mer with the local troops. This year he was again called upon to don the khaki and shortly after was made a corporal., Later, at New Haven, he was transferred to the headquarters company. Carroll, who is but 18 years of age, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carroll of 102 Sexton street. Poor Though Rich. (New Haven Journal-Courier) The statement which has been made public by George Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale university, is of in- terest to others than members of that great brotherhood. It gives to lay- men in such matters an illustration ot what the experience is of being poor while possessing great riches. Yale as a corporation is worth nearly $20,- 000,000 and is the constant recipient of large gifts} but it is estimated that the close of the university year will show a deficit of over a quarter of a million. 2 It is not generally understood that, while Yale is managed as a business institution by trained administrators Yale is not a business institution. She has education to sell but sells it at a nominal price, nowhere near enough in total to meet fixed charges. Par- ents who send their sons to big pre- paratory schools are often amazed at the nominal fee charged at Yale, a trifle over $150. The business an- swer to this proposition is to ralse the tuition fee as practically all other forms of investment do under like con- ditions. But education is not a com- modity. Should Yalc rate her tuition fee in accordance with her expenses, she would at once cease to be the na- tional, democratic institution she fis. Her halls would be crowded with those who have the money but not with those who have the brains. The country has no interest in, and cer- tainly the state would not exempt from | taxation, a university devoted to the training of rich men’s sons. Yale must continue to be the { charge of her graduates and friends. Nothing must be permitted to inter- fere with or impair the great serv- ice she Is giving the country, though as the report of the treasurer shows she is doing all In her power to re- duce expenses without impairing her domestic_efliciency. And mow more than ever is Yaie deserving of her graduates and friends. She has become a powerful factor in the prosecution of the war and will be found magnifi- cently represented wherever there is | I\'Vo!‘l{ to be done in connection \\’ith[ || e Yale may be embarrased but she will not be injured by the-abnormal times that have cvertaken her along with the rest of us. Loyalty Easy. (Omaha Bee). One of the speakers at a local Jew- ish meeting accurately touched on the most important feature of our na- tional life. He said loyalty is easy in the United States, stating in brietest form a tremendous truth. Loyalty is so easy in the United States it is cause for marvel that any- thing savoring of disloyalty can exist, To be true to our country and !ts free institutions requires only tha. the citizen be true to himself. No gov- ernment since the Garden of Iidan has burdened its citizens more iightly 1 time of peace than does ours One of our national characteristics is that we have asked all of our governmert, and have returned but little. No- where has freedom ever had such in- terpretation as here, and nowhero was ever Individua! liberty and personal rights moro s guarded or jealously preser In time of ‘war it is a common duty, a mere mat- ter of self-defense, that wa stand firmly together against all foes. Men- tal twists or biag that find expres- sion in seditlous acts or words are he- yond understanding, and are more iniquitous because they are almed against the best goverrment man.has ever framed. Being loyal is the easiest and lightest burden -that is laid on the citizens of the United States, Simplified Procedure. (Washington Star) “What will you have for breakfast ?" inquire: the walter. “What's the use of my sitting here and guessing? You go ahead and bring. me what the law allows “or today.” Another Reason. (Buffalo Enquirer) One reason for expelling Senator ed it, and issued return checks to the | La Follette is to cut him loose fromn the frank he is using to circulate his speeches against the Government at Government expense. the | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Punishment. You can spank a child, thrash a boy, beat a dog, whip a horse, and ! lambaste a mule to get obedience. All | have been tried on a sailor and failed | to break his spirit. | John Paul Jones pummeled his ! Mate but failed to change the Mate's mind. Nelson flogged his helmsman unmercifully but failed to prove that the compass was crooked. Farragut | did everything but tar and feather a | signal boy who sent “The Old Bird's | ®ot a grouch today"; then caught him | & week later in, “His wife ain’t