New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 6

From % Ravarian Diet the tsold § Germany is now placed at 1,500,000 There no way of checking these [ | figures since the War Office of the Imperial German Government long ®g0 ccased to give out the list of dead. It is thought, however, that the figures are substantially correct. | The e statement of the German made in June, 1917 1d at 1,10 the German army has been decimated Governm placed t 760. Unless to such an extent that it has lost n 350,000 in the past seven more months the official figures under-esti- mated the number of dead soldiers have heen a third of Yet, there mig million men slaughtered In that | )¢ time. The toll of the heavy is great. There have been mavny, if not more, men wounded have been killed ince there were seven million fighting men at he command of the German Em- peror when the batiles were at their full height it is easily figured how long the war might last if every man must be killed before peace comes. Which is merely another way of | on indefiniteiy, that it must be!l fizurinz that the contest cannot go brought to an end before many more casualties are rccorded One great drive, or one revolution, might turn tho tables. AN UNPREJUDICED WITNESS. 1t was unfortunate Senator Chamber- ain of Oregon did not attend the din- ner of the Far Western Travelers' as- sociation in New York Monday night hbnd there dined with Senator Borah f Idaho. ¥or had this meeting aken place, the Idahoan would have old the Orégonian a few things well vorth hearing. In the absence of his colleague the Senator from Idaho bnerely calted attention to the great lyork done by the administration at [wasnington .in preparing to wage the var. i 4 Lharged with being a prejndiced wit- ess in favor of the administration at yet I must say that in do not think that I will be fvashington ny opinion it is a mistake to say that merica has broken down in this brar,” was the way the gentleman rom Idaho put it. And he will mot with prejudice. For, be understood, there is no more taunch Republican in all the hafls £ Congress than this same William b. Borah. Yet first of all Senator Borah is an American, and a fire- ating American,—which is the only ind that should be allowed to roam t large today. The Americans sho place party above patriot- sm at this time, the Ameri ans who will mnot defend their bresident from unjust attack and riticism, no matter in what uarter, are ‘not worthy the name. Suppose there have bech mistakes by the administration in tho ct of this war? Suppose there een glaring errors? What of What of. them? They have i1l been corrected by this me They will not be repeated. nd that is the main point. There ould have been mistakes no matter ho was in charge of affairs at Wash- hgton. * There would have been mis- fikes if Theodore Roosevelt was in 1e White House, or if William How- rd Taft was President of the United ates, or even if Charles Fvans ughes had been elected for the work w being done by Woodrow Wilson. 0 one in this country, or any other untry, has a monopoly on perfec- on. No one party has all the brains No one man ! Hpction of never all is that therc es made Dy ame of war as | calls atten- ‘more than | pited States fde, the n; ion en ask of making the ‘"democracy. [0 so came on the sixth §8st April, less than a vear 0 then with practically othing, an army of less than 90,000 the United States today has un- almost twenty was on June between the ages of twenty-one thirty-one pear for registration under the Selec- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, %\‘./EDNESDAY the coal e allowed to suffer more than they can bear. - his punzent way of putting questions. | Southerner asked the Woesterne nothing." General Iindenburg intend to be Paris on or before April 1 April Fool’'s Day. When tho coal Pproblem is off our hands w. contend with in relation to ice. FAC AND FANCIES. There are enough si tween this city and Bc nhoards be- bit bit. New Haven Union. As director genecral of the ril- roads, Mr. McAdoo wisely decides to England by water. Therc is no con- York World possible that congres: can be encour- purpose of standardizing our winters. Norwich Bulletin. Another way of drafting farm labor which might appeal to the govern- ment would be to discourage a lot of g0od farmers from quitting the old place to run for sheriff next summer. —F 1sas City Sta The fact that more street cars were of the soldier, back