New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1915, Page 6

P m. Britain of the eity’| a Month. by mall Cents a ar. tising medium In i 8 and press - advertisers. on sale n Hota- d St. and ;w‘d" ;' Board Walk, | Hartford depot. fcanLs. 926 R,—YES! ht, .unless her atly altered, the ‘Adriatic, which New York last in the “war Where the her doom. een mfinflested riatic because n singled out i m subma- been sent out, inme © sources ‘would meet : tha caution act date . & passenger bl«w?\om are cargo of conu- tion, from a iew, would be f the Lusitania _ would Dbe ws having run /thfi gaun- sent to the exploston, be assassin of ore emding nis e had placed .| the Admiral- is not the only German | has the '?rliht!fi% -of ‘submarine warfare stopped ‘ship cw‘n‘erah from canrving contraband’of war. If this is the purpose of thé submarine; then | the warfare it has waged ‘must be put down as disappointing. Ship owners who formerly retuseq-tq have any- thing to do with earrying contraband | now readily do so. They know their ships, if ‘caught by submarines, will | be destroved any way whether the}" carry contraband, or are not so laden. One of the highest German.author- ities.is doubtful it Germany can force | Great Britain to her knees by subma- rine warfare against commerce. That German {s Admiral von Truppel. And who is beginning ‘to see that subma- rine warfare is “‘not what it is cracked up to be.” There are those who doubt that the submarines, used as they have been in the past, can have any material effect in determining the war. IN OLD VIRGINIA, An almost constant avalanche of | war news, with the exception of a! few bomb tarowing events ou this side | of the Atlantic, has tended to take the | American mind away from things | happening at home. Wrapt up in the problems of other people we have ! quite forgotten some of thel accom-; plishments being done in . a peaceful way on our own soil. { }'ambition to be president; he got more |* 'NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNES He had his choice. If he came out alive he was made ‘“walk the plank.” ‘We should give'a lot of the poor wretches in our prisons a chance of doing at least ore good act in their entire career. An Incurable Disease. (Knoxville Journal and Tribune.) When once contracted,. and thor- ougly ' established in the Jnuman system, it has never been cured.“We “mean the American ambition to be- come president. ' Henry Clay had it. He cultivated his aspiration to become president as early as the year 1816. He was a candidate in 1824, against Jackson. {John Quincy Adams and ulhe_rs. There was no election and Jol:m Quincy Adams was elected by the house of representatives who rr.mde Clay secretary of state in his cabinet. He was not a candidate in 1828 for the reason that' he would not run against Adams, who was qsking for |'a second term, and was defeated by Andrew Jackson. Clay was a candi- date in 1832 against Jackson, and received 49 electoral votes. He was ‘not voted for in 1836, but in 1840 stood for the nomination of the whig party, but was beaten for the nom- ination by Willlam Henry Harrison. | who was elected and died within a month from the date of inauguration. Clay was nominated in 1844, as {ho whig candidate, and was beaten by Polk. In 1848, the whigs nom- inated General Zachary Taylor, but Clay believed he should have been nominated. Thus it will be seen that Mr, Clay had nursed for 32 years an over .t only when death came. E About -the same thing might be said of Daniel Webster, of whom it has been said he was too great a man Down in Richmond, Va., the former capitol of the Confederacy, there.is; heing staged at the present moment one of the most interesting undertak»‘i ings of the past decade,—a display in ! ‘which the people of the North should ! manifest particular interest. It is an exposition indicating the achieve- ments of the negro race during its fif- ty years of freedom. ;. President Wilson formally opened the exposition by pushing a button at | the Summer White House in Cornish, | N. H, on July 5. It will'remain open 'Zm-g_.abqul the led.. This dyna- n given subma- d on by the im- nment. Its , without doubt, | his. industrial problem., : The great old state of Virginia:de- | :serves seredit for: the'/enconragement was marked off ili‘l,t,lfii\ed. its % all food stufts s pumber, 186 teen belonged to and Italy, 5 . Ally . ships thirty-three