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New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
When People Pay Their Bills.
(Meriden Record)

Winfield, Ia., furnishes an illum- mating illustration of what happens when citizen pays a debt. The citi- zen probably looks upon that painful act as on isolated transaction which concerns only him and his creditor. But he's wrong. It's a link In a great chain of social benefaction. Here's the proof:
 Winfield has an annual institution known as ''Day-up week. inauSurated a couple of years ago. During that week every citizen is expected to make a special effort to pay his debts. It has been recognized in Winfield that such a general loosening up of cur rency is good for everybody-that when a few people began paying their debts it becomes suddenly easier for other people to pay their debts But nobody knew exactly how it worked. And so a Winfield merchant undertook to find out.
 Monday morning he paid a debt with $5 bill. Attached to that bill was memorandum asking every other person who used it in wiping out an obligation to make a note of the transaction. At the end of the week it was found that fifty eight persons had received the bill in pay ment of debt
 One s5 note had discharged, in six days, $290 of indebtedness. And in the course of it's adventures, that note had twice returned to the man who
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
New South American DyestuffS.

est. Louis Post -Dispatch).
 That the wealth of America has not even been scratched was the assertion of the Brazil dyestuff syn dicate which formed in Paris last Au- gust and has already sold, in two months, 71,ooo kilograms (about 16O,- 900 pounds), according to the state ment at the October meeting, where all the colors obtained from Brazil were critically examined by experts and compared with the German ani- line dyes.
 There were exhibited beautiful reds from the brauna the carjuru. the rou- cOu and the better known sangre de drasgo; the pink of the arariba, the yellow of the tatagiba and aechme the rich violet of the gevipao, the in digo of the eupatoria, the black of the caparosa negreira etc. All these dyes are vegetable and grow in wild profuson from Para to Minas Geraes The colors sell at 2 francs 50 per kilogram (about 22 cents a pound), whereas the anilines cost 3 francs 75 per kilogram (about 31 cents a pound).
 It was reported at the meeting that London fur dyers had bought the bulk of black and brown dyes, and that the dyes are fast, lustrous mothproof, irritating and nonpoisonous.' The meeting authorized the purchase of all the dye territory of Brazil "be- fore American investors awoke to their advantage." Thus far, agents had bought coloring matter from the local gatherers; but the meeting was unanimous in authorizing an outright purchase "at any cost before "a new merchant marine, in the service of another country. can take away the existing advantage.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

der the Constitution to see that this right is upheld.
 It was a short time ago when the American people were thrown in con- sternation over the possibilities of a nationwide railroad strike. The day of the walk-out had been declared, and but for the swift action of Con- gross, spurred on by the insistent de- mands of President Wilson, the rail- road brotherhoods would have car ried out their threat Commerce and industry would have been crippled with the proposed paralysis of rail- road transportation. It was such an appalling state of affairs that the pub lie was stricken dumb by the mere proposal of such a thing. And the public was poweress. It is now pro- posed to protect the public from any such further scares by exercts1ng the legal authority necessary to prevent all the facts in controversy are weighed in the balance of justice. It is a fair and common sense proposi- ton. The railroads and the men who operate them have a moral obligation to the public, and in the long run neither the employers or the en- ployes will lose by submitting to the rights of the people. With all the various disputes that are. liable to come up at any time between the rail- roads and the men who operate them the public is ever at the mercy of comparatively small coterie of men, on the one side or the other, and the public must be protected. In at tempting to do so President Wilson is doing nothing more nor less than liv- ing up to pledges he has already given to the entire people of the nation. He stands to see that justice is done to all. His suggestion is a far sighted one.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

