New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 17, 1915, Page 6

ce at’ New Britain “Mall Matter. part of the city ing medium in ks and press sale at’ Hota- and Broad- N AGAIN. gt ‘n."»-Qutgley, and urs: t! | Our friends the leader ‘of |, if you may t, in every other f-'h!'!"‘ ‘again back- ot $his cosmopol- a plot, to, dyna- estroy . a ‘couple _He' has since : that the “him was men- rever, he made sC o ery in the short time for the ynd . this' morning. in ‘done his fayor- nd something out, mething and = then y6rical. tail between about. With en- calibre he ex: to a reporter that t was under way not mentally lthough ' this ‘august word “squealed” cbuity,. Our Secret: ser- ing in this of a_German spy 14 say so; but we dp r German race rticles. No tics, “'the Ger- haif mgh the pre- T catering to it fer- & state ; tendencies migh* o It i§ best to nk Holt was ;rmgn. yes, 'w_amlnliy un- acefully .and factories wiih “transmitting t&}%&xs this mantier. e While it 'might work a hardship in many communities to establish the custom of children.buying their own tooks, still if this would act as a preventative in allaying the spread of digsease among school children it should be put in vogue, 'There have been numerous cases of epidemics of t¥phoid and scarlet fever in schools, caused probably in this self same Way. { OUR COMMERCE. Count Von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, took it upon himself to suggest to Secretary of State Lansing yesterday that the United States ask Great Britain to lift the embargo on supplies for Germany in order that the submarine warfare on merchant ships be abolished. Anything that would bring about a discontinuance of the slaughter main- tained by submarines would be wei- comed at this date; but'Count Von Bernstorff’s suggestion cannot be con- sidered now. It was tried once, and At failed. This Government previous- ly made the same suggéstion to Great Britain and there has been no re- sponse. While the United States . cannot shape the policy of Great Britain re- garding its blockade of Germany, nor can it dictate to Germany what it shall do regarding Great Britain's interests in the war zone, still United' States can, and must, upon its rights being protected on tha high seas. And to show that this will be done, Secretary of State Lans- ing yesterday served notice on Great Britain that the rights of Americans having cases before British =~ Prize courts rest upon international law and not upon various Orders-in-Coun- cil, or local British laws. " Secretary Lansing has given it to ‘be understood that the communica - tion of yesterday was in no manner insist sand immigrant 'citize: Americanism means, . Finally we @8 & nation have come to a partial realization that the gov- { ernment . which welccmes the. alien must do something more than pass him through Ellis Island. He not only mbst be atlowed to but should 'be placed where he may develop and become informed as 0 what citizenship impliessit! he cares to assume it. Having deciaed voluntarily te become naturalizedy theimmigrant heréafter will be able to call on the bureaus of the department of labor | for any education ih civics which he may need. . Th government proposes 1o teach him that citizenship in the republic is something t3 be desired | and earned, and not to be gained by the automatic working of laws. If we are to have loval Americans citizens of alien birth who will put America first, we must educate them in our ideals and institutions. At least ihe government is going to' take a hand. - Repeal of La Follette Act, (Bridgeport Standard.) . The Chamber of Commerce .ol the Tnited States is going to institute a referendum to get the opinion of busi- ness bodies all over the country on, ithe La Follette law and the: desira- bility of its repeal. Shipowners and shippers have already expressed them- H solves very gemerally against it, but a | consensus of opinion from the com- | mercial bodies of the country would | have great weight, and it is thought | that such an expression can be se- cured before the opening of the next Congress, One of the worst features of the | sleeps on.—St. Louis Times. | since ' this is not now permitted unfortunate measure of marine des- | truction is that it oOperates against our entire merchant shipping on the great lakes as well as the ocean and will clear the fresh water inland seas of our great trading vessels, as it ‘will the oceans. PSR KA RS The Term of Life. (Chivago Daily Journal.) A rule which holds fairly true among the higher mamals is that an animal lives five times as long as it requires for his muscular system to reach its full strength. 