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New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
dine at this hotel and later will have
 a theater party at the Lyceum.

dine at this hotel and later will have 1 a theater party at the Lyceum. Just received, new neckwear, soc, 65c, S1 up. Besse-Leland Co.-Advt. A reception will be rendered Mrs. Alice Mcconnell of Buffalo, national vice president of the National Letter Carriers association auxiliary, at the home of Mrs. Walter V. Prelle of East street on Friday evening.
 Rich heavy silks, old time values in neckwear, at Besse-Leland' s-Advt.
 Through Kirkham &( Cooper the New Britain Lumber and Coal com pany and Swift & Upson have filed mechanics liens on George Levines new block on Main street. Both liens are for supplies furnished.
 Watch our shoe department grow Spring styles are read. Besse- Leland 's.-Advt.
 Birmingham Schurr, curator at the library museum, spoke on '"The Win ter. World" at a meeting of the United Parents and Teachers association in the Grammar school hall last evening.
 Boy Scout goods at Besse-Leland's, exclusive agents, New Britain-Advt.
 Mrs. James O'Leary of Whiting street entertained the Jolly Twelve Whist club this afternoon.
 New spring shirtings including Parker Shirts, are ready. Besse- Leland 's--Advt.
 Suits $11.S5 at Wilson s-advt.
 SIS and $20 suits $11.85 at Wilson'S -advt.
 The local branch of the Miner, Read & Tullock company will be closed all day tomorrow as a tribute to the mem ory of Ralph J. Miner, senior member of the firm, who died at his home in New Haven yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
City Hens

n exceptional chance for young 1 to get a splendid suit for $11.85 yilson' 's.-advt. ne Scandinavian w. c. T. U. will tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock 1e home of Mrs. Albin Carlson of Fairview street. All members are Id to attend.
 pen tonight Closed all day to- row. Besse-Leland Co.-Advt.
 humber of the operators from the telephone exchange enjoyed a
 CT party at the Hotel Nelson last ing. Tomorrow evening the girls the Screw corporation office will
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Members of the tennis team will give social and dance Friday in the gymnasium. Judging from the way the tickets have been going the affair will be the big success of the season. The patronesses will be Miss Macauler, Miss Weld Miss Finnegan and Miss Harvey. Music will be furnished bv Dysons orchestra.
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21

without charge. This is one of number of similar meetings to be held in thirty-one of the principal cities of the country tomorrow.
 The address is to be in keeping with the spirit of the day dealing es pecially with the patriotic lessons to be derived therefrom. No reference is to be made to politics or the po- litical life of the country.
 The speaker at the New Haven
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
LETTER CARRIERS
 CONVENE TOMORROW
Delegates From All Parts Of State
 to Meet Here

Tomorrow, Washington's birthday. New Britain will throw open it's gates to about eighty delegates of the Con- necticut Association National Letter Carriers, who will assemble at Turner hall for the twenty-third annual con- vention. Several months of close ap- plication to plans for gathering of this kind, has secured, it is believed,
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
JUDGE ANSBERRY TO
 SPEAK TO K. OF c.
Patriotic Meeting in Yale College Hall to Be Attended by New
 Rrif3iN Men
Britain Men

The Supreme council of the Knight tsJ Of Columbus, AThrOugh it's Fourth de- gree. the patriotic section of the or der is to conduct a celebration of \Nashingtons birthday, by a mass meeting to be held, through the cour- tesy of the faculty of Yale College, in College street hall, New Haven, the meeting to be open to the public
New Britain herald., 1917-02-21
Piles Cured in 6 10 II DavS

Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. First application gives relief 50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28

their places of business on January l and devote themselves entirely to the patriotic duty referred to.
 The people are also urged to CO., operate with the retailers by purchas- ing in advance the food they may need for Tuesday. As the grocers point out, such thoughtfulness will not only save the consumers possible annoy ance, but twill protect the dealers from loss occasioned by days lapse from business." A general compliance with these requests may be counted upon.
 Among the various mercantile or ganizations, none will be found more patriotic, or more public-spirited than the grocers. They stand ready at all times to help the government in win ming the war, and by furnishing a complete inventory of stocks on hand is one of the ways they will have of patriotic achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
Regarding Grammar
 and Pronunciation

