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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
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4 NIVEN
PYTHIANS Observe
DOUBLE BIRTHDAY
Extensive Program Given Cele-
bration in Vega Hall \.

1t was ffty-three years ago in the
city of Washington, D. c., that the
fraternal order Of the Knights of
Pythias became an organization. In
1870 ST. Elmo lodge was organized in
New Britain and in 1905 Washington
L. Morgan lodge was founded Last
evening double jubilee in celebra.
ton of the founding of the, order and
also it's Insurance branch was OBJ
served by Washington L. Morgan
lodge The observance took the form
of an open meeting in Vega hall at
which the Pythian Sisters, the ORA
matte Order, Knights of Khorassan,
and the military department were in
attendance. r-... 81.
The address of welcome was de-
livered by G. H. Mitchell and was
followed by piano selection by Past
Chancellor r. H. Ripple. String
orchestra selections were played by
the Tomasoni family which is rec
ognized by local people as one of the
finest organizations of its kind in the
city, Grand Chancellor Harlan P.
Knight of the domain of Massa c hu-
sets delivered the principal address
of the evening in which he gave
brief history of the organization from
the days Of j. Fl. Rathbone to the
present. Mr.. Knight is the head
master at the Somerville school for
boys.
Past Grand Chancellor William F.
Fuller of New Haven, who is Connec-
ticut superintendent, gave a very in
teresting account of the insurance
branch of the order. The Alpha Min.
strels, a troop of boys from st. Marks
church, offered short program
which was very pleasing and one of
the hits of the evening. The Pythian
Sisters and the D. O. X X was the
subject taken by Past Grand Vice
Chancellor NJ. Fl. Horton and he rem
dered a splendid account of these two
branches. Mr.. Norton was appointed
grand prelate by Grand Chancellor
Brewer of New Haven to take the
place made vacant by the death of
the grand prelate. A social hour and
buffet lunch followed the program.
Among the many visitors present
were members of the organiza ton
from Hartford, New Haven, Bristol
structors of this city. e. A Laufers-
weller, Fred S. Clock, Arthur II. Retts
and c. H. Clark had charge of the
celebration and arranged the pro-
gram, as follows:
A Word of Welcome G II. Mitchell
Piano selection. ....... r. Fl. Ripple
q String orchestra selection. .......
tt. .............. TOmasoni Family
IS years of the *. of P. .......
..........G. c. Harlan F. Knight
Medley-Nylophone Alex Malmgren
The insurance branch. .........."
.........P. c. w. F. Fuller
Mandolin and guitar. ...........
Tomasoni Family
Alpha MINISTRIES ..... ........
&. ......... Boys from st. Mark S
BELLS ............ .......
rs. Alex Malmbren and accompanies
SThe Pythian Sister and The D. O.
K. K. M. H. Norton
"Finale' ...,...... Tomasoni Family
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
LOBSTER FISHERS MOURN.
Great Britain Puts Import Ban on
HOmarus Amcricanus.

Halifax. Feb. 28.--Serious effects
on the lobster fisheries of the Can
adam maritime provinces are feared
by those interested in the industry,
due to the prohibition of lobster ship
ments to Great Britain.
prominent shipper said today
that more than $4,000 families in
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were
dependent upon lobster fisheries for
their living. He declared that the
cutting off of the British market
would result in great hardship to
these people.
"Our. annual shipment abroad" he
said, "and last year 1t was practically
oil made through Great Britain. Is
about 40 600 cases. valued here at
about $2,250,0OO. If the Holsters
cannot be sold in the European mar
kets they cannot be sold anywhere.
Only forty or fifty thousands cases
are consumed in Canada and the
United States"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28

