New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1917, Page 6

% NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, New Britain Heral HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. 5 Proprietors. Issyed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:16 p. m., at Herald Building, 47 Church St. Hntered at the Post Ofice at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents & week, 65 cents a month. Subacriptions for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. 60 cents a month, A7.00 = year. The only profitable advertising medium {n 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. spd Bro way, ‘New York Clty; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONN CALLS. Buriness Offce Editortal Rooms . Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local published herein WHAT IS OUR PART? P, far from home, trapped in a trench by jeering Prussian horde, They Whom we sent have given lfe at bayonet and sword; i They made the noblest gift of all { for country and for cause: |, Thetr sacrifice, so very great, should give all men to £ pause ++ Amd ocounsel well if what we've done {is worthy ~our es- i e tato— Can gve say true that what we do | will ever compensate ‘For mother's loss, for father's grief, the price a wife must pay? this thought sink deep in heart and prompt an act TODAY! * —JOHN NELSON STEWART, JR. L 0-let & GASPING FOR AIR, Colomel Roosevelt after his visit to ~ Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I, vester- ! day grew militaristic in the extreme. One-might almost say he waxed an- archistic. Nothing the administration has done so far in this war quite suits the Colonel. The manner in which the army has been handled is any- thing but what the Colonel would have. “There has been as much sense in handling our army as would have been shown in handling a bush league baseball team,” he says, which is” nothing if not elegant language, The average person, of course, Will have little or no knowledge of bush league baseball teams and the manner \in which they are managed. So Colonel Roosevelt's comparison of methods will appeal to but very few of the intellectuals. The others al- ready know that there is only one man in the United States who could have conducted Uncle Sam's war plens in the proper way, and the people failed to impose that task upon him. A fish out of water goes through a great many twists and turns. THE REASON FOR PRICE FIXING. When the Federal Government ap- ponted a Fuel Administrator in the person of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, it did #0 not with the idea of giving one man a high sounding title, but for the purpose of adjusting coal prices throughout the land. The period of profiteering was then at its height. Taking advantage of war conditions many men in the various realms of trade also took advantage of the gen- sral public. Producers, distributors, wholesalers, all down the line made Wwas appointed, comprising three men of reputable standing, representative men, and who were fair and square in their dealing with both sides involved. At least no charges have been brought against them. To these fell the task of recommending the prices for coal to be fixed in this com- munity. After investigation, their findings were to be reported to the State Fuel Administrator and from there forwarded to Washington, the last court. Whatever prices the Federal Fuel Administrator ordered were to stand. These prices have been named. and the public is by this time well acquainted with them. Now come the coal dealers of New Britain and set up of Woif. They shout, from the house-tops, of injustice, the while they set afloat stories of coal famine and proclaim to the populace at large that the coal business in this town is sliding down the well greased tobogzan to perdi- tion; that they cannot do business under the new prices. In support of their arguments the dealers show bills which carry totally different prices for coal at the mines than those quoted by the Government which has fixed the prices for this commodity. have noted, are dated before the Government's order wgnt &nto effect. Others show that the dealers here purchased Independent coal, and not Company coal, the latter being much cheaper in price. .They claim they cannot get Company coal. Whatever their complaint, we believe the deai- ers, as well as the public, should be given justice. And yet they had their chance, with the public, to present the truth of the matter. When the local committee was appointed the dealers were asked to open their books, to lay their cards on the table. It has been charged that they were somewhat reluctant to