men took to dandified clothes as mark of distinction is past. The man who wears a frock coat and high hat to business nowadays Is a curiosity. The dress of all classes of men has become modest and commonplace. The millionaire and the high govern ment official are hardly distinguish able by their dress from the $20-a- week clerk. Even clergymen often show a preference for the ordinary dress of the laymen. This is not be- cause men are ashamed of their call fashion to be conspicuous or excep- tional
 If a man must wear 8 distinguish ing garb he seems to prefer one which suggests usefulness and actual ser vice to one which is merely ostenta- tious. The popularity of the service uniform in the army is due largely to the fact that 1t Is a service uniform and not a dress-up garment. It sug- gests the soldier on duty rather than the soldier on parade. If military ser vice has thereby lost something or it's glamour and tinsel, it has probably gained in the honor which men pay to courage and faithfulness in the se- 1ious business of living. In the mat for of cloth es-sO far at least as mas culine costumes are cOncerned-dem- ocracv has lost in plcturesqueness. Such monotony, however, Is not nec- ossari1v a sign of slovenliness; 1t may be a sign that civilization IS ceaslng to be a pageant and is beginning to take itself seriously.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
OF NO USE,

After a two weeks food test the diet Gquad in Chicago which an- nounces a total gain in weight of some thirty-five pounds proves nothing to the man who has 8 family to support even though the cost of each individ- uaPs meals was but forty cents a day. The mere manner of such living is extraordinary. The facilities used for the preparation of the meals, the cooking and serving, were different from those in vogue in the average poor mans home, and the reason for the diet squad was to prove that a man of less than moderate means can live cheaper than he does now. The men and women who undertook the test were drawn from the ranks or light workers. Therefore, what satisfied their appetites would be spurned by a man who puts in ten hours day at heavy labor say a boiler maker or man in a black cents a week would scarcely buy such a man the necessary meat for his sub- sistence. And at that he would enjoy no such breakfast as the Chicago diet squad partook of on it's last morn ing under observation: Oranges, rolled oats with dates, French toast. bacon, bread, butter and coffee. The dinner of the diet squad on that same day consisted of soup, roast loin of l pork, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, escaloped onions, bread, butter, rice 1 pudding and tea. Doing away with the cranberry sauce, the escalloped l onions, and the rice pudding, the man | who makes his living by the sweat of
 his brow could and probably would 1 eat enough roast pork and potatoes to l do away with all the profits shown
 by the diet squad Such experiments
 are utterly useless if designed to teach 1 laboring men how to live on luxuries.
 and little of them, which is a novel
 method of cutting down the high cost
 of living.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

While we were debating the iniuuity Of the British government in refusing a safe passage to Count Tarnow Tar nowski, the Austrian ambassador to this country, the new Greek minister to America, D. G. Metaxas was f1oun- dering in the Mediterranean Sea, his vessel having been torpedoed while on the way from Marseilles to Athens Metaxas is his name, Met-accdent is his alibi for arriving late to take the oath of office
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
A FAR SIGHTED SUGGESTION.

Under the Constitution of the Unit
 led States the Congress has power to regulate commerce between the sev- |eral states and with the Indian tribes. |The latter being somewhat out of the louestion in this day and generation |the activities of the Interstate Con- |merce Commission which must report |all it's findings back to Congress, deals |solely with the main question under Ithe> commerce clause of the constitu- Eion. There have been times in the hast when the railroads of the coun- ltry made bold attempts to take this bower away from Congress. After Emany long and hard fought battles Rthe. American people won out over Icorporation strength. The railroads ] were put in their place and kept there lit is now proposed that a restrain } ing power be exerted over all the 8forces that go to make possible the Stransportation facilities of the coun- ! try, so that in the future there shall ] be no danger of the public suffering 1from a nationwide railroad strike.
 President Wilson in his address be- fore Congress yesterday urged the adoption of legislation which would bring about a complete programme of railroad legislation and patch up the defects in the Adamson Eight four Day Law which was passed in haste and under pressure of great moment. To this end he would have the Con- sress enlarge the Interstate Com merce Commission so that this body may study the wants of the railroads in every detail He would make ii innpossible for concerted action on the part of the employees of the railroad when such actions meant 8 tying | of the nations transp ortation. In SC declaring himself, the President drew clear line of demarkation betweer personal liberty and mob rule. HI declared for the individual as an in d ulNlducbl dlld c1SolllSI NollhNtiNNA ~~1AO' detrim ental to the public veal. HI would prevent strikes and lockout on railroads before all the merits o the various questions at stake ha' been determined by public investiga ton. No one would be radica ' enough. as the President says to sug T gest ''that any man in any occupa 4 tion should be obliged by law to con # tinue in an employment which he de 4 sired to leave. To pass a law whic forbade or prevented the individua d workman to leave his work before re ceiving the approval of society in do # Ing so would be to adopt a new prin ciple into our jurisprudence" whic the President takes for granted tha & we are not prepared to introduce. l 8 Republic of this kind we will neve # be prepared for the introduction C
 such a measure. We are prepared \ however, for law such as the Pres dent asks for when he says that eth concerted action o2 powerful boGie
 of men shall not ba permitted to sto ! the industrial processes of the Ns l ton, at any rate before the Natio ! shall have had an opportunity to at quaint itself with the merits of tt case as between employe and en pIoyer." Congress has the power LII
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

