New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 4, 1917, Page 1

s Tweaty-five Cents Per Flight to Bo # Russell, acting on the recommenda- | noon, the name of Ernest W. % - | JHERALD BEST OF ALL ‘| LOCAL NEWSPAPERS | NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS |4 ' ,PRICE THREE CELNTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1917. —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1876.4 WAR WILL BE DECLARED O GERMANY’S ALLY, AUST 1In Stirring Speech, President Wilson Declares that Germany Must Be Utterl) Crushed in Order to Save the World PRICE OF COAL GOES UP AND SCHEDULE IS NOW IN EFFECT * State Administrator\ Russell and Local Committee Act on Increase in Wages Granted to Miners. $10.45 FOR CHESTNUT AND $8.70 FOR NO. 2 Assessed for Each Ton Carried Into Buildings—No Greater Profit Al- ’ ‘lol\‘('(l to Dealers, Official Statement Says—Effective at Noon Today. -An increase in the price of coal for New Britain has been authorized by | State Fuel Administrator Thomas W. tions of the local committee, E. W. Christ, A. N. Abbe and W. J. Farley. | This price, effective at noon today, ranges from $8.70 per ton for No. 2| nut or pea codl, delivered on the side- ‘walk, to $10.45 per ton for broken, egg, stove and. chestnut coal, cafried through a rear door and into'a ceflar. | Other price provisions are made de- ' pending on the method of sale and ' delivery, but in no instance does the increased price permit the coal dealers to make any greater profit than they did under the former and rhuch dis- cussed pricés of November 15. No More Profits for Dealers. | In determining the prices at which coal shall be sold in New Britain, Mr. Russell and the local committee had ! to take into consideration the recent | national developments in the coal sit- | awation and in an open letter to the public of New Britain. the state ad- ministrator has the following to say: December 3, 1917, To the Public of New Britain: The following statement is made in refercnce to an order regarding the price of anthracite al sold at retail in the city of New Britain, said order being ef- fective at 12 o’clock noon, Tues- day. December 4th. Since the establishment of the November 15th prices for the City of New jritain the condition of coal sup- ply has changed rapidly in New Britain, as in a number of other Connecticut cities, and the deal- ers, in order to supply the pub- lic needs, are being forced to purchase an abnormally ~large percentage of so-called indepen- dent coal, for which the govern- ment allows an increase of 75 cents per gross ton to the pro- ducer, and 20 cents per gfoss ton to the jobber, through whom the coal is sold, if sold through job- ber Since October 1 the per- centage of this high price coal which has come to New Britain s over 60 per cent of the total coal in process of shipment to New Britain. In additicn to the made nece ry by the bove facts, an order has bheen ned by the President effective today, allowing an increase in the cost at the mine of 35 cents per gross ton, said increase being allowed hy the President to permit an in- crease in wages to the miners and to stimulate production. The schedule of prices, which is Leing made’ effective at this time, takes into consideration the two conditions mentioned above, and allows no more profit to the deal- ors than the prices effective No- vember 15th. THOMAS W. RUSSELL, Fuel Administrator. Schedule of Prices Here. ‘ollowing is the schedule of prices for coal in New Britain as finally ap- yroved ; It is to be understood that the fol- nz prices apply on standard qua'- coal, free from dust: Broken, Egg, Stove, Chestnut per ton Orders for one ton. i MOTe, - to be “.delivered onmithe increase lowi jty anthra 9 No. 2 Nut or Pea per ton (Continyed o llevinth Page) | possibility. PELTON PRESIDENT, SUCCEEDS LELAND Selected by Executive Committee to Head Ghambgr of Commerce STANLEY WORKS OFFICIAL | Clothing Merchant Declines to Serve Further on Account of Stress Business—Selcction of Not Made, of Secretary ‘When the directors of the Chamber of Commerce meet tomorrow after-| Pelton will be submitted to the directorate as president of the recently ganized ‘chamber, and it is likely that the choice of the executive committce will meet with no oppositions The D matter, ERNEST W. PELTON .step toward securing the new presi- dent, comes after the declination of Acting President W. W. Leland had informed the executive committee that owing to the stress of other duties, his continuance in office was an ir- On all sides there is a unanimity of opinion that Mr. Pelton is just the official to start the now organization on the road to succe: The selection of a secretary will be one of the first important duties of the new president, and with the ex- ecutive committes, Mr. Pelton, if elected, will be able to give persona suggestions as té the choice of the official to fil! this berth. W. W. Leland. who is