No one of taese' v searched for ing sunk, al- pm‘e&u were st they could. &' Gulflight Hps Sunk. Other ! arch demon out of the way the nation d by submarines follows: Norwe- sh, six; Dutch, nigh, four; and s h,aw‘z suffered énemies of the until the twenty-fifth of this month. The National Negro Exposition at Richmond is under the auspices of the | Negro Historicel and Industrial As- sociation and, from all tidings, it is an elaborate attempt to show the de- velopment of the colored people since the North secured for them' their freedom. Congress voted $55,000 lo( aid in the: promotion and consumma- tion of ‘the enterprise:* By such * ac- tion Congréss has s!wv)}'f»’the_‘fle’s‘ire ‘ot ‘the Hafion to Rp tne!fi&&ro solve it has ‘extended to thé 'negro. The exposition will have dome a great work if by showing the advance made by the negro.it also points out: to him his proper sphere and -empha- | sizes his opportunity in any particu- lar industrial* activity. To this'‘end it should have the sympathy and co- operation of the en;ure nation. . 5 WHY NOT? After a fitful, feverish escapade of frenzy, Frank 'Holt; the poor wrétch who planned and executed so many ! fearful outrages on society, at last | turned the -hand ‘of destruction upon himself. It was the best act ever accomplished by the man who made bombs by the hundred. Wita this will, rest easier. even in jail. There will be little grief over the going away of Holt. Many, of course, will deplore the means he took, be- cause the ends of justice have not been satisfied .in the Proper way. He He was not safe Great Britain, almost™ as Allies, with the ink by subma- a8 350,000. e of Great Brit- 20,000,000, and of the merchant es runs up To sink § does not stand chievement. For| hips sunk by trawiers. All the’ re has been de- gction of sucn note the first 8 i it beneath “the . Since March, made such itch vessel has a y bringing news should huv.e been stretched on lhe’ procrustean bed of torture, to be sure. | 1f all eriminals ‘of ‘Holt's ilk were allowed the chances in jail to do what he did, what safety would there be in confining them? The door of his cell was left open. ' His jailor is guilty | of a grievous fauilt. in allowing such conditions to prevail. Holt had pre- viously made an attempt at - suicide, | and a blind man could have seen he was going to carry out his designs, if possible. ~ His spectacular leap to death cheated the gallows of a real prize, at the same time ridding the country of its most undesirable de- generate. »: | Society would be greatly benefitted if some more of its criminals who make a stir for a while and set the nation in a state of fear would go the same route as Holt. This class of criminals detests the present order of things on our mundane sphere. They should seek another world where the going.is -perhaps not so strenious and where the soothing | tones of the heavenly harps will be | balm. to their shattered nerves, Were it not against all tradition and custom it might be a good taing for jailors to have handy a goodly po- ‘tion of some soothing concoction (o, over: to_ frenzied eriminals and , i 1 | ed by Webster. | West Virginians the sudden burden of {a debt of for his election to hecome a possibil- ity. He expected 'the whig nomina- tion 'in 1852, ‘and after the party had nominated General Scott, of 'Mexi- can war fame, it was bitterly resemt- He was being: sup- ported by a faction of the party but he died a short time before he ‘was given a number of -votes on electio day. 3 ‘ James G. Blaine went to his grave a disappointed man because he failed ‘o become president. | . It is nincteen years since William ‘Jennings Bryan was first nominated for president. No other so young a man bas been nominated for presi- det, as Bryan was when ‘the first nomination. He has been nominat- ed twice since then and each time given a large share of the popular vote. In 1908 he was defeated, but the popular vote given him was over a million more than' the vote given ‘Woodrow Wilson in 19123. Bryan is now but fifty-five years éld and doubtless he still has the hope that he will yet 'be elected president. = If given encouragement it will surprise no one if he should ‘gtry, try again.” ! : [(Westerly Sun) ' Barly college statistics, show that ‘there was a time when fully half the students studied for tne " ministry, while now only five pér ecent erte; college for such a training. 