New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1917, Page 6

New Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Issued datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St. _Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 16 cents a week, 65 cents a month. Subscriptions for paper to be sent by mail paydble 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- lantie City, and Hartford Depot. TELE Business Office Editorial Rooms "HONE CALLS. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively titled to the use for republication of news credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Our Time Is Here. Look back no more! our time has come, my Brothers! In Fate's high. roll our names are written too; { We fill the mournful gaps left bare 3 by others, The ranks where Fear has nev- 5 er broken through! ! Look, ancient walls, upon our stern election! Keep, Echoes dear, brance of our breath! And, gentle eyes and hearts of 3 pure affection, Light us, resolved to Victory or Death! —JULIA WARD HOWE. remem- PUBLIC COAL HEARING. In the city building this evening at elght o’clock there will be held a pub- | 1ic meeting which should be of inter- est to every family man in New Brit- aln. The coal committee, recently appointed by the state fuel adminis- trator, will hear the citizens of this town anent the complaints they may want to lodge against local coal deal- {'ers. This is an endeavor to get at a true working basis whereon might be fixed the price of coal. It is the duty of every father of a family who has facts at his command to go to this meeting in the city build- ing tonight. For some time past men have been camplaining of the high They have ranted and raved. They have asked the news- papers for help. Now the time has cost of coal. ficent heights. Destruction stalked abroad in the land. BEverything but instruments of torture were brought into play. There are few who will begrudge the boys and girls their fun on the eve of All Saints’ Day. These fes- tivities have been going on each year since that memorable day in the Seventh Century when the Pantheon at Rome was converted into a Chris- tlan place of worship. The celebra- tion then occurred always on May the first until later the Feast of All Saints was switched to November 1, and Hallowe’en or the eve of All Hallows,—All Saints,—was naturally placed as the thirty-first day of October. While the day after this is a sacred church holiday,—in the olden days the people going to the cemeteries for devotion and the lay- ing of flowers on graves,—Hallowe'en has nothing churchly about it so far as the American nation can discern. Ratler does it breathe of pagan times, and most certainly of medieval super: stitions, it has been, and yet is, looked upon as the time when super- natural influences are brought to bear on mundane things, when ghosts and phantoms take possession of the carth. Spirits from an unknown land are supposed by many to come back for this one night of the year. In- deed, as many can testify, they do after a fashion. They sit up and take hold of the hearts and bubbling en- thusiasm of youth. The hob-gobblins appear in the form of little boys and girls, lads and lassles with black- ened faces and weird garments. As we noted at the outset, the war will probably change all these things and tonight will be a far different Hallowe'en than many have witnessed in the past. There will be some of the old sports, particularly that of “ducking” or ‘“bobbing” for apples set afloat in a tub of water and others of its kind. There will not, however, be the promiscuous use of flour that marked celebrations in the past for the simple reason that flour is too expensive to waste in such pranks the younger generation would sanction. A few false faces there will be, and rightly so; because even the old folks can get a laugh out of the changed expression physiognomies undergo from the ungainly influence of these Outside of these innocent devold of all mischief and Hallowe’en will be an en- For which for masks. pleasures, rowdyism, tirely new feast to many. there will be great thanks. PRECIOUS PENNIES. There is a shortage of pennies. This fact partially realized by Con- necticut pcople who were forced to come when they themselves can step forward and plead their own case. The facts are easlly obtainable. Ite has been charged that coal is sold at itoo high a price in New Britain; that the same brand of coal which costs | $10.30 a ton here can be purchased for $9.30 a ton in Unionville; that | the freight rates do not warrant this difference in prices between the two Connecticut towns. The members of the coal commit- tee are anxious to thrash out all phases of this most important ques- tion. To them lies the task of