New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1917, Page 6

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These must go together; they must support each other, or est one common fate. —ALEXANDER HAMILTON. b WHAT DOTH IT—? utomobile accidents.we will have B'long es we have automobiles. The ider is we do not have more. The which occurred near Berlin last fght and which resulted in the death R four people, with an additional vic- near death, is a horrible example B the needless waste of life. | \Just at this moment the entire na- is, engaged in solving various blems: all of which have to do or less with the conservation of ous commodities, necessaries of “There has been little said oxg _anent the value of = preserving _itself. Especially i3 this so, in accident mart. Pedestrians and who enjoy the wherewithal to Jo,are alike careless. Jome’ day the American nation will en'to the folly of its ways, espe- y in the matter of wasting life. In t effort to save time lives are It might well be asked, What h jt profit a man to lose his life ¢ the sake of saving a few minutes? bo. question is just as sensible as mad'rush which is ever attendent on American activities. Further, it ntains ifs own answer. D NOT FOLLOW NEW YORK. . Today the Voters of -New York city to the polls In a grand attefpt 0 elect @ mayor of their city for the heoming term. They have seven Mdates upon which tp decide, seven n either of whom may run the gatelt city in the country. Without Raving a say in the matter, the en- nation outside of New York ls itererted. The ‘‘country cousins” today wondering what the “wise lones” ‘are going to do,—every one in Big City is supposed to be a “wise whether he is or not. Today be the finali“shaw-down.” ohn Purroy, ‘Mitchel was elected or of New York at the last elec- p. Since then ‘he Is supposed to jve giventhe city a good adminis- tion. ! In fact, there has been no yet who has come forth to truth- filly impune his motives, although uch mud has been slung during the - Mayor Mitchel hds trodden the. toes of many. He hashit them from the religious walks of life the profane; and he has hit them hard,—as becomes a good fighter. oung as he is, Mr. M‘ilchel must be cognized as aggressive. Against this man Mitchel the vari- pus interests have arrayed three can- flldates. They are: .a certain Judge [Eylan of questionable fame; Morris Hillquit, socialist of radical ten- [encies, and the Republican, Bennett, ot whom very little is known other fhan he s out to beat Mitchel at any gost. The three other candldates are of little importance. They are David Colvin, Prohibitionist, Edmund Beldel, soclalist-laborite, and George Wallace, single-taxer. Ordlnarily, it mizht not matter who won out in the New York campaign r mayoralty. This year, however, re is a great difference. Hillquit, e Sociallst, has gone into the fight lwith a program that is more Ger- Iman than American. He has, openly, it be understood that he does not re one lota more for America than 6 does for Germany. He is, indeed, ning on the ticket of those who lwould see Germany defeat America in this war,—the malcontents, the pa- ifists, and the pro-Germans. As for Hylan, he has all the Tam- Imany men with him; that is, the fammany men who stand behind the doubtable Charles A. Murphy, and ho want a man they can manage. a This is the man,—Hylan. Of un- known origin, the humble Brooklyn Judge was trotted before the elec- torate and told by Murphy, and his backer Willlam Randolph Hearst, to “go to it.”” Hylan has done so. Hylan is .tMe man whom the gods know will obey. In the event he is ¢lected, as he might be, it will not be Hylan who will be Mayor of New York. It will be the “power behind the throne.”” And the power “behind the throwing” will be none other than | our old friend Murphy ably assisted by Hearst, Bennett: ile ig thé Republican can- didate. TWhen he was nomlnn’).ed there were few, if any, who could say’ anything against him. Now, all is different. He has’proven himself of small calibre.. From the way the race stands at the present moment, with all the oratory cut off, and the under-workers stilled, he has not one chance. It is conceded, even by his ardent friends, that he will run fourth,—last. Yet he insists upon taking votes from, we will say, either one of the other three candidates,— and no good sport wauld ever do that. The Republican party 1s not behind Bennett. There is, of course, a dissatisfled element willing to rush him through, in order that Tammany might go *‘over the top.” This he has, and nothing more. Any man who votes for Bennett musf know that he cannot be elected, must know that it is as bread cast upon the waters. Such is the situation in New York. Tomorrow morning we shall know which way the tide runs. Tomorrow shall we see where New York, tHe greatest city in the natlon, stands. Yet, if