New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 24, 1915, Page 6

Office at_New Britain Class Mail Matter. —— ¥ ‘e <o any part of the ety & Week, 65 Cents a Month. “fl-bfl, to sent by mall ‘&dvance. 60 Cents & - '$7.00 & year. — advertising medium i ulation books and press open to advertisers. — : Il o round on sala at Hota- I8 Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- W York City; Hoard Walk. City and Hartford. depot. ong anticipated break ments of Italy and | night flashed over ery point of the globe j was Involved in the strusg- ids: fair to be the most col- och making in history. million or so of soldiers ‘a negligable factor in uigs on the continent, ¥ action of this govern- i serve to shorten the period a question to which ars of neutral and belli- ‘would like an early and swer. God fearing peo- the blood and terror that be in its grip, may well hope | |precipitation into the arena ¥ force will bring about a sconstruction of affairs. We bw that this is so and may e.. The array against Ger- h has declared war against Arger. If Germany conquers it foes in their countries of Italy lays it also open _" and the consequent pro- ~of the war. If, however, iid to the allies it'undoubted- fend to o shortening of ‘the ot of the latest news from imittedly only a conjecfure, ind ‘to a shortening of tho thought here, although our ds will indignantly deny many has little ehance to ‘struggles even“though she gains and partial victor- position of the allies is such are able to withhold from emy many of the necessary neident .to the war. Ger- {on the inside of a ring which it she would be unable to en conceded that she does “capture important ship- | ould be hard for her lies,, : We would then jubmarines of the d theFresch which have va.position to do any use of the condition. The “of supplies will be the vantage that Germany She may be in a condi- nufacture a large amount on and to harvest large crops. . men to manufacture and ‘and no country can afford to en from the front at this time. ‘gradual cutting off of sup- iture to assert that the al- )u!com»plilah more than by e of supplies to Germany n Italy. It is a fact that the s have been receiving . ship- _through that country. This ’cur no more and the last means ommunication with the outside d remains “through ' the; neutral jiries to the north of the Ten- home. They are none too par- their southern neighbor but n taking advantage of the ity to sell some of their prod- Just how long this is primarily a country of irers. It raises grain and 8 but Austria-Hungary may be ‘the “feeder” of the war. jamounts of grain are raised on n an plains which are in- ble to Germany. The advent he world of war of Italy might . subjection of Austria and off & ,thét end_which, if accom- ‘the appeal from thc he attention of so many this country will with- 3 from the defdnses against to the northwest and ke the position there so much . Germany has seen with al- uncanny forethought the up- ‘time when Italy would jump y and has done her best ‘the Russians. What she the Russians at her head {her feet is a question. L8 i known that the elev- | fighting men, “her' soldiers are guperbly trained for the ‘exigencies of the situation, and should be an_enormous factor with ihe consolidation of her army against Austria, ‘The news of Germany's dec- laration war against Italy is no surprise. It is merely a formality and should amount to no more at the | present. If the predictions of the unbruised strategists should be over- fhrown and England and France should fall before their foe then, the invasion of Italy will mean further prolongation of the dark period now existing. AUTOS IN BERLIN. Town officers and citizens of Berlin are agitating the need of an officer to patrol the stretch of road on Berlin street to guard against the over-speed- | ing of automobiles. The general | opinion in that town is that someone n authority should guard the welfare of the road and its users on Sunday | in particular. Yesterday, petween 4 and 5 o’clock in the afternoon, 251 automobiles passed down the stretch past Woodruff’s corner. It is - esti- mated that about 2,500 machines passed theré during the day. It is also claimed that most of them were going at a good rate of speed. | The people.of Berlin aré under the impression that the state potice should take the matter in charge, vn Sundays | at any rate. If the conten:ions of the observers regarding speed are true there should be some way of en- forcing a slower rate through the | settled district. Whether that would be the duty of the state police or the | authorities of Berlin is ‘a question. | The road is a state hignway and the autoists are breaking state rules but the territdw in question is within a township and it seems as if it would be up to Berlin to enforce the law. Still raining. Sunday gave prom- ises which remained unfulfilled. i KB R Too bad the barber shops are closed this afternoon. Deprives the patrons of getting a line on the Italian war situation “while it’s hot.” . Army Reserve Needed. (Washington Post.) Before the European war is brought to an end it is predicted that Great Britain will be forced to adopt a law that will involve some surt of com- pulsory army service. In the civil war in the United States, resort had to be taken to a drafting system in order to fill up the ranks of tlie army, but the men thus recruited . were. untrained and there was’ con- siéerable delay before they could oe put into the field. History shows that aelays at the beginning of a war are invariably costly, It has sometimes happened that a nation has been overwhelmed before it had a chance to train the troops necessary ‘for defense.’ -« Switzerland can hardly be described as a military country, and yvet, in pro- portion to its population, that nation has a larger and more efficient poten- tial army than any other country in the world. The entire male popula- tion is always, prepared for war. It is extremely doubtful whether the United States wil ever adopt any- thing approaching the Swiss system, bLut the nation eventually must take steps looking to the establishment of en adequate reserve. The national guard in the various States might well be utilized as the mucleus of .a fine’ reserve system, and if tne term of en- listment in the regular army were shortened, thousands of young men Just out of school or college would be glad to enlist for six months or a year. If they then became part of the nat- ional reserve it would not be long before the United States would have a large potential army of trained and cfficient men, ' while the experience and discipline given to the young men of the country would be valuable to them and to the country, even in the peaceful walks of life. Says the Cynic, The Cynic writing in the American Magazine, says: “ 'Of course the wora culture has more meanings than any other word in the world, the reason -being that the only way for a man to define it {s for him to describe himself. # “I saw a successful man today who declared that before the month is out he is going to get his hair cut if he has to take gas to do 1t. Which re- ‘minded me that, generally speaking men whose hair is always neatly trimmed do not really amount to a lot. The young have an exaggerated idea of the wisdom of the old, and the cld have an exaggerated idéa’ of the ability of the young. Practically every man succeeds, year in and year out, in keeping up the illusion that some- brdy else cah furnish the brains which bhe himself lacks. Human beings admire each gther much more than is deserved.” % June Advertising vs. Prayer. The small daughter of a Little Rock family had been praying each even- ing at bed time for a baby sister: The other morning her mother, reading the paper, exclaimed: “I see Mrs. Smith has a little daughter.” “How do you know that?” asked the child. y “I read it in the paper,” answered the mother. “Read it to me,” said the aaughter. The mother read: “Born—on March —to Mr., and Mrs. Smith, a _aaughter.” | The child thought a moment, then said: “I know what I am going to | do; 1 am geing to quit praying and Ing.”’—National Mouth- Iy, de e FACTS AND FANCIES, Cage.”’—Headline. as long as ‘the Eagle- S ay in Thaw Sure, they all will, money lasts.—Poughkeepsie News. The Erie canal will be reopened for such business as may offer as soon as the water, which has been ordered, ar- rives from Buffalo—Rochester Post- Express. On the score of war, the United States is about the only country that is maintaining its mental equilibrium. —Berkshire Eagle. Seeing no excuse for joining in the ' big war carnival, Portugal has had a little “old home week"” of its own.— New Haven Union. ‘While the rest of the world is at war time is opportune for Dr. Cook | mountain while | to sneak up that nobody is looking.—Middletown Penny Press. The fur.trappers are suffering from the SeEi G e o8 be il makets for their goods are closed. gether.—RBoston Journal, That a mistake was made in send- ing Dernburg to this country is now recognized. - He has merely aggravat- ed the situation, without adding to its clarity.—Rochester Herald, Lassen Peak, which ‘erupted” a great many times last year, is said to be getting busy again. volcano, seeing so much disturbance elsewhere, evidently wants to get into the game.—Troy Times. The Great Trial is reported to be costing each of the principals $8,000 a week, As most of the money is spént in Syracuse that town ought to be able to build a.convention hall if the trial lasts as long as is promised. —Rochester Post-Express. When Jane Addams declares with emphasis that housework is restful she may prompt the average house- wife to wonder why she does not de- vote some time to such a pleasing oc- cupation herself.—Syracuse Journal. We hope Germany will yield. But, as the president has well said, what we are asking we are asking for the sake of all humanity, and there must | be not thought in any American mind that we will be satisfied with any- thing less than we have demanded.— Buffalo Express, Governor ~ Whitman has now reached the $2,000,000 mark in prun- ing the appropriation bills and is look- ing for a million more. It is not be- lleved that any of his pruning will in the least iInterfere .with efficiency in the state government, A department of state like an individual man gen- erally finds that it can live on its in- come if it has to..—Watertown Times. The present cabinet crisis in Eng- land is a final evidence that the Brit- ish people are at last awake to the meening of the German war, to the mening of the German 'idea and ideal. It means 4 stronger, sterner, more un- compromisirfg spirit in the conduct of the war. It means a final elimination of the men and the ideas which have ruled democracies everywhere for two | decades. It is a return to the England of Pitt, as the French cabinet change | was a reversion to the republic of the elder Carnot.