New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1915, Page 8

). at 4:18 p..m, ‘Church St Offce at New Britain Mall Matter. to any part of the oity ‘eek. 85 Cents a Month. " paper to be sent by 8 advance. 60 Cents & $7.00 » "year. — advertising medium 18 Circuwation books and press l&y® open tu advertisers. ¥ill be round on sale at Flota- ) Stand, 42nd St. and B York City; Board Walk, . City ‘'end .Hartford depot. ' LANSING THE CHOICE? 7 comes another problem— ecretary: of state. Truly ving' days for President’ Vith the second note to - despttche_d, the White become . e--look-out station or to the:late, lamented to' a man realizes this heaped upon the pres- lders. Whomever shall ntle cast aside by William yan must be a man fitted e, a diplomat and a stu- ernational law. Taught Woodrow Wilson will be he rewards political ser- hsi a~di£*p%mus pos- a -coalition: ~cdbinet, the 1as an. embarrassment of which to choose a pilot " p of state. He has tyen- in which to decide. These hen the waves beat high, is easily rocked. There- of wide exprience must Mim; Robert Lansing is at the tateship. He has no middle it bé “diplomacy.” He 8d on it. For that reason nk he will get Bryan's for- c One thing sure, Lansing € more welcomed among the i's official family than a rank He -has attend” cabiner . and, as a matter of ‘fact, ; fclally, been secretary of ice the sending of the Lusi- “@nd ‘three months ago ‘was appointed diplomatic general. of the United succeed: John 'Basset ‘Moore, deposed at the instigation of féfrler. Because of Moore's ce as an.international law- 's appointment attracted on, That he was no am- d at diplomacy was shown hrasing of the notes to Ger- . Great Britain. In truth, d diplomacy from the hand her-in-law, John Watson ho was secretary of state in f . Harrison's administration. his wonderful training—he international law it would not be sur- Robert Lansing landed the of state. The only others seriously with him for the : Secretary of War Garri- etary of the Interior ' Lane, étt Moore, and Richard ) Boston, secretary of state land’s cabinet. Reasons why j men cannot consistently be con- pd are too well known for discus- | Secretary Garrison, the most Bfble candidate for the honors, is yaluable at the head of military to be taken away at this criti- od. So it seems as if fate Is g mightily with Robert Lansing. N diplomatic fox,” as his. fath- aw has been called, might have d the son-in-law for the place. ows? . Lansing 18 fifty years of 'He is diametrically opposite to m whose place he has taken, iterim. Cool, clear, reasoning is to his liking, ‘and he plays not | oratory, rhetoric, or rodomon- Both President Wilson and for- ry Bryanrelied more on than they ever did on John Moore. But Woodrow Wilson more to Lansing than he ‘an. When the neutrality #ion, ‘giving Preatdent Wllson 2] powers - over shipping from gan ports was sent to congress ) declining days of the last ses- it was said-in Washington that ‘Lumlfig and not Bryan or Wil- it the communication to the asking its passage. When the on struck a snag in the house to be re-modelled, further it ensued, because of the fact nsing did the re-modelling An explanation of this set ‘that Bryan was in bed at the and it was not necessary to en him. 3 ieky for Lansing there was a sec- by of state Whom, it-was thought cessary to awa, ; for Lansing, | sh out with this administration 88 secretary of state, Another is,— he has no hobbles. And President ‘Wilson detests hobbies, A OUR ANSWER TO GERMANY'S NOTE. Our: answer to Germany's note is a ‘“safe and sane” appeal for the rights of humanity; for those things that belong tq the province of Twen- tieth Century man and without which present day civilization would revert back to the embryonic barbarism of pre-historic time. ‘We are asking nothing new of Ger- many, we are merely setting straight some things the Imperial Government failed, or refused to recognize in the note of May 13. . Couched in the friendliest terms,: and graced by the wonderful diction and style of President Wilson, this new communication can entrap us in no imbroglio. On the contrary: In- stead of making for war, as some of our pacificists feared, the reiteration of the Lusitania note could have but the opposite effect. That is, unless Germany has been totally deprived of the high sense of civilization which has made her great among modern nations; unless the Germany of today desires to efface herself from the so- cfety of civilized nations; unless the German language is not capable of bearing in translation the fine sense of feeling and delicacy that marks our second overture. The note opens to Germany new paths .by which she can travel to- wards a settlement of some of her differences