New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 5

HIGH BIDS FOR SHIPYARDS MEN ',Big Demand for Mechanics in Government Building Plan (o) 7.—A things D 3 surprising come out the bag in or elght with congress and the departments plunging in Dashington, Jan. less of months, more or may along dead earnest to strike a tremendous blow in France. There are thinkers none too and students in con- gress, or in public life generally, but there are a few. These ploneers into war problems are turning over a num- ber of things observing current prog- ress and in some instances, pondering many lot | the next six ! whether the time has come for open | advocacy. One of these matters is the con- seription of labor, mentioned occasion- ally throughout the country. It is a topic that hardly a man in congress ie brave enough just yet to advocate but there are some men on the Hill, who are thinking very seriausly about it *on the shipping board congressfonal attention particularly on this topic. For while almost every wit- ness protests that he believes in the patriotism of labor and al that, al- most every witness tells how prices for labor have been shooting upward and with higher and higher wages, vorkingmen especially the voung and L unmarried ones, curtail their working days each week, because with higher wages these men get enough to sup- port themselves comfortably, ing to their living standards. And on the top of that shipyards have been offering a for workmen wha make a full Jt develops further that the having the most success in turning out. bonus week. vards condition, ! The commerce committee hearings | have focused | { high official responsi accord- | 15 B hips are generally the one that have | simply taken the limit off wage offer- ings. In certain cases these successful yards have “raided” the laborers of other varc although this has now been checked on the Pacific coast by arrangements for pooling labor, through bureaus at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Developments of that character, brought into the open at the com- merce committee hearings, are making a few thoughtful senators pause. There was another matter of like im- port in the declaration of English delegates that if their country had had as much trouble with labor the United States government is having on war work, the entente allies would have had to surrender lon or words to that effect. And these things may have been in the mind of a cer- o, tain democratic senator from a west- | senator whose office is Jfull of books that he studies and whose tim upied, as much as he can spare of it, in seeking informa- tion from every possible source on ad- Yanced public questions, when he said “If this war continues very we may have to conscript labor after all, just as Italy is doing. It is not haif as bad to conscript a man’s skill in the factory as it is his life an the battlefield.” The great big labor winter is to get more mechanics the shipyards. As was testified other day in the commerce committee, something like 150,000 or more men are ships to secure the necessary port for troops. Agents of the gov- ernment and also of the ship. in mechanics. understood ern state, the for drive for cor for Pacific coast yards to he operating as cast as Towa and the Mississippi river points for garage mechanics, who are now upon slack months in their trade and secking to encourage them to go to Pacific coast where it is certain they can be trained aquickly for shipbuilding service. There is a similar canvassing of cities for riveters, whose work ordin- arily slows up in the These are only Instances government’s activities to shipbuilding craftsmen, who, matter of fact, are quite as badly need- cd as fighting men on the firing line. Vacational chools in the eastern cities and divers trades are being called upon along the Atlantic sea- hoard for every possible man who can bear a hand at the building program. TUpon the success of this organized appeal for mechanics and manner in which the men meet this national emergency will depend meas- urably the future course of congress and bor. Certainly there is such an oppor- tunity as can rarely come to organized labor to demonstrate its patriotism not only in furnishing men for ship- bujlding, but in working them up to the limit of efficient endyrance. In the Jumber camps of the Northwest are “leagues of loyal loggers” banded together to circumvent the T. W. W.s. If shipbuilding mechanics imi- tated. in some measure, the zea] of are P of the recruit long, | the | 200,000 | needed to get out the | trans- | ards are ! the interior towns and cities | vards | interior | winter months. | upon the ; | Kud Then Trouble Starts Between of the administration toward la- | | For many | ne could actually the loyal loggers to assure the govern- ment quantity and quality of service, particular suspicions that might ult mately develop into dangerous senti- ment would be allayed. Changing to another topic, there much impatience at the capitol with the manner in which railroad bills for the government are piling up, particu- tarly traveling bille. Thousands upon thousands of special employes are be- ing named for the government, and as soon as a man gets an appointment to work for the zovernment he becomes possessed with a mania for setting a free ride somewhere—to Washington if by any manner he can ity therefor. re ic the excuse of consultation official superiors when