bet- tering, if possible, adverse conditions. ! They have been presented with data by the local coal merchants who were forced to open their books under gov- ernmental ruling. If there Is any- thing hidden it is for those who know the facts to step forward and point out the wrong. Now is the time for people who must purchase coal to look our for their own interests. At- tend the meeting at eight o'clock in the city building. THE NEW HALLOWE’EN. Because of the war this Hallowe'en will in all probability be devoid of the ludicrous activities that have been in vogue for so many years past. To begin with, there will not be the same pirit of absolute levity which prompt- :d the “stunts” usually practiced by |the young folk. Men may go to bed lonight with the assurance that when lhey awake in the morning the gates leading into front lawns will not be missing from {ts hinges. They may smerge from their houses in the early hours of tomorrow without fear that four-wheeled carriages or carts will tumble on their heads, the same | venicles having been dexterously placed in lofty positions on roof-trees by wanton boys on mischief bent. The younger generation has at last caught >nto itself. In the olden days Hallowe'en was an event never to be forgotten. It was a fixed feast the like of which FQ not on the calendar. For it was on Hallowe’en that the boys and girls broke loose for one of the grandest t‘mes known to youth. Whether it was a grand time for the plder people no one dare say. Usually the owners of property were -busy for two or three weeks after the teast; repairing fences, mending gates, and paying bills to the carpenter and the mason for services rendered. | Under the fair moon that usually hines around the last of Ootober the pay an extra cent car-fare on the first of this month will be brought out mare .clearly after all the various taxes under the new War Revenue bill go into effect. Formerly the penny was the most despised coin in the nation. People who live out on the western coast would have nothing to do with it. The smallest coin allowed to do duty there was a nickel. Now, however, the penny will be welcomed even in San Francisco. There was an old saying another generation to the effect that if you take care of the pennies the dollars will take care of themselves. Like other things the advice went the way of the world. Now every- thing 1s different. Men the nation over are looking for pennies which, if found, will be taken care of in the latest approved fashion. Under the new order of things when a retajl merchant of whatever callber is called upon to pay a higher tax or tariff he off-sets this disad- vantage to himself by boosting the price to the consumer. In this way the merchant follows the unwritten law of shifting the responsibility. Where the price could be advanced one cent it usually goes the longer route and stops at two and a half cents. Thus a twelve-and-a-half-cent article must be bought at thirteen cents. Or, to save the half cent, the purchaser has the privilege of buying two articles of the same brand for twenty-five cents. Now, on top of this must come the tax, whatever it might be. And with the tax will come the cry for more pennies. Bexinning with the month after next moving picture houses and othor places that charge admission are supposed to pay a ten per cent. tax to the government. Despite the date set by the Federal Congress the “‘movie” men of New Britain have designated tomorrow as the day when the tax shall be first imposed. Con- gress means nothing to the magnates of this town. 3 Sectlon 700 of the War Revenue bill as passed by the House and Senate and signed by the President of the United States specifically states under the heading “War Tax an Admis- slons,”” “That from and after the first day of December, 1917, there shall be levied; assessed, collected, and pald a tax of one cent for each ten cents or fraction thereof of the amount paid for admission to any place, including admission by ticket or sub- scription, to be paid by the person among season Hallowe’en spirits mounted to magni- { paying such admission.” There is no mention then of November 1 being the date for beginning this tax. Thus is needed a penny for every Iu.nne spent at the “movies.”” In pass- ing it may be well to note that many thought the theater managers were holding up the public demanding this one cent paid at the box affice, and not out of the house recelpts. The bill clears up any doubt. The pennies must come from the purses of those who seek such amusement. There will be a tendency, of course, to cut down on the regular visits to the theater which will re-echo in money saved for the individuals. Since there is a scarcity of pennles it will be manifested by a better realization of a penn) value by the people who hitherto looked with scorn upon any coin in denomination lower than a nickel. FACTS AND FANOIES. Where would Brewster’'s Millions be nowadays? Spent in about as many seconds.