New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1917, Page 6

iruce. It 'v;ofiid be a. ca-n.fion’ bt arms for a petriod In which he could SLIRHING COMPANY. repair his military fences and send Proprietors. battle. i It was December 12, 1916, that the world was last startled by a sug- gestion of peace terms between the Teutonic nations and * the ‘Entente Allies. At that time there was a gen- eral up-setting of, all plans because tabls sdvertising medium in of this news. e stock market Circulition books snd press crumpled over night. Fortunes made FEPIL 1o, dvertisers. on “war babies” in this country were STy 3 i | Jost. Yot & your has passed and thore York City; Board Walk, At- | is no peace. On the contrary, Ger- £ity, and Baritord. Depot. many sees aligned against her the ;-n:nnon CALLS a5 | Breatest nation on the face of the l93¢ | earth, the United States of America, F €8undny excepted) at 4:15 p. m., d Buildthg, 61 Church St s the Post Office_at New Britain nd Class Mail Matter. by carrier to any part of the city cents a week, 65 cents & month. for puper to be sent by masil, '12" advance, €0 cents a month, his fighting hordes once again into : p— e FACTS AND FANCIES, The three young men.emerged from the fiery furnace. { "The coal shortage did'it,” they ex- | plained.—New York Sun. that 5,000 Apache Indians will soon be enisted in the American army. ‘When Apache meets Hun, then should come the tug eof inhuman war.— Kansas City Journal. ! 'Meanwhile Brer Romanoft is dustriously shoveling snow and saying nothing.—Bridgeport Telegram. | f Russia needs a new fighting bear. Why not get the Teddy kind?—New Haven Union. Happiness grows at our own fire-: sides and is not to be picked up in An Apache chief in Utah reports | in-/| “SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION.” , , Geometrica] Drawings and Skeletons Have Much in Common When “Humanity Looks For a - Gidde-Post. (Washington Times). We talk of civilization as though it necessarily implied improvement. Civilization means tHe school and the library, but it also means the i prison and the poorhouse. i Two short stories illustrate different views of what we call civilization: | Aristippus was a young Greek gen- | tleman of large means, genuine in- ! tellectual power, a sense of humor, and a reputation as a philosopher. Millan~ Store M Jtore open every Evening This Week He was on his way to Corinth with a young lady named Lais, or possibly he wag col from Corinth with her. Commencing Wednesday DECEMBER 19 Store Open Evenings Until Ghristmas of m Press. { and many lesser lights from the inter- | b ted Roc ated Press is exclusively entitied ‘national firmament. The spokesmen to it :;p :ot otherwise credited | and. representatives of these nations strangers’ galleries.—Douglas Jerrold. ; Anyhow, he was wrecked on the voy- age. If you know anything about Kaledines and Korniloff sound like 'the reputation of Lais, you know that the name of a baseball battery in the the philosopher was badly employed, s paper and also the local news | mobler breeds we put trust; The nations In whose sacred e ‘“ought” stands - out above ‘the ‘“‘must,” And honor rules in peace an war.? » Alies¢ we hold in soul and eart, our, these we choose ‘our ‘lotiand | liberty is safe on sea -and —HENRY VAN DYKE., NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 2 news dealers have informed i customers that beginning today | ‘Herald will be sold by,them ' at ptecn’ cents @ week, instead of the price of fifteen ents. This is “to any policy announced by newspaper. The price of the for.a week s fifteen cents. No dealer has been authorized to joe this price.” In the event those ndling the’ paper insist upon, the ' rates bthers will be found ‘dan conform to the eatablished The news dealers are not sd any more for this newspaper hey have been paying. There is on- therefore for an advance in ! ‘the subscribers. The Herald T fifteen cents a week. And will ue to be sold at this price until en circumstances compel a one. As yot there ia no reason ve this will be the case. 2 T e e o v are now beginning to rake the d story out of the coals. There ot peace terms being pro- /by ‘the Kaiser.some time ¢’ Christmas. The main story s from Berlin via Geneva. The 18 said to be preparing his final | With the arriya} of this story f¢ comes home to