were adopted on motion of Commits
sioner John A. Anderson and are as
follows:
Bridges new and repair, estimated
$4,000, as against $500 allowed this
year and $6,224.37 expended to Feb
ruary II; cleaning streets and pave
ments estimated $4,000, as against
$4,000 allowed this year and $15,-
461.11 expended to February n clean
ing catch basins estimated $500, as
against $4,000 allowed this year and
$5,061.s3 expended to Feb. II: cob
BILE and concrete cutters, estimated
$2,50O as against $3.50 allowed this
year and sS5s.62 expended to Febru
airy ~. city map, $4,000, the same as
allowed this year, Of which $1,969.57
has been expended to February II;
grading, $21,36O as against $5,625 al
lowed this year and $5,615.45 ex-
pended to February II; new maca-
dam, estimated $4,000, as against
$4,000 allowed this year and 49,
791.S3 expended to February II; oil
for Streets estimated $4,000, as
against $1,000 allowed this year, and
s2,1S4.4s expended to February IT;
permanent pavement repairs, $1,000
estimated as against $500 allowed
this year and $1,31S.38 expended to
February II; semi-permanent pave
ment, estimated s21, 400, as against
$21 $50 allowed this year and SILL
$3.50 expended to February IT;
snow and ice, estimated $4,000, as
against $4,000 allowed this year and
50. 467.55 expended to February IT;
new tools, estimated $500, as against
1000 allowed this year and $511.67
expended to February IT; bituminous
and semi-permanent pavement re-
pairs 800 estimated, as against
$500 allowed this year and $714O5
expended to February II, street spe-
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28

Gals, street lighting estimated $685.
600, as against 700 allowed this
year, and $26,367.72, expended to
February II; street sprinkling, $16,-
600 estimated, as against $4,000 al
lowed this year, permanent pave
ment estimated $4,000, as against
$21,S allowed this year and ST.
562.OS expended to february II;
sewer maintenance, estimated $12,-
500, as against 900 allowed this
years and $11,219.71 expended to
February II, park department, esti-
mated $1.700, as against $1,000 al
lowed this year and $619.12 expended
to February II.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
Boston Store
CORSETS AND WAISTS

1t is a recognized fact, the
Corset plays a very important
part in the rounding out OF
the perfect form.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28
Contractor Works Outdoors Ii
All Kinds OF Weather

Exposure TO the elemsnl
has no terror for Mr.. Hinci
guerra .Oho keeps his systsy,
in condition to resist an,
throl0 off disease germs 81
the use of Duffy's Pure Mod
/. Whiskcy.
! have occasion to use Duffy's Pur}
Malt Whiskey many times during rainj
and slushy weather and consider Il
the best preventative from catchind
cold, or more serious ailments. / am
q general contractor of mason and
cement work, supervising my men id
heavy down pours of rain to complied
out door work. On these occasions|
when one is cold and wet, the taking
of Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as did
rected is preventative of disease. =
Patsey Vinciguerra (Contractor) Rock
away Road, Jamaica, N. Y.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-28

We carry in stock at all
times the leading styles pro-
duced by the best manufac-
turers in the country.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
KkEP HANDS OFF PEACE

President Wilson is doing right in warning the American
people against peace propaganda of all sorts during the winter.
Let them alone. Our government is the proper channel for
such proposals. We cannot all be assuming command OF such
things any more than we can all assume command of the
armies of the country. That would make for chaos. Let such
discussions come through the proper channels. Ii Germany
has any proposals to make, let her make them through our gov
eminent, which it can still reach in diplomatic channels. Ger
many need not start propaganda in the rear of the armies and
the government. Such propaganda are for Interior purposes.
Baked on the battefields where she started the mischief, Ger
many would now like to get away with the victory or a part OF
it through negotiations, intrigues, propaganda and what not
But Germany is not entitled to any of the victories-she has
properly coming to her a severe punishment for what she has
done. In the Franco-Prussian war, which was a war of her
making, she got away with two provinces and a billion dollars
in cash. That seemed easy money and it has been tempting
her big war makers ever since to repeat the effort. This time
she ought not to be permitted to get away even with a whole
hide. Germany should realize out of this war that the making
of wars is not a profitable business. No better thing for the
world or for Germany itself could happen than that the German
people themselves should see what war means, and what is inn
piled in war devastatons. They ought to have some realization
of what the things that Germany has done in Belgium and In
northern France mean to a country.
In a crowd of boys it is always a good thing if the bully
among them gets pounded up good and proper, as the boys say.
A few bloody noses help not only to keep the peace Of the
crowd, but it helps the boy himself to come to his senses and in
that way is ultimately helpful to him.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
NO TIME FOR HAIR SPLITTING