'The 'dog is fully “developed at between two and | his | prime not later than five, ard if, he | five vears; the horse ' reaches escapes pverwork and ill usuage, lives part ‘or parcel of the general notc which will be sent to ‘Great Britain later, relating to contraband and in- terference with American commence on the high seas. E 5 Count Von Bernstorff should take profound interest in this latest action of' the State Department. ' While not being in direct line with his sugges- tion, it may pave the way for remoyal of the British blockade on' foodstuffs bound to Germany. There have been many cases where goods bound for neutral ports have been held up, somsa times non-contraband goods, in or- der to prevent them from ultimately ' reaching Germany. R The United States.is.g neutral na- tion and wants to remain so, in ‘worid .and deed. 'Our people want peace for themselVes and peace for -the world. < Only when our rights have been trampled upon. have we mur- mured, and Great Britain and Ger- many have hoth been guilty of this ‘We have a problem to solve with Great Britain as well as one with Germany. i It is to be hoped that the negotia-' tions: now proceeding between our government and the government of Germany will result in'the recogni- tion and maintainance of every right the United States possesses as a free and indspendent nation. N Our flag apd our citizens are en- titled to the fullest freedom of the seas, and no nation can gainsay this right. \ L Great. Britain has undertaken 'to cut the throat of our commerce. She 'bas held up sur vessels bound from one neutra} port to another, againsc all rules of international law. Our commerce must have the freedom of the Seas. Not only’ the United States but every neutral nation in the world | is interested in this contention. = And the United States, as the leading neu-, tral of the world, must secure from Great Brituin and “her Allies fuli t will is" the end. mmm Pro- your usual cus- “Inganity is.ram- ed piper of fate th and destruc- - grin which' was nd hesded not. larger citfes, New < considering :;ug pupils in the elr. WA 9y this -dangerous|| yge the bureau: ot the recognition of the right of our peo- ple to traverse the high seas without interruption when bound - from [the United States to any neutral port|. By seizing our ships carrying measr, fiour, lard and farm produets not on .the contraband list, bound from ona neutral port to. another, Great Britain has made a fearful blow at our trade with such nations as Denmark, Not- way and Sweden, all indepedent na- tions and neutral, This has got to stop, if the United States has to send a battleship con- voy with every squadron of merchan'- men that leaves the ports of this country. bound for neutral destina- tions, . Traning Citizensy (New Haven Union.) Realization of the tremendous prob- lem and the importance of training immigrants for citizenship is com- ing to Americans slowly—and late in our history. There ‘should have been a systemized gaovernment plan for the work fifty years ago. Willlam C. Redfield, the secretary of labor, it to be credited with a statesman- ke purpose back of his decisicn to the bureau of naturalization to ac- { complish the ‘@esired end. That hc | has the president policy was the chief . exe f Him in his ous ‘4t which e, de- ed Vt,or the benefit of geve: ‘thou~ te be twenty-five and even thirty. In fact, the rule seems to be an under- statement of animal expectation of life, rather than 'an overstatement. The one conspicuous exception is man, who seldom reaches his full muscular strength before he is twen- | ty-five, and counts himself living on borrowed time if he passes the age of seventy. 1f man were as well cir- cumstanced in this matter as- of life would vary from 110 to 125 years. § To state the case thus bodly makes it sound fantastic, vet if there is any reason why human-beings should not be as tenacious of life as other higher mamals, seience has failed to cover that reason. Only the day,’ the refiring 'president of ‘Americant Medical ‘association other said that the uadoption of a few simple | rules ‘of community hyglene would raise the average expectation of lifs from forty-two years, as at present. to sixty-five years, and his trainea and critical audience agreed with him." What then, may we expect swhen science turns its attention to building up individual vitality as well as to checkng the spread of conta- gious disease? t AR America’ Slows Up. (Waterpu_ry American.) An effect of the Ruropean war wiil be, of course, a retardation in the growth' of aqur population, due both to. the decreased immigration 2nd the increased emigration; Never- theless, one is surprised to see it set forth" already in figures. The New York Evening Post notes the enorm- cuh falling off in growth, as shown in the preliminary figures published by the Sun. . These figyres