—New York Sun. Col. Roosevelt is about the only man in the country who put up a kick at securing exemption.—Springfield Daily News. And to add to the gaiety of the asion the Italian cabinct also re- e e Post. Now that the country has so hand- somely subscribed to the second Lib- erty Loan, it can fill up its fountain pen and get ready to subscribe an- other.—New London Day. “Less meat, less wheat, less sweet” may be the new patriotic slogan—but it doesn’t sound so new to the lady who is “reducing”.—Meriden Journal This is a topsy-turvy country. Wheat is high because there isn’t any to put in the railroad cars and coal is high because there are no cars to pu it in.—Paterson Call. Our position is simply this: That no man is a good husband who doesn’t notice when he ‘comes home that the sitting room curtains have been moved to the dining room.—Dallas News. Deer hunting season is reported un- successful, as so many of the hunters are drafted that those who are left can't find anything to shoot at.—Erie (Pa.) Times. The war has undoubtedly brought some compensations, but they all have been set at nought by the del- uge of “war poetry” that has swamped the newspaper waste-baskets.—Green- wich News and Graphic. This Time Last Year. (Margaret B. Sangster, in The Chris- tlan Herald). Last vear, this time, We grouped around the glowing logs together, Atingle with the thrill weather. We talked and laughed and sang dear bygone tunes— Songs that were bright as any sleigh- bell's chime, And soft and tender as forgotten Junes. \ of autumn Last year this time, We told brave hunting stories, And boasted ,of our prowess . . . the glories Of roughing it. the faces Of John and Tom and Jimmy In their places; Of father, with a paper In his hand;" Warm firelight—serene and calm and bland— Last year, this time. of Warm light fell on But now . .5 We've locked our and the fall Has thrown a across it all; My brow Is furrowed wlth the welght of more than years, And father, reading, winks away the tears. The boys? Why, John and Jim are far away Across the main . A signal fire bares the hurt, the pain, That vell-like lies upon their boyish faces; And Tom ... They tell won't come again . . . mountain cabin, leaf-brown shroud us Tom A century of strife and loss and fear Has touched us since we saw them in their places This time . . . last vear. Routine of a Soldier's Life. ° (Fall River News). Revellle—'‘Christians, Awake!" Bathing Parade—‘'Shall We Gather at the River?” House Parade—"Art Thou Weary? Art Thou Languid?” Breakfast—'‘Meekly Murmur Not C. O’s Parade—'"When He Cnm- eth.” Swedish Drill—"“Here We Grief and Pain.” Dinner—"Come Ye Thankful Peo- ple, Come. Rifie Drill—'‘Come, Labor On.” Lectures by Officers—"“Tell Me the 014, 014 Story.” Dismiss—‘Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow.” Tea—"What Means Anxious Throng?” Free for Evening—'Oh Lord! How Happy Should We Be.” Last Post—"“All Are Safely ered In.” . Lights Out—*Peace, Perfect Peace.” Inspection by Guards—'Sleep On, Beloved."” Conl Needed. (Buffalo Commereial). “We have got to get the coal; we have the power to get it; we are go- ing to got it.”” savs Fyel Administra- tor Garfield. All right, doctor, but do not dwell too 10ng on the future tense. Want and Suffer This Eager, Gath- “have falled, FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. One-Third of Wounded May Never Be Able to Compete With the Able- Bodied of Labor Arena— Must Be Cared For. (London Telegraph). ‘What is to be the future of the par- tially disabled men of His Majesty's forces who will remain as a legacy to the nation when the war is over? That is a problem which will become the more urgent as peace draws near- er. The oportunity now offers of thinking out plans for the future wel- fare, so that we may not be taken un- awares by the outbreak of peace as Wwe were by the opening of war. It is calculated that about two-thirds of ‘the men disabled either at sea, in the air, or on the battlefield will be suffi- clently restored to normal health and usefulness to allow of their returning to their former occupations. But what of the remaining third—an army ©of men who can never hope to com- pete on equal terms with other work- ers in the labor market? They will, it is true, have their pensions, ade- quate for keeping body and soul to- - gether, but it would be mistaken kind- ' ness to leave them in idlenessy if by treatment and training they can be fitted to follow remunerative occupa- tions, “While the war continues there will Probably be little difficulty in