New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 3

5 v AL NEW BRITAIN D: Y HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, .-1918 Boston Store - BEACON BLANKETS We have just received from the factory a case of the ever | popular “Plaid Blankets” | This is the first lot of these | goods we have had this season. Nice soft warm| goods, exceptionally beauti- ful in designs and colorings, | in two different grades, at $4.00 and $5.00 a pair. Special showing of COUCH COVERS Ranging in Price From $2.00 to $4.00. McCALL PATTERNS 10c, 15¢ and 20c. Magazine 10c, PULLAR & NIVEN [ [ ROOSEVELT REPLIES T0 SENATOR STONE Relers (0 His Alleed Bargain- ing for Pro-German Vote ‘Washington, Jan. 25.—Before a wrowd that packed the assembly room | i the National Press club yesterday | fternoon, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt .pleaded for a speeding up of the war, | ndorsed the efforts of Senator Cham- | Jerlain for increaseda efficiency in war \dministration, specifically approved | he War Cabinet and Munitions Direc- orship bills, and made sharp answer o Senatar Stone for his attack on rimself during his speech in the sen- .ate on Monday. Colonel Roosevelt did not criticise President Wilson. His only reference o the president was to mention his tatement while he was a professor in 1is work on ‘“Cangressional Govern- nent,” that the country would be welpless unless congress rutinized he acts of the executive and interro- rated its administration. Nor did the Colonel make any attack on Secretary 3aker, although he referred to illness ind lack of uniforms in the army. He insisted that there must be no )artisanship in this war, but can- ended that it was proper to criticise vhere criticism would bring good re- lts. He urged the support of every offi- | ial as long as he was efficient, but | d it was just as much the duty of iwveryone to expose those who were in- sficient in the speeding-up process. it was the duty to tell the truth, said the former president, and he defended | yis attitude as a critic by calling ZL[~; ention to his criticisms of the admin- stration in 1898 for what he regarded | is shortcomings in the Spanish war. | . Coonel Roosevelt held that the| meeding up of shipbuilding was of | rital importance, and generally (‘El\e(li lor haste in helping the Allies. Colonel Raosevelt spoke of Senator itone as the same man who had dis- mssed the German vote with Bernard | Ridder, voted against the declaration | ) war, and engaged in fllibustering yperations against taking action to de- fend ourselves. Colonel Roosevelt said the navy had donme poorly in the first six months of the war, but since October its work had been “well done.” American or Not an American. Colonel Roosevelt spoke in part as follows: “At this time no man American unless he is all There is no such thing now as American with some alloy in Zither he is straight United States or he is not United States at all. If n he cannot be is a good American. an him. he is not anti-Germaz pro-American. If he is not in favor of putting this war through to the peace of complete victory he is not a loyal American “The two men whom at the mo- ment we should hold in especial sus- picion are the men who, however loud hint, or directly country, neverthel or indirectly advocate, an inclusive peace, or who in a way object to the quick efciency in putting the war through. The man who endeavors to make you not formidable to Germany endeavoring to make the United States false to itself and at the same time to make it incur the contemptu- ous hostility of Germany. “Our rule should be the same for the nation as for the individual. Do DROPS OF MAGIC! LIFT OUT CORNS Sore, touchy corns stop hurt- ing, then lift right out with fingers For a few cents you can got a small bottle of the magic drug freezone recently discovered by a Cincinnati man. Just ask at any drug store for a small bottle of freezone. Apply a few drops upon a tender, aching corn or callus and instantly all soreness disappears and shortly you will find the corn or callus so loose that you lift it off with the fingers. Just think! Not one bit of pain before applying freezone or afterwards. It doesn't even Irritate the surrounding skin. Hard corns, soft corns, or corns between the toes, also hardened cal- luses on bottom of feet, shrivel up and fall off without hurting a par- ticle. Tt is almost magi- cal. Ladies! Keep a tiny bottle on the dresser and never let a corn or callus ache twice. not get into a fight If you possibly can avoid it. If you get in, see it through. Don't hit if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. Don’t hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can honorably avold it; but if you do hit him, put| him to sleep. “No man can be an American if he is not patriotic through and through; and