New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1917, Page 3

i L 3 1 THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS DEVELOPING RAPID- LY, WITH A TENDENCY TOWARD THE EVER USEFUL. Our Buying has been done with this end in view. An attractive collection for Sensible Gift Giving, such as APRONS, GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS, UMBRELLAS, WAISTS, GOWNS, CORSET COVERS, COMBINATIONS, BLANKETS, QUILTS, BATH ROBES, " HOUSE DRESSES, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, PAJAMAS, SHEETS, PILLOW CASES, TABLECLOTHS, NAPKINS, KNIT GOODS FOR ALL AGES. PULLAR & NIVEN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF SUGAR PROMISED Small Dealers to Be Protected Against Grasping Monopolists | Hartford, Dec. 8.—Perhaps the first important proof to the housewife of the power and value of the office of the United States Food Administration in this state, lies in the present sugar situation, which would be infinitely worse than it is, were it not for the strong hand of the administration which is guiding a fair course for the retailers between the wholesalers and the consumers. Profiteering, hoarding and compul- esory combination sales were all stopped short by the food administra- tion’s recent orders and during the last two weeks the administration has been forcd to act more or less as a clear- ing house for the hundreds of com- plaints that have been received. In every case where a complaint was made, accompanied with sufficlent data, an investigation was made and a remedy applied. The names of complainants have been kept confidential. The handling of the complaints, which were received some- times as late as ten o’clock at night, has involved a large amount of unex- pected work as each firm complained against was required to appear and make an explanation. Small Dealers Affected. In addition to the individuals, who telephoned or wrote from all parts of Connecticut telling of attempted hold- ups requiring the purchase of some other commodity than cornmeal in or- der to secure sugar or of purchases of sugar at a price in excess of eleven cents a pound, many small retailers laid thelr woes before the food ad- | ministration. Their stories were much the same, to the effect that al- | ,though some retailers who buy their goods at wholesale were enabled to get sugar and thus supply their custom- ers, the small dealers were obliged to keep turning down their regular cus- tomers because those wholesalers who | ordinarily supply the retail stores had not received their proportionate sup- ply. This situation was probably caused by the fact that when the sugar, which the Government diverted from the New York plers, was sent into Con- necticut, all wholesale buyers, wheth- i1_b: t ex_they_ did a_retail business or no signments from New York are re- ceived, the real wholesalers will get a larger portion, which will make an equitable distribution of sugar among | the people who need it, this matter of a fair and even distribution of sugar and other food commodities, at a fair price, being one of the chief purposes of the existence of the Food Adminis- tration. Although the food administration has occasionally endeavored to adjust difficulties between wholsaler and re- tailer and again between retailer and consumer. it has always made the point clear that its chief functions are to prevent waste, hoarding and ex- orbitant prices and to assure an ade- «quate supply anda an equitable distri- hution. In the present sugar shortage, the Hartford office of the Food Admin- istration feels it has justified its exi SECRETARY LANE - MAKES HIS REPORT 'Possessing Resources Alone Does Not End Wars, He Says ‘Washington, Dec. 8.—In his annual report published today, Secretary Lane, in characteristically striking phrases, portrays the transition of & peaceful democracy into a nation or- ganized for war. Possession of re- sources alone he warns the country does not win wars ,and recounting the enormous progress made on every hand_declares the physical stores of the United States are almost com- pletely at,command of the world’s needs. “ ‘What can you do to serve me!’ " quotes the secretary. “To that ques- tion each individual and each depart- ment of the government must give answer. The answer of this depart- ment is that it has put every agency and activity which it has at the serv- ice of those departments more di- rectly concerned with war making. Our men of sclentific knowledge— metallurgists, chemists, engineers, to- pographers—have found new work at their hands. The homesteaders and the miners on the public lands have been released from their obligations if they go Into the army or show themselves to be of greater service off their lands than on them. The Reclamation Service on a million and a quarter acres of irrigated lands and the Indians on a hundred reservations Joined in the campaign for more meat and more wheat. The Patent Office has been searched for new devices that could be brought into use to kill the submarine or limit its destruc- tiveness, for the plans of heretofore unused lethal weapons, and for the formulae of improved or unknown * 'NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1917. CHOICE ——— GIFTS for CHRISTMAS sell. Leather Goods. UR stock is now complete and we invite your inspection of our very fine line of choice platinum and gold jewelry, American