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

Britain Herald.| HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. 3 Proprietors. cd) at 4:15 p. m., Chureh St ued daily, (Sunday ¢ at Herald Buildin itered at the Post Ofiice at New Britain Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents o week, 65 cents a month. Bubscription for paper fo be sent by mall, . payable in advance, 60 cents o month, . '$7.00 a year e The only profitable advertising medium In . the city. Circulation books and press . room always open to advertisers. o Herald will be found on sale at Hota- | ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, v York City; Bourd Walk, At- lantic City, and Martford Depot. TELEPHO! Ofice Rooms NE CALLS 1etness iwditortal Membe. of the Assoclated Press. The Assoc'ated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news { eredited to it or not otherwise credited / in_thls paper and also the local news | published herein - § Forget Not. % Shall they who zave their all [.. And now so peaceful lle Dream that the trumpet's call _Brightens no brother's eye? & Come, come, come! Jorget not those who led “When the evil woke And the battle broke— | Lioys! Iror the love of the dead. s | 3 b Sl R T SEND IN THE NAMES. ‘Before' the Ncw Year the honor joll for. this city should be completed. Ali names of our men with the colors phould bo sent in to this office through je medlum of the blanks appearing anothor page. The list is almest’ but not quite complete. If every par- Int who has a son either in the army pr the nivy would send in his nams; B2 overy friend who knows of a boy Pith the colors would see to it that he name. reaches this office the en- ira work of campilation could be fone within a Jew hours. The names all those young men who are now h the colors are wanted. This alsy pplies to the men who lived in tne fonfines of Berlin or Plainville. Wo ‘ant the names of all, and their pic- 'es so they may be reproduced in he column headed, ‘‘Doing His Bit." i i | £ ING BEHIND THE GOVERN- | o MENT. | Up to this time there were many Who Armly believed that the United tes of America would not present Tnited front; that this nation could sver bring together the various dis- brdant elements of which it is com- d and make them into/one unit r the sole purchase of waging war nst autocracy. . It is true, even at this moment. there are some amongst us who re not entirely in sympathy with the ar, as viewed from the angle of the Patente Allies, and necessarily from fhe standpoint of America. Their juntbers, however, are comparatively 1l. ¥or one reason or another fhose who belong to this group held ack thelr undivided allegiance and ve it to Germany or her allies, nstead of to the United States and llies. In this they figured com.- ble safety inasmuch as they made fhe mistake a great many loyal Amer- eans made. In other words, they red that the war would be over a very short time, and that there pas no reason to worry. | Now things are different. There is { grayer hue comlng over the horizon, fiben during the last month the situ- ition hag changed perceptibly. The pect is new, so far as other days e considered. The war, in a word, s coming home. With the sending our boys abroad, with the taking pt our young men for the draft army, ith the military activities that are oing on at the various cantonments hroughout the land, the realization as come that we are truly at war. Vhen the first reports of blood-shed pame over the wires and the news- papers printed the initial casualty jists there was an awakening, On top of these things there is the Russian situation. That, all along, s been anything but rosy. The Bolsheviki having taken possession of he government at Petrograd gave other cause for worriment. With his same discouraging news came the orfes from Italy wherein were pre- ented the victorious armies of Ger- magy and Austro-Hungary wading hrough the Itallan armies and even nvading the fair lands of sunny Italy. Il these things tended to upset the en keel of publi¢ opinion in Amer- and encroached on the serene nfidence of the disloyalists, | The fdea now Is to get behind the President of the United States, no atter who the citizen, no matter Here the land where he was born. this applies to ‘those who still sintain & sympathy for the success German arms as well as it does for who have been in discord merely % because things were not, or are not. run to sult their particular and pe- culiar political tastes. The time has come when there can be no half- The time has come when every man and every woman,— every boy and every girl,—in this country must lend a helping hand to those burdened with the nation’s war Disaster lies ahead unless receives the un- hearted loyalty. problems. this administration divided support of the people. It need take but a few moments of thinking to determine just what would happen if the people of this country lost faith in their public serv- anls,—tho administrators of govern- ment. Were the peoplo throughout the United States to start this very day and disrupt tho organization be- ing prepared to conduct this war thero would be a situation in thls country which would approach in a short while that of Russia. It would take