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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
A LA WOODROW WILSON.

Ar@@-icans have looked upon Pres
ident Wilson as the leader i'm things
helligersnt and diplomatic. 1t re-
quired the observant eye OF a news
paper correspondent to see the Pres
ident in another light-the model for
sartor1al establishment and for ton
serial retrenchment.
1t is true. Woodrow Wilson will
set the pace for the fashionable males
in Paris for years to come. Frank
Dilnot- correspondent of the London
Daily Chronicle, tells US that the men
of Paris who pride themselves in being
up to the moment on wearing apparel
will pattern their clothes after those
worn by the President. Paris will
have the Wilson hat, the Wilson era
vat, the Wilson trousers, etc, and the
taiIors in that again-gay city will run
their establishments at full blast in
order TO meet the requirements The
male being who does not adorn his
person la Wilson will be considered
as mpietely out OF style as a cave
man.
But 1t is in the moustache that the
average Frenchman of fashion will
feel the blow severely. The NOUS
tache must go. That cute little fuzz
that for generations has adorned the
upper lips of the masculine French
Will be discarded after Woodrow Will
wears no moustache. Pierre Boule-
ward. therefore, must rid himself OF
his hirsute. It is sad, but one M ust
be in style C"est lie guerre
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
SERBIANS RETURN
TO Fight BULGARS
Men Who Had Lived in America
Played Big Part in War

Washington, Dec. (Correspon-
denco Of The Associated Press. -
Residents of Am erlcan cities fighting
with the Serbian army played a most
important part in the great victory
over the Bulgarians, the collapse OF
:, usrria, and the ending of the Hun
G fcam of q MitteI- Europ:t. This i'll
Formation has been brought to the
United States by an american Red
Cross worker just returned from Ser
ola.
Men from the steel and iron plants
in tiary, Chicago, ittsourgh, Denver,
SaE Francisco and other cities Where
there are hearths, blast furnaces and
rolling mills, We're sho,k troops in
*he very center of the great Serbian
attack, this Red CT o3s worker Who
accompanied the Serbian army re-
ports.
they were the Jugo S'avs who had
ven up from s. to SIS q day as
iaetal workers in the United States to
return to help Serbia throw off the
Eulgar-Austrian yoke Their going
was unhesllded-in fact, they had
slipped out of the countrt> as civilians
,oeca use the United States was not at
Var With Bulgaria.
sim ost every steamer carried of
fnur or five hundred OF them IN the
s,eerage. All ten sons OF one far7ily
in Gary, for example, reached France
in this way. Arriving IN France these
men were suppliea with uniforms and
sent to B1zert Africa, /" be drilled by
Serbian officers. When ready, they
Went through Saloniki' and we're
rushed to the Serbian army.
Several thousands OF these metal
workers took part in the last often
s'le They were no. uHtd as units,
tut we're distributed among The first
,>07 second armies 20 build Up the
morale Of the Serbian forces. Here
is this workers description Of their
i:h,irg:
How they fought I WAS fortunate
enough to go with the army on its
Ffcnsive. The Serbian general ask ed
nc t. go because he wanted someone
no was openly an American to see
his army of 40, 700 men. aided by
Ever CHI artillery and Italian and
57rench airplanes, break tho Bu1gar
lne after millions OF money and many
o:;1er troops had famed to accomplish
the result
And I saw these men from Amer
icH act as shock troop: in the very
'r,~:Sront Of the crucial battle. I saw
Them go up against SoNol. Il noun ta in
tn thousand feet high, ditto which the
5'''ears had driveH tunnels aud
i.orches and from which. through
7r'.. holes in the livin,. rock, they
poured machine gun fire on the
sell ian charges up the 5000
"T hen came a firth attack The
Sci bs got up 10 the tunncl; and threw
Grades into the port holes while
> hers scaled the cliffs like mountain
sheep. Finally the Bui!,ars broke and
f37d leaving behind them all their
Guns and supplies The Serbs pursued
them for four days AMI n's9n~.''
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
SAD NEWS FOR LIMOGES.