3 These figures are liable to give an erroneous impregsion, for in the early times the number -who sought a col- iege training was comparatively small, and a college course for other pursuits- was not considered so essential, To- day it is far different as 1t has been generally conceded that a college edu- cation can be used to advantage: in almost every profession as well as tusiness pursuit. It doesn't necessar- ily mean that less interest is shown in the ministry; it merely points to the tact that colleges are being more walks of life, . widely patronized t6 fit men for all| FACTS AND FANCIES. Happy the’ man who thought first of calling Anthony Comstock the Su- per-Dreadnaughty.—Baltimore . Sun. The first submarine has been thrown on the scrap pile and many wish that tae last one could be put in the same place—Bridgeport Tele- gram. In the opinion of the federal ad- ministration this is not a good time for naval officers to retire from the service.—New Haven Journal-Courier Self control in a nation is even to be preferred to birth control or any of the other varieties of control con- stantly suggested.—Chjcago Herald. It was just like Kansas City humor to name a new drink the Wilson-Bry- an split and make a lemon one of the ingredients.—Buffalo Equirer. Tincture of alfalfa is said to be good for mental depression. A few | thousand acres of alfalfa in New Eng- agricultural | land could help our blues.—Providence Journal. Americanization day and Independ- ence day are not necessarily synoy- mous, but they both lead the thoughts into the same channels. Meriden Rec- ord. When the kid comes home With a white face and a pain in his bread basket, don't be too greatly alarmed Green apples are here.—Baltimore Sun. The next time Gen. Huerta starts for the San Francisco exposition he will do wisely to take tue Canadian Pacific route and cut out Bl Paso— Pittsburg Gazette-Times. English men and women of Wwealth are proving their “war democracy” by earryving paper parcels home from the shops. Tt is also a means of helping the retailers keep down expenses.— Springfield Republican. Our billion-dollar trade balance has set a mark high above that ever es- tablished by any competitor and one which cannot be. eclipsed by anyone but ourselves for long years to come. -—Philadelphia Ledger. When underwear is balanced against overlordship,” it has to give way. Germany’s stopping of the cot- ton factoeries to use all the coton in making explosives is a case in point. —Brooklyn Eagle. The unveiling of a monument to Daniel Boone and the plans by. the government to honor Francis Scott Key, athor of “The Star Spangled Baner” show that the country is not unmindful of its pioneers and patriots —Milwaukee News. 4 Whatever man arisés to unify Mex- ico and eatablish a stable government must have the backing ‘of the Tnited | States. It is hopéless to: expect’ that peace can be brought abeut in any dther way and Huerta is not the man the United States can back.—Watet- town Times. They used to say a man’s weight in lead was fired-.at him hefore. He was - kille@ in battle, and it may be true today; but the trouble is that some- times they hit him first and then fire: away the rest of the metal after he's dead.—Binghamton Press. - d Mexico needs a strong man, and ac- conding to the business interests al- | most any man strong enough to re- store peace with dividends would do. But there are others who still sweep the horizon for a second Juarez.—- New York Mail " The would-be assassin of Mr. Mor- _gan was sane enough last month to get a degree of doctor of philosophy from Cornell university. But his two Staying In America. (Cleveland Leader). Reports from the railroads show an amount of passenger business uns precedented for this time of the year. The indications are that all past ree- ords of inter-State travel will be brok- en during the coming sumimer and fall. X The, reason, of course, is that this is America’s stay-at-home year. Hun. dreds of those who have made it a practice to go abroad each spring are seeing more of their own country than they ever have before, or are making plans to do ‘so. *And'théusahds of others who seldom travel far from’ their homes. will' visit the- Panama- Pacific Exposition and see ‘California and the great West. ¢ The year 1915 is going to afford many more lessons in patriotism and appreciation of country ta the