with Great Britain,—and none of these roads is aerial or un- dersea. Necessarily, the note is firm; but only as firm as becomes the situation. It is more courteous and . friendly. Its legal status cannot be disputed, for it dispels every contention made by Germany. Leaving legality to one side, the note reaches out into the far fleld of humanity and “with solemn emphasis” renews the representations of the Lusitania note and asks Ger- many to adopt measures to put into practice the well recognized principles of international law which go to safe- guard American lives and American ships. It further “asks for assurances that this will be done.” Instead of standing in the way of Germany's course, the note makes things easier for her,—not more dif- ficult. She has no new problem to deal with, no new situation, she has merely a more comprehensive. con- struction of the. greviences set forth in the previous note. < In the present document we an- nounce a compliance with Germany’s request for full information on the at- tack of the steamer Cushing, which will in due course be laid before the Imperial German Government. ‘With regard to the sinking of the steamer Falaba, we recourse to inter- national law, and smash Germany’'s pretext for sinking it. The Falaba had desisted from an attempt to es- cape when she was torpedoed, and it was the obligation of the commander of the submarine to look out for the safety of those on board the merchant- man, one of whom was an American. That is a principle of international law long applicable to conditions on the open sea To the allegation of Germany that “the Lusitania was undoubtedly equipped with masked guns, supplied with trained gunners and special am- munition”; and-that it was a troop transport carrying Canadian soldiers, with a cargo not permitted under laws of the United States, we reply that if these things were so the Lusi- tania would never have received her clearance papers as a merchantman. Thus is given the positive assurance to Germany that the Lusitania was an unarmed ship. With this goes a chal- lenge. If Germany can show other- wise, the United States wants to know. The German government is insured it has been misinformed. To question the stand of the United States, Ger- many must impeach the integrity of this nation, a nation noted for its ul-: tra-fairness. Germany cannot do that. But we dismiss all these contentions of the German government as “irreve- lant to, the question of the legality of the methods used by the German naval authorities in sinking the ves- sel.” { When Germany contends that the methods of her submarine warfare are justifiable because Great Briatin has placed an embargo on her food supply, we answer her in a spirit of frank friendliness and courtesy and announce our willingness to convey to either Germany or Great Britain b Justice will be vindjcated and that, in the long run.will overshadow all -her other acts. MARCONI AT WORK. Despatches from Italy received to- day reveal in"a general way the use- fullness; of Mr. Marconi, inventor of the \\'ji'eless telegraph, to his country. He has put into operation an instru- ment designed so that wireless mes- sages of the enemy may be inter- cepted and which also guards against any spying’ on the messages of the Italians themselves. It was expected that when Mr. Marconi left this coun- try for Italy, about three weeks-ago, that an effort would be made to tor- pedo the ship which carried him, thereby eliminating this man from the struggle. He has evidently gone to work. quickly and is acomplishing a great deal. Mr. Marconi's invention will prob- ably prove to be of great value to his country. It might even throw the balance of power toward Italy. Just what kind of a machine he might concoct to accomplish unheard of re- sults is of course impossible to fore- cast. The marvel of his recent wire- less invention is still one if the won- ders of the world. Bryan is still busy explaining why he quit. The all-sufficient fact is, he did quit. Although he has jumped from the craft of diplomacy he is trying to cre- ate a disturbance in the sea of public opinion for the purpose of ‘“‘Rocking the boat.” 3 He ‘will ‘be highly lucky if he isn’t engulfed 'in the whirpool of his own making and drawn under for good. Suppose the sounding boards of the Chautaugua circuit will be worn out with the vibrations of the anti-bel- lum, pro-Bryan voice. And what is more he will get tha ations of why he quit. Mr. Bryan is now a hyphenated cit izen.