—New York Tribune. Charges Against Insects. The investigations of recent years have disclosed the relations™ of insects to malaria, yellow fever, bubonic plague and sleeping sickness.. The strjking results already demonstrated in respect to the activity of mos- quitoes, fleas, bedbugs and house flies inevitably raises the question as to the possible significance of other specles of insectse#thich may be less abund- ant but whese contact with man may be occasional or confined to restricted | localities. This group includes cock- roaches, ants and begs. Their role is as yet purely conjectural; but it is of interest to consider the possibilities as they present themselves to one trained to observe the versatile habits of in- sects and to recognize the opportuni- ties for infection to which the sani- tarian must give heed. That an insect which will® devour any sufficiently soft substance, from human foods to glue, grease and water colors, and which will live by preference in the cracks of floors and walls of houses, bakeries, restaurants, sugar refineries and tanneries, where their bodies come in contact with the filth and refuse that necessarily ac- cumulate in such places should carry a host of germs about, on and in their bodies and be able to infect our foods is certainly not surprising. Yet this is the habit of life of the omnivorous cockroach. Roaches probably also feed on tuberculous sputum and disseminate the bacilli as readily as the house fly. Ants, which are often abundant in houses and are readily disseminated by commerce, .sometimes becomes a pest to the housewife, particularly when they get into the stores of food. They have not éscaped suspicion «as disseminators of pathogenic micro- organisms. Wheeler points out that it thus becomes possible for ants to spread disease in different ways. Finally the bees, lauded for cen- turies by poet and prose writer alik?, have not escaped the accusation of suspicion, says the Journal of the American Medical asociation. Wheel- er has observed the stingless bees visits collections of garbage in the canal zone, presumably gathering for- elgn substances which they knead into ‘the cerumen cells in which they store honey eagerly collected for food by the natives in_many parts of tropi- cal Anierica. Aclording to Wheelier, there are records of imtestinal disor- ders or even death following the eat- Men- | hunting and fur trapping don’t go to- | The California | 1lem. Two Hundred Women's Wash Dresses at That Are Worth $1.00 ON SALE WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 8:30 a, m, Dresses of striped Ginghams and plain Chambrays, some with colored collars, in all sizes, 36 to 44 bust. OLIVER TWIST SUITS At 49¢ Each . CHILDREN'S ROMPERS At 49c Each Made of Ripplettes and Ginghams. ROYAL WORCESTER CORSETS Serviceable, shape, $1.00 to $3.00 pair. You fee] them only for their pleas- ing support. They have shaping. pow- er, concealing the defects and em- phasizing the naturally good points of your form, At our Corset Department we are showing the newest models in the fol- lowing well known makes: Bon Ton, Nemo, American Lady, R. & G., Flexo- Form and Thompsen's Glove Fitting, priced $1.00 to $5.00. EMBROIDERED VOILES AND CREPE DE CHINE All the new things to complete the Graduation Gown, Laces, eries, Flower, Crystal and Pearl Trim- mings. D. McMILLAN 199-201.203 MAIN STREET WHAT OTHIRS 3AY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that cowe (o Herald office. So Much News. (New York Times.) the world. It is an increasing prob- It is a problem first for the newspaper, to get all of the essential news in, and a problem then for the reader, which of it to slight in order that he may have some time remain. ing in which to perform his share of the day's work. If there were nothing else to do one could spend all of ‘one’s conscious time just.read- ing the news, The quantity of it that can be put into one issue of the New York Times is about 100000 words. That is equal to a full-grown book. For variety of interest, for color, for-all of the qualities that go into the creation of human interest, no baok could begin to match It. In one issue this week the num- ber of things that one felt obliged to read in an attentive manner, just to keep up with the world, was enough to amaze even newspaper makers. It included a dramatic reorganization of the British ministry in the midst of war, a call by Lerd Kitchener for 300,000 more volunteers, a great vic- tory by the Teutonic allies over the Russians in Galjcia,. a discussion in | Berlin of the American note to Ger- | many on the sinking of the Lusitania, Germany’s ;acceptance of war yvith Italy as,af.ladt inevitable, a revolu- tion in Partugal, a question ‘as to whether the Transylvania. was chared by a German submarine, a review of | the fleet if New York hargor by Pres- ident Wilsop, a predictiongby Alexan- der Graham Bell that ingthe future men at great distances uld think together by means of wire ci around their heads, theatrical developments | in the trial of a conspiracy charge brought by the Riggs National hank of Washington against the secretary | of the treasury, and others, and Mr. Roosevelt in his very best manner de- nouncing Mr, Barnes In the celebrated libel case. Any one of these topics in ordinary times would be intorest. ing enough te “lead the paper” with. When so.much happens ‘all at one time one thing competes with ancther’ for position; and what might once have bden a front page feature is lucky to get its display on th~ last page. If you draw a parallél between the mind and the daily newspaper you will see. The capacity of the mind to receive impressio may be in- creased by attention, hut it is never- theless limited, and when the num- 40 inches wide, at 50c and 75c yard. ! Embroid- | Never was there so much news in | McMILLAN'S|| retaining and | satisfying are these modish Corsets, at | BIG PREPARATORY SALE AT OUR MEN’S STORE The Week Before Decoration Day. ¢ each || . 