and Swiss watches, sterling silver of the latest patterns, and a very fine selection of Cordova The quality of our goods is just as represented and we will stand back of every article we Call and see us. sources of power. ‘'Before war ac- tually came this department had com- piled the data which showed the pow- er of the nation in mineral and chem- ical resources, our possible needs, and how they could be met at home or where abroad. Prepared lists of those men who had special knowledge or were of skill along the lines of our own activities enabled us to expand as the call was made. “Under the imperative mandate of war that all things shall become sub- 54 Main Street The Porter & Dyson Co. - New Britain, Conn. ject to a new classification according to their usefulness in carrying on the ' nation’s struggle, certain phases of our work have fallen into the back- ground, while others have been brought into the high light of na- tional importance. “But the making of war today is far more than a test of primal resources; it tests the full powers of the na- tion in every resource and capacity and especially along lines of scientific knowledge. And here again we find that the ways of peace have given something in the way of preparation for war. The sclentific bureaus of the government found themselves con- verted over night Into adjuncts and | pulse of a common purpose. ‘“Men are already thinking of the greater America that they believe to be coming when the war is done. We are in this war as the trustees of so- cial and political ideals, most of them unformed, even embryonic and these we hope to realize through the strength of the Nation. Our nation- alism, intense, virile, and of the fight- ing kind, is a part of the machinery through which we are working to make all men our debtors. Our na- tional purpose is to transmute days of dreary work into happler lives—for ourselves first and for all others in their time. This is the large view, the auxilaries in the great international | contest. Men who had regarded themselves as modestly useful only in the discovering and revealing of new sources of material strength found that their years of experience in the mountains and on the desert, in labor- atories and in mines, called them at once into the thick of the European struggle. “War forces a nation to an inten- sive study of what it can do. Thought and work—these are the answers to the problems of material insufficiency. ‘We of America have had no little to boast of through the quick century of our march across a continent. And without doubt our ability to stand alone, depending on ourselves for the things that make a modern industrial nation, is something of which we may be proud, not so much because we have this land as because we have found out its worth and made it ours by putting it to use. But we soon realize when thrown into such a struggle as this war how far removed from entire independence we are. “A democracy making war is never. an agreeable sight, for it 1s not in its normal line of life. And those who sneer or jeer because it does not play | the game as well as might be, pay an unconscious compliment to the merits of free institutions. It takes time to accustom men to the short, hard words of command, and to the sur. render of personal judgment. It is { not easy, either for a nation to turn its back upon the conception of a work where justice works out its ends by quiet processes, and in its stand :come to the stern belief that the ultimate court is a battlefield. So it there is wrenching and side-slip- ping and confusion there should be no surprise. The surprise to me has been with what comparative ease the transition has been made, and how | much unconscious preparation for the new work had been already made. | “Now, that our problem is to pro- | duce more than ever before, it is clear- ly to be seen that the physical re- sources of the United States are today alinost completely at the command of | the world's needs. If, indeed, for the past forty vears the nation has been { planning to make war upon its neigh- dnaerstood that when ~ ruture con- Dbors, and to seize the continent for it- self, what more would have been done to make our resources available for | such an adventure. This is, perhaps, the hardest test to which the prob- lem of our internal development could be put. Yet the answer must be that very little more could have been done or would have been done by a people necessarily doing so much. “But this war is not to be won by the measuring of resources, for if wars were to be so won China possibly would be our only rival. The spirit of the people is the waking of the Nation, in war as in peace. The ex- tent to which a people can co-operate marks the point of civilization they have reached. Now, the greatest out- standing fact of the past vear, as clearly shown in the work of this tment alone, ix that under the nz influence of @ common danger and under the inspiring im- tence along the lines indicated. idealistic view, if you pl Amoric mission. It is the subcon- scious philosophy of all our histor our wars, our public-school our conservation schemes, our cnter- prise. “This greater America is not to be the filmy product of a nation’s fancy, the day dream of a monumental na- tional ego. It is to be as substantial as hard thought and hard work can make it, a thing of good