New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1915, Page 6

NEV BRITA Re A t ideas in: the heads of the, youngsters, was spent’ in alcohalic liquors. ’ i AR _were rolled ovVer the ‘highly ed)- at 4:18 p. m. | Mohogany more children ‘could .have S s been' raised to'the estate of. % cated, So the comparison On indefinitely, " The moving picture shows received $250,000,000 in paid admissions last year which is about one third of what it cost to educats the nation the ‘year previous. Three classes of people this country have always been held up as the most poorly paid. They are the newspapermen, the preachers ayd the school teachers. - With additional fig- ures.-given out by the bureau of edu- cation it ‘is easily seen that the school(i !teachgrs are-rapidly attaining an ex- | clusive positon ag regards remuner-* ation for their efforts. The avers,ge1 salary for this work is.$78 a month for| men and $61 a month for women, Re- 1| porters have been known to make as.| much as $15 a week and some minis- | ters and preachers, as, for instance, | Billy Sunday, have gone over this New. Britain ter. to any part of the city eck. .65 Cents a Month. o' be sent by malil . 60 Cents & Advertising medium in ition. books and press en to advertisers. in a | _found on sale at Hota- ! . 42na St. and Broad- City: Board Walk. artford depot. scmt in the legal pro- W busily engaged the workings of 3 “From Cleveland that it should be taken | books. Some of the st ‘have argued that e Court the reverses the -lower smissal of the govern- ainst the trusts, the Ly as well be laid on { of New Britdin has reached man’s es- tate. It is no longer a ‘child in the kindergarten of the nation. It is now | a full grown city. According to the | Jatest census prepared by the Unit- | ed States government, New Britain | has ‘a population of 52,203. In five years the population of the city has sistently pursuing been augmented by some 10,000 per- G sons.” Today New Britain ranks as o destroy “Big Bus- Gtility of their mission, | the fifth largest city in the state of | i _been ppointed out Cannecticut. five as evidence the re- Every man, woman and child who o ; against tho | Teads those figures should ponder | the Steamship | oVer them. They are encouraging. | iater comppsics, the | They mean much. They show we _and the United | have ceased to live in a small town ‘Company. By iig | 80d have taken our place among the ese trusts many | Select. That being the case we must Act a dead letter, | conduct ourselves accordingly. We —the day is past must think in the terms of the big !/ ply th the Unit- | ©ity 4nd cast aside’the small town es to suit itselt. | 1deas. . ) the Sherman law Business men, professional men, some time to|those Who labor either by hand or eld over the heads mind should unite in this one big Happily, the cause,—the baoosting of New Britain. small industry has | e have evervthing to be proud of, rman law- makes | Bothing for. which we are ashamed. ¢ | Summing it up, it goes Yomething like this. We live in the grandest nation on the face of God’s earth, in ‘the greatest state in the union, in the | finest city in the state. There"you have it. . Let no one say different. All is. harmony. There is no dis- cord. ‘We have everything: that makes life .worth livlvr.isjv,‘s_q _tonight, when we 'hie ourselves to our trundle cots we should thank Divine Providence that we eat, sleep, drink, and breath the pure air in New Britain. As an instance of how formidable we are, let us consider the lament of an Arkansas editor who describes the daily existence of a citizen of his community in this fashion: ‘“He gets up at the alarm of a Con- necticut clock; buttons his Chicago | ,rm:f::’en:t ':i::; suspenqers to Detroit averalls; washes“ E his face with Cincinnati soap in a! y while over-rid- | > i ‘emngllowed‘t'o' Pennsylvania pan; sits down to a P Has hiarosts. of Grand Rapids table; e meat and Tennessee flour cooked with | Kansas lard on a St. Louis stove; puts a New York bridle on a Ken- tucky mule fed with Iowa corn; | ploughs a farm covered by an Ohio | mortgage with a Chattanooga plough; | when bedtime comes he reads a chap- | ter from a Bible printed in Boston, says a prayer written in Jerusalem, | T and his: Attorney de taygets against which fof $his kind have been have heen; and are, o sgible at present. T has the right idea. et the business in- d States. But to industries ‘it is’ not big . corpdrations ‘o keep its ear to tae agrant violations petrated, it has a in the Clayton anti- nt Administration is g for Big Business, is . Economists realize 1l right in their place: eats . Chicago | ‘ome before the ‘land. A review crawls under a blanket made in New | Jersey, only to be kept awake by an | Arkansas dog,—the only home product | on his place.” . Vo . . There vou have the direct antithesis | i of life in Connecticut