New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1917, Page 6

NG COMPANY. ors. ot excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Ming. 67 Chureh St. Ofce at New Britain il Matter. , gny part of the city ek 05 "oents & month. * to be sent by mail, 80 cents & month, i rising medlum in books snd press A0 sdvertisers. jnd on salq at Hota- Rod, 43nd Bt ahd Broad- City: Beard Walk, At- Hartford Depot. [ —_ Assoclated Press. “ia_exclusively entitled f 2or republication of all news 4t or not otherwjse credited jper and also -the local news the places of those who go. At the same’ time, when the ranks of the regiments in battle are bowled over by the artillery fire more workmen ployments and go to take the places of the fallen warriors. And in this number are usually tillers of the soil. Afain, the flelds were deprived of men when the munition factories started up, men who sought higher wages than those doled out on the farm. And so it has gone. The wheatless days and the meat- less days are absolute I Theirs-is a mighty purpose. In Ger-| many they are realized under the law of compulsion. We have as yet not reached that stage; but we’ are fast coming to it unless we realize what punishment the sins of self-indulgence enact in the long run,—eéspecially when the world is aflame with war. necessitles. PAREGORIC, FOR INSTANCE. ‘We have before us a very interest- ing letter wherein the writer names many popular beverages which, for him at least, have produced intoxi- ication. “And,” he adds, “‘as you will observe, none of the$e is listed under thé head of intoxicants.” Were it not for the fact that so much free adver- tising is contained in his copy, we "for vou is faith sublime, £\ gifts this Christmas ‘¢the relgn of right and " law; 4n & Power that sways the worlds in our flag, by faith un- _tucled. of the free, by tyrants feared, .of the brave, by heroes . theered,— ‘Tear crown with honor glor- fows | dth and flag, on heights victor- fous! —“FDWARD A. HORTON. OD NEWS FROM THE FRONT. or the information of relativesand | nds of our troops-tbroad, renk- . American officers declare that sobriety and high moral stand- | of the American forces as a | le have deeply impressed the | civil end military authd¥ities.” lines are contained in the de. tech from General Pershing where- are given the General Opders ef- | ting all American troops in Bu-' “The mews will be appre-; ted at this time when. thoughts of | rican mothers turn to their loved overseas. Aside from that, our have the good infliefcs af re- us workers who have accom- jed them to the fighting zone. . things = should insure their safety. N 7S WIE MUST CELEBRATE. is complaint® now that wheat- ys are not wheatless days, and fat meatless days belong to the same . "of the distilleries? papers throtighout the country | ng attention to repeated vis of ‘the Federal Food Admin- lor's mandates,—these being sug- | rether than laws. ' In Rhode f6d, especially in the city of Provi- many restaurants have been i of totally ignoring the plan of | tles{ and meatless days. Hus-| whose wives on those days | live up to the letter and spirit | Hoover commandments find 1it- culty in ‘sepuring surcease ‘sorrow by dining down-town. ‘newspaper in New England has #0 far as to suggest a boycott 1l those public eating places. the etors of which turn deaf ears to ood control agents. that y owners of restau- find it convenient to turn the .y “"coharvafion placards to the wall, i fiide them in some other way. flpe, believing that out of sight is kit of mind they hope to camouflage v cun‘omer. into a violation of 8 food regulations and rules of the Food control Is a matter that rests ith the people. They can eat as uch as they want, or they can sac- it They can waste as much food- Is s they care tojthrow away, or ,can save. They are the mas- 8 of their own actions, they are ‘eaptains of their own ships of ge. It s for them to' select a me. The suggestions have been Jaced before the people of the ad States. by Herbert Hoover. ‘facts in the case were laid on i table. Everyone who has a mind b read, and who has kept abreast [ the times, knows what the true uation 1s. There is hardly need for tlon. The world faces a food ge. The Entente Allies and them America, cannot actually I the war unless the stay at home k practice abstinence in eating so the men at the front can have share of food. a1 these discussigns it must be fembered that practically all of the on, the battlefields of Europe are producers taken jaway from ‘work of production| When the of the workmen are decimated It is point- | would print the epistle. It is aél very interesting and prepared