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THE TBtES: JANUARY 2, 1915
LETTER RECEIVED
FROM COLGATE GO.
To the Editor:
The Attornoy General has brought
suit against Colgate & Company un
der the Sherman Law on the ground
that we have asked our customers to
observe a uniform retail or selling
j price on our products. "We have car
ried on this policy openly for forty
years, and are surmised at this ac
tion. The Attorney General offered
to withhold the prosecution If we
would give up our price protection
policy, but. believing- that we are In
no manner breaking the. law. we have
decides to contest the suit.
The facts are these: "We ask all our
customers to sell our Roods at a uni
form price which assures them of a
fair and reasonable .profit. If they
prefer not to do so, we, on our part,
prefer not to' sell them. That la all
there is to it.
We have no monopoly or exclusive
patents. Soaps, powders and perfumes
are made and sold by more than 700
manufacturers in this country alone.
Competition is keen and active. No
one Is compelled to Ibuy our products.
Bvery dealer la at liberty to purchase
wherever and from whomever he
pleases. We demand no written
agreement and we threaten no Injury
to his business If he sells below our
prices. We simply refuse to accept
his orders, for if he sells at cost or be
low cost to advertise Ms business, he
injures our good will and makes our
articles undesirable for other dealers
to handle, as they wish to be assured
of a profit and not a loss.
Colgate eroods are soldi at the same
prices and upon the same terms to
all our customers. Dealers are thus
assured of an eaual and reasonable
profit whether located in city or coun
try, of large means or small.
We have been In this business for
112 years. We have at present over
forty thousand direct customers In
the United States, also a large export
business in nearly every part of the
globe, and believe that in standard
izinsr prices flor our customers, we are
carrying out their wishes:, as we have
repeatedly, by letter and through
salesmen, been assured that this pol
icy has given the greatest satisfaction
to the greatest number.
Every manufacturer, especially those
who do not possess a monopoly should
have the right to control his own pro
duction, select his own customers, and
refuse to fill orders from those who
are injuring' his business.
COCUGATB & COMPANY,
Jersey City, N. J.
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LIBERTY BOND
LESSONS
By HOWARD SPEER
Of Hlncks Bros. & Co.
LESSON NO. 22
THE PRICE OF A DOLLAR
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1918.
THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA
rp HE NEWS that comes from Russia is so conflicting that
JL little can be made of it. Today, for instance, a rumor
ays that peace negotiations with the Germans have failed, be
cause the Germans desire to establish armed camps in certain
portions of Russia.
This story probably will be found baseless. The peace ne
gotiations with Germany seem to have been proceeding strictly
along the lines proposed by the Council of Workmen's and Sol
diers' delegates, after the overthrow of the Czar.
Choosing from among the various statements those that
are most convincing, it appears that the Bolsheviki government
is at least as strong as it was when it took control. It is perhaps
stronger, because it has united to itself representatives of the
revolutionary socialists, who are the most numerous political
group In the country.
It is probable that the peace negotiations have served to
make the Bolsheviki government more popular, for the reason
that the army and the masses of the workers are strongly in
favor of ending the war.
In faot the red government up to this time must be regard
ed as the strongest of the several governments that have so ra
p'dly succeeded each other since the fall of the Romanoffs.
0
READING THE ARTICELES OF WAR
HE MEN at Camp Devens, will appreciate, as ttio articles
X 'of war are read to them, that there is a vast difference
between civil law and martial law. They will understand at
the same time the necessity for the difference.-
v An army is a collection, or aggregation, of men employed
for the resistance of armed violence. An army Is engaged in
an act of self preservation. For this duty efficiency is required,
and this must be based on obedience to the command of su
periors.
No soldier, no company, no regiment can see the whole bat
tlefield, nor all of the conditions. Orders must be given by
those in a position to see, and they must be obeyed.