for And they transformation. all the men who have been to the colors. lated instances there have been some is to be expected, just as it must be expected that some presented the So 1t is with a few iso- neglected. even in a small family worse than 0 me,” says Scnator Borah, has been more funda- overcomes armies of the United | be called forth | from a peaceful nation, | least resistance, ’ from their and offices made into thoroughly some hitch in the ‘The idea now is to help | equipped, programme. not hinder tie best be extended fault-finders and allow sincere men to do what lkeep their mouths is necessary. HELP RELIEVE THE COAU SITUATION. must beseech very doors City Hall for the necessaries of life. Yesterday that spectacle greeted the Mayor and his oflicial family, situation, The Mayor is now making every effort to remedy the. condition; but his labors will be of little unless the coal dealers and the people who have more coal than they come to the rescue. It is an established fact that there is very little coal in the yards of the There are very ; not the least of which why this is is that some coal government proceeded They feared Naturally, commodity as a high wholesale going to buy gome look Whatever the causes of the present is spilled. erving now for thing that There is no sins of the past can be done oceur again. When the time comes for such action (he Mayor and his appointed deputies might coax the coal dealers to lay in mands of the people. should re- quire but a small amount of figuring to find out just how many tons of coat the average are consumed proper time to lay in this supply. the meantime, whatever suggestions ordered for Waterbury shows that open cars are preferable to no cars and the laboring masses grabbed at the opportunity. An open car in zero weather is no picnic but it is prefer- | ahle to some of the heatless closed cars, the ventilation of which would sicken the heaithiest dog.—Middle- town Press. Dr. Royal Meeker's latest bulletin from the bureau of Tabor statistics seriously suggests that' we need a clothing administrator. “All right. But if we do, and the clothing administra- tor acts like the fuel administrator, Washington will look like a chorus from “The Follies” before spring.— Washinzton Times. THE PICTU ——0- - Fer name is unknown, but. of course, it is Freneh, As even a “‘Sammeec” could see: So I've posted her picture up here in the trench And I call her My Maid from Parce. Fach morning I greet her with “Bon jour, ma belle!” And her smile never fails to give cheer: Fach cvening I whisper “Dieu Vous garde, mam'selle!" And I fancy she winks back a tear. My comrades in arms think T'm jok- ing. no doubt-— And we need a few jokes in the trench— But they never would guess what I'm thinking about When T talk to the picture in rench. my brain whirl! For your name may be Frencn, as they say; But your eves arc the eves of a dear little girl Over there——in my own T\ & ELLA RANDALL PJlARCE In the New York Herald Damaged German Ships. (Toronto Monetary Times) ATl the damage done t& 109 German ships by their crews, prigr to their seizure by the United States Govern- ment, when war was ,declared, has been repaired and these ships are to- day in service, adding more than 500.- 000 gross tonnage to the transport a cargo fleets in war serviee for the United States. There ig evidence that a German central authority gave an order for destruction of these ships, effective about Feb. 1, 1917, simultan- eously with the date set for unve- stricted submarine warfare, and that the purpose was to inflict such vital damage to the machinery of all Ger- man ships in United States ports that none couid be operatad for from eighteen months to two years. The destructive cimpaizn of the German crews comprehended a system of ruin which they believed would necessitate the shipping of new ma- chinery to substitute for that which was ruthlessly battered down or pain stakingly damaged by drilling or dis- mantlement. There is documentary proof that the enemy believed the damage irreparable. To obtain new machinery would have entailed a pro- longed process of design, manufac- ture and installation. Urged by the necessity of conserving time, the en- gineers of the United States Navy Department succeeded, by uniquo means, in patching and welding the broken parts and replacing all of the standard parts which the Germans de- tached from their engines and de- stroyed or threw overboard . American ingenuity, as our frienas at Washington have stated, defeated German malice and craft to service 109 badly damaged interned ship We must not, however, over- look the part playel by the British navy by keeping those 109 ships bot- the Mayor taken kindly who hold tled up in United States ports many cases LOr years, he unfortunates must not tor John Sharp Williams of Mississippi has long been -noted for In his reply to Senator Gilbert M. Hitcheock's spcech assailing the ad- ministration’s conduct of the war the “What do you know about running this war?" Then he gave the an- ¢ SWer, which might well be taken to heart by self-appointed critics: “You Know less than I do, and I know ‘Having announced that he ang in | . some | one should now inform his Imperial Highness, the Kaiser, that that fis e shall have a lot io 3 ton to keep the home fires burning quite a while without hurting the scenery a littlo rush 100,000 bales of cotton to New gestion on the ocean just now.- New After our present experience it is | aged to start an investigation for the Oh, Ma It ' , > ake q h, Maid from Paree, how you maike j Jo8C (0, TWHCITEIOT by restoring in FOOD AND CROPS. Inspiring Rays of Light Shoot Through the Gloom and Promiscd Co-operation of armers Pres- ages Banner Year. (Springfield Republican) To show that the encircling gloom is here and there shot throush with hope inspiring rays of lizht, one may call attention to the fact thar. on Januiry according to an official census, thera were 71,000.000.000 hogg in the United States. That figure cov- ers 10,000,000 more hozs tha had | been previousiy estimated in (he best- informed circles. We are, then, 10,- 000,000 hoas botter than we thought we were. The hog has nlaynd an important part in American his tory first and last. The pioncers in the wilderness raised Tndian corn and fod it to the hogs. The West, in the early days, before railroads were buiit, nt its corn crop largely to the ecast ern seaboard in the shape of hogs driven alive over the trafls and hrough the passes of the Alleghany mountains to eastern markets. In roturn, the West got clothing, farm tools, hardware, vehicles and general merchandise, Today the American hogz has its part to play. and if the hog raisers are doing more than was ex- pected of them one may note tha fact with genuine satisfaction. In most of the current writing on the country’s agriculiural situatin, a note of apprehension predominates. Things, however, may not be so bad as they seem. The farm labor sup- ply is undeniably extremely low. vear ago the situation looked despe ate, but since then there has ‘been the army draft to deplete the -~anks of farm workers Immigration fur- nishes no relief. and, meanwhile, the high wages in munition plants and other war industries are -drawing away from the soil many of the work- ers still left there. 1Is there the least counterpoise in sight to these tenden- cies? Tn the West one may iote something encouraging. whatever may | be the case in the Rast. A correspon- dent in Topeka, Kan., writes to the New York Fvening Post that “the use of the farm ftractor has been reatly extended by the shortage of help, and thousands are being sold in the middle West for spring de- livery. These are counted uvon to minir the need of men. Besides the much-extended nse of farm ma- chinery, one notes also strong tenden- cies toward organized effort amons armers as a clas Thus the same correspondent tells of a ‘“repair week” set for some time this month in which every farmer in a great pro- ducing section is to see to his re pairs and et his old farm machinery in order for the scason now near at hand. There never was a time when fed- eral, state and local agencies were doing So much to help increase farm production s federal department of agriculture can stimulate production, under the law, hut cannot furnish labor or funds to the farmers. Yet the farm loan banks are established for the purpose of giving farmers financial a the federal department of labor has | undertaken to organize a great iihor exchanze and distribution svstem While the new food administration | under Mr. Hoover cannot infhience crop production save in some measure through the fixing of prices, the fact is that in dealing with the probicms of crop distribution the food adminis- tration has always borne in mind the necessity of making prices Tizh enough to stimulate future produc- tion The country does face, however, a