on the as- sumption that the’ proposed national prohibition amendmgnt’ will be er- dorsed by the seve states. “In that event,”” says our informant, “‘those who are anxious to accumulate what some might refer to as ‘an intoxicat- ed state’: need only visit drug stores where certain well knpwn and called soft drinks are sold.” This, we repeat, is very very inter- esting. It is, lhowever, nothing more nor less than the average man knows. What if the reduired number of states were to/ pass favorably on the proposed amendment and every sa- loon, distillery, and brewery were leg- islated out of existence forever and a day,—so far as this country is con- cerned,—would drunkenness, or in- toxication, cease? The distilleries are already still. They miy never come back. The only remaining ‘‘evils,” then, are the breweries and the sag loons. What then if these go the way It is, too bad we cannot print our correspondent’s let- ter. The answer, however, can be expounded by any capable druggist, one who knows his_business from the ground up. And we do not here refer to the cellar alone. Or, if a man who now likes his “nip” is eventually deprived of the privilege of purchasing it legitimate- ly and is not on speaking terms with a good druggist, he may resort to the methods in vogue in certain parts of Kentucky and Virginia., “The still side‘on the hillside” is a poetic line fraught with many a pnegnant pos- ibility. Any man, given a sizable| vlece of rubber pipb, a kettle, some water and other easily obtainable in- gredients, can make his own whiskey. There is some question as to wheth- er the proposed amendment - to the Constitution is indeed valid. Several flaws have been found in its phraseolo- gy. Hven If three-fourths of the states adopted it, along with Congress, thers is a clause ‘which might nullity | the whele proceedings. Or, even if that were not 'the only obstacle to its passage, there is the old question “What are lntox}ca.flng liquors?”’ And the amendmént would put a stop to all such things. With the fiaws of this amendment we are not concermed. Those will, or will not, be straightened out by the proper authorities. In the event the law is eventually adopted, however, we would like to know what is going to becomve of coffee. For | some men, be it understood, can be- i come rip-roaring drunk on this ! breakfest beverage. Ergo, coffee is an I | intoxicant. And so is tea. And so ,are a lot of other things, patented ar- ticles, we will not mention until their producers, who are nationai advertis- ers, pay space rates. so- A BAD TIME FOR ENEMIES. Sometimes we fvonder at the in- genuity of man. Fspecially is this s0 in the rumblings of those imagina- tions which ramble over creation for material with which to defeat the American cause. There are those who are never at a loss for material with’ it was expressed in no mean terms; but all before April of this year which marked our entrance in the war. Now | we are one. Those who do not put are called upon to leave their em- l'—heh‘ shoulders to the wheel and help push the war machine along may be counted” upon as enemies. And the time is not propitious for enemies within our gates. . According to information received by the Bureau of Fisheries, Depart- iment of Commerce, a whaling com- pany on the Pacific Coast is planning to erect two canneries to be operated next season, each with a capacity of 30,000 cases.\ The same company will also operate a cold-storage plant for supplying fresh and frozen whale meat. Here is a chance, thenm, to either can the Kaiser or have. him frozen and packed for shipment to a warmer clime, There are in this state some 83,000 motor vehicles and there are more than 100,000 persons holding opera- tors’ licenses. All of which goes to show that some people own more than dne. machine. Or, there are some chauffeurs out & work. FACTS AND FANOIES. Keeping the home fires burning is no light task, Mr. Garfield—Norwich Record. g The Mississippi is at its lowest stage since 1860, and doubtless if the conditionh lasts long enough some southwestern congressman will be in with a bill to pump water into it.— Springfield Republican. “In the/sprlng buy a sheep instead of a lawn-mower. This is a sugges- tion from Montana.”—Norwich Rec- ord. And buy a goat instead of a garbage can. This is a Harlem recipe—New London Day. The fire losses in this country for the eleven months of this year have been $40,000,000 more than the whole of 1916 and $87,000,000 more than for 1915, and the most of this can prob- ably be attributed to German activi- ties.—Portland Press. e When the railroads come under government control, we suppose a congressman will be allowed to frank\ himself anywhere.