New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1918, Page 6

. ° was a quiet move- ment on Iool to have him ou<ted from More than that, there of disapproval for Finally, the cabinet were h cries everything he Senator Chamberlain came along with charge that the Wat fallen stopped sing when his prepostero had completely had Department that it the down, “almost watch-dogs of pub- saw their opportunity. They growled. Three days later, on Mon- last, the Secretary of War came with what American merchants others are to call “the goods.” He placed them on display in a hearing room in the Senate Office And then and there he dis- and the critics of functioning lic, life day back i hd pleased Building. armed his crit ration. For, every man and De- Adminis eve to see now knows the War “fallen down;" the acid test; with an understands that ont has not stood up” under it has “delivered There will therefore be a quick to cover, a climbing aboard the band and a hiding of the the goods.” curry wagon, muck- until some future occasion when Roosevelts and the Chamberlains others of their ilk really think they have found something wrong with the body politic. The unfair critics must now head for the dug-out. 2k the and ABSOLUTELY NEW. There was no President ited States before Wash- so the Father of his Country was not troubled with a former holder of the back to criti- SOMETHING 's see office coming cise. When Washington went out of of- fico he turned the reins over to John Adams belonged to the same political party. Both were Fed- So Washington did not come Both men eral back to-attack Adams Jefferson, the father Republic and of Democracy, the third of John then a was [President successor ‘the gentleman from Oyster Bay that lAdams; but although they were of @ifferent political faiths, it record that Adams made a blatant at- is not on on Jefferson. Hven with all the turmoil raised at time of the election of John Adams, when political parties d, failed to bring former President of the openly attacking the office, except the usual election period. And when took up the burdens the sec- not camp on the utive Mansion look- tac he Quincy vera di bbout a nited es nan in in olitical cson Adams did the trouble. pnd teps of Exec s for the purely dismiss Do~ have about the ot ormer President of 'the United States anything to handicap the work we might spectacle reasons which a cessor. Taking up actual ve fail to note where Wash- hindered Jefferson in the tion of the Barbary wars or n to machine of Madison, u ame back dis- redit the war ands the war of that Jefferson’s ad- heginning of this ho had on his 812. It is true ninistration saw the rouble, and that Madison merely fol- with the it policies of his doubtful that Jefferson owed in line redecessor; but is f things were otherwise rould have 846, eneral Z Ri done differently. Nor, in Polk ordered hary Taylor to cross the and when President Nueces er Mexican errito occupy preeipitating a two we read of the ex- going to Washington s ears’ war, do resident, Tyler, Presi- gly re- ce to fhe im- oulders remain not try in the fhile Mc- on his . helped o did not Uhe refrain ed two g Dem- Yet ed to ynd Rt | United States 8 for pol as he hates Woodrow Wi son, will h have no chance of overthrowing De- mocracy with smch tactics. The American people wilt erdinarily stand for a lot but not for this, an ex- President of the United States ham- pering the war work of the man in office. NO ONE IS PLAYING POLITICS. There ig ome thing which must be admired in a good Republican. He believes, and the belief is deep-rooted, that no one save a Republican is fitted to carry on the work of gowernment in a republic such as this; that each and every Republican is anointed at the hour of birth for the supreme purpose of holding office; that those who do not run with the hares of politics are missing the joys of Hving, and though they are not active in the realms of public life they could, if called upon, take the highest offices in the land. Once in le, of course, a Democratic administration steps in to take the place of a Re- but those are the mishaps of life. They are the things which must never happen again, if the wearers of Republican togas can help it. At present we are afflicted with a Democratic administration at Wash- ington. This is particularly unfortu- nate since we have a war on our hands. TFor, was there ever a Demo- cratic President capable of conduct- ing such a war? And this one is the mightiest of all wars. It is much greater than any the United States has ever been in. Therefore, it is de- plorable that Charles Evans Hughes tripped up and fell on the threshoid of the White House. Were he there now, or were some one colored with the same paint wielding the power there would be no cause for misgiving; but