New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1919, Page 3

Bost@n Store ¢ Close Mondays a: 6 TheStore of Practical Gifts ery department overtlow I'ts for men, women (Do your Christmas and chi shopping carly.) BASK ETS—Big and uniined Ton- for tancy work s0¢ up. Baskets INDIAN GRASS vaviety styles, lived dian buttoms bags: assorted sizes. $1.25 o $3.50. ——DOLLY DUDS— girl’s doll. A ( delight for the lit- u.- ones. Stockings, Capes, Hoods, Caps. Shoes, Towels, Knit Combina- tions and lot= of other things at a ve SELLE the little A BlG Exverythin source of const small cost. The Following Will Help You to Make Up Your Christmas List: OWELS, MUSLIN UNDERWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, WA UMBRELLAS. MEN'S SHIRTS, JEWELRY, RIBBONS, HANDKER- CHIL LEATHER GOODS, NECKWEAR., APRONS. BLAN- KETS, BLANKET ROBES, MU LIN and SILK DRESSINC SACQU 'y CAPS, Ete. PULLAR & NIVEN BUILDERS’ WAR ENDED May BOUDOIR - | ture: , P Be signed tor Two Years Cessation of Hostilitics Between Contracwrs and Employes, build- ¢ York 41 the building cen es of the plan, whicl w. confercner of wWoo! nn made. ved that the was I sight. the iang jexterdin nd whildseue « no strike m a [ i will cement tine visting o1 verage daily provides that ex- | expert mey b cla in the as there all he cept in cmergency Daily Freight and Express Service NIW BREITAIN, NEW HHAVEN NEW YORK LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE ¢ MOVING AND TRUCKING. TRUCAKS BY T2 A. H HARRIS re of Adna T o ove work, Jobnson, uct, . Eastwood Electrical Service Station and Garage. Lighting and Ignition Sys- tem Specialists. MAXWELL SERVICE STATION. REAR 193 MAIN STREET, Phone $87-12. starting, ASURE CARS ING JESTER 193 ARCH STREET VIM delivery and heavy duty from 15 to 5 tons. AMERICAN Balanced Six, Pleasure Cars. « CITY SERVICE STATION. | A M "anne; 5a. Prop. DFVISON GARAGE 430 MAIN ETREET Livery Cars for Hire, Day ang Night Storage, Supplies and Repalring. HANRASS AUIG LD, ODVERLAND AGENCY, Storage and Accessorles, Repair Work a Specialty. Fiione 2327 139 An:h S& g with' ! UNDERWEAR, i end | it proposed | AND | DAX OR HOUR. | (TAXES GANNOT GOME DOWN NEXT YEAR Sec. Glass des Govt Receipts Must Be Kept at Present Figure No for ashington, Dee. 3 ion wppreciy in faxes the next to thought of, S declared in his annual today to congress. Gov- receipts must be kept at their gure, he said, in order to crnment borrowing to an ‘u( redi al year is stary Glass port sent croent | prese bring | | cing (\pc\\\hluro.s cstimated at i 9 for the vear ending | June 30, L and $4,473,696 for the vear ending Junme 30, 1921, the vernment must enforce rigid econ- ,omy, M lass declared. He placed { the delicit for the current year at | $8,905,000,000 and for the vear end- ving June 30, 1921, at approximately £2,005,000,000, On this basi | Bress to deny for expenditure said the | until the | ing funa | ment of 11 1 Vi Mr. Glass I sovernment most vital 1 o] of livin M. Cever ss urzed con- appropr in new fields.”” He policy should obtain #overnment had its sinl well under way and repay- the war debt 5itis: sunie he charged that itures e in increasing the rgued that it wa urgently nec v to kegp down pub- lic expenses for this reason as well because of the drain on the taxpayer Revise Revenue Laws. nt reven laws need to meet new conditions, he said. e referred particularly to the { excess profits tax laws which he de- | seribea Leing “obje nable even o wartime expedient.” It would be fonable in peace time, s harmful forms” of deriving funds for the pvernment. | should be employed, the sccretary ud, adding that the excess profits tax had been responsible for much of the increase in living costs because it had been passed on to the con- I The ¢ vising | sumer. | "It encourages wasteful puts @ premium on italiziition and a penalty on brains,” the sceretary continued. “Tt discour | ages new ventures and new enterprise ! and establishes old ventures in their in\onupnlu\\ In many instances, it acts as a consumption tax, is added 5506 Gl of enhnin T Saien profits arc figured, determining prices It has been, and will, so long as remains on the statute books tinue to be a material factor increased cost of living. ! In this conncction, Mr. Gla 1so | urged redrafiing of the revenue laws i to prevent the evasion of federal taxes | through investment of wealth in Fihe obligations of states and munici- He d laws should be which. would compel the re- of such incomes, althomgh 1 they *wholl: tax exempt, and that, ! that um with other income of an wlividual should be computed as the eseing foderal taxes on the ived from taxable sources. Buropean Relations Relations hetween conditions in Fu- nd {hose in the United States discussed also by Mr. G He thal. undoubtedly, there s a sreat need in Burope for finan- is but that the