New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1917, Page 6

Brltani Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. flsued daily (Sunda at Herald Bul DLed) at 4:15 p. M., Chureh St Entored at tho Post « w Britaln a as Second Class Matter. Delivered by carrier to a rt of the city for 15 cents a week, (7 conts a month. Subscription for paper to Le sont by mall, payable in advance, G0 ccnts a month, $7.00 a year. The only profitable advertising medium 1 the city. Clreulation books and press room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- Hng's 2nd St. and Broad- way, Yity; Board Walk, lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS Omce Rooms Business Editorial Membe. of the Aswoclated Presa. The Assoc'ated Pross is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hercin. i Onward to Victory. | Bring out the banners that defted a king; [, Then tattered wle;; bring That made a nation ome from sea to sea, . In godly liberty, Unsheathe the,, pfltrloth‘ sword in 1 _tim America! | gurth torth _your ar- 5 miel fead! ¥ “Peace, with a sword! 3 Help us, O Lord!” —ABBIE FARWELL BROWN. THE LAST CHANCE the New Year Is but a short flight of time. It is hoped to complete the honor roll af New [Britain by then. On the first of Jan- Mary the blank which Ras been run In this newspaper for the past sev- eral. months will be withdrawn and [#hose who would send in the names of soldier friends or boys must find er means of cammunication. The thing to do s to fill out these blanks for as many names as have not bean slready submitted and send them in to this office. It requires but a little any man’s time to meet with this quest. To leave off even one name fram the roll would be an unpardon- Ble offense. Every man who is now Hioing his bit with the armed forces bt Uncle Sam should at least be rocpg- ged in this way. His record should kept so that future generations ht know how this present race of fién acted in a great crifis. From now until LOOKING BACKWARD AND i FORWARD. JUntil the war inuEurope started ome three years ago no man even ought to estimate the vast resources the United States. There was no heed for such a thing, since there was 0 tax upon these, resources. Then came the call from Kurope. erican supplies were demanded; ot only abroad but at home. Where pce we got things of every sort and lescription frotm Germany and Eng- nd and France and the warring tions, suddenly the American mar- was called upon to furnish the _For the first year, this was sport the American nation. There was serious abeut sending ship- abroad; except the possible nger of having such cargoes sunk wanton submarines. Hven then e ‘was little risk! since all pay- pents were made at the docks of this uwatry. With the second year, how- r, there came a more serious as- to the situation. There was re- work to be done, and American 0 were pressed into service. Al- ough the American people got lit- or no credit for it, they helped ightily toward alleviating the suf- ering of those in' the war zone. With the third. year of the war e the telling blows that were to ecide the exact status of this coun- 5 8o far as its resources, of every nd and nature, were concerned. fever in the history of the world was oh a drain made on any nation. as the story s now written, merican resources stood up well Inder the straip. Even better than d been expected. They had been hobilized, without our knowing it, for st such a crisls. . It was in this third year that we Intered the war. We have now been h it going on eight months,—and yet e have not got a falr start. We ave martialled our men, and our oney, and our munifeme; dut ol ariigg dier & red § measure. There are ether and ter demands coming. We have the nation on war rations, but Iy 'in a sense. Even in this djrec- N we have not got fairly started. ifices’ of blood and treasure are be made,—sacrifices that will ompletely overshadow anything that occurred so far. These are not pleasant things to nk upon, but they are the facts in @ case. as such, they must be pon- L over the while we grit up our ao for the future. Because of what has taken place in the past three and a half years, and especially in the past seven months, there should be nothing for us to fear in the future. Our strength has been proven in every way. Iad it not' beeh put to the verest test, and had it not