New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 6

ING COMPANY. ors. ted) at 4:15 p. m., g, 67 Church St Mce at New Britaln "Matter. ito any part of the ocity ek, 65 cents a month. ;10 ba sent by mall, 40 cents a month, ritying medium in books and press h advertisers. 4 on sale at Hota- 4 nd Broad- City; Bosrd Walk, At- Hariford Depot. (ONE CALLS ens is exclusively entitled “republication of all news p it or not otherwise. credited for and also the local news f of our fiag, ono by one % ' arose, [ the sky on our banner was ‘blazing with splendor! ray from their depths is a * night to our foes, d a sunburst of joy to the " gallant defender. jt only thelr worth cheers the land of your birth, t flings its clear light to the ¥y ends of the earth! the nation shall never from victory rest, 1 the world is as free as the ‘| Land of the West. —WILL CARLETON. AT THIS TIME \this Christmas Eveé the Ameri- people are face to face with a n that naturelly tends to put amper: on their feelings but which not been allowed to lessen the Ht of hopefulness characteristic he mation. Almost every family in Iand is closely algned with the . work, either by direct represen- plon in the service or by work be- the lines. There are vacant at the table, eloquent pders of the business which occu the Ulited States of America #ing its fArst Christmas in the ‘war. Yet with all these things, the sober mindedness that comes 'Wh taken away from the ties of life, there is a. bouyancy bespeaks optimism. And thery t be no down-casting of courage- { hearts. Thers must be firm reso- Jin the ‘faith that ¥ight makes to the end that a victorious cracy ~wdill eventually bring on_earth-and good will towards THERE A SANTA OLAUS. ore then twenty years ago the York Sun printed an editorial under: the above caption. It an answer to a letter written by ftle girl, Virginin O’Hanlon, who ated to know, as all little girls and s want to know at some time or r, it there really is an old gentle- n who answers the name'of Sauta s. ASmost every Christmas Sea- the Sun and other. newspapers ghout the land are asked to re- this article. The Herald this K with the many-requests g The article itself is ly one-of the most popular edi- faly ever written by en -American ur: and cante from the pen of “jate Francis Pharcellus Church jo dashed it off: in the regular jutine of newspaper work. ‘We take plemsure in answering at os and thes prommently the com- tion below, expressing at the tme time our grelit gratification that mfll awfhor s rumbered among friends of The Sun: “Dear Editor:’'I'am 8 years old. “Some of myNttle friends say there no Santa Claus. y “Papa says ¥ you see it in The un it's so.’ “Please tel-me the truth; is there a Claus?, , “VIRGINIA O'HANLON. | West, Ninety-Fifth Street.” Firginila, your Httle friends are g. They have been affected by scepticism of a sceptical age. do not believe except they see. think that nothing can be which not comprehensible by their little 2 All mindd, Virginia, whether be men’s or chfidren’s are little. this great umiverse of ours man is _mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, f compared Wwith the boundless world out him, as measured by the intelli- J capable of grasping the whole f t-uth and knowledge. les, Virginia, there is a Santa faus. He exists as certainly as love| generoalty and.devotion exist, and mow that they abound and give i your life its highest beauty and joy. ! how dreary would be the world ‘there were no Santa Claus. It ild be as dreary as if there were y Virginias. There would be no ike faith then, no poetry, no ro- to. make tolerable this ' exist- \ ence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eter- nal light with which ehlldhtzod fills the world would be extinguished. Not! believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimmneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can con- ceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. ] You may tear apart the baby’s rat- tle and see what makes the noise in- side, but there is a vell covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of ai, t-: strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view the pic- ture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thou- sand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. THE TIME NOT RIPE. There shall be peace on earth and good will towards men, all in due seasorn. It is felt by those who have the destinies of nations in their hands that the present is no time for peace discussion with