at this time a man's pa- triotism should be absolute, and in all of our public acts it should mean an utter disregard of partisan poll- tics. No public servant and no pri- vate man in his public relation has any business at this time to consider partisan politics. It is our duty to support every official just so long as that official does well. It is only less our duty to expose inefficiency wher- ever it is found and, therefore, to op- pose every official who in any way falls short in his duty to speed up the war and make the strength of the United States as quickly as possible and as efficienctly as possible felt in The colonel here quoted from Wil- son’s “Congressional Government” to Justify the investigations made by con- gress committees. The then Prof. Wil- son sald: “Unless congress have and use every means of acquainting itself with the acts and disposition of the administra- tive agents of the government, the country must be helpless to learn how it is being served, and, unlees congress both scrutinize these things and sift them by every form of discussion the country must remain in embarrassing and crippling ignorance of every force which it is most important that it should understand and direct. The in- forming function of congress should understand even to its legislative func- tion. Concerning Senator Stone The colonel then said that he was acting on this principle and he hoped every ‘‘upright servant of the people in congress” would act upon it. He went on: “In the two houses of congress dur- ing the year that is just closing, there has been almost no attempt to hamper the prosecution of the war by injecting partisanship. The most conspicuous exception was furnished the other day by Senator Stone of Missouri. But the vartisanship was the least offensive portion of his speech. The really of- fensive portion was that it was an at- tack on the interests of the United States, and, therefore, an insidious effort on behalf of Germany. “This is the same Senator Stone, ; # war board and a munitions head, if who a year from last fall, wae defend- \’h?b °°“kd““;“s l“fitmfix: “t‘;:‘ a‘n"l ::S | incompetent men are put in, or their Ve ing himself from the revelations of OutPreaks of spin T | powers are narrowly or loosely defined, Bernard Ridder as to his (Stone's) negotiations for the German vote, and his effort to persuade the Germans | that he, Senator Stone, was speaking was a colonel in the army, was asked to report. Cuban campaign in November, a year after the campaign and year before the presidential election. that campaign the bureaus of war department at Washington had been held by elderly men of fine rec- | make one small reservation. ords, to which I belonged, and what I said during the that I have been more moderate and | guarded in the last six months. with the army in Cuba, I said it, not to hurt anyone, but because true, and in the same way I speak of | Joutbreaks of pneumonia, of which the most Ex-Congressman |speak of that now because it is true. Attend Hollanders’ Clothing Sale HIS is a sale worth while; it will reimburse any man for his recent enforced short hours. Here are some prices on strictly high-class clothing, that will help much in making up your loss. : $17.50 $22 $25 $19.50 $21.50 $28 $24.75 $30 $27.50 $35 $17.50 $22 $19.50 $25 $24.75 $30 $27.50 $35 $29.50 $38 $33.50 for our $45 Practically every good style of the season is includ- Suits Suits Suits Suits Suits Overcoats for our for our for our for our for our for our for our Overcoats for our Overcoats for our Overcoats for our Overcoats Overcoats ed among these fine selections in our Semi-Annual Mark Down Sale. Fabrics and colorings that respond to your every demand. You know how prices are soaring; take our advice and buy your present and future needs in these lines here now. You'll congratulate yourself later on. One word more—DON'T DELAY. e——————————————— MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME ANDERS’| 82-88 ASYLUM STREET, HARTFORD. THE DAYLIGHT STORE we had been pitted against any for- midable enemy able to keep the seas, we would have paid in disaster for it. Dating from about October there has | come a remarkable change in the when 1 1 spoke of the 1890, a l the “Having said that the navy depart- ment is now doing well, I want to I wish | in red ! the secretary of the navy would no absolutely enmeshed they have demanded, and enact into law the propositions for a war board and a head of the munitions depart- ment. I am well aware that no change in scheme of government can accomplish anything unless the right | men are put in; and if, after having a last six months, except the “In an official report in mnection it was now, ! and there is conflict among them, trouble will come in the future, just as in the past. But the proposal means that at least a proper scheme been 1 distinguished victim has Gus Gardner. ment in which case we comotives stand that the discussion is inching along to a favorable conclusion, and that in a few days, or a week or two, and subject and had with anthority, when he sald that the :e:?g;‘: ?