New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1918, Page 11

v L In the dictionary. that describes our clothing any petter than Thitt covers the style, and price, om the lowest to the pra¥ed suits and overcoats get full satisfaction here. Come in and look at the trench jovercoats—they arc the newest $18 satistactory.” = quality, make highest you will to | Overcoats $18 to Suits $16 to $32. Our Annual Sale now on. MFLRRELL Ci OTNNU to; MLW BRITAIN, CONK. RED TAPE IS CUT, TESTIFIES MGOWAN encral Sags Its Purchasing Sys- tem Is Nearly Perfect Wishington, Jan. 10.—How the Navy Department eliminated red tape ethods and speeded up the work ot bquipping its ships and men after the Jnited States went into the war was pxplained the Senate Military Af- airs Committee by Rear Admiral amuel McGowan, Paymaster General. nstead of a system of secrec: dmiral McGowan, his department, Which controls the supply of all equip- ent to the navy except ordnance, orked on a policy of the broadest open door” so as to get the most ad- fantageous prices the market af- to d to the evidence given be. the Senate Committee concerning he “#nethods of the War Department, orking through the Council of Na- ional Defense, the Navy Department | stem impressed the Senatorial in- quisitors as more direct. Admiral MzGowan said that the noment the United States declared ar, a survey of the wool market was ade by his department so that the havy knew precisely what supply was pvailable. At once, bids were sought rom manufacturers and without detay es were fixed for the wool product pnd for making uniforms. “You didn't wait for any supply ommittee of the Council of National Rcfense to hand you specifications and fhen decide what you wanted ?” asked Benator Frelinghuysen. «“Fo, we didn’t deal with any organ- ation,” replied Admiral McGowan. The entire responsibility for order- & supplies of clothing, blankets, and lood for the pavy was in my hands nd [ went ahead to equip the navy.” “You don’t favor having a supply mmittee do that work for you?" d Senator McKellar. Admiral McGowan leaned forward n his ckair and replied: “Absolutely not, Sirs. The navy's 4stem is as nearly perfect as it can be Made, the result of twenty-five years hard udy and work. I have ‘o count only to the avy and the President. aveyto bother my head about adv rs oMtside my own dcpartment. ray listen to advice, but that doesn’t ean I have to follow it.” Senator Waasworth asked cGowan if he jurchasing and that for lould be co-ordinated. Admiral McGowan saw no harm in aving a triumvirate to confer upplies to both the navy and army, fhird member to be a civili official from the army or nav. e would not take way from either army or the navy authority to ake its own specifications and do its m buying. “You know it has been developed at the War Department has not ne @head in equipping the army as fou have done the vy,” said a- L+ McKellar. “I am not familiar with the hothods,” replied Admiral McGowan. “If the army wants any susgestion -om us, we'll give it any time.” Admi McGowan w asked if the vy used shoddy in uniforms for its on, as the army does. «No, Sir, not a bit of shoddy,” spligd “Why don’t you use it?” asked Sen- I do not Admiral the army he Ser he no occasion to usa there’s plenty of waol in the mar- sald the admiral The admiral was reminded that ex- erts before the military commitiec d testified that the army was forced use 65 per cent. wool and 35 per nt. shoddy in its uniforms because of scarcity of wool “Well, we have found all the wonl wapt.” answered the witne: “Wo nt out in the market and got it.’ ‘Suppose a supply committee had vised you to use shoddy, what would there is no word for men | Secretary of the | 2 did not think the navy | ver | army | asked Senator Mec- you have done?” Kellar. “Ignore it,” replied Admiral Mec- Gowan. “I believe in supplying the | best kind of unifarms to the men in the army and navy. The psycholog- ical effect on the men in getting the best that can be procured is impor- tant. If a man is well clothed and well fed he is apt to be contented, and that will make a better fighter.” Senator McKellar wanted to Know what the admiral would have done if | the council of natianal defense at- tempted to pick out the firms from which the navy was to buy uniforms and had asked the navy paymaster- general not to sign any contracts ex- cept with those firms. “I'a have refused to consent to any such thing, the repl When asked by Senator Kirby if the | navy would object to having its sup- plies bought by one agenéy which | | would act also for the army, the ad- i mlml exclaimed: “Decidedly we would object, | ask you, gentlemen, for the the navy, not to interfere with the system that had proved its effective | hess in time af war.” Under his system of publicity of contracts and competitive bids, Ad- miral McGowan said $317,000,000 was spent from April 1 to December last. ALLEGE A GOMBINE T0 BOOST PRICES Resolution to Have News-print Paper in Hands of Government Washington, Jan. 10.