New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1918, Page 6

Now X testing whethe concelved vand %0 1 endure. We are met on hat war. We ha rtion of that field those who here that nation might fltting and proper is as a live. that cannot men, here little rger sense conscc The Jed A above ou sround what we ed hav to the that nereased or which they of devotion oive that these 1 in vain: that shall have a new that government »ple. and the from the carth LINCOLN nation, u freedom: and by th for not perish ABRAHAM LINCOLN WOULD SAY. WAL ersary of Abraham American On this birth anni he thoughts of ople naturally turn to the great this nation the frecdom onfl which almost rent ler, but which was direct hing to an At esabli Deopi the same time s inevitably a comparison be- tween that struggie and the one now the war be- forerunner and oing on. For. in a sense, lween the states was but a war between autocracy democracy, a war which involves in ven a greater degree the freedom or slavery of peoples the world over. Abraham Lincoln President of t today? What would American people are Prof. his- What would do alive and he were he United States the ire questions that Lincoln say to now? hese intelligent men. Hart answe all hnell asked Dby Albert B has i say that the present war is War—a o the great torian, made r in this way “He wou like the struggle not Civil sh national supremacy but na- stabli to tree the world of a And that know is tional principle: obsession the doc- Divine Right of Kings. It 1 that has held and over: great obsession as we of America trine of the is an sman pcople who have placed power of their govern- of a small clique Potsdam ment i nds as the further elabor- this the obses- the German peo- that the best iman beinzs to carry on the known Hart idea of 10w mer Prof 15 made themselves for 1 wa turn power and respon 1f- passion- i to a small group of jutocrat They p a great juggernaut that all the state, under iwhose the they whee fling themselves The the World War so pronounced then as they are now. to the fashion. Yet This time at stake underlying principles of found in the same Civil War are to be They were not, of course, They were not brought fore in triking they were there nonetheless. it is is ind that United States is wr.ging world freedom Were Abraham Lincoln in the repeat of famons which have head of thesa well his we White might 1 lines Gettyshurs speech today reprinted at the column He might well say, and we that Tt rather fer us to task these here dedicated to the great remaining before us; that from honored dead we take increased e- votion to that cause for which they Aive the last full measure of devo- tion: that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation. un'der God, shall have a new birth of and that the peo- not per- freedom; government of the people, by ple, and for the peopl ish from the earth.” shall FINISH. e will fight un- the Hohenzol- jtanding of the Jaid down by by Lincoln. 3 'American esident of L unequivo- jasi-peace ng, the Czern- inister. jtation. the prs of says Fight, hall ts of I in- Bd in fican pecpic, he e people fighting monster set loose rns. America It will remain in the h' time as right triumphs ntil democracy made " \d beset with pitfalls and Bres dag Ol Sometime is in is tocratie rulers. after Count von Hertling the tentative peace President Wilson and Liloyd =ibmarine a of the Tus- some answered pro- of George gram a German sent the vitals sending to odd blow torpedo into cania their deaths one hundred American soldiers awakened this As That the that is its spirit of apathy nation sinking of the battleship Maine in rom the Ha its ini harbor stirred the nation to resulted united depths and in a purpose to crush the Spaniards so the sinking of the Tuscania resulted in a cementing of our people in the one big determination to crush the insidious The people fall with their Kaiser. his own fatc (c} shall Germans erman stand or Or, they leave him to and wash their hands of the matter. Tt so long the Potsdam (n) can malkes little difference, as world is rid of the gang and all their ilk. . German hands fashioned the torpe- do that sped the Tuscania German hands directed the blew with the blood of And G penalty. towards Ger- man hands arc red erman Tt the Tuscania American soldic suffer the sinking the hands must the is true that of was a legitimate act of war, inasmuch tho to the there to fight Yet the sinking the men were on way as our battlefields of Furope fi the German soldiers. of the Tuscania again calls to mind sinking of other ships,--vessels not car- munitions of war,-- to law. the sending of inno- and rying soldiers or in contradiction international It cent non-combatant calls to mind men, women children to their watery sraves, n the case of the Lusitania and the l.a- vessels. it