New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 3

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, Boston Store TAFTIS CHANGING WE OASH CHRISTMAS CHECKS Useful Gifts is the slogan this store is full of just the things you want ! HOUSE DRESSES one and two piece In Gingham and Percale, high and low neck plain and fancy trimmed sizes 36 to 46. $2.00 to $3. LONG KIMONOS in Flannelette, plain and satin trimmed, all sizes, nice variety of patterns. $1.00 to $2.2 DRESSING SACQUES and SHORT KIMONOS, high and low neck, nice assortment of colors and designs. 79¢ to $1.25. BEACON BATH ROBE ELANK cord and loops to match, all des colors $4.50 ea. HANDKERCHIEFS, a wonderful display of all the latest novelties, 5c¢ to $1.00 ea. INITIAL HANDRERCHIEFS for men and women, all letters in latest designs, 15¢, 25¢ and 35c ea. 4 APRONS, we have always been known to carry the best assortment of Aprons in the city. A glance will convince you ! PULLAR & NIVEN Get Rid of That Persistent Cough Stop that wukemn(, persistent cough or cold, threatening throat or lung affections, with Hckman's Alterative, the tonic and wupbuilder of 20 years' successful use. 30c and $1.50 bottles from druggists, or _from r:cKMAWi! ABORATORY, Philadelphia Remember | Christmas our SENATE’S OPINION World-wide League Idea Megting With More Favor Washington, Dec. dent William H. Taft, without 17.—Ex-Presi- who is advo- reservation the plan for a league of nations, which Pres- ident Wilson has gone to Europe to urge for adoption as one of the card!- nal planks in the peace treaty, i plaving a very active role in endeav- ating oring to develop support in this coun- | try for the project while the presi- | dent is trying to win its adoption at the Paris conference. The value of the aid that President Wilson is receiving from Mr. Taft was made apparent last night wken it be- came known that there had devel- oped a remarkably sudden shift in alignment on the league of nations project in the senate. Two dayvs ago | it seemed almost certain that the for- eign relations committee would take favorable action on the resclution of > | Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, which seeks to have the serate record itselt !in disaproval of the coupling of the league of nations project with tho peace tr:aty. The resolution aims to have the senate declare it to be the | sense of that body that the question | whole, € (1)Halifax Explosion. (2) San Francisco Earth- quake. (3) Titanic Disaster. (4) Dayton Flood. of a league of nations should be con- sidered separatcly from the treaty. Can’t Report the Resolution. For a time it looked as if virtually all the republican members of the committee would support the resolu- tion and they would pick up enough democratic votes in the ccmmittee to favorably report the resolution to the senate. A careful canvass now indi- cates that the republican members ot the committee, as well as the republi- can members of the senate, as a are split over the league ot nations propect and that enough votes will be mustered in committee to prevent the reporting of the Knox | resolution. The committee is to meet Wednesday, and the information last night is that it will not report the resolution. The shift in sentiment in the sen- ate has been such as to prevent action on the fioor in condemnation of the program for a league of nations, There will be speeches, among them one to be made by Senator Lodge of Massa- chustts, later this week, in opposition to the league of nations project. Be- sides Mr. Lodge other senators, main- ly republicans, will speak against the scheme. But a study of the present situation indicates that the senate will not embarrass the president to the extent of formally recording itself against the league of nations idea, at (5) Triangle Waist Co. Fire. And you Will Remember THERED CROSS least not while he js working for it in Europe. Influence of Mr. Taft. Mr. Taft is credited with being re- sponsible in a large degree for the sudden change in the announced de- termination of senate republicans as | a whole to stand behind the Knox { resolution. Mr. Taft, who advocated the idea of a League of Nations even before the present war started, and | who feels that, unless provision is made in the peace treaty for a League nitely postponed, or absolutely lost, has figuratively rolled up his sleeves and served notice that he is prepared to go hefore the country in a speak- ing campaign in favor of the plan if senators of his party undertake to have the senate record itself in