held up this abnormal stress, there is no telling where we would be today, { nor what would be happening in this se! under ‘xpuul and labor have been tried. Neither has been found wanting. There have been some few who im- posed on the general public; but these were rapidly rounded up by the government agents. Profiteering has been cut down to the minimum. Price | fixing of goods in the various realms of commercial life has had its effect. The workmen have behaved reason- | ably well, considering the temptation that was theirs. had their one chance to get wages. They took advantage of it without totally ecrippling the work- ing of things. Contemplated strikes were called off when patriot- ism entered the discussions. Having dispensed with any serious trouble that might have been dis- played between employers and em- ployes, the steady hum of the nation's machidery was heard threughout the ! 1a0d \indf to@ay everytitug iy running smevthly. - Producers’ “\[p% been brought ‘Thts subjection Yo, the ex- tent that their articleshave been priced at a mark reasonably propor- tionate to the cost. The distributers have been held up at the point of the Iederal finger, and there appears to be little need for worry on this score. The carriers, asking for higher rates, will undoubtedly be relieved; but what is done in that direction cannot materially affect the national effective- ness, since the Government stands ready to take over all these facilities K.he moment things warrant such ac- tion. Having got rid of all these elements that might be disturbing it not properly handled, there remains but one more class to be considered,— the consumers. If the consumers of this nation get down to bed-rock, and realize the vast importance of their -position in the gigantic fabric that is being woven, everything will come off the loom in tip-top shape. The start has been made. There is not so much extrava- gance in this country as there was six months ago. There is so much waste. great order not one-half There are few per- labor, which is, of course, wastefulness. There is a noticeable decline in the use of lux- uries, and a faking up of the bare necessaries of life. All of these things argue well for the future. The war will be won by ach and every individual doing his bit. The men in the trenches have their tasks to perform. The men be- hind the firing lines have theirs. The men in this country, the men and wo- men who make up the great army be- hind the army, have their work cut out for them. And it is all connected in some way or other with saving. There must be no waste whatever, either af energy or the stuff that goes to make energy,—food. The national resources are great, in every way. Be- cuse they are such is no reason at all for wasting even a crust of bread. Be- fore it is all over we may be very glad this opportunity for saving pre- sented itself. Looking back over the three years and marking events no one ever dreamed could take place is reason sufficiont unto itselt for looking ahead three years and con- templating even greater moments to come,—days fraught with all sorts of possibilities. Foresight is much bet- ter than hindsight. forming useless REALIZATION OF WAR. With the sinking of the first Ameri- can naval vessel in this war, the de- struction of the Jacob Jones in Eng- lish waters by a German submarine, must come home to America the reali- zation that we really and truely are at war. Up to this time, even with the sending of our troops abroad, there were those who refused to be- come convinced that the United States of America has entered this war in earnest. By some miracle, these folk thought the war would be | merely a junket for our troops- and | sallors. Now in open warfare half a hundred American seamen meet their death in the performance their duty,—chasing the pirate Huns from the high seas. Wherever the message of: this disaster is read on American goil there will be sorrow, | sdrrow gt Ge hes df galimt men the rame time thefe: 3N be I“‘. that they went to thelr watery graves in | gallant manner, after the fashion of men who die for a supreme purpose. FAOTS AND FANOIES. Germany ls in the real estate busi- ness in Russia just now.—Bridgeport Telegram. This year will Christmas shopping —Anaconda Standard. be *“do economically.” loins iand’ make further preparations They | high | of | yoar NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD Some are “left to strut their un- easy hour and be forgotten march to an eternity of fame.