New Britain will have it's munich conformity with a we'll established custom. There will be a difference in the celebration, however, in that but two ceremonies will take place, one on Christmas eve and another on New Years eve. Last year, 1t will be remembered, there was a public demonstration every night for an en- tire week during which the various racial and religious organizations held separate and distinct services. Be- cause of the uncertainty of weather at the Yuletide season it is better that the now proposed plan be carried out and that the old method of eX- tending the ceremonies over a period |of one week be abolished. The cele- bration should be made greater and bigger one on account of the new or der of things. Instead of one class Tor faction holding exercises on one particular evening all the various or ganizations should join in man. moth effort to celebrate Christmas by Attendance at the municipal or public exercises. The two occasions, Christ mas eve and New Years eve, will give ample opportunities for a proper ex- pression of the spirit which should permeate all souls at such times.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
Former Premier Asquith holds no

Former Premier Asquith holds no monopoly on his dislike for the word dictator" Aside from the people of the United States who abhor the dic tator and all things that go with dic- tatorship are those peons of Mexico terror contingent with the rule of the worst Dictator of them all, Huerta.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Having determined on his death bed to give all his money to the poor of Chicago a newspaper man changed his mind and purchased with his fortune two fresh eggs. He was able soon after to return to work.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

The Chicago judge who in deciding a case in which a golf course was as- sessed an amusement license fee. ruled that golf is a recreation" and not an "am usement,' differentiated with exactitude. He might have zone further and declared that recreation is more to be desired in the promo tion of health than amusement- Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

The increase of wages is going on at an extraordinary pace, but it is a stern chase after the flying cost of living. iladelphia Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

So far the kaiser has escaped the sinister charge that he is colonizing Belgians for election day purposes Boston Evening Transcript.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Judging from the number of times the place has been bombed and shelled, Scarborough is a very appro- priate name-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Nobody, so far as we have observed has charged the result in California to prunes-Toledo Blade.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

It isn't necessary for the allies te prove that they didn't torpedo Greece without warning:-Pittsbur Dis patch.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

It isn't that those 151 women elect ed to office In Kansas can do the work better than men can. but that they will do it better than the men who ran against them would.---Milwaukee Journal
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

It is generally assumed that MT. Hughes would have recognized Dtcta- tor Huerta, but it took him long time to recognize President Wilson. Arkansas Gazette.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Confides Arthur Sinnott from Wash ington: The president, instead of get ting a rest after the election turmoil, Is up against more hard work than ever. It beats all how trouble does travel to m."-Newark News.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
FACTS AND RANCHES.