very little to bring chaos out of tho present order. The nation demands. and musl have, the support of each and every individual within the confines of its houndaries. The warning to observe the edicts of Herbert Hoover are not given out for the mere fun of having something to say. The plea to buy liberty bonds, and thrift bonds, and savings stampps, and all these things are not made because someone ia Washington wants to hear himselt talk. There is a serious motive be- hind the entire business, a motive that bordersg on the grave. Our boys are in France and Flan- ders. They need every care the gov- ernment can extend. They need food, and plenty of it. They need shelter.. They need clothing. They need medical care and attention. They will need these things while they are fighting an enemy who has to go but a comparatively few miles to the base of supplies, while our troops must look back over a stretch of oean three thousand mileg long In order to count on comfort. In the event we fail to do all that the government asks us to do, tlose boys Over There are the ones who will suffer,—first. In the end, how- ever, we are the ones who must bear the brunt of it all. For, after all is said and done, those soldiers today fighting and getting ready to fight on foreign soil aré doing nothing if not putting up a defense for this country. Should they fail, either through somae fault of theirs, or through our fault in not adhering to the policy of gov- ernment, we at home must pay the freight. And the bill will be collested py a military master who knows no mercy. The damages the United States would be forced to pay in the covent it came out loser in this war are beyond the imaginations of man We have gone so far we cannot turn back. We are in thls war to the finish. It is therefore the better part of valor ‘to get behind the govern- ment in its every act, and, making allowance for tho mistakes of human beings, to help pursue this war to the ultimate conclusion,—the defeat of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns and a world made safe for Democracy. THE ART OF DOUBLE-OROSSING. When Germany started out on this war its armies marched through Bel- sium at the rate of thirty-six miles a day. To all intents and purposes the war was to be a short one, with Ger- many victorious before any nation had a chance to prepare. This would probably have ‘been true had it not been for General Joffre's taxicab army that met the invading Huns outside Paris and turned them back. That was the beginning of the end, though the end is a long way off. Previous to their invasion of Belgium, the Im- perial German government had plas- tered the earth with its spy system. It propaganda of Kultur was poured into the ears of all who would hear. As a result of this we have the 1,600 business houses and banks in Latin America which are now put on the blacklist of the American govern- ment. These houses are professed enemies of the United States, made 80 by German gold. Had the war been a short war we never would have suspected these things. Because it is a long war we have learned many things. And the longer it goes on the more we will learn, chief among ‘which knowledge is the fact that Ger- many 'is past master of the Double Cross. y FAOTS AND FANOIES. ' Turkey’s part in the war seems to be to furnish geogrephy for the British. —Troy Record. Of course any triplets born in Great Britain now will unquestionably be named Byng, Biff and Bang.—Norwich Bulletin, If we judge by their conduct, some- body has injected a mighty poor grade of maxims in the Russian Maximalists. —Houston Post. There is still a shortage of uniforms, but no enemy need rejoice that the American army is outgrow\ng its clothes.—New York Sun. Maybe he’s a descendant of Kentish Sir Byng who stood for his King, bid- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, #fHURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1017. ding the crop-headed Parliament ’ swing!— Lowell Courier-Citizen. Many a man who could not three months ago have nassed a decent test in Biblical geography is now becoming - well infornied concerning the to- pography and the cities of Palestine. ——Gloucester Times. The danger that should be apparent to rcasonable Russians, if there are any left, is that while they are divid- Ing Russia among themselves, the Ger- mans may take both halves.—Indian- apolis News. Sometimes it is impossible to live it down. (ieneral belief in the worth- lessness of thc bloodhound is larsely due to the failure of the bloodhounds to catch Eliza. ‘apper’s Weekly. A writer yesterday spoke of her- as “an expressionist.” A poor newspaper reporter that would go de- scribe himself to his editor would im- mediately become a post-expression- ist.—Springfield Daily News. When a man takes three spoonfuls of sugar for one cup of coffee, does he really love his country?—Chicago News. Two runaway balloons have caused great alarm in Western communities. What would the sensation be, instead of straying, they were gulded by in- telligence and loaded with bombs to cast down on sleeping women and children?