—Washington Post. From the condition. of some walks there are people who, it would seem, haven’t learned that we had a snow- storm last week.—Norwich Bulletin. It is announced that a jazz music player of Berkeley has been fined. There are particulars, but many will read no further than the abstract announcement, being ' satisfied with that.—Oaklapd Tribune. There is no camouflaging a flattened purse over which the iron wheels of the chariot of necessity have rolled.— Baltimore American. The nmet results of the armistice may be that the Russian front will be deserted by the soldiers who don’t want to fight and will be occupied by those who do. This might pruve a clear gain for the Allies.—Portland Oregonian. The deeper congress probes info de- partmental deficiencies at Washington the morc they will realize that the pacifists were largely responsible for America being almost defenseless when it ‘entered the war.—-Troy Record. DECEMBER. Crisp and frosty is the air, “Nature sleeps in robes so fair, Snowy mafitle, trimmed with frost ‘Which by rising sun is Jost Green the pines, and green the fiis, ‘Whispering wind so often stirs. On the hearth the yule log burns, ‘While to the dear old home returns Each and all with'joy and ‘mirth To celebrate this day of worth, Hallow’d day of all the year, Christmas to our hearts most dear. —CELIA ANTOINETTE SHEPARD Keep Home Fires Burning. (Detroit Free Press.) Paris correspondence of a Phila- delphia 'paper tells of a rush of American womén to France, which is proving not only vexatious, but ham- pering to the military authorities. It is said that women, both with wealth and without it, with visionary schemes for ‘‘doing their bit,” are somehow getting across the Atlantic only to find their hopes and plans impossible of realization and themselves in the way of those doing the really necessary things. It is said that one rich woman went recently to France with a plan to build houses for the American sol- diers at the front; another came fo gather food supplies for Amef{can aviators; still another salled across the sea to present bouquets to wound- which to work in starting stories and mythical tales about the war,—such narrations having always to do with the plight of Uncle Sam. /In the communicated column this page Jzfll be found a letter which is enlightening. Therein is cleared up much of the misunderstanding that hovepgg over those who do not know exactly how German propaganda gets its start. The illustration is complete It has to do with a mere trifle. Yet from this grain of sand the pro-Ger- man mind builded a mountain. And, what is more, the mountain was seen by those for whom it was erected. The sympathies of the American people are now practically moulded. They hold in one direction. They are forced\on the one goal,—the winning ‘of the war. If there was divided on ed soldiers in hospitals—all without previous preparations for supplies, expecting to find them on the scene, ready for assembling on request. Other women have been" going over to be near husbands or friends, who may be injured in the fighting, or_to act as nurses in hospitals, though it- terly ignorant of the simplest/ duties of the nurse. 7 Some such condtions existed he\ hind the British lines in 1914. Kitch- ener ended it abruptly by ordering afl such women sent home forth- with. When Canadian soldiers went to England for training, in the early days of the war, many women pur- sued them, and hundreds after suf- fering many privations, were gathered by the authorities and shipped home. Now that the United States is in the war, the lesson must be learned ‘by American women Which came to so0 many English and Canadian worien—- that to keep the home fires burning is “there are few, if any, to take | upinion even among the native born |one excellent Way of doing one's bit. ) 4 ‘that the famous town home scandal ‘bed-fellows. Toibn, Tapic;{ The sensational council meeting of ‘Wednesday night in which Alderman O. F. Curtis openly assailed the charity department and also during which the aggressive, third ward war horse locked horns with Mayor Quig- ley on the issue, has become the cur- rent topic of conversation. That the authorized investigation will provide some interesting reading for the pub- lic, regardless of what developments are brought about, is assured. And in this present controversy the posi- ton of the mayor, as touched upon at the council meeting by Alderman Curtis when he said he could remem- ber a time when His Honor was not above reflecting on the integrity of the charity department, is interesting. Today