situation exaggerated. expendi- over ap- it con- the in palitios | enagted ! porting | b de { rope [ Iy e, much all heen | we must | ror Europe w« { must not allow Pour judgment Huropean f(ing ke them { more dificult to 1ill he prob- [ 1em of fimancing J2urope belongs large- 1 to the exporter because industries | cannot he reopened without raw stocks. Government financial assist- ance in the past and talk of future government or banking aid to finance { cxports have apparently led our in- { \] concerns to the erToneous ex- ation that their war profits, based ely on exports, will continue in- finitely without any risk on the o them will fall the profits xports and upon them will fall consequences of failure to make expor I To Restore Private Initiative. | The treasury will continue its poliey, | in effect since the armistice, to restore private initiative and remove govern- mental control and interference with to the nation’s foreign trade, (#las: id. Only through this means, I argued, could a “healthy | economic life be gained.” He added that removal of any influence by the ‘ernment should provide the incen- an commerce to into the world markets and establish itself. Ratification of the peace tre will measurably stimulate export trade, Mr. CGilass declared, because operation of the pact would eliminate numerous political nd provid wer in- vestment badis, Closely related to any acti ies of the government in tforeign trade is the bject of incorporated government <, withdrax of which Mr. strongly He said their were proof si ngements we the government sons charged with ad- stration of corporations. ying that any of the agencle wed during the emergencies of war, { had been guilty of wastefulness, Mr. | Glass pointed ont that there was no objective such s business profits hold expenditures down. hand, ing al for he said. “but sympath we racrating of « the the 4.1.5\ i | fic not nor mir not or ent happy ones for the pe: to On the other the agenc which there or check and always have { to more funds if u real need ex Cases where government funds are employed semi-independent- Iy, Mr. Glass declared, “largely justi- fied government red tape in account- ing. onerate no accountability Army Appropriation. Returning to the estimated mwent expenditures for the fiscal year ofding June 30, 1921, Mr. Glass said the military establishment would appropriations aggregating $989,578 687. Of this sum, $897,392 gove: I wtion | deep sympathy | | to warp NEW BRITAIN DAILY be maintenance $85,408,000 national would required, he said, for of the army proper, while would he apportioned to the juard. The Military academy receive $6,778,6:%7 I'or the navy, 542,031,804, including for a building program \n (e or $194 ought for public works. In luded funds for riv na I hors' improvement totalling $5 | 266 IFortitications, arsenals 000 aslke .! wi thi apprapriation $18 5 to b 78,000 be i ine and | | milltary posts will require | $129,000,000. | Phe lative about ] leg establishment will { need $9.02 it w estimated, | { while the executive branches of ihe | government combined will seek a to tal of $£149,111,463. Chief among the latter departmental cxpenditures is an estimate of ,405,101 for th r department, This sum which i larger than in former yvears tes the added expense to be borne in the enforcement of prohibi- tion. Included in this also 15 the ap- propriation of to he asked by the department of jeulture for | carrying on its field activities | Many Big Appropriations. | | | | sury much indic; The judiciary will ask for §1,634.- 190. For foreign intercourse, appro- priations totalling $11, 0 will sought. Appropriations for the partment of state, exclusive of the funds for use in foreign work, will be $1,571,350, and for the other cx- | ecutive departments, appropriations to be songht will be as follows: War | department, proper, navy department, proper. § in- terfor department, post office dapartment ment of commerce, partment of justic department of Approximately sought by the various executive branches to be used in public works. This latter includes $31,000,000 ta be | asked by the navy department for work in navy vards, docks, etc, and $22,000,000 for the interior dep: ment's reclamation service. | The shipping board has estimated it needs at $447,755,061, to be used in operation of the merchant marine and | completing its building prograni. Money for Soldicrs. The administration program for re- ! habilitating soldiers and sailors calls for an appropriation of $38,750,000. This figure, howeve is subject to| change because statistics as to cer- tain projec activities were incom- plete. Wor be | de- de- $80,000,000 will be of the federal trade commis- sion will require $1,283,120. Expen- ditures of the District of Columbia government were estilnated at $1 179,000. Permanent for