with a Democrat there is no tell- ing what will happen. Happily, the war will end some day. And when it does, the Republicans will chance to correct all the mistakes made by this administration. We quote here from the speech of Sen- ator Harding of Ohio who last night addressed the Connecticut McKinley Association at Waterbury. The ator, there hailed as the next President of the United States, said: “Justice and righteomsness must as the leading prin- ciples and when the war is over there will be a call for wise and capable republican leadership in th~ struction of the nation.” a ¥ publican regime; have a Sen- who was be maintained recon- As if Re- publican leadership could be anything but wise and capable. That, how- ever, is not the point. The thing to remember s that after the war there will be a call for this leadership. In order that no one will forget to make the call for Republican leader- ship the leading Hghts of the party are now getting ready for the battle of 1920 and reminding their hench- men that there must come a reckon- Ing after this war. playing politics. That taken idea. And, if amy one is play- ing politics it must be a Democrat. Stone of Missouri and Ch Of course, no one is is a mis- amberlain of Oregon are the two leading examples of this in the Senate. And hoth are Democrats. The proof positive. Republican orator can pick ont on which is So any these two names, show side of the fence the game is being plaved, party members that Americans and warn his fellow all n we be now, by must then finish with & warniog, in- BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1018, nuendo, 1 there will two bo anoth: presidential election November. Politics for those it forget the who do not weaken. who can never are Republicans, and that will go to Erzo is great for those they nation ruin under Democr: ¢ rule. William Jennings again into print, Bryan, breaking declares that reading a New York newspaper “is like getting a Whift of a whiskey bottle.” All of which should have its effect upon in- creased ttions should the ter- “dary”. cireul ritory hereabout go It will be a great tonight in the Common Council,—for the Salary Revision Committce. day PACTS AND FANCIES, German crown prince says he wants | to visit Canada, after the war. He'd | better do his Canadian excursion in a private nk."—Paterson I’re Guardian. Vassar announces its war program. Pmb,ml\- many young men of the| draft age will ask to be sent to the | Vassar rvgimans~SprmZficm Daily News. With it reported frozen over from | shore to shore, gifding down the Mis- sissippi takes on a new meaning.— Norwich Bulletin. The biggest demurrage payer in the | United States is the government of the ew London Day. The January thaw must be los somewhere in the freight jam. A tracer should be sent out at once.— New Haven Reglster. | The secret of the coal shortage is | now exolained. It is due to the lack of everything but coal-——New York World. Nobody can get much real humor out of war, but the nearest approach to it thus far seems to be Theodore Rooseveit’s insistent demand at Wash- ington that cverybody must speak the truth.—New York World. Berlin and Vienna newspapers de- clare that Lloyd George's peace terms are “nothing less than the ruthless idea that force shall decide.” These editors are going to jest despite ruth- and force, if this war con- —New Haven Union. does not lack shrewdness: setting forth the details of Ger- many's greedy program of robbery just as Chancellor Hertling and Count Czernin were speaking, he makes per- fectly just the points glossed over in their specches—Springfield Republi- can. Trotzky in Boston hotel proprietors have re- ceived notice that on closed Mondays “no fuel shall be used in rooms where Tiguor served,” the order applying ta hotel dining rooms. ®wven the in- genuity that devised the Raines-law sandwich seems helpless to evade the fuel ban on liquor sclling.—New York World. a Real Grievance. who sit and sigh, For there are men Because the months go d So slowly on their dismal Be sure the mont Too soon, alas! The day is here I've got to pay that brings no glee— the rent again! The rent T pay, then days of grace Of long-drawn pleasure seem to tell; I count them o’er with smiling face And think I've won a breathing spell; But, marching to a sprightly tune, They quickly leave the ways of men And so T find that all too soon I've got to pay the rent again! 