ép""f;r:gmznts'_m"r";p?;:(",;z of administration will be adopted. [pac ot government would only make helteva I1orecdy B0 CORC EOIL v the con. | “At least we will recognize certain g iut to he azainst them, but would really |gi SO 4 SFORF 6 (T nd | vital facts. One is the need of pSCUTHOR Ee for them. This is the same Senator 'oyactly as no fear of what might hap- | hurry. ine-tenths of wisdom is be. ; Stone who voted against the declara- ‘1" " /% Lo rconally or politically be- | ing wise in time. Nine-tenths of ef- | tion of war last year. He is the same |gotec” or telling the truth about my | ficiency is being efficient so quickly Senator Stons who engaged in fiibus- [gwn administration influenced me | that the time for efficiency will not tering operations of the kind which |gnan. in the same way Mr, Stone's| have passed before it becomes ovi- drew public rebuke {in them from the | United Stotes. “Senator Stone did all he could to e Germany against the United States by preventing the entry of the United States into war against Ger- many and now does all he can to serve Germany by endeavoring to prevent the United States from be- coming efficient in the war. “I care not a snap of my finger | for the politics of the man who is doing good work at thig time. It is | for that reason that I have support- ed and shall continue to support Sen- ator Chamberlain and his associatey in the committee who have heen conducting the investigation into the | management of the war department. I have followed pretty carefully thg actions of that senatorial committec, 1 do not believe that any of its mem bers have been influenced in the smallest degree by partisanship. to thosc engaged ! president of the ser believe, (no, I am going to al- ter that statement; I am going to put it as it should be put,) T know that the senate investigating com- ice to this country. “There are few of the older mem- bers here who may recollect the things T said about the Cuban cam- paign and the failures in the ad- ministration of the war department. I spoke when T was assistant secre- tary of the navy. I spoke when 1 hints as to the awful things that may | be done to me if I go on will have iless than no effect in making me re- (frain from speaking that minimum of truth which I think it necessary to the length of this land, so as to wake our people to the prime need of do- ’ | Investigators Rendered High Service, honor of the United States in Uncle their protestations of devation to this| mitee has rendered the highest seryv-. conditions are good, tell the truth dent. Tt is a cruel thing and a bitter wrong to our allies to delay need- lessly one day, let alone six months or a vear, when the war-weary Allies are with the blood of their best and bottl shortage. You know it has been due ing everything that can passibly be|largely to an insufficiency in the num- {done to adequately equip, arm and|ber of locomotives, and you know | train the men who are upholding the [ that ships needed to carry food to our troops in France have been at | Sam's uniform. the docks for some wecks, because A have they could not load on account of | Liprovement i iNavy, the fatlurc In locomotives. Thera | “Tt is our duty to tell the truth. If |are here 200 locomotives buflt forl If | the Russian government, and the they are bad, tell the truth. If they| Russian minister here, as I am in- have been bad and become good, tell | formed, (and if necessary, if the the truth. question is queried, I will give my | past “Take the navy department. first six months after this war opened the navy department showed poor work, very poor work, owing to inde- cision and delay—work so poor that if In the | informants’ names) agree to our tak- ing them. The Russian minister as- |« sented two months ago, and for eight ‘eeks, we have been leisurely dis- cussing as to whether we could under e. and use them. a pu number of most the be ir the dim future yet. hal wh ot first requisite is to get ships. is no use whatever in preparing eve thing on this side of the water if we cannot get acr filling up the bottle unless you take the obstruction out of the neck of the The failure to build sufficient ships means that we leave the neck of the bottle clogged and that we are the circumstances, take these 200 lo- 1 under- 1 stated that the artillery had been | navy department. From that date to; we will have the locomotives. But for thirty-five years unpracticed and [ this, on the whole, the navy depart- | it will be two months after we was worthless. I stated that during | ment’s work has