A N organized effort among teach 6A CTS of English is being made to
 correct ungrammatical language more or less prevalent in many sections of this country, and to minimize as far as possible divergencies of pronuncia- tion. To improve English speech-to teach American English as it should be spoken--is the aim, of course, of all instructors in the native tongue.
 Enunciation and pronunciation, as well as the parts of speech, have been receiving especial attention. The movement for better speech, which was taken up systematically at Monte vallo about two years ago, is being extended throughout Alabama now and it is developing distinctly pa triotic phase. The committee of American speech, representing the National Council of Teachers of Eng fish, is seeking to bring about 8 solidarity of language in the United States, and to that end is insisting that all foreign-born persons residing in this country be required to learn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
Presidents Action
 Widely Approved

1 1E EW things that have happened U since America entered the war have caused so much good feeling as President Wilson's action in taking over the railroads. The entire rail- road world is happy over the event.
 Shippers are more than satisfied and
 the stock market responded, as might have been expected, most bullishly. Financial interests that were filled with solicitude, not to say foreboding, in anticipation of federal control in war time, were quick to realize what the Presidents frank and felicitous presentation of the government policy would mean for the country. The car- riers and the administration are to CO., operate in the friendliest and most patriotic manner Traffic congestion
 may not be relieved at the very start,
 but it is reasonable to assume that before a month has passed the>entire
 railroad system will be in smooth op- eration; and no one looks forward to a satisfactory solution of the grave problems that existed under private management with more confidence
 than the executives and managers of
 the roads.
 The reflex benefit which will accrue
 to commerce and industry is incalcula- ble. Trials and tribulations will come
 in one shape or another, but business
 turning on transportation will spell
 optimism and more optimism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
WORLD WAR IN 1917

ligerent and sending troops and supplies to the western front.
 Had the submarine campaign succeeded, had it brought Britain face to face with starvation, the Germans would have won the war and the success of their early submarine operations gave color to their assertion that within a measurable period-not, to be sure, in 1917, but cer- tainly in 1918-Britain and her allies would be compelled to consent to peace ne- gotiation to avoid starvation. But by midsummer there began rapid decline in the totals of submarine sinkings. American warships were able to take over 3 portion of the work of conveying merchantmen, and the result was a de- cline in submarine killings until the sec- ond week of November saw but one Brit ish ship of more than 1900 tons sunk by German submarines.
 We shall do well to recognize that this figure will not stand. There are bound to be week-to-week fluctuations and in- creases. But the possibility of a return to the conditions of last summer seems unlikely. And to support this view we have the testimony of such eminent and impartial witnesses as Admiral Won Tir- pitz and Captain Persius. the best known of German /naval writers. The main German offensive of the campaign of 1917 is thus concededly failure. It has not brought the enemy to terms; it has not produced situation in which the enemy must consider negotiation to avoid starvation; and unless there Is complete change, the nations allied against Germany can look forward to 9 will begin to give them a greater monthly yield than the submarines can sink.
 Briefly, then, the submarine campaign, so far as it is possible to speak definitely in the fourth week of November, 19l7 has followed the course of the campaigns of the Marne and of Verdun. It has failed, and it's failure has thrown the Ger mans back upon the 0Id problem of the ultimate disadvantage which was always bound to be theirs in war of attrition against Britain and France, whether these nations were allied with Russia or with the United States. Tn 1917, as in two previous years, the German bid for vic- tory--the concentration of all effort and all hope on single drive-has failed to attain it's purpose France and Britain are no nearer to military disaster than they were year ago. They retain their advantage over the German armies be- fore them, and have demonstrated this in a long series of successes, local ana relatively minor, but still successes meas ured by ground taken, guns and prison CTS captured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
A GODsPEED