make the growth of, the city's population ‘only 10.4 per cent in the last flve years, 4s against 88.7 per cent in the 10 years from 1900 to 1210 and 37.1 per cent in the ten yedrs from 1890 to 19800, Granting that the increases: cited were phenomenal maintained, yet the decrease is sur- prising, The Post continues: “While the population of New Yerk increased (in round numbers) 1,330,000 from 1900 to 1910, the increase from 1910 to 1915 was only 480,000 which falls short of the half of 1,300,000 by the grecat sum of 185.000." Of course, the decline in immigra- tion began before the war and was due to hard times inihis country; but the war has accelerated 'it. Political Straws, (Bridgeport Post.) An extremely show which wdy the wind is blowin: in the state, for more than four years gressive party.' Charles 8. Bird, one of the “angels,” as well as one of the strong leadsrs of the Progressive par- ty in Massachusetts, has just written a letter in which he says he will sup- if that party nominates either former Congréssman McCall or “Lieutenant Governor Cushing as for governor. The importance of this announce- ment is disclosed when it is remem- bered that Mr. Bird ran for governor twice up on the Progressive ticket and upon both ocecasions polled more Votes than the republican’ candidate. It is further announced that an- imigration -and | other former Progressives of = great influence, former state Senator Bur- bank, stands an excellent chance of being nominated for Lieutenant Gov- ernor upon the republican ticket. The announcement of the political situation in Massachusetts, where the Progressives cut the republican vote squarely in two in 1912 and contin- ued to divide the party in 1913 and 1914, are straws which forecast the elimination of 'the 'Progressives in New England thig year and next, pro- vided the republicans meet them fair- the | horse, dog or cat, his average term | dis- | the | ‘the candidate ! - that all her battles are not | ers ! Equal taxation and home rule were | country cannot help rolling in wealth FACTS AND FANCIES, The American merchant marine isn’t even going to look ‘like thirty cents;” worse, it's going to have a strictly jitney aspect after the sea- men’s lawi gets to working.—Finan- | cial America. Croeker Land, which Admiral Peary thought he discovered, is reported by Dr. MacMillan as probably a mirage. Probably about as substantial as the North Pole.—New York Telegram. Affairs in Mexico give no hope of an early compliance with President Wilson's ultimatum, and there is no prospect of an early abandonment of the policy of watchful waiting.—Wil- . kes-Barre Record. Missouri will be Republican at the next election if the present Demo- cratic organization does not wake up, and The St. Louis Times is not sure that it will not be better for the state at large if the said organization It ought to be possible for officers of the army whase services are need- ed in developing private munitions plants to obtain leave for the period | of time required for this service, as is the practice in other ,lands, b:t 24 law ‘the next best thing is to allow them ta resign from the service.—New York Herald. During the ‘Napoleonic wars, as.Ad- miral Mahan shows in ‘his book, the privateers of Napoleon succeeded in getting annually about two per cent. of British shipping. So far as the commeree of Liverpool is concerned the German destruction is less than aone-half of one per cent. a year. The war would need to last a century or two to drive the British flag from the Sea at this rate.—New York Globe.* Great Britain, trying to end by com- pulsion the coal strike in Wales, finds to be fought on the Continent. Those min- in the British. Isles, like some others of the wageearners there, whose class feeling has been streng- thened 'by the aristocratic distinctions, | have shown themselves to be hard to convince when they don't wish tq be. —Troy Times. Tammany Hall put through the act’ calling for an election for a Consti- tutional convention chiefly with the purpose of securing ‘“equal represen- tation” for New York city in the Leg- islature. Failing to obtain control of the convention it began shouting for ‘“equal taxation” and home rule, but no one should be misled by this cry into the belief that Tammany was not first and last for “equal represen- tation,” somethipg the Tiger has dreamed about for a score of years. afterthoughts.