The senate committee investigating the charges OF dlsloy-
atty presented against Senator La Toilette by the Minnesota
council of defense is apparently intending to conflne Its near
ings to executive sessions" Unless the policy of the COM
mitee should be reversed there will be no pubic hearings. IN
this the public will be disappointed.
The general concensus of opinion is that La Toilette Will
not be expelled, although it is admitted that fully three-fourtns
of the senators would be glad to vote for expulsion. One cor
respondent puts it that Senator La Toilette has so carefully
kept himself and his acts within the bounds of legality" that the
senators feel that it would be unwise to expel him.
It is difficult to see wherein the fact that Senator La Toilette
has so carefully kept within the bounds of legality should
prove any particular protection to him. The constitution of
the United States specifically makes each house OF congress the
sole Judge of the qualifications of its members and no member
need prove himself an outlaw to come within the range of this
kick. Three fOurths may eXpel on any grounds sufficient to
themselves: otherwise any state whose people might be In re-
volt against the government could send it's senators and repre-
sentatives to participate in the proceedings of the government
they were trying to overthrow, and congress and the nation
would be helpless.
And there is ample precedent for the expulsion of Senator
La Toilette. During the civil war Indiana was in much the
same position that Wisconsin and Missouri occupy today
Jesse d. Bright was VIGOROUSLY out of sympathy with the war
for the union and conducted himself very much as La Toilette
is conducting himself today. Bright had very carefully" kept
himself within the bounds of legality" Charges of treason
could not have been proved in any court of law, but the senate
expelled him for reasons Sufficient to itself" The senate was
tolerant with Bright, as it has been with La Toilette, until the
casualty lists from the southern battefields began to come in,
and then the wrath of the nation famed forth and burst in the
senate. And Bright was kicked out.
That is probably what will happen in La Follette's case, if
it doesn't happen now. When the cables from France begin
bringing the reports of American soldiers killed and wounded
when the agony and horror of war are thus brought home to us
the un -American conduct of La Toilette and Stone and Reed
and GrOnna and a few others, including some members OF the
house, will put them in the light in which Jesse D. Bright stood
when the senate gave him the swift kick that sent him forever
into oblivion and disgrace. These gentlemen have sown the
wind and the whirlwind crop is not likely to fail.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
SOME DEEDS OF ROYALTY