finding employment for most disabled men Who are reasonably efficient.” After the war, however, the supply of labor will increase, and it is feared that em- ployers, looking mainly to cash prof- its, will be inclined to.prefer able- bodied men. The Labor Ministry has been collecting information as to pos- sible permanent avenues of industry which such discharged and disabled men can enter with some hope of se- curing pleasant, remunerative and permanent employment. The atti- tude of the men is not unnatural; un- skilled work is offered to them, and they accept it, earning the present high rates of pay, rather than submit themselves to a period of training, the value of which in future years they hardly realize. But the war will not last forever; the labor reservoir will again fill up, and the law of supply and demand will become operative. What, then, is to be the fate of such ex-soldiers and saflors, who are left severely handicapped in the battle of life? Our attention has been arrested by a monograph written by Mr. Thomas H. Mawson, in which he discusses the matter; it is entitled *“An Imperial ©Obligation,” and contains a foreword er. The opportunity now offers of advocates the creation of “industrial villages” for these servants of the state who, in opposing the foe, have lost something of their economic strength or capacity as soldiers of the peace army. He is not unconscious of what is being done by the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops or of the fine record of Sir Arthur Pearson in his care for the blind, or of Mr. Oswald Stoll's War Seal Foundation scheme. HIs purpose is ‘“‘to suggest the means whereby, through the orea- tion of an exceptionally favorable en- vironment, the fruits of the work of such organizations may be increased a hundredfold; for if our mauled and mutilated men are compelled to carry on their work amid the evil conditions so often existing in our towns, how- ever well-housed in home and work- shop, instead of in villages, which it is our desire and alm to see placed at the disposal of employers of wounded soldiers, we shall certainly as a nation and indi- vidually, in our whole duty toward them.” Let it be sald at once, that there is no idea of collecting all these men into one settlement or a few set- tlements, divorcing them from their fellow: On the contrary, it is hoped, while removing them from the great industrial centers, where lifer runs swiftly, keenly and mercilessly, to fit them into smaller communities in the parts of the country they may favor, providing them with facilities to en- able them to supplement thelr pen- sions and encouraging them to draw round them relations and friends. Mr. Mawson has.not occupied him- self with details, but his general idea follows something on the lines of such villages as Letchworth, Bournville, Port Sunlight and Earswick. He does ‘not insist that new villages should be created, but, after the manner of Mr. Wemmick—here's a church; let's get married”—he would say. “Here's a charming village in Cumberland; let’s add to it a group of cottages and a factory so that soldiers and sailors broken in the war may, with their relatives gathered round them, make pencils instead of the lead being sent to Austria to be worked up.” The same adaptable principle would apply to Bedfordshire, with itg straw plait- ing industry; parts of Devonshire, with clay suitable for pottery; Somer- setshire with its districts famed for gloves and lace. Everyone whose heart has been moved by the sight of men who have given arms, legs, eyesight or hearing in their country’s cause will sympa- thize with Mr. Mawson's conception. Tt is not desirable that these men should be left, like flotsam and jet- sam, to be driven here and there by the imperious flow of the fluctuating labor market, in which they must struggle under serious disadvantages. The nation must do all in its power to sustain their self-respect, to make them fcel that they are citizens of a country which owes them, at least, a fair chance in life, and to assure to them the opportunity of adding such earnings to their pensions as will se- cure for them some of the comforts of life. Twenty or thirty vears ago it would have been sald that such an ambition as Mr. Mawson entertains could not be realized, since industry depends on power, and the power then resided in the steam engine. But electriclty is capable of working a revolution in this respect. It can be laid on to cottage or to village fac- tory at no great cost,.thus enabling workers to earn the wages of the town-dweller, while enjoyving to the full the the amenities and healthy sur- roundings of the village. One of the most urgent problems of reconstruc- tion is the provision of vast central plants for the making