New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1917, Page 6

3 it § p..m., Bt New Britain o h ‘earth. CULLEN BRYANT. OF THE EARTH. eve of a New Year some s to the effect that we shall ‘We hasten 8 a salt famine. all those who in the snare thus set. There This for the ‘réuson there is salt enough to no salt.famine. nd. and more. only recently, when first reached alarming pro- that the word went out teo for the same situation in the Then the head of one salt ‘went on record as is no more chance of a famine salt water. salt in New York state alone is exhaustible as the salt in the than there is in given locality, with " exception of Salt Lake, might oit of ‘salt because of railroad the lon, or because had failed to put in of the city. its & mont! are lable the sugar saying:— the pos- retadl a supply. ‘with the new era of railrosding is little if any chance of a con- AS THE SIGNS POINT. ne of the pan-German papers invited their readers to hiss Dr. wek. The Dogtor is expected to : according to an _has been brought about by the es _of Russia and the Central] The liberation of war pfl&\ the evacuatfon of occupled | ’ h von Keuhlmann, Becretary, peace cofiference e today, dam: despatch. He ying the army. Presumably'this he has failed to adhere to the ! policy of the Junkers. ement on several i @ two of these rations. Also, an attempt to | i “up commercial interoourse after | ivar iy in the forming. jeuation of troops, it is highly no- sle that the main iscussion on point' has had to do with the ovall of Russian soldiers. s diplomats haye paved th German soldiers to remain very if need be. “things are not entirely satisfac- i to the Berlin newspapers of dyed- -wool pan-Germanic tendencles. & military party in Berlin . wants as they are, prything or nothing: jEo begin with, the peace negotia- . now going on in Brest-Litovsk 4 ulvpaud to be of Austridn ori- O-rma.qy allowed her ally to _whatever advances she thought Now that things are not shap- Ethemselves to sult the Posdam re aro ruffied feelings in the " 4@t is all very interesting, and to a condition that many - as encouraging for the En- ‘Allles, who' have lost forever ance of Russia. Internal e ‘in Germany wil out. It firat it comes among eventually it may the people. g ! mnu must wonder at| tions which are as mild In | igher up, f; ‘these going on Where once a military Ger- ded everythin, now seem to .over the table rgoclalistic rep: when that digni- reaches Berlin after his sojourn fion great enough to cause a salt German Brest- | at is accused important imlwmt As to the Ger- | way Tet 1 sooner. or Even in Brest« g, her rep- be content with the eVerything in sight. Now she isnot so . extrevagant in her wants. This is the hopeful side of it all, as viewed through spectacles which see Germany ready to back down from her high-horse. Though' the negotiations entered into at Brest-Litovsk may mean noth- ing so far as bringing around a per- imanent peace between all the powers engaged in whr, they tend to show a weakening on the part of Germdny. They show conclusively that Ger- many's aims in 1914 and Germany's aims in the waning days of 1917 are two separate and distinct things. These aims may again be modified in 1918, modified to such an extent as to astonish the world. And every modification is but another confession of fajlure. When penitence FHnally comes it will find a much meeker Germany than the Germany that star- tled the world some three vears ago with its cruel militarism. These are the hopeful signs that point the way into another year of war. THE REWARDS OF SACRIFICE. Beginning the New Year right, New Britain will go on a coal ration tomor- row. Details of the system under which citizens here will be appor- tioned coal have been made public in the columns of this newspaper and should, by this time, be familtar to all. Two tons of coal will be the maximum aHowance to any dwelling, tenement) or apartment house which accommo- dates less than five families. Hereafter, when consumers want their coal it will be necessary for them to file a written order with the dealer. This order will contain data of moment, such as the immediate need, the quantity used over a given period, and how much coal is already aon hand. In this way the fuel admin- istration hopes to prevent the hoard- ing of coal. Further, an equitable distribution ef coal will be brought about in this manner. There are many things the poople of this day and generation are asked to suffer which, in the long run, will be abliterated with the closing of the war. Until then, however, the sacri- fices must be made, and the better the spirit in which they are practiced, the better for - all concerned. The " checkrein may hurt at times, but its pinch ‘is only temporary. When the golden days come those who have gone through a period of deprivation will be best able to enjoy them. We are pleased to place before our readers the subjoined statement which | shows that, contrary to belief, corpor- ations are not given to running rough- shod over everybody and everything: “Contrary to ' thg impression