1'd love to drowse in lotus lands. Td love to loaf and take my ease And dream and grin and fold my hands And do ag little as T please No rest for me! I have to hop And drag the shekel from its den: I've startcd what I cannot stop— I've got to pay the rent again! Weal Sisters of Jomrnalism. (Columbus Dispatch.) This bit of truth is from a recent issue of the Hinckley (Minn.) Enter- prise: We hear a great deal just now about the “kept” press. As a matter of fact the country newspaper is the most reliable paper in existence and the city daily, with allits faults, is far more reliable than those papers which are the organs of some organization. Whether it is the organ of the Anti- Saloon league, the Brewers associa- tion, a labor organization, the socialist party, the Nonpartisan league or some other organization, the matter in one of these “organs’ is all colored and exaggerated, often so much so as to be bald prevarications. And the official papers of some of the churches are almost as bad sometimes. Yet, the Jmember of one of the organizations Delieves the organization paper re- gardless. The most reliable paper in the world is the one that depends for its ex- istence upon the general public and which does not appeal to any one to cubscribe for it because of prejudice Where the makers of the paper know that tomorrow's sales must depend upon the reliability of the paper to- day, they are going fo be more care- ful than where they can tomorrow appeal to political or sectarian bias. The “organs”’ have their place, it may De, but it is notorious, as the Sty tor says, that they are not as the country weckly or press. (Life.) The position requires mechanical a ex- Emplaver amount of nce, Applicant-—T have owned econd vears from | | is a great game | | G. | which hand automobile for (wo months, Employer—Aaccepied. CO’V[MUNICATE THE Gon AKERS. A TLetter and an ¥ditori the Coalition of Politics and Hysteria. Showing Britain Herald publish in your pa- om Sunday’ have read Editor of the New Will vou kindly per, enclosed editorial “New York World.” T with ple vour o fense of they were should be calls himself, This editorial of everyone, who reads oo mberlain. also Teddy, °d their different fault-findings the War Administration. Yours very truly, ROB Nine months ago the hysterical critics who are calling down impre- cations upon all the deficlencies of the War Department were in the fronk rank of the army of Godsakers, as H. Wells calls them—the people who raising their hands to “For God's sake, For God's ke, in the ITerald in de- the war Administration and crtainly to the point, and tice@ by everyone who an American, open the it, to ju torials pra or hers shou SRT HURD, are forever heaven and crying do something! hufry up!” Now all the amateur Northcliffes profess to he appalled because in process of doing something, in the process of hurrying up, everything has not gone as smoothly as a Fifth ave- nue dress parade. Ignoring and d regarding all the wonderful accom- plishments of the war department, they exhaust the resources of invec- tive in denouncing every shortcoming of every individual in a service of 1,500,000 men, and assure the Amer- ican people that we are about to lost the war becausc the government is in- competent Senator Chamberlain's speech was classical example of that kind of crit cism. The chairman of the senate committee on military affairs assures the country that he painted a true picture of War Department failures. With due respect to the senator he painted a wholly false picture of the military achievements of the United States. Every statement of fact might have been correct. vet tha speech as a whole was false and mis- leading. Take for example, two instances of shocking neglect in camp hospitals Senator Chamberlain recited with such splendid dramatic effect that many persons in his andience were moved to tears. All that the senator said is undoubtedly true. What he refrained from saving is supplied by the Washington correspondent of the Evening Post; namely, that “ft was more than a month ago, for in- stance, that investigation was ordered of the things brought out in yester- day’s debate, and whoever was respon- sible for the neglect of the two boys who died in the camps mentioned is going to be court-martialed and pun- ished.” Senator Chamberlain did not tell that part of the story. Why was it suppressed? Nor did Senator Chamberlain, in his recital of hospital defects in the army, and the death of “hundreds and thou- sands of men,” ever refer to the fact that the death rate among American troops is below the average of men of the same age in civil lfe, as shown by life insurance tables. In other words, the losses thus far in the army are less than they would have been if we had had no army at all. We have the healthiest and the best cared-for army in the world. We spend $11 on our soldiers to every dollar that Germany spends, but noth- ing of that will be found in Senator Chamberlain’s speech It is an interesting circumstance that there was no severe criticism of the secretary of war until Mr. Baker in his annual report opposed the adop- tion at this time of