serious situation, in view of the de- mands made upon its agricultural sur- plus by its Buropean allies Many farmers Kast and Wost, North and South, appear to contemplaie cur- tailment rather than expansion in till- age the coming year, owing to tzhor shortage and high costs of produc- tion. In some cases, their efforis last vear in intensified farming were un- try's distributive system is faulty. The bizgest pota- to crop in our history sigmalized 1917, vet the ecrop hds heen marketed so slowly and hadly that a large was age from the rotting of the roserve supplies may result. We now have a system of government regulation or intervention in these processes ‘hat is half-and-half in character; it n do mnothing thorough For while the country has cvolved a Finover, there is a Reed pulling stoutly at lis coat-tails. The present situation regarding wheat indicates the handicaps to be overcome in the coming season. The winter wheat growers were asked to sow 44,500,000 acres: they fell short, while surpassing the best previous record by a milllon acres. If the to- tal of 60,000,000 acres for all wheat is to be planted, over 20.000,000 acres must now be planted to spring wheat. Theelong dry spell in the autumn gave winter wheat a poor start: cold weather before the snow blanket came Kkilled considerable of the acreaze how much must be determined when spring arrives. The later heavy snows have improved the situation some- what, in that they will furnish mois- ture to the voung plant when the thaw comes. One thing, however, that affords gromnd for special encouragzement. while one contemplates the possible setbacks in the program for the year. is that the agricultural department, supported by the state bureaus is constantly at work with construc- tive policies. suggesting the diversi- fieation of crops and the number of acres to be nlanted to particular erops and sendinz its numerovs speeial agenis and cxperts throughout the stimulus a2 country to provide Jeadershin thii mis e eat value. The co-operation of the rifarmers of the country ecan be de also. in a spirit of pa- pended up triotism in what the president has told them wiil be the vear of the cul- minating crisis of the war For some reason or other Washins ton doesn’t appear to be taking ti s now. Tt is true that the | FEBRUARY 6, 1918, | TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. The Things That Count When Malolo Mommer, wealthy tronser seat importer | and philanthropist founded the | Rreat Malolo Mommer Re- { search Foundation, he expres: Iy stipulated that once a year & public meeting should be 1 held, al which the common People might be introduced to the ciminent scientists who were | { Working in their behalf. As | today’s story hegi the meet- | ing has just been called to or- H e “Tadies and gentlemen," mounced Dr. Hoighty C. Me- | Toighty, who was acting as | chairman, “I take great pleas- | ure in introducing to you Pro- fessor Bismuth Chistie, who, solely in your interost, ,com- pounded chistiefrude, the mew and marvelous specific which makes vellow fever, zipwang Poisoning, influenza, tippleshtv- | ers and tuberculosis things of | | the past | | As Prof. Chistie rose and bowed, a polite stipple of ap- plause ran through the vast audience to the accompani- ment of “Ain’t science wonder- { ful?” land “Goodness, what i next ?" “Next, ladies and gentlemen,* | pursued McToighty, “it gives | me extreme delight to present Professor Rissoley Perhaps, owing to whose discoveries you may now live to be 130 years old with all your senses unim- | pairea.” Again the audience politely and unboisteronsly showed their | sratitude, murmuring, “Well' | and “Well, well!” and “Well, | well, well!” ete. ! “I now cxperience a glow of | skylation,” resumed Dr. Me- | Toighty, “in presenting Dr. | Dibble Sizzick, whose discov- | ery, sizzickine, will, by the ap- plication of a few drops, make | the ordinary penny oblong of slot machine chewing gum hold its flavor for threc days, and the ordinary five cent ecigar ¢ like a fifteen center.” | The mighty clysm of ap- plause that burst from the aud- | ience brought nine tons of plas- | ter down from the ceiling and the ecity fire department out en masse. . (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) The McMillan Store, Inc. || ALWAYS RELIABLE. FEBRUARY SAVINGS at our 3rd. Floor Drapery-Floor Covering and Blanket Dep'ts. THE NEW SEASON'S CRETONNES They are ever. Our selection