a power that has held to the ideal’ of militarism; that such a peace as might be brought about at this time would be a shallow one, an armistice. The peace-makers, then, have a long wait before them. Those who hope to negotiate terms with the Hohenzollerns must suffer a set-back in their dreams. There can be no peace with the present representatives of the German pople as those repre- sentatives and their misrepresentative government are. constituted. It s recalled that Admiral von Tir- pitz, the submarine-campaigner of Germany, recently uttered this senti- ment at Hamburg: “Peace based on the status quo ante or on renuncia- tion, is out of the question for Ger- many. * ® * For real security we should have, besides Flanders and Antwerp, Calais and Boulogne.” That is what von Tirpitz wants; that is what Hindenburg wants; that is what the Hohensollerns want; that is what all the pan-Germans want. So long as they want these things they will never consent to peace termg of such a nature as to permit the En- tente Allies entering into a pact. So long as the Entente Allies refuse to listen to this basis of reckoning so long must peace be held in theoffing. ‘There shall be peace on earth, and good will towards men; but the sea- som 1g met yet here. : As a means of helping to increase the pork supply, the Department of Agriculture has just released to the motion picture theaters a film show- ing the work of the Boys' Pig clubs ‘which are being organized in all parts of the country in ca-operation with state agricultural tolleges. The film shows methods of imstructing farm boys and girls how to raise better pigs and the methods used by club members in carrying out instructions. The first lesson taught in the film story is that it costs no mare to feed and care for the pig of caretully se- lected stock than the scrub, while the results in meat produced is greatly in favor of a well-bred animal. It is shown further how to feed and care for the pigs, how to protect them from disease, and how to shelter them from the inclemency of winter and the heat of summer. The results of wise se- lection and intelligent care are shown in the well-groomed, fat, healthy porkers wearing the prize ribbons they have wom at county and state fairs. FACTS AND FANOIES. Having allowed the British to take the Holy City, Gott will be in for a sharp reprimand from the All-Highest at Potsdam.—Milwaukee Sentimel. If I cannot guide you to my kind of universal brotherhood, says Trotz- ky, I'll guillotine you—New York Sun. When a woman says to a man, “Tell me you still love me!” she knows he doesn’t.—Don Marquis in the New York Evening Sun. Five congressional investigations of the government’s conduct of the war and war not started yet. This looks promising.—Waterbury Republican. Connecticut school girls have pledged themselves “to ‘eat no more bonbons, candy, tarts, cream-puffs or other sweetmeats for the duration of the war.” A heroic resolve, unless, indeed, it is taken as showing a high- ITAIN ly optimistic view as to the duration of the war.—New York World. That President Garfield’s own Ohio should be the first to quarrel with her son over a little matter like coal is curiously shocking. Let us draw the veil over such perversity.—Brooklyn Bagle. By giving the allies two months in which to join in the “‘general peace”, Trotzky, the Bolsheyik foreign minis- ter, assumes that Russia will tolerate him for that period. But will it? The kaiser would like to be sure of it.— New York World. 2 Six months hence we shall not be worrying about our coal supply, and if the ice men are equal to their respon- sibilities at the present time we ought not to have to worry about our ice supply then either.—Providence Jour- nal. e - We saw a strong minded though eccentric individual on the street the other day. He went by a hardware store, where a washing machine was standing out in front, without giv- ing the handle a jerk.—Grinnell (Ia.) Herald. Even our little tots weave war worsted into their talk. Bessie's aunt was a very obese lady, a fact which put an idea into the child’s busy brain. She began by questioning her aunt about heaven and what folks did when they went there. Finally she said: “Well auntie, I'll bet when you die and get wings and fiy all about folks will think yowre a Zeppelin."