the bill for uni- versal military training. That is Sen- ator Chamberlain’s pet measure and it is ardently supported by Col. Roose- velt. The moment the secretary raised doubts as to the expediency of this legislation during the war, the batteries were opened upon him. Sen- ator Chamberlain came to New York and declared that the military estab- lishment of the TUnited States had broken down, that it had ‘“almost stopped functioning. Col. Roose- velt went to Washington to demand that Secretary Baker must go and that “four-fifths of his subordinates should go.” The attack is no longer confined to the secretary of war. Col, Roosevelt now declares that “the present chief of staff is inefficient and so was his predecessor. We should have a new chief of staff.” The whole military organization is to be wrecked. Senator Chamberlain has gone even further and has introdnced a bill de- posing the president of the United States, stripping him of his constitu- tional powers as commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy and vesting the conduct of the war in a council of “three distinznished citizens of dem- onstrated ability.” The coalition gov- ernment for which the Godsakers have been shrieking turns out to be a coali- tion of Polities and Hysteria. If there is any better way to con~ vince the French and British that we tack the self-control and the disci- pline necessary to see this confhict through we do not know it. If there is any surer way of giving encourasge- ment to the Germans, we do not know it. If there is any shorter way to lose the war, we do not know it A Place in the Shadow. (New York Herald.) Tt it is true, as reported from Lon- don. that men in the British textiie trade have captured the secret recines of German dvemakers, the props have been knocked from under an im- poftant branch of German industry which held the rest of the world lax Iy at its mercy. With nobody buyi Krupp munitions or German dves it would take generations to restore the people to that excellent “place the sun™ they had before they permitted themselves be plunged into a war for world quest—even if they had not bron down upon themselves and their chil- dren and their children”s children heritage of hate. erman in to con- Tt a iro during the past week, | eyes | t why | the | TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. Every Dog. The weather man® stepped out of the weather building, and his usually saturnine face was wreathed in countless | smiles. “Wonderful ds he beamed, rubbing his hands and then taking off his hat and rubbing his bald spot. ¥ruylingham Pivets by » passed Morning, Iruylingham, ‘““How's the hardware business? Booming, I trust. Sold any- thing this week?” Pivets was so surprised that he got out of step with himself. “What's got into the crusty old codger?” he wondered. Mrs. Etderdown Kippsmith Ppassed by. “Well, Mrs. Kippsmith, well!* gickered the weather man. “And how are all the children? Did little Waldron recover from the bibb! afely ?2°° ““Goodne marveled Mrs. Kippsmith, That’'s the first civil word he's given me for day And she wag so flus- mred that it w four bloc be- fore she began to wonder a gain whether her nose was shiny Mannie Heecup sta ZEI‘,P(\a by. “Why, Mannie, S vou're looking!” weather man. joyed your Mannie walked almost in a straight line with astonishment. “Hic? Hic? Hic? he though wonderingly. It wasn't until Pivets and Mrs. Kippsmith and Mannie Heecup saw the morning paper that they realized. The weatherman had dicted fair and warmer, gentle breezes from the anti- toxic storms, and for the first time in ecighteen days his forecast had come true, how well radiated the “T trust you en- last attack of the pre- with Billy Sunday’s Ten Commandments. 1—Thou Shalt Not Gossi three ways to spread th‘ news: telephone, telegraph and tell woman. some of you women he woudn't get within twenty feet of you. 2—Thou Shalt Not Covet. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's a private yacht. Many a man would like to bave his neighbor's wife. You let her alone. 3—Thou Shalt Not Tango. against that rotten, licentious, hell-begotten dance that sends more girls to hell than anything else. I'm in favor of everything that the devil is again: nd Pm against everything the devil is in favor of. 4—Thou Shalt Not Be Stingy. Some would-be Christians are so stingy that they would steal flies from a blind spider. There are others so mean that they sing through their noses to save wear and tear on their false teeth. 5—Thou Shalt Not Have Too Many Beaus. It's hard to fool a real suitor, and 2 man doesn't want to marry a girl that's been pawed over by every voung buck in the community. The frizzle headed girl that sits up in a dark parlor until all hours of the morning with one buck after another is on the way to perdition. 