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, in the Christmas Scribner. God speed Old Glory when she takes the road to France! Through the laundering of the legions where the bugles play advance. God speak: 'The fight Is mine. Carry you my conquering lance.
 God speed Old Glory on! God send old Glory first and foremost in the fight! Fling her far, o God of battles. in the van. for the right Lift our hearts up to our freedoms flag of red-and-blue- -and-white
 God fling Old Glory far! God guard Old Glory clean through bat tie grime and sweat! Consecrate the men who serve her 50 that none may e'er forget How the honor of the colors lies within his keeping yet.
 God guard Old Glory clean! God bring Old Glory home in honor. might and pride! Battleblack and bullet slashed and stripes streaming wide, Goreeous with the memories of men who greatly died
 God bring Old Glory home! {CoIyright, 1911. by Charles Scribner's
 Sons.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
Thirty Cent Cotton
 Interests the Farmer

|WHILE most cotton growers sold
 w the greater part of their crop when the market was ranging be- tween 20 and 25 cents, there is still cotton yet on the farm. The price reached 30 cents again yes terday, and the fact that spot offer ings were large shows that the farm CTS were able to hold some of their product for the fancy prices. They are more prosperous this year than they have been in long time. Those who produced cotton got a fine price for what they sold early in the season, but crop diversification accounts chiefly for their good bank balances and their thrift generally. A few growers have still many bales of cotton waiting for 35 cents; and they will get it. It may be spring be- fore we see a 35-cent market, but as spring is not far off they will not have
 to wait long.
 l In the meanwhile most of the farm
 CTS are preparing for an increased
 cotton acreage. The world will need
 larger crop than was raised this
 year, but it would be mistake fol
 any tiller of the soil to relax his in
 terest in the crop diversification move
 ment. As large as Alabama's food
 crops were this year, they should be
 still larger in 1918.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
LADY CONDUCTORS STRICT

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 When the lady conductors on the Broadway cars say 'step lively' riders know that they mean it and they have learned to mark time. Kindly move to the end of the car," one of the lady pilots on a Broadway car asked of the passengers who were standing near the exits. At first they made no attempt to obey the command. The lady conductor was getting hot under her fur neckpiece all the time. Finally she called out Cant you people understand English?" Then the passengers came to and moved as directed. If a male conductor had asked the same terse question he would have had riot on his hands. Woman passengers naturally like to get rid of their pennies and they never hesitate to load them on the conductor, but they l had better watch out if they attempt the same thing on the lady faretakers. For there is a large sized frown coming l from her and it is likely to take all the pleasure out of the passeng er's ride. And woe to the woman who attempts to cam onflage the age of her offspring to save nickel car fare. Madam, that child Is over 5. Kindly put another fare in the
 box" l. is said in such a way that there
 is no comeback and no room for appeal.
 But all in all the lady conductors say
 that conductoring is the easiest kind of a
 job. They work 10 hours day, are paid 27 cents an hour. with an hour and halt for lunch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
SAILOR AND HIS CLOTHES

Mary Woodson shippey in Southern
 Woman's Magazine
 The recruit is issued s60 worth of outer
 clothing at enlistment and has an ad-
 ditional $25 for replenishment later. But
 after that's gone he must buy his own clothes. So it behooves him to make
 them last as long as possible. His first outfit consists of one blue suit of work clothes-though he doesn't call them that in plain English, of course, but calls them "dungarees"-a blue serge full dress uniform and two white uniforms including caps and leggins So, you see there's enough to last sometime with care.
 We watched young sailor wash his clothes and fold them so skillfully as to obviate ironing-sailors never iron their uniforms, though they are always spick and span. He then washed and dried, with the aid of comrade, his necker- chief-which is another insult to red blooded manhood. It's tremendous square and is washed and whipped dry 1 in no time by two men. Then 1t is rolled, beginning at one corner, until 1t becomes a long. bias rope which he | hangs around his neck and ties over l his wishbone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
cAwlIzt1MdAa1stfH