and New Britain, Here, we get up in the morning wlth;{' lots of life, inspired in New Britain: | we leave our homes, every / part of which, even down to the lock the doors, have been put up in New Britdin; we walk to! work on roads built by men in New Brjtaini we eat our lunches of | | products produced in the suburbs of New Britain; we spend our afternoons . ich conform to Cof fair play. mere idea of bis- e in the eyes of the ‘no cause to com- ent. Lawyers have on n outstripped by By tne wonderful chools built up in tain; we Tead our newspapers gotten | out in New Britain; and at night, when | the cares of the day have been all | tucked away, we stretch our weary | limbs on beds made in New Britain, | ‘What more could We ask? The | i n bed of ig-,world is ours. We have a family | iaced them upon the | made up of the children of the world. | ledge, . That is their | We have the sunshine of Italy, the back up assertions | cool, clear air of Switzerland, the ' eral Bureau of | steadfastness of Germany, the beauty out some figures | of France, the health: of Ireland, the | ¢ interesting.' In | gentleness of Spain and the ruggedness fn there were | of Russia, all in New Britain. ! sul in the | And finally we have the stamp of | titutions of the United | approval of Uncle Sam who recog- | Instruction and educa- | nizes in us the grown city of 50,000 students the sum of | population, We need be afraid of | . 2 © _|none. Because we are so near the | capitol of the state is no handicap, \ade up of native born all. of whom ean read {11 pe mo illiter- 0se who are admitted oTis. 7 en the young was spent. v plain, unadulterated, | 1 to other figures . . For instance, | proaching émi Size of Hartford./There, oyt $1,000,. | are other instances of ‘twin cities in last | this couritry,—in b, %¢ than [‘and Néw Ym‘.«fijfl' 1 So there you Have the reasons for § proud of New Britain. It is a ! cently. in parks made beautiful by New Brit: { it is an advantage. We are rapidly ap- |- | great city, a good-city. In fact, there is none better. We take our hats off to New Britain, ' Scanning the News, Charles Becker makes a final plea To clear his name of murder Things again o’ertucn in Mex Fl Paso still hoids Huer The German note is firme; The one that went before. The battles rage' In cultured age. The papers keep the score. The Italian army wins the day Along the Isonzo river. X Two New York men got into a fight; One called a Ford a “flivver. ! Paris has become accustomed to The ever-present “Zep.” Warsaw forts Berlin reports Are losing all their pep. The weather turns from hot to ceol. The business men are happy. Compounce' is the gathering place For every care-free chappy. The crowds along Main street are nil, There’s nothing to attract them. Gene Porter’s eats Are hard to beat, So let us up and at.’em. The Pittsburgh millionaire returns Home to the Smoky City. Hie wife continues to excite The good press agent's pity. She hopes that he will be, enjailed To save her life and health. Some people bet The lawyers get The “paranoiac’s wealth. Leo Frank, whose throat was cut, Continues to improve. The. Boston “Braves,” by fighting hard, Make anether upward mave, Jerry Donovan resorts to law To try and trim Eb. Hill. ‘When he got beat By margin neat, He took a bitter pill. Fighting the Movies. (South Norwalk.Sentinel) The mechanical drama is winning away not only a goodly part of the audiences of the older theaters, but algo their favorite actors. The com- /petition is causing theatrical man- agers much alarm. Vaudeville man- agers. have already started a system ‘of cutting the salaries of actors under contract with them who venture to pose for the films. Some managers of the “legitimate,” rather than than share their stars with the movie houses, are “orbidding them to act with film companies on pain of for- 'feiting their contracts, and some of ‘the stars are deserting them anyhow, lured. by irresistibly big salaries. It's hard to tell how far it will zo. The movie men maintain that theirs is the drama of the future, and that the older drama, with its limited .scope and great cost will -have to yield. One movie wizard” believes “hat play-acting by flesh and bl6od jactors will survive only as a euriosity, providing . eccasional = performanccs ‘for. the benefit of .literary -and :dra- ‘matic antiquarians. = i3 It will be long, however, before we come to that, if we ever do. There may be a sort of compromise, in the development of the phonograph and film combination, which has not vet realized .its possibilities. But ‘two things tend to check .the tendency toward a universal ‘‘canned’' drama’” :—fthe human weakness of actors, who weary of the mechanical click and star of the film camera, and long for cager seas of faces and bursts of applause, and on the other hand the instinctive, uhconquerable preference ‘of patrons for the visible, | human bresence cf the actors. They may each forget such things for a while, but they cannot ignore them per- | manently. The managers and actors will have their troubles, but it isn’t likely that either type of drama will destroy the other. There is plenty of room for both, and each will be better because ot the competition of the other. Beer, a’ Pure Food., (Waterbury Democrat.) Beer has been recognized as a pure | food product by the food inspection division of the health department of Cincinnati, O., and as such will have a place in the pure food exhibition to . 