given by several newspaper items of late, the City of New Britain has not made | any request on the Connecticut Light & Power Co. for any Tebates concern- ing the cutting out of a few of the ‘White Way \lights on the lightless nights recently ordered by the Fuel Administration. The company au- theritatively states that at such time when any such request is received from the city it will meet the usual prompt and courteous attention which the company makes it a practice to accord to its patrons.” And another vear bit the dust. . . Who Am “T”? | (Waterbury Democrat) Most of us rejoice in our personal identity. We like ourselves so well that, no matter how unfortunate we afe, we seldom actually want ta be | anybody else. And each thinks of | himegelf in the singular, whereas we ought to recognize the three parts which exist in each self. “three Johns,” as Op'W. Holmes puts it, in every man: ' The an John; known only to his Maker.? 2. John’s ideal of Johi jever the ren._l one, and offen very ke Bim. 3. Thomas’ (a friend’s) idea of John; never the réal John, por John’s John, but often very unltke either. lodern psychol- oy explaimif the th; parts the “‘zelf” as the material “me,” the so- clal “me?, and the ° spiritual “me.” Each ‘“me’ man is always) in conflict witlf’ other two selves, an sometimes 1lls O the others, nng the lndlvldu-‘&}» mes insane. When self-esteem poWSessed’ ». “kaiser, he sets Hell loose In the world. Most often one ‘“‘me’” becomes a giant while another shrinks to a dwarfi: That is the common condition. Wust to see that each “me” is getting a fair chance, it is'a gogd plan for a per- son,to take stock of himself once in a while and to ask himself “Who am I?” It is generally easy to locate'the material giant but often it is mighty hard to find the spiritual dwarf. ¢ \ Tempus Fugit. Uncle Lige bought a ctoek, so tall into the house. The old man was ex- tremely proud;of il and found it very good company. nights to hear it One night the clock got out of drder, and began to mke. resentatives And, the doctrine of 'no L no indemnities” is: & ‘de- n the ordinary. Germany, The old-man awoke and cous one hundred and two. said, “Cynthy, get up, gel up. It's later than I've ever knowed lt to be. fiu wlmn, to annex | —Everybody's m Most of us rejoice in our personal | There are | FACTS AND FANOCIES, Some day there may be .combines of consumers.—Albany Journal. Canada is all right. The yellow, quitting, anti-conscription party lost. —New Haven Union. A tag'!day for the sugar spoon is hardly needed.—Springfield Republi- can. If you want to know who is dead talk to a man you haven't seen for 20 years—Capper's Weekly. What has become of the well- known song, “I Didn’'t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier’’ ?—Topeka Capital. *e,c .!to etao shrd cmf vbgkq Since the government acquisition of the railroads, the old nationai tune has been changed to McAdoodle Doo- dle Do.—Waterbury Republican. What Russia really needs is a pro- visional government that will dish out some provisions with its proclama- tions. Even newly born democrats have stomachs.—Norwich Record. We have always expressed comfl- dence that, give Washington time enough, it would suspect Germany of ba.vllng practised trickery—Berkshire Eagle. Might just as well swear oft New Year’s and get the credit, as to wait seven years and be forced to it.— Bridgeport Telegram. . In the midst of its celebrations over the defeat of Mayor Curley Bos- ton discovers that Mr. Hoover has decreed as ‘“porkless day” that on which it bakes its beloved beansi— New York Herald. The deputy chief of the Boston fire department advises people to place a thick bath robe and a pair of sMppers by their bed in case they have to flee from the house on account of fire. If they thought the house was going to catch fire, most people wouldn’t g0 to bed at dll.—Portland Press. Ballade of a Shut-In. I used to watch her day by aay, ("Twas just across the street from me,) The tiny flat, the window bay, The curtains draped so all might see The duster’s whisk, the moving broom, The movements light as elfin fay; And oh, ’'tis lonesome in my room Since Little Housewife went away. The rippling hair of golden brown Beneath a nurse-like cap of white, The apron neat, the trim-cut gown. Gray eyes that sparkled eclear and bright; The busy hands and tireless feet, The clear-toned voice that carolled gay— And oh, “tis lonesome in our street Since Little Housewise went away. 1 never learned who she might be, Maid, wife, or widow, 'twas the same; I only know she was to me A picture (in a window frame) Of youth and love, of life and light, Of all those hopes long past away— And oh, ‘tis lonesome here tonight Since Littla Housewife went away. Fate, asked I then too much of thee That this small happiness should stay? For oh, ’tis lonesome here for me Since Little Housewife went away. —LUCIE A. WHITE, in the Boston Transcript. Where Bites Are Treated. (World Outlook) Africans go to the mission dipensa- ries to be cured of bites from all kinds of animals, and a large number of them are