—Brooklyn Standard- Union. When peace is restored to Europeg the tide of foreign trade will turn | against us again just as surely as Mr.. Wilson’s' tariff remains in opera- | tion without modification of its! sgheflules, which before the war were | offering up our idustries as a sacri- fice to the cheap labor of Europe. This as long as the war partly dams up our import flood gates and at the same | time draws from us all the focd stuffs that we can spare from our farms and all the arms and ammunition and other war supplies that we can turn | | out from our mills and factories work- | | ing week days and holidays day time | ew York city's | | | 2nd could not be ! world. '3 i at | Qn that provosition we | nine-tenths of the doctors will agree. | —Brooklyn Eagle interesting political | il straw stands up in Massachusetts to | one of the strongholds of the Pro- | port the Republican ticket thig' Fall | { ) | afterward, | and night time. But we must keep our eye on the future when, with the occasion of the war. nct only the abmormal war demand for products subside. but again the im- ! port flood gates will be thrown wide open, to all the world.—New York ! Press. will | onr | the recurrence of anything | that the census of 1910 shows | per cent. of A'merican homes as rent- WHAT OTHZRS 3AY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed In ex- changes' that come (0. Herald office. la | times in this country. as under that of absinth vodka, % Even if the allegation is true, Miss ddams should not imagine that there is anything new about the boosting of troops’ courage with strong water. It has béen done quite a number of The Yankee | schnapps or | tars who saved our reputation in the The Lusitania Case. (New York Evening Post.) Take the Lusitania issue. The sink- ing of that ship, With the consequent loss of American lives, was plainly stated by President Wilson to be an law and in flagrant disergard of American rights. He called upon the German government to disavow it, to make reparation, “so far as repara- tion is possible for injuries which are without measure,” and to ‘“prevent 50 Obe viously subversive” of the laws of war To all this, what does Von Jagow re- ply? He does not, - indeed, again to set up the defense which he attempted in his note of May 28, namely, that the Lusitania wag “armed” That she was, our govern- ment categorically denied, and called for the German'evidence, if there was any; It is now produced? Not atall. The German foreign office has not a scintilla of proof for its former as- sertion. It merely indulges in gen- war of 1812 didn't do it on bilge water, by a long chalk; nur did Jack- | son’s joyous collection of gulf pirates ard horse runners hold those cetton | hales without the encouraging stimu- lus offmany a nip. In the civil war | there were several occasions when an | act in direct violation of international | venture | eral charges about all British mer- | chantmen, and’ coolly lays ail. the blame for the killing of the Lusitan- ia's passengers upon ‘“the manner of conducting war employed by our ad- versaries!” There is also a kind of intimation that the Lusitania ought, in decency, to have remained ‘above waler long after being torpedoed as if this in any way freed the German submarine commander from the re- sponsibility for the direct conse- quences of his lawless act. In all" this, evidently, there is no word of disavowal, no offer of .reparation, no guarantee for the future. The re- ply, inithis matter, is no reply at all. It is nothing but an evasion. The German reply will require ac- tion' by our government. This need not be hasty, but it should be definite. That the president can retreat from his position that certain .acts of the German government are the acts of an international outlaw, is inconceiv- able. How best to maintain that po- sition is now the grave duty laid up- on him. 3 Home-Owning and Tenantry. i (Westerly Sun.) During his campaign of 1912 Theo- dore Roosevelt suddenly became inter- ested in the home-owning proposition, momentarily ' ceased belaboring the wicked Democrats and the equally dis- reputable Taft-Repuhlicans, and an- nounced that ‘“tenantry must be stop- ped at once,” Yet recently published figures taken from the census of 1910—figures avail- able in 1912 if Mr. Rcosevelt had car- 4d to look at them—showed that out o7 about twenty million homes a little over -mnine million were owned and néarly eleven million rented. Out of the more than six million farm homes, two and one half million were owned free and one and & quarter million were mortgaged. How Mr. Roosevelt proposed to stop tenmanty on this vast ccale “at once” or even in a century, | he omitted to say. The figures show that the percent- age of home ownership is greater in rural than in urban districts and that it is smallest in the largest cities, de- scending from-47.9 per cent. in' Grand Rapids, for example, to 12 per cent in New York. , This is inevitable, owing to the greast cost of land and the great cost of houses.it would pay to | build on such land in the larger cities. Moreover, even people of