We often hear it said that the wanton destruction of the
war has been wrought by lawless men and not by command
or approval of the German government or officers. We will
have to revise such excuses. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, spent last summer in northern
France collecting first hand data about the outrages in that
part of the war zone. He has been revealing what he found out
in a series of sermons in his church. In one of his last adj
dresses he fastened the high crime of pilage and ravaging on
the son of the kaiser, Eitel, the second son of the brood, we be-
lieve. Here is what DR.. Hills found out and what he revealed:
One of the historic chateaux is that of Avricourt. rich in
noble associations of history. 1t w n of the buildings COW
cred by a clause in the international agreement between Eng
land, Germany. France and the United States and all the civil
lied nations safeguarding historic buildings.
For many months it was the home of Prince Eitel, the
kaser's second son. Forced to retreat, the aged French serv-
ants, who understood the electric lighting and the gas plant and
served Ehel during his occupancy, heard the German officers
telling Eitel that he would disgrace the German name II he de-
stroyed a building that had no relation to war and could be of
practically no aid or comfort to the French army and that he
would make his W name a nam of shame M contempt, OF
oboquy and scorn. But the mar would not yield.
He bought great wagons and moved to m freight cars u
the station absolutely every object that was in the splendid
chateau, and having promised to leave the building unlnJured
he stopped his car at the entrance and exit gates of the grounds,
ran back to the historic building with a can of oil he had se-
cred, filled the asbestos in this ball of perforated iron, ran
through the hall and waited until the flames we're well in prog
rss and then ordered his men to light the fuse of a dynamite
bomb. In the ruins hard beside the black marble steps 1 picked
III this frebrand with which this Prince Eitel assassinate a
building that belonged to the civilized world.
In this case, it seems it was the royal family itself that
plotted and planned the destruction, while the men under him
stood aghast at the contempt, the obloquy and shame that ne
would bring down not only on himself, but on the German ma
ton. But in spite of these warnings, nevertheless, he did it
and the chateau which he had occupied by force and whose
wine cellar he and his associates drained, stands in rulns-hs
fitting monument.
He simply proved himself a true scion of the Hohenzollern
brood. destructive degenerates who have fastened their infamy
on their nation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
CONTROL OF BREAD PRICES

Federal Food Administrator Hoover again announces his
determination to bring about a downward revision in price of
bread throughout the United States. Failing in cooperation bv
the bakers in this intent, he suggests the possibility of estab-
fishing municipal bakeries. Nothing he has yet proposed will
have more hearty approval from the householders of the coun-
try, who feel they have been paying tribute to a combination
that has doled out bread to the consumers at exorbitant charges.
With selling price of wheat and flower going to lower ranges
and all question of domestic shortage removed, bread is still
sold at the highest level. Some features of the situation are
inexplicable on natural grounds. Why, for example, should
Omaha, Kansas City or Chicago, situated in the middle of the
worlds greatest wheat field, pay twice as much for bread as
London, while their bakers use flour from wheat raised
within sight of these cities? Our people have been
very patient in this matter, relying on proper exercise of fed
eral authority to afford relief, but they now expect to see that
authority exerted for their benefit. Prices have been read
justed in other ways and bread must come under the same
control.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLEARING UP

Surface signs are that the Russian prOletariat is SOLDERING
off after its spree of %"liberty' and commencing to realize that
government does not consist entirely in pompous or platitud-
nous resolutions. Kerensky formed a coalition cabinet in spite
of the demands of the delegates" at PetrOgrad and after a lit
tie plain talk from the premier they have accepted his plans
and will permit the "bourgeOisie" to have a share in the govern
ment. Terestchenko also gave the unruly some definite views
on the subject of the army, which seem to have quoted even
the noisiest. kOrniloff energies from the cloud that held him
obscured as a victim; Lvoff admits that he did not deliver the
generals message as given him, and, therefore. a fine. or a
reprmand at most, will be his punishment. The farce of So
cialistic anarchy is about over and true friends of democracy
are becoming much more hopeful for Russia.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
SAVING THE COAL

In Chicago they estimate that it requires 1000 tons of coal
daily to keep the big electric signs going and they propose to
cut them out. The saving of coal has become a desideratum.
The coal barons have been gloaing a great deal, but their
gloatings can be modified if every consumer of coal will do his
duty, and it is part of his duty this year to use a little less
coal. He can do it in many and various ways. One way is not
to do so much heating. American homes are prOverbially over
heated and t is not necessary to supply the heat to every room
in the house. You may be able to afford to do SO even at the
present high prices, but if you will refrain from doing it you
will leave more coal in the market for others to buy, and that
at more reasonable prices.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
NOT