Nothing can be done as well as it should be done except by
habit and practice. The habit and practice of obedience is nec
essary to asoldler. Thus the men who left Camp Devens with
out permission, even though their purpose was to go home for
Christmas, committed a very serious offense against discipline,
Such offenses cannot be permitted. If they were discipline
would faiL The armies of the nation would not be adequate
for its defense. The country would be conquered by some na
tion whose people were more amenable to discipline.
A TARRED STICK
g NE HAS BUT to read the newspaper comment in a recent
V receivership case to understand that nothing has been
added to the prestige of Connecticut justice thereby.
An industry is not politics. It 13 business. Politicians and
industry, especially industry that needs salvage, will usually
thrive better apart
The courts, standing above politics and outside of it, have
no oocasion to consult political expediency in their appoint
ment. Usually they do not.
fit would be wise to lay it down as a principle that judicial
apjiokitmenta, of the sort that are fiduciary and transient, should
not often fall into the hands of men who are notoriously poll
ticians. , '
Cases may no doubt arise where the emergency is great
and where some politician is better fitted for the work.
But even then the speech of people will be unkind, and the
suspicions of people will be excited, for the people are jealous
of their courts. They like their courts to be above suspicion.
They like to feel that the power of partisan politics never tem
pers the course of justice. Justice must never play politics, for
to justice politics is a tarred stick.
THE FALL OF MITQIEL
MAYOR HYLAN took his office as mayor of New York, us
! ing seven minutes of time for the job. Mayor Mitch-
el hurried away. Hylan is an unknown quanity. If the size
of his victory at the polls is any measure of his abilities he will
make a first class mayor.
Mitchel is worse than beaten. He is fallen. His defeat was
attended by election scandals of unusual magnitude. His nom
inatlon was attended by primary frauds. His election was
sought by the expenditure of vast sums, contributed by persons
who expected to profit by his re-election.
Mitchel is seen in defeat, not as a big man who lacked ap
prestation, but as a man whom millions of cash and unlimited
fraud could not save.
"WIRELESS WIZARD
VOICES GRATITUDE
OF ITALY TO U. S.
Rone, Jan, 2 Senator Guglieimo
Marconi who has been appointed
head of the Italian permanent mis
sion In America, made the following
remarks yesterday in addressing the
senate on Italo-Amerlcan relations;
"The Italian mission to the United
States again realised during its jour
ney the great friendship and sym
pathy existing there for us and the
great assistance the United States la
fc-eedy to give us.
"The friendly feeling and eonerete
measures adopted by the American
people In favor of Italy deserve our
enUre gratitude. We must consider
the spontaneous American interven
tion in the war with special satisfaction."
THE GOKBEXi TRAGEDY
The turkey gobbler that .remains
alive after Thanksgiving, Christmas,
and New Tear's must feel pretty well , political warfare that for many years
ashamed of his personal appearance, convulsed the Blue Grass state.
Eighteen years ago today the Ken
tucky Legislature was convened, and
before that body William Goebel,
Democrat, contested the claim of Wil
liam S, Taylor. Republican, to the of
fice of governor. Four weeks later
Goebel was shot and mortally wound
ed, and Taylor and Caleb Powers, the
Republican contestant for the office
of secretary of state, were accused of
complicity in the assassination. Taylor
removed from the office of governor
by the general assembly, fled to In
diana, while Powers was arrested,
convicted and sentenced to prison for
life. The latter has since been par
doned and new repressnts the 11th
Kentucky district in the national
House of Representatives. In the
winter of 1912 Mr. Taylor returned to
his native state, by which ha was
once outlawed, and took unto himself
a second wife, the first , Mrs. Taylor
having died in 1905. Thus the ring
ing or wedding hens Drought to a
close, for two of the principals, the
There is nothing in the wide world
that you can buy with absolutely cer
tain knowledge that you can get back
the exact price you paid for it at any
time you wish.."
That was the statment we made to
ward the end of the last lesson and
we imagined some one objecting that
money didn't change in value and that
one could always get five single dol
lars for a five dollar bill or the same
amount of money out of. bank today
that he put in last month.
