New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1918, Page 7

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Good year welts and McKay sewed lace and button styles, low and high heels, patent and calf leathers, cloth and calf tops, reg- 100 PARTY DRESSES| . SUITS $6. Worth up to $20.00 500 Suits in whipcords, serges, broad- 30 A remarkable collection of Skirts to be [cloth, poplin, oxfords, etc.—Every gar- sold at half its former price—Alterations |ment a wonder. Saturday only at this price—Alterations free. free. {OURAGEOUS TALK Duma in 1916 Translated London, Jan. 11.—Stirring events in Russia which are at the present time attracting the attention of the whole .world came as a climax to the speech Yelivered by Prof. Paul Miliukoff, who made an attack on the then Premier Sturmer, the man with the German pame. This speech eventually caused Sturmer to resign, and from that time on, up to the present, the country has seen revolutions and counter-revolu- tions. An English paper printed the professor’s speech in verse form which was shown to Miliukoff, who said it was substantially correct. The following is the way it appeared in the English pres: Gentlemen, I am, no aware A funeral sermon is a sad affair, And yet you may admit this poor L excuse: It has, as most things have, a certain use. It makes the living to their loss re- signed, And calls the virtues of the dead to mind, And might perchance in one create A sudden brief resolve to imitate, Or if no better lesson it may teach, -pisplays at least the preacher's power of speech. less than you, or two And yet, you may have noticed, all that's said in such orations leave the dead one dead. Ah, when did ever orator aspire To kindle in the corpse the spirit's fire? gentlemen, have I, Honor is dead, dle. Ah, no, beloved land, of honor reft, Great tho thou be, O Russia, naught is left! Ah, no, if any spell or magic give Secrets of life, I pray, let honor live. If any have in holy Russia still sBome skill in witcheraft, let them use their skill! Bring honor back the cost, Before the world have lost, Lest soon, an evil savor, it may Blown in the nostrils of humanity, And even savage tribes of Russians say: ““There goes away.” Yet, o this mad resolve vet honor must not to life, nor count suspects what we be traitor, let us turn ¢ folly and dishonor, who denies That Russia was rich in her allies, True friends—for us they they lived, they fought, Forgave us everything and grudged us naught; worked, | Their blood and ours on the same OF PROF. MILIUKOFF JHis Famous Speech in the Russia, field is shed, And their dead are the comrades of our dead. Are such the friends, O fellow Rus- sians, say, Such the allies that you are to be- tray ? You tremble, gentlemen, and well you may! Even you, sir, tremble as you ring the bell, And it sounds muffled, knell; It will not stop my mouth; sound Reaches my my ground. What think you, gentlemen, the sound increases, the seund pieces! Pieces of silver such as Judas had! These are wild words, yvet do not think me mad. Here in this paper are the figures cold, The sum of shekels Russia is sold! Mad, gentlemen? I think the hand of Fate Hath planted germs of madness in the State: it not maa place With one whose very name proclaims his race, A German nature and a German face? like a funeral its fatal It is of silver—silver Was to fill the highest Ah! gentlemen, this war In which we Dbleed, In which our sons fall on the ground like seed, This, that we thought a sacrifice sub- lime— 1s it mere carnival and pantomime, Is it a play in which we shed our gore While Sturmer takes the silver at the door? Nay, let us be silent; ours the blame It silence leave an everlasting shame. Awake, ye sons of Russia, wake, Your country and your honor are at stake! Silence! When I have finished I will cease: Sturmer negotiates a separate peace; Sturmer betrays our country, Sturmer tries To starve our sons by supplies; soldiers famish in cold, Sturmer is paid for it in German gald. Our the trenches I have the Tecord here of every cent The Germans gave him, in this docu- ment; The payments cover fifteen years, or more— 'Tis always a score. long sum, the devil's dead honor, from thy coffin rise look thy murderer between the eye: Let Sturme nies! Arise, And answer! See if he de soul and bids me hold | stopping our You say 1 break all and time; But measure my emotion by his crime; bounds of place see That I am tame to imbecility. Lo, yon ambassador, his island race Is cold and self-possest, yet mark his face, My horror is reflected in his look, And tho he does not share our shame, he shook. you, sane, You are the traitors, you whose eyes are dry vay, 1 withdraw; too far, 1 know you true and honest are, Good honest Russians, true as steel, Your honesty’s the ground of my ap- peal. I know vou blow: You cannat tolerate know. Open your ea shaking With one great sob: a mother's heart is breaking— Tis holy Russia, mother of us all, Russia, great Russia, do you hear her call? my passion went as you will avenge the traitor's what now the ambient air is O good, or brave, cheer. Now I succeed, the miracle is here; I have not conjured up the dead in vain, cheers again. vou answer with a Those show Honor is alive Yea, Honor