New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1915. excess of .$145,600,000 on the export| people- who make a living off the | side, exceeding that shown by any previgus ‘month in the country’s his- ton “This, ‘remarks New York {Eyening Mail, is the index of the new Brosperity offered to this.nation by ents beyond its own control. The the ‘S8ame paper goes onl/to say that the ‘| foreign demand for our goods is in- paign next ing in Chi- 'nn_au and ly they had k at which etary Rey- s men were sult of the Jecret, although e close that business re- is installed in makes a de- and if the W depends up- ‘event it will ‘ another year ongress that ything. | tolly to be ry because in itry will proba- fhigh tariff law jad up to the 111 was passed. much opposed ts. It was on hns hed ~ their ich the pro- “its birth. The ich nominated ply an out- that had its tion over the joosevelt been aft by the ers would un- po for a modi- es, that " believe that and made' by high tariff business re- lecheduled by 1ay not be so e a tariff ean be any The so if 'ebe national { year and it flme the out- Vilson will be AMERICAN ollar at a pre- exchanges and jhowing an un- e side of the observers, says congratulat- the financial Bit by seven rfare. A few, heads appre- ‘ascendency is ;; , of uncertain fcommerce as a they fear, to Rn securities by pring these mis- ht, the Digest rald declaring Een waiting for bry for one side e, a great vic- Won in Amer- hrows back the jindustrial and other words, 80 success- form that we time at least, debtor nation. the world, re- tward course lven a tremen- ion within a New York or Americans, cies of trade L this financial great war has 'were heavily in he whole world This change or to that of of an abnormal modities on the ring nations. So hat, to quote the our department x months since trade bal- ‘an excess of ort side to an creasing at a rate which should so stimulate our industries as to enable | the nation to throw off quickly the burden of unemployment under which it has been bent. In the same six months during which the main currents of our for- eign trade were reversed, foreign ex- change swung from the highest to the lowest levels ever recorded. Thus last August, as the New York Commercial .reminds us, it cost seven dollars to re- mit a pound sterling from New York 'to London, although the normal value of a pound is $4.86 5-8. A few weeks ago the exchange value of the pound sterling touched the low record of $4.79. The same condition, differing only in degree, is reflected in exchange rates in Germany, France and Italy. As the Boston News Bureau remarks, the problem that was ours in August is Europe’s in February, the main dif- ference being that our predicament then, though acute, was bound to he brief, while Europe’s is problematical- ly indefinite. INCREASE IN TAX RATE. Although the board of finance and taxation has not proceeded very far with its work, it is very apparent that the tax rate will be increased this ‘year. There does not seem to be any help for it and it is the opinion of City Treasurer Chamberlain that it ‘must be done. The rate last year was sixteen and a half mills, but since then another mill has been ex- pended for street work so as to give employment to those out of work, the ( mill to be added this year, and other departments are seeking so much more money now and are presenting snch strong claims for it that it is going to be pretty difficult to cut off enough to,make a reduction in the tax rate. Mayor Quigley is being quoted as saying that he proposes to accompany the assessors on their trip of inspection of property next year with a view to increasing the grand list if such a thing is possible. He says he does not mean that there shall be any unfair increases, but that if he finds that there is any property un- dervalued he will endeavor to see that the assessment is increased. The Herald has repeatedly plained that as the city grows the expense must increase for the reason that the annual growth of the grand list is not sufficiently large to provide the additional revenue to meet the in- creasing expense. There has been much talk of a reassessment about once in so often on the ground that the value of certain real estate in- creases and that the assessments upon it should also be increased, but this has not been done and there is some doubt as to whether it can be done without causing some. displeas- ure. New Britain as a city needs a larger income and how it can be pro- vided is one of the great questions that puzzles city officials. There ought to be more buildings here, but they ex- will never come until somebody takes hold of the matter as a business proposition and pushes it along. Mors buildings will mean increased grand list and that means a larger in- come for the city. That would bhe no burden to any one; it would not add to the taxes of any,whno already had property and there is scarcely a class of business in New Britain that would not be benefited. It is along that line that the salvation of .this city lies and the sooner it is generally recognized the sooner will the city problems be made easier of solution. an NO SAILING FOR ENGLAND FOR | WEEK. For the first time since the Civil war not a ship will leave an American port for England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales for an entire week, the rea- son being that a strike is in progress at English ports and besides some of the big liners are being used for trans- ports and auxiliary