—New York World. It didn’t require this recent evidence to prove that Sherman said it. This war in all its horrors never came home to many an ardent patriot until he found there was a sugar shortage. Then sud- denly he became strong for peace at any price or for a vigorous, relentless prosecution of the war.—Berkshire Eagle. COMMUNICATED. HONORING THE HEROES. Fly Service Flags For All Americans, Foreign Or Native Born, Fighting For Democracy in Whatever Army. ‘To the Editor of the Herald: In the First church roll ‘of honor which recently appeared in the Her- ald it Is stated that among them are “two young Scotchmen, Robert and Hugh W. Miller, Jr., who had applied for enlistment and been rejected by the U. 8. Army for minor physical defects, and had then joined the Can- adian Kilties. This may convey to your readers the impression that the army stand- arg of the Canadia forces is much lower than the U. 8. army, thereby making these forces appear, to those unacquainted with the history of the Canadian army, (and of the glorious deeds performed by Canadian arms \n this present war) to be inferior and of much less value as a fighting force. It may be the *defect” for which the brothers Miller had to forego the honer of fighting for their adopted country, lay in the U. S. army regu- lations itself. In proof of this, the order which excluded them was, a few weeks later, deleted from the army rules. A question which should be cleared up Is, Are New Britain boys enlisted in friendly foreign armies entitled to have their names in your Herald hon- or roll, and have their homes the right to fly the service flag. In view of o many leaving this city last week with the Polish Legion, this may be of interest to many of your readers. Respectfully yours, CELT. THE SUGAR SCARCITY. How It Affects the Lives of Young Children and a Suggestion for Re- Mef From a Worried Mother. To the Editor of the Herald: I would like to ask a few questions about the sugar scarcity. Could you tell us through the Herald what we mothers of growlng children are go- Ing to do for sugar for the little ones,—cereals and other foods. And for the bables! where can we get the necessary amount for their bot- tles? We can hardly afford 66 cents & pound for milk sugar. Why do the grocers in town keep the sugar for customers who run large accounts, and refuse to sell to those who pay cash? These same men claim they prefer cash payment. I speak from experienced. If all the money given to aifferent funds, is used to send sweets and other such things abroad, why can’'t a fund be collected for sugar for the babies of this town? If American children ever need things, what other country can new help them If their own cannot? Iam not greedy nor selfish, just AN ANXIOUS MOTHER. No Complaint. (Omaha World-Herald) “Do you know that that bulldog of yours killed my wife's little, harmless, affectionate poodle?” “Well, what are you going to about t?" ““Would you be offended if I was to present him with a hice %rass collar?* do Fame at Last. < (Washingten Star)." “I jes knew we'd be famous one day or another,”' remarked Farmer Corntossel to his wife. “How do you medn famous?” “Why, since our boy went into thne army everybody is pointin’ us out an’ talkin' about Josh C\orntouel's father Premature. (Life), Cholly (keeping an appointment)— I'm a bit too early, am I not? Ethel (sweetly)—Yes. We were just leaving without you. RS Mother’s Idea. (Detroit Free Press) “Did you meet any nice men while { you were away “Yes, mother. Lots of them." “Lots of them! There aren't that many in the whole world,” Songs of the Service s i Fleld Artillery Into the battle, sabres a-rattle, Horses a-froth, men a-cheerin’, Cannon a-boomin’, Hell's a-loomin’, Never a heart there a-fearin'! Staunch, every steady; brave, rough and ready, Makin’ the enemy chase on, Drivers and Cannoneers, privates and brigadiers, with the Caisson:— fire Sing swing of the Over hill, over dale, when we hit the dusty trail, And the calssons arge along. In and out, hear them Counter -~ marching about, And the caissons are along. its hi, hi, he, Art-ill-er-ee, Shout out your numbers loud and strong! Where e'er you go, you will al- ways know That the caissons are rolling along; —Keep them rolling— That the caissons are rolling along. Batt'ry, ho! Whoa! rolling shout, right rolling For the Field Infantry. Some say there’'s no joy for the poor dough-boy Marching a-foot like the peasant; That there’s no Romance, and he has no chance Fighting where fighting is pleasant. Oh, but the glory, though it be gory, As he goes Over the Top, sir,— Bullets might glaze him, yet e’er they daze him, He will sing on while they drop, sir:— Keep your head down, Allemand, Keep your head down, Allemand, Last night by the pale moon-light We saw you, we saw you,— You were fixing your broken wire As we opened our rapid fire; If you want to see your father In the Fatherland, Keep your head down, Allemand, —Attaboy— Keep your head down, Allemand. Cavalry. Over the gravel we dash with the Cavalry Charging like Cust: cavaliers; Into the thick of it, making ’‘em sick of it, Those who are troubled with heart- aches and fears. ¢ Rollicking riders all, answ'ring the bugle call, Saddles, and Bridles, and Boots in a throng. Shoulder to shoulder, no man could be bolder, Advancing to battle and singing this song:— s own, brave For . seventeen Nancy, Hi, ho, the rolling river; For seventeen years I courted Nancy; I'm bound to cross the old Missour-i. And then she went to Kansas City, Hi, ho, the rolling river; And then she went to Kansas City, I'm bound to cross the old Missour-1. And there she met a Cav'lry soldier, < Hi, ho, the rolling river; And there she met a Cav'lry soldfer,— I'm bound to cross the old Missour-i. years I courted All Branches. 