'be held in that city during August. Attorney Saul Klein, who orignally objected to having beer classified . as a pure food produet, withdrew his | objection and announced Blume the chief food Cincinnati, was right that. Dr. inspector of when he con- tended that beer shouhl be classified | as a pure food. “I am satisfied that Dr. Blume is correct; that beer is a pure #food prodyct,” sald Klein res “1 am not antagonistic to the manufacture and sale of beer. I be- lieve in the temperate use of beer as having building qualities, the same as meat and vegetables” As a result, beer will be among the exhibits at the forthcoming show. Tho Nature Students. (Meriden Journal). There are days of .automobiles, basgebali and goif, when people take their pleasures in speed, velling or costly games. . What has'become of the simple old times when so ‘many people used to find their recreation in studying ‘botany, splitting up rocks to find their geological formation, or learning ‘the notes of birds? Are there ahy nature students left? If you ask the modern business man to find relief from the cares of his office by going out into the woods and learning the names and character- istics of the trees, the plants, and the insects, he would be very much bored. Yet every species of birds has its own fascinations and graces, and it is a pleasure to number!.them all in your circle of friends. Every variety of tree renders its own service to mankind, and it is interesting to know what it has contributed to hu- man life, The outdoor world is a great stage on which nature is ' per- ‘forming her thrilling drama. If one’s eyes can be opeéned, there is e world of beauty and interest in' the quiet seclusion of the waods and fields. FACTS AND FANCIES, If the Sultan of Turkey is dead, as reparts say, he is one of the luckiest persons in Constantinople —Rpchester Union. o _ Alaska reports the mercury; at 100 aegrees Fahrenheit, . By ' the . same token it must be 120 at the North Pole but communications are cut Brooklyn Eagle. Horse racing has been killed by legislative enactment in Arkansas. The only public amusement left in that state is lynching nesroes.— | Rochester Herald. They may not talk .so eloquently | about ‘it, but that should not obscure the fact that too many millions of the American people this is the Father- land.—New York World. Does this sound far-fetched or pre- Posterous? All our European War news comes through English channels. Is jt not possible that the fighting quality of the opposition is over-emphasized sometimes so that the world may | feel, when victory finally perches up- on the banner of the allies, that it was a victory worth achieving?— Berkshire FEagle. Every American has the kindliest feelings toward the German people They are a hard working, substantial home loving and thrifty people. When they come to America they make the best of Americans. Ordinarily the hphen isn’'t in evidence except among the newest comers, and if t has been considerably in evidence during the present .unpleasantness on the other side, that is not so much due to the German-Americans themselves as to the tremendous propaganda that has been carried on to enlist their sympa- thies for the Fatherland. It is not with the German people that Uncle Sam has any dispute, but with the Imperial German Government.— Poughkeepsie Eagle-News. . With the increasing warehouse facilities that have been provided, the case in financial circles as against the intense closeness in finances last year and the co-operation of the Fed- eral Reserve board, there is no rea- son why the South, if it 1s wisely guided, should not handle 1ts (cotton) crop far more advantageously than it Gid last year’s. It cannot throw this crop on the market without breaking prices, but it can meet the situation, carry the crop over, or such portion of it as may not be salable at a fair figure, and await the inevitable time when the, world will need all the cot- ton that we are storing up, and need it at high prices. - Moreover, the South can more nearly live at home by reason of its immense grain crop than at any time since 1865.