cruisers by the countries at war with each other. Ocean travel has fallen off heavily ever since the sinking of the Titanic, but it had begun to recover somewhat from that disaster when the' war came on, while now it is hardly safe for a person to go to Europe at all owing to the dangers of sea travel. Those who were there last year when the war broke out had such a thril- ling experience in coming back taat they will not want to go some time. Now another big liner is reported as being on fire at sea, which will add to the terrors of the ocean and furnish a new reason for people dodging a trip to Europe for another spell even if war was at an end. Several back for will countries will lose consid- erable from the loss of American lcease. There are a large number of I not | siae, tourists this year even should the war | | tourists in various ways, an easy liv- ing, too, and were it not for this em- ployment, such as it is, they would have absolutely nothing to do except such as they might pick up in the , city or neighborhood whichever they chanced to be located. For steamers not to even sail for a weck for ports to which there in is always the ordinary, cially out of | tae while this can | accounted for in the manner above | described it is in reality a preliminary what think will season for steamship companies and those who have made a practise of spending their in warm season, but be for many be a dull summers abroad. FACTS AND FANCIES Moreover, we learn that the girls of Europe cannot have their regular sup- ply of bonbons now that the candy e perts from the United States have been cut down. We reiterate the ques- tion: Where is the romance in the modern game of war?—New Haven Journal-Courrier. The city of Bridgeport, knowing that under the new law regulating the sale of drugs, especially cocaine and other forms of “bing” the victims of the drug habit cannot get their sup- plies, has made arrangements to pro- vide free medical treatment for them at Lakeview home, the city alms- house.—Hartfdrd Post. One need not go to Utah to find polygamy practised on an extensive scale, Here in the East the devotees of plural marriage are only too num- erous. New York was deeply inter- ested in the disclosures of the double menage of one of its prominent bar- risters a little while ago. Connecticut now learns that a prominent New Ha- ven manufacturer who figures in the circumstance connected with the sui- cide of a young woman has been lead- ing a double life, assuming one name in New York and another in New Haven and acquiring a wife and family under each cog- nomen, Ministers in the pulpit are pieading for easier divorce laws, while in frequent cases of public note, mar- riages, divorces and re-marriages hav been so frequent as to amount to po! gamy in fact, though not in name. Bridgeport Telegram. Readin of the Roosevelts. . (Louisville Courier-Journal.) All of us know Colonel Roosevelt in America and nobody takes him very seriously. But to the European | vnacquainted with American con- ditions, he appears a leading Ameri- can, if not the leading American, and there are many Ruropeans who are versed in American affairs. “T and my four sons, shouts Colonel TRoosevelt, full of the idea | that he resembles the kaiser not merc 1y hecause of his imperial bearing and his German extraction, but also be- cause he is ready to sacrifice a numer- ous progeny on the red altar of Mars. “I and my four sons will gladly join. I very earnestly hope and pray that there will be no war; but the best way te avoid war is to be prepared,” and so forth, is simply bombastic self-ad- vertisement. The people of the United States are rot “hoping and praying,” but confi- | dently and calmly assuming that there will be no war. They have not asked Colonel Roosevelt for his service. They don’'t want his four brave and stalwart sons, his megaphone and his vocabulary, or whatever influence he may have in heaven, to avert a war which he seems to regard as immi- nent, though possibly avoidable if the five Roosevelts can awaken the coun- try to the awfulness of its peril and beat up a following large enough to throw a scare, into the enemy. They would, in a very large majority, be much obliged to all of the Roosevelts if they would regard the country as being at peace and in no great danger of war and pursue their various pri- vate act ies in silence, Dogs and Dogs. There are dogs and dogs. Some persons love dogs and some dislike the arimals. There are worthless dogs | md dogs of high degree which win prizes at bench shows and command fancy prices. It is not uncommon to hear of $5,000 or $10,000 being paid for dogs of notable pedigree. And speaking of dogs. the Office Windqw cf the New York Mail indulges in some reflections: ‘‘There is said to be a new ordinance providing that dogs shall not enter butchers' bakers’, | delicatessen and bakeshops, but evi- dently the dogs on the upper West and particularly on Amsterdam avenue, have not heard of the ordi- nance vet, for they continue to visit the delicatessen shops assiduously and cheerfully. The idea, probably, in attempting an ordinance like this is to keep the dogs away from the food of humans, but in some sections there is rather more food, spread out in racks and boxes, on the sidewalks than there is in the stores and shops. The next thing, doubtless, will be an ordinance forbidding dogs from ap- pearing on the sidewalk. When that day comes the owner of the dog will have to leead his muzzled companion