Differences or opinion will occur at
the peace conference. Delegates from
various countries will seek to advance
the commercial interests OF those
countries. as is to be expected. Ra
cial jealousies may crop out. But any
movement that tends TO magnify
these differences OF opinion into a.
genuine schism among the confcrees
can work everlasting evil at this hour
and should be tlscredited at the start
Newspaper correspondents and
others who have returned from Paris
have heard vague whisperings and
that will get at naught the endeavors
of those whose energies have been de-
voted to bringing at out world peace
1t is the fear of the unknown that
weighs heavily on their shoulders.
Many have made alarming reports to
President Wilson. who has listened
to their tales and then placed his en-
tire dep endence on information from
official American agents abroad.
What may appear on the surface to
be apathy on the part Of the President
is only confidence in his official adj
visers.
Recognizing the unevenness Of the
road ahead President Wilson is going
abroad armed with facts, not ru-
mors. He is intensively alive to the
situation in Allied capitals and is
confident that the victory of peace
will be achieved
The attitude of President Wilson is
summarized by David Lawrence, con-
sidered the best-informed newspaper
correspondent at Washington, in the
following words:
The president knows the whole
situation, and l cannot find that
he has allowed the many appre-
tensions concerning trade rival
ries to affect the spirit with
which he will enter the peace
conference. He is as confident
Of harmony at the peace table. /
am told, as he was instrumental
in getting harm ony of action in
the war IT is inconceivable that
a man like Lord Reading, for eX-
ample, who is to be d member of
the British delegation and who
has talked frankly to the presi-
dent before on these questions,
would not be as anxious to pre-
vent disagreem emit as Mr. Wilson
himself.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
WAR AN EDUCATOR.

War mas always been regarded as
q destructive agent and slight thought
has been given to it's constructive
powers. It's chief virtue-if virtue it
can be called--is its educative effect
on those who are not actually en-
gagged in the struggle.
The public has been forced to take
an interest in foreign effairs and as p
result it's knowledge of geographical
end chronological Europe has been
greatly enriched. So busy mas the
man in the street been in past years
he has not had the opportunity or
tho inclination to study Europe. To-
day he is a different person and can
dissertatc with fair accuracy on the
races of the old Austro- Hungarian
Kingdom, on the many peoples that
composed the German Empire. on the
economic situation in Russia and on
that country's vast natural resources
and or the history that has been
made while Eufope was being shaped
into the Europe of ante-bellum days.
NO one who reads the daily papers
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
FOUR LONE YANKS
PREVENT RIOTING
American Douehboys Scatter Luxem-
burgers WHO Insist On Wreck
ing German Shops

With the American Army OF Occu-
patton. Dec. 1. (By the Associated
Press)--Four Am erican soldiers dis
persed a mob of thousands at FS.oh
after the mob had wrecked twenty
eight shops in revenge for the over
charging of Americans. Most of these
establishments were conducted bv
Germans. The loss is estimated at
between 1000, ooof. and 7,ooo,ooof.
The trouble began when soldier
was charged two francs for a cake Of
chocolate and the same amount for
an apple. The Luxen1 burgers. who
long have protested against high
prices, resented the overcharging Of
their "de1iverers". They entered the
shop, destroying its contents.
Some one raised the cry to wipe
out all German esta blishments and
the mob soon grew to Thousands, who
began systematic destruction.
A department store owned by a
Hollander was wrecked. and he re-
ported his loss to his government. He
was the only foreigner other than
Germans. whose property was at
tackled.
The anti-German spirit was super
seeded by ordinary mob enthusia SIN.
and the destruction finally was ex-
tended to the shops of Luxem burgers
themselves. T. .
Two American lieutenants who ar
rived while the campaign Of destruc-
ton was at its height called upon
four enlisted men TO arm them selves
with broken boards and dispense the
crowd. The soldiers shouted to the
excited men and women to go to their
homes. and they Dispersed quickly,
accepting the command without ques-
ton.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
How Heiigoland Changed Hands