conia, and a score of other And calling these ions of American homes de- thinzs to mind, brings vi prived of their brave hovs, in the prime of lite forced to go over- seas to fight that principles of demos banished from the voung mer racy may not be face of the globe. The American people now Kknow they are in war. They now know this war What battle lines of France are a good three thousand miles away, the war has been brought to our very doors by the sinking of the Tuscania. What though the great Atlantic ocean stretches its mighty bosom between the shores of Europe and the United States, the war is no farther removed from the American than the flash of a telegraph wire that heralds nking of ship what means. though the transport people such as the s a or the killing of men in action. The die is President Wilson has told the old old story in Congress. news cast There will be no backing down, there can be no backing down. Germany refuses to realize that the world can- its intrigue under- nor for its bartering not stand for and handed methods, and bantering of peoples and nations smaller than itself. Since Germany refuses to see the hand-writing on the American people shall re- with the representatives And in that one big idea, wall, the fuse to deal of the German people refusal is written their -—-to fight until and on the military mas- ters We have got to f That give in their we will fight there is to take medicine. Wt we will win an it. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1618, IPACTS AND PANCTES. cold, eold January, single thaw to its Greenwich News and Graphic. It out was a with~ 4 bac “Line’s busy.” It you don't believe it and stand by the tracks and the freights whiz -~ Providence Journal. out g0 sec If you pan out Tuesday. South don't don't TS Norwalk like the way things ‘“beef” about it on “meatiess” day.— Sentinel, Lacking a sense of humor, German government . refrained from extending the submarine zone to the Pacific ocean.—Springfield Union. A Liberty bond button today is a much* better passport to good society than the swellest dress suit thg fancy tailor can make you—New Haven Union. We string along with Washington in the theory that Russia isn’t goinz to quit. Russia has quit.—Capper's Week Judging by tho many newspaper pictures of the Tuscania, that boat looked different every time a photo- grapher snapped a camera at it~ Waterbusy Republican, Many peoplo will observe National Thrift day by cutting off the pur- chase of family necessities and throw- ing a lot of people out of employ- ment.—Paterson Press-Guardian. THE MYSTIC LIGHT. S When T beheld the eves, glorious to me still on "aradise those who to see. beauty of her Such orbs, it seemed That Earth there was a For were but fortunate And vet to all who roam the flelds the night en they Heavens in the It should see the That thrills some lonely soul with pure delight. To cach sojourner underneath skies There comes a gates ajar, some will human And others catch its glint from out a star. the | soul-beam from the And see it shine from eves the | | were | MARKED FOR | In Order to Get Rid of the Armenian LAUGHTET. Question the Turks Tried to Kill OfFf Armenians. (Statement by Armenian \bdul Hamid I1., Sultan | from 1876 1o 1908, once said | “The only way to get rid of the | Armenian question is to get Tid of the Armenians. He proceeded to do way that made Nero and Diocletian | mere tyros in tyranny. Yet his rec- | ord has in the last three vears been | | put in the shade by the Young Turk | party, which overthrew Abdul and | Promised in the usual Oriental fashion to make the Ottoman Bmpire a para- gon among nations. But leopards do not change their spots by masquerad- | ing in sheepskins, if ane may vary the | metaphor. The “reform party’ of Young Turks, whose natural lawless ! cruelty has been merely organized by German efficiency, has murdered 1,500,000 Armenians, Syrians and Greeks in the three vears of the great war——a record unparalleled since there was an ‘“‘Armenian question,” which there has been ever since 1317, when the ancient kingdom of Armenia lost its independent position among the nations of the earth. In 1317 there was, raughly speaking, | a mnation of 25,000,000 Armenians— happy, contented, peaceful indus- | trially prosperous. In 1918 there are but a little 2.000.000 left, and | they are outcasts, despoiled, destit and desperate. In the intervening 600 vears the average annual massacre has taken a toll of 60.000. or 160 for every | one of the 220,000 davs in the six cen- turies. The popuiation of a city equal In size to that of Binghamton has been wiped out of existence. For the past three years the population of a city of the size of Buffalo has been deci- mated in an effort to “get rid of the Armenian question.” The old and new regimes in Turkey have