— Boston Transcript. The Old Home Town. A tTellow gets to thinking that the town is “on the Fritz,” And probably makes up his mind to roam; i Then, after years of rambling, he Sust reahzed’fl's_\—@ About time that he pulled up stakes for home. ‘Well, after he hag struck the “burg” and settled down for fair, Just ask him what he thinks Life's greatest bliss, And, ten to one, he'll tell you, if he's strictly on the square, The greatest joy you'll ever know is this: ‘When you're back in the old town ' once more, boy, And your friends gather ‘round by the score: Each “Happy to meet you,”— “Delighted to greet.you,”— Brings back all the glad days of yore. Your heart-aches are banished, for- gotten; Your trials are ended and o’er, Ear each clasp of a hand fhows you just where you stand, ‘When you're back in the old town once miore. Things do not seem to vary much wherever you may go, And all towns seem to “run” alike; Of course, when first you ‘“hit” a place, vou're dazzled with the “show”"; But soon the glamor’'s gone and off vou ‘““hike.” Yet, soon or late, the Wanderlust for- sakes you, and again Old Memory, the prompter, gives his cue, “Home, James!” Alas! how slow are trains to get you where you want To hook-up with the joy that waits for you. . about ‘When you're back in the old town once more, boy, And you tread the old paths as of yore; Each highway and by-way For you is a joy-way ‘With greetings of welcome galore. The long dreary days of your exile Recede, upon Memory's shore, From the smile and the nod On your own native sod, ‘When you're back™n the old town once mora —P. H. SHEA. COMMUNICATED. DESPICABLE COWARDS. Mr. Curtis Replies to Critic Who Questions Patriotism of Somec. Council Members. ' To the Editor of the Herald: The communication headed “Advice to the Council” in Saturday’s issue of the Herald deserves an answer, not on account of the writer's criticism of me, but for his seeming inability to size up the real issues in' question, attributing the controversies to small political motives, building up fences, etc., and then bringing up a matter in a way showing the writer's ignorance and smallness, upworthy of a red-blooded American, which, I presume, he would have the public believe he is. If he is one, though, he, or possibly a she, was not enough of an American, whether hiding through shame or fear, to sign their name for print. The writer mentions Artemus Ward. Did he know that his friend, while known as a humorist of more than national reputation, was in that crit- ical period of the nation’s life (the Clvil War) what was called a Copper Head, and what are now termed Paci- fist? Perhaps the writer might re- member one of his witticisms that he (Ward) was <doing his bit or what he could for the prosecution of the war— that he was trying to get\all his wife’s male relatives to enlist. Can the writer, who would have it appear that he is an American and remembers back 16 years, make it 17 to 18 and remember Councilmen Pat- rick and Tourtelotte of those days of the Cuban occupation and Philippine fighting following the Spanish War? If he does, he must remember their public expressions of Americanism, such as: Our soldiers ought to be shot and bayonetted in the back—it was what they deserved; those that were killed were poor, misguided men who should be left to lic where they were | my opinion. ILY HERALD, MONDAY, shot; that they did not deserve to have their bodies brought home so their relatives could lay them at rest beside their kin;- that it was wrong for the city to take any notice of their funer- als or for its officials to take part in them. This was the attitude of the above-naméd councilmen at that time,] as evidenced by their votes and talk, and is on record. The present mayor, whom the writer of the unsigned arti- cle is trying to cover, it is well known was at that time (17 years ago) the close political friend and associate of those’ men and also one of the active and prominent officials in their orga- nization. The writer objects' to inves~ tigation of inefficient and slack man- agement of city affairs, of waste of Public money and the almost contin- uous line of impractical schemes for dissipating “public funds that follow each other—$20,000 jce houses, $20,- 000 potato raising and buying (and possibly only $10,000 selling), and now practically a $20,000 barn proposition with a $20,000 to $40,000 or $50,000 proposition leading from it. The writer must have learned by this time that the leading men of the nation are urging the utmost economy, not only in the use of food, fuel, light and heat, but also in the expenditures of money by individuals, by corpora- tions, communities, cities and states, also. |If the city expends innecessar- ily, five, ten