New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1917, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 14, 1917, T Britain Herald. (] JALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St Bntered at the Post Office at New Britaln as Second Class Mall Matter. elivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a weck, 65 cents a month. ‘Subscriptions for paper to be sent by mail, payable in advance. 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year. The only profitable advertisivg medfum fn * the city. Circulation books and press' room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale a: Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York Cliy: Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONL CALLS. Office ... 3 Rooms .. Business Editorial Member of the Associated Pre: The Astoclated Press is exclus entftled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or hot otherwise credited fn this paper and also the local news published herein. We hold these truths to be self- i~ evident:—that all men are created | equal; that they are endowed by [ ¢ their Creator with certain in- " alienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. NO TRUCE. “What T am opposed to is not the feeling - of the pacifists, but ‘their stupidity,” said President Wilson in Hls address before the American Wederation of Labor at Buffalo. “My Beart is with them, but my mind has & contempt ffor them. I want peace; ‘Bt I know how to get it, and they 6" not.” The pacifists and their ilk would have peace by bargaining with | Germany; they would have peace by getting the Entente Allies and the United States of America to lay down their arms; they would have the Im- perial German government pay & slight indemnity to the Belgium peo- ple and, perhaps, to the French gov- ernment. " 5 There is a difference between a all farther than this campalgn, where| Protestants and Catholics and mem- bers of the Jewish falth are working and side by side, for the! ends. One of the principles upon which this land was builded had | to do with religious freedom, though there were some cases where such a term was. rather mythical. In Purl- tanical times religious freedom was a term rather than a concrete idea. striving, same behind. The dead past has been kind in burying the dead. Since the great religious organiza- tions of this land have seen fit to work an the same plane—to meet each other in the great and glorious spirit of Americanism, setting aside estab- lished convictions which can well be left for the council rooms—the peo- ple of the masses and classes can well afford to do the same thing. They can support this movement with the full- ness of heart so characteristic of Amgrica. Tt has been well pointed out in the remarks of the speakers at yves- terday’s luncheon at the Elks', club that what we have done in the way of purchasing Liberty Bonds has been nothing more nor less than the in- vestment of money. Investment, as such, can have nothing to do with the Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus | campaign. Here it must be Patriot- This is the gentle ism—every inch. art of giving. Our boys at the front will be en- cauraged at the manner in which the folk at home are looking after the interests of their loved ones in the trenches. Our boys will fight the bet- ter fight when they know of the suc- cess of this campaign—for it must be successful., New Britain is asked to contribute $65,000. That is a mere bagatelle when compared with what New Britain can do if it makes up its mind to accomplish things. It means, in a word, that each and every person in this city is asked to give only at the rate of one dollar, where- as there are few who cannot and will not give more. For the good name of New Britain, make it $100,000. ‘WAR BREAD. In war time all men are = called upon to give their undivided support to the government. Especially is this so in a war that involves the great- | est natigns on the earth. More than ever is this so when the men of the | ce and & permanent peace. What he pacifists would get could be de- bed in no better term than that of “an armistice.” They would have jence for the moment. Then, when ‘rmu,ny got ready, when Germany lrecovered from the blows that have som ‘dealt, she would 'go forth again ‘the warpath and take up the bur- en where she left off. ‘Such & peace ould most probably lead to a world conquest by pan-Germanism, and we an have no such peace. President Wilson knows how to effect a peace, nd it is by fighting to the finish. ‘olonel Henry Watterson would say: ‘o Hell with the Hapsburgs and the ohenzollerns, THE SPIRIT OF ’'17. At the Elke club, vesterday, there pvas' held a memorable meeting which parked the inauguratiom of the cam- gn to raise money for our soldiers oand—money which will be ex- world, and scarce in other parts. Due | to the war England and her European As | Allies and the South American coun- industrial walks of life are considered. | The butcher, the baker, the candle- stickmaker, all men who in any way | serve the public wants must help con- | serve the various commodities dispense. Again, it is for them to see that profiteering is cut to a minimum degree. The baker is on the stand at the present moment. There is an effort to conserve the principal ingredient that goes to make his wares. Wheat is abundant in certain parts of the tries have not been able to plant and harvest the crops of old. Those coun- | tries that have large wheat crops are so far away from the ones that need | the wheat as to make shipment matter of too great expense. Presfdent Wilson will have a few a Happily, we have left all those things | I said, | Deciding Momentous Question, | run by the Teutonic armies {s much i less an academic question than it used to be.