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The war will end. The pressure of living and thinking will abate. What then? That is an interesting ques- tion. people will have a sense of propor- see casual events in a new prospec- tive. Back to the Soil. (Troy Times.) What might be construed as one of the interesting “signs of thé times” is ihe announcement from various cities that boys are beeking Instruction in agriculture. Something of a surprise was caused when, not long ago, a big university in New York added an agri- cultural course to the curriculum, That was one of the first indications of a growing disposition on the part of the city youths to get ““back to the coil.” ‘Evidently the inclination is de- veloping along other lines. There are other boys than those attending cgl- iege who want to be agriculturisfs, The New York Mail has been looking the matter up, and that newspaper ber of impressions presenting them- ing of such honey. The suggstion of possible contamination with disease gering. collected by flithy insects s plain. . : R selves greatly exceeds that limit, the mind must pick and choose. It un- consciously adopts a new scale of values. Everything i{s relative, Im- says: “There are five hundred eager boys, most of them from this city, on the waiting list. They want to learn farming.’ This statement is made in connection with a protest against pressions that would have been very | it to the ut.} than it can print, it begins to choose | and to eliminate, and a new scale of | Perhaps then for a long time tion that was lacking before, and will | the propo\sed closing up of the School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, L. I., which was founded by the state but has not yét been put-in operation, The Mail asks: “Why board up the chool ?”” and declares that such an in- stitution as is proporsed would be of great value, particularly to those of the class mentioned, who, according to The Mail, are boys who “want to climb out of the city-rut of office work or factory life and wrest their living irem the soil.” That 1s a sound ar- gument. So much has been sald ebout the congestion In :arge cities, the discouragements faced by those who seek to make their way to suc- cess~in life, and the wholesome con- ditions that await the worker in the country that everyvthing possible should be done to heip the youhg men who are inclined to farming. The drift has long been the other way. The thought that seems to spring spontaneously in the breast of the average ‘‘country boy” is how he can ged to the city and “make his fortune.” it is true that many have gone to the cities and have there won their way to wealth and honor. It is a fact that the cities have been wonderfully helped by the mental and physical vigor and the moral qualities which the “country boys” have taken with them. No one can deny that the cities owe great debts to the rural regions for the strength and vitality thus im- parted. Yet that is but one sidge of the pic- iure. All boys who g0 from the country to the city do not succeed. There is a sad and gloomy list of fail. ures and misfits. Thous ds have made the attempt and svne down in the maelstrom of city existence, sue- cumbing to the adverse influences which they could not withstand and becoming helpless and pitiful dere- licts in the vast ocean of urban huf manity, It is reasonable to assdim that a fair proportion of thoserwhd made such shipwreck of themsel wculd have been happiler, better an much more useful men had they re mained in the country, develop ability in cultivating the soll turned their talents to good account i ising preducts to be consumed b their fellows. There are indicatio that many young men "yt ‘careful study to this 4 matter. The increasing love 1ife, with the knowledge of agricultu: which is now #vallable 10 all, hae ti promise of vast benefit to the natlo The opportunities for profitable effo end for wholesomo living, with all t! refinements and comforts that moden invention puts withhi®ezey reaci steadily transforming tne farmho irto a very attractive and sakisf: home, Spring. Mow the sprinkled blackthorn snthw Lies among the lovers lane, Where ‘last year we used to go— Where we shall not go again, ™ Ir the hedge the buds are new, §y our wood the violets peer— Jugt like last yvear's violets, toe, But they have no gcent this yeaw Every bird has heart to sing { Of its nest, warmed by its breastl” We had heart to sing last spring, But we never built our nest, Fresently red roses blown Will make all the garden : Not yet have the daisies grown E On your clay. —E. Nesbit in Harper's for June.