6—Thou Shalt Not Be Conceited. A conceited man is like a cheap- skate restaurant where every thing is in the window and noth- ing on a table but hot air. Self- on the table but hot air. Selfs conceit will always be a millstone around your neck. 7—Thou Shalt Not Drink. The man who says he can drink and let it alone, lies. No man ever in- tended to become a drunkard. Ivery drunkard started out to be simply a moderate drinker. If you believe you can leave it alone, why don’t you? —Thou Shalt Not Cuss. One of the things that show the foundation of a man’s character to be rotten is to hear him cuss and vomit out oaths. I would not trust a pro- fane man any too far in any transaction. 9 Thou Shalt Not Dodge Thy Debts. Some haven't religion enough to pay their debts. Would that I might have a hook and for every debt that you left unpaid T muzm jerk off a piece of clothing! I did, some of you would be h»rr with only a celluloid collar and a pair of socks. 10—Thou Shalt Not Flirt. Society takes no note of the flirtation on the street. It waits unfil the girl has lost her virtne and then slams the door in her face. T wish I could make a girl who fiirts see herself as others see her. If you make eyes at a man on the street he will pay vou back T'm A Man Withont Redress, (New York World) Eight bags of registered mail con- taining large sums of money were on January 7 thought to have been stolen en a ferry boat from Communipaw to New York. They were found Janu- ary 22 in the Pennsylvania Railroad Post Office Station, where they had | been promptly delivered In the meantime Charles J ardson, chauffeur of the motor-truck that conveved the bags, had heen placed in jail The circumstances made his course and case difficult. was a temporary driver only; he worked in that capacity only days; he had left the emplovment four days after the supposed robbery. He had been careless during the trip and on arrival had thrown off the bags with a lot of empty ones, posing them also to be empty have been pronounced intact And this man who was arrested for cerime he had not committed and spent five days in jail has no redress!? chazacter is cleared Rich- ad sup- They al who legal His he is re- leased with due apolo; and in cir- . There are | The devil is so afraid of | cook, nor his automobile, nor his | He | seven | eight | ALWAYS RELIABLE. For the Last Day of Cur CLEARANCE SALE - THURSDAY, JAN. 31s Clearance of Coats, Suits and Furs Valucs offered here that you cannot afford to beging at 9 a, m. sharp, Thursday morning, Jan. 3t Tailored Suits in Women'’s and Misses sizes, 16 to 44 (just 17 Suits fn the lot), made of all-wool scrges and popling in black and navy. Values up * to $17.987 priced for the Jast day of our sale, Thursday, Jan. 31, overlook. Sale your choice § 5 cach, Clearance of All Winter Coats All our Cloth Coats made of Velour, Kersey, and fancy wool mixtures. Coats worth up to $25.00 cach, all sizes the Iot, priced for the last day of our Sale, Thursday, Jan. 31, your choice Kit Koney Muffs that aro worth $7.98 each. 29 Muffs in the lot including natural, black and white, priced for the last day of our Sale, Thursday. morning, Jan. 31, your choice, $3.98 each. Please remember that this sale begins 31, the last day of in at 9 o'clock sharp, Thursday morning, Jan, our Mid-winter Clear- ance Sale. | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY' u. BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, S. N. Indicators. drum on the table when of silver salt cellars. By a doubla vou think? When you talk do you | pipe one connects to the top amd ruffle up your hai Or draw lines | bottom of the cylinder against which on a pad, or do any of the dozen it nestles. Through this pipe comes other tricks of a work-and-worry | pressure identical with that above vietim ? ior below the piston proper. And in 1 i Do you For if so, you can be measured. |step with the fathom-wide working Given pulse and pressure or breath- | piston palpitates a miniature piston ing period and temperature, any | with the silver salt cellar. From of the other combinations of invol- | which—though you may be lost hy untary nerve movements and it is|now—a four-inch arm projects cars possible to compute not only your |rying a pencil up and down, up and, output of work but your efficiency. | down. i In the Navy we use such a system | The pencil rests against the on our engines. A steam cylinder, |ond salt cellar around which is you know, is only a tame giant. And | wrapped a sheet of white paper. . It though its pistons swing up and |draws a vertical line on the paper. Gown, up and down, with ponderous | The more steam pounds in the -big regularity, there is in’ their rhythm | cylinder the more it pats in the little: a subtle irregularity, a