—Springfield Republican. The unusually early and heavy fall of smow in so many places con- vinces us that Santa Claus plans to do his reindeering early.—Paterson- Press-Guardian. Senator Borah wonders how farm labor is to be secured next season. We do not know; the refusal of coal to non-essential industr’lgs might help. ‘*New York World. 2 It is early to predict yet just how far the Italians will continue to re- treat, but probably not much beyond Sicily.—New London Day. | Russia wonders what the British navy was doing while the German fleet was out in the Faltic. We don’t know, but ¢'ll bet the officers weren’t out dickering for a shameful peace with the enemy!—Norwich Record. A thousand Germans have lost their jobs on the Brooklyn water- front. In six months there have been 42 suspiciotis fires in this territory. That's the reason.—Syracuse Post- Standard. War weariness affects those ac- customed to ease and who dislike to he disturbed in their daily orbit. Those who seem to be winning are not willing to quit. Those sorely pressed dislike to give up. The war [is far from ended.—Berkshire Eagle. WHEN BROADWAY IS DARK. s Still caked with mud of the trenches; Still baked with hell-fire heat; From death's gray fogs and stenches, I'm back to the World's One street. The red of the nights Ot fever and fights t T'll lose in the dear white glow! But_where are the lights— The” Broadway lghts— The lights that I used to know? its Plunked hard in the leg at Remy, I said, as in mud I lay, “I'm living to dance with Mamie In Jim’s when the morning’s gray! They’ll put me to rights, And back to the sights Of Heaven’s own town I'll gol” But where are the lights— The Broadway lights— The lights that I used to know? At night, to the westward facing, I'd see in the dead-black sky Those flery chariots racing Hellbent on a signboard high. I'd whispeer, ‘“Look there! I'm watchng the flare Of lamps on the Scorchers’ Row But where s the glare— The Broadway glare— The glare that I used to know? “It'll be like Heaven Where gleams from the roof-tops dart.” 3 they | But here it's only eleven And black as a Boche's heart! Still sick from the fray, I want to be gay And dance in the midnight show, But where is the Way— The Bright, White Way— The Way that I used to know? —JOHN O'KEEFE in the New York World COMMUNICATED THOSE BOXES. P. I Egan Says “They've Been There All the Time.” My dear forgotten Bish K. Ibble Your query is certainly a riddle. Why don’t you answer your friends A and B, Instead of referring the question to words to say in regard to the bread situation. What he can do, under the law, is known. Yet the nation will { I came to New { The boxes then, were In front of the me? Britain in 1864, store, ded on ocomforts for the men |get nowhere unless there is co-opera- | The store has been changed, and the hting the battle af democracy. Nota- ble addresses were delivered by men om the various walks of life. Note- . All manifested keen appre- tion of the new spirit of co-oper- btien that has developed in this coun- tion. The Federal Food Conserv&tors‘! must work in harmony with the big bakers of the country. There which at one and the same timo ! means the saving of wheat. The | wheatless days proposed will go a long | boxes too, But they are the same old two.” “one ‘or are | The boxes ‘A saw in the year 1888, hy wes the attitude of these re-|many aspects to the saving of bread, | Were nothing but a simple crate, ‘Which came with the boxes mentioned ahove, Anrd bore a “trade mark’ ler’'s” Glove. buy “Mil- “ between religious organizations|way toward conserving the crop that | In 1895 the city widened the street, jaged in war service. | ‘What 1s taking place in New Brit- n is but a replica of the same move- nt throughout the country where, in 5,000 different separate communities, e began, yesterday, a campaign by Y. M. C. A. to raise $35,000,000 lor war relief work. Coupled with his magnificent organization is the nited strength of the Knights of olumbus. This latter organization @s already erected and ‘%quipped orty-elght recreation halls in the ous national cantonments through- put the nation. The men who belong o the Knights of Columbus are work- Ing shoulder to shoulder with the nen of the Y. M. C. A. America can well rejoice at this new spirit. If the war does nothing Ise than wipe away the old religious prejudices that have too long held in his land, it may be looked upon as boon to mankind. Political differ- nces have long ago been swept oft he boards. Religious animosities jre swamped. At the same time that hese two - organizations aforemen- foned are endeavoring to money with which to provide com- orts for the soldiers, the TJewish prganizations of the nation are striv- ng to help the