or twenty thousand dol- lars, especially when not much if any benefit is derived from it, so much is lost to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A, Knights of Columbus, or funds for the nation’s Liberty Loans which could have made a better use of it and that they must be helped by further work and rnings by the working people and ptoducers of the community. If our incognito writer does not favor exposure of mismanagement in order to correct the same and improve it, he differs from the brightest, ablest and leading men of the nation. Does he read the papers as to what is go- ing on at Washington? That shows what”inattention, complacency and shutting your eyes results in. It is and always was so and probably will be so unless continuous watch is kept. The writer’s ignorance is manifested when he implies that the council members of German birth or parent- age are aliens. They are just as much at least (perhaps more so) Americans as he. "They could not be members of the council if they were not Ameri- cans. Aliens are people of foreign birth not only from Germany but from any other country who have not been naturalized. The writer and others who are at- tempting to work on the fears of the members of the council of German birth or parentage by attempting to create suspicion as to their loyalty and that they cannot be loyal if they do not back up wasteful schemes and help to cover up official delinquen- cies are, in my opinion, despicable cowards. The man whq encourages and works for waste and measures that cost money without proper re- turns during these times is propor- tionately as to loss, a worse traitor to his country than a person who deliber- ately destroys property by fire or bomb. The person who commits a criminal act does so knowing he takes the risk of losing his liberty and life while the other keeps without the reach of the law and knows his car- cass is safe. The other person who helps bring about the same results un- knowingly is just as dangerous and should be curbed. The man who is killed openly, in secret, unintentional- ly or unknowingly is dead; the result and loss is just the same. So it is about mismanagement, ands waste. the lose is the same no matter how | brought about. Reverting to the ad- vice to the council “members to back up the mayor” instead of being loyal | to the Kaiser, I consider' the resuits | from some of the city management materially beneficlal to His Majesty inasmuch as they have depleted our resources of resistance or for prose- cuting the war, and his advice, if followed, would result in more help to the Kaiser’s cause. The writer does not appear capable of looking at ques- tions except in a political and ma- chine state of mind and consequently sees everybody else and judges them from the same level. The few members who saw through | the mayor’s scheme to appoint a com- mittee to investigate a matter he him- self is more vitally interested in that any one else in the city (that is to investigate himself and his own ap- pointees) in fact to choose the prose- cutors of himself and in a partial way | the jury that would make the ver- dict, deserve especial credit. The men | who are working for clean govefn- | ment for practical and serviceable | laws and for the observance of law, are the true Americans. It is not the | | DOING HIS BIT | PRIVATE GEORGE SCARLETT George Scarlett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Scarlett of 338 Park street, is spending his Christmas with the thousands of other American boys ‘wth the BExpeditionary Forces some- where in Private Scarlett enlisted in Company E of.the First Regiment on June 20, 1916, going to the Mexican border with that com- mand. At the present time he is as- signed to the Headquarters company of the 102nd U. S. Infantry. He is only 19 years old. _————— meeting of the soclety in two weeks. “The president-elect has been author- ized to appoint a committee of five to arrange for a smoker in the com- ing month. Martha Chapter, No. 21, O. E. S. Martha Chapter, No. 21, O. E. 8, will hold a regular meeting Thursday evening, Dec. 27th. One candidate will be initiated. ‘Woodmen of the World. New Britain Camp, No. 70, Wood- men of the World, will hold a regu- lar meeting Wednesday evening. State Manager Garvin will be present. Im- portant business will be transacted. ANl members are requested to be pres- CITY ITEMS Dr. Frank A. Schilling of Toronto, Canada, and Thomas A. Schilling of New York are the guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schflling of 71 Grove Hill. William Cullen of Franklin Square is home from the Connectcut Agricul- tural collpge for the holidays. The famous Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid are co-stars in “The Devil Storm” at the Lyceum. Fatty Arbuckle also appears.