- . The hyphen follows. the ‘“‘ex.” \ The members of the New Britain city planning commission seem to be a little vague in the idea of just what their duties are to be. They know they have to report to the common council, however. Official war news for twenty-four hours: “Italians win” and “Austrians defeat them,” “Russians advance in Galicia’ 'and “Gérman forces capture a few thousand of the czar's ‘“nothing to report in the western area but we are gaining” (Germany, France and England) “Turks beat off landing force at Dardanelles” and “lose three trenches or so,” ‘““German submarines blow up certain number of British ships together with a few stragglers from other countries.” Of course the newspapers are neutral. men,"” The British navy is “somewhere in the Alps.” Mount Ararat has not yet been de- clared a war zone. Meanwhile the war orders roll in, the arms companies declare extra div- idends and the American people g&o to the movies for their battles. [} ‘When the situation at the State De- partment reached a ‘“boil,” Dector Wilson prescribed Lansing. FACTS AND FANCIES. Italy may find that it's more expen- sive to get out than to get in to Austria.—Meriden Record. Steamer trunks this year will come in handy for planting cucumbers and melons in.—New London Telegraph. America for Americans is a good | slogan, and it does not exclude hy- | rhenated Americans., — Bridgeport Telegram. ~ A "horse lasts only a week on the | firing front, which is longer than his | hide "lasts . with Ty Cobb or Hans ‘Wagner at the bat.—New York Press. It tvill take more than a five-foot shelf to hold the numerous red, white, biue, green and yellow books issues ter. The Turk may be ‘‘unspeakable,” but judging from his performances on the Galipoli Peninsula he'd also be South Norwalk Sentinel. The running board of the jitney is “any intimation or suggestion the other may be willing to have it con- vey,” and cordially invite'the imperial German government to make use of our services in this way. That ‘conclusion 'leaves Germany to find a Wway out of a situation which ,at best, is ugly. But Germany knows the arch under which she must walk to meet humanity on the proper plane. And Germany is too big, too great in tradition, not to accept the on the a(l\éu;é’o’f his republi- her-in-law, was mever asleep, 55 0 good offices of this government in helping her to do the right thing. Ger- more deadly than the running board of the trolley, but the public put up . with the latter for a number of years.—Middletown Penny Press. 1f the warring nations would stop fishting for a minute and listen to the advice of our graduating students, they Wwould quit the game in a jiffy.— New Haven Journal-Courter. Connecticut’'s ‘move to Tveorganize her National Guard on a war-efficiency | basis is wise and timely. Every state should do the same. A social-show militia s hardly worth maintaining. —Brooklfyn (N. Y.) Eagle. ©f the reasons he may | man pride may be hurt, but German | 1t students writing graduation es- public’s good money for long &xpland| to excuse the war.—Torrington Regis- unbeatable, if he had half a chance.— | says labor with the same urnu}txu- i1and persistency as the president has in framing his answer to the Gérman note, doubtless they will be composi- tions of merit.—Westerly Sun. A Colorado girl was married one day and applied for a divorce the next. When mental processes are as rapid as that, it seems too .bad that th second thought cannot come just | before the first.—Providence Journal. With the revelations showing the reed of more attention to the coun- try’s navy, it is right in nne with his other troubles that Secretary Daniels should be confronted with a “leak’ in :1}13 naval academy.—Norwich Bulle- It's a sorry year for baseball What chance for fame have _the heroes of the diamond, with Von Hin- denburg, Mackensen, Joffre, French and Kitchener, not to mention the embattled monarchs, always grabbing the limelight ?—Hartford Times, The customs authorities in New York, have decided that paints, im- ported for children’s use, cannot come irto this country under the duty pre- scribed for “artists’ colors.” There is apparently no such thing as a child- artist.—Hartford Courant The first woman student in the for- estry course at Cornell and the first one to ever get a diploma ifn that de- partment has made a good start by marrying a class mate. Others tak- ing that course might do well to fol- low their example.—Bridgeport Post. A German band of eight pileces, after playing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” marched into the Federal building in Brooklyn and téok out naturalization papers, “from clarinet to tuba.” They are the kind of citi- zens Uncle Sam likes. There'll be no hyphens on their scores.—New York Tribune. . A Harvard doctor says that women are as fit for soldiers as are men. He realizes, of course, that they lack practice. What the Women’s Volun- teer Reserves movement in England proposes is to give them practice. Nobody claims that anything impos- sible is being attempted.