''Dodges Made Ford" says head- line. But Ford makes dodgers.--Buf- falo Express.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

The cost of the army ration, It seems, is 27 cents a day. How ex- travagant those 40-cents-a-day Ch1- cago diet-squadders are!-Boston Globe
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
McMILIA ANS New Brtatn's Busy Big Store
 "Always Reliable" Attractive Holiday Display
 of Crisp, New
 Gift Things
CHRISTMAS UMBRELLAS

For men, women and children. Chlldrens s 79c to $1.49 each. Men s t.. .98c to $4.9S each. Womens ........ 9Sc to $5.4S each. Colored Silk Umbrellas, suitable for sun or rain $3.4S to $5.4S each. With smart new short and medium length handles, sterling trimmed. strap, silk cord and fancy ball handles. BROADCLOTH NECKWEAR. The newest creation in collars and sets with scalloped edges, embroidered and beaded kinds to make vour selection rom, priced ......... .49c to $1.9s. BOYS BUCKsKIN GAUNTLET
 GLOVES
 For hard wear, in tan and black feathers, the real snow ball glove, will not harden after being wet. Spe- clal .59c pair, value 75c.
 FUR TRIMMINGS In large variety for trimming Coats, Suits and Hats. .49c to S19S yard. FANC1 TURKISH TOWELS Guest size, special at 15c and Pic each. Large full size towels special values
 20c, 39c, 45c, and soc each. CHHDREN'S WASH DRESSES Should not be forgotten, when going over your list of gift things, priced 4ec to $3.49.. Sizes 3 to IT years IsAINCOATS AND RAIN CAFES Children's Rain Capes $1.9S each. Children's Raincoats $1.9S to $3.9S ca. Women's Raincoats $2. .9S to $15.OO ca.
 DRESSING SACQUES AND
 KIMONOS
 Sacques of fancy figured flannels at
 79c each. Long colored Flannel Kimonos
 9Sc to $1.9S each.
 WOMEN'S FLANNELFTTE
 PAJANIAS White and colors esc, s1.4e and s1.es suit
 FANCY CRYSTAL SILKS Figured and Satin Striped Voiles for the Holidays 59c values at 39c yard,
 GIFT SUGGESTIONS
 From our mems department Silk Sox 25c, 35c, soc pair Suspenders in Xmas boxes 49c to 98c Mems sets of arm bands and hose supporters Suspenders and arm bands, etc. ..............4 .49c to $1 125 set. KNITTED SILK MUFFLERS
 $1.9S to $3.4S each. for men and women
 Fibre Silk and Silk and Cotton We'tFe0 43c 10 S1 .49.
 LAST DAY
 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH. To bring in your photos and have them enlarged to a 14X20 size, "cOn- vex style' PORTRAIT for ONLY 19c This will be the last day to avail yourselves of getting a $500 portrait
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Entered at the Post Ohce at New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

Issued daily Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m.,
 at Herald Building. 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
KNITTED SILK MUFFLERS

$1.9S to $3.4S each. for men and women. Fibre Silk and Silk and Cotton WeaVeS ............... .49c to $1 49
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
New Britain Herald.

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
 Proprietors.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

The man who will never admit that he's in the wrong is rarely in the right.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
LAST DAY
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7TH

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7TH.
 To bring in your photos and have them enlarged to a 14x20 size "con- vex style" PORTRAIT for ONLY 19c. This will be the last day to avail yourselves of getting a $500 portrait for 1Bc,
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
Passing Thoughts.
(Albany Journal)

Better than bragging about what ancestors did is to do things of which descendants could brag if they would.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

After man has thoroughly re- formed himself he may consider him. self licensed to start out to reform others, but he won't have much time left.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
GIFT SUGGESTIONS

From our men's department.
 SIX Sox 25c, 35c, soc pair. Suspenders in Xmas boxes 49c to 98c Mems sets of arm bands and hose supporters, suspenders and arm bands etc. 49c to SIPS set.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06

he only profitable advertising medium In the city: Circulation books ana rress room always open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-06
FANCY CRYSTAL SILKS

Figured and Satin Striped Voiles fo the Holidays 59c values at 39c yarC
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-11-02
Thursday, November 2, 1916. II
Only The Strai(uFnt