P. s.--I feel sure that the cultured white women of whom l have written will rejoice with me that the colored wcmen under Mrs. Maclin, the president of the Booker T. Washington Red cross init have done great things and expect to continue to do their part in helping Uncle Sam to win the war. As the gen eral of the colored troops I pay this tribute to their untiring efforts to arouse and enlist their colored sisters in pa triotic tasks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Star: Birmingham Red Cross drive must have been made in an eight cylinder.
 Montgomery Journal: My downfall, said a young man to New York judge, .is due to wine, women and song." We refuse to believe it. More probable that it was due to wine, women and ragtime.
 Guntersville Advertiser: It is about time this country was executing some German spies and trouble makers. Prison sem tences do not have the desired effect. If a few spies and traitors were made to face the firing squad, the activity of these detestable creatures would soon be thing of the past in the United States.
 Albany-D Decatur Daily: The Daily is in- clined to select our friend Marconi as the all southern war prophet. whore Italian affairs are concerned His prediction that the Italian line would hold, made at a time when the Teuton sweep tc Venice looked uncheckable, has come true.
 Livingston Southern Home: If Berlin undertakes to make separate peace with all the factions in Russia the scrau of paper output will be enormously in-
 creased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
Cooperation With
 the Grocers Urged

e71 HE important announcement
 4 which the Wholesale Grocers' association and the conference conn
 mittee of the Retail Grocers make today will prove of vital interest to housewives and people in general. As the government requests all dealers in food materials to make a complete inventory of the stocks on hand at the close of business December 31, re- tail dealers are requested to close
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28

From Another Year End" by Frank H.
 Simonds, in the American Review ot
 Reviews.
 wv we approach the end of sn-
 other calendar year and the close of the fourth campaign of the world war. The year has been marked by four great events of unequal importance, but of unmi istakable magnitude-the failure of the German submarine campaign, the entrance of the United States into the war, the Russian revolution and the Italian disaster. These four events have so far offset each other that there has been no decision in the great struggle and none is immediately in sight At the very least we must expect one more year of fighting, if there is to Joe military gotiated peace, in which both contestants must make concessions and can here after claim advantages.
 Yet if one cares to look backward care- fully it seems to me inevitable that the balance of the year must still be to the
  war with Germany. On January of the current year the problem of the Germans was clear Outnumbered and engaged in a war with nations possessing greater immediate and eventual resources, their necessity remained what it had been at the outset, to get decision in advance of the time when they would begin to k-,@ l,.ar, they would lose to greater numbers and superior resources. This was the under lying purpose which expressed itself in the campaign of 1914 wrecked at the Marne this was the central idea of the campaign of 1916 in the west, which failed at Verdun.
 It was no longer within the power of the Germans at the outset of this years campaign to seek 8 military decision in the west. They had neither the men nor the guns to make possible a new thrust at France or at Britain. For the duration of the war they were con- demned to face condition in which they were outnumbered and outgunned in the west. They had, therefore, to seek a decision against their principal enemies, the French and British. else where than oil land, and they chose to seek it by a submarine campaign. So essential was prompt success to them that they risked bringing the United States into the war. They gambled on obtaining a decision by the submarine campaign, whether the United States came in or remained neutral. The first conseouence of this was the entrance of the United States, now become g pel-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
Why an Anarchist
 Wars on Society