roads, ships, and rallroads, well-fertilized farms and well-organized industry, regulated rivers put to use, and schools and schools, and laboratories and more la- boratories! War has taught England and France much, one thing perhaps above all others, how all important in this day is the man who has the new kind of savoir faire. If we are to meet the full rivalry of the world, we must rest chance for success upon our abil- ity to produce men who, in character, in trained capacities, and in radioac- tive imagination will outmatch those whom they are to meet. “This new America, as the old, will contribute to the world raw products with most generous hand. But the ul- timate resource of the Nation is not that which lies within the ground but that which vibrates in man’s brain. Therefore out of the struggle and tor- ture that we shall pass through, and the reverses and triumph that we shall meet, there should evolve the doncep- tion of America as the center of the world’s thought, an America that will give that leadership and direction to the scientific, literary, and social thought of the world that we pride ves we have recently given to its Our status in this our: political thought. ancy from which if we are sareat real masters of men, conquero visible kingdom of ma HEALTH IN ARMY WAS NEVER BETTER Conditions Compared With Those During Spanish-American War Washington, D. C., Dec. 8.—The democratic national committee pui- In the most recent report recewcd by tic Surgeon General of the Army from Genera! Pershing concernin health condiucns of the Ameri peditionary Korces appearc: statement there is not a case of typhoiG or paratyphoid ai the thousands of American saldic new ip 1w r L similar period i 1ps and cantonsic witere mope (han a miilion me ;i ecn in the Unige for nontls n Uaing TWo o o wie reveaied war gives us a place of moral ascend- ! enough to be humble we can become | of the | licity Luarean nas issued the fol'owine: | only seven cases of typhoid and one case of paralyphoid. Tho oMic’aj medical records of the Spanish-American War didclose that “every regiment in the United States servica in i398 developed tvphoid fever.” More than 90 per cent of the v teer regimerts assembled in the S ish-Amnerican War devecloped i fever, these same records show, with- in ecight weeks after being gathered in the state cncampments. Typhoid fever not only appeared in every regiment in the service in 1898 but it became epidemic, both in the small encampments of not more than one regiment, and in the lar of more than i corps. Typhoid fever hecame epi- demic in camps then located in ths Northern as well as those located in the Southern States. The statement has been frequently and truthfully made both in and out of congress that more men died from disease during the few months of the Spanish-American war and the sub- sequent fighting in the Philippines than were killed by enemy bullets. More than 80 per cent. of the total | deaths resulted from typhoid. Medica] Corps Prepared. During the 19 years that have in- tervened since our little brush with Spain, it is true, medical science has made great progress. It is equally true—despite the charges of unpr paredness—that the medical corps of the army a® now constituted under the leadership of Surgeon General Gorgas was ready to safeguard the health of the soldiers on the day President Wilson issued his first call for volunteers. Speaking a few weeks ago at a Lib- erty Loan meeting in Cleveland, Sec- retary of War Baker paid his respects to certain critics of the administra- tion’s methods of preparing for the @reat task that confronts it in the world war. “l suppose,” he said, ‘“that the world would not continue to exist if there were not some doubting Thom- ases—if there were not some mis- guided people who criticised some lit- tle fault or another—drumstick ora- tors about broomstick preparation and that sort of thing. “But let us pass that aver. You can rest in the assurance that America has done herself worthy in her prep- aration and our boys are not to ammunition and protecting devices | against the artifices of our adversa | They are flowing out in quantity from our workshops. | “And, in addition to that—and I like more to tell you this than any- thing clse—there is going to be ones consisting one better army than we have ever had in | this. that from the first day that a colilier was called, it was détermined at the environment in which he is ned shall be a healthful, stimu- nd wholesome environment. cre are thines that soldicrs can home that are wa wounds. W contest Americans of culture and high ideals—worthy of the cause th guing to defend. And when they cor s out of it they will be stimulated and strengthened so far as their minds and bodies are concerncd—heroes in (e highest sense of the word.” Elimination of typhoid from the camps is only one of the accomplich- ments of the trainad orts - hoon entrusted with the car seldiers’ th. Every form icabl receivi: hring to reveul going | want in the supply of arms and, adequate than | are sending into this| Vaccination, tion have dane it. Science developed the serum that typhoid from Hy- glene—or, to state it in simpler lan- en- makes doubly certain the effectiveness of the prevents the deadly claiming victims in the camps. 