1t was in 1890. when relations be-
tween the British and German en-
pires We're of the most cordial de-
scription, that one of the greatest
indiscretions ever committed by an
turning over of the island of Heligo-
land to the Kaiser in return for the
protectorate of Zanzi bar.
Lord Salisbury was then directing
the foreign affairs of the empire in
addition to being head of the govern
ment. He was approached cautious
ly by William lis ambassador at Lon
don. With true Prussian craft the
latter pointed out that the gray rock
in the North sea was useless to Great
Britain and that his ma ster desired
it only for sentimental reasons. After
all-his excellency uggested-what
was it more than a small German
summer resort under q foreign flag?
The prime minister saw light through
Prussian eyes, announced his decision
to parlia ment. and there was no dis
cusslon on the subject
Great Britain only woke up a few
days after the bargain had been con-
summated. Every German ship avail
able was dressed with flags and took
part in the procession that went out
to take possession. And hardly had
the standard of the new owners been
raised than work was begun on the
Notifications which were to make the
island A thorn in the side of the AL
lies from August, 1914, until the 9TH
er day
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02

could escape absorbing some of this
information; as we are separated
from the topics of study by thousands
Of miles we have mad the advantage
Ct detachment Which allows a broad
vision AID the exercise OF unbiased
and neutral Judgment.
The average man is also progress
ing Well in his study of diplomacy
build and destroy the nations Of the
earth as we'll as in his study of what
vas once known as International law
PersOnaSes that ence existed Tor him
only in mustN tonnes lave been given
life and are seen IN their proper
sphere. Cities anG towns that seemed
to he located on other planets have
been discovered to be next door and
their past makes an interesting sub
jet for investigation. The phrase
SELF determination OF peoples now
holds no terrors for the man of fair
education and he is indeed out of the
charlued circle who cannot eHpahate
on ''freadom of the seas naval dis
armament" and ether Weighty mat
ters that still puzzle the experts.
Unless he is willing to sit in the
kitchen for the remainder of his lire
while his children discuss such topics
in the parlor evenings, this is the
what is going on about him and what
changes evolution is working on this
mundane sphere.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
SHOPPING RULES
ARE NOW REMOVED
Stores VIII Be Permitted to Use As
Many Clerks As Necessar, to
Care For Trade.

Hartford. Dec. 2.-Managers of
those of Connecticuts retail stores
that were asked List month by the
Connecticut State COUNCIL of De-
Tense to cooperate in enforcing Ger
tain Christmas shopping regulations
drawn up by the Federal Government.
have been informed by the Council
that all such restrictions are removed
This bears particular reference to re-
strictnons relating to working hours
and the hiring Of labor. The an
nouncemen t by the Defense Council
followed advices by the Federal War
Labor Policies Board.
THE whole program regarding
Christmas shopping regulations both
National and State, was 3 labor con-
servation movement said an official
of the Defense Council. During war
times. positions should be CONSOLIDATE
ed and one man fill two jobs wherever
possible. IN peace times. the number
or positions should be enlarged and
effort should be made to employ
two men where one was employed be-
fore. The war is over, and every eff
fort must be made and should be
given labor to seek it's natural oppor-
tunity of service"
The Connecticut Defense Council
sought the cooperation of the state 8
retail interests with regard to Christ
mas shopping restrictions at the in
stance of the Council of National De-
tense, following an agreement by the
latter with retail interests. The rec
omme dations of the DEFENSE Council
were similar in substance to those
promulgated by he National Council,
and were drawn up by the CONNER
cial economy division of its commit
tee on commercial relations. Officials
Of the Connecticut Defense Council
spoke III high terms OF the patriotic
and enthusiastic cooperation in this
regard that had been rendered by
Connecticut's retail interests.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
SIX DAY BICYCLE
RACE SPEEDING ON
Thirteen of the Fifteen Teams En-
tered Cover 1e7 Miles Since
Last Evening.

Madison Square Garden, New York.
Dec. 2.-Thirteen of the fifteen teams
which started in the six day bicycle
race shortly after midnight had COW
cred 1877 miles, seven laps, At 5.
o'clock this morning. The Bowker
brothers and Belle and Markey were
one lap behind the leaders.
The eight hour record made here.
by Lawson and Drobach in 1914 Is
1873 miles, nine laps.
The riders are:
Australian team, Hill and Grcnda;
[. S. Navy Belgian team, Carman
and De Battes; merican- Australian
team. Cory and Madden, amateur
team, Grimm and Thomas: Califor-
MIA team. HanIey and Lawrence; NeI
York team. Chapman and Halsteads:.
italian team, Marley and Bello;
Jrnione SportiVa italian steam, Verri
and Drobach; American team, McNa-
mara and Magin; American-French
team, Kramer and Dupuy; Jersey
team. Weber and Eaton; Lorg Island
team, Bowker brothers; Allied team,
Gerwig and Keller.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
AND YET ANOTHER
APPEAL FROM HUNS
SO-CaIled Peace Society Terms
ArlniStiCe Conditions "Terrible"