—Attacks on | the News-Print Manufacturers’ asso- ciation for the alleged combination to keep up the price of paper, for which ral of the associations have been | indicated, were made in the senate yesterday in debate over the resolu- | tion offered by Senator Smith of Ari- zona, authorizing the president to put control over the entire news-print out- put in the hands of the federal trade commission. The resolution would give the trade commission authority to distribute the paper output, at a price based on the cost of production plus a fair profit. - Senator Smith alleged that the News-Print Manufacturers’ associa- tion—or members of it—had con- | spired to foist extortionate prices upon the market. As a result, he said, many smaller publications throughout the y, including newspapers and magazines, would be unable to con- tinue in business. The International Paper company and others that, with it, control nearly the entire news- print market, Senator Smith asserted, made more than $105,000,000 profit in | 1917, an increase of 50 per cent over the preceding year. Of that amount, he said, $17,500,000 represented profit gained through the increase in price forced upon the market. The Arizona senator referred to ! President Wilson's recent order, through the federal trade commis- sion, by which the government was to Dbe charged 2% cents a pound for paper. That price, he said, allowed the manufacturers ample profit. “If that is enough for the govern- ment to pay, it is enough for the pub- | lishers,” said Senator Smith. “These newsprint profiteers have shamefully raised prices in the market. They | have resisted every effort of the federal trade commission to control them, and now it becomes necessary | for congress to intervene. If the federal trade commission is given au- thority to take over the entire news- print output and to distribute it, at | a price to be fixed by the commission, | the country may be assured that no | injustice will be done the manufac- turer: One feature of the resolutiton pro- | vides for payment to the manufactur- | ers of 75 per cent, of the aggregate of | a contract in the event that they de- | cline to accept terms fixed by the | federal trade commission and seek re- { dress in court. Whatever balance is | due the manufacturers would be paid after the courts had passed on the matter. Senator Fletcher, who had caused the per cent. clause to be inserted in the resolution, accepted a | suggestion today that the payment be raised to 90 per cent. of the total of a contested contract. ! Senator Smoot of Utah opposed the resolution as “almost vicious measure” contemplating “special legislation for one industry.” He argued that the anti-trust laws reached any price- fixing combination of newsprint or | any other manufacturers. | “If our judges don't give sufficient- | Iy severe sentences, let them be urged | to v the limit of the law,” sug- gested the senator. “That would stop more violation in future The resolution means that ! president could withhold print | from any newspaper or magazine. We | are we are fighting for democ- | ; it's just this kind of legislation ‘mu compels reasonable men to be- lieve we're fighting for socialism in its most rampant form. Why stop at government control of print paper? Why not give the president control of every business in the United States?” | Scnator Smoot also asserted the res | olution was introduced at the request | of publishers in an effort to reduce ! the price of paper to rates helow those agreed upon by the manufac- | turers and the government | Senator Hardwick of Georgia a | sailed the resolution with an attac sevi 75 the | regulation of the newsprint paper sit- | vation was no more necessary to win- ning the war than control of the cot- ton or potato ficlds. “Surely we are not going to send overzealous newspaper men to fight the Germans,” he said, “although T | would like to take a few and stick | em in the front firing ranks of the men they've drafted. If we could win the