cured. The commonest bites are from snakes. In Inhambane are eighteen to twenty varieties of pois- onous snakes, some very deadly whose bites mean a fight for lifée. Hyenas kill or carry off hundreds of children each year, and most of those who are rescued have terrible scalp wounds, as the hyena carries a child by the head. Other biting pests of the region are lions, from whom few escape alive; scorpions, very poisonous and fond of getting into beds; hypo flies, large flies that in biting take huge pieces of flesh and cause great swellings; sharks, of which the bay is full. But the most common bite and seemingly the hardest to heal is the human bite. The Africans,when they get angry use their teeth to good ad- vantage. There is scarcely a morning that several do not come to the dis- pensary. One boy had his lower lp bit oft and for him a new lip was made. Water to Make Milk. “The principal dairy states will waste this winter, three-and-a-half billios pounds of milk.” - So,%§n big bold-face, begins an ad- vertisement of the James Manufactlr- ing @enpany, of Eimira, N.4Y. The advertisement tells of a drinking cup for cows i which they will get plenty of water of proper perature when they want it. Acco: to the advertisement, cows that drink from these cups are beiter producers than those the slake their thirst at a tdnk. faulty watering, .represents a yearly loss of $108,000,000. that it was almost impossible to get it | powever, He promptly | that has anything to. sat up in bed, and calling to his wife | the veply. Impressive figures, anywxy. His Excuse for Oalling. (London_Tit-Bits). A member of the American Lafay- ette Squadron had to make a precipi- tate descent and was fortunate enough to come down at a British aerodrome behind the lnes, not without mixing up things a bit, After rescuing himself from the mld lle awake | tangle of wirés he llmped slowly up to t“bm- hat.” “Are you the big mnoise joint?” he asked. “I am the ,commanding officer, if. do with 1t," was “Well,” said the Amcm:ux 4T just looked in to tell YOR T Have aspread the petrol tank on grass plot.” of this 100K WHAT THE WAR BROUGHT. Many New Names and Phrases Find ! the Way Into Our Language. Many new words have been colned and adopted by the Allied armies since the Great War began. The French probably have furnished the 8reater number, but the British Tom- my has been as ingehious in his in- ventions and adaptions. Doubtless our own men ‘“over there” will add to the array. Here are some of the better known terms, a glossary of trench language: Camarilla—A group. of Russian re- actionaries who are influential with the former czar and czarina. Camel brigade—British soldier’s designation for the Infantry on ac- count of the appearance that the heavy pack gives the men. Camion—A military truck. Camoufiage—Faking; a make-be- Heve. Carry on—To go ahead. Caulifiower—A special shell with small wire wings fired from a trench cannon especially for breaking down barbed wire. Cave voute—Safety cellar for pro- tection from airplane bombs. C. C. S.—Casualty clearing station. Clericals—A Russian political fao- tion representing the Orthodox Greek church. Were strong defenders of the cwmar. Coal bom—&bem! mortars. Communique—An official report given out by the French government. Congregation of the Archangel St. Michael—A semi-religious reactionary Russian soclety formed in support of the csar. Consolidating a position—The prep- aration of re-captured ground against & counter attack. .Constitutiona] democrats—The most influential Iiberal party in Russlia. Cook’ tour—An official trip over a battleground under the guidance of scouts for the benefit of officers and non-commissioned officers of a newly from trench The wastes of winter milk, due to arrived army. Counter attack—An effort to recov- er a recently lost position. Crater—Hole made by a high ex- plosive shell. Croix de Guerre—A F‘remh decor- ation for bravery. Croix Rouge (French)—Red Cross. Telephone Service During Battle. Keeping up communication during a Bombardment is a most difficult and dangerons task. Sometimes the lines are broken in several places by shell- fire. Instantly that communication is broken linemen are despatched_to mend the wires. They move out sis multaneously from both ends, follow- ing along the line until they discover the break and mend it. To move out across a fleld where death is falling like leaves in an au- tumn forest requires the finest kind of pluck, but the signalers never seem to tail. “Hearn, the wires are down!