New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1917, Page 8

“ Britain Herald. .’IRALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. datly (!unhy excepted) at 4:15 p..m., @t Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. red at the Post Office st New Britain @8 Second Class Mail Matter. red by carrier to y part of the city for 16 cents & week, 65 cents & month. ibsariptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. 60 cents & month. $7.00 & e only fitable advertising medium in the eily. Clroulation books and press room always open to advertisers. The Herua will be found on sale at Hot: 's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad. w-y New Fork Cliy; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TOLEPHONI CALLS. usiness Office ditorial Rooms Member of the Assoclated Press, . The Assaciated Press is exclusively ' entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwite [ credited in this paper and also the local * news published herein. I am a member of an infant empire, a philanthropist by char- ~ aoter, and a citizen of the great { npnbllc of humanity at large. + —GEORGE WASHINGTON. They are getting along as well as can be expected. They have put in an ‘added claim, a sort of eleventh hour attraction, and say they are forcen to pay an additional freight tax of l!}ree per cent which is in the form of @& war measure. What If they have? Are they the onl{ ones who must pay some sort of tribute to the govern- | ment? Are they the only ones who ' must pay war taxes? Rest assured. they have no monopoly on this. Every | Tom, Dick and Harry, and Molly, Kate and Jane are paying war taxes, | and paying them willingly. This Is the first time we have heard anyone brag about paying such taxes. That 1s & privilege,—the payving of war taxes. No patriot would get on the | house-top and shout merely because ! he is doipg his duty by helping the { government finance the war. Ye gods, | the coal dealers are up against it ! when they have to resort to such ' tactics as these. i It is not the intention of this news- | paper to crucify the coal dealers. We | admit they have troubles enough of their own, and the main is as we have pointed out. They are | forced to let the public in on their business. That is, they cannot well “cover.. up” because of the go\‘ern-‘ ment’s action in setting prices for | coal at the mines, and making known to all people the freight rates. With a pencil and pad the uverage man can sit down and flguré out approx- imately what the coal dealers nra, doing. Under the old order, of course, one | qualty | Record. i La Follette is going to explain himself only in the larger cities. many halls in the kerosene circuit have no exits directly from the stage. —Buffalo Express. The man who performs the labor of getting it in seldom sets much store by the scent of the new-mown hay.—Capper's Weekly, » The cost of elections is going ‘up along with other necessities, but if the voter exercises discretion the can be improved.—Norwich It is barely possible now that Hill- quit wishes he had purchased a few of those Liberty bonds.—Norwich Bul- letin, And all the time the trolleys are doing a land-office business.—Bridge- port Post. The victory for Tammany in New York has some advantage to Phila- delphia. It will help to give’the New York gunmen employment at home. —Philadelphia North American. Mr. Munsey has taken the edi- torial off the back page of the New York Sun and placed it where it used | to shine in Charles A. Dana’s time. The experiment has thus been stamped as a failure by the man who made it.—Springfleld Republican. Roofless pies are now advocated as an economic measure. The way they build ple crust In some restau- | rants will go a long way to securing advocates for thls proposition.—Nor- wich Recobd. Never or Now. Listen, young heroes! your country is calling! So ! NASTY MEDICINES | BAD FOR CHILDREN requires medi- the bowels are ispose of undi- &m.d matter discarded by the stomach, lmtl‘l health is very apt to be ex- In any case, , powders, and nulfin‘ or unpalatable compounds, shonld never be given to children. Any therapentio virtue such remedies may possess is largely nullified by the young- sters’ natural antagonism. For most chilaren & mua. laxative, ad- ministered oecnnalmy, nuflnd to unrc alth. Clldw.ll' z ? lin 1.l o ylen-n»‘nt-tllfln‘ com! 44 i n b -om ‘Antr‘h)i' bml.u. (!g‘!lo lg‘cl%;zvc. taine y writing . g dan e v Washington Bty Montt DOING HIS BIT i THE McMILLAN STORE, Inc. “Always Reliable” WOMEN'S SUITS - Formerly $14.98 to $39.98. AT REDUCED PRICES FIRST BIG MARK-DOWN OF THE SEASON TO MOVE OUR LARGE STOCK OF FALL SUITS AT ONCE WE HAVE MADE VERY RADICAL PRICE REDUCTIONS Every suit in our store goes on sale Saturday morning at prices marked down from $3.00 to $9.00 lower than formerly. Each one of these suits is an exceptional bargain. Prices from $10.98 to $31. 