relinquis] the office of acting president, does . with the expresscd rezret of the membership, for in handling the bu: ness of the office for several months, he has been of valued assistance in keeping the remnants of the organizi- tion together, and it was under hi personal supervision that the recent membership campaign which resultsd in a success, was conducted. At pres- ent Mr. Lelund is connected with war relief work of the New. Britain War Bureau, and has just been announced as chalrman of the Fome Service De- partment of the Rted Cross, he is also chairman of the Mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce which du- ties he will continue under the new regime. Mr. Pelton is employed in the ca- pacity of superintendent of power at the Stanley Works. Coming to this city 14 ycars ago from state, New York, he has by close at- tention to his duties at the factory, risen to one of the most responsible places in the concern. 1t Is with the consent of the factory officials he has agreed to allow his name to be presented to the Chamber or Com- merce directors for consideration s president. He has been aligned with Chamber of Commierce work since its beginning this city, and as a mem- ber of the Civie Burcau has been of vast assistance to that L of the of i oh (Contiiued on Sleventh Page) re-or- | his native | that | PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH Washington, Dec. 4.—DPresident Wil- son’s address to Congress today fol- lows: I “Gentlemen of the Congr “Blght months have clapsed since 1| [ last had the honor of addressing you. | They have been months crowded with | events of immense and grave signifi- cance for us. I shall not undertake to : detail or even to ,summarize those events. The practical particulars of the part we have pldyed in them will | be lald before you in the reports of | | the executive department. 1'shall dis- | cuss only our present outlook upon ! these vast affairs, our present duties and the immediate means of accom- plishing the objects we . shall hold always in view. “I shall not go back to debate the | causes of the war. The wrongs done and planned against us by the sinister | masters of Germany have long since become too grossly obvious and odious to every true American to need to be rehearsed. But I shall ask you to } consider again and with a very grave scrutiny our objectives and the meas- ures by which we mean to attain them, for the purpose of discussion ! here in this place is action, and our ! straight towards {action must move | definite ends. Our object is, on the other hand, to win this war, and we i shall not slacken or suffer ourselves to be diverted until it is won. But it is | worth while asking and answering the | question, when shall we consider the | war won? “From one point of vlew it is not, necessary {o broach this fundamental 1 do not donbt that the \nrerican people know what the wis < about and wi sort of an outc they will d as o realization their purpose is it, As a nation we are united in spirit and intention. T | pay little heed to those who tell me i otherwise. I hear the volces of dis- sent—who does not? T hear the crit- icism and the clamor of the noisy, | thoughtless and troublesome. I also 'sce men here and there fling them- selves in impotent disloyalty against the calm, indomitable power of the | nation. T hear men debate peace ! who understand neither its nature nor !the way in which we may attain it | with uplifted eves and unbroken i spirits. But T know that none of these i speak for the nation. They do not | touch the heart of anythinz. Thev | ! may safely be felt to strut their un- | hour and be forgotten. Jut from another point of view T | | believe that it is necessary to say | plainly what we, here at the seat of action, consider the war to be for, and what part we mean to play in the settlement of its searching issues. We ! are the spokesmen of the American people and they have a right to know whether their purpose is ours. They desire peace by the overcoming of evil, by the defeat once for all of the sinister forces that interrupt peace and render it impossible, and they wish to know how closely our thoughts run with theirs, and what action we propose. They are impa- tient with those who desire peace by any sort of compromise—deeply and indignantly imparted—but they will be equally impatient with us if we do not malke it plain to them what our objectives are and what we are plan- ning for in secking to make conquest of peace by arms. 1 believe that T snea when 1 say two tHings “First, that this intolerable thing of which the masters of Germany have shown the ugly face, this menace of combined intrigue and force, which we now see so clearly as the German power, a thing without conscience or honor of capact for covenanted peace, must be crushed, and it it be not utterly Brought to an end, at least | shut out from the friendly inter- course of the