—advt. President Henry C. M. Thomson of the American Hardware Corporation will spend Christmas at his former home in Ridgefield. i Miss Carrle Himphrey foday began her wdrk ‘ds;sfenographer and clerk in thefffice “of the water comission- ers. ! U 4 David Waskowitz is home from Yale for the Christmas recess. Francis Murphy, a student in Georgetown, is spending the holidays at his home on, East Main street. Don’t forget Firemen’s Ball, I\'ewl Year’s eve., Booth’s hall.—advt. William F. Curtin of Georgetown university ‘is home for the holiday | vacation. Albert G. Tuthill, connected with ; the Travelers Insurance Co., will spend Christmas with his parents in ! this city. Captain Harry Hargreaves is home from Camp Devens for Christmas. Miss Esther Pihl, a student at the FACTS Do you remember the fairy tale about the man who could make him- self invisible? Every time he got a hole he simply wrapped the impen- etrable fog of his magic power about him, and beat it all unseen. ‘Which is exactly what a modern | warship has learned to do. _ Suppose you were an admiral command of a division of four dread- Up over the horizon climbs naughts. ABOUT THE AMERICAN NA BY LIRUT. FITZHUGH GRWEN, U. 8. N. wind and state of atmosphere have -‘ great deal to do with the smoke drift. But on the average day with a tol unusual breeze the density of gas will weaken very little in five miles. If laid thick enough it will not rise, but hangs closely to the surface of the water. At the same time there will | be enough of the lighter gases in- | cluded to rise and conceal the masts {and upper works of the vessel try\m‘ lnl in the masts and stacks of an enemy squadron, eight ships say. And, as| luck would have it, they are to lee- ward. While the heavy column nears your puny force it appears that four vessels on the tail thereof are only battle cruisers. These are a little faster than your dreadnaughts but not quite such heavy hitters. If only you could swing around astern of them and engage, you might have a chance to square things up later with the big ships. | You call in a couple of destroyers you’'ve been using as scouts. ‘‘Make smoke-screen four miles covering enemy column,” js the gist of the signal you send them. The small craft are doing about ! twenty-four knots. They start to- gether and run in opposite directions ! parallel to yqur course, between you | and the enemy. Each destroyer skip- | per has rung up his engine rooms and shouted down the tube: Smoke-screen, | Chief, and make her .black!” The | young chief engineer jumps his men | to the blowers (air fans for supply- ing the furnaces) and slows them down to-almost nothing. At which point I must explain to you that pure gases of combustion of oil or any other fuel are almost col- orless. When there is not enough air to supply oxygen combustion is im- perfect and black smoke is produced. Most modern destroyers are oil burn- ers. So by slewing the blowers and cutting out the oil heaters (cold oit burns poorly) great masses of black smoke pour out over the funnel lips and sweep to leeward in a thick deep cloud. At the speed they are making the two destroyers lay this black blanket at the rate of nearly a mile a minute. It is but a question of seconds before the enemy is out of sight behind the fog. A fluttering bit of color darts to the Flagship’s yard-arm. “Ships right about,” repeats each deck officer along his bridge. The flag drops, and the ships spin simultaneously to the rear —while the hostile fleet steam on en- tirely unaware of the maneuaver. Making smoke screen has become a branch of naval science.” Of course ' CHURCH NEWS || First Baptist Church. Monday—The Christmas exercises of | the Kindergarten .and Primary De-| partments of the Bible School were | held on Monday afternoon in the chapel at 4 o’'clock. : Thursday—Junijor society meets at 4 o'clock. The church night service will | have for its theme, John 16:1-11. and | the class in Biblical literature will be | conducted by Dr. Cross at the close of the service. Friday—The all day Red Cross sew- | ing meeting will be Friday in the South | church. The regular monthly meeting of the Workers Council will be held in | the chapel on Friday evening, Janu- ary 18. Center