attempted to realize the dream of pan-Tslamism, a Mohametan empire with ‘but one creed and no difference between one class of subjects and an- other. The Armenians stood in the its realization. They were Christian, and they were democratic in political principles, two capital crimes in the eves of the pan-Tsiamic dreamers. Therefore, ther were marked for slaughter. What Chri tianity there is in Asia Mineor has sur- vived for twenty centuries and has heen kept alive the Armenians, who the first nation to adopt it as a national religion. Tts existence amon this people is not evidence of its eternal vitality, but a tribute to the sturdy character of a race that has for these many centuries not only Relief) of Turkey | the latter in a | over way of by ! only —JOHN J. DALY. Japan’s Job in the War. (@il the Outlook). In examining the question of dis- patel Japanese troops to FEurope, it must be noted that it was neither the wish her allies nor that of Japan that she should thrust herself upon the Kuropean stage. The writer that the subject has been certain publicists of some allied countrics, but he has no knowledge of any formal request having been made to Japan by any of the allied to send an expeditionary force to Europe. The reason is not far to scek Japan's proper sphere of activity is in Orient and en the castern Pas It was for this reason that, she entered the war, Japan, by with her ally, limited military activities to the far Bast and its waters. True the sphere of her naval operations was gradually extended. In certain parts of the Mediterraneon, a fieet of Japanese destrovers today co-op- erating against the enemy subma- rines. But far as the movement of Japan's forces concerned the Lasis of first agreed upon still remains intact. for no causc that justifies its alteration has yet ap- peared Ivenaga in of is aware discussed by governments the cifie, when an agreement her naval and is s0 land action is Japan (6 It is out find Japan Gireat Rritain. as a Money Tender. w York of line with tradition to lending large sums to The fisland empire, however, has profited by the world conflict through increased exports— particularly of arms and munitions— and with her own war expenditures smal] ¥ acquired great credit bal- Herald). T ances in Europe and here. By arrangements just Japan will turn over to nz- land forty million dollars of her ac- cumulated credits here, taking in ex- change British Treasury bills bearing six per cent—a pretty remunerative security. This follows two loans of fifty millions each by Japan to Britain during the war period Sven if there were not an embargo here on the exportation of gold Japan might well take British high rate se- curities in preference to the vellow metal. It's an ill wind that blows no one good. The Marching Answer. (Boston Post). The men of the 308th United States fnfantry marched through the streets of New York city on Monday. The papers were full of enthusiastic de- seription of their soldierly bearing, and the printed pictures bore out their universal acclaim. One journal went so far as to call the change in their appearance since thev went away in September a “miracle”. Is it possible that the wpon thousands who saw derfu] change did not feel that there was the marching answer to the piti- fu1 slanders of the Chamberlains and the Hitchcocks and the Wadswors who still howl that the military concluded thousands that won- es- emplovment of G every vea thrift, nillions By Britain from battle-field scrap practice to the United Stat: win the great war when vou b is saving Extend this nd help War avings Stamps. vou're wrong. Hog island its name from the fellows grabbing up all that e there.—Indian; Nope didn’t get that were government money apolis News. tablishment of the United States “fallen down' and that the partment of the United “almost stopped fun war de- States hag tioning ?”’ pride Brought Low. (Chicago News) very democratic people has fought for its liherty. Germany Will be wel- comed to the family of freedom when CGiermany fought to make itself free has has | _instead of to fasten the shackles | “fought a good fight,” but “kept the faith” as well Whatever vestiges of freedom and liberty still persist in the Ottoman Empire are due chicfly to the extinguished ideals of this oppre but unconquered people. They also saw visions and dreamed dreams. Their memories of past greatness and their hope of the ultimate restoration of their ancient liberties have been ever present and indissolubly linked together. Their hold upon the principles of religion and demo- cracy are alike a claim upon the sym- pathies of the Anglo-American Fn- tente—a challenge to it to tha such fidelity is Tecognized and a pledge of worthiness to be rewarded T this sympathy has at last been aroused. that the challenge is being met and that