Berne, Dec. 1.-THE German Peace
Society. with headquarters in Munich
has directed a passionate appeal to
the Swiss press against the terrible
(armistice) conditions and their in
justice to a new Germany which has
ridded itself OF its militaristic lead
ers.''
The appeal is addressed to ''all
those, in enemy or neutral countries.
who represent the ideas of justice
and the right of national f-develop-
ment," The message continues:
THE most prominent and most
powerful of those is President Wilson.
That he does not content himself with
the original armistice requirem ents,
calling for evacuation Of occupied ter
ritories. but has agreed to the awful
conditions imposed, is grimly porten-
tous and probably will weaken his
own influence in the extra ordinary
peace conference.
I'VE do not give up hope that he
will hold to his oft-repeated solemn
program that he is willing to Judge
the concrete peace problem justly,
and that with the help of pacificallY
minded circles in allied countries he
will be able to accomplish his wishes.
we appear pf1nclpally TO the real
and lasting interests OF the victors.
We repeat to them what we so often
and so insistently have said to our
own people during the war that a
genuine peace-tbe creation of a
world wide lasting peace guarantee
ing order and legality-is only posi-
BILE if no people is outraged in it's
vital interest in the right to self-de-
termination
"a Germany Inundated, torn to
pieces. dana ged and damned to a
miserable economic existence would
be just as great a danger to a WORLD
peace AS a Germany protected in it's
obvious rights and conditions of be-
ing would be a protection for it,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
CITY ITEMS.

Last payment, Christmas club,
Tuesday, Dec. Sd. New Britain Nat
Bank.-Advt.
Mrs. Aaron Paul Of Lake Court
is recovering from an operation at tbs
Hartford hospital
The Red Cross announces that wool
for socks has arrived and may be
secured at headquarters on Court
street.
st. Elmo Lodge, K. of z. will make
arrangements on Wednesday evening
to turn out in a body on British Day.
All members are requested to attend
the meeting.
The semi election Of officers will
take place tonight at the Kenilworth
club.
Joseph NJ. Chernoff, for some time
employed by the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Hartford, has
been appointed New Britain repre-
sentative of the INTERN ediate depart
ment of the company, this departmen
having just been created. Mr. Cher
noff has his offices in the Phoenix
Mutual building in Hartford.
Miss Julia L. Spring has sold,
through the Camp Real Estate Co,
her handsome residence at the cor
ner of Forest and Murray streets, to
James B. Wilbur, Jr., secretary of the
Stanley Rule and Level company
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
Get Busy.
bridgeport Standard-,Am eTican.}
err day.

bridgeport OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Don't start croaking.
This country is going on in pros
perity.
They may upset thrones and re-
gmes all they please in Europe
We don't do things that way in this
country.
When we aren't suited with things
rs they are we dust off the ballot
box and put it into commission.
That's the American way. The
peaceful revolution.
And business and jobs as usual
Lots of things need change and
mending Don't forget that. For one
thing the common fellow is going to
have more to say than before the war.
But free people like this know how
10 go about such jobs as ours without
flying at one anothers Threats.
Of course occasionally some big or
little man looses a tornado of fiery
words We do it ourselves some
times and our chest feels better af-
forwards.
Now we're going to be altogether
too busy to bother with the brethren
of the firebrand.
And we won't have any time to
waste listening to croakers.
They told US 1t would take or 10
yeasr to whip Germany.
Thanks be, our boys didn't believe
it.
The croakers are discredited
This is the hour for prosperity
for all of us Americans to make good
times for ourselves.
Get busyI
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
Mr.. Taft's Advice.
{ Waterbury American. J

=
In his current article in the PhiIa-
delphia Public Ledger. ex-President
Taft reviews. il anticipation, the re-
lations of President Wilson and a re-
publican congress during the next two
years, and gives good advice to them
both. The interests of the country
require, he says. wise amity and true
cooperation between the two. The
people will not tolerate obstructive
critics of partisan kind by congress.
They Will support investigation of the
work and expenditures of the admin
istration, SO far as it is chara cterized
by fairness and justice. They will
or heckling of the president He
cautions the senate against DELAY in
dealing with such treaties rs the pres
ident may ARA nge,. or in rejecting
them without grave reasons He adj
Nises the president to consult with
the members of the committee on
foreign affairs in the senat e in respect
10 these treaties. as work progresses,
and theoretically criticizes the con-
Hnement of the presidents conf
dences to close personal and partisan
advisers, of which he has just ex-
perienCed the unfortunate conse-
quences. He reminds Mr.. Wilson of
Mr.. Mckinley's spirit and method in
getting congress into sympathy wit
his Spanish Am erican peace treaty as
a good one to copy
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
Snort RlATIoNs FOR GERMANS.