the odds are agalnst Amer- icanism then it shall not stand that the entire country will follow sufe. For New York, big as it is, has no more loyalty, or disloyalty, in pro- portion to Its size, than any other American city. We can all make our mistakes, as wel] ag follow the right path. And ‘e need not always emu- late the example of New York. A LESSON FROM BALTIMORE. In the good old town of Baltimore which stood nearby when Francis Scott ‘Key wrote *“The Star-Spangled Banner,” the people are preparing for a patriotic demonstration tomor- row! night ageinst the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra whose leader, Dr. Karl Muck, last week refused to play the national anthem. As in Spanish war days, “there will be a hot time in the old town' to- morrow night,—unless all plans fail. Former Governor Warfleld, the grand old man of Maryland politics, stands ready to lead the onslaught against the organization that is in bad re- pute because of fts Prussian leader. ‘What is aboit to happen in Balti- more may not be just the right thing insofar as physical violence is con- sidered, and it is hoped there will be no harm done to the individual mem- bers of this great musical organiza- tlon; but the proposed demonstratior should be a lesson to other' Ameri- can citles wherein the Boston Sym- phony will play during this season. Americans have every right in the world to be wrought up over disre- spect Yo the national anthem. At the same time they should learn them- selves the value of paving more re- spect to the old flag itself. FAOTS AND FANCIES, Even the fellows who never pny their club dues will have to pay the tax on 'em.—New York Sun. A captured German officer has :ex- pressed the bellef that America will put 100,000 airplanes into the war. Don’t let's disappoint him.—Norwich Bulletin. If the Germans can claim the cap- ture of 1,800 guns from the Italians In the past two weeks, the French can show over: 1,100 guns captured from the Germans in that time.— Springfleld Republican. s ‘The horrors of war are brought home to the average man by the ap- palling cost of taking over a quiet sector of squash pie—Boston Tran- geript. You can’t make the Connecticut company mad by giving the conduc- tors pennies for they can use all they get.—Bridgeport Telegram. Now if The Sun would go further in the work of reform—but we should not undertake to advise Mr. Munsey. We have tried before now to shovel coal into the furnace while the door was shut and there isn’t much profit in it.—New London Day. They have made the Interesting discovery at Albany that the motor car is more deadly, in the state of New York, at least, than typhoid and scarlet fever combined. And so far they haven't found how te vaccinate against it.—Hartford Times. . The fact that out of every 11,000 Amerigan soldiers who will fight the fight of democracy in Europe 1,000 will be negroes is one of the numer- ous big truths in connection with this war which most folks have failed to realize.—New London Telegraph. Draftees. “We've bidden good-bye to life in o, cage, ye've finished pushing a pen; They're pumping us full of bellicose rage, they're showing us how to be men. We're only beginning to find our- selves; we're wonders of brawn and thew:; But when we go back to our sissy job, oh, what are we going to do? For shoulders curved with the count- er stoop will be carried erect and square, And faces white from the office light will be bronzed by the open air; And we'll walk with the stride of a new born pride, with a new \ found joy in our eyes, Scornful men, who have diced with death under the naked skies. ‘We'll breathe free air and we'll biv- ouac under starry sky; ‘We'll march with men and we'll fight with men and we'll see men Jaugh and die; know such joy as we dreamed; we’'ll fathom depth of pain; But the hardest bit of all will be— when we come back homa again.” —GEORGE B. We'll never the UNDERWOOD. 'SOME STOHRY THIS. Seven-Column Double-Ribbon Scream- er Would Not Be Big Encugh To Flash This News. (The Atlantic) “Suppose you were managing editor and the biggest story you can think of broke upon you'—Manning stopp- ed and searched. “What is tho big- gest plece of news you can imagine, Dr. Lambert?” The other man examined the ceil- say an authenticated case of the persistence of llfa after death,” he ventured. “Bully!"” cried Mnnnlng His eyes sparkled, the color mounted to his forehead and his fingers,twitched— was it for the missing encil and copy-paper. Then he found himself. ‘‘Suppose you were in charge and that flash came over from the Assoclated Press. What would you do?" “I should probably develop a vio- lent headache,” said Latimer. ‘““Here’s what you'd do, Dr. Latimer. You'd yell up the tube to the make- up man to tear open the first page for a seven-column double-ribbon head. You'd then get the telegraph editory to write that head: ‘Life Holds Beyond Grave Says French Savant.’ You would then turn loose /several men on the Encyclopaedia Britan- nica looking up oninions on immortal- ity by’ Piato, Solomon, Lucreti Thothas a Kemphis, Mme. Blavatsky, Huxley. You'd have the city room get all the local clergymen on the wire. You'd telegraph to President ‘Wilson, Billy Sunday, President Eliot, Anna Howard Shaw, Henry Ford, Mary Pickford, the Pope, the Sultan, and the Chief Rabbi of Petrograd. You'd have your Wall Streét men in- terview Mr. Morgan as to the prob- able effect of immortality on the Stock Exchange. You'd ask the pres- idents of the, Insurance companies how immortality would affect their special business. Next day there would be follow-up stories, with reproduc- tions of the most famous paintings of the Resurrection. By the end of the week your hair wouldw be slightly grayer, and if anybody mentioned im- mortality to you, vou'd bite him. Next week something would break loose in Mexico.” i : e Churchmen For the War. (Brooklyn Eagle.) The trap set by some unnamed Chi- cago pacifist to_commit the Universal- ist convention of this State to paci- fism and opposition to the president in his conduct of the war is important merely as a symptom of a campaign of underhanded work aong clergy- men and other idealists in any parts of the country. We know enough about Von Bernstorff’s machinery to sup- port plats in this country to guess the source of the propaganda, even with- out the name of the Chicago autRor of the ‘peace” resolution. But even more significant than the introduction of the resalution here, following like attempts among the TUniversalists and the Congregation- alists in Ohio, was its emphatic re- pudiation by the conveitno, onec the purport of the resalutions was under- stood. The Universalists of the State of New York thus put themselves squarely on record as supporting the president and the war ‘“to bring about a world peace.’ Unfortunately the National Council of Congregationalists meeting at Columbus seems to have failed to take & like patriotic stand, although the speaker who denounced the president was interrupted and some of his hearers left the hall. Perhaps the body will go on record later, when it realizes the mis- chief of even seeming to tolerate the obstructive talk of the Rev. Dan, F. Bradley. This Universalist declaration of pa- triotism coincided with the patriotic letter of Cardinal Gibbons to the president in accepting the honorary chairmanship of the Leaguc of Na- tional Unity, The Cardinal declared that he was trying to ‘‘persuade all Americans that they can do the greatest good to themselves and their country by a cheerful and generous performance of their duty as it is pointed out to them by lawfully con- stituted authority.” That is a good platform for churchmen of all sects and creeds. Standing upon it they will have made a longer approach to- ward Christian unity, which many of them =0 sincerely desire, than has been made by any church congress whatsoever. It Doesn’t Always Work. (Washlngton Star) “Do you ever stop to think about how much you might save if you were to stop smoking?” “Look here, friend, I'm one of those chaps who ncver touched tobacco, and I am $11,000 in debt. How do you account for it?” <| THE MCMILLAN STORE, Inc JAMES ROUIIAAR.D. “And if Uncle Sam wants’any more men my brother Joseph is ready to | go." The above s a reproduction ot what James Roullard, who has two other brothers in the service, wrote to the Herald. James Roullard, who is pictured above is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bgullard of 14 Beatty street and was one of the first to of- fer his services when President Wil. son issued a call for volunteers. He enlisted in Company E in this cit$, was sent to New Haven last spring where his company was merged into the 102nd regiment and shortly af. terwards sent overseas. He is now in France. Two other brothers, Alber{ and Antonio are alsé in the army and doing their “bit”" Joseph, a fourth brother, is ready to go when his country needs him. CUBAN CONGRESS ON' CONSCRIPTION Will Be Urged to Pass Selective Drait Law Tomorrow Havana, Nov. 6.