the 3 These included terest on the public internal revenuc $25.207,000; inlk- ing fund $287,520.000, d miscel- laneous, $93,500,000. FELLOWSHIP SUPPERS ARRANGED AT Y. M. C. A. annual appropr car amount to $1, 407 $1.017.500,000 for debt; customs and in- Louis Bruemmer, Industrial Secrctary, | Announces Social for Every Monday Evening. Louis Bruemmer, industrial secr tary at the Y. M. C. A, announces he has ed a number of fellow- ship suppers to be held in the “Y” cry Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock during the coming winter. The sup- pers during December will take place on the Sth, 15th L and 29th. The | throughout ! showed | under the work Y. M. € A, invites all members and their friends. The price will be cents, | During month of Iiske, the suppers arranged for the December, Rev. Samuel A, istor of the Berlin Congrega- tional church, will spoak on “The Meaning of Faith.” Lev. William Ross. pastor of the I%irst Laptist| chureh this city will speak duri the month of January. Rev. F. Wilkins during February and Rev. M. Missirian of the Stanley Memo church during the month of March. Executive Committee Of School Exhibit Reviews | The executive the | ar- | committee of oup of teachers directing and nging for the school exhibit in the | lihu Burritt school met this maorn- ing to review the display. Many of the works have been hung in the school building and the committee will con- tinue its work today and tomorrow The exhibit opens Friday at 3 o'clock and will be on display until At 7] o'clock in the evening the doors will be open for review until 10 o’clock. AMERICANS TO SAIL WITHIN FEW D! Peace Delegates to Start From Brest Some Time Next Week. Paris, Dec. gation to the the greater the mission, Sates from c » date of been fixed. The question whether peace delegates shall remain tinue American participation work of the supreme council is stated entirely with the wtment in Washington. The understanding here, best obtainable information none of the delegites is left bassador Wallace will { powers as will make the American participation in the subsequent work of the peace conference quite of- tective as the delegates remain. The American dele- peace conference, with | part of the personnel of will sail for the United Brest next week. The pre- the departure has not of thej to con- in the rest, it state de- one from the is that if liere Am- be given such it At the state ington yesterday present plans werce American deleg Paris on Decembe Ambassador Wal jing up any affairs department it was indi that the ition would 9, leaving with ce the ta of clos- remaining unset- in Wash- ed that entire leave { sanctioned. | that | had be | tional men now { to close R, R, DIRECTORS ARE. .~ GIVEN WIDE P[]WERS = Can Cut Out Trams Where Neces- i sary—Goal Shortage Acute Chicago, Dec. 3.—Further disrup- tion of national industry because of the fuel shortage brought about by the strike of soft coal miners was in prospect today. Regional directors of railroads had authority to annul passenger trains where the public would he least inconvenienced, and many additional manufacturing plants the country faced shut- downs either through exhaustion of | their coal supplies or the striet ra- | tioning decreed by the federal fuel administrator. State executives who unde from their constituents for aid have sought ways and m < for replenish- | jng the dwindling fuel supply, today | virtually were without encou sment | arded inereased production. in isolated instances were there of a chang of front by the Generally the workers ad- their attitnde of remainin the mines until bette the 11 per cent increase the Zovernment appeals as Only repor miners. hered away term decrecd forthcomin Slight Ray of Hope. A slight ray of hope, however, w found in optimistic reports from oper ators of the district embracing south- eastern Kentucky, Tennessce and Vir- ginia that {he buackbone of the strike there had been broken; the return to work of miners at one small mine in Missouri with the statement that they as Americans could not see their neighbors suffer, and adoption by miners of one West Virginia sub-dis- trict of a resolution favoring a gen- eral return to work, under the 14 per cent wage increase “until a satisfac- tory adiustment is made, On the ofher hd cutting electric advertising and other non- essential use of power and fuel with the ndded prospect of further curtail- ment of industry, brought to the gen- eral public a rather gloomy outlook. Some regional coal directors estimated that with reduction of working staffs alrcady made ov threatened, should to from than by were oft, of the strike not be broken immediately, the number of emploves thrown out of soon would surpass several times over the approximately 100,000 mine workers involved in the walkout Conditions at