nervous con- | cylinder, and the longer grows the trariness such as might in Man cause | penciled line 3 fnger-drumming, hair-mussing, and | But a string hangs down underm other foolishments. | the paper. A little book tied at ifs Steam enters a cylinder in one vast { end can be caught in an eye on the: snort. Almost instantly the supply ( vibrating link below. Try it—seel is throttled. But, once inside, this{ The paper is twisting back and volume of fiery water vapor explodes | forth, back and forth, in time with into a fury of indignation and would | the crank; the pencil up and down, burst the steel prison closed so sud-;in step with the steam denly around it. It expands, forces| Now snatch your paper clear. What, the piston down—or up-—until sud- | have we? The secret of the cylinder denly an exhaust port is uncovered | written by the cylinder itself. ‘Am through which it escapes with one egular eliipti figure has beern| Jast vengeful hiss into the pipe be- The two salt cellars are to< vond. | called an Indicator, and thel Up and down the piston swings | fizure an Indicator Diagram. and fts inner wrestlings with the un-| Let's take it in to the Chief. Hel digestible steam are those of an |studies it for a moment. “Cut-off toa { | i t] or sec gether overfed man. Despite the ever-chang- | soon,” he mutters, meaning that a% ing diet—hotter steam, kink of the wiggly line spells les: wetter dryer steam steam than nceded ‘And water. similates energy and Flattening at the ellipses end save in work. | this. He reaches across to a shelf, Originally marine engines had akes down what looks like the mov- one cylinder. The man-of-war has ‘ ing runner of a Ouija board. Deftly four, and occasionally five or six on | he passes the runner—Planimeter is h propeller shaft. To balance the | the real name—over the pencil edge. huge structure each cylinder must | “Scventeen-hundred horse power on do exactly its share of the total | that fellow,” is the verdict. He has™ ‘\\'m‘k. Wherefore must we deter- { measured the cylinder's labor to mine exactly what work each one | pounds and feet. And though steam does. and piston are inside the cylinder Indicators measure fishting away with all their might, might. A Man might each blow they strike is to the Chief' in much the me way. length of lumber—to be cut and Imagine the cylinder. measured by a yardstick; the Indi- bucket, one fathom high, a cator diagram in diameter. Beneath it Some day the sreat gleaming pendulum of piston | vou in bed; fusten a and connecting rods. lach stroke [toy on your arm; and, means a burst of steam, a powerful | hook and string maybe. thrust on crank and shaft fire in your blood and Away up on the side of the cylin- { and pound of your anxious der are framed two tiny, shiny, steel While just outside waits bottles. In any place but the engine | Wife, watching for the room one would take them for a pair ram’s revelation of vour colder steam, the piston a<— reproduces or but the be cyvlinder's measured sa a vast round fathom darts the Doctor shall come ta bottle-shaped , with only a measure the each thrust , heart Friend trusty Dia- plight. ster culture is uniquue in that it does not the production of | thing elsc more hogs mean corn, but morc oysterm means more gourmands. Besides, it is a pleas. ure to eat oysters. Next, the fact that they are comparatively expen- sive, in view of the small quantity of nourishment they contain, should worry no ome. The only question to be asked is: Does consumption of ovsters, truffles, terrapin, caviaro in any degree rclease other foods for consumption? The rich man has a duty in the premises. He must become a Lucullus now, in order that the poor man may have onough of ordinary foods. | cumstances assuring him of wide sym- !pathy; he is deserving of gratitude, {even, for unwittingly bcing the means of calling the attention to the need of greater care in shifting mails. But| Af()!‘ the mental anguish of lying five | days in jail under an undeserved cloud fhe United States, under the law, can | |offer him no reparation whatsoeve lessen any- less Jat More Oysters. (New York Fwening Post.) | The United S jes, in the role the Walrus the Carpenter, issues a bulletin viting Americans to eat more ovsters. it novel to be invited to eat more of anvthing at all these days| {hat this document arrests attentiom. | | her- and in- ates bureau of of is so an’s Best Commendation, (Detroit Free Press.) About the best praise that a can get is to come to the life and still be the man glad that she married. The argument runs that it is a duty | to consume oysters because such consumption will stimulate culture of those vast fields at the bottom | of the sea which are now lying fal- Jow, in windles and sea-horses; oy- man end of his his wife 1% .