war with newspapers we’d | have had it won long ago. The ! trouble is that some of our most | va { than | step was necessary | press of | autocracy. { can clothe our | leader, | to rusk tho measure through the Sen- | to give adequate | that belongs to the jobber. i -~ Washington, | quest for higher wasges by paper | on newspapers and a declaration that | iant newspaper fighters and some NEW BRITAIN DAILY victories don’t contribute newspaper much to resul Senators K Sher- mith of Utah and man of Illinois asked Senator why it was any more necessary have government control of print pa- per, for public safety and defense, than of any other business. Senator Smith replied that the print paper industry was truly controlled, and that the government should inter- vene if the president believed it de- sirable. Senator Sherman criticised the reso- lution as tending to broaden the pow- er of autocratic government. “We've too much circumlocution in office now,” he said. “We have too much bureaucracy. I fail to see where congress has the right to gov- ern the news-print trade any more it has to assume control of the potato patches of the country.” The measure was vigorously defend- ed by Senator Ower d such 2 to break the pow- er held by the alleged paper monopoly over the press. He charged that the papermakers now could dictate to the the country by withholding supplies. B “One world of the greatest evils in the is the effort to suppress the Senator. used by to maintain a monarchy and 1f we allow this to occur we will let a condition arise, the re- sult of which no one can foresee.” Senator Wadsworth asked if placing control of print paper w the Government a similar dang would not result in the United States “No,” replied Senator : by Owen, ‘v Government with pow- er without fear, because the people control this Government.” Senator Gallinger, the Republican urged that no effort be made Senator Smith of Arizona agrecd time for discussion before bringing it to a final vote, which probably will not be reached for several days, as many specchs are to be mad News print paper jobbers told federal trade commission that they would be forcer out of business if the commission undertook to supply small publishers with paper, as was done last year, and asked that their status in the trade be defined when the commission fixed prices under an agreement by the manufacturers with the department of justice Comissioner Colver said the com- mission did not expect to undertake distribution again and called attention to the fact that an emergency which threatened to stop publication of many papers caused the commission to act as distributor last year. He said the court decree in the paper case de- fined their position, as it provided for regulation of the margin on paper ate. the = (o) sion’s pape Merchant. the commis- expert, asked S. L. Wilson of St. Louis, one of the jobbe if he did not think the publisher had the right to buy wherever he ct nly,” Mr. Wils E: replied “but we da not want busin diverted “Cer n entered in- ce, when r. Col., pro- Specific questions of ¢ to the discussion only George E. Hosmr of Denv tested for the Natianal Editorial as- i against a differential of 50 hundred pounds between the of sheet and roll paper in tenta- tive prices effective until final are fixed. He said sheet should be from 15 to 25 cents higher. The commission’s hearing was ac journed untjl February 9 ta allow the jobbers to produce data as to the cost of distribution. e in paper 0 INCREASE RATES ON SOME ROADS | Commerce Board Will Study Re- adjustment and Make Report Jan. 10.—Among the problems which Director McAdoo will have to near future will be general adjustment of the railroad stem, involving material incre in many cases, and an impending r nearly all classes of organized railroad labor. Many pending wage disputes will be transferred to the government from railway executive boards. All these wage matters probably will be dealt with through investigating hoards. Officials in close touch with the rail- road stuation in its new General the re- tackle in a | that many rate revisions will ! necessary now that government operation has removed competition on which rates heretofore have been | largely based. The Interstate Com- | merce Commission is expected to un- dertake within a few weeks a special study of Tate readjustments for p sentation to the director gene The commission’s attention has n called to a number of ahno mally low rate schedules caused by competition between