New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1918, Page 20

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1018, PROMINENT MEN BOOM CAMPAIGN Notables Lending Lung Power for Third Liberty Loan Washington, 8,600 prominent been eng April men and women hav, for speaking tours on behalf of Third Liberty Loan. Here are a few of them Secretary McAdoo; Secretary Lane; Secretary Red- William H. William J. James W. Gerard, former am- bassador to Germany; Charlie Chap- lin, Margue Douglas Fair- banks, William S. Hart and Mar Pickford, moving picture actars; Harry Lauder: Governor Bamgerger, of Utah: Mrs. George Bass, secretary of the Woman's Liberty Loan commit- tee; Governor Brough, of Arkansas; Bainbridge Colby, member Shipping board; Frederi A. Delano and Charles Hamlin, members Federal Re serve board; Former Governor Dunne, of Illinois; Solicitor-General Davis; Abram I. Elkus, former ador to Turkey; Charles W. rbanks, former vice-president; Mrs. Antoinette Funk, vice-chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee; Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, president Armour institute, Chicago; Major Charles W. Gordon, of Toronto, who writes under the name of Ralph Connor; Senator Kenyon, o lowa; Senator Kendrick, of Wyoming: William Mather Lew of Chicag author; Thomas B. Love and Dr. L. Rowe, assistant secretaries of the Treasury; George W. Norris and Her- bert Quick, members Federal Farm Loan board; Daniel ( Inte national revenue commi : Major General E. E. Swinton, tant sec retary British War Cabinet; Gaylord M. Salzgaber, commissioner of pen- sions; Edwin F. Sweet, assistant sec- retary of commerce; Samuel Unte: New York lawver; Alex T. Vo- 1g, assistant secretary of the in- Carl Vrooman and Clarenc assistant secretaries of agr ed the 3 etary Dan- field: Bryan amb: terior Ousley, culture. Caring for Canines. London, April 26.—The keeping of canine pets by society women may be regarded, for the duration of the war st, as a patriotic duty i . wasteful and izing 1 ury; but only if the dog be of the long haired species. It has been demon- To the Board of County Commiss ers for Hartford County. I Hereby Apply for a License to sell | and Intoxicating Liquors, Beer, Rhine Wine, and Park Street, Town of My place of busin within two hundred Cider New Br is “not premis any postoft emetery. Dated at New of April, A. D., CHAS. pertaining thereto, public library, or Britain, 1918. G. ANDERSON, : Applicant. the Undersigned, are electors and tax-payers, owning real estate, of the Town of New Brit sign and endo the f cation of Chas. Gi. Ande this 15th son for a license, and hereby certify that said ' applicant is a suitable person to tlcensed pursuant to said appl Dated at New Britain, this day of April, A. D., 1918. AARON W. CARLS BENNETT NELSON. JOHN A. ANDROS. JOHN A. ERICKSON. THOS. B. FARRELL. I Hereby Certify that the above- named signers and endorsers are electors and taxpayers, owning real estate, in the Town of New Britain. Dated at New Britain, this 15th day of April, A. D. 1918. ALFRED L. THOMPSON, Town Clerk. be 15th | formea, Mare than | Short-haired dog stead of I and hereby | z0ing appli- | tion. | strated that an exceptionally high- class wool can be spun from the comb- ings of all breeds of long-haired dogs. Samples from chows, Pekingese, DPoo- dles, Bergers d'Alsace and sheep dogs have been submitted to wool expert who are emphatic in their commenda- tion. To popularize the discovery and turn it to good account, the British Dogs’ Wool assaciation has been with the Countess of Gosford as president and Lady Algernon Gor- don Lennox as chairman. The dogs’ wool, so far trol it, will b Red to the Brit- Meanwhile, tu Cross s hed over ish ity | in peril of destruction, unl be proven that they, too, may d to help win the war, otherwiso | | | than as camouflaged sausage meat. i he util- Huns to Seize Clothes. Amsterdam, April 26.—While deny- ing a report in the Berlin papers that there is to be a general requisition of clothes from private wardrobes, the German State Clothing bureau admit: says the Berlin Vorwaerts, that it planned to undertake the collection of upper garments on a voluntary bas This is said to be with the object of supplying munition workers with a working suit. Woman Gets High Honors. London, April 26.