Congregational Church. Monday—The Christmas entertain ment for the Primary and Beginners departments will be held at 4 o’clock. | ‘Wednesday—Girl Scouts will meet | with Miss Fox at 412 Chestnut stree | | jat 5 o'clock and on Saturdéy night at 8:30 o'clock. Troop 4 Boy Scouts wil] meet at 7:15 o’clock. Thursday—At 2:30 Armenian wom- | en’s Bible class; 4 o'clock, Lafayette |, Sewing school omitted until January - 10; 7:45 o'clock, Mid-week service will | be held. Friday—Red Cross Sewing meeting at the South church from 9:30 t#ll 4 o’clock. Saturday—Choir rehearsals at 7 o’clock. More tenors and bases are needed in the choir and all who would é to hide. Destroyers are mostly depended | upon for making smoke screens. They {can steam fast enough to enVelops 1a body of battleships with the great- est ease. rations for a concentrated destro; attack is a banked screen of tremen- dous density. {1t in the Flotilla. Once it is | around the victims their { course is to run for clearer space. In fact one of the prepa- ‘‘Mud-soup” they call laid only safe At night the smoke screen is even | more effective than in the day time, In a torpedo boat attack a warship must defend herself by picking up ths ilittle viper with a searchlight, and | finishing her before a lucky torpede can get in its dirty work. But searchw lights are practically useless in any sort of smoke. In a screen they simia ply wilt. There is one great drawback to such tactics. Not until a certain battle of the present war was it realized though the screen might bury ths enemy their gunners still have a cledr target at the opposite ships, well cleas of the gloom. This is especially trus of battleships which A cannot maky great enough speed to outrun tB4 | smoke unless the day is a very favofe able one. ' Another objection is the fact thg vessel laying the screen cannot ‘v':r” well see torpedoes coming her ] And this is important when steaming in the same direction as the torpes: does are traveling, for they can thes be easily dodged. Altogether it's & fifty-fifty proposition unless one 8 pretty well armed and speedy eno to get in a little foot-work at -crif i moments. & ‘When the war is over I expect patent a device which shall make possible to spread a smoke screeft with a Henry Clay perfects. ' Sup) you suddenly find yourself cornered by the local bore. How gratifying i would be to lay a little mist betw; 3 you and the air-artist; and, witho his even seeing you, simply sidestep into a safety and relief. 4 After all its only a new ‘kind eof camouflage. All used to be vanity, Now its camouflage. Alas. . . . Tl which will be held at 5 o'clock; the afternoon. There will be s 4 music. The Sunday school will cele- brate Christmas by having a £ at 5 o'clock in the afternoom. ' { Sergeant Edward W. Peterson spoke at the Young People’s meeting yester= day afternoon. Sergeant Peterson if. stationed at Camp Devens. g e OCLARK HEADS B’'NAI p'm Officers for Ensuing Year Elected Last Evening, The annual election of officers afi’ Jehuda Halevi lodge, B'nai B'rth, wia held last evening, and the following were chosen: President, Benjamin F. Clark; vice president, S. M. David- , son; financial secretary, Willlam M. Greenstein; recording secretary, Louig Croll; treasurer, A, Berkowitz; mon« itor, Dr. B, L. Protass; assistant mon- itgr, B. Myerson; trustees, B. Katz, Fred Winkle and M. Raphael; inside guardian, El = Kallman; Ooutside guardian, Nathan Google; ‘delegates to the national convention, M. D. Saxe; Dr. B, L. Portass and M. N. Miller,. The convention will be held in New. York early in February, and will be observed as the 75th anniversary of + the founding of the order. ¥ ESTABROOK KNOWN HERE. 1 Henry Dodge Hstabrook, widely | known as a lawyer throughout the . country, and for many years sollcitor for the Western Union Telegraph company, died Saturday evening in'a theater In Tarrytown, N. Y. Mr. Estabrook delivered an address in this city at a Third Ward Republican club supper in Turner hall, prior to the nationa] convention in Chicago. He spoke on and Patriotism."” ‘“Peace, Preparedness Recently he wag se-. be interested in joining are invited cured by the opponents of the plan - persons who continue to harp on pa- triotism who urge economy and prac- tice wastefulness that are patriots in | Did the writer ever hear i of a message used by one of England’s | great learned men during the 18th century, Sir Samuel Johnson, to the effect that patriotism and religion | were the last result of scoundrels? { ‘With respects