often, if appointee has horse sense, he could Tearn adequately about his new Auties through correspondence. Sev- eral humdreds of mil of dollars must he paid by the government this year for passenwer transportation, and a surprisingly large percentage ons NEW BRITAIN AT G MOTHER GAVE THIS DELICATE CHILD VINOL And He Got Well and Strong. That’s True Monaca, Pa.,—"“My little boy, who the youngest of three, was weak, vous and tired all the time, so he was most unfit at scnool, and nothing scemed to help him. I learned of Vinol and gave it to him. It has re- stored his health and strength and he has gained in weight.,”—Mrs. Fred- crick Sommers, Monaca, Pa. is ner Vinol is a constitutional cod liver and iron remedy for delicate, weak, ailing children. Formula on every bottle, so you know what you are giv- ing them. Children love it. The Clark & Brainerd Co., drug- gists; Liggett's Riker-Hegeman Drug Stores, John J. McBriarty, Nathan Noveck, W. H. Russell, and at the best drug store in every town and city in the country will be for passenger service other than the carrying of troops. Call seems to be going down the line' for helmsmen at Washington who have not been palsied by prolonged official service. Truly eficient men come into many of the high places. These often win general confidence by the splendid manner in which they transact the business of their offices and meet the ordeals which attend ility. But offi- ashington and atmosphere, at V elsewhere, as proved by ages of expe- | ience and of individual disasters, dulls efficiency and initiative. Rarely s there & man who can withstand the enervating influence. Presumably the British govern- ment is recognizing this principle in retiring three or four of its highest- placed ambassadors. Capitals drift easily from “the actualities of mod- ern life,” to quote a phrase that was used in London In that connection, and the officials who stay very long in conspicuous places also drift away from the actualities. There is much talk at Washington just now in that connection because of bureau chiefs who have been found w:nting. The conspicuous case just now seems to be General Crozier, long chief of ordnance. Letters are com- ing here from many quarters, expres- sing regret and surprise that the gen- cral did not act with his old-time en- orgy in meeting the war emergency. vears he stood as the very highest type of “‘up-to-the minute” of- ficial and many who had observed him over a long period refused to believe be found wanting. But there is much admiration for the manly way in which he has met the criticism. Nota word comes from his lips that during the last few months he has been through a very serious illness, having endured a sur- gical operation that all but cost him his life. But the point seems to be that responsible officials in the war department should have surveyed the situation and seen to it that someone put in General Crozier's place. Similarly as to General Sharpe, who has been serving as quartermaster- zeneral until recently. It was known up and down the line that he was not the right man for the office, capable as he is as a commissary. Months ago in an off-hand remark during a House debate Minority Lead- er Mann observed that if the war be- came serious incapable officials would be spewed out. No one paid much at- tention at the time. There are inev- itably many misfits in office and war calls for brilliant individual attain- ments, both at the front and at the scat of government. The dislodging process has fairly begun and a very great deal more of it may be looked for during the winter. The govern- ment must shed its incompetents and stand forth sleek and glossy in the spring, fit for mortal tombat. HE ORDERS COAL BUT GETS ICE Sweeper and Driver New York, Jan. If it were not for the warm heart and hat head of John Rooney, there would have been less noise than usual in the vieinity of the Yorkville court, of which Mr. Roo- ney is the sole authorized janitor. As t was, Mr. Rooney's heart and warmth were stirred with sympathy and indignation, respectively, and per- sons as far east as First avenue heard the entire details without leaving their heatless hearths. The cause of the racket, they learned, was that an un- speakable coal company tried to de- | liver a ton of ice to Mr. Rooney when he ordered coal. in addition, they Furthermore, indulged and in an ar- | gument. get author- | | therein i of it | caul It appears that early one morning last week one of the sweepers at the court house threw down his broom and had a good hard cry. Mr. Rooney approached him, seeking the scent of ard liquor, but was assured by the sweeper that his grief was of the most sober type. and that he had been driven to tears at the thought of his heatless home and the discomfort He recited vivid details, and assured him that he would bave a ton of coal, even though it were the last one in the Metropolitan district. He called a coal firm, and gave to them the num- ber of the sweeper's town house. One hour Ja a driver with a wer ear one beautifully Mr. Rooney ter and blacked eye howled through the base- ment of the court house that the ice had arrived. Mr. Rooney came forth and asked the decorated chariotecr just what was on his mind, and was informed that there stood without one ton of ice as per order of one John Rooney. “1 ordered Rooney. “You lie!" stated the driver, despite his appearance had not troubla enough. “An’ I wanted else,” added Mr. Roon “Yere off ver nut” said the gen- { tleman driver, an' if yeh come out here I'll slap v' from under yer hat, v' boob! Whaddye think I am, coal!” roared who, had it sint somew'ere any never enthusiastic, | terially and rapidiy. Behind him the sweeper was beginning to cry again. “Youw'll wait where y’ are,” said Mr. Rooney to the driver, *“an’ Tl be tendin’ to you in a minute.” He went to the telephone. The coal company told Mr. Rooney that he ordered ice and that they didn’t care to hear any nonsense about it. Furthermore, they would report the matter to the city admin- istration. In addition, they didn't care for any more of his trade, and, fur- thermore, he had better get over the habit of talking through a saxophone or with marbles in his mouth. After this bit of Rooney picked up a shovel and went out to speak to the driver, but when he got out on the pavement the had lessened ma- making be d engaged in which could not well stood. So Mr. Rooney bbing sweeper and ut up. sestures went back told to him the to PROGERMAN MADE T0 KISS THE FLAG New Haven Man Canght by Party of Disguised Hen New Haven, Jan. 7.—A party men disguised with masks, soft hats pulied low and long overcoats, paid a visit late last night to the handsome home, on Prospect Hill, of Maximilian von Hoegen, a young lawyer here and an American citizen, but who, since America deciared war upon German: has been consistent and insultingly pro-German in his conduct and utter- ances. The leader of the group, which numbered about a dozen. rang the doorbell and then brushed by Migs | Polly von Hoegen, the voung man's sister. s it true that you wrote across the face of your draft questionnaire ‘Deutschland ueber alles?' " the lead- er demanded of von Foegen when he found the lawyer sitting in his li- of did,” replied the pro-Ger- “And that you wrote you had the ‘doubtful honor of being an American citizen’, and that vou had ‘an over- whelming desire to see Germany vi torious in this war?' " Von Hoegen admitted all the charges. There was no denying them, for the questionnaire had been for- warded to, Washington with these phrases written on it for official ac- tion, and the story was well known in this city. »That was enough for the leader of the visitors. He swung a blow to von Hoegen’s face, and the young man struck the floor. Then the other mem- bers of the party rushed into the house, lifted von Hoegen to his feet and carried him outside. There they pummelled him until both his eyes were blackencd, his nose was broken and his face was cut and bleeding. “Now fay: ‘God bless the United States and Old Glory:’” he was or- dered. He did so. “Say ‘Uncle Sam is a fine fellow!" " He did this, too. A revolver was held close to him as he wént through his enforced patriotic performance. “Get down on your knees and kiss the flag!” was the next command giv- en to him. A silk flag was produced, and von Hoegen, weepidg with pain and terror, pressed it to his lips. “Now sing the ‘Star Spangled Ban- ner!’” he was ordered. Whimpering still, the pro-German endeavored to sing the anthem: but his voice was too wealk, and with a few parting punches he was allowed to depart, after he had been obliged to cry: ‘‘America, first, last and all the time!" By this time a considerable crowd had gathered, and when the police arrived, half an hour later, there were still 100 men standing outside the house into which von Hoegen had fled. But none of the hazers were in this as- semblage. Von Hoegen's family reported the matter to Police Headquarters today and demanded a rigid investization, hut several police officials smiled when they discussed the matter privately afterward and said the voung lawyer had received exactly what he de- served. Late last night von Hoegen was reported as still in bed, suffering from the results of the manhandling. Von Hoegen admitted recently he wus on the payroll of Capt. von Pa- pen, one of Bernstorff's chief spy di- rectors, and that he did secret service work for von Papen in the Remington Arms plant. One day recently he ap- peared in the Superior Court wearing the German colors in his lapel, Judge Case made him discard before stating his business. Upon recelving the questionnaire with the insulting lines written it, partment of Justice forwarded the document to Attorney General Greg- ory in Washington, but the Atforney General decided the mat- ter was not seditious, although his of- fice sent word to New Haven that Them and | upon | Special Agent Woodell of the De- apparently | Mr. . Rooney's opinion of the driver, | information, Mr. | driver was a block away with the ice | misunder- | 1918 S —. If you have the slightest need of furniture, do so at once. Not later in this sale. THIS 8-PIECE WILLIAM & MAR =S Including Six Genuine Leather Ch In the Beautiful Jacobean Finish This suite commends itself to you from three different angles . In the first place, when the pieces have b airs [} it is of an extremely ar- tistic design . Secondly, it is very well made throughout of selected oak and splendidly finished, and lastly; it is sold at a price considerably below its actual value, a suite of this more than the special price placed on it during this sale. type ordinarily sells for from $15.00 to $20.00 JOHN A. ANDREWS & CO. THE BIG FURNITURE STORE SUFFRAGE WOMEN HAVE THE FLOOR Autis, Toough, Are Working| Against the Amendment (Speclal ‘Washington, most ardent to the Herald). Jan, 7.