—The Order of the British Empire has been conferred upon Mrs. M. N. Felton, the wife of ‘a sheep farmer in the Falkland T lands. It was due to her vigilance : a caast watcher that the German ad- | miral, von Spee’ and the news communicated to Ad- miral Sturdee in time for him to give battle to and sink the German war- ships. To Farm Out Children. Amsterdam, April 26.—The city Vienna negotiating with the Hun- rian government to farm out 100,- 000 Vienna school children this sum- | mer. The children, suffering from undernourishment, work in agricultural it is expected they w districts, where 11 get better food. BRITISH FIGHTERS MEETWITHCABINET |Kll War Information Is Passed Along This Way oril 19 ociated London, of The A sentatives of the | forces on land and sea attend every meeting of the British War Cabinet, | communicate to the members of the cabinet the latest information can- cerning the war and consult with them on important questions. (Correspondence At these conferences the army is' represented by Major-General = Sir Henry Hughes W on, chief of the Imperial staff, and the navy by Vice- Admiral Sir Rosslyn Weymes, first sea {lord of the Admiralty. How the British War Cabinet oper- ates in deciding upon war policies and directing Britain's share in the war told in the annual report of the cubinet now published for the first time in history. “At each meeting,” is says this official r circles of the British government, ‘the cabinet begins by hearing reports as to the progress of the war since the preceding de Unless it wishes to confine its deliberations to general questians of policy, it then proceeds to deal with questions awaiting its ision. As these questions in the majority of cases affect one or more of the administrative depart- | ments, almost all its meetings are at- tended by the ministers and their chief departmental officials concerned. | “The majority of the sessions of thoe War Cabinet consist, therefore, of a series of meetings between members of the War Cabinet and those respon- sible for executive action at which questions of policy concerning those departments are discussed and settled. 250,0 . at His L LLLELLECLCCLLCCLCCLQLLCLLLLLLCLLCC Y lost. you are seeking 00 Words Command: And at your command—and a sure point for every word. sharpened, the Eversharp Pencil brings you a totally new idea of pencil efficiency, downright convenience and better writing. Always sharp but never As much a marvel of construction as a perfect writing aid. cision. A built-in clip prevents it from being An Eversharp becomes your right- hand friend and bosom companion for life. 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Questians of overlapping or conflict between departments are determined and the general lines of polic throughout every branch of the adf’ ! ministration co-ordinated so as to | form part of a consistent war plan. | l l[ i “Ministers who are not members of | | the War Cabinet are permitted to | bring with them ta the cabinet meet- | ir xperts from their own depart- ments or from elsewhere and oft rn o from clsewnero an ,m‘80,000 Borrowers Take Sums to to decide an important question. Amoun[ 0[ $160’000,000 “In peace times, sessions of th | British Cabinet were infrequent, but A under war pressure this has changed. | The War Cabinet has held 300 sessions in the past year Washington, April 2 farm loan system has been in active | operation just a year, and has dem- fecnstrated that it is a success, ac- jkordmg to a business summary is- i sued by the Farm Loan board. About | 2,800 national farm loan associations have been incorporated, representing sbout four associatlons to each five counties in the country. The asso- ciations have an average of 20 mem- hers, representing a total member- skip of about 56,000 farmer borrow- ers. —The federal INVESTIGATION OF WAR PROFITEERS Waste of Public Funds in England . have received applications for' over Is Now Bemg Gm‘ed 120,000 loansl, amounting to about £300,000,000,” says the board’s state- ment. “Many of these applications have been rejected, reduced or with- drawn. About 80,000 loans have been approved, amounting to over $160,000,000, and on over 30,000 of these loans money has been paid to the farmers to the amount of about 0,000,000. Some loans approved were for reduced amounts which the London, April 1 Lo g p: ociated Press)-—The Brit- ish Ministry of Munitions has been charzed by a committee of the House of Commons with wasting public funds through failure to adopt ele- mentary precautions in awarding con- tracts for s ). The A OnY ODEl i | horrowers declined to accept. penditure of the munitions depar e