to the person who is afraid to back up his writing with his name, I sign mine as he terms him ‘“The Great Mogul ‘from the Third Ward.” > O. F. CURTIS, - Alderman. P. S. T am willing to compare my | or my ancestors’ Americanism (how- | ever small it may be) from 1630 to the present day with the writer’s rec. ord in that respect. (0 10d e, FRATERNAL NEWS Murphy President of Tabs. Officers of the Y. M. T. A. and B. society were elected yesterday after- | noon at the bi-monthly meeting of the | society in the rooms on Lafayette | street. James'P. Murphy was chosen | president over Philip-Scheyd. Thomas | Crowe was elected vice president and | ‘Willlam Forsythe was made financial | secretary. The other officers are re- | cording secretary, Henry Rose, and! treasurer, Frederick G. Russell; ser-! geant-at-arms, Thomas White; mar- shal, Willlam Beckett; librarian, | John O'Brien; char n, Rev. Johm | T. Winters. The new officers of tho society will be installed at the next : London, Connecticut college for women, New | is spending Christmas with | her parents, Rev. and Mrs. G. E. Pihll Albert Fresen and Charles Cook of the Naval Reserve are home on fur- lough for the holidays. John F. Caaufield, stationed at Fort Hancook, s spending Christmas with his family on Garden street. - Give the boy one of our $1 fountain pens, Adkins’, 66 Church St.—Advt. H. Pfiefer of Maple street, 1 mem- ber .of the Naval Reserve, is home from Pelham Bay for the holidays. Many little prices on leather novel- ties to clean 'em all up. Wilson's. —adyt. : A son was born early this morning to Supernumerary Policeman and Mrs. David Moore of 28 Prospect Street, - Kitson's dance, Bungalow, Xmas night. “Bob” Spencer will sing.—advt. Harry Jackson, with the medical corps at Columbia University, is home for over Christmas. Christmas boxes for gifts at Atkins’, 66 Church St.—Advt. Harold P. Smith, with the Naval Reserve farces at Pelham Bay, is home on a furough. James Parsons is also home from the samo naval base. ‘White paper for wrapping Xmas packages, 10-15c¢ at Adkins, 66 Church street.—Advt. NEW LOAN < Berne, Dec. 24.—Switzerland will issue in Janua a new lean of 150, 000,000 francs at 5 per cent. The cost of Swiss mobilization to date amouats to do so. From the first of January, of the Red Cross to donate a large sum of money to the vicisectionists in the church and chapel will not be heated on Mondays, ,Tuesdays an Wednesdays. The organizations ars asked to hold their meetings o ‘Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays. The Christmas exercises of th Kindergarten Department will be hel at the church Thursday afternoon, at| 3:30 o’clock. If bad weather inter- venes the exercises will be held at th: same time on the following afternoon.| The Thursday night meeting will be| held as usual this week. The Sunday school has sent out pound boxes of candy to each one of the soldier boys of the church in ser- vice. South Congregational Church. The organ recital which was to have been given this week on Wednesday, has been postpond to next Sunday af- ternoon when it will be given at the vespers at 4:80 o’clock. The Thursday evening meeting for devotions and work for war relief will be held as usual this week. The all day Red Cross sewing meet- ing will be held on Friday, from 9:80 till 4 o’clock and luncheon will be TRAF DOCK CO. SUED, Attorney S. Russell Mink, acting for' A. A. Mills of the J. O, Mills Co., has:! * brought suit against the New Britaim- . Trap Rock Co. i The writ was served by Constable ‘Winkle and is returnable in the city court on the fifth-Monday in Janu- ary. for $500 damaged. PAINTER DIES. Felix Moschels, God-Son of VMeudd- served. The following have been selected of the vear 1918. Schultz, W. W. Bullen, Brooks, and Miss A. Tuck. Swedish Bethany Church. preached at the to 1,000,000,000 franos. Pihl, at the services on that nominating committee to name offi- cers and committees for the chureh F. N. Wells, E. W. Mrs. F. H. The Christmas day sermon will be Swedish Bethany church by the pastor, the Rev. G. B. day sshon, Active in Peace and Arbitration London, Dec. 24.—Felix Moschels, “ the painter, died on Baturday. He was born in London February 8; 1833. He was a son of Ignas Moschels, and the god-son of Felix ;Mendelssohn. He studied painting 'in\ Antwerp and * Paris and his first pictures were ex- hibited in thoge cities., He was very - active in the cause df international.. i arbitration and peace. He was a mem- ber of the international\peace hureau at Berge,