—Necw ! York Sun. 1 The deer are said to be very shy Just now. But the dears are not. They get very bold around Christ- mas time.—Springfield Daily News. It remains for posterity to declire whether Northeliffe or Col. Houge wins the ribbon in the unon statesman class.—-New London Day. We don’t know just what the Rus- word for damfoolishness is, but the Ru historians will ha’e to use it to bo the operation of the bolsheviki.—Boston Globe. sian having it all his own north Mexico. | Vvilla isn't | way down in guna. “Don’t shoot the fiddler,” is Carranza’s plea, “he’s doing the hest he can.” Order may be restored be- { tore 1950.—Brooklyn Eagle. | Mr. Mellen does not think the | Archangel Gabriel could make ‘the New Haven road “go.” But Mr. Mel- lenn made it “go"—down—aud nobody ever accused Charles of being ! any kind of an angel.—New Haven Union. Uncle Sam has turned out his Arst ! ship under war rush orders in 120 days. It is a 4,000-tonner and some ! blow to the German idea that Uncle ‘s oa “ne.-n;me —Patorson Press- | Guardian. What causes such,abrupt rises and falls of U-boat losses is-a matter for speculation, but at all events Berlin <an no longer ascribe the recent drop t> there being no more ships to siuk. We may hope for another diop next woek.—Springfield Republican. has tried in vain to get out of washing or wiping the dishes, and has paid penalties. The young soldier who got three years’ imprisonment and dishonorable dis- charge for refusing to do kitchan chores will have the sympathy of many a young husband.—New Ia- ven Register. Many a man Father O’Shea. O'Shea was his| pride. Sturdy, fine sons of the emerald sod, Like heroes they fought and like chil- dren they died With their Padre beside them to help them to God. Four times court-martialed for risk- ing his life In No Man's Land, seeking his lost where they lay, ‘“They are my sons, as the Church is my wife, And I never will fail them,” Father O'Shea. Father regiment’s sald They were called for their tarn ir the terrible drive, And the Padre went up with his boys to the town host upon host passed last night alive— Ah, the few that came back where the many went down! He had looked in those simple young hearts to the deep, He had shriven their souls for the perilous way, “It’s clean wheat for Berthas will reap In the battle tomorrow,” sald Fa- ther O'Shea. Where their Heaven the But the blood will run hot when it soon may be cold, life’'s lure is stronger death just ahead, There were women with eyes were shallow and bold In the quarter enclosed, where a narrow gate led To the chambers a man need not visit by stealth, That stood open and shameless vo all who could pay. The authorities gave them a clean bill of health, But they never could get one from Father O’Shea. And with that That might every Irishman bound foi that =ate Stopped at salute—there was, nw room to pass The figure that stopped steady as fate With a quizzical glitter of spectacle Flass. He shut for a marker his thumb in the hook, “Is it me that ve want, son?” he glanced up to s They all turned abashed from the | probe of that look, And back to his reading went Fa- ther O'Shea. there as | The shadows of slecplessness circled | his eves, t When at morning he heartened his lads for the test, But through a worse danger guarded his prize, And in the tired body his heart was at rest. Tt T had a son where the red rivers roll, ‘With every breath of my would pray, save him, God keep him body and soul. And send him a Padre llke Father O'Shea. ~—AMELIA J. BURR In the Outlook. | | | ‘Worllilly: ‘Wise. i (Mew York Sun), Mother—If you are bad Santy won't #ive you anything. Modern Child—T rather thiak I'm good looking enough to get by with anything I do. he'd Mps T “God in Getting at the Facts, (Topeka Capital.) & brief conversation yesterday with I“Unc!e" John Cooper convinces us that he is not. at this time, cantem- l plating another venture in macrimony. Happlest Christmas Joy comu ARE YOU DOING YOUR CH MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1917. The-McMillan Store, Inc. | ALWAYS RELIABLE es to him who knows he has not spoiled somebody else'n Christmas. (RISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY? SPECIAL