the reward is not {o withheld seem to be assured by recent utterances of the Anglo-American en- tente. A vear ago this January the allies answered President Wilson’s de- mand for a restatement of their aims in this language: ! ‘“The liberations of the peoples that now lic beneath the murderous ty- ranny of the Turks, and “The expulsion from Europe of the Ottoman Empire, which has proved vadically alien to Western civili- zation.” Premier Lloyd his latest speech: “While we do not challengze maintenance of the Turkish Empire in the homelands of the Turkish race, with capital, Constantinople—the passage between the Medite nean ized and neutralized—Aravia, Amenic ized and neutralized—Araba, Armen Mesapotamia, Syria and Palestine are, in our judgment, entitled to recogni- | tion of their separate national condi- | tions. What the exact form of that ! recognition should be need not hera be discussed, beyond stating that it will be impossible to restore to their former sovereiznty the territories to | which I have referred.” Pres. Wilson declared in his latest message to Congress: “The Turkish portions of the pres- ent Ottoman Empire should be sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now un- der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of devclopment, and the Dardanelles | should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and com- merce of all nations under interna- tional guarantees. ‘A gencral association must be formed under specific cov- enants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political inde- | { pendence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.” While these references are not very explicit as to the form which the future “recognition” of Armenian claims shall take, it is certain that the old order of oppres- sion, cruelty and massacre ended, | and that the new era of freedom and liberty is dawning in the Near The Armenian question approach- ing solution. That America bound | the framing of the Allied the Armenian question evitable and inescapable hound to Armenia any ties. terial as well as spiritual the largest the educational future of Asia nation in the world she has maintained of the Ottoman and educational whose material amounts to more than i These must be and or more than eighty years tenacious see its is he war George declared in the its of nations | i reasonably is is to help in to answer certain, in- America is ma- | is by She h | religious and Minor of Almost within the empire establish- investment $40,000,000. conserved, | of stake in iny alone horde lizious | ments saved bero of autocracy upon others. euterprise will be lost. Far and away TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. Between Inches Mrs. Fraginard Inches, look- ing particularly well in bher norning gown of pale blue stuffita with pipings, leaned suddenly across the breakfast table with a rapturous look in her beautitul mauagenta eyes. “F she “you a aginard.’ don’t know look witl the side! “F'm,” thought always parted his side. “I wonder now zussied how stunning You Your hair parted on Inches, who hair on the what she wants Not that your mere outside external appearance makes onc tiny teeny weeny speck of dif- ference with me, Fraginard,” she went on glowingly. “You know I'd worship and admire you every bit as much if you were as bald as a dozen eggs, @on't you Fraginard?” “Maybe she wants a new hat to go with her other new one,” mused her husband. “Really, Fraginard,” Mrs Inches pursued earnestly, I don't believe you can have any iden of how perf’ly exactly all right 1 think you are in every particular.” ; “Maybe she wants some yel- low $20 bills to match her new andbag,” her husband refiect- 2d. “Oh well, she's worked hard enough for it. whatever it is.”" And he said aloud, *"Chnk- adora, my love, if there is ang little thing I can give you or get you, today—" ‘“No, Fraginard,” she cut in, “thanks just the same, but I can't think of a single thing.” Her husband gave her one pop-eyed glance and then slid to the floor unconscious, and for three weeks he hovered between life and death recover- ing from a violent of ci- vilian shell shock. (Copyright 1918 Matthew Ad 103) sometimes uropean di- is the re- work of bevond the pompous and devious achicvements of T plomacy in the Near I3a ligious and educational Américan missionaries. There is onc thing that can and must do, quite apart from auy future participation in prob- lematical policies of recogmition, res- toration and reconstruction. She can and must set out to save these heroic but despairing peoples from ultimate extinction by the slow process of starvation. She must feed their 2, 500,000 of destitute men, women and children who look to her as their only hope. This she must do at once. This must be her immediate answer to the Armenian question—food. If