George A. Quigley, as mayor, stands staunch behind his charity de- partment, ready to back it to ‘the limit. Yet look back five years. George A. Quigley, then Alderman from the second ward, occupied a role similar to that of O. F. Curtis today. He was the official investiga. tor of City hall and it was at that tim occurred, when Alderman Quigley charged mistreatment of its inmates and viciously attacked the charity de- partment. In fact it was his at- tempted expose of the town home management and his attack on the charity department that produced the vehitle on which he rode into public favor and ultmately the mayor's chair. Politics is a queer game dnd, as the saying goes, makes strange To see the mayor now lined up on the opposite side defend- ing the charity department just as vigorously as he ever assailed it, is but one of the many whims &f fate, yet one cannot help but smile as they reflect—and the mayor too, must oc- casionally indulge in a grim grin him- self as he thinks the matter over. e e If, as he asserts, Alderman Curtis has proof that the charity department has unnecessarily wasted money, then the facts should become known, for what the people want is efficiency in public management. The fact that this department admits, in its report to the council, failure to go through the proper channels to 8btain extra monies needed might make some be- lieve that Alderman Curtis can prove his statements. The practice of any committee knowingly overrdrawing its apprepriation without coming before the council to ask permission to use more money is a dangerous one and should not be tolerated, but this is no time to make any insinuations aganst the men on the charity board. They are all intelligent, reputable and honest men and their is no reason to even hint at any financial irregular- ities. Poor judgment and possible lack of good business methods seems to be the worst that can be charged against them—and to err is but human. These investigations should not be primarily for the purpose of heaping criticism and abuse upon those who may have erred, but rather for the purpose of pointing out errors that they may be guarded against in the future andsnot gccur again. ) Now is the time to make your New Year's resolutions. To use less meat, wheat and sugar seems to be a reso- lution that almost everybody will, perforce, keep this coming year. v s As for certain other kinds of New Year resolutions—they will be in vogue for at least six years more and it will continue just as much fun to break them. After that it may be impossible. The practise of some policemen in court, in taking it upon themselves to act as a first or second assistant prose- cuting attorney is amusing to the lay- man and annoying to the legal pro- fession. To see one or more police- men intérested in a case continually racing across the court room to whis- per a new idea to the prosecutor does not add to the dignity of the court, reflects on the prosecutor’s ability to handle the case and conveys to the adcused a natural impression that the “‘cops have it in for him.” LCRCEEN The filling out of the new draft. questionnaires is not such,a simple! process as many imagined and for those not familiar with the English language it is even more difficult. To assist in giving advice as to how these should be filled out the legal fraternity of the city have rallied in a commendable manner, even as the “medical fraternity responded during the examination days last summer. met the one lawyer, reported as charg- ing a' regular fee for such advice, should be given a lesson in profes- sional ethics and patriotism. The at- tention of the governor should also be called to the practise of amother man, not a lawyer, reputed as charg- ing $2 or $3 for giving questionnaire service to foreigners. There is no law against this, but the ignorant foreigners should not be thus im-, posed upon when he essays to per- form his patriotic duty. The greed for gold seems to slip in everywhere and even patriotism is not exempt. .. Buy some Red Cross stamps. A few Thrift stamps ought also be pur- chased. Likewise don’t 100k the other way every time you pass the Salva- tion Army kettle. Help keep the pot a-boiling and remember that every | coin given here helps provide a din- ner for some worthy and needy fam- fly. . .o The coal situation as it applies to the schools is very acute and unless relief is found it may be necessary to close them, although this should be only as a last resort. During the Christmas recess of about two weeks the janitors of the several schools have been Instructed to draw the fires. This, it is estimated, will save the city