New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1917, Page 6

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The Associated Press is exclusively entitled t0 the usq for republication of all news ‘oredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hereln. i it ¥ 3 ent rulers, shall say to us that they desire such a peace it will be soon forthcoming; but not until then. In the meantime, the tight must cor- tinue, even if we have to. sacrifice every drop of biood in our best mau- hood, every dollar in the treasury of the nation, every ounce of comfort cherished by a people hitherto nursed in the lap of luxury. This then is the message written for the world,—for the Entente Al- lies as well as for the Teutonic Alli- | ance. If there have been those who sought to crush the German people, to smother the great Empire whose people have merely been misguided, this is the word tq them that fore- stalls such a step. ‘A peace of “jus- tice and generosity” will be meted out to the German people if they so desire. On the other hand, they are warned that if they persist in cling- ing to the ideal of world conquest as set down by the Hohenzollerns, the German empire must be the subject The Hand of God. A supreme moment of history . has come. The eyes of the peo- . ple have been opened and they (4 see. 'The hand pof God is laid ! upon the nations. He will show . them favor, I devoutly believe, '+« only if they rise to the clear helghts of His own justice and ' _WOODROW WILSON. WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Following President Wilson's rec- pnmendation, the House of Repre- tatives has now before it a resolu- p that a 'stata of war be declared existing between the United States Amerfca and Austria-Hungary. " The Tesolution comes at a time en the American people are pre- d to voice their approval of such ction. From the moment we went to with Germany we have been, in ect, at war with the dual monarchy. Austria-Hungary is merely a vas- “of Germany, the thing to da is ob- ous. There are in this country people ho are subjects of the Austrian gov- lernment and' who, as such, have no jsympathy whatsoever with the war ms of the United States. Enemy Jaliens have been classified. A declar- tion of war wth Austria-Hungary ould be the means of bringing about b niore complete Index of those Who dr watching. ) E PEACE BASED ON JUSTICE. Three great messages of President [Wilson, all having the same subject. jand reaching the same conclusion, now before the American people. he first is his message to the Amer- can Congress on April 2 of this year. second is his reply to the peace s enunciated by the Vatican. The d is his message of yesterday de- red before a joint session of the pate and House of Representatives. In this last message President Wil- addresses himself not only to tho ess and the American people, to the Allied nations fighting the ttle of Democracy, and the forces lon the opposing side, the Governments and’ peoples of Autocracy. It is, in- deed, a message to’the world. A mes- : /e that says once and for all that the old" doctrine of “To the victor onge the spojls” must go before fhe onrush of civilization. Every one having a hand in this war is warned t when the time for peace comes fhere must be brought about a peace i on justice. All selfish ends must be banished from view. The war must be won, fairly and quarely. There can be no backing ! down. on half-hearted wishes. fbe no dickering with the military jutocracy of Imperial Germany. [There can be no cessation of hostill- tles until the German people them- elves are brought to a realization fhat they are the victims of a class. puppets of a selfish ruler whose ord@ cannot be believed by any na- tion in the world. In the same preath is expressed the promise that hen the German people shall have “spokesmen whose word we can be- feve, and when these spokesmen are eady, in the name of their people, 0 accept the common judgment of he Nations as to what shall hence- orth be the bases of law and of povenant for the life of the world— e shall be willing and glad to pav e full price for peace and pay it ngrudgingly.” And that price as de- 'mined by President Wilson and ked by the American people, be- ugse it is the price that free men e willing to pay, is justice in the iighest sense of the word,—“impar- 1 justice.”” It is the justice that fuses to recognize vengeance, the astice that pleads for mercy even t¢ ormer enemles. When the German, themselves, and not their pres- There can There can be no peace hased [ of a boycott by all the nations of tho world, after the war. Before August 4, 1914, Germany had risen by pow- erful steps to occupy a high place in the commercial life of the globe. Her industries had competed more than successfully with those of other coun- tries. She had really become the leader in many of the peaceful walks of life. Not satisfied with the pin- nacle then attained, her leaders Runched the nation forth on the war- path#which she occupies today. The result has not been as desired by them, nor will it ever be plished. As for the Bolsheviki element ir. Russia the leaders of which, Trotzky and Lenine, have been clamoring for a definite statement of the aims’ of the Allies, this message of the Presi- dent carries to them a clear outling of what they might expect. They now have the roadways opened to them. They can go the limit on the pathway to \destruction, or they can Temailn with those who will see to it that a peace based on justice is the real outcome of this war, and not an armistiee whereby the world wiil re- main an armed camp ready to Bgo forth at a moment’s notice on a big- ger and greater killing expedition. The message of President Wilson is the message of the American Dbeople. ‘It is the message of those who have felt and do feel the heart-beats of the nation. As for those who are not in sympathy with the great purpose of America they “may safely be left to strut their uneasy hour and be for- gotten.” The vast majority of our People are of one accord. They w«re making the sacrifices demanded be-' cause they are attuned to the prin- ciples of justice and humanity upon which all the aims of America in this war are ‘based. \On our part it is a Just war. it shall therefore be based on justice. \ accom- One AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. We hfl.Ye received the following, Which needs no further comment: Thanksgiving Day the city of New Britain witnessed a spectacle that will | Nor Sin nor Sorrow, Love nor Hate, be long remembered by all. A band of ninety odd Polish men left New Britain to join the recruits at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Can- ada. These men, who came to this land of freedom to better their condition, in a few years were s0 inoculated with the lesson of civil and religious lib- erty that they are willing to leave their all to fight for the freedom of nations and the deliverance of their fatherland. The Poles of New Britain have given, so far, close to four hundred men to the United States service, Army and Navy. These men are under the protec- tion of the United States. In their hours of need they can look to the government here for support. Those other noble youths who left last Thursday are in different cir- cumstances. They are willing to give their all—but in return they can de- i mand nothing. Being non-citizens— aliens—they are beyond the pale of American protection. Their families and dependents, who are in Poland, cannot be reached by the aid of the American Red Cross society. At the close of the war, if maimed, they will be classed as de- pendent immigrants and, as such, will not be permitted to enter the country they left to fight for freedom. These conditions are peculiar, but were foreseen by the energotic pastor of the Sacred Heart Polish R. C. church, Rev. Lucyan Bojnowski, and, at his instigation, a Relief society was formed to give aid and succor to the men who left this city and to their dependents. A campaigr has been started to provide funds for the support of these men and their dependents. An ap- peal is made to the people of this city who are known far and wide for their generosity to a worthy cause. It will be a beautiful and fitting tribute to the men if all will be as generous as possible. A house-to-house canvass will be made by Polish young ladies And, ' FACTS AND FANCIES. And ham and eggs used to be con- ! sidered a plebelan dish!-—Meriden Record. 1 It's going to be a favorable Christ- mas season for the ‘‘Spugs’—the “Society for the Prevention of Use- | less Giving.”—Greenwich News and | Graphic. Sweden is willing to help Germany swindle Russia, but thank Heaven, Norway is loyal to herself.—Meriden Journal. Even if the Bolshevlkl have been talking with the kaiser by wireless, it only indicates how generally every- thing is up in the air over there.— Norwich Bulletin. A spirited pitch tournament 1s on in Gloucester. Those old seadogs learned the game while tossing on the water, and know it backward, for- ward and sldeways.