57N HE mental viewpoint of bonn thrower is often interesting. It is worth while to study and analyze the mental processes by which he ar rives at his distorted ideas of life and the social structure.
 Reinhold A. Faust was arrested for placing bomb in the Auditorium the- atre, Chicago, which would have taken a heavy toll of lives had it exploded at the time intended and would have brought sorrow to many people who had never heard of Faust, but were regarded by him as enemies to be de- stroyed. He has written book tell ing of his experiences.
 q am," says Faust, 'what some people call radical thinker. The average man speaks so far from the truth that when someone speaks the truth 1t sounds radical. The accumu- lation of too much wealth among a feN is the cause of most of the un- rest among the common people"
 After serving 10 years as a post office clerk Faust was discharged. He had previously made failure of the grocery business. On losing his job in the Chicago postoffice he re-entered the grocery business, then opened a coffee and tea store. Neither of these ventures prospered, so he went to Tex as and tried to raise onions, again without success.
 Having failed at every thing to which he turned his hand, Faust nat urally acquired radical ideas," joined the ranks of bomb -throwers and began to write his book. Quite naturally hs planes society and particularly the men who have succeeded for his owr blighted career. The average anarch ist is failure, or he would not be al anarchist. Most of them have nevel made as much effort to get on in tn, world as Faust, but that does not pre- vent them from being quite as bitte against the established order o things.
 You will never be able to convinc radical thinkers" that the man wh is worth his salt as a rule gets it. at least in America. They would hay the salt passed around and distribute in equal shares among the fit an the unfit. The fiasco of the bolshevik in Russia shows how soon this worl would go to pot if that element eve got the upper hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A wife gets a heap of pleasure out of telling her husband how good other wom- en's husbands are.
 There may be lucky days for other kinds of gambling. But there are no lucky days for getting married.
 If you want to make enemies out of both women, just tell two of them how much each resembles the other.
 woman hates to be so old that she feels Justified in lying about her age. age.
 When woman brags that a woman is at her best when she is 40, it isn't hard to guess how old she is.
 Every boy longs to be 21 so he will be his own boss and do just as he pleases. And when he reaches that age the blame fool goes and gets married and fails to realize his ambition.
 Parliament is that when a member of Parliament is shooting off his mouth, some ether M. F. interrupts him by shouting: Ear, Earl" and when a mem- ,, Der of Congress is shooting off his mouth. some other M. c. interrupts him by shouting: You're 1iar!' Fifty per cent of the trouble in this
 world is imaginary, 49 per cent Is
 brought on ourselves and the balance is unavoidable.
 After a man has been scared into being
 good he likes to go around boasting about his virtues.
 | A republic, Iznatz. Is country in which all of our rulers, except our wives l are elected by ballot. | Let young couple sit in a darkened parlor long enough and it is cinch that they will strike a match. /, How frail are good resolutions! Many | a man who rides downtown in the morn l ing on the water wagon is carried homo mat night in taxi. l wi1c hates to -Hve her husband dc any shoppins fos t& She believes that every time ran aaes Into dry goods store he ge eta repbed l It takes sAout r ds IS for kittens, pups and brides go get tAa eyes opened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
AIdrich,s MGasn Speech

T was greatly interested in the talk made at the Rotary lunch," said Speedy" Estes
 T did not think anyone could take technical terms and scientific facts and use them in a way to catch the atten- tion of the average busy man, but he did it most successfully After hearing him I was converted to the belief that Birmingham is going to have natural gas for domestic and in dustrial purposes. I knew we had a lot of hot air but it wasn't convert ible for any good purpose other than to tickle our fancies for the passing moment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
--~-------- EXPECTS SOME SCARS

From the Houston Post
 Uncle Sam expects to get scared up some and it is possible he may lose three front teeth and get an ear chewed off, or even lose the sight of an eye but when he reports for the arnica and the court plaster there is going to be no mere Kaiser business in operation on this sphere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
A VERSATILE ARKANSAS MAN

wittsburg Correspondence Wynne Prog
 ress.
 Shortie Martin, the leading chief bass singer at the Harris Chapel church, mas resigned to accept more beneficial posi- ton as head waiter at the Wittsburg hotel. He also holds the position of chief taxicab driver when wood is needed. The girls will weep to learn that Shortie in tends to join the army, for he is the only singing professor here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-28
No Cut Price Sales

"1n view of the advancing wooden market and scarcity of merchandise, there will be no cut price sales this year." said Ben Well yesterday.
 T believe it will cost the mercbants as much as they are selling clothes for today to replenish their stocks. Enormous quantities of wool are re- auired for our soldiers and veritable armies of garment workers are en. gagged In making the uniforms"