about $1,000 in coal 3 e The resignation of Frank H. Al- ford, compelled by ill health, from the several civic committees is a loss to the city. Faithful, energetic, pains- taking and jovial, Mr. Alford, as a committee worker, has been & powex—l [ DOING HIS BIT [ MERLE H. BENSON Merle H. Benson, aged 20, s do- ing his bit in Uncle Sam'’s navy and he is believed to be on;the high seas helping to make the Atlantic safe for democratic peoples. He enlistd in th navy on April 14, 1914, and is con- sidered an old salt in comparison with some of the boys who went in re- cently. He is the son of Charles Ben- son of 159 Pleasant street. for good wherever he has been as- sociated. Some members of the common council never lift their voice except to vote. A few speak freely, either pro or con, as Alderman Curtis, Coun- | cilman Landers or Councilman Mec- Donough and when they talk they are worth listening to as they know what they are talking about. A few others speak only occasionally; then critically offensively in a school-boy fashion and only after on more skilled than themselves have started things. Every one is famillar with the seating ar- rangement of the council chamber and knows who sits on thé right wing of the floor. facing the mayor. e Everybody is glad to see a trolley shed waiting station at the center ap- proved. The public approved of /it a long time ago. Now they want action.: « s . Despite published articles, many do not yet fully understand the purpose of the Red Cross honor roll posted in Central Park. On this is to be printed, not the name of all members of the Red Cross, but the names of all the streets in which every family has a membership. While this is in- teresting and is bound to stimulate interest in the campaign, it is not par- ticularly significant inasmuch as short streets, such as Court street, Emmons Place, Park Place, etc., can much more easily obtain a percentage of 100 per cent than can the longer streets such as West Main street, Stanley street, Park street, East street, ete. ... From the Herald of a quarter of a century ago: December 16: There was but one real estate deal in the city last week. Mr. Stoddard of Cheshire was in town yesterday and spoke in high terms of the ability of Col. A. L. Thompson as military instructor at the academy. F. G. Platt of the New Britain Tramway company says that inability to get crushed stone accounts for the delayiin putting the West Main street line in passable condi- tion. Robert Andrews was elected master of Burritt Grange at the last meeting. December 17: The appointment of Joseph R. Andrews as captain of Com- pany E was issued from the adjutant general’s office today. The,local bar- ber shops will not be open next week Sunday, which will be Christmas day. There are now 354 bicycle riders in New Britain and 88 in Plainville. Eighty-four passenger trains and 32 freight trains arrive and leave this city daily. December 18: Sunday. /| December -9: William Cooke, pro- prietor of White Oak Grove, lgl@dding a stone quarry to his many ° estab- lished industries in the vicinity of this park. The New England road expebts to have the steam lne to Plainville doubletracked and ready for use bv January 1. Decefaber 20: Samuel W. Clark was elected worshipful master of Har- mony>lodge, A. F. & A. M. at the annual meeting last night. The twenty- first anniversary of Sintracht lodge, Sons of Herman, was observed in Tur- ner*hall last night. " Norman P. Cooley of Chicago will spend the holidays with his parents in. this city. December 21: Willlam H. Relyea, former street commissioner, advocates the paving of Main street. Postmas- ter Ira E. Hicks has made arrange- ments to have the post office kept open until 8 p. m. S. P. Storrs has purchased a half int t in the Park drug store from F. . Mix of Stam- ford. December 22: Superintendent - G. D. Carleton of the Union Works will take a trip to California in February but will not reside there permanently as has been reported. Henry 8. Fen- ton and Miss Bertha Gussman, daugh- ter of Police (Colnmiissioner Henry Gussman, were jmafried last evening at the home of the bride’s parents by Rev. Dr. Cooper. DIVIDES SHARES. Stockyard Concerms Heard That Gov- ernment Was to Take Hand. Washington, Dec. 22.