raiiroads who rivalries have now ceased. Tempo arily railroads have heen left free to conduct their own rate questions, and since the government assumed control a number of applications for increa have been reecived by the Interstate Commerce Commiss ,‘ Strikes are not rnmnmmmm by any | 1abor organizations, it is said, and | w the director general as demands. The | 1abor leaders are represented as not secking to take advantage of govern- ment operations to press for more | pay, but rather as pointing out | necess of wage increases to | employes from being attrac | er industries. Up to the present the only general demands for wage increases considered by Director General McAdoo are those presented by the four railway I erhoods and the Swit whoso president, S, ferred with Mr. McAdoo to | brotherhoods’ c: keep ed to oth- to | rate | 10 questions will not be put up to | the | i | 1 | i the director general tomorrow, | that he expe | he | the HERALD, THURSDAY, ed by a board of four to be named by nd he also may ask this body to inquire into the s *hme demand, which now is being considered by a committee of railways cxe representing all roads. The itives Director General announced ted to name railroad di- for certain sections of the to assist him in administer- nment operation, but s not determined how m wo appoi 1t terr each director should considered probable, more than six or seven will be named. Mr. McAdoo said specifically that hs did not plan to name State directo: ands of application: tions as State railroad re been received with rectors count ing Go had be ted nor v ory supervise. Tt is however, that not member of the ion and George W. Anderson Interstate Commerce Comn author of the Administratio bill, declared vesterday noon that th be bhil! provides tk revert to t shall so providc il e Commissioner a witness b hou commerce C“ Y TEMS today re the committee Harry A. B for Macon, Georg Mrs. I tuck is a visitor in town The Joseph's Y. M planning a social and dar in Booth hall, Jan s of Nauga- today A AL to be held Sdwar Edward [anion of 188 Arch strect, leg yesterday afte in on Locust stre moved to the New hospital The office 8 Lady Foresters, will be insta evening by of 3 ) . L; the stallation ther Diteh per. 1 while coast- e was re- Britain General No. ied deputy, 10 thi; Miss in- sup- Miss returned to DChto spending rion H. Long and Crowe have e, Wa resume their studi the holidays with their j hington, A meeting of the Housewives’ will be held on Friday aft January 11, 3 o’clock, I en- ter church Hartford. Robert Scoville, the food administrator, will speak, and Sergeant Gibbons will tell of his expericnces in the trenches. Al] members of the Housewives' Army o invited to attend. St. Joseph's A. a successful will give another venin ey Major st of Hartford will furnish the music. Memb helpin pai books boys have pled n and usi - their Army von, at house, recently Booth's which ce at the M of the Y. n by At are AT e ip check some of e cam- method to ed $10 to are this plec Qnintin Bristol, hn Kel- newly- A & B, ing which inment. Deputy J tall th M 1o entert; will clected officers of the Y society this eveni there will be a s The members of Court Circle, No. 27, Daughters are requested to make all coupons and money for the Turkey Raffle tickets, tomorrow e ng at Blectric hall, not later tt 30 o’clock. A meeting will be held this evening by the members of Court Spinoza lodge, F. of A. All members are quested to be present the recently elected officers will installed by Deputy M. M. M A social will follow the meeting. A meeting of the the Boy Scouts will be held at the Metho t church at 8 o’clock next Tuesday evening. The speaker will be W. E. Longfellow, field agent for the American Re Cros He will show stereopticon views on the cor. rect method of Red Cross Work. The public is invited to attend. Penficld Camp, Sons hold officers tomorr hall. The state office have been invited Columbus of Castile, returns of of o be 1L Girl Scouts and e the auxiliary Joseph China h property on North China. The Dorcas reception at the John Sloan last Mrs. Bertha remove from Rawlings pr a handson monial from the a e case Te Miss Genevieve swold has sojourn in Winsted Constable Fred an order from the on hxl\]\ln,d/‘\ will “Lar. Restaurant o’clock fomorrow afternoon e hea leased a case of diphtheria on street from quarantine. H. P. Roche and J. T been appointed apprai tate of > late Jeremis Rev. M. S. Anderson have been named estate of Gordc mech sent e i tes court Luction