Ln iz 5 “Notwithstanding the unusual ex- : rew machinery and to the appraise- In its report the committ racnt and determination of. title on that the department had many loans that have not yet been Senplonsstmating | clesed, the > of the banks in oLl e Lices HOT deing busines been within such { dia not properl; Iimits as to justify the expectation contractors nor regulate the use of | of the Farm Loan board that these labor’ and material, | hanks will easily he able to operate According to the committee, the on a difference of one-half of onc per Ministry of munitions has expended | cent bhetween the loaning rate and about £100,000,000 in the erection | {he rate which they pay on their ind equipment of national factories | honds. in nts to private firms and in sup- None of the banks, of course, re- | Piving buildings and equipment to | ceived any appreciable income from them. ‘eir business during the first half of Ivestigations by accountants have but during the last half the corrected some of the wasteful meth- the- Spokane Federal ods alleged. In this way £3,000,000 | Land bank, for example, was suf- were saved by a reduction in the | ficientiy profitable to come with price of Reductions in the | about $10,000 of wiping out the ex- | contract pric ammunitions, fol-| cess of expenses incurred in the first ! lowing technical investigations of | half, and the volume of business on costs, resulted in the saving of £35,-|ils books assures it a handsome sur- 000,000 in two year: In one con- plus for the second year. | tract for gun equipment, it is assert- “Every borrower, when he takes | ed, accountants employed by the mu- [ out his loan, makes a subscription nitions department reduced the con-lwhich increases the stock of the Fed- tractors profit by £2,000,000. eral Land bank to the extent of fiva Great sums of money, the commit- | per cent of the amount borrowed. tee reported, have been spent in ex- These stock subscriptions of borrow- tending the munition factories while | ers. in the case of several of the others which could produce the gama | banks, are now so large v““"' in ac- commodity have been left idle ' for | cordance with the provisions of the lack of material and lahor. *There act, the retirement of the original is continual waste of labor, material stcck of the banks, which was prin- and money in the construction of fac- cipally subscribed by the government, | tories which compete with each oth- | Will begin within a few months er, aid the committee, *““while their production could heen obtained at infinitely lower cost concentra- tion of labor and machines in certain places and usinz them to their full [ capacity.” ! Tt is stated that prices in this fourth year of war are still really determined 3 i aining and manufacturers are out to get as much profit s they can. They favor “collective bargaining” in which prices are determined for the whole trade by the cost of profitable * production in the factory which pro- duceg most expensive A profit of 340 per cont. one munition firm. (Corespondence s, ex- » charged no adeguate costs or of con- munitions, that it limit profits to the | have Tondon, April 17.—During one of the recent air-raids, the largest anti- aircraft gun in the London district was worked by a gunlayer armed cap-a-pie in medieval plate armor, a breech-worker clad in chain mail, ! ana a sightsetter attired in silk tights and a velvet coat. The son for this motley attire was that the alarm came while the gun crew were tak-| ing part in some amateur theatricals in their barracks, and they rushed off the stage in their medieval attire, straight to their duties on the gun by was carned by If you cannot serve “Over There” help support those who Do Serve by Buying Liberty Bonds “Over Here” CIREDIT TO THE EXTENT OF BILLIONS Will Win the War and What } Is Good Enough for Uncle § B Sam Is Geod Enough for You ‘ BUY CLOTHING As You Can Buy LIBERTY BONDS§ On Small Payments R = Newest Style Suggestions N Apparel of Quality —FOR— ’[ | 2o ] Women, Misses and —AND— Clothing of Style —I"OR— Men, Young Men and Boys f Children | | $7.00 A Week Boston Clothing Store 63 CHURCH STREET RESOLVE _ To Open An Account Today§ ZPpO0O= NBZ2CW <=M cm 'SPEGTRE OF FAMINE Misery From Hunger Reported of The Associated Press).