Now even if money didn't change
in value or price the Illustration of the
five dollar bill would be no proof of
it nor would the fact that he could
draw out of bank the same sum he
had put in. That would be just as if
some one should say that the price
of sugar never changes and should
try to prove it by showing you that he
could exchange a pound of it at the
grocery for two half pounds, or by
putting a pound of it in the pantry
in October and taking out the same
pound again In December.
If you want to understand . how
money changes in price just as Liberty
bonds do, or sugar, or shoes, you
must first realize that money just by
itself, without reference to anything
else in the world, is about the most
useless thing a man can own.
Just imagine yourself alone on a
desert Island with a million dollars in
good United States gold and silver and
green backs, but with absolutely
nothing else. Do you think you wouK
be rich? What would you do? Could
you eat the money? Could you make
clothes out of it? You might sew
the bills together (except that you
wouldn't have needle or thread) but
the suit of clothes you made wouldn't
stand much rain nor be of much use
in 14 below zero weather. The gold
and silver would be too soft to make
tools out of. You couldn't plant niC'
kels and dimes and expect corn and
potatoes to grow. Nor could you
squeeze a single drop of cold water
out of your whole million dollars.
You see then that money is useful
and valuable to you only when there
are other people around who want
your money and who own other things
which they will give you in exchange
for it. And the reason they want it
is so that they In turn can exchange
It for some articles which they want
but which the present owner won't
give them for the things they are sell
ing to you. He wants money so that
he can buy what he wants from still
another man. And so the process goes
on and the money keeps cnangmg
hands in a sort of never-ending chain.
For this reason the men who write
books about such subjects have called
money " a medium oi exchange," ana
that Is all it is. The government
makes some coins and engraves some
bills and calls them money. They are
just counters in a big game that we
are all playing. One kind of coun
ter Is called a dollar and once a dol
lar It Is always a dollar. Consequent
ly If you don't think carefully you
are apt to fall into the error of think
ing that so long as the government
stands a dollar will always be worth
the same. It will. It will always be
worth another dollar, but that isn't
saying very much. For a dollar is a
measure not a value. It means a cer
tain amount of money and that
amount is always the same a hun
dred pennies, twenty nickels, four
quarters, etc., just as a dozen eggs
means 12 eggs a a peck of potatoes
means a certain sized measure full
of potatoes.
But the value of those eggs or po
tatoes may change many times in a
year. And every time it does change
the value of the dollar changes too
when measured against eggs or po
tatoes. And you must measure a dol
lar against other things in order to
learn its value, as we pointed out
above.
Because dollars and dimes and pen
nies are our counters we have fallen
into the habit of speaking of the
change in prices of other things, for
getting that the price of the money
is changing just as much. Suppose,
for example, you paid $10 for a bar
rel of flour a year ago and $15 for one
last week. You say the price of flour
has gone up. But why shouldn't the
flour merchant say the price of money
has gone down. You are buying his
flour and pay more for it- He is buy
ing your money and pays less for it,
because he gets more money for the
same amount of flour.
It is even so with anything and
everything else groceries, shoes, fur
niture, gas, labor, carfare, etc. A
given amount of money will buy a
certain amount of these things today,
and a year from now it will probably
buy a very different amount perhaps
more, perhaps less; If it buys more
the price of money has gone up, if
less the price of money has gone down.
A man therefore who holds on to
mere money in the thought that It
will always be worth the same to him
is simply fooling himself. It is no
more fixed or constant in value than
anything else. In fact it changes be
cause other things change. And other
things change because the world is
made up of human beings whose Ideas
and habits and fortunes are as shift
ing as the sands of the sea.
Therefore if Liberty bonds have
gone down In price, do not blame
youreelf, nor the market, nor the gov
ernment. Blame eternal laws which
alone do not change and which de
cree that all things else shall change.