—Baltimore Manufacturer’s Record. Since it is apparent that a well. de- fined and, in part, concerted effort is now being made in this country to pro- mote the meditation of the TUnited States in the world war and to spread broadcast the idea that there is in Europe such mediation, it is necessary to warn Americans that such agitation is based on wholly false premises.There’s no de- sire, no willihgness, no intention among the enemies of Germany to accépt mediation or desist from the war at the present time. The reason is simple: peace now would mean for Germany a victory almost as com- plete as her statesmen hoped for at the outset, and would open the way for later victories, which would com- plete the great work the German people have undertaken.—New York Tribune.Y The king of Italy has been made corporal’ in a French regiment, Of course this 1is a merely formal courtesy, based on tradftional asso- ciations between Italy and France. But it has a sentimental significance and counts for something because of the new alignment which brings the two nations together on the firing line, It's customary for old-world mon- &rchs to hold honary positions in the armies of brother monarchs; but when a big war breaks out everything is “all off.” The German Emperor no longer has the privilege of wearing an - .Emglish or Russian uniform. nor can King George or the Czar right- fully appear in the military togs of Germany. In fact, the king of Eng- land has gone so far as to revoke the permission given to Germanic rulers touse the garters bestowed upon them —that is, the insignia of the Order of the Garter. Thus we have anotheriex- emplification of the horrors of war.— Troy Times, CARLYLE'S FIRST LOVE, Margaret Gordon Original of Blumine in “Sartor Resartus,” Say Critics. (The New York Evening Telegram). During the year 1818 Thomas Carl- vl,e the Scotch philosopher, was liv- 7ing at Kirkcaldy, and he seems then for the first time to have fallen in love. The lady appears not to have returned the attachment, although she with great insight at the age of 22 perceived the genius of her suitor of 25. In the letter in which she took leave of her admirer she used these signifi- cant expressions: “Cultivate the mild- er ‘dispositions of your heart, subdue the more extravagant visions of the ‘brain.. * * * Genius will render you great. May virtue render you belov- ed! ‘Let your light shine before men’ and think them not unwerthy this trouble.” Many years after, when Carlyle wrote his reminiscences, he described the episode. He says that Margaret Gordon “continued for perhaps some thre years a figure hanging more or less in my fancy, on the usual ro- mantic and latterly quite elegiac anda silent terms.” The real interest of the story is this, Was Margaret Gordon the sole orig: inal of the Blumine of "Sartor Re- sartus?”’ One critic would have us angwer that although Jane Welsh might have ingpired some of the de- talls, it was Margaret Gordon who was the true original. | off.— | real réadiness to welcome t and Dublin. [| WHAT OTHZRS 3AY i Views. on all sides of timely | questions as dixcussed in ex- changes that come fo Herald office. . Shoestring Bidders. (New York Times.) It is an American trait to admit ability to accomplish anything. The | degree of confidence which several thousands Americans have shown in their ability to enter fields totally new to them, execute contracts and collect 2 handsome profit has been a source of unending amazement to bankers | who have haa war contracts to let, or | Who have been asked for financial backing to enable bidders to get con- tracts. A man who has been em- Ploying three tinsmiths will cheerfully offer to turn out 10,000 shrapnel ; shells a month. If he can but get a contract. Uusually, however, the ap- DPlicant for war business has not even had tinshop experience. He goes to 2 manufacturer and says: ‘T expect to get a contract for 10,- 000 shells at $24 a shell. You can make them for $14. If I place it with you, will you divide?” The manufacturer, who is an opti- mist of the same calibre, agrees, and the speculator hastens to the agents of the Allies with an offer of 10,000 shells. When asked where he expects to get them the speculator says: ‘““Ah, if 1 told you that you would blace the business - direct. That is my secret.” The agents will not place an order in the dark, and if they finally get the name of the manufacturer they find that he never saw a shell, has no ma- chinery that could be used in . its manufacture, and would need six months to experiment before he could turn out one perfect piece of ammu- nition. There is a timing device at the top | of ‘a shell which is as delicate as a fine watch. When the first order for | shrapnel was placed with the Bethle- hem plant shell after shell was fired off. After each shot an adjustment ‘was made and eventually the machin- ists learned how to make perfect am- munition. Now only one in every 250 | shells is fired in testing. If the hun- dreds of