do this, that they held back, that they did not make a clean breast of it, that they, in a word, were guilty of commercial mouflage. If this is true, they are now suffering from the results of their own sins. The public is profiting be- cause it could and did show’ proof of oppression. The coal prices here were too high, or they would not have been lowered. Had the coal prices been too low, had they been qf such a na- ture that the dealers were suffering, and not the public, .the prices would have been made higher. It was not | the intent or the purport of the coal committee to lower prices. That committee. might just as_ well have made the prices higher. Its duty was to fix fair and reasonable prices, those that would work no hardship. It was guided by what the coal men sald, just as it was guided by what facts the public produced. It worked from facts, and not from fiction. If the coal dealers now have figures to show they cannot do business under the new prices they must have had the same figur: men a cry s when the local com- mittee was holding public hearings on the question. Tf they had proof posi- tive then that they could not con- tinue in business under lower prices, why did they not bring forth the papers? The Government does not intend to force any honest man out of | business. The idea of fix\ng'prices ‘was not to close up the coal yards. It was merely a precaution against pro. fiteering, of which excess. there was an s _ WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE. President Wilson writing to the Chairman of the War Savings Com- mittee remarks that we have probably wasted, ae a nation, more than we are about to spend In this war, and that it the war teaches us thrift it will be worth the cost. This, on a calcu- lation of money alone. To which & concerted drive against the unpro- teoted ultimate consumer. The coal dealers, retail and wholesale, were not aloof from taking a hand in the work. They had a finger in the pie. Having assumed the burden,—it might be called the whi‘e man’s bur- den were it not for thelfact that all oolors of skin are involved,—Dr. Gar- fleld evolved a plan of action. This Is a big country. The job of adminis- tering to even.the coal wants of its populace is a big contract. So the Federal Fuel Administrator set about the work in a logical way. He took the bull by the horns and found it a hard animal to throw. There be- Ing 48 states in the Union it was thought there should be a coal ad- ministrator for each of the several states, with Dr. Garfield holding the whip hand in Washington was appointed to take care of Con- necticut. It stands to reason that Mr. Russell knows his Connecticut much better than Dr. Garfield who could not devote his entire time to any one particular state. And yet even Mr. Russell would not undertake the task of setting coal prices for all of Connecticut's cities and towns, there being 26 important ones. .So he ap- portioned the task to local committees, just as the Federal authorities had devised. For New Britain, a coal committee N So it was | that State Fuel Administrator Russell | the New York Times rosponds, “As we are spendinz billions, this the President’s declaration, sounds ex- travagant until things are sidered. War is temporary and there is an end to its costs. Thrift is a matter of character, and descends from generation to generation. And the lesson of thrift is to be taught to so many millions that trifling sums saved by each of them make billions for all of them quickly. Already thero are 10.000,000 hondholders among us. If the number should be doubled at the next loan offering, that would be smaller increase than from two con- less than one in a hundred of us as investors to one in ten. When savers run up to 20,000,000 or more, a mere $30 apiece gives a billlon, and the saving of $30 shoWs how to save in larger sum. Whether thrift is a matter of char- acter which descends from generation to generation is a thing that may well be doubted. In some cases it is un- doubtedly true. Tn others it is false. The canny Scot is known the world “‘a thrifty mon The Ger- is frugal. The Irishman is a spendthrift. And so run the national traits; that is, so far as they are em- bodied the briny same characters to America and the close over as » man in persons deep. who Transplant live o'er these fisted become money-spenders. At least it has been so in the past. The Some of these bills, we’ the | first generation born on this soil has had the reputation of spending all the pioneers saved. Men who came over from the old countries strived to build up fortunes, and did, only to have them dissipated by the young