—New London Day. Now that 16,000,000 pounds of su- gar are to be saved annually by the cracker bakers, it is evident that we are only beginning to learn how the American people have lived and died. —Springfleld Republican. , - Nor is there much good news to be brought from Ghent to Alx at this writing.—Bridgeport Telegram. The deceptive clove as been a mem- ber of the camouflage squad for years.—Berkshire Bagle. Wall street tried hard to be shock- proof, but it is still possible to take a fall out of it—New Haven Union. There were nearly 14,000,000,000 telephone calls in this country last yvear, only two of which got us out of bed after 11:30 ’clock.—Toledo Blade. @ From the desperation with which the Germans fight, it is suspected that they fear the right of self-government will be forced upon them.—Paterson Press-Guardian. A smokeless day for men might net more, financially for the country, than a wheatless or meatless day.— —Meriden Record. A man’s best friends are his ngers.—Robert Collyer. ten Daughter of ex-czar is not coming to America. So we find that we have bought a.new $36 overcoat, a dozen collars, a 76-cent cane and 14 moving picture tickets for nothing.—Spring- fleld Daily News. \ Thd Rubicon. One other bitter drop to drink. And then—no more! One little pause upon the brink, And then—go o’er! ne sigh—and then the lib’rant morn of perfect day, When my free spirit, newly born, ‘Will soar away! 01 One pang—and I shall rend the thrall Where grief abides, And generous Death will show me all That now he hides; lucid in that second birth, I shall discern The peace that comes after | What all the sages of the earth Have died to learn. motion—and the stream )is crossed, So dark, so deep! And I shall triumph, or be lost In endless sleep. Then onward! Whatsoe’er my fate, I shall not care! Can touch me there. WILLIAM WINTER. The Soldier and the Slacker. (Terrel Love Holliday in Life) Uncle Sam, in search of men, came upon Jack Jones and Bill Brown. «“Jack,” brusquely greeted Uncle, need you for the army.” “Very well, sir.” answered Jack. “You will receive $30 a month and your keep, including medical atten- tion and clothing.” “I'm drawing $150 now,” Jack. “The service may <ost you a leg, arm, eve, or even your life,” solemn- 1y warned Uncle Sam. “That is understood,” gravely re- plled Jack. “When and where shall I report?” Having recelved his orders, marched briskly away. Uncle Sam turned deferentially, apologetically, to Bill Brown. “Mr. Brown.” began Uncle, “you, T believe, are a machinist, earning $3.50 a day?” : “Umhuh,” grunted Brown. “Will you please, if it is not asking too much, continue at your usual em- ployment, in consideration of a 50 per cent increase in wages, shorter hours and better working conditions?” “I don’t know whether I will not,” was the flat response. But I must have your co-opera- tlon,” pleaded Uncle, with tears in his eyes. “Won't you please, for my sake, remain at work?” “Mavbe, for a while,” condescended Brown. “I can’t make any ironclad promises for the future, though.” ‘With that, the best that he could ob- tain, Uncle Sam sorrowfully departed. grinned Jack or A New Social S'andard. (Washington Star) “I hope,” said the warden to the departing convict, “that you won’t go back to your old associations.” “No, sir. I don't propose to as- sociate with anybody who didn’t have the advantages of just as good a peni- tentiary as I had.” Reasons For His Approval. . (Washington Star) “Henrietta,” sald Mr. Meekton, “I'm proud of vou.” “I was afrald you were tired of my arguments for votes for women.” “They're what I approve of. You go ahead and give your reasons instead of being content to stand on the side- walk with a banner and obstruct traf- fle.” / | in the same old line of giving away NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1917. FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8 N. Fortunes Have you any definite idea what this grotesque expression really means? Fortunes 'of War are the chances men take not with Death, but With Life. Death may and does come. Players are blanked like pawns, laid aside like dead checker-men, fanned out, bowled down; eliminated with o whitewash score. But when we speak of war’s Fortunes our imagination leaps to the living, and to their fates m freakish by murdering hosts. little story has come to me al- most first hand. It jllustrates the fu- tility of man’'s plans when War selzes upon him. The love in the story I am bound by honor to leave out. But it was there—it always is. James Dunn—*Jimmie’ to those who knew him as a North Sea