by a leash in the middl eof the road, or else keep the poor animal indoors all day an dall night, as many cats are kept now. It will soon be up to the dog lover to abandon the ecity altcgether and live in a country place. The Office Window man has known of several cases where people have moved from houses which otherwise they liked perfectly well, in order to be in a better place for their dogs. This looks ridiculous to people who do not like dogs, but it may be a very sensible proceeding, since the better a place is for & good dog, the better it is, generally speaking, for human things. TIf vou're living in a flat, in a crowded section, and you move to the country, or at least to a city place with a vard. on account of your dog, you will probably never regret it.” a large number of people going, espe- | [ in the way of many improvements. | the county which might just as well TOWN T4LK. HE question of play-| grounds has heen brought to the at- tention of Mayor Quigley by a number of men who have gotten together, dis cussed the matter and have come to the conclusion that it would be advis- able for them to purchase land for | this purpose, hold it for the city for | a few years with the hope that in the end of that time the city will be able and inclined to take it over for playground purposes. This is the first time that any such matter has | been proposed and while the mayor | so far as known has not committed ; himself on the matter, he is appar- | ently very much interested in it. The playground has come to stay, the | mayor feels that way about it and so | do a great many others in the city. | The great question is how can the | necessary land be acquired. It has also been represented to Mayor Quig- | ley that at least two school buildings will be needed within a few years and | the question has been put to him as to | whether the school board should not | purchase some sites and use them for | playgrounds until such time as they | can be used for school purposes. This | is also a new idea in the playground movement. There has been more or less discussion of the matter of obtaining land in various parts of the city where playgrounds might be es- | tablished and be a great children, more so than if confined to | the grounds now in use which neces- sitates children traveling quite a dis- tance to reach them. Mayor Quigley | has tallsed this matter over with peo- | ple who are especially interested in; the work and who appear to be will- | ing to make a personal sacrifice in or- der that the city may be equipped | with such plots of ground as may be : necessary to meet the wants of the | playground movement. Many other cities are doing more along this line than is New Britain and as this in- formation is diffused among people interested in the playground move- ment local enthusiasm is naturally increased. The children love these places because they ket a lot of plea- sure out of them, while parents like to have them bcause they know where their children are when they are not at home. There is no mistaking the fact that they are a great help to pa- rents in keeping children off the street and free from danger. The highways are dangerous places nowadays for children, = parents themselves under- stand it dnd joyfully welcome the in- crease in the movement to provide places where the little ones can play right without molestation. The whole matter hinges on whether the board of finance and taxation is ready to give its sanction to it. The amuse- ment commission would do a great deal if it only had the money, but €0 would some other departments. Money has been the stumbling block i Now that Governor Holcomh showing an inclination to some of the state expense back to the towns why would it not be a good plan tq turn over some of the revenue? Why would ‘it not be a go0o0d idea to allow the towns and cities for instance to retain all the money received from liquor licenses instead of ninety per cent. as at| present There is ten ‘per cent. of it 'which goes to is | transfer | g0 to the communities where the li- censes are issued. The amount is not very large, but if there is a de- sire to relieve the state of certain ex- pense and place it on the towns then in all fairness the revenue ought to 8o with it. There hasn’t been much d about this matter of late, but the legislature may take it up any time and make a law out of it before the cities have had time to think it over. Should such a thing happen the cry would go up that an advantage had been taken of them and that the state had acted unfairly about it. The question ought to be discussed so that the people would*understand just what was wanted and what the state pro- vosed to do. It is well known that the disposition is to reduce the state expenses, but if they are saddled on the towns and cities there will be no saving to the individual. The ques- tion of taxation has become such a burden in every community that it is becoming quite a problem. New | Britain is not overburdened with tax- | ation, but it can be made heavier and | will be if some of the plans of the state are carried out. If they are | carried out the city ought to have whatever revenue should go with the change. The estimated expense of | running this city for the coming fiscal | vear is very large, but there is nol likelihood that all that has been asked ! for will be allowed; it never has been, | and so far as known the board of finance and taxation has not exper- | jenced any change of heart. The