PLAID BLANKET: A Car-| ranzista victory is reported from la- | FINE QUALITY WOOL BLA. CRIB BLANKETS 50c¢, 75¢ and 85¢ E: Blankets and Comfortables For Christmas Gifts 'S at $2.98 Pair WOOL FINISHED BLANKETS $2.98 and §: NKETS $1.50, $5.00 to $8.50 Puir. ch. WOOL CRIR BLANKETS $1.98 and $2.98 Pair. BATH ROBE BLANKETS with frogs and girdle complete for Xmas gifts. Specinl values at $ 3.50 and $3.98 Kach. SANTTARY FILLED COMI'ORTABLES in a large assortment to choose from. Priced $2. W $ BATH ROBES That are always 9.00 Each, acceptable Gifts, as Xmas Better values and larger selection here: Children’s $1.49 to $2.98 Each. ‘Women’s Men's $2.98 to $8.98 Each. $3.98 to $5.98 Each. Have Furs on Your Xmas G.ft List Separate Collars and Muffs, <FUR SETS Reasonably Prices d Here. Warm, Winter Coats Wi d M Chiléren's uats $198 't 2*" $12.98 to $44.98. Werm Wool Sweatsts, ' s’llv-om. SBkating Sets, mae-.rm. Caps, Cardigan Jackets, Angora Sults Mittens of all kinds., for Children, Warm Gloves and Comfort for the Chi'dren In our Knit and Domtt Flannel Sleeping Garments ‘‘Winchester” Sleepers Knit with the feet in them, for Children 1 to 12 years of age. Priced 69¢ to $1.00 Each. DOMET FLANNEL SLEEPERS 48¢, 79c, 98c Each. CHILDREN’S DOMET FLANNEL TWO PIECE PAJAMAS, extra heavy weight, 98c Suit, value $1.25. MEN’'S DOMET NIGHT SHIL RTS 89c, $1.15 and $1.25 Rach. WOMEN'S DOMET NIGHT NIGHT GOWNS 89¢, 98¢ and $1.49 Each, CHILDREN'S DOMET NIGHT GOWNS 798¢ Eacl FACIS ABOUI THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8 N. Screw Propeller | DOING HIS BIT Next to being a sailorman I think T'd rather be an anthropologist than anything else in the world. I could then find out all the interesting hows and whens in regard to our customs and crafts, and especially how wcl came into them. Tor {nstance: “Principle of the Screw' means next to nothing to the averase man. Screws hold down hinges, panels and thermos bottle covers. Screws are the little metal gadgets which are always getting lost. A nut is an inside serew - And so on, until the sum total of popular knowledge about screws amounts to the fact that they go in or out according to the way you twist them. As for ship’s propellers, most of us don’t even connect them with screws at all. Yet the theory of them considers water as solid as wood and the propeller’s advance analogous to that of a screw revolving through a substantial and unvielding medinm. Truly enough a vessel 'bores ahead.’ Way back in the Stone Age men knew screws. Recently discovered tribes of Eskimos give us good sam- ples of primitive man's invention and use of spiral grooves on hunting im- plements. Threaded bone plugs are still used to stop wounds in sea game lest the body sink. Seals especially are Inflated by the hunter’s blowing into the harpoon cut and screwing in a little rough-hewn peg. It is curious that very nearly the first use of screw propellers on ves- sels came with the development of submarines. In 1795 David Bushnell built a queer pear-shaped sub which floated upright. He had two sets of ‘revolving oars.’ as he called them. that were really screws. He was afraid someone would bag his idea before he perfected it. These ‘oars’ were real screws. That is, /their blades comprised a spiral sur- face through one complete turn. That one in a horizontal plane raised or lowered the craft; while a common vertical screw propelled her. John Stevens in 1804, without any Aefinite knowledge of the egg Bush- nell was so secretly trying to ha fitted & screw on his 18 foot steam- boat. Very early in the game he rea- lized that only a small percentage of | the screw area could be utilized. Ra- pid revolution throw the water away and left nothing to push against. So came about our present bladed pro- peller, which is merely three or four sections of the helix, and carried through only a fraction of a turn. This “having something to push against” is the great problem in propeller design. Some years ago an interesting tank experiment was car- ried out to investigate unexplained | speed losses. Of course if water were | solid the faster the screw revolved the faster the ship would travel. But water sweeps away very easily. This was shown by throwing a beam of light directly on the blades at one point in the circle. After a certain speed was reached what looked like a large blister developed about tie middie of the bimde area. In reality this was a_gpot of vecuum. . Water was beimg shot out radially by the propeller faster than it could flow back. > So that mow on our fast cruisers and destroyers we carve away the aftes hull and give body lines that induce a flat flow into the screw. High speed turbines must be geared down to suit the sluggish water, and propellers themselves made only steep enough to give push without outrunning their “push medium." Anad thought it hasn’t any real bear- ing on the subject, can’t you see how ! their emotion by ! 