—Redistribu- tton of shareholdings of the Chicago Stockyards company was begun as soon as the managers got wind of the federal trade commission’s coming in- vestigation. It was brought out in testimony be- fore the commission today that the same day a federal investigator ap- peared 34,480 shares were divided into seventeen portions. FACTS Time Aboard his ship a Skipper is Czar of the Hours, Grand Mogul of the Minutes, and Sultan of all the Falter- ng Seconds. He is Lord High Arbiter {of the Watches. King among his Clocks, and Three-Tailed Bashaw of the Calendar. Let the Sun go glim- mering across the sky, and time balls drop like ripe apples; let every doughty Ingersoll do: its bit to see it through—yet, should ' the Skipper please, any and all can be exiled to the Siberia of “Leave. it be, Charlie; them Lubbers can't keep time!” 5 The surprising (to pale-faced Cits) xm:;t l; that he is legally, practically, and, I ma; v, b Y sa¥, morally within his Bvery fraction of an inch east and west around the world has its own time—has four kinds of its own timne! Whence it follows that on .a ship oc- cupying’ several million of these frac- tions the Captain can choose the one he shiver-his-timbers pleases , to choose. 1 it here writing in my little steel stateroom. Snce the sun is directly over my head the time 1s noon. Iora sailor scrubbing paintwork outside my port it is afternoon because the sun has already passed his busy swab a few moments ago. Our Navigator across the way is still .chasing logar- thms in this morning—the sun has not yet reached him. That kind of noon 1s called Appar- ent Noon not real time but Appar- ent Time. For, I grieve to say, Old Sol, like many other public charac- ter is irregular in his private habits. ‘Winter and summer he moves at an entirely different rate than in spring or fall. Which of course annoyed sys- tematic scientists until Hey were forced to produce &n imaginary:sun whose movements average the tipsy wanderings of the Great Blaze. This rayless automaton is called the Mean 'Sun, and his time is Mean Time. But, as, usual, Law had last word in the matter. adway closing hours if applied to nt 8t., Frisco, COMMUNICATED. ADVICE TO THE OCOUNCIL., Too Much Kicking of the Political Football—Time to Settle Down and Leave Politics Alone. < New Britain, Dec. 20, *17. To the Editor of the Herald: In your issue of this date we note another chapter of the doings of our common council and as a joke it has Artemus’ Ward ted to a post. This time it is not potatoes, but barns which are ing featured and this particular barn seems to give the bg mogul of the thrd ward as much annoyance as did the ice house and will probably amount to about as much in the end. Very likely every- thing 4s not just as it should be to suit some of us but how can we ex- pect men to do things and get results when they know a David Harum would say they are going to get licked anyway. I don’t remember of any job ever being done in this city for the past sixteen years but what there was a football game over it when it was done with the big mogul as chief kicker. It seems that there him up and it ix rumored that some of our alien friends have their shov- els waiting ready to begin to dig. Now. Mr. Editor, if some of our council mcinoers were as enthusiastic in their support of our mayor as they are in their loyalty to the Kaiser they might help anstead of hindering him in running the affairs of our city. There is too much of this done in our councils altogether and I hope the | gentleman from the third ward won't think too much of his fences and for- get that this is & good time to be an American. ; —BOT. WE ARE WISHED A MERRY XMAS ! Dead Editor: Will you allow me to wish,— (My card I cannot present on a gold- end dish) ‘The HERALD staff And all others who have plugged out My chaff, from day to day, A MERRY CHRISTMAS? To ths EDITOR first I'd say—- Good,— /Day— ) Ly, Accept my thanks And for you T wish ALLKINDSOFLUCK! To the tall slim lad (He looked so sad when I last saw him) Pounding like sin The Mnotype; ‘Willi you take him by the fortop, And playfully yank him into the of- fice And give him (for me) a dollar and N my blessing? To those higher up Who cut the evupons ‘| truth. He ascertained that ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVy BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GRXEN, U. 8. N. { 3 would annihilate profit and|end in~ Civil war. Chicago, divided in senti- ment, wyald increase tha tumult. Men compromised, and to Free Speech and Free Religion added Free Time, with a few local ground rules. The well behaved Mean Sun was subsidized. When it melted collars in Times Square, Local Mean Noon was an- nounced. For each 15 deg. of longl- tude, or 900 miles) further east ar west an hour's difference was set. Civil Time it is called. Its civility is obvious. | B Finally for the star gazers we have Star or Sldereel Time. The star day is. 28 hours. 