speculative bidders who are after war orders were all given a trial there would be more ammunition wasted in experiments than would be delivered to the belligerents, at least for a half year. Being Unarmed. (New London Telegraph). It is a pretty humiliating position in which the United States finds it- self today. If we.were a poor and feeble population, and a little country, the insult and injury heaped upon us by the belligerents of Europe might be endured with somewhat better pa- | tience. The weak have not the same | duty in such premisges as the strong. But our hundred millions of people | have for years been paying taxes for the maintenance of a national govern- ment which has for one of its first objects the protection of its citizens in_ their human rights; ‘both at home and abroad. ¥ If the Lusitania outrage had been committed by ‘Spain, instead of Ger- many, the United States would have served an ultimatur for immediate apology and reparation, in default of which war would have heen promptly declared and satisfaction soon secur- ed. It would be a long time before a nation the size of Spain would dare to commit an oturage like that. * But Germany 18 big powerful and far off. Germeny flouts us and we are impotent to inflict the punish- ment which Germany richly deserves. Britain has flouted us with her or- ders in council, and unjustifiable siez- ures of American goods. Our gov- ernment has felt powerless to compel better conduct. Japan has fiouted us in hes designs upon China. Of course, it costs a good deal to acquire sufficient military and naval pawer to deal strongly with any na- tion that they may impose upon us, but does it cost as mich. in the long run, as the reputation of being help- less? ¥ Rules for Long Life. (Bridgeport Standard.) No one formula for the conduct of life so as to insure longevity —will answer for all. - The great majority of people have no definite rule of liv- ing and .if they use the “true mean,” do so by good luck more than by good management. Cardinal Gibbons, who presents a model of right living, at eighty is | still active and able and in the prime of his powers. This he has accom- plished by regular hours, plenty of sleep, moderation in eating and drink- | ing, exercise proper to his age, avoid- | ance of worry, etc., which is certainly safe and excellent and worthy of | imitation. But here comes one John Ernest Bach, of Newark, J., 100 years old, who eats between meals, smokes and drinks whiskey and beer occasionally, but generally buttermilk, prefers cake to bread, eats candy by wholesale and | takes three hearty meals a day. He expects to live many years yet, and were he to be a little more regular and abstemious, after Cardinal Gib- bons’ example, he might live on in- definitely. When an old man tells how well he gets along by violating all the gener- ally accepted rules of right living, the question arises how much better might he have done, had he been more tem- perate and regular. The Pipe Industry, (Manchester Herald.) Briar pipes are of all prices, from the cheapest imitation to the gilt and gold affairs. Experts aver that the | best briars are imported from London There are two considerations that have gone to discourage the meer- schaum pipe—it is likely to break l into many pieces, and there is often a difficultyNn coloring the pipe properly. Many sorts of new woods and other | changing fashions. | Vieinity was particularly adapted to | The first that were sent north found a | to have made headway | tries. | there is every reason to believe, say | trol of congress, | ment in these thiugs | 1abeled but they are slill grossly adul- mate deemed st the making of pipes are. - ) 1} disaj ng with e b - 7 pp’:‘:r-cob and elay. | pipes still_hold their own. The corn- | cob is the characteristic ~American | pipe. ‘Whole acres in Ohio, Tllinofs, Missouri and Nebraska are devoted to raising corn for the special purpose of producing cobs suitable ~for pipe bowls. The grain itself is marketed, of course, but the cob on which it grows is the real harvest. This is cut earefully into proper lengths, smoothed and polished, the soft inner Pulp being gouged out by specially constructed machinery. The corncob Pipe is exported to every country in | the world where men smoke, It is es- | Pecially in favor in Australia and New | Zealand, where it is regarded as char- | acteristically American. | The clay pipe also has become a 10ted national product of our country. The largest clay pipe factory. in the World is situated at Appomatox county, V&.. More than fifty years ago it was known that the clay found in that the manufacture of tobacco pipes. ready sale, and then a porthern capi- tallst who was a confirmed pipe smoker discovered that the clay pipes from Virginia were better than those from any other section. He traced a ship- ment and found that