Tnos at at W s of h Cu 1H appra Adelaide of nics 3 B Co. on property lan of Tremont street for lien h: been placed tain Lumber and C owned by Jacob I $2,077.17 Mrs Chestnut Driver Thomas Riley of wife of Night Patrol Riley, is seriously ill the Luther Lutheran o’clock this Swed 1d annual mee the be he will at church be held this even- n Turner societ; or will ing by the New Bri Hahn home 1tly indis- Chestnut Mrs. ed reet. Mary at her broken j an | re- | Van | JANUARY 1018. WASHINGTON LOOKS o), |Doubt 10 Wilsor's Speech Will Draw Reply From Germany Washington, Jan. — President Wilson's restatement of war aims has not paved the way for any peace ne- gotiations in the immediate future, in the opinion of offic best qualified to judg His address delivered be- fore the cong s regarded as the fina word to ( and her part- ne; to take it, as they see fit. This met now know inite form have set ont many ar leave it that the Central Powers will know soon in def- the thin 1t the Allies to achieve and that it is intention of the United States, at Britain, France v, and Ja- pan to fight for those declared abjects until the very end. There is little if any here that Germany will president’s declaration a opportunity to initiate look to peace parleys quarters it is suggested, but nat with any indication of confidence, that Germany might interpret the presi- dent’s terms as the maximum demand of the allied nations and thus worthy of being used as a basis for inquiry that might lead to negotiatians looking ta concessions. But officials well in- formed as to the situation in Germany lana the disposition of the various prominent elements in the Reichstag are inclined to the view that the pres- ident’s outline of war aims will at the outset tend to an the more impor- tant and influential factions and lead | them ta demand a continuance of the war. Such the has 1 furn 201 peace aver the ish prime minister that the president's statement regard- ing Alsace-Lorraine will bring many German socialists into supporting the war party Officials here believe that the socialists will be divided over the s of the Allies as set forth by the president, and that this conditi will have the effect of prolonging the until the German people to the realization that the Al-/ lies intend to keep up the struggle in- definitely. But there opinion in Wa ident’s addr mosphere and world that the Allies well-defined tend to obtain or expectation construe the s affording an conversations In some comment George German weoch 2ched no hope newspaper of Mr. Lloyd the stote department that the German nt is couraged to hope for The war party is incensed terms laid down by the Brit- It is believed also on shes orn to ‘be on that cleared plain zeneral the pres the at- to the are fighting for objects which without regard to cost in men and freasure. It is just as generally believed that the president’s address was well timed. It delivered at the moment when a ade was in sight, and FOR NO PEACE BID § Steel, [‘elephone and nominal changy steady with a sl 4's. The market dullness after the war issues. Shipping: exceptions cialtie National gar Stores ert 3 1- fi 4's at 96. U. S. Steel rose fractionally ment, offerings ping Steels, oils, s at extreme fused final hour. Liberty 3 ti il ould be based on German much enemy territor has dashed this hope possess { The oresident to the a Many ofiicials a lieve that the co the desire of the { the other pnations 1couraged to be- reiteration of United States nd at war with Ger- ny to bri out an end to all a peace based government and of all the tions involved, \tely will have its effect on the aiser's subjects. They are led to this opinion by the advices they r ceive of the character of discussion in CGermany and the dis atisfaction in the Austro-Hungarian empire. There is reason to believe that all the Allied nations have entered into some sort of an agreement to keep up agitation for the attainment of democratic ideals throughout the world. re e ant wa for, by ultim BACK TO CHINA. Celestial Taken ¥ Asylum Fire in Middletown and Sent to China. rom Iartford, Jan. 10.