men in the National rmy. A campaign was started Sun- day whereby $4,000,000 will be raised or the relief of Jewish war sufferers, d an additional $1,000,000 for the d of men of that race who are serv- ng with Uncle Sam's colors, If the country needed any proof hat its people are united in the con- jwct of this war, it could look no secure must go all around,—between the | European natlons and America at war with Germany. Lard, sugar, and cream, playing a large part in the | making of the staff of life, these three things too must be cut down. War bread will be found to be far different from peace bread. The sizo of the loat may be materially reduced. The content of the loaf will be an- other thing that will affect the Amer- ican family, but only in the nature of being not so pleasing to the palate. | ‘We have reached the stage where | bread must be shaped and baked to | sult the occasion. The one way in | which this can be done is by all in- | terested,—and that means the nation, to adhere heartily to the program laid | i 1 down by the Federal authorities. The | bakers, first of all, must lend a help- | sng hand, and this by following the | directions for baking. The consumers | must next fall into line, and this by | not complaining because the bread is not of the same calibre once en- | joyed. As to the price, that is where the patriotic spitit of the bakers can | he best manifested. ACIS AND FANCIES. Those Russian dancers are some wild whirling these Bridgeport Post. doing days.— it would seem as if the caretaker of even a small cemetery was never- theless invested with very grave re- sponsibllity. —New London Day. ! thelr memory? | stand for the glory of the U. S. A. And the boxes were moved back three teet. You could not have burned them B, as you say, Because the same boxes are there to- day. - . —P. J. EGAN. HONOR OUR BOYS. Suggestion That Roll of Honor Be Erccted at Central Park. To the Editor of the Herald: Can you tell nfe why we have a billboard on the saving of food and we have no honor roll to the men that'have left for the army. What is wrong with our city, the best in the country and yet so slow? Why can we not honor our men at the front and put up at least a few boards in New Britain, wake up and honor vour men as they should be honored. We can save food if it is called for; but let us honor our men as befits a patriotic people. Why not put up an honor roll as other towns have done? We honor | our men, why not show it? We are all for Uncle Sam here in New Britain. ‘Why not let the people know it? We are of a mixed population; but all Let us hope there will be a few in the city who can see the need of honoring our boys who give their all for us. Let us look for an honor roll, and let us work for our boys, at the front 0Old New Britain will be heard from in France. For, we have the best in the world here in New Britain. Let us work for the honor roll and for our boys. Respectfully, E. G. PRATT, The Attraction. “Let’s go to church.” “It's raining too hard.” What will happen to Switzerland !now that northern Italy is being over- “Wwell, let's go to the movies; it's only four blocks further.” d New Millinery Bargains and Free AT THE ANNIVERSARY SALE $4.99 | i Richly fur trimmed Turbans, Colontals and Sallors, Chin-Chins of taupe velvet, trimmed With fur balls arranged in very offec- i tive positions. Exquisite gold and silver lace hats combined With velvet crowns, in many different and unusual shapes, in black, white, teups, navy and Other colors, beautifully $4 99 . VERY POPULAR TAMS . Matrons’ Lyons Velvet Draped Turbans—Made of finest quallty Lyons silk velvet, black only beautifully made and lined, gros- grain ribbon $2.98 trimmed Hats—Come in Turbans, Chin-Chins and Tri- cornes, made of fine quality feather pastings, in all colors, In- cluding the much wanted purple, red and taupe $2.98 On sale ... Hatter’s Plush Banded Sallors— High lustre, fine quality Hatter's plush Sailors, that would ordi- narily sell for $4.00, grosgrain ribbon trimmed and fully lined. e $2.69 Gold and Sliver Flowers, 49C special 49c New Feather $1.00 Fancy Feather: special . ‘; The Season’s Cleverest Trimmed Hats Souvenirs 800 Fine Velvet Shapes—Large, small and medium shapes in de- sirable styles in black and an assortment of colors, all reduced from higher prices. For 95 this sale only WISE, SMITH & CO., Hartfor FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Mail. Mall is the greatest all-round joy of a sailor's life. I say this knowing full well the sailor, and making due allowance for the choice he would make between beer and books, or skirts and a game of chess. To one man mail is misery. He is the most fidgety man in the Navy. When Bright-Work call goes at 8:15 in the morning he usually explodes. Perhaps he is just folding up his lib- erty blues (uniforms). Or he may be wiping his razor after a shave behind the barbette. Or he is finishing a story, or a pipe, or a bit of 'scouse (stew) from the galley. But whenever the bugle blows or a gong sounds or a word is passed sure as shooting he is doing something he ‘“specially wants to finish”; and it almost kills him to knock off. Stop work man grumbles when the Turret Offi- cer orders secure after a gruelling drill. “Here it's war—an’ we