us one Colonel , who was the representative of | United Stites at'the Inter-Allied erence at Paris. ' Colonel House, | bhile displaying his. usual reticence, | kes mention that there was no dis- | slen of pcace at that meeting, the N #tatives haviig agreed .on thing. Not only. was there no gion of peace, h;’#t,vaccopdlng to House, peacé was not men- 3 v fat the Koiser has ® say of peace ‘be takcn as his usual Christmas | It will be laoked upon aé attempt to blamie the war on It will_carry to some ienemies. and particularly to those be- “the rman lines, the impres- ‘that the Emperor of all Germany e everything in; his power to boys out of the:trenches, but those opposed o Himi are deter- | tipon the pldn of -continuous is an elément of stage- ft in this plan. The Kaiser can jay the role of martyr and hold up Mig people the spectacle of a dawn- a Germany, walked upon by who are ambitious to take her place in the sun. bo néarer the troops of the En- “Alliés and the troops of the d States of America force the n hordes toward the daries of Germany, the more we hear of peace proposals coming the Kaiser. So. long as the of Emperor Wilhelm were en- to walk or run rough-shod over i helpless humanity, so long aid the r’s, dream of conquest take on ity. The moment these armies stopped in their pseudo- ous rch on Paris, there i offers of peace terms. rld was not fooled into terms made Ly the Tmperial B Government, since there was pess to these terms. - In ) was talk of terms: but in 16, terms. Whatever the Ger- sér could now propose would dthing short of an armistice. A based on any terms he might would be nothing short of a and teleseopes are needed to spot sub- marinos in the war zone. 'are in a serviceal | many old glasses have excellent lenses extreme as to drive the German peo- Yet | have just completed their conference in Parls. Our men have returned home. They have told us that there Nobody will ridicule the Santa was no mention of peace at that con- | Clauses this year. The only com- ' térence, that' not only was there no |-plaint Is that we cah’t all Santa Clause mention of peace, but that there was | &8 Much as we wish we could.—New a thorough discussion of war. The | -ondon Day. probablities then: are that instead of | There may be a considerable ' re- peace we shall have war and more sponse to the suggestion of Secretary of if. We shall press forward until Daniels that the rank of commodore boe revived. It makes a strong seati- the enemy of civilization is run back | .., i It By A = within his own borders and then and it o : of the brilliant record of American there ltrlpped of the power to ever | commodores in the past. But what again cause such an upheaval of ; could a commodore do now ?—Spring- world affairs. Some time before Christ- | field Republican. mas there shall be peace; but not betore this Christmas’ The day of reckoning is farther down the calen- dar than December 25, 1917. | City league.—Springfield News. { CHRISTMAS AND TH’ CHILDHER. Sl Christmas without childher! Can ye imagine it at all, at all? | Shure there’s never cheer within th’* house that has no youngster, small or tall l From th’ wee ones in their cradlea to the toddling girls and boys of WITH THE CANADIANS. There is but one issue in the elec- tions which are being held today them, ] throughout the Dominion of m““‘;n’. worth th’ entire wur-rld_just to the first ballotting since 1911, when the see the baby joys of them. Taft administration in this country ' God bless the little- childher! They furthered the idea of reciprocity. Th.! = are what we do be living for; i To them the gifts we make are gifts Borden administration, made up of; that life is worth th’ giving for. the Conservatives, , ts' to continue ' .po me who have no childher of my in power and further the fpolicy which own there comes & sighin’ for. | has alréady been in vogue in Canada | A h.!b‘l:oi n; col:;;’@_n‘b:wn-—ln fact, n] 'm n’ 'or . since the beginning of the war. A youngster: Jusk to. give th' Hisce & is but one way to do this, sa tl‘xeso peo- little spark of life to it. B ple believe, and that is to adopt a se-| And so I know I'll have to hurry up lective service\law such as is in effect and add a wife to it. in the United es. The volunteer- And in the Christrnas times to come, what though I may be wearier, ing tn Canada