fisherman's son—had a streak of ambition inside him like a radium vein in clay. It gave off light and heat and energy without end; and it never weakemwed. i Its emanations were his morning ' thoughts, his afternoon dreams, and the long evenings when he built castles out of the few tattered books on his little fireside shelf. On June 17, 1911r—one fact I do know—Jim’s father cut loose: told Jim what he thought about dreams. And it was a'pretty raw opinion to have even of a nightmare. His ora- tlon, no less, lasted twenty minutes. ; He ended with, “You got to go. . . . Come back, sure. But after you've done something. You can fish and | sall. Try the Navy.” Jim signed in the Home Fleet for ! twelve ‘years. He signed with his eyes open. 'Yeoman's work on a bat- tleship is the clerk’s job ashore. When war came in 1914 books and papers, pencils ‘and figures, ink bottles and blotters were the weapons in Jim- | mie’s hands. | One rfore thing he had: a Secrot. The Secret was hid in a pigeon hole marked “Broadside Guns—6 inch.” But there wern’t any more of these aboard. So when Jimmie's dream about growing potatoes for the fish- ing sloops at home took the form of a correspondence course, pamphlets on plows and fertilizers naturally ; found their way iInto the 6-inch gun shelf. 1 Now Potatoes and Plotting Rooms ' have probably never before in the his- tory of the world been mentioned in the same sentence. But my original- | ity in doing so fades before the pa- | thetic paradox of Jack Tar in the o COMMUNICATED. ! FOR MR. JOHNSON. “Bad Penny” Tells of Cheap Coal in Haverstraw, N. Y. I My Dear Mr. Johnson:— i It is so easy to ask questions that in the answering, bring up so many incidents to the main feature. There- fore it is advisable to let the matter drop at once and not become so en- tangled wherein it would be necessary to divulge tao muchof a person’s parti- cular business. In Re, the coal proposition. Way back in ancient time the undersigned brought up the little matter of coal gelling in Haverstraw, N. Y. for $7.50 a ton, when at the sameidenti- cal time, you coal dealers were “giv- ing it away” here in little old Ncw . Britain for $12.00 a ton. Positively this coal for Haver- straw did not come by water. Maybe the coal dealers in Haverstraw have gone out of business, but up to Thanksgiving afterngon they were still coal. But another thought:—number two coal, Mr. Johnson, some of the dealers are following the lettar of the law and selling it a a Garfleld for $8.40, but Mr. Johnson sells it for $9.00. Thats your business, well, maybe. No more for the present. Hope I don't hm‘re to turn up again soon. BAD PENNY. MR. CURTIS’ STAND. ‘Will Support Reputable Nominee of G. O. P. in Spring. Editor of the Herald:— Please accept my sincere thanks for the fair way you have used me in placing my literary efforts before your readerd and allow me ;to congratulate vou on your free-for-all course in.the coal discussion. i I enjoyed reading' your article of vesterday on the so-called Curtis- Quigley controversy very much but must make clear one thing, that is there will be no split in the local republican party brought about by me and I expect to support any reputable candidate regularly nomin- ated by its members. I have always been a republican, believe that its management as a whole has been better for the inter- ests of the country nd hope that its future course will be along the same lines. At the present time I consider it the duty of every loyal citizen to back up the national government with all their power nd there may be other times when it is not consistent with good citizenship to be strictly partisan. Sincerely Yours, O. F. CURTIS. THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND. Out in Michigan State There Are Those Who Wonder At Things in Connecticut. Td the Editor of the Herald: Will you allow an outsider a bit of space in your valued columns for the discussion of a peculiar situation in your state which is difficult for a wol- verine to understand? We should ap- preciate a full explanation of the matter in your columns. On November 20th the varfous Con- necticut papers and many others pub- lished a news item to the effect that Caroline Fuller, a member of the Wo- man’s University Club of New York, was sending out appeals to Hartford | tion ditches, {canals and potatoes. | a marched on deck by the 1l4-inch tur- : of War. trenches. That's exactly, what hap- pened. Naval Brigades landed in Bel- gium. Jim was a supernumerary yeoman, could.be spared; and had to g0 with the