bloods. From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves is a process that usually re- quires but three generations. / When the President wrote to the Chairman of the War Savings Com- mittee he probably had some of these | things in mind. FHe undoubtedly will agree with the New York commenta- tor who sees something more than | bonds by the vast majority of the people and who, in remarking an added attraction in the sale of these certificates, says: ‘“‘Whoever holds them will be a better citizen, more appreciative of what the Government does for him and more zealous in its defense against attacks’” Profits and ings are two sepagate and distinct things. In the first case, excessive profits, mere man is liable to develop into a care-free and easy-going spend- er without a thought of the mjorrow, or of God, or country. In the sec- ond case, savings that mean sacrifices, are more apt to develop those traits of character which make for better men and women, We believe the President is: right in his supposition that we have, as a nation, wasted more than we are abbut to spend in the war. - We be- lieve, too, they he is right in think- ing that the war, If it teaches us thrift, will be worth the cost on a cal- culation of money This na- tion, previous to its entrance into the war, had seen its peoplo spending money like so many drunkerr sailors of the old school. There had to come a halt dometime. It is here. With the floating of Liberty Loans and the investment values connected there- with, there has come a new realiza- tion of thrift. Since some of these bonds will be held until called for by the government, there will be effected a saving that would never have come about save for the war. ‘It has done that much, any way. The war has already taught us to save. savi alone. FACTS AND FANCIES. The Villa forces creating disorder on the border probably have Jjust ! heard Pershing is in France.—New York World. Weather forecast: Pleasant if not stormy.—New London Day. It is beginning to look like a poor year for the merchant of Venice.— Boston Transcript. . — | To politicians New York women | have gained In stature since the elec- tion. In fact, they actually look for- midable.—Merlden Record. One of the principal troubles with | this war is that the Germans know | what is going on In our country | rather more thoroughly than we do | ourselves.—Nantucket Inquirer and | mere money in the holding of liberty ! The Call of the Bugles. (Richard Hovey). Bugles! And the great nation thrills and leaps to arms! Prompt, unconstrained, immediate, Without misgiving and without de-' bate, Too calm, too strong, for fury or alarms, 1 The people blossoms armies and puts | forth ! The splendid summer of its noiseless might; For the old sap of fight Mounts up in South and North, The thrill That tingled Hill And brought to bloom July o€ 'S, enty-Six! Pine and palmetto mix With the sequola of the giant West Their ready banners, and {he hosts of war, ’ Near and far, Sudden as dawn, Innumerable as forests, hcar the call Of the bugles, The battle-birds! in our veins at Bunlker | For not alone the brave, the fortu- i nate, | Who first of all Have put their knapsacks on— They are the vallant vanguard of the rest! Not they alone, but all our millions wait, Hand on sword, For the word That bids them bid the hations know us sons of Fate! . / Peace, when the world is free! Peace, when there is no thong, Fetter nor bar! No scourges for men’s backs, No thumbscrews and no racks— For body or soul! No unjust law! No tyrannous control Of brawn or maw! But though the day be far, ’ Till then, war! . Bugles! The imperious bugles! Still their call Soars like an exaltation to the sky— They call on men to fall, To die— | Remembered, or forgotten, 'but a part Of the great beating of the nation's heart! A call to sacrifice! A call to victory! Hark in the Empyrean The battle-birds! The Bugles! AN ODIOUS LIBEL. Fair Namc, of Good Womanhood Damaged by Scnsational Charges Against Them in Can- tonments, (New York Sun) Tt is plain that the United States ix not to escape a hysterical' outburst concerning the effect on wome chastity produced by the mobilization of large numbers of soldiers in the _army camps. The fact that England made a fool of Itself with respect of this subject has taught us nothing; the authorities, notably Secretary Baker andSecretary Daniels, by theit unnecessary public utterances on the sul Ject of masculine morality, havc Mirror. i Perhaps we will not know whether ! Kerensky or Lenine has won .until| we hear from California.—Springfield | Republican. | | exact Tlobbers took $2,000 from an’ office | skyscraper. The world seems to have progressed a gcod deal since the day of the ‘‘second-story” man.