wealth in New York and other great cities in many instances prefer to rent in order to be freer from care. The fact 55 { ed would not be necessarily discour- The intimation'! from Washington | that the next decennfal revision of | the United States Pharmacopoeia, by a vofe of a committee now consider- ing the subject, will e'ide both whis- kev and brandy as drugs will delight humorists in the medical world. What- evermay he said of alcohol as a bev- | ers3e algohol as a medicine is pretty | nearly universally recognized as need- ful. Brandv in small amqunts is | better than digitalis for heartweak- ness. For aged men and women it is @ common prescription. To throw spirits out of the pharmacopoeia of the United States wil not affect the practice of the physicians of the This seems to be a fleld Where interference by npolitleal or | demawcwic forees should he deprecat- | ed, 1 Prohibition by nharmaconoeia | once vigionarv and ' pernicious. venture to sav Yalowstone Hold-Tps. (South Norwalk Sentinel.) The only wonder about Yellowstone Park hold-ups is that there are not more of them. ' It is certainly a temnt- Inz fleld for any enterprising banait, | Through the park pours a continuous stream of tenderfeet. all with money in their pockets, and all guaranteed to be without means of seif-defense own- ing to the fact that the government takes away their guns before they are allowed to enter the reservation. More- over, the place is so wild and unfre- quented, even near the main traveled roads, that it's easy for a robber to get away. The scldiers on duty as vatk police are, of course, always far from the point chosen for a hold-up, and, sometimes are not notified for hours The ordinary park visitor can’t help " wondering why the drivers of the bus- ses and coaches are not permitted to carry drms to protect their passeng- ¢rs. It is the idea nf the authorities that an occasional hold-up is a good thing, because it advertises the park and adds an attractive bit of “wild west’' color for the benefit of adven- turous eastern tourists? | is asked to make his charge under the i in and do his best, and his state of aging, even if it were not true that thousands of people live in apartments or rented houses who have large ac- cumulations otherwise invested. If ‘nearly half of our heads of fam- ilies own their own homes, there must be a large amount of crror in the fig- vres of the socialist writers, One of these has estimated that seven-eighths of American families hoid. but one- cighth_of the national wealth, "While but one, per cent .qf-the- familieshold more than the remaining 99:pericent. Another figures that nine per cent of the families of this country hold 71 per cent of the total wealth. Acecord- inz to a.third, one per cent of Ameri- cans hold more than 54 per cent of the wealth, while fully 50 per cent of Americans hold no wealth at all, Even the posibility of absolute accuracy in cstimates of this score it perhaps doubtful, and such figures suggest a lurge degree of mere guesswork on tne part of pessimists whe unconsciously attribute the conditions in great cities to the country as a whole. Boosting Courage. (New London Day.) Whenever woman interjects herself into such situations as the European war in any other capacity than as an angel she is very iiable to get in wrong. Jane Addams. who has been in Europe and as close to the sources of the rouble as possible, appears to have been rather more strongly im=- pressed by the fact that, as she al- leges, the soldiers are given liquor be- tefore a bayonet charge than by con- siderations that would appeal to the masculine mind even the mind of masculine teetotalism, as being rather | more important. What especial difference it makes | to the world's civilization whether a Furopean division goes into action with a stiff hooker under the belt of | eich 'soldier, or whether the soldierr inspiration of water or grape julce, is | not clear. In either case he will go | mind will doubtless be very little dif- ferent, by the time he gets within | bayonet thrust of the other fellow | whether he has had a dring or a dozen or mnone at all. He will be just as much of a frenzied Junatic under the toxne influence of war’s mad passion Important part of the ammunition | C2&me in barrels and was measured in Un eups instead of cartridge paper. Addams has fallen into the | COmMmon error of her sex when | “Tought face to face with tremendous 9uéstions and. tremendous effects— u.