—The Cuban con- gress which convenes tomorrow will be urged to authorize either conscrip- tlon or a selective draft. The rais- ing and equipment in the near future of a strong military force, in line with President Menocal's recommen- dations in his last message, and with the plan of Cuba’s Council of National Defense, await onty tne determina- tion of the method to be followed, rather than the wisdom of the policy of General Menocal and his advisers, who are determined that Cuba's al- llance in the war against Germany shall take on a most active character. Leaders of both political parties are in accord concerning the raising of a large military force—possibly doubling the present strength of the regular army and militia of more than 25,000 men, and a similar strengthening of naval units and per- sonnel. Whatever differences exist on the eve of the session are as to con- scription or its alternative. A public demonstration of lovalty to Cuba’'s allies is expected when the members of congress take thelr seats. Whatever the character of the mil- itary measure to be ecnacted, all in- dications are for speedy action. The atttude of the conscrvatives, the party in power, which at first was luke- warm toward universal service, has become more and more pr\noun(‘ed in its favor, and statements of the lead- ers indicate no opposition to the in- crease of Cuba’s war strength. The liberals, on the other hand, have no program of opposition and the ad- ministration press hails censcription or the selective draft as an omen of Cuba'’s loyalty and of her national integrity. After reviewing the various organic laws of Cuba relating to measures, President Mcenocal's ommendations are:— “The task of enlisting and mobiliz- ing the militia of 17.000 men last Feb- ruayy permits the hope that the rais- ing of a larger army necessary for the carrying on the war against the Imperial German government will give results no less favorable.” ferring to the increased responsibili- ties of Cuba as an ally in the war, President Menocal’'s message adds: “For all these things voluntary en- listment was insufficient. As had happened in ali vparts of the world when it was necessary to enlarge the service, so in England and the United States, a complete change in the tra- dition and the custom was obligated. In our republic voluntary enlistment always encountered more obstacles than in these great nations and I consider it my duty to recommend to the congress thé immediate adoption of the only, means by which we will be able to overcome the difficulties gnickly—the .imposition of obligatory military service, based on a system of selection, as was recently instituted in the United States."” In addition to increasing the Cuban army and navy, the congress is ex- pected to discuss the wisdom of an | amnesty measure and a parliamentary form of government. Dull Times. (Yonkers Statesman.) Mrs. Bacon—*"Isn't this war fuli22s Mrs. Egbert—“It certainly is.” “Where's your husband?” “Somewhere in New York ‘Where’s yours?"” omewhere in New Jersey.” “My husband says it’s awfully dull. He hasn't seen any fighting since he left*home.” “Really? Well, I'm glad to say mine hasn’t been blown up since he left me.” aw- Re- | state. | military | rec- | | ot Northern France may be, “Always Reliabie” HAVE YOU SEEN IT? The only front lace corset with the VENTILO back and VENTILO front shield. . These patented features are found only;in the LA CAMILLE Corsets. 'Aside from being the greatest value in front LA CAMILLE Corsets lace Corsets today, the are recognized as the foundation of youthful figures and health. The VENTILO features are principally for ventila- ting purposes—a point of health. The shield itself pre- vents the flesh from being marked by the lacings and also prevents the flesh from protruding between the lacings. We have the exclusive agency for the LA CAMILLE Corsets in New Britain and carry in stock models for all types of figures. Let us help you select your LA CAMILLE. WILL HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. The Soil of Frince Full of Explosives Deadly to Future Agri- culturists. (N. Y. World Correspondence.) A great deal of careful spade work will be required in the northern part of France. Old battleflelds covered with wild flowers, as I have seen them lately, are in wide stretches a slumbering menace. Months after the war is over, naval men have told me, mines ‘will still make voyages perilous in certain sea areas. For perhaps many mornths more it would be equally as perllous for a farmer \to plough these once fertile flelds in the great war's battle swept areas. Here and there are danger signals indicating unexploded mines. And the immense power of these mines is easily gauged by looking at the enor- mous craters where some of them | bave been “blown.” The war has gone on its way and left these sou- venirs of _its itensity and deadli- ness. Here, there and everywhere arte unexploded shells, German ‘“min- | nies,” or Boche ‘“jampots.” What can a “jampot” do? I was talking with an officer today who was in a first line trench early in the war when one of these infernal ma- chines was lobbed over from the German lines. It struck Is nose in some soft mud and did not explode. It was permitted to rest in peace by the battalion then in that part of the line. Another battalion came, and one man dectded to fire into it with his pistal to explode it and thus re- move the ever present menace. The bullet pierced it, but it did not ex- plode. He