nations, and, second, that when this Thing and its power are indeed defeated and the time comes that we can discuss peace— when the German people have spoke men whose word we can believe, and when these spokesmen are ready in the name of their people to, accept the common judgment of the nations as to what shall henceforth be the basis of law and of covenant for the life of the world—we shall be willing and glad to pay the full price for peace and pay it unsrudgingly. We know what that price will be. It will be full impartial justicc—justice done at | cvery point and to every nation that lthe final settlement must affect, our | encmies as well as our friends You cateh with me the voices of humanity that are in the air. They srow daily more audible, more articu- more persuasive. and they come from the hearts of men everywhere. They insist that the war shall not end omy re of k for them { made of it. ! mand. u in vindictive action of any kind; that no nation or people shall be robbed or punished because the irresponsible rulers of a single country have them- selves done deep and abomniable wrong. It is this thought that should be expected in the formula, no an- nexations, no contributions, no puni- tive indemnities. Just because this crude formula ex- presses the instinctive judgment as to right of plain men everywhere it has been made diligent use of by the masters of German intrigue to lead the people of Russia astray—and the people of every other country their jagents could reach in order that a bremature peace might be brought about before autocracy has been taught its final and convincing lesson, and the people of the world put in i control of their own destinies. “But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a just idea is no rea- son why a right use should not be It ought to be brought the patronage of its real Let under friends. the utmost futility of its claims to power or leadership in the modern world. It is impossible to apply any stan- ‘dard of justice as long as such forces are unchecked and undefeated as the | present masters of Germany com- Not until that has been done can right be set up as arbiter and peacemaker among the nations. But when that has been done—as God willing, it assuredly will be done—we shall at last be free to do an unpre- cedented thing and this is the time to avow our purpose to do_it. We shall Lo to base peace sencrosity W justice, to the on an hoclims o advantage on part of the victors on exelu of 1 even 1he “Let there be no misunderstanding. Our present and immediate task is to win the war and nothing shall turn aside from it until it is accom- plished. Every power and resource Wwe possess, whether of men, of money or of material is being devoted and will continue to be devoted to that purpose until it is achieved. Those who desire to bring peace about be- fore that purpose is achicved, I coun- sel to carry their advise elsewhere. We will not entertain it. We shall re- gard the war only as won when the German people say to us, properly accredited representatives, that they are ready to agree to a reparation for the wrongs their rulers have done. They have done a wrong to Belgium, which must be re- paired. 'They have established a power over other lands and peoples than their own—over the great em- pire of Austria-Hungary, over hitherto free Balkan states, over Turkey and within Asian—which must be relin- quished. Germany's success by skill, by in- dustry, by knowledge, by enterprise we did not grudge or oppose. but ad- mired rather. She had bullt up for herself a real empire of trade and in- fluence, secured by the peace of the world. We were content to‘abide the rivalries of manufacture, science and commerce that were involved for us in her success and stand or fall as we had for did not have the brains and the initiative to surpass her. But at the moment when she had conspicu- ously won®her triumphs of peace, she threw them away to establish in their stend what the world will no longer permit to he established, military and political domination by arms, by which rivals she most feared and hated. The peace we make must remedy that wrong. It must deliver the once fair lands and happy people of Belgium and northern France from the Prus- sian conquest and the Prussian men- ace, but it must also deliver the peo- ples of -Hungary, the peoples of the B nd the peoples of Tur- Kkey, alike in Iurope and in Asla from the impudent and alien domination of the Prussian military and commercial autocracy. We owe it iowever, to ourselves. to say that we do not wish in any v to impair or to re-arrange the Aus- tro-Hungarian empire. It is no affair of ours what they do with their own life, either industrally or politically. We do not purpose or desire to dictate to them in any way. We only desire Harttord, t.