5 Flash! goes the semaphore, built by the Signal Corps; Singing men, fighting men, fast and true. What be the service the U. 8. A, All have their songs for the jobs they, must do. Infantry, Cavalry, Heavy Artillery, Mounted men, marching men, one milllon strong; Thrilled by the sight of them, know the might of them, Uncle Sam’s soldier men singing their song:— stead- they join for we We're in the Army now, ‘We're in the Army now. ‘We've answered th’ call, To stand or to fall, We're in the Army now! Hurrah for Old Glory, Hurrah for the day; Hurrah for the story - That tells of the fray So we'll rally 'round the flag, boys, We'll rally ’round the flag Shouting the battle-cry Freedom| —JOHN J. DALY. of ‘War-Contractor Indictments. By the indictment of several con- tractors who have been - suppiylng campalign hats for the army the Gov- ernment shows that 1t.1s determined there shall be no war scandals. The accused are charged with conspiring, with the connivance of two Govern- ment inspectors, to substitute mater- ial inferior in quality to that called for. On the evidence of fraud prompt ac- tion has been taken. ‘Whether the accused are gullty or not the courts will decide, but the drastic action of the Government in this casa is bound to have a whole- some effect upon all war contractors. ‘When under the pressure of great emergency the Government {s spend- ing enormous sums for supplies, there are bound to be instances where un- scrupulous manufacturers and others will indulge in sharp practices and will attempt by dishonest means to In- crease their profits, It is the experl- ence of every country in time of war, Only by unceasing vigllance and mer- ofless exposure and punishment can this form of criminal greed at the ex- pense of the men in the service of their country be suppressed. f NEW BOOKS AT Alfred Lyttelton, An Account of His Life, by Edith Lyttelton. “This biography of the secretary of state for Great Britain’s colonies gives some account of political affairs in India, but is chiefly a personal tribute to the man by his wife. 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Short Stories, by Harvard Men lected by Prof. Maynadier. ... Se- Top Floor Idyl, by George Van Schaick. ... ‘Wages of Virtue, by P. C. Wren. A story that for sheer adventure and hardy romance could hardly be excelled.”’—Dial. . The World and Thomas Kelly, Arthur Train. . o by Y | Caps Not Night-Caps, wet or dry, or Mad-Caps, or Fools-Caps—Wish it were: 'twould be easier than trying to explain something which Tom Edison and Hi Maxim themselves don't un- derstand. Why is it a projectile hits harder and goes deeper if it wears a steel bonnet or Cap over its nose? That, ladies and gentlemen, is the Dark Horse we have with us tonight. As a child you must once at least have tested lusclous cake lcing with your thumb. Of course there was left a shallow tell-tale dent. even more accusing were the little lines of cracks running outward from the mark like paths of frightened vermin whose nest you had disturbed. Awful figure for a cake, .I know. But try it; see how true it is. Whence we come to glass. How solid and tough a heavy desk weight of it seems. Yet it differs from the ioing’s brittleness only in degree. In the laboratory a polariscope can squirt straight-rayed light through that lump of glass and project it on a screen. Your thumb against it makes a black shadow, clear cut and solitary, across the disc of white light. Press . . . See them? Little black wavy hairs shooting out from the blrt of your finger. They are the lines of strain, the distortion of molecular ar- rangement, the same exactly that made the lcing crack. Folow me closely: Rugged as the glass may be, give it a sharp Dlow while under your thumb and it will fall to pleces. Were it wood or stcne or steel the same 1s relatively true. Under strain all material collapses more quickly and easily, Steel caps from 4 to 15 inches long are screwed on to the noses of projectiles in order that thcy may dent the enemy’s armor, set up in it distorting molecular stresses, an instant before the arrival of the shell itself. As with the glass the following sharp blow easily shatters the strained metal and penetrates. Paradoxically caps are soft. But boxing gloves are soft too, and not 80 much to protect the other fellow's face as to save your own knuckles from being skinned. They pad the blow. A shell cap pads the projec- tile’s blow. To understand why there must be padding regard with me for a moment this granite boulder. A one. prund stick of dynamite could put 10,000 pounds per square inch pres- sure on it with shattering effect. Place the same rock under an hydraulis press at the same strain per square inch and it will come out uninjured. Pressure applied suddenly and sharply is more disastrous than that