98 They Will Give Perfect Satisfaction FUR TRIMMED COATS During the past week our Coat Buyer, while in New York, examined the stocks of several leading manufacturers. He had his choice from thousands of Coats but picked only a few of' the very best models from the stocks of half a dozen different makers. Each Coat. is one of a few from the very cream of its particular make—all are with rich Fur trimmings. JUST RECEIVED—ONLY PNE OF A KIND AND STYLE—Marked at especially low prices for Sdturday’s selling. In all shades and materials—These CANNOT be excelled —Come early Saturday and have your choice—Prices $12 98 to $ 49 9 8 Erom Py R all these things were secret. The ex- pose has called for artists. There must be real camouflage. And that's s P v T what we are getting in the cries for and falling, help,—commercial camouflage. But l 7 Fill up the ranks that have opened it -will not work this time. for you! 5 | .Time strikes the hour for the brave | £ OOMMERCIAL OAMOUFLAGE. | " and the true! . No soomer had the State Fuel Ad- inistrator announced the officlal prices for New Britain than the Now, 3 * 1 coal dealers here set up a howl. 'That wes to be expected. Camou- e! Immediately they told stories i woe. It s gaing to, be a cold, cold Wgnter, so far as they are concerned. y will have to go out of business. ey must close down their yards. ey cannot sell coal at the prices dered by the government because ese prices are:‘too low, and they innot give away their commodity. b 2 word, there is going to be a coal ine. As the Scotchmen have a fway of saying, “We have our doubts.” |;On 'the very day that the New Brit- coal dealers set forth their feeble jplaint, the Herald published fig- es which show conclusively that the 9’ 1 men, need not suffer at all, so far mf;klng money is cancerned. They ™ l get theirs, no matter which way e wind blows. So long as they are le to buy.goal at the mines and have it hauled into New Britain the ;*,’ ple here neéad hhve no r. And, le the dealers were predicting re_would be no chance of buying co | at the mlnes, along comes Fed- ral Coal Administrator Garfleld and ys there will be plenty of coal; that the mines will be kept working over- imie: that even contemplated strikes Il. not interfere with the output. 'United Coal Miners of America | ve settled most of their differences, ind those thn,t .aré not. settled are d on the - tnble While the war is pn they are all going to be Americans, nd there will be no shortage of coal. It is a sad and dreary picture the Boal dealers of this town present. are lashed to the mast, so they juld have us believe. Yet the fig- given out by the local coal com- )e—the committee that had some- , if not all, to do with the fix- of the cdal price—show positively the coal dealers cannot lose a int by selling their ‘wares at the new rices. So far asWwe can see, the nly great drawback to jhe.coal bus- ess is the fact thatiso many “‘charge ’’ are made public. The pub- if it cares to sit up and take potice, can know .almost as much bout the coal business as the men In it—except the amount of. sales. [he cruel government has set a price n coal at the mines, Be it egg, stove, put or pea coal, ll[ one has to do is consult the lisfJgnd the price s fknown. Then K rare $2.90 to New Britain. Even worse, Investigation has shown that it takes somewhere ound $1.60, with the probability it somewhat less, to defray all the penses of getting the coal from the pars ont the tracks to any man’s cellar. It we take a ton of egg coal, we find t costs $4.45 at the mine. Add the $2.90 freight rate to this and we have he coal ;worth $7.35 a gross ton as t stands an the tracks “somewhere in ew Britain.” Allowing the most lib- al estimate of $1.60 for carting it rom the car to someene’s cellar bin, e have this gross tan worth $8.95. nd yet, it is not sold as a gross ton, put as a net ton, which brings the yalue down seventy-nine cents, mak- g such a ton worth $816. It is then sold at the government's regu- ption price of $9.65, which gives the aler a real profit of $1.49 a ton. Fhat.is the lowest possible estimate. [It does not always cost $1.60 for de- flivery. Sometimes this can be done t a cheaper rate. | So, after all is said and ,done, we do ‘ot see where the coal ‘dealers of [New Britain or any other town have wery much over which to worry. tes. THE CALL TO THE COLORS. All registrants under the Selective | Draft Law have now been clnnslfled‘ under five groups. These groups rep- resent various degrees of liability to service. Under them men may be exempted once and for all, or thayf may be held in abeyance until the: government sees fit to issue the call for their services. Also, men who are not fitted for active military service may be pressed into service with the army behind the army,—that is, the men who attend to the wants of those on the firing line. In a few days each and every man who registered on June 5 of this year will be ardered to fill out a questionnaire. Depend- ing how he answers the questions there, under