—One of the advocates of woman the present session of } Congress 1s Dr. Mary Walker, the well known woman exponent for trousers for women. Dr. Walker has always been identified with the suffrage movement, and was one of the first | women to go to England to advocate it. 8he has for years been a visitor to representatives and senators in an endeavor to have them vote for the constitutional amendment, so that women would have tho right of the ballot, and is well known to hundreds of former and present congressmen. ““Why should not women have the vote,” says Dr. Walker. ‘“They arc in every flield which, for years, was dominated by man, and have shown by their constant attention to duty that their whole heart and soul is in thelr work. Women have dared to presume to enter flields which man sways claimed as their especial privilege, but I will say that the time is but a short distance away when every woman in this country will vote, “Personally, I cannot see why the women of California and Colorado and other states should vote, and the women of other states denied the right. It isn’t right, and it isn't fair. In every state there are those who al- ways say, ‘Oh, the woman is all right in the home, but she should remain there. That jig their sphere.’ But, listen, these men never said that while the women were up on the battlefield, in the hospitals, suffering the tortures of war just as much as the man who received the wound. “I, myself, was a commissioned officer during the civil war and know what I am talking about. T don't have to wait and hear what someone else has to say and then repeat it. I am talking from my own experience, and I know a great many Congress- men will vote for suffrage, and that suffrage is just as sure in a short while as the prohibition amendment. The passage of that amendment a good piece of work, and I ory in Congress for passing it. But 1 will glory still more if they will but pass the suffrage amendment, so the women can have equal rights. “Why not? Haven't the women the brain matter of the man, or is wom- an simply an ornament to go parading about. Look throughout the country at some of the most successful men of the time. In many of those cases vou will find that the men involved would be just common ordinary per- conages, but, through the brains and sood judgment of their wives, they have risen in the world. And, of course, it is always the man who gets suffrage at “von Hoegen is skating on thin ice.” l the credit. He can go and vote for | against suffrage.” any disreputable person, but the wom- an is denied the right to cast a ballot for the person who, in het opinion, would be the better executive in of- fice.”” Hundreds of women are here | | fighting for the amendment, and each ! day the House office building and the Senate office building are crowded with women who want the right to vote. Incidentally, there are those who want to see the amendment de- feated. Women from all parts of the country are at the capital, and Increases Demurrage Charges to there is about an equal number divid- | ed between those in favor and those One prominent anti-suffrage leader, a leader of society in the western city where she is from, said yesterday: “I object to the women having the | right to vote simply because it will, | in one way, lower their caste. Why, | take any election day. You will see good, righteous men, men who are | deacons in their church, go to the polls and mingle with the riff-raff. They will mingle with men who they | would never low in their homes. Vote for men, and work hard for men, whom they would be ashamed to have seen coming from their back door. There is hardly an American city to- | day but what has its little ring of | politicians. Politicians who are con- trolled by the brews and saloon ele- ment, and this element controls pol tics simply because they want ‘pro-| tection.” Protection for what, you may say. Protection for the crimes committed in their places. “I can’t see why women want mix up in polities. Personally. T think American conditions are not | quite decent. If the reports that have | come to me are so, then the high | politicians of each state in the country " have to kow-tow to every puny, mis- erable little rat who may have a hun- dred or two votes tucked away in his | pockets. And are women going to en- ter a field where conditions are such as T have described? 1T hope not.” The vote on the resolution will take | place in the house Thursday, pears to a day after the first intro- duction of such a resalution in the house of representatives. The vote will be close, but the pros- pects are that the house will adopt the resolution. The stanchest opposi- tion has come from many of the South- ern members, and it is upon these men that the suffrage leaders are mow fo- cusing their attention. Representative James C. Cantrill of Kentucky issued a statement today in which he pointed out to his Southern colleagues that, in to forty | stand to lose their control of the com- mittee chairmanships In congress if they indulge in any sustained opposi- tion ‘to the proposed amendment. Representative Cantrill pointed out ! that ten Southern states were now in control of thirty-one of the sixty mittee chairmanships in the house. | Four of these ten states control eigh teen of the thirty-one chairmanships That the South would like to keep this control goes without saying. A. PINKUS, Eyesight Specialist i and Manufacturing J a | reaches $10. tl M Optictan. KYE EXAMINATIONS ARE FREE Broken Lenses Duplicated. Office, 306 Main St. "Phone 570 Satisfaction Guaranteed of th cel more prompt two days’ free rage charges go tor-general, creasing and Buffalo.” by the interstate sion on request of the director-general | | are $3 per car for the first day after | the two free days; $4 for the second | became acute. his judgment, the Southern democrats | charged tions are vital 'WADOO SPEEDS UP UNLOADING FREIGHT Prod Gonsignees Along ‘Washington, Jan. 7.