FOUNDING OF FIRST
SCHOOL FOR BAD BOYS
In the little city of Mottray, France,
there was founded eighty years ago
today the first school for bad boys. A
lawyer named Metz was responsible
for the establishing of the reform
school. He had an idea that bad boys,
if given the proper environment and
opportunity, might be transformed in
to good boys. Before that time it was
considered that when boys were bad
it was because of original sin, and
that flogging, or more brutal punish
ment was the only cure. Humanitar
ians had arisen from time to time
and had suggested that kind treat
ment might work a cure in the 'case of
juvenile delinqency, but such theories
were denounced as ungodly and Irre
ligious. The reform school Idea found
speedy acceptance in France, after the
success of the Mottray Insttutlon In
dealing with supposedly lncorrigibles,
and quickly spread to other European
nations and to the United States and
Canada. Today every country has Its
reform schools, Junior republics Ju
venile courts and other machinery for
dealing with youthful delinquents.
Reformatory schools admit, as a rule,
only youths who have been guilty of
crimes which, when committed by
adults, are punishable by Imprison
ment. The juvenile courts have since
been established to bring about the
reformation of youthful offenders
without recourse to the reform school,
and have been highly successful. In
the United States Judge Ben Llndsey
of Denver has taken the lead in the
matter of dealing with Juvenile de
linquents and it is In a large measure
through his efforts that children's
courts have been established In many
states to deal gently with youthful
lawbreakers and to lead them back
to the path where they may yet be
made into useful citizens.
TO HANG FIVE
MORE HOUSTON
NEGRO RIOTERS
San Antonio. Tex.. Jan. 2. Five of
the court announced by Mai. Gen.
martial in connection with the Hous
ton riots have been sentenced to be
hanged, according to the verdict of
thh court announced by Maj. Gen.
Ruekman this morning.
FRENCH CRIPPLE
SIX AEROPLANES
OF GERMAN FOE
Paris, Jan. 2 Six German aero
planes were put out of action yester
day by the French, it is announced
officially. Artillery fighting continues
at various points on the front, but ne
large Infantry action is reported.
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REMEMBER OUR 1918
CLUB DRAWS
INTEREST
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BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.
ALERT TO SERVE
THE HANDY ORCHESTRAS
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Old Mr. Jazz himself hat been out-jazzed t
The trick has been turned by the newest
3 note in novelty, the last word in wizardry, "
the big, sweeping sensation of the hour the
most delirious dance music of the day.
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I Food will win the war.
Don't iMifa II.
THE muffled boom of the tom-tom fl:
with the crash of barbaric cymbals; i
hollow moan of weirdly swept strings is o
whelmed as' jungle-land s wild sympho;
swells to its maddest height. Through it c
the fierce rhythm, the frenzied swing of
super-syncopation that is sweeping the danc
world into a vortex of new delight. The Jaz.
Dance Blues are here I
W. C. Handy, of Memphis, Term. , is the originator
and composer of these famous "Blues" successes. The
.Handy Orchestra of southern negro musicians plays
"Blues" dance numbers as no other orchestra ever could.
This unique organization makes records exclusively
for Columbia. You want its Jazz Dance Blues records
for your party they'll make it a success. You will re
spond to these records, whether you dance or not
they're great!
Jazz Dance Blues, by Handy Orchestra of Memphis, Term.
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.That Jazz llance - One-step ) 7Se
Tie Hooking Cow Bloes - Fox-trot ) A2420
Ole Min Rat - - - - Fox-trot ) 75c
The Snaky Bluet - Fox-trot ) A2421 ,
Fuzzy Wazzy - - One-Step J 75c
A Bunch of Bines - Fox-trot ) A2418
Moonlight Blues -Waltz ("jfse
Old Town Pomp - Fox-trot A417
Sweet Child - - One-step ) 75o
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NORWALK GOAL
ALLOWANCE IS
QUARTER TON
Effective today only one-quarter of
a ton mav be purchased in Norwalk
until further authority from the fuel
administrator of the State of Con
necticut. The notice follows:
United States Fuel Administration.