IN the Jetersonian of October Goth. Won
saw paid advertisement headed "Does Geor
gla and the South Need Two Strong Politi-
cal Parties" It was signed "Campaign Head
quarters Progressive Party of Georgia" That
means that none of that crowd would SIGN
their name to it. They evidently were afraid
or ashamed to do so.
The article said that thousands of dollars
were spent to control delegates to the Repub-
hcan National Convention, and that NEGROES
were brlbed and filled with whiskey, and that
they had their expenses paid to conventions
III the Counties and Districts and State Con-
Venton. The men in charge and in the lead
OF this so-caed Progressive Party ought to
know about these matters because MANY of
them bolted from the majority of the Regular
Republican Party and held a lot of rump
Conventions in the Counties and Districts
and also rump State Convention where there
were ten or twenty negroes present to every
white man, and it was freely stated by every
negro who attended their rump Conventions
that he got his expenses and extra money be-
sides.
Those who headed that bolt elected set
OF delegates to go to Chicago to contest the
seats Of the delegates that were regularly and
legally elected without either bribery or the
use Of whiskey by the Regular Republican
Organization In the State of Georgia. 1t was
stated they paid the way of all their negro
delegates to Chicago, and that they hired
negro lawyer from Washington, D. c.. to aid
their white lawyers, one Of whom is now re-
ported on their ticket as an Elector. They
had many negro witnesses, delegates and many
ether negro political leaders with them and
at their table where sat their attorneys when
their contest cases were heard by the National
Committee
They lost out, and the delegates elected by
the Regular Republican Organization were
seated from the State-at-Large and from eight
of the Congressional Districts. This fact
made our Organization the only Regular and
Legal Republican Organization in this State.
But this lot of boilers were not men enough
to accept their defeat like all brave men &C
cept verdict when rendered against them;
SO thew came back to this State and then got
up this pretension of putting out so-called
Progressive ticket; and a man who wants to
vote for Hughes and Fairbanks and wants to
see them elected might just as we'll vote
Chinese Laundry ticket as to vote their self
made Progressive ticket. The only ticket
that is recognized or that will be recognized,
and the only tickets that will count to elect
Hughes and Fairbanks are the straight Re
publican tickets put out by the Republican
Party that nominated Hughes and Fairbanks.
Il will be a waste Of time and waste of
4 10 ,,eo +hoir homemade Progressive
The evening world., 1916-09-15
Dollars and Sense
By II. j. Barrett

Stamped envelopes and wrappers are
used by many advertisers. In some
cases because OF their convenience.
and In others because IL In thought
they present a better appearance than
ordinary envelopes and with
separate stamps. Where a great many
pieces Of advertising are to be mailed,
II Is often possible to save considerable
handling by using stamped envelopes
or wrappers. Your postmaster can
furnish you with a printed price-list.
Precancelled postage stamps are
perhaps the least convenient Of all
methods OF preraying postage. Once
the precancelled stamps have been
affixed. however. the pieces require
the minimum OF handling in the post
office at which they are mailed (none
AZ all II the advertiser has sorted
and sacked them In accordance with
instructions from the post-office), and
this Is sometimes "A decided adyan-
tage In the case OF especially elabo,
rate or attractive catalogues and
booklets. The Disagreement Of the
envelopes by cancellation stamps is
avoided and the chance OF the en-
velopcs being torn or abraded is
greatly decreased.
SPECIAL PERMIT.
"a " ~ SDtNlIl ItTfnlt
eliminates the handling Of postage
stamps altogether, no stamps being
required. and Is the cheapest and
most convenient method OF preparing
postage or printed matter, especial,
where mailed In large quantities. Tho
permit, issued by tho postmaster or
request, allows the advertiser Il
print a label on each piece, instead O,
affixing stamps. Tho pieces are ther
counted and weighed at tho post-of
flee and the AMOUNT OF postage paic
to the postmaster In cash. Thi,
method Is not recommended 70
direct advertisements that deriy,
any considerable portion OF their sell
ing appeal from their a~ttractiveness
II Is not easy to explain why a stamI
looks better on a folder than a "Spe
cial Permit" label, but most adver
Users are agreed that II does, Specia
permits are not issued TO-. less thar
1000 pieces.