New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1918, Page 6

foposals sen the Entente Bolsheviki conclusive Washington. | hat the President proposes the crowned | ; but the people of Europe eventually around to this Al peace on earth until all the people brought to the fore, d Belgium, , Roumania, S | has seen fit to hold its meetings in a mentioned 2 Montenegro in the sun. Germany’s | Austria-Hunga: opportunity self-develop- her people freed jminance of the Hands Off,” concerned, international pen jealousies rivalries of all | ,— , racial, and religious,— b thrown out the window. d best foot forward d leading to the pedestal of peace. ND, AGAIN, IT CAME TO PASS. ere are two things the Town of | rlin might | change its name; the second purchase a fire fighting apparatus. or the past si time, attention has plight in which Berlin finds {tself the occasion of a raging fire ials have been written on the sub- t, news stories have related the ac- Nothing has been done. months, from time ! been called to arly yesterday morning the home E. Burlingham Schurr, curator at New Britain Institute, burned to b ground. Astde from the house, all | personal property of the Schurrs nt the way of earthly things. There | s in this assembly one of the chole- | collections of curlos in the state. | . *. . o e sentimental value of these articles | L9 never be reckoned. | hccording to the nmews story which s forth all the details of this latest flagration in our neighboring town, | large crowd of Berlinites quickly ! hered about the burning house, but | re helpless to do anything to pre- t the onrush of flames.” , however, were capable of level- | s so-called men from New Britain who risked responding to the Berlinites were help- | s in the face of this catastrophe is | That there should those who found 1imost beyond belief. Living in Berlin under the present k of fire protection, as manifested t month or s the | as ‘‘statesmen” in Germany. ’Nuf; 0, is no joke. of affairs able wits when firemen are trying eading to nearby all they can do when A few sparks properly { fortable with a minimum of coal. ' Florida Times-Union. And I time at home or any ected by the have sent the smiles on to the other side of scof- ‘ t is a long way to the Town of Ber- even on a mild Summer’s night. In p cool of these mornings, when the A air, fe soul say, men, . 1 fted to investigate the alleged dol H tpendthrlft methods of the Board of Public Charities in the construction TR | of a barn at the Town Home. A barn for | i< 4 simple thing. Yet this is not a | Officer’ Relates Tale of an simple barn. It has all the modern| y. iz o i YWhich He and Three American Privates Played Parts. | appurtenances of a palace, this when economy is the cry of the hour. How- | ever, the barn is there and the public | must delve deep into its already bur- dened purse, and find the cash with | which to pay for it. It stands to rea- | son, therefore, that the public should know where its money went and why it was squandered. But the commit- | tee which is investigating the problem effective place inaccessible to the newspaper- “This men upon whom the public depends | tect’s off It is a sort of Guy Fawkes | | prev like. The reporte: are not wanted | in his because then the public might learn 8 q "\ - intended what is said and what is taking [ place, nothing to fear from the revelations | the committee might make—and it is the integri id to believe, that there is nothing | dark lantern methods? Alderman O., s I". Curtls was the father of the inves- tizationi] Fflaffairswre in/their proper ||22d ¥! ense to shape, if there is no laxity of admin-| i) ang 1 istration to be revealed, why does not | dence. Mayor Quigley order the meetings ! a blade ' held in public and show Mr. Curtis | | up? Why, too, does not Mr. Curtis |, wag insist upon bringing the skeleton out| trenches | of the closet? The inescapable con- | life had clusion is that somewhere, somebody | &¢t 2 severe punishme been drinking.” | is afraid, and believes that the inves- tigation, if conducted on fair and | ! broad-minded lines, will reflect on the | | manner of guarding the public money, or protecting the public interest. And Bovs this should not be—in fairness to in fairness to the Board of Public Charities, and in fairness It is not too to all who have the public in-|to contemplate crests at heart. If we are asked | Written by a to stand solidly in back of our public | Other officials we must know what these | | officials | it. That is nothing more nor less | tle sirl, | than the spirit of Democracy, ' \ P to fathe CTS AND ]‘A\ CIE mother, Building the Hudion tunnels will | jt carried the New probably look like a small job to;to be a Secretary McAdoo now.—Philadel- | That | ! phia Public Ledger. There are various Interpretations | of the word bolsheviki. But in its| broadest sense it means trouble for Russia.