op- position to putting the project into the peace treaty. The ex-president has conferred with members of the senate and has taken the attitude in conference with members of his party that the repub- licans will be playing into the hands of President Wilson and the demo- | cratic party in 1920 if they unite at | this time in condemnation of the League of Nations idea. Mr. Taft hopes there will be no fight in the re- publican party over the League of Na- tions idea, but is represented by close personal friends to be of the opinion that if there must be a fight the soon- er the better. Senator Lodge, in his speech this week, will declare his belief that the proposed Leasue of Nations is im- practicable, There appears to be con- siderable misunderstanding of the at- titude of Senator Lodge in Paris. One newspaper dispatch from Paris today carried the statement that ‘‘Senator Todge's statement” of the League of Nations was accepted in certain quar- ters in Paris as showing that the en- tire country was behind President Wilson on the principle. The dispatch went on to say that this understanding of the attitude of Mr. Lodge and of the nation “is hav- ing a dampening effect on certain Eu- ropean circles which were nourish- ing the belief that Mr. Lodge and the nation were not standing behind President Wilson on the League of Nations idea.” The same dispatch dealt with “twenty-one points” which some persons in Paris seem to think JSé\nator Lodge has laid down as a ‘basis for peace. Based on Misapprehension. This dispatch is based on a thorough misunderstanding, not only of Mr. Lodge's position respecting the league of nations, but as to his ideas as to the terms on which peace would be dic- tated. Senator Lodge has laid down no “twenty-one points.” What the dis- patch evidently has allusion to is the program for peace prepared by the Executive Board of the National Com- mittee on Patriotic Societies, was laid before the Senate last weel by Senator Lodge. This program of peace terms contained twenty-one terms suggested for adoption at Ver- sailles and Paris. Four of the twenty- lana aia of Nations, the project may be indefi- | { ot the McDougall Shipbuilding com- which | one terms dealt with question. restitution and reparation, ten re- ‘ lated to territorial matters, and scven | were general in their nature. ) Senator Lodge laid this docnmentw before the Senate only by request, | not subscribe to the docus ment. Senators frequently receive | communications which they lay before | the Senate, without committing them- | selves to the contents. | One of the twenty-one planks in the document laid before the Senats by Mr. Lodge suggested on behalf of the Patriotic Societies that the Peace Con- ference adopts this plank: “International arbitration and league | of nations as complement of policy of national defense. The Central Powers not to be admitted into the league un- til full discharge of their obligatior under the treaty and until they hieve permanent establishment of institutions. SUES FOR $40,000,000. McDougall Says Steel Subsidiary Has Been Using His Ideas. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 17.—Claiming that the Oliver Iron Mining company, a subsidiary of the United State:s Steel Corporation, has been using for ten years an ore washer on the basic principles of one he designed, Cap- tain Alexander McDougall, president pany, has brought suit for $40,000,- 000 against the mining company in the IFederal court. Captain McDougall asked for an in- junction, contending that John C. Greenway of the Oliver company ob- tained on April 7, 1908, a patent on | an ore washer after seeing plans of one which Captain McDougall him- self had patented a few weeks be- fore. He holds that Greenway's con- trivance, while not identical with own, owed its origin to the plans which he exhibited. In asking damages Captain Mc- Dougall stated that the machinery of | the Oliver company had been in oper- ation ten years and estimated that 20,000,000 tons of cre had been wash- ed, the process cnhancing the valua- tion of each ton at $2. The court! took mno action. MAPLE STREET BOY WOUNDED. James Dawson Falls on Battlefield on October 14. Mrs. Anne Dawson, of 48 street, has Maple | received notice that her | son, James L. Dawson, of Company M, 325th Infantry, was severely wounded in action on October 14. He left this city with a draft contingent on October 4, 1917, and went overseas last April. No news has been received from | him since July. On the same day that | notification of his injury was received | his sister received a letter from an- | other soldier in France telling of her brother's wounds. | months,” lof that can DECER HOUDINI IS COMING Next Week LYGEU CAPT. TY COBB BACK, T0 QUIT BASEBALL (But He May Change His Mind Before Spring New o¥rk, Dec. 17.