scared of his mug!” Physical pain used to be the only medicine. On the old square riggers a smart ship was a speedy ship. At each rigging stood a ‘walloper’, armed Wwith a cat-o’-nine-tails. He drove tender-ended lads up the shrouds as a drunken sheep herder might propel his stock through the packing house pen. Last boy up got the butt. Common deck discipline was en- couraged with belaying pins, flsts, marlin spikes, and stout oak hammock stretchers. No wonder we read of a gallant tar who upon being felled to the deck by the glancing blow of a 20- pounder leaped to his feet screaming “show me the dirty hound what done e Regulation punishment was even more grotesquely cruel. Flogging was done in public, crew assembled aft. From 600 to 1000 lashes were sometimes given. If the victim fell unconscious he took the rest next day. Once a recruit could stand the cries of agony no longer. He plunged through ranks and stood before -the Captain quivering with nervous fear and Indignation. “I'll take them; le- let me take them!” he almost sobbed. “All right, you young whelp,” snapped the Skipper. When the first man was done the boy received an equal num- ber for his impertinence. Thumb-hanging and the ‘cockroach cradle” came from Captain Kidd. The latter was a trough of wooden slats with a sprinkling of garbage at the bottom. The culprit lay lashed and was stowed away in a dark corner of the hold. After the bugs finished the food scraps they began on the naked man. Rats also took their share. This was better than hanging because it need not be recorded in the log, ex- cept that “John Smith, having lost his mind, etc.” Punishment in our Fleet today com- pared to the old forms is like mental healing beside vivisection. Absent treatment is the style: and it works. Absence from food, by bread and wa- ter in the brig (ship's prison)—30 days the limit. Absence from recrea- i tion, by loss of liberty-——particularly effective when a young man’s fancv is turning to thoughts of love and movies and small beers. For special cases loss of pay and even term in a naval prison are sentenced. But ex- treme punishment is rare and mostly confined to men morally degenerate or trying to be discharged. Justice is most sharply defined in naval law. Hard and fast schedules I bind the Captain or courts martial to cut and dried retribution in all cases. The three kinds of courts, deck, sum- mary, and general, can deal with and punish only certain misdemeanors, and their powers are limited. Injustice was for centuries the greatest crime upon the seas; and it went unpunished. Today the Navy knows it not—except when ‘‘some guys don’t get no seconds on the pie!” Last winter two men clashed In ranks, a doubly serious offence: “fight- ing” and “dlsorderly conduct at quar- ters.” Instead of making a report the Divisional Officer stood them face to fact at attention for an hour. He also set a watch to see that they didn't blink or move. There was only one thing they could think about. After an hour's mediation they thought sense. Incidentally the officer’'s mid- dle name is Solomon. Heart of the Balkans, Vaka. “An interesting journey which Mrs. Brown took when a girl with her brother. . . She gives much informa- tion, shows the contrasts between the various peoples and has many original points of view.”—A. L. A. Booklist. o o e Poets of the Future; A College An- thology for 1915-16: “Contains one hundred and forty of the best poems written by Ameri- can university students during the past college year. Sixty colleges are represented in this anthology.”—FPre- face. by Demetra .o President Wilson, by H. W. Harris. “Purpose to Introduce ‘current American problems, as well as a great American personality, to English readers’ . . . Of interest to Amerl- cans as an English and non-partisan review of recent American politics. —A. L. A. Booklist. .o e Soldler’s Memories in Peace and War, by Sir George Younghusband. “The entertaining talk of a soldier who has seen much active service, who has gained a wide knowledge of men and manners, and who knows | how to tell his experiences with | humor, precision, and occasional emotion.””—Spectator. “Covers his experiences in India, { American war. oo | System of Financial Administration of Great Britain, by W. F. Willough- by and Others. | “An authoritative and techniocal study of the best developed budgetary system in the world.”—A. L. A. Book- lst. .. Tolstoi’s Journal: Translated from the Russian by Rose Strunsky, v. 1, 1895-1899. P Vagabond's Odyssey, by A. Safroni Middleton. “The adventures of a sailor-troubn- dour wandering in many lands, work- |ing his way before the mast and i using his fiddle as an entree to fes- i tivities ashore.”