embraces many new designs and are here i a large variety to choose from. able for draperies, pil prettier than colorings, suit- ows, knitting baks, ete., priced 19¢c to 68c per yard. Sce them displayed in our large show window. SILKOLINES New designs and colorings Offering We ask vou to see them now, | ues in while our assortment is com- | choose lete. | $8.50 each. College Athletics. (Boston Herald.) Dean Briggs of Harvard, in his an- nual report as chairman of the com- mittee on the regulation of athletlc spotts, calls attention to the rare op- portunity which the suspension of in- tercollegiate games during the war affords for the inauguration of long- desired reforms.. The public takes it for granted that when peace cond tions are resumed the era of big games will boegin anew. Rut will the old system - of intercollegiate athletic Irv, with its long schedule of spec- tacular conte itx paid training table its varied extra gances and its genem demoralization riv of college stndies during many weeks ar be permitted to restablish itself 7 Thai iz a question which our authorities ought right of the cducations now {o take in hand. No such oppor- tunity for reforming athletic abuses has ever presented itself hitherto, and none is likely to come again The permanent abolition of all inter- collegiate games only a few extremistg have ever advocated as a principle of educational policy. But not a few sen- sible men, both in college faculiies and among college graduates, have been driven to the belief that these contests ought to be abolished unless some practical way of subordinating them to the intellectual interests of an academic community an be devised. Now is the time. thercfore, to work | out some plan whereby the admittedly good features of inter-college sport may be retained when the war is over, but the oid abuses climinated. No one college can do this. [t must be dono by agrcement among them all. Nego- | tiations of this sort take time, how- ever, and that is why a beginning should be made at once A Neighborhood Club. (Christian Heraid.) Our valley is a farming community, fifteen miles from a town. The popula- tion numbers fifteen families of sub- stantixl, well-to-do-people. but untiy two vears ago there had never been an organization of any kind here. Just two vears ago this all some of | us began to talk ‘“club” as a means or} getting_away from home and seeing | our neighbors oftener. We planned a meeting and formed a club. We bring our fancy work, have a splendid programme, and partake of refreshmentis. We meet ‘wice a1 month, and our programmes are all planned | out a vear ahead by a prozramme committee, and then printed in book form. so that each member knows | exactly when she is to be hostess. The membership list numbers thirty-sic| names, and we all manage to attend It would take too long to tell of our variou civic improvement, chaarity and edu- cation but T would be glad to tell you of the family of five we wintered, of how the Farmer's Tnstitute came fo us of how we raised two hundred dollars to repair our cemetery, what we do with our club funds and other things that interest us and which might interest you ench Admiral’s Famlt. bury American.) The news of the sinking of the Breslan and the driving of the old Goeben ashore by the Rritish is al- most coincident with the introduc- tion into the French Chamber of | Deputies of & demand for the im- peachment of a former Minister of Marine, who did not take steps against Admiral de Lapeyrere for failing to obey orders which resulted in per- mitting the Breslau and Goeben to | representations regarding the fuel | roach the Dardanelles in safety. One conditions in New England very seri- | wonders what wik be done with that ously.—Norwich Bulletin. | resolution now. \ RUGS OF ALIL SIZES Our new rugs for spring are here. SPECIAL PRICES FOR FEBRUARY- One pair of a kind; some slightly soiled BLANKET! sed at the mills one yeor a alance of our stock now on s BLANKETS - at §: purct 98, §5.00, §; New Spring number now ready; pric good for 15¢ toward purchase of any pattern FISBRUARY number DESIGNER 10c¢ COUCH COVERS several wplendid val- wide price This i an vou to make early Selcctions as the savings are worth while. ALL OUR SAMPLE CURTAINS have been taken off our display stands. The sale THURSDAY MORNING at less than cost inducement to AND 'COMFORTABLES o this month lo at special 50 to $7.50 pair, COMFORTABLES- - at $3.98, $4.50, $1.98 to $9.00 each TANDARD PATTERNS STANDARD QUARTERILY containing FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY- BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, swinging their heel “what do you think of my new job potatoes for dinner. He had put in dozen years tr oaches, its ing-engine room." “Yes, and you don’t even know how | Daly licked get there ! vibratory independence of that en- Short finished rolling a cigareftn before he finished. ) ‘that station is worth a million a vear to the man who can milk 1t just | Attorney right I'd ‘a done it myself lon ,but-——well, T never yet wasted o Drocument “It's like this. You've seen a rud der on a Lincoln Park rowboat, Cro at the ends. Your best girl holds into her eyes and catch a crah every other stroke.” comes lines, only they happen to be powerful metal shaf it ain't no child’s play to turn a sea- clephant like the one we're astrido of now. “Yet a child could turn her. Way up there on the bridge is a little six- inch lever. A kid of six could push it over. juice on that cow-size motor five hun- work. “The motor turns over. Tt's shaft connects by gear-wheels to two zreat | German rudder Ime: bolts so that when the motor turns one pulls in and the other pulls out Daly straightened up and put his| paris 5 i | arm across the other's shoulder. “Fel- activities, which include | financier, and T dunno b Short shook his head until his sun faded bangs slipped down I hope sake as well ag mine As for the million. it's like this Steering undarway is a delicate job Sure the old girl's steady, but it takes Nantucket rlasting wi requested make her so. Not a helmsman in the | starply for the bunch don’t put his rudder over u dqz- en times a minute. ‘What does that mean—means Fun- | last reported t gal- | from its station. of six or seven men. umping engine way down there in her on the barbette, | 21 forth | ——vou. Name it,” replied the older man in | Jutely nobody the tone of one who has eaten three |and then “Now ; came a ng.all the jobs to. 'san held aboard a man-of-war. and he | cream freczer, wasn’t expecting anything new from |ing press, recruit. things with Who'd difference 2" “ompartment cleaner in the steer- | loose? just go aft as far as T can and dovn | “Gosh as far as I can. But, say, Bo, how out to eloocidate slightly upon the | deck. Just what is it and why?" ate,” said he, | on one job, and I 't agoing Daly evineed more than a languid | hicaso interest by letting his brand new hat | aje toany overboard without going afier the state a fonzery top fits a wood piece with lines line and steers while you look ipiag was fiied nominal “A battleship's rudder is just thol g0 same except for size. Cross the top | o "0% fits a steel piece, and in from this| f fore her s, You know | o was tried And when he did he'd nut feet behind him, down there bolts, one turning one way and the other the other. And them two Instructed to Recruft Union Men of shafts, which T said, was the is threaded through the us c my Jane has | Fisher million doliars? Not that T'm | plosions up, or broke, or otherwise rer- {ing is added sonally interested. But [ had a = Azents uncle on my mother’'s side who wa vl work can I may be related archistic Kid,” he said biuntly, “for your paks gling of her rndder tolsea wer of times an hour that th e k Steering Engine. “Short,” said Daly as the two sat!stern is and forth, bag Nohody round, I say, but compartment around—except inspections. voice here be- power runnin lips for an an= swer. And Daly laughed. “You're ’bout right. | study when ven now when 1 want to get there | bugle CALLS KING WILL FORGERY Discovered Means, Widow’s Secretary, is Fak a petition ward Brundage, charges the John C. King, filed some time ago, is as the date general’s petition later @ new purporting was d cquitted later docum bate court King received which was about Anarchistic Property. tion to (Germon military agents in the he declared, “you talk like the | United States dated Public Library in a fever. But T [and signoe think T see, bec: steered for me; and ‘'tis then I've felt | pjsen. Tn strang as the engine yvou deseribe. | given concerning But, say, you old Mud Hen, how 'bout | property Headquarter. published dircctions destruction destructive t whit ¥ou | workingmen's unions wk tendencies.” LIGHTSIHIP ADRIFT Away Anchorage cyard Sound. which broke away from its anchorace in Vinevard Sound, helpless and adrift carried a crew