—Under the Chi- exclusion law, Wong Fat Sue, is 1 his way back to China, an order of deportation having been made today U. 8. Commissioner Carroll who heard the government’s case, charged him with being unlawfully in the country. Wor lled Pen on Oct. of his countrymen, Wong in his laundry here. He | insane and was sent ut Hospital for the letown. While that mes this morn- | Deputy U. ahon went | 2 | there and’ took t Chinaman into custody and brought him to Hartford. Fat Sue, 1914, Lung, fou the Connecti I > at Midd ution w | ing GE PORRKIESS SATURDAY. “This little ek win the w States Food iz went to Jurope; ut both mus at is why the | Administration s iturday as well a Tuesday. The prohibi- | \inst pork cxtends to all p the hos sh or salt, bacon, lard and sausage. The nations fighting beside in Europe must ork. America’s supply is not up with the demands de But if we will “save the pork, > will be enough for all of us. > SAVE THE BEEF. Why not send vour Sunday roast to those in Europe who with us are fight- ing to preserve democracy? Tt will keep them from starving, and vou can eat chiclen, turkey, game, rab- bean or nut loaf, eges, rice, po- wo packages 4 arriving New Britain 6 p. 3 Finder return to J Andrews Co. 2 Main St FOR SALE—Broilers and Tel. 636-5, and 133-4 on lapsed Enameling, reflected s sold 4’s at 97.98 to 9 2 to 96.40. and Bethlehem Motors, specialties 's Roebuck gaining 3 points. There only a limited inquiry for rails at Liberty 3 1- t shading of the Oils, were into to 2 poor 90, related after publicatian the favorable December tonnage state- but fell back a ain on and of 10 to 9 ond 4's at 96.62 to 96.44. Sales New tions furnished change. Am Am Am Am Am Am Am Beet Sugar Ag Chem .. Car & Fdy Cu Can Loco Smelting Sugar Am Tobacco Am Tel & Tel Anaconda Cop AT Baldwin Loco B&O . DR - Beth Stee] B anadian Paciflc Central Leather Ches & Ohio Chino Copper Chi ‘Vlfl & St Pau! Crucible Steel Distillers Sec Erie Erie 1st pfa General Diectric Goodrich Rub Great Nor pfd Gt Nor Tnspiration Interhorough Interboro pfd Lack Steel Mex Petrol Natl Lead ? N Y Air Brake N Y C & Hud Ney Gons ...... NYNH&HR N Y Ont & West Nor Pac | Norf & Wes Penn R R Peoples G . Pressed Steel Car Ray Cons Reading 2 Rep I &S com ... So Pac So Ry So Ry ntd’ | Studebaker . 0il Pac Fruit Texas Union United York Stock by Sl101 164y 8 Fe Ry Co. Ore Cetfs. approximated 500,000 Exchange Richter Jan. High 10, Low T4 80 69 37 % 55% 8% 100 164 1047 61% 85% 581 52% 41y, 77T 3% 38 %% 64 9% 142 1141 119 steels, 1 to 2 points. equipments were 1-2 points minor including Linseed preferred, and United ( activiti at 98.74 1o 98.70, and second irregular, extreme first hour, the trend becoming more irregular especially in Reactions in tors and oils Tan from and a few gaining 1 Similar advances among spe- industrials of nominal Rails also reacted and ship- forfeited much of their gain. shippings special- to 4 points, considerable activity in The closing was sold at to 98.70 first 4's at the strong. 98.74 to 98 90, shares. quota- & Co., members of the New York Stock Ex- 1918 Close 80 705 38% 56 797% 101 1641% him immediately 106 62% % 1443 114 119% mo- see- ‘he funeral of Philip O'Reilly was held at 9 o'clock this morning at Mary’s church. Rev. William Krauso officiated at a requiem high mass. T beapers were Matthew McGrath, Petc Scott, Thomas McGrath, Henry M- Grath, Thomas C. Smith and Danicl The flower bearers were Pats ilson and Thomas Rusky. Bur- ial was in the new Catholic cemetery. A. D. Vinton News of the death af A. D. Vinton, a former local resident, which oc- curred Tecently in Hamilton, O.,. was received in this city today, when the National Founders’ association of New York telegraphed Chief Rawlin: af the police department, asking that the wife amd daughter of the deceased, bhelieved to reside here, he notified. Ser- geant Malone learned that Mr. Vinton was a brother of Mrs, Samuel Knight of Plainville and that the wife and daughter mentioned in the telegram reside in Watefbury. Mrs. Vinton, mother of the deceased, inmate of the Erwin Home is an Frank Frank Zer Town Home, the son of Zemba and WOMAN SUFFRAGF BEFORE THE HOUSE Zemba. a inmate of the vesterday. He v and Mrs Anthony 28 years of age. died Mr. was (Continued from First Page) frage Association who conferred with after York State adopted woman suffrage and who, so it became known last night, came away confident that ultimately they could have Presidential support for the Susan B. Anthony amendment | The President’s change of heart wz | made known through a brief state- ment handed out in typewritten form at the White House and credited to Representative Raker of California, Chairman of the Committee on Suf- frage. This statement was issued im- mediately after the Democratic mem- | bers of the Suffrage Committee had | conferred with the President for an hour. 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