—New Ha- ven Union. Anyhow, we could fizure out from those early cahlegrams that the Pe- trograd Bolsheviki had got societski down and were pounding the stuf- fingski ont of 'em, which is sure get- ting a pretty clesc line on Russian news.—Paterson Press Guardian. In a great wooden encampment like that at Aver perhaps it is not strange that fires are frequent. And very likely our old acquaintance ths cigarette may he fully as much to blame as the German sympathizers upon whom we so readily pronounce anathema.—Norwich Record. COMMUNICATED A HALF TO ov Writer Foresees the Day When Focal Factories Will Supply Their Work- crs With Conl at a Reason- able Prices. To the Editor of the Herald: I have been a reader of your paper for many years and I have read with interest all your editorials about the price of coal. If T may, I would like to call a few things to your attention. ithough the price of coal has been educed by government regulation, I had to pay $5.00 for a half a ton to- day, and the dealer would not accept ny order unless I made payment in spot cash. Now I think it is time to let the coal dealers know they are not the only people on earth. There is 2 movement on foot whereby the shops may supply their help with coal |1t reasonable prices, even lower than those set by the Federal Government. At this, the shops expect to make a fair profit for the trouble invelved. 111 they can do it, it seems to me that the retall dealers here can make money. at the present prices. The Jederal Fuel Administrator, Dr. Gar- field, has been written to in regard to this matter, and I think the coal dealers had better come down off their high horses and get in tune with the times. Sincerely, COAL. VERITAS. in the 17th floor of an Indianapolis | known at laid a broad and firm foundation for structures of sensationalism which the credulous, the morbid and the ma- licious are eager to buil Already one important reformatory sactety has addressed its zeal to the ! menace of the mwan in uniform, and on a matter about | which nothing definite can possibly be this time have now been | put in circulation. May we be spared | the deluge of poetical and prose ap- | peals to feminine virtue that three vears ago Tendered even some re- | spectable English periodicals an of- fense ta sense and experience. England's experience was that her | women remained virtuous, despite the | excitements of war, in the usual pro- | portion. The threat of thousands of _children horn out of wedlock, in ex- | cess of the normal number was never | fulfilled. Good wamen and virtuous | girls remained good and virtuous | good men and vigtuous boys clad in khaki did not abandon their stan- | dar@s of conduct. But these facts, It { is to be feared, will be without in- | luence on a population that eagerly gave credit to yarns about poison needles and accepted unauestioningly reports that whole train crews en- | guged in the abduction of carloads of fmmigrant girls, ] Yet there should be a saving | leaven of intelligent "discrimination. Tn New York State, patticularly, eiti- zens have cause to think twice be- fore they put faith in reports of a general breakdown of womanhood. We have just admitted women to the franchise by an overwhelming vote. Does_any sane person, male or fe- male, think for an instant that this privilege would have been conferred, after vears of serfous study, if the moral nature of its beneficiaries were as infirm as the infamous reports now put in circulation would make us be- lleve? Would woman suffrage have triumphed in England in time of war if English women, who are not unlike the women of this country, had proved incapable of maintaining their honor in a period of national danger? statistics No Need for the Doctor. “Some un sick at yo' house, Mis" Carter?” inquired Lila. “Ah seed de doctah’s kyar eroun dar yestiddy.” “It was for my brother, Lila.” “Sho! What's he done got de matter of 'm? “Nobody seems to know what the disease is. He can eat and sleep as well as ever, he stays out all day long on the veranda in the sun, and seems as well as anyone, but he can’t do any work at all.” “He cain’t—yo’ says he cain’t wuhk?” “Not a stroke.” “Law, Mis' Cartor, dat ain't no disease what you brothe' got! Dat's a gif’! Everybody’s. HENRY LEROY WILCOX, Henry Leroy Wilcox enlisted in the ambulance division of the medical corps af the United States army June 20, 1917. At present he is stationed at the U, S. General hospital con- nected with Columbia University. Wilcox, who is 22 years of age, is the son of Robert H. Wilcox of 12 Fair- view street, THE AMERICAN FLAG. The largest