lives. her throne, And o'er this great assembly alone! her benignant eves let us de- bate And with a erate, Lo, where she takes reigns 'Neath new-found calm delib- Let me show the ends which Sturmer sought, Since Wilhelm does not pay his gold for naught. The aim was Revolution: there we see The meaning of each dark activity. For this oppression bore with doubled weight And grit clogged every wheel and cog of state: For this our peasants groaned: armies died, weapons blunted wants denied— That in our Russia's ruin war might cease chaos peace. our Their and their And somchow culminate in Such was the plot, will know, being warned blow— Sturmer and all must go! lBuL one word more: Tt Russia would but Russia now And anticipate the his German gang arise And then, if you are Russians, you will | That peace be crowned Mad I may be; but vet if you remain, | 1 Knowing such things as I have told ‘While country, honesty and honor die. ' you | She must be faithful allies, And whatsoe’er the difficulties be, Press on with them in hope to tory— This is thy task, O Duma. In their need The dumb and suffering people wait vyour deed, To this must every thought and ac- tion tend to her great Vie- with victor: in the end. F. H. STADMUELLER, DAIRY EXPERT, DEAD State Commissioner Succumbs to Pncumonia at His Home ‘West Hartford. in Hartford, Jan. 1l.—After a short illness of pneumonia, Frank H. Stadt- mueller, state dairy and food com- missioner, died at Vine Hill farm, West Hartford, last night. He was taken ill less than a week ago and it is thought that overwork of recent days had so weakenoed him that he was unabe to combat successfully the disease that caused his death. ommissioner Stadtmueller was one of the best known dairy experts in New England and is credited with being the originator of certified milk. He was born on the farm where he died. He lived with his parents on the farm for five years after his birth, August 12, 1861, and then the family went to New Haven, where the father was curator of Peabody museum of Yale university for several years. Aft- er studying at Yale, Mr. Stadtmueller returned to Vine Hill farm to becomo its manager in 1885 and he had ever since been there. He was serving his second term as dairy commissioner when he died. He held memberships in the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, United States Public Health association, Connecti- cut Town Health Officers’ association, Connecticut Sheep Breeders' associa- tion, the West Hartford Grange and some fraternal societies. He was also president of the State Dairymen's as- sociation. He was a democrat and had been selectman in West Hartford and was health officer thera at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, a son, two brothers and a sister. She Didn’t Know. (Waterbury American.) A young New York woman had fre- quently been heard to use the excla- mation, “Hoch der K and to put peculiarly ugly emphasis into it. Fin- ally she was challenged by some one for her free expression of her Ger- man sympathies. She expostulated that she had no German sympathies, the expression meant something like imply hated the Kaiser. She thought “To hell with him.” er!” BABST ANTICIPATES LOWER SUGAR RATE . | Believes Gommodlty Wlll Be More | Plentiful in Short Time No one ever dreamed that sugar, which the world produces in billions of pounds yearly, could become So scarce that folks would be asked by the government and the sugar re- finers to use it sparingly. war, which has brought about many extraordinary conditions, also upset the world's sugar-bowl. Today, everybody is interested in sugar. The housewife is eager to know when sugar will be more plen- tiful. And from a different point of view, the business man is following the sugar situation, interested in the success of the plan adopted as an emergency war measure by the gov- ernment of the United States and the Allies to regulate and control supply, demand and price. These facts lend particular impor- tance to the following interview with Earl D. Babst, head of the American Sugar Refining company and one of the three United States members of the International Sugar committee. Not so many years ago, it wasn't the popular custom for men in Mr. Babst's position to discuss their b: ness with the public. But Mr. Bab is of the new school of Big Business managers who believes the public is entitled to know all about it. More Sugar Soon. the interview Mr. phase of the sugar situation. First, he spoke of the prospects of the immediate future, which most concerns the housewife. Said he: “Sugar will soon be more plentiful, with the new crop of sugar cane be- ing harvested in Cuba and Porto Rico. | Bverything is favorable to a sufficient | supply for our needs, hut not enough | to use sugar extravagantly or waste- fully. There must be no overbuying or hoarding.” “And what was asked. “Ordinarily the so-called law of supply and demand is a most impor- tant factor in regulating the price of sugar as of every other commodity. But this law has been more or less, if not entirely, suspended as the result of the control of the sugar situation | by the act of six governments, includ- ing our own. “All during the war sugar in the Unitad States has been lower in price, taking the average yearly price, than anywhere else in the world. Today, comparing sugar on the basis of caloric food value, it is one of the cheapest foods. “After the new supplies are received In every Babst covered about the price?” ha | But the ' | sugar from Cuba and refined, and prices are lowered under the proposals of the food admxnisxrauon, sugar will be one he cheapest, if not the cheapest roode to go on the American table.’ Mr. Babst agrees with Mr. Hoover umt if the Allied nations had not em- | tered into joint agreement to conserve |the available sugar supply, the price to the consumer would have soared. Said he in explanation: | "The facts are these: Europe’s pro- | duction of sugar was not only greatly {curtailed when the opposing armies swarmed over the sugar beet flelds of northern France and Belgium, but England were forced to turn to other sources for sugar. The logical source was Cuba, from which the United States sets the bulk of its cane sugar. “This developed competition which, until the international agreerment was reached, caused a serious advancoe in price both of raw and refined sugar. But with the international committeca acting for the Allies and the food ad- ministration in control in this coun- try, the supply will cqually dis tributed and prices stabilized. No Ships for Java. “‘Great quantities of raw cane sugar are locked up in far-away Java, available because ships cannot he spared to transport it. Hence the Iu- ropean Allies are asking Cuba and the United States as a_practical patriotic duty to ply them with sugar. The United States is making every effort to comply with this request for the very interesting reason that if we save the Allies from the necessity of trar porting 400,000 tons of sugar from Java, it will release shipping sufficient to carry about 200,000 diers to France.” When Mr. Babst voluntarily peared the other week before the sen- ate sub-committee inquiring into the tuation, he told what his com- pany as well as the other large refin- ing interests were doing to safeguard the sugar supply. Among other things, he laid emphasis on the v: f sugar in packages as an economical means of distribution. This especially interested Senators Lodge, Jones and Vardaman, and the subject was {brought up in the interview. In reply to questions, Mr. Babst said: , T presume the public, being interested in having the sugar supply conserved, is equally interested in knowing why sugar in packages can be more economically distributed than loose sugar. And this is the reason: “In the first place, package sugars are weighed and packed by machine. This saves the grocer’s time and stops his loss by spillage which occurs when sugar has to be scooped by hand out of a barrel, carried to the scales, weighed and tied in paper bags. And when he counts this saving, plus the value of his time and the cost of paper bags and stri he finds he can handle pac sugar more economs- ically. Making Sugar Go *Round. “Sugar un- in packages also enables him ! to distribute sugar and other foreign countries | American sol- | to restrict sales to actual needs, to make it go as far as possible. In our| own experience during the recent pe- riod of great scarcity, we were able, more widely be- cause instead of sending a barrel of 350 pounds to one grocer, we could send the same number of pounds, in three cases of 120 pounds to three grocers.” In conclusion, Babst said “With the su refining industry| in this country carried on by largel business units, the public has bene-| fited. We and the other sugar refiners} have fully appreciated our responsis bility to safeguard the ar supply, made especiall present] { world conditio The American S pany, of which Mr. is refin id distributes about of all the r consume United fining Com- pre: ADDED TO DEATH ROLI. Fershing Cables List of Men Dead i rance, Washington, Jan. 11.—Cicneral Per- ing sent to the wur department late esterday a report ithe names of hich contained) nine more members o who have lost their lives i one of which was airplanc ident, tv sphyxiation, five - from and one om meningitis additional deaths reported Sharpe, Private T. M., & Jan K. Sharpe, Sutton, Jan. ten, Croc Jan. 1liza Crook, 3 Scott, Private ‘Thomas, Jan. 2, gas asphyxiaticn; E. Fielder, Portland, Ore Martin, Private DeWitt, Jan. 7, pneumonia; sister, Martin, Lawar, Miss. Fitzgerald, Private Walter L., Corps, Jan. 8, spinal mother, Mrs. William York, Penn. Riley, Private James, Quartermas: ter Corps, Jan. 7, pneumonia; wife, Mary Riley, Morgan City, La. Bonham, Private Jesse F., i Jan. 5, pneumonia and me ther, Thomas R. Bonham, Ohio Parker, Private Harlan Jan. 6, pneumon ker, Creston, Towa. pneur The are list off Aaron, sphy Abbeville, stevedore mother, infantry; friend, Mrs stevedore, Selmo Signa meningiti Fitzgerald, , infantry father, A. W. Par Tor Finland. Not Germany, (New York Times) Our War Trade board has consented to the shipment of 40,000 tons of cor and oats to Finland. The peopid there are suffering for lack of grais which they bought some time ago if Russia, where it was taken from th trains by starving men. The proposed exports ta Finland will go by way o Sweden. The cargoes must not be adds ed to Germany’s food supply.