Conscious that the German public
tS face to face with q shortage of
food, Conn ecticut people will not be
AEted to a higher level of sac1if7cial
spirit by reports of Hun cruelty per-
petrated on soldiers from this state
Members of the 1920 u. S., Regiment,
who have been in captivity since last
April, are able to recount for the frat
enemy prison camps which demon
str@te that the Germans, military and
civilian, were guilty of vicious prac-
ttoes and lived up to the worst that
has been said OF Them.
American Red Cross packages were
torn open and their contents stolen
Citizens of Darn1stadt frequently spat
On soldier prisoners at work repairing
roads. A man was thrown down
mine pit because he refused to obey
orders. Limburg was known as the
Mystery camp, as one Connecticut
man asserts, owing to tho numerous
dfwappearances of prisoners. the fate
OF whom was never revea led"
Had 1t not been for the meagre
amount of food they were allowed to
receive from their Red Cross pack
ages these soldiers would have
starved. Now that the stoe is on the
other foot the prosecutors of these
same soldiers are whining for bread
We should give 1t to them, but no
more than they permitted American
soldiers to have. Maintain this short
ration system until the needs OF all
other countries are satisfied.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02

He could be sharp. if occasion de-
manded, but to those who were priv
ileged to observe intimately and to
look beneath the surface there ap-
peared much that was gentle and
much that bespoke the tender heart
of the good and sympathe tic pastor.
He was dignified and observed the
proprieties of his state with a pune
t1llousness of a gentleman of the old
school. He died all too young &C
cordlng to human seeming, but the
ways of God are not the. ways of men.
May he rest in peace
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
FOOD CONSERVATION
Nation Wide Campaign Opens Today
POO, 200, 900 Tons of Food Has
Been Pledged to Europe.

Washington, Dec. 2.-The food ad-
ministration's conservation week for
world relief" campaign got into full
swing today over the country. 1t
opened yesterday with the reading in
all the churches of a message from
Food Administrator Hoover, which
outlined the nations opportunity for
renewed sacrifice in feeding the mil
lions of people in Europe released
from German domination.
Meetings Of fraternal and other OIL
CARNATIONS under the auspices of the
state and county bodies began today
and will continue throughout the
week The need for the fulfillment
of Americas food pledge for this year
OF 100000 tons will be dwelt upon.
Every possible avenue Of reaching
the public it was announced would be
utilized during the week.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
OVER MILLION MASSACRED
Turks kilI 100000 Armenians and
100000 Greeks During the War
While Thousands of Others Perish.

London, Dec. 1, via. Montreal
Reuters has received from a Greek
source figures showing that in the
spring of 1914 the Turks deported
100000 Greeks of whom 500, 900 now
are refugees in Greece. From the
beginning of the war to the end of
1917 the Turks deported 2,14N0O0
Greeks and Armenians OF whom 900,-
900 Americans and 100000 Greeks
have been massacred and 200, 900 mo-
biltzed Greeks have been put to death
or have died of their suffsrings.
A great number of women and chill
dren have been forcibiy converted to
Islanism Others have been killed
or have committed suicide. Greek
property taken by the Turks is valued
at 5000 5000 600 francs,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-12-02
ARE AGAINST BOISHEVISM
1000 Nom commissioned German Of
ficers Call for Liebknecht's Downfall

Berlin, Nov. 80, (By the Associated
Press)-Four thousand non commits
stoned officers at q mass meeting to-
day adopted resolution calling on
the government to end the Bolshe-
visit agitation of DIR. Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa uxemburg, and demanding
the convocation of q national assem-
oily.
Philip Scheidemann. the majority
socialist leader, pointed out the diff
ficulties the government was having
because Of the activities OF what he
characterized as irresponsible ele-
ments. He warmly championed the
idea OF calling a constituent assem-
blT