'guage—scrupulous forced by rigid cleanliness inspection, medical preventives. This inspection not only all disease-carriers, such as which, if left unmalested, would con taminate foodstuffs. The embalmed will beef scandal not be repeated can prevent it i pollution, according to o1 was the greatest sanitar) n mitted by the troops in 1898. 18958 ! vigilance From | it was traced much, if not all, of the wrecked the constitutions evils that i of strong men. The efficiency of the American army medical service was demonstrated, as well as tested, on the Mexican border last vear. More men were sent there than the United States had mobilized since 1865. . Although they were concentrated in a region as one writer recently observed “where smallpox usually exists, where typhus Is a continual men- ace, where yellow fever in years past has set up its shotgun quarantines, and avhere typhoid and paratyphoid are always known, the outing for most of the men was as beneficial as if they had been visiting a health resort.” Perfect sanitation is the explana- tion given by the medical officers for this excellent record and perfect sanitation is being maintained in all the camps both in the United States and France to insure equally good re- sults in the present mobilization. Robert Forrest Wilson, in a recent sue of Munsey's magazine, enumer- ated a few of the details of camp regulations which show why there need be no fear of a repetition of the “disgrace of 1898." Regulations to Keep Health Good. . These regulations, which every | officer must strictly enforce or run the risk of court-martial and sum- mary dismissal, are: “No water can be used for drinking purposes until it has been analyzed and pronounced fit by a medical ofticer. Dipping. drinks from pails or other containers is forbidden, while the common drinking cup is not per- mitted. All drinking water must be covered tightly dust and other sources of “When the water taminated or doubtful i st neverthele be used. the water | ilized in fort llon canvas I bags., which are carricd by all our The sterilization is done with a hypachlorid of caleium. which is s in measured doses sealed in i S8 en highly contami- is rendered safe by this is' con- but when it “Kitchen and mess-hallsyiat cu tonments nre required to be'securely screened. This killing of fiies must go on so lonz as there are any fli left to Kill. All dishes and other table- ware must be nrotected from flie and dust. Hot er and clean towels must be used for cleaning dishes, -kits and cooking boxes must he ke irepeection lire and undern sponsibl. food longer verdor pevmitted t miiitary e no G enmyp. o oot tary severnl betore o ofiiedn thies. HARTFORD In Selecting a Gift for a Woman Choose a Fine Blouse, Petticoat § or Lounging Robe You will make no mistake by doing so. These garments are al- ways wanted, always acceptable. They combine utility and beauty. Georgette crepe is most popular among Wwaist materials. showing of these blouses is extensive and includes all the most fash- jonable colors. Some are hand-embroldered and beaded in charming designs. Some have collar and vest of satin or taffeta. Others have collars and cuffs of hand-embroidered Georgette crepe. These are in flesh and white and also in colors. At $2.95, $3.95, $5.00, $5.95, $6.50, $7.60, $10.00, $12.50, $15,00 up. New models also in silks and satins, Roman stripes and -plaids, in a variety of striking combinations; elso plain satins in taupe, brown, black, navy, green and Burgundy, These at $2.95, $3.95, $6.00,, $7.50, $8.60, and up. . Crepe de chine walsts, also wadsts of Lejerz and men's wear silks are very popular this season. They are shown in tailored .models and hand-embroidered effects. Either flat or military collars, At $2.95, $3.95, $5.00, $7.60 and up. o e S O e | Our| nesses, including several relat! ‘Witkowskl’s supply of “booze” was 40-gallon milk can of hard cid which he had filled regularly ev: “Bath and lavatory waste water is not allowed to collect in pools. Gar- bage is removed or burned on the spot as fast as it accumulates. Horse- inoculation and sanita- insures clean bodies, properly ventilated bar- racks, tents or billets, but eradicates flies, of manure is burned daily. The lines where the horses are picketed must be swept daily and burned over with crude oil once a week, to prevent the breeding of flles. Latrines are fly- tight, and are burned out or other- wise sterilized daily, the buildings be- ing scrubbed daily with soap and water, and disinfected at least twice weekly. “These are the minimum require- ments for personal cleanliness—bath at least twice weekly; hands washed before each meal; teeth brushed once a day; underwear changed frequent- ly; bedding and clothing sunned and tents aired daily; tents frequently struck, to sun the sites.” Every man in the army is given & horough examination every two weeks by a medical officer. There is a sick call every morning and any man who is indisposed, no matter how trivial may be his ailment, is sent to the doctor. No chances are taken. Despite all these precautions there has been sickness in the camps, but the percentage is said to be below that in peace tumes. Measles have been prevalent in some camps where Monday. 4 He runs a farm in Monroe and b wife does nearly all the work ingludi ing the milking of 10 cows. A © servator will be appointed Tu Former Secrgtary. Greenwich.