—Bridgeport Telegram. mean a tempter. Lenine and Trotzky aré regarded hope it sed.—Meriden Record And T Hundreds of wise men are pre-| the time. tand cities to save coal, when onme word| [ don't scribing lightless nights for big | not rightly spoken would do the work ! Louise [ perfectly. Hear that word: “‘Come | Ana T { to Florida, where you can be com- ! give me Frequent mysterious explosions in And 1 munitions wor branch of militarism’s higher edu- home.—New York World. cation has found some devotees a.tj Your pay | precedent ‘s LESSON. . come, tell me true, > your verses made? thing to do- ilvern hue, der smile or a sprig of rue, of light and shade. ! And how a AR, that is the You take v cloud of a With plenty And wenave rare, With a grace and skill divine With the carnest words of a pleading cadence caught from a duleet tale of love Pr a bit of nd a lock of hair a trailing vine. delving deep in a mine unwrought, Wou find in the teeming earth golden vein of a noble thought, statesman Jbouzht, r a patriot’s fraught For the land that gave him birth. cry with brilliant youth who has lost his way On the winding road of life, sculptor’'s dream of the plastic clay, painter’s soul in a sunset ray r the sweetest thing a woman can Or a struggling nation’s strife. boy’s ambition, a maiden’s star, Unrisen, but yet to be, glimmering light that shines afar or a sinking ship on a moaning bar, An empty Or a land wheresmen are free. And if the poet’s hand be strong To weave the web of a deathles ‘And if a master guide the pen To words that reach the nd if the ear and touch be true, o o0t o b2 t's the easiest thing in the world to —ARTHUR MACY. (Springfield Republican.) An officer of the 104th infantry writing from France to a friend in this city describes an incident that recent- 1y occurred when a suffering from trench madness tried to kill another French soldier. measures of the officer and privates the murder The tale goes th idea of killing gets nerves at times, comes I shall do my share of it with- | for information. The meetings are| out any arricre-pensce. ! held in the back room of an archi- | was eating dinner and the greatest secrecy | Station restaurant | soldier made a very and begam affair, with rubber heels, glances over | closely pursued the shoulder, hushed voices, and the | swarthy French three American was prevented. when the time Last night I dodging round the tables, soldier with a knife pluckily went and held the door so the murderer could not get out and we all expected to see how If Mavor George A. Quigley has | that kind could be done, American privates, who were eating a table toward which the victim ! pursuer were heading, of his administration i picked up their chairs for weapons. that is at stake—why are the meetings | “I don’t remember how cret? If it is true, as the mayor is| Pened, but I was the only officer in | the Toom and when the thing ended neatly a job when three | the boys had the odoriferous in Denmark, why the | xpife, and the pursued had the good unpunctured. nt for the French as just closing the knife to put | it in my pocket when the ‘M. had to hand ovi a heautiful knife with about eight long, made sharpened ‘a souhait.” The poor fel- a ‘permission,’ A CHRISTMAS LETTER. Vestige of Ye Oldenr Days When Tittle Always Wrote Letters Carrying Resolutions, long after Christmas | the subjoined ten-year-old boy to his | e olden days “the good old i some folk love | the enemy. days,” letters of this fashion were the re doing, and how they do | stvle. Every little boy and every lit- mother at Chri , perchance, there was a | letter written. it was to a guardian. resolution,— better girl. te of this charming th little epistie: Dear Mother: 1 hope this Christmas present will to you and would take away my i I wish God 1 think the not working xt vear and anything you want me to do I to do it for you. want to be scolded all fighting with or ant you to ask everything hurt your feeling in Germany sug- | mands and yours gest the thought that at least one|life. I wish you and a Happy Christmas | wi 1€8sly tax CHARLES H. RELAY. Charles H. Relay is one of the large number of young men who enlisted in the Naval Reserve to prote coast of America from submarin tac vears old and his home is at 288 Maple street. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in May, 1917. He i of Charles H. Rel CO\T\HJ VILATED AS T AL. Joseph G. Mann Strikes Out Boldly At the Selfish and Profiteers. President Wilson, the official mouth-piece of the government for the Nation, has said, in substance, that the first ‘business of our nation is to promising victory for democracy for the good of all mankind, including our enemies. pertaining to our nation as should hint to every individual of the nation his chief duty so long as a hand is needed to vanquish the last vestize of Prussian militarism. What is more contemptible th: rapacious instinct of self n the h mortals + who live in comfort, and even Iuxury, to gamble for gain, | whose busin is or sordidly to tak blood-sweating vici times? To the business world, the slogan, “business as be about the ‘“Father’s Busine: that is, to do business on the basis of and with the strict reliability of principle, but it has no higher mean- ing than selfishness as usual, in spite of the death-hour conviction that only self sacrifice can win for princi- advantage of the democracy, can defeat autocrac sonal reign of terror, only as we fice voluntar or as willingly, as our exemplar Christ Jesus, gave him- self, his all, for the world. A selfish nation sits at home re- veling in prosperity,—a pros dollars and cents —while our govern- ment goes out to fight to the death a relentless enemy. A people too self- ish to co-operate voluntarily in the interest of themselves or of their gov- ernment, is horrified by the unspeak- words fail to convey tion’s horror of our enemy’s un- civilized or kultur methods of cruelty s to see its own worst ‘wickedn namely, the faithfulness only of an hireling; and when I use the phrase, conseripted loyaity, I do not mean to include only the drafted ed loyalty fa should live, move, and have their be- ing, with eye single to only that which s for the speediest victory over The bu gers are liv their government's be: ments, and while fely entre behind a cemi ness as usual profit-mon- st blood-invest- hed of the enemy, but refuse to see that their own avarice feeds and S0 pro- longs the vile life of the enemy. Principle demands co-operation : but the world today is cursed by the nightmare of every possible kind of revolution. Did capital and labor co-operate, Christians should, the present otic world’s problem swould be easily solved, and without further needless shedding of blood. The see- saw of capital and labor is the fluc- tuation of personal control: the dem- onstration, in busine of principle, maintains the equilibrium of justi to all and emulates the Master, whos life proved what he said, “I came not to do mine own will, but to do the will of Him who sent % The present world-hour there is no just huw basis of value The selfishness of labor, who dominating claim is for and e higher wages, does not sten to the demand o and is no more virtuous domineering and which it justly condemns but in turr s is self- yves that b n or material capital s | honor preferring one another,” I'not through extortion, reciprocal { veloped before the war inte | glass good NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1918, prices which must be paid for life’s | necessaries. The real value of capital and labor inheres in their unselfishness, In and exactions, envy, rivalry and jealousy, devouring each other. The unselfishness of capital and the unselfishness of labor co-oper: ing, would represent a united streng | of principle which would speedily tri- umph over democracy’s auto. personal enemy. But insofar ttional, or the international bus »ss and labor worlds lacks the mu- unselfishness which is union and ice in principle, we need not be surprised by the raging on earth of heil, while we sclfishly covet heaven; and if we at home, from within over- flow not with the justice of divine love demonstrated, the croachments will for 0 coveted selfi at hness and to ght | for salvation. The promise is that “We will all be saved,— fire.” et so as by JOSEPH G. MANN. The German Glass Industry During the War The Bremer Bu ~Zeitung (Aug. 13) writes “The German tant export businc and even in 1915 to the value of 145,000,000 marks (about $30,000,000) were ex- ported abroad. Since the outbreak of the war, however, the glass industry has been subject to continual upheav als and has been in constant danger, In the first place, the cessation of ex port trade threw most of the workmen out of employment, and when the in- dustry slowly recovered, owing to the increasing demands of the army and lordors from the preserving trade, it suffered a heavy blow owing to large numbers of glassworkers being called up for military service, for each glass worker has his particular part in the work, and when one link in the chain of workers is removed the separated | gether a the | ? 