board is at work on the job now; it will probably finish up in another ! week and it has not given any indi- cation that it proposes to depart from the old custom of cutting off every dollar that is not absolutely neces- sary. There is no .other way to do because if it was not done the ap. propriations would be very large and the tax rate would also show an in-| crease. This does not mean that the | departments are extravagant. They want to have certain work done and if there was only one department to be provided for the request could be granted, but where all departments are secking increases it needs no partic- ular sagacity to see that all cannot be accommodated and that the only safe course to pursue is to cut to the last dollar. This is being done and the juestion of revenue is also given the same serious consideration because it counts just as advantageously as does | the pruning of the expenses. The employes of the local post office are very much interested in a bill now before congress, it ‘having been introduced almost two years ago, which provides for a pension for those who serve in the classified ser- vice for from twenty to thirty years, those serving the latter number of | be retained in the | who has served five years m benefit to | e | that ! be years to be retired on a pension of one-half of the regular salary: twen- ty-five to thirty vears forty-five per cent; twenty to twenty-five years forty per cent, and that no employe shall rvice afler reach- ing the age of seventy years. The bill also contains a provision that a person injured in the - service and y be re- tired on an annunity of thirty per cent. of the regular salary, for a per- iod of from five to ten years, forty per cent, for from ten to twenty years of service and fifty per cent. for twen- ty-one years or over. This bill islin common with other plans for the pensioning of employes in various lines of effort. Men engaged in cer- tain lines of work are only able to perform it for a certain period and although they may be in perfect health they cannot continue the labor * which has been their life work and because of the long service in that partcular line are incapacitated for service in any other line. This is the ground that policemen, firemen | and others engaged in occupations of | a like character are pensioned and the reasons are fully as strong for post office employes as for any of the others and if anything stronger. Presumably the passage of such a law would necessitate the expenditure of a large sum of money annually for those pensioned throughout the coun- try, but presumably the cxpense is arge wherever the pension system is put in practice, but that does not prevent the scheme from Dbeing adopted. It is gradually coming into xistence in manufacturing establish- ments and it has long been apparent it will be generally adopted in the vears to come. There are some who think that there should be pen- sions for aged people, but that is a disputed question in this country as vet, though there are many wiao be- lieve in it. It does not need any argument, however, to prove the worth of a pension for length of ser- ice. That has been tried so often and in so many different branches of work that its fairness and its wisdom is no longer a matter of doubt. The post office employes have many con- gressmen ready to support their bill whenever it reaches them so that they can vote on it. The city hall commission has held | up the offer of some land space on ‘Washington Place to the board of | public works because it has been sug- gested that the property” may vyet be used for a site for a poélice station. This matter has been agitated before and the almost geheral sentiment .t the time was that the location was un- favorable, The chief complaint of the present location, aside from the inade- quacy of the property, is that it is too noisy, it being necessary sometimes to halt proceedings in the court room wHile a train was passing or there was some other disturbance on the street. Washington Place would be even worse because it is closer to the railroad, but even were this objection eliminated the place would be unsuit- able for the reason that there is no proper approach to it, taking prison- ers into it or out of it would be too public and the office would have in the rear which would not just the place to locate the office one of the principal departmenecs of the city. The office of the depart- ment should open on to a street, a side street if possible, but sufficient- 1y central so that calls could be an- swered from all sections as promptly as possible. When the police head- quarters are removed it ought to te to a place where there can be every accomodation for the department in- cluding a morgue to which dead bod- ies can be taken until claimed by | friends. The court feature of the de- prartment should be provided for in quiet place and this is especially desir- able now that it is proposed to estab- | lish a city court which will cause the room to be more generally occupied. There may be Some people who can recall when court was held on some street other than Commercial street | but it must have been many years ago. The noise has always been an objoc- tion and if a new location is to he made it certainly should be free from the troubles so long complained of. The present headquarters are inade- quate, the fire department needs more room and the only way to provide it on Comercial stree! to take it from the police and they have