-—Robert = Jay Waish prominent in legal, political, corp tion and legislative circles and & mer secretary of state, died here ter a long illness. Mr. Walsh was 8 his 64th year and was born in Lewli boro, N. Y., coming to Greenwic] early in life. He gained hia I education: in local law offices and admitted to the bar when a youn| man. His interest in republican itics soon made him the leader @ his party in this region and he sent to the state senate twice, bein first elected in 1884. In the sessi of 1887 he was senate leader n chairman of the judiclary committe In 1889 he began a four year' te as secretary of state. Since that ti) he has been recognized as the repu lican leader in this section of Con necticut. Child Is Killed. if eternal the men mostly were recruited or Camp ithority, com- present selected from rural The type has been mild, and fatalities have been few. extent. cases of tuberculosis. made to keep watchful medical examiner. army particularly. ever, disclose. to one of the high officers of isfactory. That there will be sickness and some deaths, course, expected. however, as devastated the camps Discipline and sanitation, with the measures of There is no fear, in 1808, prevention, their homes, as Secretary Baker said, and mind.” CORONER BLAMES PARENTS FOR DEATH Little Girl, Left Alone, Plays With Matches and Dies Fairfield —After a search since early in September, State Po- liceman Frank Virelll found and placed under arrest Frank and Elsie Smith of Fairfield ,who were held re- sponsible by Coroner J. J. Phelan for the death by burning of Freda Smith, five vears old, at their home, Septem- ber 4 last. Mrs. Smith had gone to Hartford to spend Labor Day, and Frank Smith had left the little girl alone at the house while he came to Bridgeport to huy some clothes for her. While in Bridgeport he became in- toxicated and was arrested. The lit- tle girl went to the home of a neigh- bor.. where she was given a bhreak- fast. and then returned to her own home, and in playing with matches, set fre to a couch, and was fatally burned hefore the flames could be cxtinguished. lasting Hard Drinker. ! Fridgeport.—A person who drinks 10 railons of hard cider each week {5 not 1t to care for his own finances, {according to a decision rendered in ! the case of Irank Witkowski of Mon- ! o by Judge Panl L. Miller, of the protats court, who recommends the Lsppointnient of i cons According o the testimony of wit- communities, however, With the approach of the wiuter months | some cases of pneumonia developed. but not to an unexpscted or alarming There have been only a few Every effort is’ those affected with tuberculosis from the camps and only | avenue pear Dayton in rare instances do they escape the | were no eye witnesses who could Social | any detail es just how it oco diseases, so-called, have been discov- ered among the men of the National They have been or are being rapidly eradicated, how- as succeeding medical reports Viewed from every angle, according the medical inspection force, health con- ditions in all the camps are most sat- some s, of of serlous epidemics such together are relied upon to return the men to “strengthened and stimulated in body rvator. l New Haven.—Edward Thro:os M fott, eight and a half voars old, of 3 Pardee place, son of Patrolman Fi ward Moftett of the Dixwell avenul precinct, was instantly killed yostol day afternoon when he was run ow by an auto truck driven by Henpy Stellar, Jr, of 28 Dayton street. g The accident occurred on VW halle] strast. Th b Medical Examiner Scarbrough ins gated and according to Stellar's sion the boy must have been rid on the rear of the truck and fell falling under the rear wheei. The first warning of the accid according to tie driver, camo wh ho heard a scream. He immed stopped the truck and when he plo up the lad he was lifeless. The wheel of the truck passed over boy’s abdomen and he was inetan killed. The auto was loaded with four ton) of dyes for the Pond Lily Co. and going at a moderate rate of speed the time when the accident ocou Dr. Scarbrough notified Coroner B Mix and an inquest will be s today. The driver was not held b; the Westville police. On Fire Again. Meriden.—For the second time i slx weeks the home of Mrs. Michas| H. O'Brien was on fire and D burned todey. This time the loss $4,000. The house had just been com: pleted after repairing of damage the previous blaze and the furniturg had been moved in. Mrs. O'Brien the widow of the late town supé tendent. Embezzlement. South Windsor.—Harry 8. Powe: tax collector here for five years, wa arrested on the charge of embezzlini town funds left in his care, amount. ing to $16,6 5. He was ordered held for the superior court unde | bonds of $5,000, which were furnished I by J. E. Shepar THIS SEAMAN HA! { THE SPIRIT OF '76 Young Man Refuses to lcave Torpe doed Ship Until Sure His Captain Is Saved, Washington, Dec. $.—W. F. Eisen: hardt, of the armed naval guard ol the American steumer Rochestoery sunk by a submarine, hu; been com mended by Secretary Daniels for gul. lantry displayed during the abandon ment of the sinking vessel. The seaman refused to enter a life. | boat, thinking his commander stil was aboard the steamer. He searched ! the boat until satistied his commande had got away in another boat, Ihe climbed into his bos the last m 10 leave the Rochester. His hoat ‘s in making the Irvish coast | Sisenhardt 21 vears old and, son of John I&. Iisenhardt, of N Orleans.