2t-| continue. The confiscation of straw s or raiding warships. He is 23 | the son | tudes of war | usual,” does not mean to | ! £} any cantonment, after the first French | lesson: | Flow's vouz portyin ple; and the rule of principle, in | s per- | cri- | erity of | ! able barbarity of their enemy; and | adequately civil- | bunch of re and crime in warfare; yet a conscript- | 1g to collect usury out of | f exterior they | decry solemnly the wanton outrages | personal independent agitation and | | said in Cincinnati: Germany is bound to fare as sp: large she led them into a rest links can only slowly be joined to- in. The confiscation of soda followed, but a substitute was found which enabled production to and the shortage of railway trucks re- stricted consignments, and now the glass industry, always a very large consumer, is to be deprived of it. The Dbottle industry will turn out only 15,- 000 tons of goods per year instead of 37,000 tons, its former annual output. In order to save coal, glass factor are to be amalgamated, but as there can scarcely be two such factories in one place, this necessitates a change of habitation for the workmen, Then, | too, a comparatively large number of | glassworkers will be out of waork for ! a longer or shorter period, and the | trade-union, whose funds at the out- | break of the | est possible Wwin the war—to achieve an uncom- | [2ced By a catastrophe. The chicf r sustained the sever- train, finds elf therefore committee of the Glassworkers’ Union | bas accordingly addressed an urgent This patent desiderstum | Petition to the government, praying | it not to deprive the gl whole, | workers of their right to work and food and not {ta add to their aiready great suffer- ings and privations.” ARMY. H A LA U. In France Fast Learning To Talk Language of Poilu— With Vari (New York Times Magazine) a The mess Sergeant of any mess in “Bungsure, my brave ho: Come {he porty yourselves this bun morn- | ing Chorus of ‘“tray good, sarjong. ! Sergeant Oh vong a swell pretty bun! Nooz :fast pour vouz to Lance Corporal—Yeah, ilay knee pa so rotten. Maize avay you any cream pour the cafe The mess Sergeant turns away, mut- n unprintable French word. Liberal portions of French fried are passed around at the mess table, somewhat after the following mode do er e “This Franzay parleying is grande stuff!” “Oui, mungsure, il certainfnon is. ouz are picking le lang up aussi a lar franzais soldats. “Tl vaut to be facile pour nouz to parlay with those paulyous quand z to get en les trenchay.” nous wont avong any trouble parleving avec the francais after douz - lesso “Passy vouz le salt ici, you grande laier who is called to go to the |Stff up voila a I'autre end de la ta- | front; 1 mean all, who, in a nation | ble. Que the trouble avec you “Oui, that’s que je say too. “slide bas le pain too voila. Nous want to avay kelkeshose to mang- | zhay! Make it rapidemon!” “Tlay bun de parlay oniy francais a | the table dejewnay.” “Oui, ilay not mal if vouz only pemsay of le right mots de ( “Je can ponsay de le mots maiz | knee pa les francaise ones.” an “Oui, that's le main trouble. Maiz nouz ought to pick les mots uy pretty | | quick.” ! “Oui.” | “Beaucoup obliged."” | ‘Knee pas mentic w revoir “Bun by.” The Perfect Tiloch de. Carl W. Junch, a millionaire dyer, low we've cut all the neut 5 rsely Schmidt famiiy, chmidt, you w. took her amily of children to the city and when lunch time ~ame ant as the “Mr: one ds Waiter, she said onc sirloin steak and seven plate ‘The waiter gave a start. Then he bent ov Schmidt and whis- pered, respectfully | ‘Beg pardon, madam, but if ve wour family was to take that | \ble by the kitchen door and sniff uul I think yvou'd gev more of Mngton meal.’ = [ 5 he who is | reallv proud ) ort to earl ious to too fasti enemy’s en- | last force all to | The McMillan Stors, nc. ALWAYS RELIABLE. MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE SPECIAL OFFERINGS IN DOMESTICS—DRESS GOODS and VELVETS JUST FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9th In addition to the items adverised in Monday evening’s papers we include these special offerings, all to Go on Sale WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 8:30 o’clock. FOR THIS ONE DAY 10% Discount Off All Sheetings. Take advantage of this Saving and Stock up, as cottons are con tinually advancing in price, UNBLEACHED | GENUINE SCOTCH TURKISH TOWELS MIXED TOWELS Extra heavy quality. . A Regular 25¢ values. Regular 19¢ ;sradc ‘Wednesday 14¢ each. ‘ Wednesday 19c each. SEAMLESS PEPPERELL SHEETS Size 72x90, Value $1.50. Wednesday, $1.19 each. 54 inch Scotch Mixture Suitings. Value $2.25. Wednesday $1.95 yard. 54 inch Grey Mixture Suitings. Value $1.25. Wednesday 89¢ yard, 27 in, Plush Velvets | 36 in. Dress Velvets Value $1.50, Value $2.50, Wednesday $1.19 yard. ‘ Wednesday $1.95 yard. ALL OUR BATH ROBE FLANNELS Wednesday at 39c¢ yard. Value 50c. These Special Prices for this One Day Only. Shop early as some of these offerings will be plcked up quick ly and connot be duplicated. FACTQ ABOUT THE AM RECAN BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GR Every day submarines are striking serves, farther from their base. Passenge tume will do for a month rated per person per day. the man who driv Peary said a man could go round mil the world, either way, on a daily ra- or who fights hand to hand battl tion of a pound of bread and a pound for pemmican (chopped meat). By an o ecither way he meant