—People are dving of hunger in the streets of the large towns of Persia, adan and Senne, sa) Mazvin to the Rostovskaya Rech. a fearful ‘wrote. ! streets enough to dead bodies. gToups of women mourning over their dead. mother them, near the mother, anather child dying. The mother her- self frozen, unintelligent stare. sians, ‘really’ dying, shove some bread. into the dying woman’s mouth, but the be- lated help, her from the villages to the tawns hoping in vain to be fed there. well-to-do town, once fallen to the lot of your corres- pondent to take up froam the streets people stripped bare who, the rich that their families maintained. “In may REALITY ¥ PERSIA Hamadan, a few sparks of a hunger riot broke out, an it was only the presence of Rus ry with its flames. There is a report that Khan, that freebooters’ chief lives in the forests near Resht, Almost Irremediahle Petrograd, April 10 (Correspondence [ ed men, is only waiting ta raise a volt till the Russian troops leave. notably in Ham- s a dispatch from “The spectre of famine has become reality,” the correspondent through two or three Hamadan or Senne S come upan two or three Here and there may be in Here with a baby is a beggar woman—a two children; one of in arms, is dead, and on the ground, is ROM W. are prohibite is already motionless, with a The Per- seeing that a human being is ous doses produces stupor, coma, of course, does not save The poor villagers throng m cine to be given to your chil of what it is composed. life. of Chas. H. Fletcher. “Even in Kazvin, this more or less it has more than from ex- G. FOX & CO. HARTFORD haustion, have been unable to move.|T wm brought up Mothers sell their daughters, still mere | children, in order to secure & crust of bread; wives of poor men are given to | days a troops that stopped the movement that | was ready to embrace the whole coun- t Kuchik who ! :ulll;‘ has, under arms, about 30,000 mount- | “While trying to organize among the Persians public aia for the starving, PAREGORIC or laudanum to make 1t slecy. sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY ICH THERE IS NO WAKING have been killed or whose health has been r num and morphine, each of which istg from selling either of the to anybody without labelling them ‘¢ poiswn.” is: “A medicine which relieves pain and produces smell of medicines containing opium ars disa:uised, of ““ Drops,” *‘ Cordials,” *‘ Soot! inE‘Syrupfl, eto. @enuine Castoria alwoys bears the signature of against eithes Persians’ indifference or theigigoy | sent that is made impotent by bri corruption of a truly Orl character, and be BO, e WANT STANDARD CLOTHES N Amsterdam, April 26.—FEleven dred German towns and Cltfes Applied for supplies of the new standard” garments for men and en. Half a million pairs of sta trousers are to be distributed q the next three months, and & pr tionate number of other garm| | Women's skirts will sell at $4.50 ¢ $15 to $21 obody $20 a week] state clathes, re- | aresses a ha Be of over to ) incornc ermitted buy Don’t Poison Baby. FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother ta & her child muet haf heso drugs will prody ~will produce the SLEH are the children w] ined for life by paregoric, liad narcotic product of opiym. Drug e narcotics named to ¢l ren at &l The deflnition_of ** naxe sleep, but which in polo conpulxions and death.” The gmw and sold under the ns You should not perni ren without you or your physician CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the ¢’ &2 ignature 7772 LOAN BOOTH, MAIN FLOOR, CENTER.—BUY NOW— BUY AND BACK THE BOYS “OVER THERE.” LIBERTY Women'’s Suits, Coats, Dresses Skitts and Raincoats Every year witnesses an enormous increase in our Cloak department busines Why? 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Raincoats in cravenette, for dressy wear. ts, rubberized materials, tweeds & to our Coats for Dresses, Novelty customers than we were in the —our usual low prices w street wear, Coats for motoH Satin Dresses, Georgatte Suits for street wear, Silk Sulls Bilk Skirts, Wool Skirts. Prices $2.98 (o $29.50. Opticai Department Mezzanine Floor Glasses for Headaches. Have your eves tested and itted by our eyesight .cialist, a graduate of the largest optical college in this country and registered by Con- necticut state examination. You cannot to too careful about your eyes, as good eye- sight is almost as valuable as life itself. Our optometrist will examine vour eves and will give special prices on all glasses. he “COHAL” DEEP CURVE and the “Dixie” fin- eyeglasses are fitted only in our optical department, and cannot be bought elsewhere. 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