others, stand in the mud and kill men, and maybe be killed himself—which up to this time had not been included in his plans. At this point plain Luck left off and Fortune and War began. Sooner or later Jim had to fight. iI'll make it simple—as it really was if you stop to think.: Jim fought; lived through it. His section suffered terribly. Officers went down in bloody gobs. The party was cut off. Jim didn’t know trenches, but for four years (by mail) he had studied irriga- plows, shores, spades, The potato knowledge didn’'t help. But with the rest of it and the survivors he gath- ered around him he bullt a redoubt that engineers admired for weeks af- ,ter he was rescued. take hirn over,” was the the “Sure, Colonel’s answer to Engineers. ‘“He's no sailor—or he shouldn’t be.” So Jim got a commission. And he built other redoubts, trenches, gun- emplacements, and tunnels. whole enterprise was to him no more than a glant travesty on farm irriga- tion, and he never turned soil with- out half unconsciously gauging fertility—and counting Imaginary po- tato furrows. He went ‘“Blighty,” that is was in- valided home wounded. Part of him never reached home. But what did get there was praised, hung with medals, and assigned to retired duty with a concentration camp of German prisoners. Major James Dunn had been fisherboy. The Fisherboy had become Man-o’-wars-man. ‘When he rets inkstains had betrayed his weak- i ness—or so some thought until he became a Soldier. As Soldier he had proved to be an Engineer. The En- gineer became a Hero, a Cripple, and finally a Farmer. Jim grows potatoes for 50,000 Ger- man prisoners. So scientifically he does it that they fatten while the State saves money. And curiously enough this is exactly what Jim “al- ways wanted to do. . . .” and what he ‘thought he’d lost forever. Which is one of tiWfe Fortunes of War. . . | DOING HIS BIT W‘II‘IIIAQ P. ANDERSON. ‘Willlam P. Anderson is undoubtedly one of the youngest boys in the ser- vice. He enlisted last February at the age of 18 years in Company I. After being stationed in this city for some time he was sent to New Haven. Af- ter a period of Intensive training he was sent overseas with the rest of the contingent and is now ‘“‘somewhere in France.” Anderson s the son of Magnus Anderson of 369 Main street. people and others asking them to sub- scribe to a fund to assure Mrs. Amy Gilligan, who is under sentence of death for a crime and wishes to appeal to the supreme court, that she will be able to make her appeal. The mon- ey was to be sent to Mrs. Gilligan’s daughter, Mary Archer, of Windsor. The item conocludes: “The results of the New London woman’s appeal will doubtless assure the hearing of the case by the supreme court.” ‘What! If the New London wom- an’s appeal should perchance fail, will Mrs. Gilligan be executed by your state authorities because she’s poor? “The daughter is making a brave fight to secure a sew trial for her mother.” Justice, d’you call this? A question of killing a human belng—a 19 year old girl’'s mother! being settled on a basis of dollars and cents! If the ap- peal for funds succeeds she will un- doubtedly have a new trial before the supreme court! That's what we can’t understand over here. Of course, we don’t kill—butcher people ‘whose souls become so sick that they lose control, and, perchance, kill. We let them live, and give their souls a chance to heal, to become healthy, It's suggestion | that Jim be transferred to the Royal | But the | its | Wise, Smith & Co., Hartford ONLY 4 DAYS MORE OF FREE § for Souvenirs on or before I an ik | | cess last yeat, to our store) that we decided Bear’” is a source of much am Christmas joy. Wise, Smith positive delight to the little ones. these Mystery Toy packages which contain a big 26¢c worth of OUVENIRS —AT THE— ANNIVERSARY SALE All Free Souvenir Coupons must be exchanged Monday, December 10th. WISE, SMITH & CO. Hello! Boys and Girls! Here We Are Again—Come and See Us in Our Big Northland Ice Cave THE SIX POLAR ' BEAR BROTHERS This great &n‘mated Holiday Attraction proved such a suc- (attracting thousands of kiddies and grown folks to repeat it this year—Come and bring the kiddies—FREE TO ALL—Ninth Floor. The Mystéry Toy Packages ‘Which come down from the Iceland cave from one bear to another and finally handed to the expectant youngster by “Big Brother usement to the grown folks and It scosts only ?Sc for one of & Co., Hartford the better way. Confine, restrain, by all means; but don’t kill your poor sick souled, sick minded people. - Do you want to make the mind of that 19 year old daughter sick, too? Let your pardon board answer that. Let us reason! * i Yours for Justice and Humanity, CHAS. B. MAGENNIS. Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘War Beer. ‘With the alcholic content of beer Teduced by presidential order to 3 per cent., whereas it has run as high as 5 and 6 per cent. in some cases, a popular beverage usually classified as intoxlcating will become more than ever before a competitor of the rapid- ly multipyling soft drinks. Some ‘“‘near-beers” which are highly ap- preclated by abstemious prohibition- ists are weaker by only ane-half than what is now to be the standard brew. Three per cent. beer will compare with 50 per cent. whiskey, or say 25 per cent., is served as a highball. To a consumer of ardent spirits in thege forms a single glass of war beer will be about as exhilarating as a table- spoonful of one af the celebrated bitters and tonics whose compounders , assure us that the alcohol used s only sufficient to hold the valuable drugs in solution, or as the drink served in Londan to an army officer who complained of the weakness of his coffee and found that he had been served with ‘‘Government ale.” On the other hand, there are sys- tems and temperaments which re- spond quickly to the smallest stimu- lant. In their books the medical brethren tell us of persons who have shown symptoms of Intoxication after partaking liberally of beefsteak; strong coffee is shown to be a bracer, and no wine ever promoted more con- viviality and confildences than the tipple which is purveyed at our tea parties. Some breads contain 1 per cent. of alcohol. ‘War beer will not hurt anybody unlees he takes too much of it, and that is true of evervthing else. Not Woman’s Friend. “Sunlight is a great thin “It's no friend to woman.” “Why not?” \ “See what it does to her complex ion, and, besides, they ]do say its chemical effect disintegrates the back- ing of mirrors in a comparatively short time.”—St. Louls Post-Dis- patch. A-New Call for Reform. (Toledo Blade) Two ham sandwiches are always more than the average man wants, yet one is not enough. Does this call for Teform? Habit, the One Czar. (New York Tribune) The bits of correspondence dribbling out of Bolsheviki Russia make amus- ing hearing here for the calmness they comprize. Here is a country that has smashed all its toys, put its red-heads in charge and generally gone mad- dog and Mary-Annish. And from out all the crashing, howling confusion comes news that life in Petrograd is golng on very much as before. Not in such unessential detalls as parliaments and sovereignty, to be sure. But food is bought and sold, the postman comes and goes, trains run and human be- ings eat, drink and sleep at least as equably, we dare say, as in any Dos- tofevsky novel. ‘We can see old ®Samuel Butler smiling grimly of the revelation—and over our surprise at it. It was his dis- covery, for us modéns (only until Mr. Shaw shouted about it we had never heard of it), that there is a huge invisible, igorant part of ~ each of us, our habits principally, which really control our actions. We think we are choosing our words, and pick- ing out our wife and ging to this show | and refusing to read that book because our little busy conscious ego says thus and so at the moment. As a matter of fact, that consclous ego is like the one-seventh of the iceberg that is vis- ible above water. It catches the sun and the winds, but it has precious Iit- tle to say about the route of the berg. The Russians have apparently ex- ploded all over the lot. Yet they are still Russians and ambling along very much as before. They have thrown out the czar, their habits of life, of charaocter, still hold sway. Ex- plosions do affect our fiber; they do alter habits. But thelr effect is lim- ited. It is day by day that we build ourselves, and moments, however crowded, can tear down only so much of the structure. Hit Back. Madeline (trying to snub Alice, who has just told her a humorous stery) —But, my dear, that's an awfully old joke! Alice—Is it really, dear? Well, of course you ought to know. ‘When She Was Kneaded. Ten-year-old Lena had been tak- ing osteopathic treatment, and her little friend, Mabel, was curious to know what the treatment was like. “Well, I'll tell you, Mabel,” Lena said seriously; “they just make bread of you.”—Buffalo News. Instalment Applaunse. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Three cheers for the Russian Re- public—one down and two when i scems to be permanent.