—Néw Hayven Register. 'y Many millions of dollars will. be ex- pended in this country this year that are usually expended abroad. While all kinds of business in Europe will || feel this, and some of it will be a { long time recovering, it ought"to be a good thing for pretty much all hands in America. 'Every dollar ex- pended here is just so much to help our own people.—Norwich Record. One-third of the ' so-called wise guys in the country think they can Leat a lawyer expounding the laws. One-half think they can beat the doctor in healing the sick,. two-thirds of them think they can put the minis- ter in the hole expounding the gospel, and all of them think they can beat the editor runing a paper. And may- be they can.—Rockville Leader. The champion lazy man of the country has been discovered in Ohio. He has agreed to help along the fly- killing campaign in his town by wear- ing a thin coating of molasses on his bald head for two weeks. It is too niuch work to “swat,” but he is will- ing to donate his unused natural re- sources to the good of the community. —Jrovidence Journal. Switzerland is in sore distress and imminent peril. No mile of her bor- der touches a neutral country; no 10ad to the sea is open to her; no pound of food can reach -her from zbroad except through belligerents who are conserving their own food supplies, Yet on the outside world she largely depends for food and the raw materials used in her manufac- tures.—Rochester Post-Express. The president has delayed his re- ply to Germany's last note from sheer anxiety to make it in style and form adequate to an occasion of such po- tential moment. All accounts from ‘Washington agree that the delay in- dicates no weakening or departure from the clalms and principles laid down in the first note sent a couple of weeks ago. For various obvious reasons its substance will be looked for with intensest interest on both sides of the ocean. The issue is not whether the Lusitania was “armed” or any such rottenly supported claim, but whether the government of Ger- many inténds to adhere t6 the hither- to accepted principles of interfational law on maritime warfare.—Stamford Advocate. Herman Ridder’s son hastens, in the absence of the father, to brand as “rank forgeries’’ letters purporting to be signed by the editor of the Staats- Zeitung calling upon Americans of German Bblood to declare their will- ingness to defend Germany's “rights ana its position should it pe necessary to do so in the possible clash be- tween Germany and the United States.” Mr. Ridder isn't that kind of an American.—Springfield Republ- can. It is believed that the purpose of the interrogatories to the demécratic leaders in the several states propound- ed by the democratic national com- mittee is to ascertain how Mr. Wil- son’s policies are regarded and that | the object of gathering the informa- tion has also a congressional bear- ing. In other words, if the sixty-third congress erred in any case under Mr. ‘Wilson's direction will it be in the power of the sixty-fourth congress to correct the error in time for effect at the polls mext year?—Hartford Post. Dissension may possibly arise out of one of the questions to be con- sidered in Chicago today at the con- ferénce of the National American Woman Suffrage association. This is the question of militancy and its prob- alle effect upon the pelitical enfran- ciisement of women. If there is any- thing to be learned from the militant rarty of England it 1s vbvious that he borrowers must use intelligence in adapting what they have léarned to American conditions, This - is-- what A NEW IDEA IN -THE POPULA! GOLFINE COATS ‘AT $10.00 These coats, regular $13.98 val ues are made of a Hew contrasting | double stripe golfine in one of the For Sat- season’s latest models. urday only at WHITE CORDUROY SKIRTS, AT $3.98. 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The highly organized German pro- paganda in this country, not content with demanding that the wholly law- 1ul sale of munitions to tne belliger- eats shall be stopped, seems now about to take more desperate meas- ures. The next move is to be a strike in industrial plants making war mate- rials, strikes ordered by “labor” léad- ers eager to demonstrate their power to injure the country in which “labor” is a privileged class. We suspect that someé of these alien anda homébred conspirators against the neutrality of the land that sheltérs them may gét into trouble if they keep on.