American flag in the world is suspended from the top of the post office department building in ‘Washington and drops 300 feet in the The McMillan Store, Inc. ALWAYS RELIABLE. SPECIAL SALE OF WOMEN’S -TAILORED SUITS 2 Each to $20.00 -Values On Sale Tuesday Morning at 8:30 In this Sale we offer Wool Serge and Poplin Suits in Navy and Black, sizes, 16 to 44. You can buy Suits here during this Sale at less then you could buy the materfals to make them up. Men’s Natural Wool SHIRTS sDRAWERS On Sale Tuesday Morning at 8:30 inner court. During the Revolution the flag had 13 stars; in the War of 1812, 15; in| the Mexico war, 29; in the Civil war, 35; in the Spanish-American war, 45; and in the present war, 48. In the collection of historic flags preserved in the state house at An- napolis, Md., is the flag which was carried by the 3rd Maryland regiment in the battle of the Cowpens, January 17N 781 The famous flag which flew - over Fort Sumter in April, 1861, the firing on which was the beginning of hostil- ities between the states, is preserved in the ante-room oY the secretary of war, in Washington. In the rooms of the Masonic grand lodge at Raleigh, N. C., is an old flag of the stars and stripes design, which was carried by the North Carolina troops at the battle of Guilford court- house, March 15, 1781. The historic flag which floated over !"ort McHenry on the morning of Sep- tember 14, 1814, and which Inspired rancis Scott Key to write “The Star spangled Banner,” is preserved in the Niational museum at Washington. What is said te have been the first \nlerican flag displayed in the south was that carried by the patriots under Col. Moultrie when they seized Fort Johnson on James Island, South Carolina, on September 13, 1775. The first American flag introduced the stripes of the present flag, but re- tained the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George on a blue ground in the corner, implying the surviving ac- knowledgment of the roval power with the birth of a new nation, The American flag means more, exen in its colors, than some compre- hend. The red was chosen to denote defiance and daring, the white purity of purpose and the blue eternal vigil- ance, perseverance in the right and justice to all who should acknowladge fealty to the flag. So many stvles and forms of the Stars and Stripes flag were In exist- ence in 1837, that certain foreign sovernments found it necessary to make inquiry of this government just what the official flag was, resulting in the publication in 1852 of a careful study of the subject by Schuyler Hamilton. ’ PALLERSON TALKS Counsel for Raflroads Says Inade- quacy of Way Time Reyenuc No Longer an Economic Problem. Washington, Nov. 19.—TInadequacy of war time revenues of the nation’s railroade is no longer a purely eco- nomic problem, but a vital question of national defense, George Stuart Patterson, counsel for the eastern roads, today told the Interstate Com- merce Commission, in his closing ar- gument for the carrloers in the 15 per cent. rate advance case, 5 He asked for a sweeping readjust- ment of prevailing rates to allow the roads to meet soaring operating costs and serve more efliciently the trans- portation needs of the nation in the present emergency. He pointed out a continuous decline in net operating income, accompanied by steadlly mounting operating costs; marked shortage in the labor supply avallable for railroad work; existence of deferred maintenance when heavy war time traffic requires the highest standard possible and inability to ralse new capital by issuance of stock. with a resultant Impairment of the carriers credit. He estimated that In 1917 the east- ern roads will show a loss of $81,000,- 000 in net operating income despite an increase of $161,000,000 In total operating revenues. This, he stated, would represent a return of 5.2 on investments, which Is less, he said, than the amount of commission in 1914 found to be too small for public interest. 