Connecticut.
Thomas W. Russell,
State Administrator.
Connecticut State Council of Defense
in Co-ooeraton.
State Capitol,
Hartford, Conn.
Rules for tile retail distribution of
anthracite coal in the State of Connecticut.
1 (No retail coal dealer doing- bus
iness in' Norwalk in the State of Con
necticut shall make any delivery of
more than one-auarter of a ton of
anthracite coal unless the purchaser
thereof executes and flies with such
retail dealer on each Helivery a writ
ten statement showing the amount of
coal on hand and the average month
ly consumption during the three
months next preceding the delivery
at' each place where such coal is to
be delivered, also the amount of any
orders with another dealer not yet de
livered. 2 No retail coal dealer doing busi
ness in the State of Connecticut shall
deliver anthracite coal at any place
where It appears from the statement
required tv Hrule 1 that there is on
hand a quantity of coal equal to or
greater than the averasre monthly
consumption at such place of kielivery
as shown toy said statement and in
ne event shall more than two tons
of anthracite coal he delivered at one
time to any dwelling house, tenement
or apartment house which accommo
dates less than five families.
3 These rules shall be effective De
cember 81. 1917. and en and after that
date shall applv to all retail sales and
deliveries of anthracite coal by retail
dealers doinsr business in KorwaBt in
the State of Connecticut, tout either or
ADF0RD
FAIRFIELD AVE. VARIETY STORE
M1TH
BROAD ST.
i-iiVxi. X X XJ PROFIT SHARING WITH EMPLOYES
KNITTING YARN
We have just received a large shipment of Fleisher'S
knittinsr vara. There is plenty of khaki and many of the
brighter colors for those who are starting sweaters for
summer use. .
A SPECIAL FOR THURSDAY ONLY-11 sizes
amber or ivory knitting needles 25c pair; steel knitting
needles at 2 for 5c.
both rules may be waived iby any lo
cal Fuel Committee as to any one ox-
more specified deliveries for the pur
pose of facilitating distribution or re
lieving an emergency .by filing a writ
ten waiver Bismed by the chairman of
any such committee with the- (dealer
affected.
THOMAS W. RTJSSEUU
Fuel Administrator for the State of
Connecticut.
BAKERY AUTO HIT
BY RICKARD TRUCK
There was considerable trouble on
the Bridgeport-Norwalk trolley line
yesterday afternoon, when a Kickard
auto truck, of Bridgeport, was struck
by a small bakery truck near the
Harris switch, In Greens Farms. The
big truck was thrown off its course
and ran acro3 the road and would
have been overturned had it not
struck a tree," As it was, it blocked
the trolley track with the result that
what would have been the 1:50 car
at Westport did not get there, and
Norwalk was also in trouble. At 2:10
the Norwalk car barn pushed out an
extra car to take up the run, and
after a little wait found 'f filing"
Harry Massey coming in just 40 min
utes) late. The Norwalk car picked
up the passengers and transferred
them to that city The bakery auto
had no further trouble and got away
nicely, although it was much the
smaller oar of the two. It took so1
tinM before the travel resumed nor
mal basis. No one. was reported Injured.
PREPARE FOR THIRD
U. S. BOND ISSUE
Washington, Jan. 2 The next na
tional loan will be designated offi
cially as the "Third Liberty Loan."
This was made known today after re
ceipt of hundreds of suggested names
from perrons all over the country in
response to a request for submission
of ideas. ,
Posters and other advertising mat
ter will be prepared immediately,
bearing the title now adopted. The)
time will be some tlma after Febru
ary 1 for an amount and at an inter
est rate not yet decided.
CLOSE ENLISTMENTS.
An order has been sent out by Pro
vost MarBhal General Crowder that
until further orders, no more men
shall be . inducted for the quarter
master corps and that no more men
shall be indnoted for th trrtation
section of thet lgna)