They have all been misquoted and misunderstood, so they
say when they are caught. From La Toilette up to Emma Gold
man they insist that they are being misunderstood. Of course
there is nothing to that stuff. They are not habitually misquot-
ed, nor misinterpreted, nor misunderstood. The truth about
them is they assume to believe their peculiar attitudes cOnsti-
lutte true patriotism. La Toilette in defending the sinking of
the Lusitania. or calling it something technical, thinks that he
is a better American than Colonel Roosevelt, whose Indignation
over such an event knows no limits. When they claim that
they are misinterpreted it does not mean that they acknowledge
patriotism such as the rest of us do, but that we do not under
stand their ethical standards, nor their kind of patriotism.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

Minister of War Won Stein expresses grave concern lest
enemy agents sow dissension in the ranks of the German army.
His fears are justified. The hurricanes of emissaries sent
cover the top" by the enemy not only promote dissension, but
lend a decidedly grave aspect to the German lines.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

The Standard Oil company of Indiana, a part of the big
octopus, will have to pay an estimated $16,434, 900 in war taxes,
but let no one be worried about the matter, for that Is hardly a
reasonable part of its earnings of over forty-three millions.
Presumably the Standard concern is not worried about it
either.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20
FOOLED BY FRAU SCHWIMMER

The recent recital of the record of Frau Rosika Schwimmer
recalls the part Americans played in her little drama. The
good frau came hither shortly after the federal government
had silenced DR.. Dernberg, and continued his work, but by
stunning on another string. She posed as an emissary of
peace, seeking to restore tranquility to a trouble tossed world,
and got sympathetic hearing from those whose tender, shrink
ing souls We're sorely tried by wars horrors. None inquired
too closely into her antecedents, but accepted her at her own
valuation. Some skeptical persons declined to subscribe to
her views, but thought it well to let her do her utmost, feeling
little harm could come from anything she did.
Befooling state legislatures already inclined that way, into
listening to her homily on peace was a small feat compared
to the Homeric tragedy of the Ford peace expedition. How
ever, ROsika Schwimmer ended just where all others engaged
in the great pro-kaiser movement brought up, in failure and
exposure. The common sense and humanitarian motives of
most Americans was proof against the Establishments of apol-
ogists for crimes against humanity. This chapter of the war
deserves eventually to stand in history alongside the periwinkle
currency of the Dutch New Amsterdam, and it will require
another Diederich Won Knickerbocker to do it justice.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

Carloads of rabbits for the commissary department of army
environments sends another wireless message of doom to Pots
dam. An assured supply of cleft hind feet, plucked in the dark
of the MOON" makes the finish a matter of getting a sure
thing to the front.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

A gruesome consistency of methods binds Turk and leu
ton. The side partner of "me und Gott' takes his revenge out
of the defenseless Armenians, slaughterng men and driving
women into slavery or worse. Defenseless men and women
of Belgium and France met an almost similar fate. Kultur and
crescent blend peculiarly.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

Pacifist preaching is a shade more risky in London than in
the United States. Three years experience with wal makes
some difference in public patience. Still Americans are
speeding up to the point where backfiring will become more
dangerous than in the British capital.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

The establishment of a wireless station in Venezuela for
the distribution of TeutOnc war news clearly maps the new
field of operations of German slush funds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

That contemplate little army of England" of three years
ago continues growing in numbers and fighting power, and
persists in driving a huge spear into the vitals of kaiserite con-
ceit. The operation cuts imperial vanity to the roots, but the
disease requires the treatment.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

The Irish constitutional convention held adjourned SEES
sions both in Belfast and Cork-centers Of opposing extremes
of Irish opinion. Nothing happened to mar the friendly cour-
tesy of the visits. This may seem strange to those who gauge
Irish sentiment by the volume of noise. Back of the political
laundering lies solid sentiment which may be depended on to
support the convention in shaping a charter of self-government
for united Ireland.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

The enlarged roster of licensed food products will material
ly affect the income of producers, but promises to put the
crowns of provision kings in hook.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-10-20

What a mess they have made of it-that will be the world
wide exclamation by and by. And it will be telling the truth
too. Never in the history of the world have men who deemed
themselves fit to rule the whole world made such a contempti-
Bile showing.