1dano, ,over the naval world went up in Lit- WALTER H. TULLY. \ At the time he offered his service and was accepted as a member of the United States navy Walter H. Tully s one of the voungest boys in the service. He enlisted August 26, 1913 and has worn the navy blue ever since. Tully is only 20 years of age and was only 16 years old when he be- came a jackie. He is the son of Mrs. Rose Tully of 10 Lawlor strect. casily a successful man might work | up to such a speed of accomplishment and sweeping notoricty that a “bli ter 1 would develop in his work —he'd be getting too far chead of the crowd? UESHS? Idaho. “Another baby horn!” Every time—and TI've seen a good many launchings—but at eve gle one of them Just as the started to glide down the dozen peopie around me gave vent to remarking gravely: born.” The levity almost irreverence of such irony at such a time is characteristically American. Last summer it w our latest d “Another baby announced that dnaught, the U. S. 8, had becn launched. And all any-like res Baby Born! Did you ever have a baby of your own? Yes, then you know how much the details mean: bair, eyes, mouth, weight, and a thouswud more I have forgotten .(or manMite, néver knew) but any woman can tell you. It’s ex- actly the same with the Nation's new Baby, the Idaho. “The eyes of the ship”—look, low Auwmerican, she has an new kind of ' (the end of the matm-deck) on cach side, and one in the middle of her bow. Through this pipe or onse the chant, “Another fel- entirely very front a hawse-pipe hole her anchor chain shall pass. And, who knows, she shall swing safer and more easily through the spitting eas- ter which drives weaker sisters ashore. And see her ‘nose.” Nautically ity Shopping Early at the Store of Big Holiday Attractions Wise, Smith & Co., Hartford Again we say “Do Your Christmas Shopping Early.” Take small parcels with you whenever possible. energy and money. Holiday stocks are now at their throughout the store. Bring the Kiddies to see the POLAR BEARS NORTHLAND ICE CAVE, ninth and shake hands with A REAL LIVE AT HARTFORD'S GREATER TOYLAND—cntire sixth floor Save time, best and splendidly complete Holiday attractions greet you at every turn. IN THEIR floor,—Bring them to JOLLY OLD SANTA CLAUS de- BIG see and voted to this great exposition of toys, dolls, games and out of door playthings. As for BOOKS you will find thousands of them. for everyamember of the family, BOOKS for NEW HANDY LOCATION FOR THE Books on the main floor, front of sore. Everybody HOLIDAYS — MAIN FLOOR, FRONT OF STORE.—New Books by the hundreds, old favorites by the score. Buy before the final rush, buy early while assortments are best. BOOKS FOR BOYS Boy Scout Life Series. The Go-Ahead Series. Tomlinson Books for Boys. Books by Frank V. Webster. The Frontier Boys. Famous Animal Stortes. The Dare Boys. The Comradesk Series. Dave Dashaway Series. Tom Fairfield Serics. Tom Swift Series. The Saddle Boys Series. And a great many others. POPULAR FICTION BOOKS FOR GIRLS The Red Cross Girls' Series. Mary Lee, the Red Cross Girl. The Children’s Crimson Series. The Out Door Girls. The Girls of Central Higl. Complete Number of the Every Girls' Library. Every Child Should Know Series. e Little Starrs Series, tle Prudy Series. Sleepy-Time Tales. The Easy Rook People. BY THE VERY BEST for [Little AUTI ORS, 60c We mention here a fow of the titles: ies of Red Gap. el O’Halloran, Stratton Porter Potash & Montague Glass. The Light of Western Stars, Ly Zane Gray. Country Lawyer, Shulte. by Gene 'erlmutter, by by Henry Complete Holiday selection Laddy, by Gene Stratton Por- ter. 3 g hart. The Dnledavil by Davies. The Rose Garden, by Widden« eriie The Upper Crust, by Sherman. Mister 44, by Rath. by Mary Roberts Rhine- of Bibles and Dictionaries; Ploture Puzzles, Books, Paint