acros or by the Con Battlest 1t explorer Scientists hav man’s diet may be divided into two neral clas ous foods, such as meat, peas, foods, his ol e 10 military. ter. G Naval u men dne day, or 1 man 100 day bread North and South Poles werc with the same allowance. Hinden- probated during the past y burg and Haig wrestled on it. Men of Helen §. North, work even meat cannot t Protein rations are st taste’s sake. Our navy allo " wrecked sailors, 0 1bs of beef and be | of meat, centrated food. Their husks and often applies to navy beef. =~ At any e th Next item i month, a ¢ and finally a v some sort of acid, for lac scurvy. The British nickname * fresh mes failed to stav, company to take tI matoes in the sunless winters as our proof. wretch an appetite for his boot soles *h were much more¢ nourishin tough canned bes Briefly then a ont r canned fruit) Contrast the Sunday a can who has risen 9 a. m. taken oon there will be pl to church and dozed through a plenty Sy two-four sermon: Soup. water, cof- | Then we shall have no equivalently high and ever clmbing | {nege days.—Springfield Daily News. bread, 1 1b. sert, .8 lb. Ch and crews must abandon ship farther .2 Ta 3 lbs. His combined , from help; must prepare for more breakfast ahd supper will equal this time in open boats. One warm cos- ' weight. Or in other words the aver- well as age man e: e pro- | on the d a day. But food must he 1 st needs to eat a dog team s in 70 des. be 20 hours r for his 1 the Poles Disgusting—what? s line. But the other side to it. ations qualify the have a fat friend who ecats more opinion only htly. demonstrated that clip, or who pul in a raging Isla ip w ing it around! ; proteins, or nitrogen- , : TFrom The Herald of AT A 5 Years Azo December and carbohydrates uch as bread, suga the milita roithesis nd armi rchy for na- evening in honor of Miss MeN. itesmen can af- Florida a Ty 1] t. Hellberz entertained in terms of number of friend his home h to last 100 Arch street last evenin rst b of njoying many skating parties a ay, ke Shuttle Meadow. hed | December 31—The largest es ze provide i. ¢, enoug ratio his birthday. The young pe most important is 100 1b, a pound per man per LT W inventoried survived on less: but for hard §117 ke its place the la me T vided for (he Stanley Works wt ws its ship- wa ides their bread, | es ns per 100 | Civil ing been Ingineer Cadwell and hi pound | tants are not con- | posed trolley line to T This excee b ause 1 h at ¥ t while e Gilbert and Lynch are m s for the opening um theater on Februs s are nearly all waste. The same | is a safe margin. a luxury for the first aved food for the second, 1 necessity. This is ! 22. of which | January 1—Sunday rot and die, calling their January 2—Observed as lor has always | Piper, holida counted on lime juice whence hi January 3.—The grs lis R ney’. The American blue- | Pleted and shows the following large jacket has tomatoes pornd for pound sinents: Russell & BErwin Mann bise s leton served | facturing company, $545,000; Stanley t to his intrepid companions, | Bule & Level compuny, $232,600; P. Corbir 1,100; orace Mf the dreaded en- @ F his fur-clad ' $200,000; St ey Works, aily stewed to- | North & Judd, $115,000 4 : 3,000; David N. Camp, ndfathers took their vermifuge in Carpenter, $6,285; Cor spring. During the 24 years he ! $75,000; Philip Cor- crificed to conquer the Polar Sea, DD and wif 050; B i2ddy, once did hig party suffer from ' $7,400; Charles D. Iillis, R.W. O v is built llon| &iich! 1adicy 250; W. H. Hart, $55,769; Land Darius Miiler, $32 SRES) Mel F. G. Platt $5,800; Union ry & about who and the red lining gave the wpoor Trovt & Hine, $15,000 durir Lmor ame may be said of the coffee and salt which are crowning f e with infent to life-boat's dietary. Though stim- | Kill 1dden of Fair RS e ¢ i sa View cemetery states that there are Slse beside even ©VCF 6.000 bodies buried th and the record is of a t h Lutheran che debt of the Swed commis: chureh is now c his boat expe talled as nobl (o), (o) per day of hard biscuit \nd” beans; 1 Ib. of tomatoes preparations to build o . Vine street at the corner of Murray > proportion): and a 5 Donokue entert number of friel Stanley Quarter and pepper. Tf water is the minimum of a ain about but the 1+ least a quart h and Ib. Meat .5 Ib. Vegetables, pre- ad and ‘des= ckers, sweets, s three times as much ow zero weather ays he keeps thin carry- Annie Gladden potatoes. ave a whist party at her home las d Miss Carrier of Manches- the occasion s that 12, There were 24 fires last the damage 000. There were four real ransfers in (ne city last week. assis- t work laying out the pro- ¢ tford. Fred Lein, 87 years old, was choked home on Chestnut ting his dinner today. Clark, $180,000; hon, Manufacturing company, $61,500; January 4-——There were 686 arrests which ial in 1756 cmpson was in- I henix lodge, last night A. J. Sloper