has reached the begin-| 1, o0 the sparkling gves of ‘en{. ning of ‘the end. The flower of the g ‘twill make my ould heart Dominion has been sent to the battle- cheerier. A flelds of Europe, and this without|4nd Ullleln'the fhce t]l:nt's but ,l house, ! wi turn into a home again comppision. Canada, ™I 1t deemed| , 77, 000 B e Sother foys, necessary, need not send ane soldier will never have to roam again. to the aid of Emgland and her allles. ' We must have little childher lest the Yet, having seen the valorous men of cup of life be all of gall, the Dominion go away, the Conserva- | SHure without them there's no reason ! = for existence here at all, at all. tive party would now send to take JOHN J. DALY, their places all those youthful slack- ers who have remained home and praofited by the losses of others. To- (New Republic) day’s Parllamentary elections should,| If we are to have a unified war therefore, serve to show conclusively | morale, we must have unity of war " | aims, and these in their broad princi- | the teriper of the Canadian people In- | ;08 REC 1 ebe O oo, o conles as sofar as they are eoncerned with the woel] as to the Governments. The Ger- war. $ mans refuse to formulate and publish their war aims. This is because they hope in one way or another to split | ! the allled group, to play the ambition of one Power. against that of _an- other. The position of the Allies is diametrically opposed to that of Ger- 1 many. Their hope of making the pected. that before long many glasses | ;. 4y of the war lles in their in- now privately owned in this state will aivisibility. The formulation and, be doing their part in ridding the sea publication of common aims is the [ of German U-boats and it may be that best guaranty against the emergence béfore thé war is over a Connecticut ©f such a conflict of ambitions as Ger- many hopes to profit from. spyglass will be the means of saving | = yigreover, war aims in which the a transport bearing Connecticut troops = whole group of allied nations can con- from destruction by a submarine. { cur, and which may be published to The United States Navy is threat- | the world cannot bear a selfishly na- 3 1 tionalistic character. In the process | ened with a shortage of spyglasses, ; yoriing out an agreement in war telescopes and binoculars because it ' aims inordinate national ambitions has in the ‘past depended. largely on ' would inevitably be pared down.. In , and consequence. the conditions that Ger- ,E"m“”" s°;"‘°;::°r 1 ’"”"1’ ho Many would be required to meet, how- t is believed thut many people Who .. "yitte; to her governing classes, | own such instruments will be glad t0 would not .be such as permanently to give them to the government so that prejudice the interests of the German frmexsnd 1y Rpm BB Bl B oSS e Navy”. It makes Mttle difference how 10 the. people of Burope. What the | old the glasses may be so long-as they 4 jjjes would agree in demanding from e conditi for , Germany would represent nothing so ‘War Adms. THE “EYES OF THE NAVY.” Connecticut spyglasses, binoculars It is ex- ple to desperate resistance. An allied which can he used with a little re- program consisting Simple 0f) VICtOFY: pairing. As the government does HOt ypgefined, is calculated to evoke in accept gifts, it will pay the nominal Germany the last extreme of resist- | sum of one dollar for each pair of ance. A program consisting of demn-l | ; ite, reasgnable war aims will raise in slasses which ¢ finds acceptable. Tt | g% DOML S TCh D0 B o urtns will return the rest to the senders. | er fighting is worth while, long before The glasses should be sent to the ' the German power of resistance can Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant | bg completely broken. secretary of the Navy, Naval Obser- vatory, Washington, D. C. Each one m:’g‘: d':::; ‘;‘mr:"::i' ; should be carefully tagged with the A man employed by a New Bed- | name and address of the sender. All | ford manufacturing concern recently | gifts will be acknowledged by the | learned something about the high cost Navy Department. of moving. His home has been in central New York, but not long ago i « t ,» | he was_called here, and when the | - “What is the secret of success?’ | change“in his work made it desir- aaknd the Sphink. sble to live here permanently he “Push” said the Button. began to inquire into the cost of mov- ¢Never ba led* sald the Pencil. ng his household goods. He could «Take pains” sald the Window. not make arrangements with the rail- s*Always keep cool” sald the Ice. road owing to the car shortage, 80 “Be up to date” said the Calendar. | ;o gecided to employ & motor truck. “Never lose your head” sald The' best rate he could get was $1 a Barrel, : mile, and as the distance was '350 ‘Make light of everything” said the | nyjjes each way, that meant an ex- [Eire pense of $700. The only condition | .. Do a driying business” said the | ynger which he could get a freight Egcimer = car was that he fill it completely, and (iR s yettay things” sald the | g4 ne was unable to guarantee that at - nts he wi 2 “Watch your step” said the Ladder. Fast uoeou_ b . Another Transportation - Problem. “Brandles urged for railroad dicta- e (Washington Star) tor,” says a misspelled headline in a “How does it happen that a prohi- Torrington newspaper. Seeing Wash- | pytion community isiobliged to arrest ington has gone on the wagon, why | people ltm- inltgxi‘c]au:m?;m i 0 sarsa) ? “Well,” sal ncle Bottletop, ° not make it parilla ? “1t'g another Dhase of the transporta | tion problem. EVery now and then ! somebody who wants to carry home a liquor supply from outside territory undertakes to be h’t-,oyn.aemmhn."‘ Our idea of an exciting military career is a chaplaincy in,the home \ | civilization” if the Martians | free nations before they had succumb- and that the Greek gods doubtless wrecked his vessel to impress upon his mind the importance of morality. Thrown ashare on a barren. stretch of sand, the philosopher was very sad at first. He observed on the sand the remains of certain geometrical draw- ings, and instantly exclaimed: “There is help near. Here I see signs- of . thinking men, of civilization.” | Voltaire tells of wrecked individuals thrown on a lonely coast, and also much distressed land frightened. They saw no geometrical tracings in the sand. But on a bleak moor in the twilight they saw the black beams of a gibbet, and below the cross-plece, swinging in the wind, they : saw a human' skeleton with bony wrists and ankles chained together. Prayerfully the wanderers dropped on their knees and exclaimed with upturned eyes: “Thank God, we have got back to civilization.” Thus you see there are varying signs of civilization. There is a great gulf between the signs perceived by Aristippus—signs of the mental ac- tivity which engages in geometrical demonstrations—and Voltaire's sign ‘of civilization—the brutal execution of a bruta] criminal ESRE . Those accustomed to wasté time in speculations that cannot bring a finan- cia] return may. be interested in the following application of the sign of civilization which Aristippus imme- diately recognized back in-the days of two thousand years ago. 4 We know that some day the inhab- itants on Mars or some other planet will want to talk to ‘us. They have doubtless been studying us and con- : itive to be worth talking to. But when we become semi-civilized, * in the cosmic sense of the word, the older and wiser planets will get ready to open communication with us. How will they go about it They are perhaps absolutely different from us, in shape, in manner of thought, in every conceivable way, including language, customs, and so on. But geometrical, mathematical facts are the same throughout the universe. ‘Will not the wise Martian wha\ wants to speak to us and decides to flash some message down here on our clouds, or on the surface of the wa- | ter, utilize the univereality of geo- | metrical truths In order to make us| understand that thinking beings are trying to talk to us? il The sum of the angles of any t.rl" angle Is equal to two right angles. ‘| That is true of every triangle, no ' matter what its shape, no matter whether it be drawn on this earth or on the most distant sun, Therefore, when the Martian gen- tleman gets ready to talk to us he need only repeatedly place before us two right angles followed by a tri- angle, or a triangle followed by two right angles. Instantly, like Aristip- pus, we can say there is civilization in Mars, or wherever that sign comes from, or at least there is organized thought. The mind that is flashing that sign knows something about ! geometry. We should also recognize *signs of should project upon our atmosphere a skele- ton hanging in chains. But it is to be hoped that the Martians have got - beyond that particular evidence of civilization. J AVERTED EVIL. Man Who Accounted for Six Germans, Before Going Over Great Divide, Leaves New Thought for Humanity. (Chicago Evening Post.) “We must judge this war not by the good it will bring, but by the evil it has averted.” The words were found written on ' the margin of & book of poems from the body of a dead Australian soldler, who, in hig dying, had accounfed for six of the enemy. It is an unfamiliar viewpoint. Our common aftitude is to deplore the evils war has brought and to hope that some compensating good may be found when it has run its course. But the soldler-philosopher, nearer to the horrors than any of us, sees the war as the averter of evil. Good it may bring; but that js speculative. Il it’has prevented; of that, as he writes in his trench with death and devastation around him, he feels as- sured. ‘Why? Because he knew the spirit of the thing he was fighting. He had seen Prussianism with its disguise of respectability removed. He had seen the, lauded civilization of Ger- many stripped naked, and he thanked ! God in his soul that war had checked the spread of this thing by commerce and printed word, by subtle politics and subtler philosophy—had checked its peaceful permeation of the world’'s ed wholly to its spell. How often we have wondered why Germany, who exercised so vast a sway in the marts and. cjoisters of the world before the war, should have cast aside the method of gradual but iin time, i have been Practical Gifts Are the Popular Gifts This Season You never can make a mistake 1;w.hen you buy your Christmas Gifts ere. SWEATERS— Army Sweaters with and without sleeves. Specially priced at $4.98 and $5.98. Women'’s all wool slip-on Sweat- i ers, every desirable color es- pecially priced for Christmas Gifts, $4.98 each. Sweaters for Men, Women and Children in splendid assortment, | priced, 98c up by steps to $10. OUT GLASS— " ONE THIN Make acceptable Gifts. Our as- sortment is complete, prices sat- " isfactory sure. Gl’;(.)m, HANDEERCHIEFS, NECK- WEAR— Should be approved as desirable Gifts. Large assortments to choose from. RAINCOATS— For Women and Children. FURS— Muffs, Neckpieces for the Grown- ups and dainty cute fur sets for the tots. . slder us stil] too barbarous and prim- BATH ROBES— Come here to the store with the big stock. Hundreds of Robes, especlally priced far Gift giving, $2.98, $3.98 and $4.98. OUR DELIVERY SERVICE— Has been handicapped by snow. Therefore, Christmas store by carrying small packages and avoid asking for cfoIn s the DOING HIS BIT Arnold Hughes, son of Willlam G. Hughes of 27 Arch street, pictured above in the garb of one of Uncle Sam’s Jackies, is now somewhere on the broad- Atlantic, between America and France, with the American fleet of destroyers acting as convoys to the army transports. Hughes, well known here where he attended the local schools and also employed for a time at Riger-Hegeman's drug store as a clerk, enlisted in the regular navy last June. The last that his father heard from him was several weeks i ago when his ship had just docked at a French port. et A e P sure triumph for the ruthless one of gun and sword. Germany could not help herself. The Prussian spirit informed all her progress, in trade, in science, in phil- osophy, and the Prussian spirit is that of violence. It wasg inevitable that it should at some time break through its respectable restraints and take its ar- rogant way of blood and fire. It chose the hour when it thought the milder manner had served its purpose. Noth- ing was made clearer by the propa- ganda conducted in this country than the belief of Potsdam that “kultur” had conquered in America and had paved the way for unhindered vio- lence. ‘War has awakened us from our dream. The fascination of German efficiency and German philosophy no longer enthralls us. The peril that we with other nations, might wholly “kulturized” is averted. This is one great service that the war has done the world. The Australian soldier realized it, and so felt justified as he fought his last hard battle to the end. X Bath | help this busy . POLAR "BOOKS FOR Main G.IS SURE: The Younfisters Will Have a Merry Christmas. More Toys and Better Toys Than Ever Before. HARTFORD’S GREATER TOYLAND Entire 6th Foor. BEARS AND SANTA CLAUS 9th Floor, / ( EVERYBODY Floor. Special Sale of Black Coney Muffs from : $3.98 . $12.98 Black Coney Scarfs From $3.98 .. $16.98 Black Russian Wolf Muffs from $6.98 ., $17.98 Black Russtan Wolf Scarfs from $7.98 1. $18.98 Red Fox Muffs from $15.00,$50.00 Red Fox Scarfs from $15.98., $65.00 SINGLE FUR MUFFS AND SCARFS WISE, SMITH & CO.. HARTFORD $14.98- $25.00 $15.98,$25.00_ 'Biack Fox Malls from $15.00..