—Capt. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, Chemical Warfare service, got into this port on board the Leviathan yesterday. The Detroit outfielder looked better than ever and announced that he had determined to retire from baseball. When it was suggested that he was anly spoofing, Capt. Cobb Jaughed and talked about “the terrible fascination of the game,” vbut he added that just now he really hoped that he would not go back to the diamond. “I'm going down to my home in Augusta, Ga., and rest up for several said Capt. Cobb. “I intend ta break away from baseball. I'm tired of it. I've had 15 years of it, and I want to quit while I am still good. There is the danger that the fascination of the game has its hold on me, but I shall make every effort to tear away from it and not sign with any club again. “When I say this, I naturally pre- sume that the release that the mana- gers gave us last fall, with Its ten days’ notice, is binding, and that I have no legal strings on me now. I hope sa, at least. “I've made no plans whatever ahead of my rest. I haven’'t a pro- fession, because I left school at 17 to play ball.” Capt. Cobb declared that the war ' had rejuvenated baseball and that, “it's going to baom this season as it/ never has done before.’ He explained that when the ar-| assigned to a division which would soon see “some real action.” Declar-| finest personael on earth, ane on his toes and wide awake every minute,” Capt. Cobb said that “a lot be credited to baseball All This Week December 16th to 23rd Don’t Fail to Enroll and Do So As Soon As Possible. If the Canvasser on Your Street Does Not Call at Your Home Call at the Committee Headquarters —— 297 1-2 Main Street and Sign the Roll Membership Fee ONE DOLL 112 RED CROSS T NEED IS A HEART DOLLUAR. GIVE THEM PL The Toy Shop is receiving new should have been all sold out long ago for the demand is « Christmas ever. havn’t any children to buy for look up some family are more children than there are toys to go around. We have everything needed to insure the kid a happy ( mas, from the simplest box of blocks up to the finest auto or full rigged schooner. If you'll take a well meant trip you without further delay. 2000 Prophylactic Tooth Brust Regular Price 350 each. THREE FOR 35c¢ We have just purchased from the manufacturers of the well known Prophylactic tooth brushes more than 2,000 brushes which In each brush one little tuft of bristles The others are however guaranteed to hold and for all practical purposes the brush is as good making these brushes each tuft is anchored separately in These brushes have the flexible handles, the regular hard They g0 on sale Wednesday are slightly defective. handles and the transparent handles. Morning. at our toilet goods section. You can buy three of these brushes for the price of one and you will get practically three times the service that you would get if you bought one of them. HARTFORD. Your work is not NTY OF TOYS. toys all the time, othe (Seconds) as the perfect ones. KEEP YOUR PLEDGES done until every penny promised ls paid. See That the Children Have a HAPPY CHRISTMAS All of which is as it should be, this ought to be the ! Every child should have plenty of toys, wher On Sale Wednesday Morning & e association to the Am- \und its cl added that erican boy. mistice was signed he had just fin-' my youngsters grow up all three of ished his training and expected to be them are going to get army traiaing.” Harris A, Bryan, of 749 Btanley ing that the American army has “the street, has been discharged from the with every Navy after serving three and a half He will return to the Phila- delphia Navy Yard after January 1. “when OF GERMAN ‘Washington, Dec. FINLAND IS NOW FREE In metal OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, BEGINNING THURSDAY SOLDIERS 17.—The last German troops were to leave Finland | yesterday under the man militar allowed to remain in the a carpenter | — RED CROSS = | Remember | Christmas Roll Call The (6) Perth Amboy Ex- plosion. (7) Galveston Flood. (8) Eastland Wreck. (9)Messina Earthquake And the recent Terrible (10) Influenza Epidemic And you will Remember command officers of high rank, according to an | official dispatch from Stockholm i instructors will of No be country.