—TFore- cast for New Britain and vicinity: Generally fair, cor tinued cold tonight and Wed- nesday. o e e, it be said again that | autocracy must first ba shown | real i World empire | aggression in thai; and through | | sooner or later cure it scttlement based upon justice and the ! tempting any such convenants I | i { man cludes to see that their affairs arc left in their own hands, in all matters, great or small. We shall hope o sceure for the peoples of the Balkan peninsula and for the people of the Turkish em- pire the right and opportunity to malke their own lives safe, their own fortunes secure against oppression or injustice and from the dictation of for- eign courts or parties. “And our attitude and purpose with regard to Germany herself are of & like kind. We intend no wrong against the German empire, no interference with her internal affairs. We should deem ecithey the one or the other ab- solutely unjustifiable, contrary to the principles we have professed to live and to hold most sacred throughout - life' as a nation. “The people of Germany are being told by the men whom they now per mit to deccive them and to act as their masters that they are fighting for tho very life and existence of their empire. a war of desperate self-de- fense against deliberate aggression. Nothing could he more grossly or wan- tonly false, and we must seek by the utmost openness and candor as to our aims to convince them of its We are in fact fighting for from fear, along the fear as well falsene their emancipation with our own, from as from the et of unjust attack by neighbors or rivals or schemers after No one is thr ening the existence or the independence or the peaceful enterprise of the German empire.. ““Phe worst that can happen to tho detriment of the German peoples is this, thal, 16 they er (ke war 16 1o he un Tt Sters of the men whom the other peoples of the world could not trust, it might be impossible to admit them (o the partnership of na- tions which must henceforth protect the world’s peace. That partnership of governments must be a partnership of peoples, not a mere partnership of governments. Tt must be impossible, also, in such untoward circumstances, to admit Germany to the free econom- ic intercourse which must inevitably sprig nout of the other partnerships of 1 peace. But there would be no uch a situa- because of distrust, very nature of things, elf by processes which would assuredly set in. The wrongs, the very deep wrongs, cormmitted in this war will have to be righted. But they cannot and must not be righted by the commission of similar wrongs against Germany and her allies. The world will not per- mit the commission of similar wrongs as a means of reparation and settle- ment. Statesmen must by this time have learned that the opinian of the world is everywhere wide awake and fully comprehends the issue involved. No representative of any self governed nation will dare disregard it by at- of sel- were en- e ~ and inivig m interested world, men to disturh the peacd or classes of a re: inevitable in the tion would fishness and compromise a tered into at the congre: of Vienna. It is in the full disclosing light of that thought that all policies must bo conceived and exccuted in this mid- day hour of the world's life. Ger- rulers have becn able to ups the peace of the world only becau the German people were not suffered under their tutelage to share the commondership ¢f the other peoples of the world either in thought or in Purpose. They were allowed to have fo oust where she could not excel the | No opinion of their awn which might rule of conduct fon authority over that con- will feel the full tides that run now consciences of free be set those them up as a who exercised But the this war strength of the in the hearts and men everywhere, “All these things have been true from the very heginning of this s pendous war, and I cannot help think~ ing that 1f they had heen made plain at the very outset the sympathy and enthusiasm of the Russian people might © been once for all enlisted on the side of the allies; suspicion and distrust swept away and a real and lasting union of purpose effected. Had they done these things at the very moment of their revolution, and had they been confirmed in that belief since, the sad reverses which have rve- cently marked the progress of their affairs towards an ordered and stable government of freemen might have been avoided. The Russian people have been poisoned by the very same falsehoods that have kept the German people in the dark and the poison has been administered by the very samo hands. The only principal antidote is congress (Continued on Eleventh Page) o ! he [mmediate War Against Austria, He Says, I to Meet the Anomalous Situation the United ! States Faces, Even Though that Country ] Not Its Own Mistress Washington, Dec. 4—The international character of President Wilson’s address, o’clock today was indicated by the fact that the which was delivered at 12:30 overn- ment had already placed it for simultaneous publicatio in practically