“ has lost her sense of proportion it the shadow of magnitudes too 8reat for her, Who We Don’t Know. (Bridgeport Farmer.) If it shall be a fact that Great Brit- has transported hut 440,00 men | to France, doubt wili be thrown up- | GN everything that has been printed ' about the war, “Repeatedly the ncws has been ited, upon the faith of statements | alleged to have been made by Lioyd | e and other responsible states- | nien, that more than 1,000,000 men | been sent to join the French and the Belgians. If the statements about the mum- Dérs sent abroad are untrue, so may statements about the numbers . re- Cruited be unture. The whole mat- ter is in doubt. It cannot be said that anybody on this side of the water Lfidws anything about the war. . The WHhole situation may be more desper- ate than anybody has supposed. It will be found that the secrecy | compelled by a limited number of persons, of the ruling ciasses of the warring nations, has been to all concerned. School Vacations. (Meriden Journal.) Some of our educational theorists are endeavoring now to cut down the long summer vacation or else do away with it entirely for they think that the boys and girls grow stale in so iong an idle period and that studies would be the miore effective with the sustained interests if the school ses- sions were more continuous. That is a plausible argument in many ways ut if the school sessions were eontin- ued through the summer we are cer- tain that it would lead to stagnation. School routine nowadays is a pretty severe grind for the majority of pu- pils have to work «t home in order to keep up and in fact homework is pro- vided so that the young people may .be kept busy. There must be a large emount of playtime if our youth r tain their hecalth and clasticity and this can best be secured in the long vacation. Of cqurse there is a problem in all cities to Keep th young people off the streets. Th bows especially seem 1o find the highways tp be best base- ball . grounds deepita e «fact that there are real playgrouinds for them Another thing to ‘be .considered is that many boys earn their own way during the summer not only pay for their clothes but otherwise help their parents. These things must.be considered before there is any talk about shortening the vacation period. ! been a notable | since the beginning of/the How to Live Long. (Tcledo Blade.) : Centenarians all know why they have been blessed with long years. It is because they never drank, or be- cause they did drink, because . they never smoked, swore, quarrelled, wor- ried, sat up late nights, or because they did all these things, yet count- eracted the evil effects with diets of milk, mush corn bread or an apple a day. Neighbors and relatives and doctors may wonder why the tooth of time has proved incapable. But the subjects of their wonder have ever any doubts. They know exactly why they and death keep apart. An intimate study of the character of centenarians might reveal the true formula for long life. These tenac- ious old folks.all have one thing in common, and that is perfect confi- dence. They are never troubled with misgivings, never afflicted with self questioning. If a person is absolute. ly certain that he is going to defeat time, perhaps that is as effectual as it is with the man who is absolutely certain that he is going to defeat a case of typhoid. Confidence may be a good anodyne for sleeplessness, a worthy aid to digestion, a protector against accident. The records indicate that it does not matter so greatly that the candi- date for a hundred be abstemious or moderately. indulgent, careful with his food or reckless, as that he feel sure that he has the secret of longe- vity. So, it would seem, the first duty of aspirants is to cultivate a dogmatic set. of opinions. Detroit Knows How. (New Haven Register.) The leading cities of the States, which showed a gain in popu- lation averaging more than fifty per cent. in the decade from 1900 to 1910 art likely to show a still greater gain in population and business when the comparison of the phesent decade is made. - This means, if the conditions of traffic in this decade were alike those of the last, =z tremendous in- crease in street traffic. But there has vehicle development century, the concep- United | which intensifies beyond tion of any except those who have studied it most carefully. The sup- | ure | tensified use of the streets, at swift- planting of the horse in large meas by the machine means ar ins er pace, and means that the same vehicle passes a given point more times in a day or a week. This is'a part of the problem involved. It i= but the inevitable, therefore, | that the cities should be studying { injurious | one should hardly exp find the best résults in those largest citie whose traffic problem haf got alieac of them, but in those of medium size | which have been able to keep pace with it. { One of these 8 Detroit. More thar any American city it has won its pros- © perity from the evolution of the high- way machine, It is guite natural as | a writer to the New York Times puts it, “that the automobile center of the world should have at the same time the highest efficiency in directing their use.” He points out some of the features of this efficiency, which it is unecessary to the present pur- pose to mention. The greatest im- provement that Detroit has, probably, is the semaphore, showing red and*“. green arms of the policeman. De. troit, also, makes use of the zome wof safety, within lines painted on fhe pavement, more than does any other city. Dotroit is more than three times | the size of New Haven. Its trafic needs are inore exterfsive than ours though it may not have any conges- tion point to equal that around out Green. It is probable that the com- mittee presently to be appointed 10 cope with the New Haven situation can with profit, study Detroit. Change In Foreign Trade. (Torrington Register). One of the many good results like- ly to flow from the Panama canal and the - common-sense waterway through Illinois is the decentraliza- tion of this country’s foreign trade. Last year, New York handled 46 per cent, of the exports of the entire nation, and a still larger proportion of imports. In spite of the natural and artificial advantages centering at . . b 3 Manhattan, this is an unwholesomo congestion. The Isthmian Canal should. help considerably in redistri- | buting this commerce, since it enables Pacific ports to ship direct to Europe. The opening of the cOmmMon-sense waterway and the development of our gulf ports—particularly that of New Orleans,—should do even more. ‘With the lakee and the gulf united by a practicable channel, a large part of the slow freight of the Mississipp! valley will find its fvay to the sea by this cheap and handy water route. (Pueblo . (Coly) Chieftain.) Beside the colossal losses of war how trivial appear the catastrophes of other daye.. Twenty persons killed anywhere in thé United States Is a first page display news story. " A hundred killed is a three-day wonder. A thousand dead marks a great dis- aster that will linger ih men's " their traffic problems, and only neces- sity that they should be developing improved systéms of traffic regulation to meet their needs. In this matter ories’ year after year. In one year of war the total fossin killed, wounded and missing 18 estis mated at more than I;ON.O:O ‘him’\ beings, or an average loss’ fot | more than 20,000 men for an entire year. ¥ ¥ [ STEAMER AGENORIA | STRIKES xcznmmv Vesse] Crawls Into Port At Montteal . With Bows Crushed In—Ninety Montreal,” July 17.—With = bows crushed in, the steamer Agenoria crawled into this port today. Sunday morning she crashed into an iceberg while running through the Straits of Belle Isle. Ninety bergs were sighted in the ' narrow passage, but the one that the “essel struck, although 100 feet high, was not seen through the fog until K 3 /) 5 b4 Y ¥ h it loomed up thirty feet dead ahead. Then it was too late, The steamer is a vessel of 2,977 tons gross register, is 330 feet long ' and was built in 1902, flies the Brit- ish flag and is owned by Dickinson and Sons of West Harlepool, BEng. U. S. MARKET OPEN TO ALL. Teutons Unable to Secure Munitions Beoause Allies Control Seas. Milan, July 16, Via Paris, July 17, 10 p. m.—Commenting upon the Aus- trian note to the United States pro- testing against the shipment of war munitions to the entente allies, the Corriere Della Berra points out that America never has refused to supply arms and munitions to the central em. pires but that Germany and Austria are unable to obtain them from that country because of the superior naval power of the allies. “The American market is open to all,” says the paper. “If the gov- ernment were to close it to the allics it would commit & violation of neu- trality in favor of the central em- pires.” BARS EXPORTATION OF GOLD Switzerland Takes Steps 1o . Conserve Its Supply. July 18, 11:35 Paris, p. m.The | Swiss federal council has decided to rrohibit the exportation. of gold jn any form, says a Havas despateh from Eerne. Another Havas despatch from Berne states that the editor of a newspaper st Neufchatel, France, now ocupied by the Germans, has been oraered ba. fore a court-martial for publishing an article in which he violently at- tacked Germany. ‘RELIEF FOR JEWS, New York, July 17.—The American- Jewish Relief committee announced today that it has received a despatch trom the Jewish celonization associas ‘on of Petrograd, stating that the as. scciation can guarantee only such ree mittances from residents of the United States to friends or relatives in Russia to ' reac the - association through the Jewish relief committes, The colonization association, ace iing to the announ t declined be responsible for mon any othér agency. 1 2