people of the United States than those which will ‘present themselves in Washing- ton. : West Virginia’s Debt. (Providence Journal.) The people of few States could ac- cept more philosophically than the twelve million dollars; roundly the amount that State must assume as her share of the obligations of old Virginia before the . dissolu- tion. 5 The burden the final decision, after years of negotiating and litigation, puts on this State is not an unexpect- ed one, of course, except that the sum is larger than she would have been willing to acknowledge as equitable | without going to law about it. Pend- ing the settlement of this' matter, it appears that West Virginia had nei- | ther an indebtedness nor evidences of | one—that. is to say, she had no float- ing debts and no bonds. No other States makes this remarkable showing. Several have no bonds outstanding, | but they are not free from debt. As a unique example, Penngylvania has a bonded debt second in size to New [tnose culprits make away with _tnemselves n_the olden qua"‘ in »m.\bunk room and ‘ot potson and s revalver: a man went i‘ifld-, Ne | York’s. but she has sinking funds. in excess of it. West Virginia is thus very well off. The twelve million dollar obligation ;!u ‘must now assume will not stagger er, y i i | ings of milliong of fellow performances late last week were not notahly and pre-eminently character- istic of a doctor of philosophy in his right mind.—Svringfield Republican. Tt takes quite a little while for the government to catch on to a possible improvement, After several vears of posta] savings banks, somebody at Washington woke up and issued an order that people living in towns where there are no banks may open accounts and make deposits by mail, at nearby postal banks.—Waterbury Républican. Whether or not this country is go- ing to “get ready’” for war anyways soon, this fact stands out with the prominence of a sore thumb. After the present war, it will be a long time before any nation in Burope wili even think of attacking the .United States, much less really doing so. And the longer the war lasts the surer be- comes the security of this country.— Pittsburg Despatch. Those who are familiar with penal management declare that the situa- tion at Sing Sing is full of menace. The sentimental humbug of visionary fadists and. idealistic reformers had sway Por a time at the Joliet State prison. The result of this pampering of thugs was the foul murder of the beautiful wife of the warden by one of the coddled darlings of the warden. A state prisen is a penal institution and should be run as such.—New- burg Journal. That the unimaginable misfortune of other nations has brought about a {femporary advantage for us is some- thing which cannot be denied But we doubt if there is any man in this country today who, calling himself a true American, would not have pre- ferred to see the United States fall far back in commercial importance than that its opportunity for suprem- acy should come through the suffer- | beings—. Ameriea. If the Germans don’t like the Am- | erican ammunition they, can stop fighting.- They ought to stop fight- ing. They are just about at the top- notch of theéir success, or will be in Financial DAY, JULY 7, 16 i & ‘week or 5o, and itk a'good time | for them to talk.about peace. Some | of (them are, happily erough, and. a !few in. the British parliament are | even daring to do a similar discourse, The sane thing for Germany and the 1‘ sane thing for ‘Europe is to. drop this | War foolighness: as quickly ‘as they took'it up. Perhaps the, Berlin note vill be found to have something of this sentiment between: 'the' lines. Nothing in it _could be more welcome or wise.—New London Telegraph. I - Saving Army Horses. (Waterbury Democrat.) The British Society for the vention of Cruelty to Animals an- | nounces that it has treated 81,000 Wounded and sick horses in the hos- pitals in France, and has returned 47‘.000 of them to the army as cured. | It's interesting to learn that the! death rate of army horses is being | cut down by one-third through such | medical attention. It does seem like | an odd. business; however, for & “'Society for the Prevention of Cruel- ty to Anmals” to be busied with—— saving ' horses’ lives to send them Back to the firing line.. The average ! term of a horse’s army service is said to be alittle more than a week. = And most of them don't