oath, he will be either sent with the fighting forces of Uncle Sam or allowed, to do serVice such as that of clerkship; or he will be per- mitted to remain at home with the women folk. In this way it is figured that four out of every flve men who registered will be called to the colors in one way or another. THE STUFF IS HERE. From Copenhdgen comes the des- patch which tells that Captain Baron von Richthoten, ‘Germany's leading aviator, expresses himself as uncan- cerned over the reported prepara- tions to place 20,000 American avi- ators on the western front. He be- lieves it will be impossible to get together that many trained pilots, as the training is long and costly and involves heavy casualty. The new- comers, he says, will, particularly at first, “be unable to judge the mili- tary conditions, and at least twenty- flve per cent. of the machines will be ftsabled during the long transport.” These latter ‘figures ary’ all prob- ability true, so far as predictions go. The newcomers may ' be unable to properly judge military :conditions, and, undoubtedly, a large number of them will be killed in’ Drepaflnl for aerial flighl Also, 2 large nurhber of machines may be wrecked, or mpde useless on the way over: plt &here'is no doubt that the United sté.tes is preparing to take a large and active part in the air fighting which is to come. There will be bullt in this country within the next twe]vp months or sooner, something ke 25,000 alfplanes. = There will. be trained the same number of aviators. Germany is hustling along in a vain attempt to gain supremacy in the air. The 'military experts have - about agreéd that the war will 'b¢ :won in the air. England, by the’ establish- ment of an Air Mlnlstry, shows that she, too, realizes the import of build- ing up a great acrljnf‘fl,net - Ttaly, with her great aviator Caproni, has al- ready - done much. in tH1& direction. The Lafayette escadrille in France has given an account of itself. -So, the German Captain Baron’s staremcnts to tne. contrary notwithstanding, it -is about to come—a grand finale in the form of a wonderful aerial fleet which may solve the problem of getting rid of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzol.—} lerns. We have the goods. FACTS AND PANCIES. “Forward with God!"" cried the kaiser in his message of congratula- tions to the young Emperor Karl. But we cannot help wondering why the kaiser's god should move for- ward in Italy and backward in France and Flanders.—Denver Rocky Moun- tain News., ) You whom your fathers made free and defended, Stain not the scroll that emblazons their fame— You whose fair heritage spotless de- scended, Leave not your children a birth- right of shame! Stay not for questions while Freedom stands gasping! Wait not till honor lies wrapped in his pall! Brief the lips’ meeting be, swift the hands’ clasping— for the wars!” is enough for them all! From the hot plains where they perish outnumbered, Furrowed and ridged by the battle fleld's plow Comes the loud summons; too long you have slumbered, Here the last Angel-trump—Never or Now! —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. . COMMUNICATED No Favoritism, Nov. 12, 1917. To the Editor of, the Herald: In last Friday night's Herald I read about the donation of $100 given 4o Co. I of New Britain from the base- ball fund. any more in volunteering or did the drafted boys do any more for Our Country than the boys of Co. E. N. B. Did ‘the boys of Co. I do Think it over and give them all their just deserves. Yours very truly, A FRIEND. We have the word of those In charge of the fund being raised that there is no intention to overlook any of the local men in service. The un- certainty of the whereabouts of some soldiers has caused delay in forward- ing comforts of life. tention whatsoever on the part of the committee to overlook Co. E or to There is no in- play favorites—Ead. Remarkable Remarks. (New York Independent) aude Adams—Never wear more thgI 8 three colors at one time. Dr. Dudley A. Sargent—Woman is biologically more of a savage than man. President James A. B. Scherer— The greatest need in the United States today is publicity. Colonel E. M. House—At all confer- ences those come home best who are best equipped. Genernl Leonard Wood—We must finish it on. the other side, or it will be finished here. Viscount Ishii—A closed door in China has never been and never will be the policy of my Government. Darwin P. Kingsley—Since 1832 Belgium has been the keystone in the arch‘ of international good faith. Roger W. Babson—Banks urge the people to save more money, but they do n6t urge them to make more money. - ‘Congressman J. Y. Sanders—No man is big enough to put politics into our conduct -0f this war; no man ought to be little enough to tryy. Nicholas Murray. Butler—Any hu- man being who askss for anything short of unconditional surrender |is asking’ us to organize for another still greater war. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Vrooman—Often in addressing gar- den clubs in the cities, I cannot be sure whether I am befre gardeners or roof-gardeners. K. K. Kawakami—The West ex- pects the East to open its door to the exploitation of the white race, but reserves the right to slam its own doors in the faces of Orientals. H. G. Wells—There can be _per- manent peace in the world only when tropical and sub-tropical Africa con- stitutc a field free to the commercial enterprise of every one irrespective of nationality. Life’s Little Difficulties. (New London Day.) WILLIAM A. BROWN. Willlam A. Brown, who is seen above on horseback, is another New Britain boy who is ready to do his “bit.” He enlisted in the cavalry of the regular army on May 22, 1917. At the present time it is not known where he is stationed. Brown’s par- ents are dead and the nearest of kin is his sister, Miss Margaret Brown, nt 585 Main street. / _ of broken glass, or, better, compel somebody else to eat it. There are moments when mankind is cantanker- ous, grouchy and sour, discontented, unsatisfled, morose and fidgety, and then some. An exchange poet says: “In summer, when I have to mow The lawn, I'd rather shovel snow, But in the gray and gloomy fall I do not care for snow at all, Ahd when the winter bliszards blow I'd rather mow than shovel snow; Yet when the spring is here again The thought of mowing gives me pain. From all of which you may opine The fault, if fault it be, is mine But, reader dear, upon my word, That thought is perfectly absurd. The explanation’s simple, quite: The seasons never come just right.” That’s it. It's the seasons. Or the weather. Or the water tastes fishy. Or there was no salt in the oatmeal. Or the foot tripped on a sheet when getting out of bed. Or the furnace fire went out. Or the check didn't come. Or the dress didn’t fit. Or the dyspspsia revived. Or the cat wasn’t let out. Or the roof leaked. Or the chimney smoked. Or the boss came in. Or the cook left. Or the murops arrived. Or the other fellow had her out. Or she was a little mift about something. And so on. The list of things which man makes responsible for his own cussedness would be appalling if it wasn't so funny. Army Life Works Wonders, (Birmingham Age-Herald) “Army life is wonderful,” sald Mr. Cobbles. “Your boy is in the army, I hear.” “Yes. We never could get Henry to work while he was at home, but the last time I visited him at camp he was peeling potatoes and trying to keep time with the regimental band.” Taking the Joy Out Of Life., (Exchange) Cholly—"Did you notice that Miss Bute permitted me to have the first dance with her last night?” Jadk—*"'Yes, she told me she always believed In having disagreeable things over with as soon as possible.” Woes Of the Rich. (Louisville Courier-Journal) “It must be nice to have a lady's maid.” ““Yes, but it's annoying the davs the cook doesn’t come, and you have to cook for the lady's maid,” sald the other lady with a sigh. For Rent. (Baltimore American) He—"I would glve lots to make you happy.” !She—*“Vacant or improved.” Correct. (Boston Transeript) Teacher— ‘Which was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered Bright Pupil—“Australia, sir. was there all the time, wasn't it?” It Secret-Service Efficiency. (Ohio State Journal) One gratifying thing about our con- duct of the war so far is the way our There are times when almost any- body. feels. for the immedinte season, that he would like to eat a bucket Secret-Service Tepartment seems to be out to lunch at the criti- cal moment. EXCEPTIONAL SAI.E.\ OF DRESSES /An opportunity to purchase aftbrnoon and evening dresses at prices from $2.00 to $7.00 lower than formerly. These beautiful dresses comprise our entire stock. This is not a manufactur- er’s sale of samples, but our regular stock—well made—well fitt; Silks and Satins, $12.98 t Serges, $5.98 to $19.98 each A WIDE VARIETY OF STYLE AND COLOR. Formerly $15.98 to $31.98 each. Formerly $7.98 to $24.98 each. -/ o ;ng dresses. $24.98 each * ALL SIZES. . - FOR SATURDAY ONLY Dress Skirts at $4.98 each. Regularly up-fo $7.38 each For this one day we will sell these skirts at this pnce«—on Monday their prices go back to $5.98, SG 98 and $7.98 each.—Made of wool poplin and serge in navy and black. , ... AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY } IN GEORGETTE CREPE AND CREPE DE CHINE BLOUSES Regularly $5.00 ea.,, While They Last $3.98 ea. A large manufacturer has offered ‘us his sample blouses at a great sacrifice for spot cash— This lot isn’t a large one (about §0 in all) but each one is a really wonderful are a few Pussy Willow Blouses in white only—These are regular Blouses—On Saturday at value. There $2.25 =" $3.00 As the quantity is limited we advise purchasing as early Saturday as possible. We have never offered so many absolute bargains in our ready-to-wear department at one time as w&- offer tomorrow. Take advantage of it.