this be not forthcoming, there may soon be 10 remnant left to save and educate for the future. Among these millions over 400,000 little orphaned chii- dren, the hope of the future. Save them now and there will be hope for a despairing and disappearing race, brothers in spirit to all Amecrican of freedom and liberty! America lovers A\ COUNTRY EDITOR'S VIEW. Give I'reely, But Wiscly, to Patriotic Orvganizations Soliciting Funds. (Bellows Thalls Times) There Is a ing, shocking waste of print- and effort in this country onnection with the war with Ger- and Austrigy There are rar too many appeals to patriotism, and for money, by far too many different or- wanizations. This paper received in its Sunday morning mail alone eight such appeals. Stimulating patriotism is fine and the boys in rvice should be given splendid by the people at home but patriotism and home service should not afford excuse multiplicity of self-inspired, relief associations who thousands of dollars in rent, printing and planned effort to for their posts n many for a self-organized are spending salaries, office postage in carefully collect every dollar passible particular fad et two-thirds closed, let the or to farming, nursing or knitting. Let those who zive, and all should give, remember that four or five well-established zanizations can handle all the neces- work and are entitled to all the money. The first and foremost worthy of handling the money the nation has to give for war relief is the Red Cross. This organization will neyer have too much support or foo much money. Next comes the Young Men'’s Christian association and the Knights of Colum- If these three are liberally sup- ported the boys in the service will be amply looked for. In addition there are organizations such as relief Armenians, but even there question if it would not be wiser to turn all the money over to the Red Cross, rather than a ‘dozen, mush- room relief organizations where large sums must be spent for clerk hire and postage and in duplicated effort freely, but give wisely! Don’t hat patriotism can be used for as easily as relizion can Give to orzanizations generaliy recognized as worthy. Let those which know little, or about these clerks, if and if offices be males, enlist females, to of or- bus. relief for the it a worthy Give forget a clea yvour money vo hinz No Army. (New Hungarian York T M T at Teent 5 imes). the ars were Mohacs in Hungarian ition of 1848, Austrians, venerated control cannot From for in Not mashed by the there the since 1526 has save in Army., when it was attackir he cedent natur it The in enna. unitary of the Austro-Hunzarian be given up by the Ha 1902 to 1906 the Magyars howled the use of the agvar language commands for a separate ungarian That they are d some- of the sort in these times indi- the character of the race and of control. army <hurgs. army. thing cates its impatience The McMillan Store, inc. ALWAYS RELIABLE. Showing the New DRESS GOODS The most wanted Dress Fabrics for the new Spring Season arc here for you to choose from. Our early purchasing of these Fabrics from the mills, means a pronounced saving whereby you and we bencfit alike. furthermore, as Faster is considerably earlier this season we are most fortunate in having our Dress Fabrics delivered from the mills on time as the most unforeseen conditions have since taken place in mauufacturing world. Make Your Choice From These Fashionable and Serviceable Dress Stuffs FRENCH SERGES TATLLEUR SERGES STORM TRGES PREMIER WOOL RAJAH RHODESIA CLOTH WOOL POPLINS BROADCLOTHS — VEILOURS — FANCY CHECKS AND PLAIDS For E;lr}); Choosing —WE OFFER THESE SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK-— Vassar Suiting | Premier Poplin THIS “1‘};[‘:"'“ $1-29 THIS WEEK $l .59 SPECTAL per SPECTAL per yard Value $1.75 | Value $1.89 —SEE WINDOW DISPLAY OF NEW SPRING DRESS FABRICS— | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. S. N. sitt tab; off vou to ed up, in T The wh any blo hay Anc eve her cla the live! exp cler plac bag! wat 100 at r has ten all inizi A the is a vide dan dec pap tor B test san hea and they T eacl the to t holc test am is n and In any thic has Once The boy. artist—I mean were several One h'ister’s boy. inswer away purple kept strea, particular ship or box—into smithereens. So he exploded powder of it of his own back Th The Magazines must zlass powder Gunner goes about the ship recording jars. freed carefully of acid mi suing cerned Pozvd;'r Tests upon a time chemist was ing with his feet le a have good proof for the court of in< quiry is sure to follow. There may able to stick artist Ida_\\ Their S aikadlal|Dy havineliolcc e ] every other month 2 ~ih. come the stable Jaristantial powders ifty a cocked be one or two it out between 30 endurance rewarded the rack only thereafter. Finai- good sub- give