56 minutes, 4.09 seconds long; never varies: and is the perj ” in which the earth makes one co: plete revolution. Fidereal watches are often used by astronomers, but it i known that they eat breakfast by the' alarm clock in the kitchen. -Well versed with indifference all time but the which suits his fancy—except 8 wich Time, kept by & chronomel a padded box below. Minutes p» Greenwich noon mean 15 miles ap! west of that illustrious English vi lage. Minutes before noon m miles east. The fisherman uses. ' 65c nickle-plated clock;; a battleshi has $2,000 worth of chronomete The former can navigate in miles; latter cuts to yards. But they aground with equal frequency. Piloti: is a matter of minutes rather th: miles, of skill more than school; ani commonsense is worth a dozen chrofi«’ ometers. “Bight bells, Sir,” reports the ficer-of-the-Deck. *Make it so, the Skipper; and, if he hesitates,. thousand men will wait—for “make it 80" is the ship’s noon ticky her time ball and factory whistle - rolled into one. Noon tick it is, b a tobacco-scented, hard-strung, ¥ timed one compared to the poMsh hair spring. But all ticks are not A% bed knd; and ths one is from a pi big bug. i (as 13 also the writer) came to writer with the dolefyl tale that U. 8. Government had suppressed t| news section of the paper. er, who is anything but, finding others were beginning to lieve the story, investigated as to I at, the papers left in: Plainville were ail’ right, and ' obtained one from a neighbor. ng offered 26c by the said Gerntan if ‘“could produge the paper”, heé p sented it to him./ ¥R ‘When, shades of quarter was too/much! er has on h-:.d presumably the o paper which éscapbd’ the eagle eye the minion: of the law. ‘He will glad to show it to anyone who skeptical as to-it's heing in_existenosi / —A YANKEE. 7, % (& ABOUT THAT BARN. Alderman Curtis Has a Few Words & Say and Olears Up a Misun- % derstanding. 50 To the Editor of the Herald: s Reading over your editorial in last evening’s pap like to state that so far as I wm - cerned, or know, ity there is no one guilty of “misappro+ priating” or misspending the fand the charity department. My tion was, and has been proven by the reports of the board itself, ' at the moeting, and since, $17,Q00 has been spent for building & barn for which only about $8,000 haw been regularly approp: to w 1916 apd 1917. In fadt, only $5,600,. Tow ook was appropriated ‘for 3 that purpose and between 314,000 and’ $15,000 cxpended. ~ The supposed disi™ crepency betwen the board’s the Common Couneil and my mt;nén tion of $2,600 or so, as being ungcy © counted for in their reporty hay been explained by a supplementary 3 just placed in my hands wdly\by the superintendent ‘of, the charity\beard showing that they kept a separate ac- count of ekpenditures for sllos’ and bank walls which really are part and parcel of the barn, which practically brings our figures together. 2 1 met Mr. Frank Riley, chairman of the charity board, for the first time, on Thursday, and was much im- pressed by his sincerity and fairness, and bolieve that the city hes no more | faithful official than him. Seemingly, you based your editorial on remarks other than mine. ¥ Thanking you for giving this pubs lcity, g e O. F. CUR' S Ald any | SOBPIERS ON FARM. 3 Washington, Dec. 22.— Secretary Baker has a plan to' permit farmer boys in the army to return to their homes at periodical intervals to as- sist in crop production. He outlined i the plan today to a delegation of New York farmers, who protested against And eat TU! BY Bid them cheer! Bid them cheer! Bid them cheer! Do you hear? Truly, | HENRY WILLIS MITCHELL. “GERMAN MYTHS.” How' a Simple Littlc Incident Was Turned Into a Great Affair. Plainville; Conn., Dec. 18, 1917, To the Editor cf the Herald: ‘Will you kindly allow me a little space in your patriotic paper to illus- trate how some of these “German Myths” originate. It seems that the last Sunday’s’ edition of the “New York American” which was designat- ed for New Britain was minus the news section. Monday morning a man of German birth (and sympa- thies) employed at the Stanley Works conditions created by scarcity of labor. SEATS GOVERNOI! Phoenix, Aris., Dec. 32—The Arizoi supreme court today ted G. Hunt as Governor. unt, & demo- crat, contested the election of Govs ernor Campbell, who now holds th office. y . ALLEGED DESERTER CAUGHT. Sergeant Theodore Jghnson and Officer William Hayes, t9ok into cus-, . 'tody last evenming, of 222 High himself from the without )permisston.. ELKS TO AID RED CROSS. At the meeting of New Brtain lodge, B. P. O, E. Thursday evning, it was voted to secure Red Crosss memberships for the 28 mmbl{l of the organisation now in setvies. \ a Tittle over toe \ Fik 1 AR -