—New York Sun. It is impossible to exaggerate the 1mportance of the estimates supplied by the government agents on the new srain harvests. For the ten meonths ended with April the value of bread- stuffs exported was little snort of half | a billion dollars—nearly four times as much as during the corresponding period a year ago. We were able to spare this because of our wonderful harvests of yast véar, when 891,000,- 000 bushels of wheat were garnered. The present estimate os fer a vield of | €0,000,000 bushels greater than a year ago; for an increase or 45,000,000 bushels of rye and 147.000,000 bushels of oats—an important foodstuff for man and beast. As every bushel of grain we have to spare will be wanted in Europe, and at hign prices, it is cbvious—aside from foreign demand for our* manufactures—that this country will retain and strengthen its | newly acquired domination of the | world’s exchanges.—New York | Herald. | Mr. Taft Disapproves. (Hartford Times.) That Professor Taft continues to be a close student of Colonel Roosevelt, has been evident on repeated oc- casions of late, and that he keeps him much in mind is also evident in the address he delivered in Suffield when he told how Roosevelt had refused to support a bill in the New York as- sembly because he deemed it uncon- stitutional. The incident prompted the remark, “What is the constitution between friends?” To this tale, Taft adds, “I someétimes think Mr. Roose- velt is veering towards that view.” More than one mar before now has said in his vehemence, “Hang the constitution,” and then proceeded to ignore it in much the same way as thé Connecticut legislature ignored the merit 6f the merit law and n.anufactured a substitute, witnoat 1 erit. And trom substiutes have sprung strange and wondrcus laws. No wonder Mr, Taft concludés, “It is a great s(vantage t havé a res: in poltiic and adds *We have tu much Jaw in this couetry: w: have is that it has been passed too much on the theory of winning vn.e Whether the substitutes for Con- necticut’s civil service law will prove a véte-winner remains to be swon. It possesses boomerang characterstios, and the fact that it was passsd by a repuolican legislature apparently has not convinced Mr Taft, against bis will, that the time his comne wher civil service should be sacri ficed on the pie counter. “When you young men and young women -get into politics,” he said, “labor for a lmerit system in the federal govern- | ment, in the state, in the municipality. Our greatest business should pursue business principles.” Thus does Mr. Taft, without being specific, express his disapproval of | recent republican tactics in Connec- ticut, and it is significant that he has chosen to do so in the same address in which he expresses some too strong confidence in T. R. Robert Lansing’s Chance. (Waterbury Republican.) A brief sketch of the life and legal accomplishments of the acting secre- tary of state, Robert Lansing, indicates that he has had unusual oppprtunities to qualify for the office which Mr. Bryan has chosen to vacate. There already seems to be some sentiment in favor of his advancement as Mr. Bryan's successor, for the remainder of the term. He has been the presi- | dent’s ciosest counsellor in all the ne- | gotiations between this country ani the belligerent powers since the out- | break of the wars abroad and he seems to enjoy the fullest confidence of the executive. It will not be sur- prising to those who have followed developments at Washington to learn of his promotion. ery. lace trimmed, $1.00 to $10.00. SUMMER DRESSES and “different.” haé o5 €00 enactinents in four years Think _f the Opp riurity that zives lawyers! Think Pos much half- bLaked legiglation ~ means! The trouble with our moudern -legislatior SKIRTS 88c and $1.00. GLOVES, HANDKERCHTEFS, JEWELRY, BAN ON MILITARY INFORMATI . Berlin Commander Renews Order on Publication of German Losses. Berlin, via London, June 11, %:44 a, m.—The ~military commandant 'of Berlin has issued a renewal%of ¥ order prohibiting the publication or communication of military {riformad tion without a préviously granted or- der, He says the publication o German losses, although based oneof- ficial lists, “could lay no ¢laim to.cor- rectness and In part give greatly ex- aggerated figures. Publications of thi nature are calculated to evoke ground- 1 uneasiriess among the peoplé an also occasion Incorrect ideas abroad concerning German losses The commandant, theréfore, f.?id the publication of all such articl g FEELING AGAINST AMERIOANS, On Board U. 8. 8. Colorade, Say Diego, Cal., June 11.—Feeling agali Americans 1s being exhibited at the Mexican west coast ports of Man: zanillo and Magatian, held by Car ranza forces, according to o grams received by Admiral HoWard today. No overt acts of any kind have been reperted, however. 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