mighta done half a second better on that last load! Besides Skinny didn't half get his bag up straight.” Even when he comes off watch i vait a bit, Mate, I wanta see what's round that cape. Or, “Go way; I know it's eight bells. But I'm just getting the hang of this here helm.” I have to tell you his name or there wouldn't be anything to tell. It is Smith, plain common or garden Smith—sbell it with an: “1". One thing Smith couldn’t bear. With all his philosophy and even the com- fort of his wonderful vocabulary nothing he could say or do or think was able to tide him over the painful moments of the day or the week when in an agony of suspense he sat and walted for his mail. The trouble of course was that Smith had a sweetheart. She was beautiful and devoted, so devoted that she wrote every day—almost. That “almost” was what Dpretty nearly drove Smith crazy. She addressed her letters to “‘Some- thing W. Smith, Esq., U. S. S. Any- ship, Care of the Postmaster, New York City.” which is the regular way for all battleships in time of war. The Postmaster, New York, has a tremen- dous department given over to Navy letters. For he alone knows the se- cret misstons and anchorages of the Fleet. Letters pour in from sweet- hearts and wives and other acquain- tances all over the world. Common clerks sort the million missives into bags. Uncommon clerks have access to a private list by which they can direct each bag to its ship, or hold it until the Navy Department chooses to divulge her whereabouts, Smith’s ship may be anchored with the Fleet in some out-of-the-way har- bor. Each morning a destroyer speeds in fiying a despatch flag. Immediately Smith begins to fume. He can scarce- 1y walt until the Officer-of-the-Deck calls away a motor boat for the Mail Orderly. Smith bites the end off his pipe when he sees four other war- ships’ Jaunches ahead of his. But he loses patience altogether when Ilike fiies around food the motor boats scramble and scuffle with awkward Haste and only delay cach other in the hope of getting first mail. Finally the boat returns. Four bags and a pouch come over the gane- way. The Mail Orderly's face is full of annoyance for the nasty job ahead. Sorting mail for a thousand men is no small task. But Smith sees only per- verse slowness between him and the letter he knows is in one of those bags -unless that almost hoodoo is work- ing. An endless hour ensues. Official mail is delivered first. Next that of the officers. And finally the crew by divisions. A petty officer of Smith's divislon receives mail for the hundred men or so under his command. An expectant huddled crowd press in while he stands on a dity box and reads the names of the lucky ones. Smith hovers nervously on the out- skirts. He is so tense his legs don’t work right. Suddenly: *‘Something W. Smith!” The cry seems to Smith to echo from the bulkheads and from the deck above. He plunges through his ship- mates crowds in. and seizes the let- ter. He rips it open. “Dear Sir,” it runs, “Would you be interested in our new mining stock * * * * ** With an inarticulate curse Smith staggers back It's an “‘almost’” day-—almost every day, but not today. That’s about all. Finally the strain of “these days hecame too great. Among his thousand shipmates our Smith found six other Smiths. By a little politics he managed to have them all put into his division or com- pany. Nowadays only once a week is he forced to o below and suffer the ex- quisite torture of waiting for his mail The six other days he works hard on deck Jjust at mailtime——extra hard while the other Smiths take their turn. Remember though, Smiths. Have mercy on the one you know, and especially if his name is Gagenyslipper or something like that for there must be only one of him— And think how he’s waiting . . . they all aren’t A Lesson in Fithic: (Exchange) The voung fellow was a stenogra- pher working in a Senator office. One afternoon he was working alone towards 6 o'clock. cleaning up tho day's work The telephone rang, “Hello!” called the stenogiapher “Can you suggest a high-class se tary?” asked the voice on the tele- phone, the speaker evidently think- ,lng that the Senator was on the line. Clever witted J—— was rhinking hard. Imitating his emplover's voice, lhe answered: “Yo:'ve come to the right spot. Young J-—— is the man i for the place—brilliant young fel- 'low can fill a responsible post.” | There was marked relief in the cn- quirer's voice as he replied: Al right, Senator, we leave it to you. What's his name? Good bye!" Young J rushed out in search of his Senator, and to the Secretary of |War, and, it is said, he told both {the ruse he had played. They helped ! him out and he got the job. " For a moment there was silence. Then the business man spoke again. “Clever wasn't it?” “Slick, I call it.” burst out Jack. “I don’t see anything to brag about in that fellow. He impersonated his employer,” said his mother. “He would not be my candidate for a po- sition of trust.” “But, if he hadn’t, why he would not have got the place. It was a clear casc of seizing opportunityx” “I thin said- - Tack's mother, quietly, hat 1 would fecl nro if a boy of mine let opportunity slip The McMillan Store, Inc. ALWAYS RELIABLE. SPECIAL SALE OF MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN’S