Books, etc., and Fairy Tales. WISE, SMITH & CO., HARTFORD ( or how. What other baby ion, counting all the Battle I’leets of the world, has such a beauty. P’hotographs show it not vertical like those of our other men-of-war, but long, keen, and overhanging—the fa- mous clipper bow of another cen- tu One can almost see how it shall cut and ride the green deep comber Her dimensions are less adaptabre to metaphor. [Frankly, her elephan- phantine character knocks the spots out of my rather poetic comparison of battleships with babies. T'll have to get down to brass tacks and ad- mit this daughter of Mars (or Nep- tune perhaps) is 624 fect, 208 vards, more than two whole city blocks In length. Which might do for a baby whale—no, I'll just drop that baby busin And her weight with all hands and the cook aboard will reach the substantial total of 32,000 tons. Two figures are interesting, beam and her draft. Despite their continual incrcase in length. speed, armament, and fighting ability, our battleships must not exceed the depth of channels leading to their home har- bors. It would be like a man getting too fat for his front gate. The avers age seaport entrance does not exceed 35 feet in depth. Her beam of 7 feet is only very slightly greater than that of magy smaller vessels. Dry docks, river plers, aid channel widths have much to do with our building nar- row battle ships. Incidentally, other things being equal, a lean ship is the speediest. She will fight her own kind with 12 14-inch guns six at each end. Against submarines and hostile de- troyers her protection is 22 rapid firing 6linch guns. Each can be fired more than 20 times a minute. At tacking aeropianes will be met by four anti-aircraft guitk-@ring, rifles. Sev- eral 3-pounders signalling and sahutes, and two 21+nch torpedo tubes complete her armament. Obviously she doesn’t need carry any concealed weapons. Her complement of 56 officers angd 1,141 men seems like a good many. It is. And vet she could house, feed. and employ double that number with- out any especial strain or embarrass- ment. She will cost all told about $12,600,000. Yet considering her worth one may say she is very cheap, almost a bargain. She was launched more than two yvears after her keel was laid. But if you knew of the myriad rivets, bolts, plates, frames, her beams, braces, strakes, posts, struts, pipes, screws, angle irons and chan- nels, you would wonder it wasn’t two hundred years. “Mon, she’'s a lovely child!” cleimed a Scoteh foreman when slid in. And she is. exs &ho PRICH VS, v.u;ai. The Graud and Glorious Fecling That Comes to Those Who Know Noth- inz About the Science of Foonomics. (Rockville Journal) Have you expcrienced the sensation of having your tailor tell you how much it would cost you to get n new overcoat like the old cne you are weer- ing? st It a grand and gloriouy fecling—to strut down the strect with a coat which would cost $707 Tt Jielps a lot when you can’t buy a new cne anyhow. Isn't it a pleasant sensa- tion to walk out on a pair of $10 shoes? They are the same kind which cost you $5 a few years ago, but you were not near as proud of them. Doesn’t jt make vou smile at the Eng- lishman who sald “You Americans know the prce of everything and the value of nothing.” He was dead wrong. We don’t even know the price of things. Perhaps in the future we will pay a little more attention to value anid less to price. After the drunken yay our accustomed guide posts have de- serted their usua) sober paces and recled and swayed about to our utter confusion Take fertilizers for instance. A fifty per cent. increase in price siuco last spring seemns rather steep. When vou fizure it out, however, most fer- tilizers (except potash) sre cheaper now than they have ever Weed. Fer- tllzer has no standard of valw sive its abiity to produce crops: there- fore, its value must be measured in terms of crops and its price compared with crop prices. Tn 1914 the usual without potash cost the same time a b worth 60 cents, taking the countr over. A bushel of corn would buy 50 pounds of fertilizer. Today, the piice of the same fertilizer is around $35 a ton while corn readily sells at $1.30 a bushel or more. A bushel of corn will buy 75 pounds of fertilizer. 1In comparative values fertilizers are ac- tually cheaper than they were i 1914, corn fertilizer per ton. At hel of corn was