moved closer and fired another shot, and they found noth- ing of him after the second shot. “Leave it alone,” is a good motto when visiting battleflelds. A ‘“dud” shell may be temperamental. That is why this churned up battle area will require a lot of careful spade work before it will be safe to put a plough into it and give the mules or horses a free head. ’ I have seen most of the battle- flelds in the bleakness of winter as well as under the spell of spring and summer. Tocay I was pleased when 1 saw a small mound of wild flowers near a brook. When I came closcr 1 found the wild flowers were grow- ing about a clump of old German sand bags and barbed wire. It was a slight indication of what a labar it will be to clean up these steel-awept fertile farm lands. There is considerable work of gur- face cleaning progressing now. Big piles of barbed wire and war equip- ment of other varieties attest to that fact. In some places I have seen the swarthy-skinned natives af the East at this work. But all human cffort seems dwarfed by the spectacle of endless spaces of churned up carth; shell holes big enough to swallow a team of horses and a big farm wagon, Hills and valleys have been made where they mnever before existed. “Perhaps they will make it » park,” said an observer at my side a3y we traversed the Somme battlefiecld one day. But it wauld be a terrible4 park If those gaunt, stark trees are not dynamited. It is difficult to Imagine a tourist army traversing such a park without heavy casualties unless it was ‘“made safe” in advance by the removal of all those implements of war which might form an irresistible source of souvenirs. The Germans have made use of a grenade with a handle ta it similar to the potatomasher. Very remarkable conscquences might re sult from stuffing a hand grenade into a tourist's pocket, something similar to what did occur at a hospital out here on an occasion when a green hand stuffed a pair of khaki trousers into an incineratory only to demolish the incitrerator when a hand gronade in one of the pockets blew up. Meteorologioal experts have tald me that, dishevelled as the surface it will | not eventually have a marked effect; on the clilmate of this region. The destruction of trees may, they say, have a slight effect on rainfall. N only, st {as often stretches of once | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAYY “SBY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8 N. " Dummies A boxer pretends his punching bag 1s the other fellow’s jaw. A man-of- war is full of such imaginary jaws. In the Navy there are probably few- er flesh and blood dummies than in any other profession in the )vorld—— except perhaps the ‘“World’'s “Serles. At the same time mechanical dum- mies are more numerous than in a high class Eden Musee, and ten times as fastinating. There are three reasons for having dummies: economy, as with drill pow personification, as with the man-overboard effigy; and for purposes of disguise or simulation der and shell; smokepipe, bridge, deck, or even sails and yards to decelve the enemy, Germany's well-known ruse of mak. ing fishing craft out of Uboats is tha most successful illystration of this piratical scull-duggery. Yet the law won't let us put 2 lead slug in a telephone—though I know ) & place on-a Chicago side street where they can be bought for BOc a dozen. Which seems to prove it's Whether we are caught or not that counts in peare as well as in war. THE RED STAR. such as the dummy smoke-pipe Capt. Mueller put on the Emden to make her look ltke a British cruiser. Last summer when the Navy jump- ed from 60,000 to 150,000 men, one- third or 30,000 of the recruits must |be taught to actually load a gun. ‘Perhaps 20,000 of them were sched- uled to man the rapid fire middle cal- iber kind of rifle we were putting on merchant vessels and converted craft of all sorts, in addition to the thou- sand or so of them already mounted in the Flect. A green man must prastice twice a day for a month before he is worth his wage. As a practice consists of several strings of 5 loads each we may estimate that he slam shell and pow- der into his gun at least 30 times a day. At the very lowest some 600,000 loads had to be made aboard ship before the new men were cven begun to be broken in. Obvlously if 50-pound steel projec- tiles werc to be hove agalnst the faces of our finest 5-inch breech me- chanisms such a vast number of times, the bombardment of prepara- tion would demolish the very wea- pons with which we hoped to win the war, Truly we might create a ma- chine of 20,000 gunners but only at the expense of the even more deli- cate machines of our precious guns. Consequently we have dummy guns —old worn-out breeches mounted on ¢ legs. Into the dummy’s hole, or at it, the rookie may hurl his dummy shelis and bean bags from early morn