™ ex- claims the officer who has been for a minute fruitlessly fingering the ‘tele- graph-key. ‘“Very good, sir,” answers the faith- tul Hearn, and immediatdly .eaves the protection of the deep 'dugout and begins to run along the trench, with shells crumping in every diraction. Some time passes. Hearn does not re- turn and the communication is not re- established. “Mitchel]l, I guess Hearn has gone down; you carry on his place,” is the next order. “Very good, sir,” answers Mitchell, and without a question goes out into the storm of bursting shrapnel. Sometimes one lineman after an- other is despatched, and all fail to return. But at all costs communica- tion must be re-established. There are no braver men in the war than the artillery signalers, and none who make a greater sacrifice in the path of duty. During three months in the Somme last fall our battery had its signalers completely wiped out three times in succession. It got so that I never expected to meet one of the old- timers after the second or third trip. “Where is Mac?” one would in- quire, missing an old face. “Oh he went west last week,” would be the answer. ‘When we are attacking the forward observing officer goes over the top just like the rest. He generally goes with the second wave, which also in- cludes the colonel and headquarters staff of the battalion. Once out in No Man’s Lang, the F. O. O. and his signalers make for a pre-arranged point in the enemy’s line which is to serve as the new advanced O. P. As the artillery party crosses No Man’s Land, a field telephone is car- ried with them and a wire is run out connecting them with the guns. If the F. O. O. goes down, word comes | back to the reserve officers walting in front-line dugouts, and a second steps forth to fill the place 6f him Who has fallen. Sometimes before the attack is over the third or fourth may be called out to fill the gap.—Arthur Hunt Chute in Harper’s Magazine for January. = Pointed Paragraphs. . (Chicago News) Falling in love doesn’t lower an ego- tist’s opinion of himself. Every man knows what to do with the things he hasn’t, ‘ Even a sure-thing gambler is apt to lose in the matrimonial game. m‘ ost any pretty girl can bring out the silliness in a man’s makeup. If a man could only discover why a woman is a mystery she wouldn’t be. At the age of 17 a girl knows more about love than a man ever will know. Haven’t you ever wished your run- ing expenses would slow down to a walk? " B;wm of the political handshaker; ‘apt to develop into a leg-puller iter.. 5 ‘fault,” the average man D -pick & flaw. Corporal Henry J. Robinson, United regulars ,didn't wait for the world war. He heard the call to arms on November 9, 1899, and has been in the army ever since. When war was declared he was ready to spring to arms for Uncle Sam. He is member of the Third Infantry and i8 now in France. Corporal Rohin- son is the son of John and Anna Rob- inson of 120 Sexton street and is 33 years of age. No Doubt About It. ‘William J. Bryan told this story re- cently to a Western audience to il- lustrate his attitude on the presiden- tial question, as concerning himself: A Western cowboy once decided to attend a dance which was being held in the second-story dance-hall in his town. He was comfortably wellgforti- fled with liquid cheer, and had hard- ly climbed the outside stairway fand appeared on the dance floor before the floor imanager arrived and quiet- ly escorted him out. He went down, imbibed a few more drinks, and came back. This time he was hustled out a little more promptly and with much less cere- \ mony. After further ‘attémpts to drown the sting of these rebuffs he éssayed a third visit. This time he had hardly opened the door when a well-placed kick sent him spinning down the stairs to terra firma. Sitting up and rubbing a variety of bruises, he remarked: “By gosh, they can’t fool they don't want me up there.” me— ‘Wake Up, Farmers. Under a picture of three French women dragging a harrow, George ‘Weymouth, editor of Farm Life, Spen- cer, Ind., makes a solemn appeal to the patriotism of his subscribers. In the course of it he says: “Our weakened allies must be fed, and only you can feed them, “Wake up, you farmers and do your part,—for there'is nobody else under heaven to do it. “Organize your farm ‘and your neighborhood for maximum produo- tion. “Do not listen to the spies and whisperers and sedition mongers who try to hold your hands. “It was these secret treacheries that disrupted Russia ahd weakened Italy. “They must not be permitted to dis- rupt and weaken Amerjca. “Your work must be\done, and if you have to skimp a little in conserv- ing food, if you have to contribute of your money, if you have to toil for extra hours—these things are trifies. “Think of the men in the trenches and the women that work like oxen. “Look at this picture again, and thank your God that you have the blessed privilege of dolns your bit to help win this war.” POUGHKEEPSIE HAS EPIDEMIC OF FIRES Aged Woman Dies—Woolworth Store in Buffalo Destroyed — $20,000 Blaze in Binghamton. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 31--Seven fires, one of which caused the death of Miss Matilda Wescott, aged 60, in a boarding house, have marked the last 24 hours, during which the mer- cury has not risen above 12 degrees below -zero in Poughkeepsie. Frozen hydrants hampered the firemen some- what, Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 31—Ftames doing damage to the extent of $20,- 000 partly destroyed two business blocks early today. One woman trapped on the top floor of a four story block was rescued by firemen om ice-covered extension lad- ders. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Fire today burned the Woolworth Five and Ten Cent Store in Main street and spread through the block to Pearl street on the west and Court. street on the south. The total loss was $125,000. ‘Waterbury, Dec. 31.—Several com- panies of firemen battled for two hours today with a bad blass in the three-story buflding on Bank street owned by John Shobrinskey. The fire started in 'the cellar and a grocery store and saloon were burned out, with damage of several thousand dol- lars. The firemen suffered severely from the intense cold. Bridgeport, Dec. . 31.—Twenty-one fires within the past 36 hours—20 of them being due to extra efforts to| keep warm-—astablished a new record/ for this city. . None of the fires gained much headway the losses were small. e high sections of the city have very low water pressure, due to the general running of water in the taps to. prevent freezing. I3 n¢ ALWAYS RELIABLE. Blankets and Bed Comfortable 1 That Will Keep You Warm Wool Finish Plaid Blankets We have one case of these Blank While this lot lasts we offer ets that are good value at $4.00. ) them at .......... 8298 per Heavy Wool Blankets You can buy them now and save money, as every pair .+ .$4.50, $5.00, $5.98, $6.50 and mrore. Our prices . ol 2898 Wool Plaid Blankets Cotton Blankets These you will find soft and comfortable. Size 50x72 at .. 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WOMEN'S FLEECED HOSE . cesecqen WARM GLOVES AND MITTENS of !Jl kinds. look weather comforts, as We have them at r FAC’I' S ABOUT THE AMERICAN' BY LIRUT. FITZHUGH GRNEN, U. Bouys Buoys are the trafic policemen of the sea. They are mounted—astride of the rolling combers. Their de- meanor is unutterably placid. Their tour of duty is six months, or longer when the Lighthouse Tender is late. No city cop nods so kindly when you pass a8 does the bobbing harbor beacon. Should you disobey the channel’ laws or defy the right-of- way your piracy is not disputed. By its warning alone the buoy does its duty. Punishment is in the hands of Providence and the Admiralty Courts. In one way only can the quiet buoy be vicious. Cut an inch too ¢lose in your course and long stéel tentacles of wire end chain entwine pro- pellers and shaft and rudder untjl even the greatest dreadnaught Hes Helplessly drifting. Whereupon there is the Devil to pay; and his wages are courts martial, demotion, dis- missal and once, in a foreign navy, suicide. The first buoy was several logs lashed together and anchored by a stone. Man was just venturing upon the waters. Raftg ready-made by Na- ture were bestowed upon him In the jetsam of the Storm. Man built better and better rafts. His old ones anchored by rattan-held boul- ders came to mark his landing place and home. Whence came the habit of harbor buoya ©Our American buoyage system costs us thousands. Its worth mounts to billlons when considering the vast tonnage it guides to safety every day eand every night the year around. Ome day’s sallings from New York have run above a billion dollars, every ounce and pemny of which depend upon the Iittle spars and cones which mark the nevigable water. Red-Right-Returning” is the one and enly buoy rule. It means that on ontering a hartor red buoys must be kep on the right or starboard side. They are conical and even numbered from seaward. To the left or port hand are odd-numbered black flat-topped buoys. Wooden spers are . used in plece of the metal or can auoys. Buoys with red and black horizontal bands indicate a mid-channel ob- struction and may be left on elther out there, whité l-nd in vertical stripes ll the middle of the Nearly all ports through a series of sharp | strangers might too late and run out into speclal turning are- 3 These are lights or bells with F framework or 'cages A Perched on top may be of marker signifying the & the turn, to right or to left naviang and Russians use crosses, hour-glass forms, nautical scarecrows to itor down their rocky as their systems may be one to class them ahead of the m simplicity and r.horouhn— own coast and harbor marki Many special buoys are to their own localities. | or spars marked “WRECK"™ letters are uséd to indicate vessels. We use tall (at a cost of one cent large wrecks. Mooring white, though they also mey or black if mushroom shaped. fitted with an unmistakable" ) ring. Sometimes buoys go adrift. sionally they sink, Their out. Or from negtect one m placed. Yet casualties causes are almest n pib other hand bubonmic plm less disastrous among a tribe kimos than failure of N Norfolk channe] markers There goes one now, as I ing easily on our bow ing & cheerful greeting I wonder 1f it wonders # hand. Other countries follow this same principle except that in north- A Wariing. (Kansas City Star.) The life of Frank A. Vanderlip should be & warning to all young men who would seek their fortunes in Wall street, Mr. Vanderlip once worked for 76 cents a day, but now he only gets $1 a year. ~Well, Gile aay T’ \ “Twentyshlx rabbits and Shall I g it to the log “Um ‘a b cat o Jown ‘what did we 1