die from wounds, unless gall-marks and lash-welts may be called wounds. Let any lover of | horses try t{o imagine the equine hell | a poor beast must pass through | when, starting in full strength and | health, it is worked so hard and incessantly, under the sting of a pitiless whip and in a-hideous uproar of bursting shells, dragging cannon about and hauling military- supplies in a sea of mud, that it is actually worked to death in a few days. A Eenuine preventer of cruelty to, ani- mals. would put a bullet through | every army’s horse's head, instead of curing it and sending it back to a ‘tortuous death. Incidentally, it may be remarked that any American who loves horses won't sell them to for- eign military agents. Our recent ex- portation of horses has been {en times as great as usual. Prevenuun_ of cruelty to animals ‘should begin' at home. If the poor beasts must h2 sold, it's better for them to drown en route, as the cargo of mu'ks did in the English channel when a Ger- man submarine sank the steamship Armenian. Horses and mules are not really needed in the war any- how. Almost every use they can be Pre- ( | | b motor car that has no capacity for suffering. Trial By Lawyers, (Philadelphia Press.) A little light was let into the so- called “trial by newspaper” at the cpening of court -in the Thaw case iast week, Since the ° proceed- ings began before the jury that is to determine whether the slayer of Stan- tord White is insane or sane, the New . York newspapers have contained some lively Teading regardini trie plams "ot .the two sides to the controversy. .. Mr. Cook, eral, has been quoted freely in .oute lining the somewhat sensationdl plans ,of the state in resisting the claim that Thaw has recovered his sanity. He has even gone so far as to declare | .his intention to. clear -the name of Stamford White by proving the Eve- Iyn Nesbit Thaw's story was a fabri- cation, in spite.of any admissions Wil- liam' Travis ‘Jerome may have made to the contary. Thaw's chief counsel, John ‘B. Stanchfield, has been equally free-spoken. After the adjournment of court each day the lawyers on both sides have commented on the evidence and made predictions, which the reporters have published, On Monday, however, Jus- tice Hendrick issued a warning from the bench that “the trial of this case 1. the newspapers has to stop.” or he would “cite the editors for contempt.” | Tut before saying so he called the law. | vers before him and told them that they must cease making known their | nlang in advance or commenting on'| the evidence for publication. Here Justice Hendrick struck the pail on head. Not the newspapers tut the lawyers were primarily re-| sponsible for any indiscretions that | were “printed. On botl sides there wui a disposition to furnish the mnews- | papers with “hot stuff” and the bright | young men were there to get it. This | affair is one more shining example of | the truth that the newspaper is made the scapegoat in charges of “trial by newspaper” where it does nothing ! more than to record the prenounce- | ments of eminent counsel, who are supposed to know what they may say | with propriety. Drop the i{yphen g (Louisville . Post.) Let us drop the hyphen so we may understand each other better; there are no longer any German-Americans | among us, only Germans on one side | of the line; Americans on the other. | There is no German-American al- liance; it is only a German alliance, | an alliance of certain sojourners in | America with Germany, from which | their ancestors fled to find liberty in | America. | Sunday at memorial services for | federal soldiers who lost their lives in | the Civil war, the orator, the Rew. | George H. Froh, the departmental | chaplain of the G. A. R., began by saying he was born in Germany 60 | vears ago: “there is mot a drop ' of blood in my veins that is not Ameri- | can.” Dr. Froh drew a striking con- | trast between the volunteer soldiers fighting for principle and serfs driven to battle, making the prophecy that at the end of the war royalty will be rejected and the people of FEurope will take charge of their governments. At the graves of the soldiers who died in our war .with Spain the ad- | dress was delivered by the mayor of Louisville, himself a natlve American born of German parents, loval to the best traditions of his ancestors, buc loyal above all things, loval over all | to the traditions