—Come early. FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Fires This time under the bollers. Boil- ers, you know, are the most highly speclalized athletes in, the world. Their stunt is the long-d! ht&nco squirt. They can squirt water harder and hot- ter and farther than any other known species. But even jockeys train. Whereas Marathon Mike must watch and fil- ter, measure and masticate every mor- sel that he eats. How he eats it is even more important. No wonder then that the tolling boiler, despite its lungs of steel and its cast Iron grate-bar craw can survive a race weeks long only on the most careful | and well regulated diet. The long race lasts the days and nights clean through, and with never so much as a breathing space. Fire- men, or stokers, are the tralners. So painstaking is the nursing watchful- ness of thelr attendance that at the end of four hours they are exhausted and must be relicved. But cut the soft stuff. It's just plain shoveling coal I'm after you to know about. An electric light tells the men when to do it. Imagine an immense box of steel, the dimly lighted fireroom. Before a line of furnace doors framed in the glow of 1 fire slouch five half naked giants rest- ling on their shovels or their slice- bars. The play of their muscles in the yellow light is like the movie of a strong man showing off. But they are not showing off, for this is their noment of relaxation. | Suddenly a bell rings. Eyes hal? | involuntarily swing to a box on which ighted dlscs show numbers 47-8- Fire furnaces number 7, § and 9, it means. The Giants without haste but with the graceful speed of vast poised muscular strength swing back the sparkling doors. Intolerable flame-heat bursts forth. Bodies glow red by the intense flare and glisten with the sweat it brings. Cohal has bcen laid out ready. A swoop of shovel, a heave, and into the mouth of Hell sprays the black gravel spreading to the uttermost cor- ners of the grate. But a few shovel- fuls are necessary. A sHght read- !but like a fiery acid eat through the Justment of level and the doors cresh shut again. Throughout the watch at intervals of 5 or 6 minutes this per- formance is regularly repeated. And if the Engineer desires more steam he | need not speak but only speed his “time-firing device”, which is thc group of illuminated numbered discs. , “Keep your fires uniformly thick™ | preaches the Chief. And he shows ' them how a thin spot may burn through and steal all the forced-draft air not only depriving the other coal, furnace metal itself. Again the fire must not be too heavy. When too much coal is put on ' insufficient air comes through and enormous volumes of black smoke are produced. It's exactly llke a mos- quito smudge, all smoke and no heat. Under usual conditions 6 inches is deep enough for coal on the grate, but under high pressure of draft 12 inches thickness is required. Deck rails and binnacles are not the oniy’ polished spots on a battle- ship. Steaming regulations require that “fires be kept bright and clean.” Hardly with soap and water. But with hoe and claw and slice-bar, | forms of pokers with which the fire- man tends his fire untll when you look at it from beneath the grate there are visible no dark spots from | collected ash and clinker, but only a homogeneous brilllance—or as the nurse puts it: “She’s cream now, Smut,—look at 'er!” England and America produce the greatest athletes in the world, and the greatest boilers. Doesn't it seem unfair with all the famine in the world that on every man-of-war there “Speculating ?* “In a small way. She borrows when Its high and pays back when 'FOUR WEEKS IN HOSPITAL No Relief—Mrs. Brown Fin- ally Cured by Lydia E. - Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Cleveland, Ohio.—““For years I suf- fered so sometimes it seemed as though I could not stand it any longer. It ‘was all in my lower organs. At timesI could hardly walk, forif I steppedona little stone I would almost faint. One day Idid faint and my husband was | sent for and the doc- , Iwas ta- i _ ken to the hospitsl md stayed four weeks but when I came home I wonld faint just the same and bad the same pains. A friend who is a nurse asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound. I began taking it that very day for I was suffering a great deal. Ithas already done me more good than the hospital. To anyone who is suffering 18 I was my advice is to stop in the first drug-store and get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound before you go home.”” —Mrs. W. C. BROWN, are ten to fifty athletes getting a 2844 W. 12th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Square meal every 5 minutes in the | S ————— 24 ours? But it isn’'t unfair. unfairness lies in my words. Lies is words—word is lles. Lies—Ilies—Iies. A life of lies. Working the Market. (Kansas City Journal.) “My wife watches the sugar mar- iet closely.” The “’ There Are 100 of His Old Pictures BUT One New One Coming! WM. S. HART in His Latest Picture— “THE NARROW TRAIL” LYCEUM