been well done. ought to have had them. What I think, of course, in my views of the proper governmental have been done, was to take the 200 locomotives policy, should nd then discuss. tape, and unable to show initiative or | longer punish the men in the navy by | ‘‘That was the course that I fol- accept responsibility. I stated that | refusing to allow hundreds of thou- |lowed, and to which I have ever the campaign itself was a welter of / sands of good women to give them | since looked back with impenitent confusion, and that we were savel sweaters and Kknitted mufflers and |Satisfaction, in reference to the Pan- from disaster only by the incompe- [ everything like that except by indirec- {ama Canal. If you remember, Pan- tency of our foes. I' tion, because he has had a quarrel | ama declared itself independent and “I should like any man to point [ with some men. { wanted to complete the Panama any difference in frankness between | «In gtanding by the Chamberlain | Canal, and opened negotiations with what I then said of the administra- ’committee, I mean that I earnestly | Us: I had two courses open. I might tion which I was a part of the Party ‘nhope that we will adopt legislation Dave taken the matter under advise- t it before the senate, should have had a able speeches on We would have had a number of very profound arguments, and they would have been going on Panama Canal would We would f a century of discus- sion, and perhaps the Panama Canal. I preferred we should have the Pan- ama aCnal first and the half century of discussion afterwards stead of discussing the canal before it which they merely discuss me—a And now in- would have been ich I regard with be- “Gentlemen, every man of us in the country needs to understand that the There ss. There is no use of anything until the ob- struction has been 1emoved. Work of Submarines tity of tonnage than is being built {speak in order to secure a betterment | brav. fighting the battle to which {in conditions in our army at home by every consideration of honor, We ynable to do 'and abroad. { should now be sending our fighting “One of your fraternity, Caspar| men by the million. The prime need | {Whitney, has published in The New [ig the need of haste. York Tribune a statement as to con- “Second only in importance to it} ditions In France, and that artiele is|is the nced of organization. Here in jworth vour while reading when YOu | washington you have had a good are encountercd with the statement| many star players, but mighty little Wik 2 Ithat there are shortcomings in OuUr'.eam work. j{Eiatysttuation camps here because everything has! 3 . or later we been sent to I'vance. It may have Mould 1ake Socomuyes been sent. It did not get there. Tt “Take, for instance, a matter that has not been distributed. I wish that(was authoritatively called to my at- [0 article could be circulated throughout | (.ntion You all know the fuel | gt mmce If is not reversed sooner shall be in the direst We have excellent men engaged in ship construction, but we | | | “The submarines during the last few | months have destroyed a greater quan- straits to feed our Allies, to feed our | own army, to send over men or muni- | ertain things should be done One of the great needs in estabiishing the war board is that we should establish some man who should have complete control of the shipping operations. no trained expert directing the | shipping operations. ducted under three or four conflicting organizations or burenus. “Here I know and of what you know, but of things that have been told me in the forty-eight abroad without manifests, because the lent army officers who were sud- ¢+ plunked of sending them did manifests; spe a sl They are con- cak not only of what I hours of ships sent down in the business not know about hip sent over wi¢t steel and is fixing 140, he is a shirk \ | “Protect the lat ng man in every | way. See that he has full representa- | L OUR SATURDAY BAKING Fop this Saturday we will have many good things in the bake ing line, all of them wholesome and delicious, waiting for you to select from. Our CREAM GOODS are sweet and dainty, our COFFEE CAKES tender and baked to a mnicety. We will also have MOCHA and BAL- TIMORE LAYER CAKES, high grade POUND and FRUIT CAKES, ANGEL CAKES, old fashioned RAISED LOAF¥ CAKES, BOSTON BROWN BREAD and BAKED BEAN and a full assortment of juicy and well-baked pies. Hoffmann's Bakery 62 West Main St. 95 Arch St. Two Stores ernmental action, that he gives thd amplest return for the protection tha he receives, for the wages which hd gets. Tolerate, neither from em | ployer nor from workingman, neithed rails and returning with the same steel raiis for bailast; of cargoes sent over and not unloaded; of ships, needed by one department and seized by another. I could give you a concrete instance of that