to spewy eve. He misses the hole about as he hits it—at first any- way. He dents it, burrs the screw- box, mashes the bag or shell, and sometimes wrecks the whole blooming contrivance. But he learns; and the damage expense of his course is neg- ligible. There is also big-gun dummy am- bags made of sand or beans or even blocks of wood sewed up in canvas. Since mechanical rammers Insure ac- curate loading the actual gun in this case may be used without harm. Day after day crews wrestle with their gi- gantic charges for the sake of a few fifths of seconds to be clipped from record 'oading times. And they bet good money on the game. similar makeshifts and equipment. exercise has save valuable gear Special guns shoot little bullets in- stead of big expensive projectiles. Rafts hold target screens on which are painted the silhouettes of war- ships or submarines. An automatic diving raft has been perfected car- rying a periscope which submerges and then pops up in an astonishingly life-like manner. Kites makes excel- lent aeroplanes for aiming drill and small frco balloons may be called the clay pigeons of naval warfare. A few curlous ‘gadgets’ become vi- carious heroes. Man overboard drill is seldom very real. But a straw- stuffed figure surroptitiously slipped up to the bridge and tumbled over the side will excite the lifeboat’s crew of the watch to very creditable speed. Pulling machines are available at sea when boat drill is desired. They are similar to those used in a college gym- nasium, except thut a sailor hatcs unnecessary labor. Of course a basket mast is a dead But who will put back in preper places the hills that their once l were? give-away so far as identification of our battleships goes. and cruisers may easily rig an extra B munition—96-pound 14-inch powder |to the same extent. on a road out of Peking, them so fervently in his distress at the | man is calling the station in Chinese, of course.” Name of National Organization Which Has for Its Object Care of Army Horses and Mules. (New Haven Journal-Courfer.) This is the title of a national or- ganization which will' soon ask the people of the country to fill its treas- ury with the desired cash with which to carry on its mo!tfinportunt work. There should be a prompt responsc, The Red Star is an organization created for the care of army horges end mules. It 18 not generally known that the introduction of motor trucks has not eliminated the importance of the horses and mules. They are &3 essential today to the successful DProsecution of the wer as ‘they ever were. While the motor trucks haul up the ammunition to within five miles of the firing line, the horses and mules complete the service. Through a lack of efficicnt organiza- tion and congressional appropriation the losses among the horses and mules at the Mexican border last year mounted up to nearly 90 per cent. It is, to equip the army with the necessary instrumentalities for the care of the animals, to save them from disease ahd to restore them to health when sick, that the Red Star has boen created. The point is well taken that this is properly a phase of departmental service which should be pald for out of the common fund, but the fact remains that the war do- partment has no funds Yvnh which to act and has been forced to appeal to the country. A sufficlent number of horses in good condition is just as necessary for theé support of the sol- diers as the rifles in their hands. When their health becomes impaired to any degree whatsoever, the man power of the fighting army becomes impaited So that support given the Red Star organization Is support given th 1dier: s A Principles in Practice, (Economic World.) It may be said that there is virtual- 1y universal agreement in the principle that war profiteering is abominable and ought to be held in rigorous Nearly every other kind of drill or | restraint—the only disagreeing parties to | being those wha are engaged in the profiteering. primary object of governmental price- fixing to prevent war profiteering in as large a degree as may be possible. Yet it must be confessed that the ob- servable actual mental deed from corresponding with the re- sults actually these effects, indeed, one finds it diffi- cult to avold wondering whether the entire theory and practice fixing are not unsound and therefore really harmful, to the public welfare. experts seem to think that this is the case, and it is certainly hard to find convincing arguments wherewith cantrovert their opinion. It is, of course, the effects of govern- price-fixing are very far in- desired. When noting of prices rather than beneficial The economic to A Reminder of Home. (Kansas City Journal) . “I suppose,” remarked the traveller that brake- *‘Of course." “Makes me hoxpamck I don’t un- But destroyers | derstand what he says, but 1t sotinds very tamiliar.” ’