none to spare. As a matter of fact they have not enough for themselves. to be Woman’s Chief Tradc. (Pittsburg Dispatch.) Yes, of cours it is Everybody knows that, but the fig- ures for it, compiled by the United States Board of KEducation statisti- cians, are worth noting. Of the 31,- 000,000 females over 10 years of agel in the United States 24,000,000 are engaged in homemaking. Girls may be entering more and more into other trades, but in the last analysis they homemaking. | generally fall back or advance to the rank of homemakers. Hence, says the federal educational board, the importance of giving special attention to scientific ' cooking in the vocational schools. The girli of being able to hire a cook i hope of keeping one when she is hired. It is one of the oddest things of life that cooKing, the preparation of the food that sustains life, the art that can waste or economize in the chief item of family expenditures is so large- Iy left to be picked up as best it may be without serious consideration or training. If the woeful waste re- sulting from amateur cookery could be computed in dollars and cents it would rival the war bills of Europe. If the indigestion dyspepsia and kin_ dred physical disturbances caused by incapable cooks could be tabulated ! they would dwarf the list of killed, missing and wounded. Presentation by Warden Osborne of Sing Sing of an appeal by three pris- orers, now exccuted, for the abolition of the death penalty, is in itself hardly a convincing argument. Few men who face the chair think capital pun- shment is anything but “a stain of sin upon the state,” as the warden calls it.—Waterbury Amecrican. | Karsavina of | t worry [ gloomy Tho Russian Ballet. (New York Sun.’ Now that the men whose gener- osity makes possible the perormfances at the Metropolitan Opera house have decided to bring Russian ballet to this country, they will put within the reach of New York lovers of the theater's art a pleasure which has already been enjoyved by the capitals of Burope Doubtless this famous troupe will able to come to this country next yvear owing io conditions which will prevent it from appearing in the Kuropean cities. New York has in reality of the genuine Russian ballet. Anna Pavlowa and Mikail Mordkin have danced here along with some other pupils of the ballet school at the Marien theater. But of Russian bal- let jn the sense that word has come to be understood abroad there has been scarcely a trace here. The de- signs of Bakst and his associates, be seen little Ilhr choreographics of Fokine and the rest of the school are as much a part of the modern Russian ballet move- ment as the dancing of the principals. Quite as inseparable from the ballet as Waslaw Najinski or Thamara are the designs of the artists brought into existence by the new movement in the art of the bal- let and the musicians who have com- Posed the music of newer ballets. So it will be an unmitigated ar- tistic delight to see the Russian bal- lets performed by the famous dan- cers as well as by a competent com=- pany of trained secondary perform- ers. It cannot be said that the bal- let has as yet had a fair chance in this country. There have been one or two brilliant principals, but the background has never been adequate. Now every feature of a fine and a finished ballet is promised. Although Najinski is the most fa- mous man dancer of the day and Karsavina a noted character dancer, there ought to be a place in this troupe for one who is really the most famous ballerina of her time. This is Anna Pavlowa. Of her unique eminence there is mo question. She is the foremost dancer of her day and in her the art of the ballet in Russia and for that matter in the world today has reached its flower. It is she who has on her own re. sponsibility brought the ballet to this country for several years past. Be- hind her efforts to introduce the Rus- sian ballet here there stood no sub- scribers or directors to come to her assistance. Naturally the Russian ballet has not been revealed in this way in its best estate; but there has always been the incomparable art of Anna Pavlowa to give distinction to all its manifestations It seems inevitable, thercfore, that the foremost dancer of Russia should be. a member of any organization that comes here to represent the art of its baljet. Baseball Prospects. (New York Press.) The first robin may coyly delay his annual appearance and the ther- mometer may display its usual March |vagaries, but when the old familiar “rounding into form’ comes up from the big league training camps in the south there can no longer be any doubt about it—spring, although frozen stiff, is here. With relief the bored newspaper reader turns from the recital of epoch-making events in Kurope and from crime and -bickering here at home of the friendly reaches of the sporting page, where base hits are ringing and pitchers’ good arms are slowly limbering for action. No here! Sunshine and warm carth and the thud of swiftly moving feet—the baseball-hungry reader can almost conjure the scene before him as he huddles up to the radiator. Already there scems be a re- vival interest this year im base- ball. The good old games had a rocky time of it last year, with the foreign war and its own internal ensions In the off season there has been hardly a let up in baseball wrangling; but even this may prove to be a good thing, since it may in- duce a reaction toward playing rather than baseball polities and sharpen the appetite of the fans