every capital in the world. e Although the address was not entruste d in advance] to American newspapers or news distributing association it already had been placed with X Reuters, the principal European news distributing agency, which in turn, is to supply others in Europe. the London office o Indirectly, the address will get to Berlin and the other Central pow: ers capitals. Its world-wide distribution is also evidence by the fact that it will be available for publication today] in China and Japan. The secrecy which has been thrown around the address here in Washing- ton while it was belng transmitted by cable and wireless all over the world, prevailed up to the last moment. All that was sald at the White House executive offices in response to inquiries was that the address “reasonably long."” Immediate war against Austria, the ARMISTICE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY IS SIGNE DRINKS CARBOLIC AND DIES SOON AFTERWARD Burritt Street Man Ends Life on West Main/ Street. Henry Zwitslinger of Burritt street, better known as Jake Zwitslinger, committed suicide last night on West Main street. He entered Russell's drug store on West Maln street about 9 o’clock and made some purchases, one of them being three ounces of zmn'l)olic acid. He seemed to be in normal spirits according to Mr. Rus- sell, with® whom he had traded for some time Shortly after buying the acid he was found on West Main street by Fred Sunderlin and Fred Abbott of 338 Lincoln street, who, thinking the man was drunk, took him into the rear of a block. Officer Meehan was then called and it was discovered that had drunk carbolic acid. He was rushed to the New Britain hospital | was) president told congress, was necessar; | to meet the anomalous situation - United States faces in its war wi Germany éven though Austria was no | her own mistress and merely a v 1 of Germany. o The same logic, he said, would leal te war against Turkey and Bulgarigf (Continued On Eleventh Page).. | Notable Event Takes Pk at Headquarters of Prin Leopold Between Choset Representatives. | WILL REMAIN VALID FORTY-EIGHT HOUF The Maximalist Government Issued Manifesto to German and Austris Soldiers, Which Will Bo Distributed by Means of Airplancs—Sets Fox the Aims of the Bolsheviki ernment. London, Dec. 4.—An armistige tween Russia and Germany ha§ b signed at the headquarters of Prif Leopold of Bavarla, says an Exchad Telegraph despatch from Amsterd today. The armistice is valid for period of 48 hours Issues Manifesto. Londan, Dec. 4.—The Maxim: government says a Petrograd despat where he died at 11:30 o’clock. Zwitslinger was about 29 years old and is survived by a brother, Michael, and s mother, who is in the Middle- town asylum. The remains were taken to Curtin’s undertaking parlors on Main street. No reason could be learned for his act. Officer Meehan found the bottle which still contained some of the acid on West Main street and took it to the police station. SECURES SPEAKER. State Council of Defense Gets Can- adian Sergeant. Hartford, Dec. 4.—Sergeant Arthur | Gibbons of Toronto, Canada, has been ! secured by the Connecticut State Council of Defense of the: speakers in its series of state-wide war ralles. He will speak at six | meetings this week and next and was | on the program of a meeting held | Monday evening at Clinton. Sergeant Gibbons was one of first 30,000 Canadians to land France and was in the thick of the fighting in which the first colonial troops participated. He was seriously wounded in one battle, so bad that he lay helpless on the field until found by German and | taken prisoasy, | as one troops { ceipt of M. Trot to the Daily News, has issued a m festo to German and Austrian sold which will be distributed in, g numbers by airplane and other means to the Austro-German army. The manfesto sets forth the aim of th Bolsheviki with a list of social econo. mic and political measures they al ready have taken. It also appeals ta the soldiers to help them end th war, promising that if they assis peace will be declared within a fow] days and the other nations will Join, Denies Report. Stockholm, Dee. 4.—The Swedish foreign affice authorizes The Assoq i ciated Press to deny the report puba lished in Paris and effect that the elsewhere to th Swedish legation 1 | Petrograd offered or is about to offer} its services as the Bolsheviki intermediary betweeny government and eGrd many. The Swedish minister to Rus- sta it is explained oined other neutral diplomats in acknawledging the t o note regarding armistice and peace negotiations, buf this was merely an act of courtesy in nowise involving recognition of tha Leninites. The foreign offices refusal to discuss the academic question whether Sweden is likely to recognize the Bolsheviki at some future times It is learned in well informed circles, however, tlat there s no likelihood! of such recognition unless the Tnteng te powers should take the lead. P