—To anuary 21, continuing the time, but The director-general app into effect at points east of but that engineers and necessitated in service The new demurrage rates, commerce has ay, and $1 additional for e This m: hereafter. after the t day are several ailed a raised on the Pacific several other districts. No changes will be made The new said Mr. McAdoo’'s ord Railroads imperative necessity e cAdoo. ‘These unfavorabl injuriously affectin way the government's the war, its aid e supplying of fuel, food saries to our own people. sickness thereafter. promote | unloading of freight cars, Director-General McAdob yester- day established new railroad demur- rage rules for domestic traffic, effective | present providing | for increases ranging from 50 to 100 per cent. in charges thereafter. ealed shippers and consignees to co-operate | the higher demur- | to clear action was emphasized today by a re- | | port from A. H. Smith, assistant direc- | that “accumulation is in- Pittsburg Mr. Smith reported that the situation was due largely to cold weather, | trainmen and of labor curtailment of tr among searcity extensive approved commis- | rach suc- ! ceeding day until the charge per day | mum then will | { be charged for every day or fraction isting demurrage rates in most sectiong of the country are $1 for the first day free time, $2 for the second day, $3 for the third day, $5 for the fourth day and for each these rates than those which pre and which were when congestion on Eastern railroads Much higher rates are | coast and | wo da Even times higher vear ago, last spring in for the present in demurrage rules or r.xles(‘ of the Starrett Tool Works. on export freight. tions, | cifically contemplate the cancelation COM- | of all average agreement provisions of | existing tariffs.” structed to file tariffs embodying the | new rates with the interstate com- | merce commission and state commis- v regula- er, “spe- are in- xist ce and for relieving terminals which are now badly congested,” said Mr. | later entered the aviation departm e condi- g in a conduect to the Allies, and and ne- ““On these accounts I have felt o peiled to-issue an order which take effect throughout the Un States on the 21st day of Jam 1918, providing for heavy increas demurrage charges unless cars loaded and unloaded with promptn In making this order I have f] considered ' the embarrassments shippers and consignees on accoun| the scarcity of labor, the incwity weather, the irregularity of transy tation and the consequent freqy bunching of cars. Nevertheless, I convinced that the total inconveniel and hardship on these accounts be far smaller than the inconveniel and hardships which our people whole are suffering en account of undue tying up of railroad equipm and will be very small indeed cd pared with the menace which widespread tying up of equipm causes to the health and comfert the people and the successful duct of our war operations. | “I therefore appeal to every to | Zen to accept in a spitit of hearty operation the increased charges w! will be imposed, and I especially in releasing cars to meet the national | peal to every shipper or consignee. i emergency, and to make special ef- | forts even before a patriotic duty, to ~employ | possible effort and expedient though it involves unusual and | cial arrangement and additional cg e (e terminals as a contribution to the |to load and unload freight cars success of the war, The necessity for | the least possible delay in order f | the existing congestion may be cle up before the new demurrage goes into effect.” In approving the filing of new murrage tariffs the Interstate merce Commission took action the first time on request of the di tor general for higher rates. About one-fifth of the through p senger trains on Kastern railro: [\\'(‘re withdrawn from service within a week or two many other senger schedules will be curtal Disarrangement of passenger schi ules in the past week, Assistant-Dii tor-General Smith feported, was moted largely by the number of sons returning home from hoti its. He added: “A shortage of laboi engine house terminals is preven engines from being turned promy and getting back into service. ATHOL AVIATOR KILLED. Frank Starrett Dies French Aviation § Athol, Jan. 7.—A cablegram | ceived here announces the death France of Frank Starrett of this tol grandson of L. §. Starrett, presid] The | blegram, which was brief, stated | death was by accident at an aviay school. Mr, Starrett was grad | from the Athol High s: Brown University in prominent in school and college a letics and fraternities of Brown. W] | the war broke out he enlisted in | ambulance department of the Frei larmy. After serving his enlistm| term he returned to England of the French army, returning France. His oldest brother, A Starrett recently enlisted as a in the United States army. He lea] his mother and several brothers" sisters.