to see a real game again. May it bhe saq! With so many things to think about, let us all hope that one never failing dis- traction will redouble its attraction of for us this summer. Two Veterans Met. Semi-centennial anniversaries of the great events of the Civil war have been numerous for the last year or two and more are at hand, including those of Tincoln's second inaugural address, the surrender of ILece and, saddest of all, assassination of fhe great emancipator. All these can ho observed without section celing or the least bilterness of spirit. By way of illustrating the new and better derstanding that has followed ihe bloody strife of fifty years ago the Of- fice Window man of the New York Mail relates that in the year 1913, on the occasion of the celebration of the on the field of that great battle a man who interested him greatly. The Office Window man, wandering alone at sun- set along the top of Cemetery Hill, where the solid lines of Hancock held back the advancing hosts of Pickett, fell into conversation with a tall man, evidently a southerner, who had come id valley. There was talk of the battle: and the Office Window man told how his two brothers had stood up there with the Vermonters fifty years be fore. ““Yes,” said the Southerner, “I am a Virginian, and my older brothers sell here on the other side. And now it is long gone and past, and it is just glorious history; and yvou and I sit here in peace and friendship, and look down in content on this rich and hap- Py valley, where war will never come again.” The two men walked away together, and met others veterans who were viewing the scene. The Virginan talked freely, grandly with them 1. The Yankee veterans touched their caps and seemed to feel a kind of spell as the tall South- erner spoke so sweetly and gently. l When he walked away he left an alr baseball | | served un- semi-centennial of Gettysburg, he met | up and was gazing down into the plac- | some Union | | ton McMILLAN'S - HNAL MARK-DOWN SALE OF ALL WINTER COATS SATURDAY CHOICE $3.98 VALUES TO $15.00, The sale you have been walting for. Sale begins Saturday at $:30 A. M. There will be some quick ueH-} ing of these women's and misses coats when the news of our final clearance sale of coats gets around, The women know what this means at McMillan's sales. LAST OALL ON MUFFS $2.98 and $3.98 for muffs Saturday. Worth $6.00 to $7.50. It will pay you to buy one for next winter at these prices. , NEW SILK BLOUSES, Striped tub silks at $1.98 each. Crepe de Chines in the new shades, New Rose, Nile Green and Sky. At $3.98 cach STRIPED CREPE BLOU $4.98 pE CHINE v Al new, at VOME TRON W. Specia) Saturday, 11c pair. weight in black and tan. Mediuin SPRIN WEIGHT PANTS, styles at 26c each VESTS AND All WOMEN'S LISLE VESTS, Regular and extra sizes. 12 1-2¢ ea, EXTRA LARGE TURKISH TOWELS 17¢ value Saturday 12 1-2c each. - D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 Main Street. of grandeur behind him. And yet he was just a plain Virginia business man, of whom not one of us had ever, heard before When he was gone, one felt that they are still pro ducing great men in Virginia, though not all of them are famous Congressional Badges. (Toledo (0.) Blade.) The police sta up at Maryland room, varying certain ved community They gathered kinds and whisperers munity the were members of congress Con- gressman Cary of Wisconsin is con- vinced these visitors fakers. They we impersonating gentlemen too law abiding and too fond of their beds to enter The inci« dent has moved introduce a bill calling fo; of badges, such as those worn by secret-soclety membere, identifying congressmen and preventing such posing or impersonation of them us occurred in the netghboring Maryland village, The idea is not without inerit. The badges ought to do more than save congressinen from slander and unde- crit m, It maitter well known in lodge circles that harum- rum young men have mended tholr waye and noticeably improved after a badge has been stuck into theie lapels. The buttons have given them somethir live up te They have " been and dc into responsible-minded citizens Wh should not do &8 much a nator? nigat to raid a in “sports” degree, among who claimed im- ground that they in a pool-+ of upon were pooirooms him to the issue any ca is eloped conzressional representative badge for a or se Senator Burton Quits, (New York Sun.) wmtor | Burton of Ohio quits gre the full stature of a st man. He had the intelligence and the persistence to himself the subjects on which ve 1 When he in was ready and with specific ‘e been s in inform e on COUNSC generalities, lie them i1sters support His filil ed on reason and partisanship has of the merely annoying kad the courage that a 1 neecds who carries id of economy, eff. ciency and business administration unimpaired from stump to legisla- ture, and he was as earnest for good government inside the capitol as out- side its walls In one congress saved, his opr harbor bills, not cf immediate and indefensible What the contingent amount to, nobody not he variet ledge His an Senatoxy Burton* sition to river and less than $50,000,0¢ unnecessary wasteful appropriation savings would can pretend to And these contributions to sune economy merely index nator Bur- s service. They do not measure it, A good and useful senator, ably, performing the essential labors of a senator: what a discouraging inei- dent of political life it is that re- £ay he tires while 80 many of the windbags hold their seats! Uit N