and the Institutions of America, his own fatherland. These are the Americans all Amer- ica can delight to honor. | 1an embassy and | 81,600, so that they may a deputy attorney gen- | expanses of velvety lawn, | a beautiful construction. | it is open to light and air on four | sides, it is as beautiful and wholesome Views on all sides of tuely questions as discussed 4n ex- changes that come to Rerald || office. Italians and the War. (Ansonia Sentinel.) There Is probably a no moré ar- dently patroitic people in all the worid than the Italians, The thousands in | this country who quickly offered | their services to the far-off mother- land upon her entry into the war in- cluding 200 from Ansonia, afford a striking proof of this. Hence, just What the developments will be and how many will actually go home to fight s an interesting matter to wateh, In the United States there aro moro than 2.000,000 men of Italian birth. It is estimated that at least thirty-five per cent, of these are Italian res- erviss who are honor bound to join the colars. The names of this legion are contained- in the flies of the Ital- various consulates throughout the country. General Ric- clotti Garibaldi is reported to have recently xaid to a correspondent at Rome: “We shall not eall Italiane from the United States. You can say to them that if they desire to fight for liberty they must come of their own free will.” But if the reservists are called, and it is presumed they will be, all who should - refuse to honor the -cal- to the colors wil thereafter be unabe to return to Italy. . This stipulation is expected to have great weight in de- termining their course. It is generally conceded that moat of the Itallan immigrants who come to the United States do so in the ex- pectation that a few years of hard work will enable them to put aside enough to return home and live in vir- tual independence. Statistics gather- ed by experts in the department of commerce show that many Ttalians who come to the United States do =0 - for the purpose of saving $1,000 or 0" home and live in comfort. .The census of 1910 enumerated 1,843,125 Ttalian born people in this country, and since that time about 700,000 have come over and are nov’ residing here. In 1910 there were 340,770 Italians in New York, 'Tt is put to is performed far better by-a | estimated now that there are abouf 460,000 in New York city and more than 500,000 in New York state, 40.- 000 in Newark and 4,000 in Jersey city. 3 ‘With this the ¢ase it does not take a prophet to see that if Italy calls her sons home it will have a con- siderable effect on the labor mark in this country among certain lines work, especially along ‘the Atlantie coast, | The labor “liquidation” which has been progressing in_ the United States for several years as @ | of the depression may ehd im: A ly and be followed by a serious shorl- age. 3 "’ The Case of Becker. (New Haven Journal-Courier.) Whether the New ‘York policeman should gb to the electric’ chalr as a consequence of the Rosenthal murder, we do not know. No such confusion of thought, however, blinds us to the rembrkable attitude’ of Governor ‘Whittan. He should from the first have declined t6 have anything to do with the east, oh the ground that he is a prejudiced party. He wa# the man who tried and convicted Beecker It would have been possible for him to refer the case to the lieutenant governor while he was absent from the state, ‘without suggestion of any kind. This he should have dene, and been silent as to the outcome. - A man who lacks that delicate sense of duty such as has been manifested in this cage, is not the kind of man the coun- try needs in the presidential office, or could view, there with conplacency. Good Housing. (Bridgeport Farmer.) The good housing movement |is laudable. Everybody would like to live in a mansfon, in trie middle of twenty acres of grass fand, dotted vith shrubbery and green with broad | Obstacles are in the way. Only a few can afford to do it. And the whole quastion of wages, of the cost of living, of what one can and cannot afford. The three decker Is not a present But when te live in as any other type of build- | ing. [t is.not as convenient, however, especially to the occupant of the top floor. The cottage house is an 1deal, but it ix an expensive ideal, in a city. Such construction is not practicable for a great city. Mark ihe tendency in