BATH ROBES Buy Bath Robes now at a saving. Take our word for it they will be considerably higher. We Just recelved from the mills six cases of Bath Robes which we bought last February. These go on sale at onoce. Although this Speclal Sale offers more than five hun- dred Bath Robes this 1s only a part of our requirements and we and you will have to pay more later on. ME ’S BATH ROBES For This Snlg $3.98, $4.98, $5.98 each, i WOMEN’S For This Sale $2.98 to $8.98 BATH ROBES each. CHILDREN’S BATH ROBES For This Sale, sizes 2 to 6 years $1.49 each. Sizes 8 to 16 years $2.98 each. Better Values and more Bath Robes to choose from here than any store in New Britain. they are always acceptable. Buy Bath Robes now for Christmas Gifts, CHILDREN’S WASH DRESSES In Pleasing New Styles Priced 98¢ to $2.98 Each. Creations from a manufacturer of Children’s Wash Dresses exclusively designed by designers who study carefully styles for childrén of all ages. (‘x{t and finished by experienced operators who know how to make Children’s Dresses and make them right in every detail. Plenty of these Smart Dresses now on sale in Plain Ginghams, Plaids and Stripes. SPECIAL SALE _ For Thursday and Friday Only Children’s Sleeping Garments Made of Heavy Flannelette for feet. Special 79c each. Value ages 4 to 12 years, with or without 98c . KNIT UNDERWEAR Special values for two days only: Women’s Ribbed Vests and Pants, 2 for 79c. value 50c each. Men's Heavy Wool Mixed Shir $1.00. Men’s Heavy Wool Process each, value $1.00. and Drawers at 79c each, value Ribbed Shirts and Drawers at 78c FLANNEL WORK SHIRTS For men, in blue and gray. Heavywelghts. Special 79c each. MEN’S COAT SHIRTS Good quality in neat striped effects. Made soft cuffs, Special 79c ea, needs. LINEN WEEK—Extra values at this special Rcflilu; of household i “But the press is holding J— up | as the latest example of seizing op- portunity on the spot.” as far as the public is concerned.’ BANNER. CHARLES V. The above picture is one of Uncle Sam’s military musicians. He is Charles V. Banner, a member of the 30th infantry band of the New York state regular army. Banner is the son of William L. Banner of 225 Cur- tis street, this city. It is safe to say that he is one of the most popular men in the army around meal time as one of his duties is to signal when mess is ready to be served. ure of deceit. What do you thiik, doctor?” “I agree with you,” answered the doctor. 1 admire quick Wit, but ot enough to want one of my young men to im- personate me. 1 couldn’'t feel just safe in having him around. T would say there was a twist in his moral rather than seize it through a meas- | makeup.” } “That's where the harm comes In, | | said the doctor. “Other young fel- | lows will think it a great game to im- personate their employers. Can’t you see where that might lead to?” “That’'s =o0,” agrecd the busines man. “I didn’t look at it that way.' “The honest way is always the best,” said the mother, gatheritg uo her knitting work. & Bachclors With Dependents, (Des Moines Capital) There is comfort for the bachelor in the wording of the new income tax section of the war revenue bill. The question is ofter put to the . Government coliectors of internal revenue whtther a man who is head of a family, but unmarried, can have the $2,000 exemption. The income exemption for a single man is $1,000. The law uses the term ‘head of a family.” In the amendment as passed by Congress the law reads, “if the person making the return be a head of a family or a married man with a wife living with him.” Later on in the same section, in re- ferring to the fact that there shall be $200 additional exemption for each child dependent upon such per- son, the term “head of a family” Is again used. This is a manifestly a fair provision. There are many men performing the duties of a household head who are not married. They are under heavy expense in taking care of parents or relatives. The Government has wisely placed them in the same category with men' who have wives dependent i upon them. b - Favorablo But Quiet. (Gertrude Atherton) As for the great army of inherent- 1y domestic women—und they are mil- ! lions strong—suffrage may improve but it will never change them. T had almost forgotten those picket women making asses of themselves at the | White House gates. It 1s hardly worth while to remark that every ' jparty has had its fools and cranks, its pub- [ licity maniacs and its victims of mis- taken methods. They don’t matter. They have their male counterparts in congress. Personally, it has never affected mo whether I voted or not. As far as I can see, it would not have helped me | ¢ in the least in my career to vote nor taught me how to write a story if the abnormal spot had not been im- planted in my top-story at birth, nor helped me to sell stories when com- ploted. Nor could any mortal power resident in man have prevented me from writing or doing generally as I pleased. For that reason I never have | been able to get up any frantic rer- i sonal interest in sufirage and for the same reason my opinion is quite un- blased. T bheliove that the franchise would improve the lot and intellf- gence of the great mass of women without talent, an@ be good for the world in general, i<