of electric cur- WILLIAM A. DENNIS. Two days before President Wilson declared that a state of war existed between this country and Germany, Willlam A. Dennis applied for enlist- ment as a seaman in the regular navy. He was accepted and immediately ushered into the service. Dennis is but 19 years old, is the son of Mrs. T. Dennis of 121 Whiting street. rent, to be carried far and wide,' so as to enable labor to be more widely distributed along the lines of our rail- ways and canals. Mr. Mawson's scheme bristles with difficulties; it is open to criticism at a hundred points. We are not prepared to say whether the difficulties are or are not sur- mountable, or whether the criticisms can successfully be met. But it is no mean asset that the scheme has already won the cordial approval of such practical business men as Mr. Gordon Selfridge, Mr. 8. J. Waring and Mr. Herbert Storey, who have Joined the Interim Committee, which is about to explore the possibilities that it holds, and endeavor to tran late its ideals into a series of practical proposals. Pershing’s Boys Use Their Fists. (London Cable) A writer of reputation who fre- quently has been in France suggests that a word of wisdom be sent to American soldiers coming over, in view of the frequent spirited argu- ments not confined to words alone be- tween the newly arrived troops and their British comrades in arms. There have been a number of authentic stories of such fisticuff debates. The trouble starts in this wise: , A column of the Amerlcan boys start seeing the town. Perhaps they have been a trifle exhilarated with the At- lantic ozone, etc. At any rate, they meet Tommy and begin by assuring him: “You're all right, but we have come to clean things up. Tommy, after a possible two or three years spent in cleaning things up himself, fails to see the humor of this remark and retorts in some such lingo as this: “Blime, why didn’t you come three years ago?"” Debate usually is deferred at about that point and the arguments are arms and legs. No great harm is done and possibly there is a better under- standing afterward, but the process is unnecessa; The writer referred to says the same think took place when Kitchener's army arrived in France. The new ar- rivals began assuring the old regular army men that they had come to help out the poor old British army. Natur- ally the poor old British army men began at once to demonstrate that they were very much alive. The case seems more than serious. humorous Naval Co-operation. (New York Herald). The return last week to an Atlantic port of Admiral Mayo, commander- in-chief of our battleship fleet, indi- cates that his conference with the al- lied naval authorities has resulted in a clearer understanding and a definite agreement upon our participation in the joint operations to be undertaken. It is apparent, at least on the sur- face, that his mission embraced more than an inspection of our considerable naval forces In British waters and elsewhere, and though his reticence was marked it may be gathered from the few words he indulged in that the conditon of our oversea contingent and its harmonious co-operation with our associated navies is all that could be desired. No less reserved Is the stitecment of Mr. Daniels on the mission of Ad- miral Mayo, but, read within the lines, the meaning of this is no less satisfac- tory. Without going into any details which in these stirring times must be withheld, the secretary astates that the purposes of the visit were to con- fer with the officers of the allied na- vies, to make our representation in- timately acquainted with the present situation, to discuss its future con- duct and to establish personal rela- tions with the British admiralty. What the outcome of the conference may be must be largely a matter of surmise, but it is a safe prophecy that Admiral Mayo did not fail to report the eagerness of the American navy; regular and enrolled alike, to be Im- mediately and actively employed at the forefront of the detested enemy. Both the departure and the pros- pective arrival of the admiral were very properly shrouded in the deep- est secrccy. 