which they were trying to | from the man of big fortune, 'no remedy just vesterday, in order to [ from the strongest labor union, keep & ship that was needed to send | neither from the biggest corporatio: nor from the wealthiest private indi over food to our soldiers. i “Instead of having three or four or- | vid any practice that interferes { ganizations each fighting the other, in | the smallest degres with tho order to get ships, and each doing the | and efficiency which it is ne work nicre or less inefficiently get an | for us to show in making ready organization with one strong, trained | enter the war. expert to handle all the shipping op- |- *“And now you newspaper men tel erations and co-ordinate all the work. | the truth. No man is to be excused 1f that were done, it would mean an |in peace or in war, if he does no increase in efficiency, which I verily ' tell the truth. PPunish the untruthfu believe would be the equivalent of the | man. Punish him a little quicker i addition of a million tons to our ship- | he belongs to the newspaper profes: ping facilities at the present time. ! sion than to any other, hecause hd “The big steel manufacturers should | has groater power for mischief. be appealed to to drop all less impor- “Where the work of the censor I tant work and devote their whole at- | necessary for the world efficiency o tention to building frames, plates and | the government, it should be con angles, the essential components of the | tinued. But it is a perversion of th shiy Their mills should be turned | censorship to interfere with the tell purely to war purposes. Our house is | ing of the, truth when the truth i afire, and we are not to be excused if necessity for the people to know we fail to try to put it out with every Have it clearly understood that thd nmeans at hand, and no man is to be telling of the full truth is to be th excused if he fails to do his best, with | rule; that though it may be and wil an eye single to getting up most effi- | be necessary, from the standpoint o clency in the national work at this |cxpediency, for the censor to stoff time. certain truths from being told, tha! “Iet the government supervise the | the burden of proof must always b work of the ship construction men. on him to show that it is for the pub. Let it see that no improper profit is |lic interest that such truths shoul allowed to the big manufacturer.!not be told Shame and disgrace to the man who | You men, who probably repre makes a fortune out of this war! Al-[sent (not even excepting the sen: low no profiteering. Allow simply the | tors and representatives) that bod) profit necessary in order to run the | of public sc 1ts whose function f business to advantage. more t,!mpor ant Ilmn\ llh(-) r[um-\mn o % any other men in public life, remem Responsibility of Worlmen. Now | Per_that you fall short of your dut “So much for the employer. {if you fail to tell the truth. If yo for the employe. Let the government | tcll an untruth. shame to you! have it understood that in work such | “The American people is a stron works, the mu-|People. We are told now and thet as the shipbuilding 0 that the truth would frighten ou on works, all the work done for| ,.,ple 5o that they would not g0 o the government for the purpose n![wm the war. If they are such aiding the war, the employer and the | st of weaklings and cowards, the employe alike are to be held to the | nothing can save us. On the.ecoM responsibilities of the soldiers in uni- " 4rapry T helieve that the full telling Give them the highest honor of the e truth will wake the Americai if thoy do the work well; give them people up to a sterner realization of medals such as were given for work {he task that is before them, and on the Panama Canal; do everything therefore to a sterner resolve thag for them if they do the work well, cost what it may, every deficienc and do not permit for a moment any shall be remedied, every wrong un| practice of the big man or the small done, every failure by governmen man that interferes with doing the officials turned into an achievemen work well. | and a success, so that as speedily “The government should see that' possible we may harden our the workingman gets the amplest but soft strength, and exe it 1o the fullest degrce necessary wage that is compatible with con- ducting an industry; that his housing ' bring the peace of liberty in thi and working conditons are excellent | mighty conflict for civilization in cvery respect: should see that he | the welfare of mankind.’ gets a first class wage, and that h"i does a first class job for the first class | wage. I do not know the technical term, but it a man can fix 300 rivets SMOKE : tion and allowed to organize in the | industry and of the profit from the LY imluctiv. But in return see, by gov-| & MILD, PLEASANT &c CIGLS