con- struction in New York, Chicago, or Boston. The apartments along River- side drive are scarcely cottages, but ! one would hesitate a long time before terming them insanitary. or unwhole- scme. { The man who would build to rent | must carefully count his costs, and the| sums his tenants can afford to pay. The three decker makes economical | use of space, gives the maximum of licht and air, and permits the gar- ment to be cut according to the cloth, Any program that makes housing nigre expensive, will not promote | good housing, except by driving more | and more families into the country. | But the effect. upon the urgan popu- lation will be an ever increasing con- gestion. Is the three decker necessarily a thing of naked ugliness? Could not architécts design three deckers, that would be pleasant to the eye, and not much costlier tto build? Gone—A Wood Thrush’s Nest. (New Bedford Standard.) Knowledge is growing on the sub- ject of the ‘economic value of, the birds as insect destroyers and. preciation’ developin aesthetic ssset. But in ALL! “Always Re ’ Summer Draperies “and Floor Coverings We offer these following special Sale prices for this week only. CURTAIN SCRIMS, Hemstitehed and drawn work des signs, beautiful styles in white, cream and Eeru, special this week, yard 10¢, 15¢, t17c, 22¢, 26e, 20c. FIGURED CURTAIN MADRAS, Special this week, 10¢c and 22¢ ynrd, SUNFAST DRAPERIES, Specia] ths week, 39¢ and 45c yard. . X READY-MADE CURTAINGS, One, two and three pair lots at a big reduction. CREX AND DEUTOX RUGS, Cool summer floor covering, sizes “18x36-inch to 36x72-inch, special this week, 25¢ to $1.10 each. Room sizes; 6 ft. by 9 ft; 8 ft. by 10 ft.; 9 ft. x 12 ft Special this week, $398 to $7.08 ea. ,BUNGALOW FIBRE RUGS . “F'or lBulu'llcnv or veranda use, size x83-inch, special this week, 7, Wool and Fibre Rugs, size 3 .a': o Anch, special this week, $1.19 ea, * THREE WOOL AND FIBRE. RUG BARGAINS, Size 9x3 ft., this week $6.50 ea. Size, 5.3x10.6, this week en. Size 9 ft x 12 ft, this week $7.50 ca. McMILLAN - peploka £, = 5% v ; -201.203 MAIN STRERT =~ s 31" el time there fs little enough realiza- tion of the sacredness of bird life to admit of its ruthless destruction. In spite of the prohibitory law, a wood thrush’'s nest containing four eggs was carried away from the Tucker Road country the other day by a conscienceless marauder. An eager student who had discovered it re- turned to see {f the birds ‘were hatched to discoyer only a fresh break in the branch where it had beén. The multiplication possibility of those four eggs of the beautiful ‘bird and wonderful singer dis- eounts any degree of zeal to own a nest collection™—which, moreover, the law forbids except on the part of authorized persons. ? A 'keener community interest here is necessary to forward the goud cause of bird protection. Rash Suggestions. (Waterbury Republican.) Commenting on the fact that the people of Kansas, that great prohibi- tion state and the fountain head of prohibitien propaganda, are still' pur- chasing $2,500,000 worth of liquor from other states every year, and that the governor of Kansas has felt com- pelled to keep every man or woman who drinks any prohibited liguor out of the civil service ranks of the state, the Washington Herald concludes: “The next and ultimate logical step for Kansag is to make a law prohibie. ing any resident of Kansas from tak. = ing a drink and tv fix severe penal- ties for violation. If prohibition is * to be practical it should be applied to the individual.” ‘This prompts the Newport News Times-Herald, which must be aware of the effect on the treasury of West Virginia of the prohibition law, to = A r | add: That is the drift, and the question is how lgng will it ‘be before pro- hibition Jaw is made to apply to the individual? That is the logical eon- clusion. The direct, effectual way to abolish the liquor evil is to make it | a misdemeanor for man of woman W drink it. 4 Phohibition is one thing, but mak. ing laws to prevent men from taking & drink {= another thing, and it's net prohibition 80 much as an ‘effort io deprive men of some of the “unalien able” rights which are held, in the Declaration of Indeperslence, to be the heritage of every mane‘“that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It be better from eyery viewpoint if every individual in the nation were ed from indulging at ting beverages, or