big test. in the up on the | Tt | sampleg and 40 smokinz his pipe was an day for the bad-smell is door opened and in He handed a small jar to which the chemist In the They test not lumps of yvellow dough. | than have room, days in quarterly but rarely show much oration if successful the first All this routine applies to the loose bags for the big Zuns, also Yor the ‘fixed ammunition” in the corner. The boy picked it put up with the projectile like a stuck it into his teeth, and weht |rifle cartridse Samples of such He was safe because of the|powders are taken out manufac- streaks on the yellow lumps |ture and supplicd to the ship in er- the « jar der that she may assure herself that "he lumps were nothing dangerous taking place 2 jan the jar in |among the little vicious grains brands are| Iifiiciency of stem is proved The purplish | by the fact that not once in the his- chemist that this | tory had an ex- was disintegrating, ! plosion from nt at | causc hand his way other countric less was streaked nose oughta A terrific he zot shoot into the purple like a rum- | “Mac says he thinks this” began the explosion was the | The chemist seemed air. His pipe land deteri~ time. not only 1d see ! but | that i is, on S8 | smolkeless powder. is wias visual-test ich samples of powder in laboratories. told the brand becoming dang minute break down, it’s container—whether our sy of our Navy in the On the have we magazine inside us; France ignite, two big ships e battle- | fow and | lost w years ago, and have suffered little He wired all ships| One European power has that particular ‘“index” of | ticularly unfortunate in aboard what had happened. | alw the d he took pains to bury safely all that within danger ance vard years ago man-of-war keeps powder by and been p this way ing ys study faces her me he sus- we they stand pense—not knowing ! hurtling through the fragments and a half. when meet. I wish the to know was a well agony when air i o they'll go- at ry Nowadax her eye on series of iron- that befit | thousand ! tons of is suffi- | properly was own 1 tests inspections of the seriousness having Peanut Stands Pat to guard. Indecd losive aboard one to destroy ed a the s (Charlotte. (N Observer) hol is irico figures- The its own ag the which hnmble ¢ warship HEHRL ntinues ng fleet if - | far in bags, the | . the tanks in magazines. it less than degrees F. always, and, as a rule, not more than 95 degrees F. Bach a little shelf on which stands the jars, one for every brand of | in the magazine. About o'clock in the morning the Chief nt a anc only prod the retail the old This | firmly as the Neither flood nor has ever sha. enj powder is in air-tight ertight rooms stowed tanks, called be kept remains at S cents a » have rock of famine it. The peanut from the of demand, and, while all are subject to cy prices, the peanut concerned. | Sometimes the peanut { court but it always ; phant. It can even excited | ;' - 5 : intimate relations with action of s commerce commission, which may This 5 counted upon to invariably take to pro- with it Recently peanut safety signal when therc is before the and explosion due to chemical : e The Gunner raiiroads had such s stuck into the o lbeand the saturated with indicas ; \nyestisatt nges color in the presence five | e nt ice ceents been fixed as Gibraltar Worito fire nor war has a immm onerations the other ienic e dities Shif nds firm magazine temperatures and scrut- ing the little yellow lumps in the emerges riGn claim close purplish hue which S antat chemist is caused by = acid on the ‘indicator.’ to powders in order be sides dded ger of omposition for any e went ion made re the south freight commission It found commi <ome raised rates oy 2 undertook ah the jend is necks It nd ¢ er the an rather dot 1t w cer, the commi might be class it ordered esides this daily " there is held annual 1al the , they test ahle called ‘v twice sion decided “unre: railroads to that Towe a vear ed the The the cents surveill the | nee from all wders 89 temper there for break under he exact 1 1ot to whole he results, 1 out nperature nples are ted kept and five to ture of i SaNe (07T peant thus saved again remains at ixty the number of to pieces i number di Those than a mu days or until takes and s it noted The 1918 Spirit (Montre ided according that could no 1onth at farm- production, Preci the v of the American W ow month durinz tb i o every e e o e tost ays the crisis in ar year. Of cou that achicvements samples every time sting power the be put ashore at once. or where there is it permissible to overboard. But one | f certain in order to | this how the is- lot con- ow less |y will decid less 1 must extreme grave doubt yw the whole to be pretty ear, in his opinion sue. This vhich 1o record erop of food- B cases campaiz is stuffs ory tvation wi count,