$55.00 | Black Fox Scarfs from $20.00 $55.00 Blatk Lynx Muffs from $18.98.,$35.00 FACTS ——— s ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH ¥EN, U. 8. N. Drydocks Dry dock is the ship’s bath tub. Man goes into the water to get clean. A vessel comes out of the water for the same purpose. tacles for their ablutions (meaning tubs and docks) differ only in size. Even in the old days a big ship could have been built. When done she launched easily enough by sim- ply slipping down the ways. But a vear later her bottom was a mess. Long slimy growths of seaweed foul- ed hér sides and reduced her speed. Barnacles colonized every square inch of her underwater. body. alkalies ate into the heart of her sheathing. | - ‘Where high tides came ship could be drawn up on the beach. Every- one has seen a fishing boat so docked on the sand. But ships grew larger. ders, “Ready Naval Constru words mean ‘Close the gate.’ to fit across the dryi dock’s mouth. | Lines haul it in, valves admit water, and it sinks with a weese into plxlm The N. C. in C. wipes his ‘glimps’ and gets out his pive. g J The rest is simple. Powerful elec-, tric motors on the caisson drive gantic pumps at the rate of 68,00 gallons per minute ‘through a 4-foot sluice valve. Takes two , hours 'to Acids and empty the dock of the 20/600,000 gal- lons of water it holds., At the end the ship rests ‘dry and trim upon several hundred oaken keel blocks. And she doesn’t look unlike a great . red-breasted bird on her nest. % I know it is vulgar to dwell And the recep- | Caisson is another tub long enough / too The tide method went out. Hauling much on common details, but out, of v* up on building ways was tried some- fairness to the dock I should say that . times with success. More often the lines broke and the vessel dived Hke a frightened/ fish back into the water again. \ J Then Genius arrived. One usually does at such times. He was a Scotch engineer and lived more than a cen- tyry ago. His idea was to dig a huge trench near the river; let the ship float in, dam, up the trench, then pump out the water. i In those days dams and pumps were more unreliable than second- hand autos in 1898. It took a month to empty the trench. Workmen rushed gleefully in and began to calk, scrape, paint, and to borrow each other's plugs of tobacco. Just then the dam »roke. The mam who was saved died before he couid account for the ac- cident or the loss of his pipe. “Steady as you go,} sharply ~from Skip a hundred and twenty years. the Flagship's Captain.” And 82,000 | tons of steel ship points not a hair’s breadth from. the dock's opening. “Ahead slow” and the leviathan swims gently in between two concrete walls which clear her side by a score of feet. As if by magic her nose | comes to rest 42 feet from the point where ithe walls converge. A thin stoeped man with specta- cles gives & sharp glance, then or-. its length is about 800 feet with ‘& width slightly more than 100 feet. Perhaps it took five years to bufld, For like the Panama Canal, there were landslides and strikes and fever and. Congressional Committees. ' A caisson once broke in the Boston vy Yard’s big dock. ing ten billion tons of water upon & frail little torpedo boat lying therein. Waves subsided over the tragedy. A, plece of soap floated up. What kind | of soap? What kind floats. (No, I don’t get paid for the ade vertisement.) i\ The Oid, Old Story. “What did you do when your hus- band told you the old, old story?"” “I told him to shut up ‘before he was half through.” “Why, what a funny to a confession of love!* “Oh, is that what you mean? I* thought you meant the ‘story he toid‘ last night' when he came home from &' time with the boys.”—Houston Post. manufacture of tq&{_ tiles that woman first appeared in in- dustry outside of the homes: Came crash- & o4 way to repv. “‘