3130 Per Garment This special offer comprices one case or 20 dozen Men’s Shirts and Drawers, sizes 34 to 46, Value today, $1.75 to $2.00. Millions of men in the service are wearing wool, therefore they are scarce and difficult to procure at any price from the mills today. PLAID BLANKETS ‘Wool Finished, value $8.50 pair, special at $2.98 pair. On sale Sueuny morning, at s:sy ¢ Extraordinary Values In Ready- to-Hang - CURTAINS Several styles to choose from. Made with Valance complete, special, $1.19 pair. On sale Tuesday morning at 8:30. o FACTS ABOUT THE BY XXEUT. FITZHUGH WMERICAN NAVY REEN, U. 8. N. e Range See _if vou can swallow this: “Range is obtained by measurement of the parallex of the object—that s, Ly the angle subtended by the base of the instrnment at the object.” No? Well, try this: Suppose you and T look down a long flat road at an approaching automobile. Lines from our eyes to the auto are ap- proximately parallel. Now, you go a ways to one side of the toad while I g0 an equal distance to the other. Again looking down the road we zaze no longer in parallel lines, but in lines which converge more and more as the automobile approaches; until, when it is ncar at hand, we must almost face one another. To make sure you understand, look at your thumb, arm’s length. Your cves are almost normal. Put your thumb close to your nose and you are crosseved. Move it in or out and vour vision becomes more or less pigeontoed. The angle we Aurned toward each other looking at the approaching au< tomobilé, the amount of crosseyed- ness when vour thumb was up, varied with the distance away of the auto and thumb. A range finder measures this varying angle and on a small scale shows the corresponding dis- tance or range. Imagine a metal tube 10 to 25 feet long in each end of Which is an eye —w prism looking for the enemy. The prisms reflect all they see, down the tube to the range finder man. Tt is as if his eves were taken out and put yards apart until something five miles away instead of five inches can make him look crosseyed. But unless yvou do look crosseyed, you see ‘'two thumbs. / Which is what happens in the range finder; two ships, four masts, eight funnels, ap- Finders. pear—until prisms are adjusted (made crosseyed), when images coin« cide and only ene object is seen. A scale records the range. Simple, isn't it? And useful. —— you have no cpgnception haw indis- pensable it it ‘At 20,000 yards ranga the hull of a hostile ship is below the horizon. But we must open fira then; and the only way we can tell how far to elevate our guns is by range finder readings. A fleet cruises in column, 500 or 1,000 vards between ships. For per< fect maneuvering, it s vital that per- fect intervals be held. Range finders are the solution. Navigators wore themselves thin and gray taking bearings, soundings, times, and working sights. \Nowas days 99 per cent. of it {s done by th range finder. Point the instrument a a lighthouse, and read both bearing and range at once, say North—11,000 wvards. Then a dot on the chart fiva and a half miles south of the light i1 ship's position. Night work is dona by switching in a thing called the as- tigmatizer, which breaks the beam of light into vertical lines to be used like masts or other objects in tha daytime. B Surveyors measure for hours with: tapes and angles and stakes and tels escopes. A small range finder can do it all for them automatically. Instruments vary from 3 to nearly 30 feet in length and are constantly increasing in size and efficiency. They magnify from 6 to 28 times. They, are too expensive ever to class with Fords and Ingersolls. But they sell to every navy in the world, from four to a score on each battleship. Tha inventor, of course, is dead. The pro< moter rides in a limousine and hag dyspepsia. « _— MAY BUY MAXIM PUMP. Head of Massachusetts Fire Apparatus Concern Here Today. head of the Maxim Fire Apparatus Co., of Middleboro, Mass.,, came to this city this after- noon for an informal conference with the baard of fire commissioners rela- tive to the possible purchase of ad-’ ditional fire apparatus. Already the fire commissioners have visited several large cities to inspect their apparatus. At present all the motor-driven apparatus * by the city is from the American LaFrance company, but it is said that the Max- C. W. Maxim, im company manufactures excellent equipment and it is to talk over mat- ters of contract that the head of the concern came here today .COMPLETES HIS ENLISTM . William Lamb of Park Place, son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Lamb, has completed his six months' enlistment as an embulance driver in the Ameri- can Field Ambulance service, but will remain in the war zone, accord- ing to letters received by the young man's relatives. Mr. Lamb has given up his work as ambulance driver and is wow engaged as a mechanic in the American camps, attached to the aviation units, DR. MOORE ARRIVES. Dr. Henry F. Moore, late of thg Rockefeller Institute at New York, arrived in New Britain Saturday even< ing and today assumed his new posi- tlon as superintendent of the health department. Already the new incum- bent has had several talks with me bers of the health commission rela«< tive to the conduct of the department, 3 of you don’t.— Russia at present is just a case now you see it and now Bridgeport Telegram. .