which comes gradually, The shell's oap strikes first. Soft as it is the solid steel ram behina creeps through and plants its mighty blow without undue suddenness— comparatively of course, for ths pro- |is fuel conservation week. But | : Jectile’'s 30-mile-a-minute velocity can scarcely be called leisurely. Besides dishing armor i also grips its carrier the becomes a restrain: ring prevent- ing sidewise smashing up—'latsral fragmentation’ as the bald-heads call it. T9 perceive this one may con- sider”/the shell as a bundle of steel rods lashed together and bent sver ta a point in front. Striking nose on Weele cause all the rods to ulse about the projectlle’s shoulder, in- creasing its diameter and decreasing its power to hold together, Upon im- pact the cap becomes a gripping band through which the imaginary rods glide like so many darts into the heart of the foe. Sometimes there is a cap upon the cap, sharply pointed to cut tho wind, windshield it is called. And stil] fur. ther comes the fuse outside or iu, also a cap very much like ihe other and containing the brains of. tke pro- Jectlie—so-called because it decies wher shall take place the exp'osion. Frequently its judgment is poor. It gets rattled and goes off too soon or too late, and everyone has a chance to curse the poor inventor. Projecti.es rotate on account of the gun's rifling. 5,000 revolutions or more a minute. Screw caps have been tried which bore into the enemy’s belly. Eten an explosiva cap has | been fitted like a chip on a mar's shoulder—knocked off the shell de- tonates Into a paroxysm of powerful tury. Types are myriad. Indeed the mil. linery of fickle Misses is less change atle than the headgear of ou" Navy missiles. aKEch season has its new slyles, and, as among an Easter con- gregation, one sees freakish combina- tiors surelv most embarrassing to tro Rig Gurs whe must confess their pro- piRquity A highbrow subject, I assure yon, whether the Brown Bess be your wife or a warship's weapon. . . . A Big Job For Some One. (Philadelphia North American) - Perhaps while the Suffragists are computing $400,000 as the damage due them for their injuries in jail, one | of them might be persuaded to com- pute the sum due the country for the blow to its respect for women. the cap shell and The Modern Way. (Detroit Free Press) “Times have changed.” “In what way?” “I can remember when the firm used to fire & man; now it asks for his resignation.” Conservation. (Life) First Imp—Notice how cool hell's - growing? Second Imp—Well, you know, this { their own home téwn. l back. McMillan Stors (Incorporated.) “Always Reliable.” < WAR ECONOMIES in our opera- tion mean holding down rising retail prices. WE WILL GIVE YOU the benefit of savings in the selling, IF you will carry small packages. SELECT CAREFULLY so that whgt you buy will ndt have to be returned. DON'T ASK US to send goods om approval, make your selections at the store. 1 * DELIVERY Auto leaves our store , at 10 a. m. daily. AVOID asking us to make special delivery unless urgently needed. WE ARE READY FOR CHRIST- MAS TRADING with the largest and best selected stock of merchandise ever offered by us. It will help this tremendously busy Christmas store to serve you better, if you shop carly in the day, and make sure the sales person repeats your name and address correctly. THANK YOU. D. McMILLAN . DOING HIS BIT CHARLES F. DAY. That the young man pictured above is from a fighting family is evidenced by the fact that he has six cousins from Australia who are playing thelr parts in the great war. Charles F. Day enlisted last spring in the navy as a first class seaman. He is the son of the late Willlam E. Day and Mrs. W. E. Day. \ ‘Watch Out for O’Brien. An American by the name of Patrick O’'Brien—and that's a good American name, with the accent on the adjective, in spite of all the nefarious work that O’Leary and his “Truth Society” have been doing to besmirch the good names that lead off with O and an apostrophe—hak put one over on the Germans right in He's an avia- tor who fought four enemy machines and brought one down before they got him. Wounded, he was taken p ner when he fell and after treat- meht in a hospital was whirled off in a train toward Berlin for exhibition to the kaiser. In the night he slid out the car window and leaped from the moving train. Unconscious he lay in a fleld for some time, but finally recovered and, after many exciting adventures, made his way through the enemy's lines into Holland. The Germans will be much irritated when they hear of what became of O'Brien, It is very irregular for a prisoner of war to act that way and that verdant Yankee will be dealt with if they get hold of him again. O'Brien, in addition to being an American with that sort of a name, comes from a region south of Chicago. If the Germans had been familiar with alt these things and had realized what they mean, they would never have taken it for granted that their prisoner would act regularly. O’Brien put over much daring work as an aviator before his capture, serving in the British flying corps. He is going back later as a member of the Areri- can aviation squadron. The Germans had best make desperate efforts to conclude peace before O'Brien gets \