—Publisher’s Note. . e The Great War. Aerial Russia, by B. Roustam-Bek. “By a Russlan officer who writes | of the progress of the science of avia- | tion in Russia, and of Russia's aerial | achievements during the war. He |feels that if Russia’s inexhaustiblo | supply of ideas could be backed by | England’s industrial and financial re- sources, the two countries could easily out-distance Germany."—A. L. A. Booklist. | . i Behind the German Veil, } de Beaufort. | “By means of a letter of introduc- ition to von Hindenberg from his nephew, the author gained access to German headquarters and to the | eastern front. He interviewed some | | of the most prominent military and { naval authorities and relates his ex- by J. M. Egypt and the Boer war, the Spanish- | S EGOIST-ACTOR-BETRAYER. From a Bad Start in Early Youth La Follette Has Stumbled to His Present Ignoblc Position. (Des Moines Capital). La Follette got a bad start when h¢ was a young man, He read a greal _ essay on Hamlet and from that time’ on people whispered into his ear thal he was a born Hamlet and that he ought to take the stage. Then he combed his hair a little higher ané threw his shoulders back one more notch. Then it was that La Follett¢ really became an actor in the great- est of all stages, the political stage. He served in congress at the time the republicans made what was called the McKinley tariff. In the making of thig tariff there was no chance for Hamlet. La Follette had been on the stump for McKinley, making what was then called a standardized speech for the grand old party. In thal campaign there was no chance fofe Hamlet. But La Follette announced his can- didacy for Governor of Wisconsin, Both sides forced the fighting and the public took the side of La Follette, In these State fights all of La Fol- lette’s ability as an actor was put inte play. He then became a political Hamlet in fact. His favorite role is to assume that he is abused on ac. count of his virtues. He thrives o persecution. Senator La Follette is a vain egotist, He s not corrupt. He couli not be bribed, but in politics as regatds shift. ing majorities he has played the game. He is now fighting for the presis dency. This is the biggest Hamlet he has undertaken. He may be assums ing the role of Macbeth and he may feel that he is on Bosworth field. He has shifted his argument begin¥ ning with the German claim thaf America was never neutral; that we had no right to manufacture and ship the munitions of war to the Alles or anybody else; and put up the old com- plaint that if we were going to sell sible for Germany to -buy also, which meant that the United States musi put a fleet on the sea and force the NEW BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE Slavs of the War Zone, by W. F. Bal- ley. Soldier Songs, by Patrick MacGill ... Willlam II, by 8. C. Hammer. Fiction. P Baree, Son of Kazan, by J. O. Cur- wood. “A story of the eternal struggle be. tween the primeval and civilizatio: Publisher’s Note. . Christine, a Fife fisher girl, by Ame- lia Barr. “Mrs. Barr's new novel is laid on the coast of Fife among the fisher folk of her beloved Scotland.”—Pub- lisher's Note. . .. o .. The Coming, by J. C. Snaith. ! “By the author of ‘The Sailor,’ etc. { A romance dealing with the spiritual |and ethical side of the war. The cen- { tral figure is a mystic.”—Publisher's note. P | Fanny Herself, by Bdna Ferber. i PRI | Fishpingle, by H. A. Vachell. |~ “A glimpse of the old-fashioned | squire endeavoring to maintain feu- ! dal traditions. . . under modern con- ! ditions. . . Produced as a play in ! England in 1916.”—A. L. A. Booklist. | PP | Green Fancy, by George Barr Mc- Cutcheon. “More like the old-time Graustark stories than anything the author has | recently written. The scene of this ! story, however, is laid in a New Eng- land community instead of in Eu- | rope.”—Publisher's Note. e High Heart, by Basil King. “ e | Indtan Drum, by MacHarg and Bal- mer. .. Ladies Must Live, by Alice Miller. By the author of ‘Come Out of the Kitchen.” “The author writes with frank humor of social pirates and their tricks. She seems to have drawn her characters from life rather than so- | clety journalism and exhibits genuine wit In their handling.”