the mines toda no appreciable change from sterday’s, there was no indication of an intention to resume production in the great central competitive field, 11- linois, Indiana, western Pennsylvania and Ohio Volunteers Work Hard. The output of the surface mines in Kansas being worked by volunteers protection of state and federal soldiers today promised to be in- work creased as the men goi the “hang” of and‘their forces were auz- mented. The governor of tinued to urge men of his state volunteer to work i _the mines of \ coal-producing states, and patching of troops into the coal Missouri was resarded by some as a forerunner attempted state operation of those mines. From the mine operators themselves, how- ever, came some opposition to send- ing incxperienced men into their shafts. The West continued 1o con- to Nebraska of Virginia mines today be the chief producer of soft coal as they have been since the inception of the strike. Wyoming miners who walked out two days azo | in protest against the 14 per cent. wage increase today were under orders of their state officials to return to work. The new strike was not Extend Strike. leaders talked of pos the strike to the an- there were reports that the sov Ma As miner hle extension of thracite flelds, from Indianapolis ment had concluded to institute tempt proceedings, being convinced the injunction issued against the con- ke had been violated. Tn the east- | ern part of the country, where thel effects of the strik o far have not been felt as heavily as farther West, the Bethlehem steel company today n forced to order hanked one its stacks at North Lebanon, Pa announced that unless therc carly delivery of coal, tho be blown out and that fuel situation no addi- were being employed. Among the many industries forced or facing a shutdown in the was the Anaconda Copper Min company in Montana. Offic announced that prepurations wero being made to close all that com- pany’s mines smelters in Mon- tana which would throw 12,000 men out of employment. The effect of the threatened to extend to Montreal report saying fai United States government the dominion 150 carl daily, as agreed, would rednction of str of It was was an stack would because of the West ing of and strike Canada, a tha furnish of conl rfurthe gev :m-II miners’ also) re of to s Lise rious n'r LOVE R, Fiancees w With 12 By His (By the Associated andru, who was ar- last April in connection with the disappearance of 12 women whom it was charged he either had married or promised to marry, Wis bronght be- fore a judge vesterday in connection with the suit of his wife for divorce. A “reconciliation” meeting is the fivst proceeding in a French divorce case and Landru showed his knowledge of legal procedure by remarking to the Judge that he had not been given the stipulated three day notice af such meeting, the order bringing him into court reaching him on Saturday. The judge had no option but to postpone the case, EFrenchman Being Sued HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915, DIXTE MIN® | Well-Known regation of Singers to Perform Again. | Members \ Minstrels home street to reor gathering of the the organization ‘ontintic performances by rms. Nine members of joined Uncle Sam's forces and the Disies bec; but a pleasant mem- ory. The reunion night we happy event, old-time songs be “Hail, Hadl, the Gang's predominating. Patrick J chosen interlocutor Crean, who in the past director, will again take already has an excellent preparation. The Dixies singers, dance have performed The end-men Camphell, The Rasso, Conroy. boys of Dixie the Summ the held simeo | to di call the troupe popular 1 last ey John J me ning Howas in nize. irs singers forced the was me a 8 All ast Major Corbett w and John J was musical | charge. e | program in are a well-known group and jokesters, and | all the state. | Messrs. IHolden wre Messrs Kildufr wmd of over B Jolmson, soloists O Irien, Holdeh the in dancing following maem b Walter Campbhell, Johnson, John Jack son, Harold Johnson, ITarry Molander, John Kiniry, John O'1 Andrew T e Kildutf, Hugh Willi Herbert Johns Kiley, Guite and Jame Kir Tohnson, with nimble feet, numbers, 11 featured The the Holden, (‘ha tro en onroy, n, Jack Mah ARTILL Snow Wants Made REPORT O RY. Maj. 'his Branch t. Gen, Permane Washington, Dec. 3. Wil m Snow, chief lery recommended in port made public today be made permanent and that rtil- lery units be into brigades for training purposes. Maintenance of adequa tiring cent the instruction of oticers in special schools and colleges was also Attached to the made the by Gen. Pe concurred dations. Major Gen. of field artil- his annual re- | that his office o ized s und recommended. document is a report speciul board appointed hing in Fronce which Gen. 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