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Noveity Silk Handkerchiefs Crepe. de Chine and Pussy Willow Taffetas priced 25c, 50c and Our own importation has just arrived from abroad, good time to choose Holiday Gift Handkerchiefs now, as the real dainty im- FACIS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Gold. Treasure hunts are going to be the favorite outdoor sport after the war. Not a tithe of the fortunes buried, sunk, lost, stolen, or thrown away is getting Into our daily papers. Think of the Emden’s series of coups. Every captured ship might have turned into a pirate’s golden dream when the prize crew took her. Who is to say she didn’t? And the Emden is only one of a crowd still going strong. But the old treasures are not yet:on the record is all found. One of them was $14,000,- 000. Nice little nest egg—eh? Gray fox for the wife; and a nurse with a white cap for the kid; to say nothing of that stream-line self-starter we've been dreaming about. An American warship did the trick. That is she was an unwitting accom- plice to the crime. Navy Department's order was: “U. S. S. Hornet will join ‘West India squadron,” and was carried out Feb. 5, 1829. She sailed from New York and did a seven months cruise through the blue-ribbed Caribbean before disaster came. Official records are cruelly brief. Mark Twain is our best authority on the Red Tape evil in contradistine- tion to the ironic brevity it envelops. However if his remarks were calcu- lated to mortify officialdom he failed. Its members only chuckled grimly and signed another page. One such paper read: “Hornet dismasted in gale off Tampico and supposed to have been lost Sept. 19, 1829." Navy legend varles. ter crystallizes the truth. net's crew get full credit—or credit. Seems that as usual the pot was boiling in Mexico. Two revolutions and a fancy dress rebellion were do- ing one night stands all over the ver- dant countryside. Six Spanish bank- ers and miners were operating a small mine back in the hills. Things getting too hot they jumped to the coast. On request the Hornet's skip- per agreed to save their lives by taking them over to Havana. Baggage included several ironbound cases. You know the kind; Captain A recent wri- The Hor- dis- Kidd kept them in stock winter and | But the man-o’-wars'-man is a canny bird. Said one on the Hor- net “it's just that, or I'm a bloomin’ barnacle’”—a cryptic remark that the Captain never guessed. He soon found out: Mutiny for Gold. Eight made up the party—‘pieces of eight,” I suppose, was the deciding figure. Bankers, officers and others of good character were put to death, weighed with round shot, and thrown overboard to feed the large Florida crabs. The gold was buried on the west coast of Florida exactly accord- ing to Hoyle “ninety-four paces N. F. from a twisted pine nd fourteen fect, two inch above the high tide mark of the inner beach.” (Latitude and summer. longitude can be had upon applica- tion and the payment of a nominal sum.) The plan was to scuttle the Hornet near some port, row in, and report a storm had wrecked her. A storm came now and did wreck her without the least regard for the villains' plans. Only two were saved. They fought. One died. The other reached Tampa and started life over again. James Brown, Like most men he told his wife. Like most mothers she told her son. The Son told his Best Friend and to- gether they found the twisted pine on the west Florida coast. But food must come first. The Son circled away from camp hoping to kill a deer. The Best Friend sallied forth to gather firewood. The Son on his return mis- took the Best Friend for a deer and shot him, killing him instantly. By hard travelling the Son escaped. An old Settler took him in and heard the story, then called upon his near- est neighbor. The three started to- gother for the Gold. An Indian up- rising massacred the party. But the Settler's wife knew. And the men she told tried their hand with energy, but failed, starving and dying in the curss of naked Gold. It's all true, believe me— Not just that treasure but other treasures. And after this Great War when men shall sneak and scramble and dig for the milllons burfed, sunk, lost, or thrown away-—Death will fol- low them. Death’s chin rests always on the shoulder of the Seeker after Gold. Mexico’s Duty. (Boston Post) The place of the republic of Mexico. in the world war against autocracy has not been formally and officlaly de- clared. But the popular purpose has been indicated with sufficient clearness in the resolutions pending in each house of the Mexican Congress. In that of the upper branch, it is set forth that ‘‘benevolent neutrality toward the Entente countries is indls- pensable for the maintenance of the life of the nation.” In the Chamber of Deputies, the expressions of the pro- posed resolution are yet more em- phatic. “Mexico, doing honor to her history and her ideals of progress,” declares, “must be with the nations who fight for justice, for civilization and for liberty, which is Mexico's own caus; ‘Why should there be delay in mak- ing formal leclaration to this effect? Indeed, as the resolution proposed to the Deputies sa hose who foment enmity between us and the United States forget that in this gigantic trae- edy there are greater interests at stake than the quarrels we may have with our neighbors upon this continent " His name . <