—Dial. P Running Free, by James B. Connolly. “A group of ten sea stories with a delivery of munitions to Germany. But the Germans did not care for the munitions. They wanted a doctrine or creed by which they could appeal for American support. ily drawn against La Follette. He has been the leader in the pro-German cause in the United States, leader who led in a forensic way. He did not bribe. He did not corrupt men. He left that all to Bernstorff. He may have had a vague idea that it was going on because the real Prus- slan always thinks of money in con- nection with politics. Senator La Follette is playing for the presidency after the war. - agines that he would have all the Ger- mans in America back of him, and all their wealth and power, and that nobody on the other side would fight him on the issues because they them- selves would be afraid of the German vote. should be expelled from Congress. He is more dangerous to the public than Aaron Burr ever was, If he should be nominated by any faction or party his appeal would be to the uneducated, unpatriotic, to the men who say in their hearts. “To Hell with the Coun- try!” He would rally all the discon- tent. He would give us a Russlan campaign. To defeat him all the ele- love of country would be compelled to rally. The one assuring thought would be that the soldler boys would be at ‘home and by their votes they could crush him. But the duty of the hour is to expel Senator La Follette from the United States Senate. Then he can begin his battle. He would be com- pelled to play an open hand. The people would know him better. High Prices. (New York Times). Again Mr. Hoover calls the atten- tion of the public to the fact that his power as a regulator of food prices does not extend to the producers and can be exerted directly on only a small number of retail dealers—those 000 a year. In consequence of .hesa restrictions, he more than intimates, there is row to be seen and felt not a little of ruthless exploitation of the consumer. In other words, though war has made prices high, it has not com- pelled and does not justify many of the prices now demanded. The only thing, or at any rate the chief thing, he can now do is to give to consumers ‘bnckground of the sea and a touch lof humor and adventure .running throughout.”—Publisher’'s Note. cee | Soul of a Bishop, by H. G. Wells. “In his novel, Mr. Wells shows the | eftect of the Great War on that bul- wark of society, the church.”—Pub- e Tales of the Revolution; by M. P. Artsybarhev, translated by Percy Pinkerton. “Five Russian storles of the rev- olution which depicts the unrest of the people.”—A. L. A. Booklist. e periences and impressions in enter- taining fashion. A. L. A. Booklist . International by P. Brown. “A ‘study of the effect of interna- tional law upon the situation created by the ‘great war'’ . . and an exam- ination of the lines along which it can be strengthened and developed.”— | N. Y. Times. i ‘ w . Realities, M. Four Years in Germany, by J. W. Gerard. o . i y War Diary. by Mme. W. H. Wad- : dington. | ! i .. the Front in a Fliver, by W. Y. Stevenson. . . the Right of the British Line, by[ Gilbert Nobbs. . Under Fire. the Story of a Squad, by Henri Burbasse. PLANS BIG CONFERENCE. Mid-winter Meeting of Women’s Clubs Are in Session in Woodbury. Woodbury, Conn., Oct. 25.—The mid-winter meeting of the Connecticut Federation of Women’s Clubs was held here today, reports of the presidents of the constituent clubs being the chief business before the session. Plans for the New England conference, which is to be held in Hartford some time in January were also discussed. The principal speaker was Miss Car- oline Rutz-Rees of Greenwich, chair- man of the Connecticut division woman's committee of the National | Council of Defense. clear and definite knowledge of what the various foods cost at wholesale and so enable them to bring pressure of one sort or another on dealers who are making wholly legitimate profits, regardless of whether scarcity or abundance of supply exists. This he is dolng. Whether or not it is enough to remedy the evils and abuses noted by Mr. Hoover remains to be seen. If it is not, the profiteers are inviting action by the govern- ment that they will have reason long to remember. ERNEST WILL BE INTERNED. Former Cigar Maker Now Tl at Hart- ford Hospital A German, Walter Ernest, about 85 | years of age is now in the Hartford hospital .under the surveillance of the federal authorities and will probably be sent south in accordance with or- ders of the United States marshal. He was previously employed at Muller's cigar factory on Arch street. His re- moval to the south is being prevented by his sudden illne: Ernest came to this country three or four years ago and took out first citizenship papers. No further attempt was made following this to secure the second papers which would make him a citizen. The next heard from him was his alleged malicious attempts ta stir up trouble in local union circles. Because of this he was taken to Harte ford where it was discovered that hs was in need of medical treatment munitions we ought to make it pos-*" / fb § i : The Indictment cannot be too heav- | He was a He im-% He 1s a dangerous man today. 'He, /4% the unthinking, the irresponsible, the ments of patriotism and loyalty and .’ whose business amounts to over $100,- & L »