it preceded them | from the clay beds of Appomattox county. He purchased these deposits and put up a big factory, which has be>n increasing in size ever since. Electric Battleships, (New Haven Union.) It is reported that even the warring nations are watching with deep inter- est the equipping of the battleship California - with electric propeliing machinery. If‘the California exper- iment is successful all the new bat« tleships of the American navy, as taey are contsructed will . be eclectrically driven and that the idea will be founa in other, coun- This experiment marks a distinct advance in naval construction, but naval authorities, that it will be a complete success. The collier Jupiter is already equipped with electric pow- er, and it is pointed out that its ma- chinery is both ecomomical and prac- tical. The advantages claimed for elec- tricity are that it saves space aboard ship, means a much ' smaller con- sumption of uel, more perfect con- trol of the ship from the bridge and permits use of oil as fuel. Indeed, all naval vessels now build- ing and those for which plans are now being prepared, are to hurn oil fuel and nothing else. In addition to this, a considerable proportion of ves- sels already in commission burn oil. The argument in favor of oil is, briefly, that it is compact, easily handled, clean and to be found in all parts of the world. = As much cannot be said for coal in any one of the four respects indicated. Of all the great powers of the world, say the authorities, the United States is in best position to turn ‘ex- clusively to fuel oil for its battleships. It produces nearly 70 per cent. of the world’s oil output, and some of Its i most promising fields have thus far scarcely been touched. On govern- ment lands, subject to the full con- are fields which there is reason to believe will turn out to be fabulously rich, furnishing an adequate supply for the navy at a nominal cost. In Bebalf of Pnrity. (Norwich Rulletin). The dairy and pure food commis- sioner is engaged in an impertant work in his endeavor to have the law respected in regard to the coloring matter which is being used in soda water syrups and furnishing the prop- er information to the publie for its guidance'as to the purity of such in- gredients. In the recent repert of the Con- necticut experiment station dealing with the question of the purity of carbanated drinks, fruit juices and soda water syrups it was shown that instead pf there being an improve- ‘ re has con- tinued to be an increafing disregard for the quality of ‘he rroduet. The samples of carbonated drinks exam- ined last year show that the percent- age of purity is lese than half what it was when the pure foud law went into cffect. The fruit ;uices show a like decrease, while the syrups accord- ing to the last examinations are less tHan a third as pure. The report holds that they are perhaps more honestly terated, glucose, chemicai preserva- tives, synthetic flavors, coal tar colors and saccharin being frequently pres- ent. This reveals a condition which calls for attention and tie 4ct.on taken by Commissioner Stadtmueller is espe- cially timely. There is need for im- provement in that very direction, es- pecially since the conditions prevail mostly in small storez where children are among the larzest consumers. Tt reflects no credit upon the state when these articles continue to grow more and more impure, and it 1s time effec- tive: measures were tunken to force them in the opposite direction. 1 Old Josephus Still Dead. { (Waterbury American.) | No, the old Josephus is still dead. | That story about his resurrection was | all wrong. The new Josephus rises tc protest. He doesn’t say he didn’t say it, but he does say it wasn’t what he meant to say. “My attention,” says Mr. Daniels, has been drawn to a newspaper dis- patch in which I am made to say that when we have assembled the inven- tive geniuses of the country we shall be in a state of défense that mo other nation has ever known. This is, of course, not what I intended to say, the point 1 was trying to make being that when this board was organized and the initial plang for utilizing the native American talent were also under way, nd the whole idea was in actual opera- tion we would have taken a very long | tediy tors plerted with any possible method of civid.ug up private crowded parts of “he ready as husy probably mont Frank Ellerman, a pitcher with Ilount Vernon club, wae signed by the St who is " clent as In it. No_one realizes that this' is but a inventive things will not | our navy, We must have for the that lies before ug the loyal and telligent eo-operation not only gt C gress, but of the &,Ialev, n. ) convert dreams in ‘r%muc more must be don. than | ly show these dreams can be made. in practical useful things.” Wise and admirable conversation, that. We hope the new Josephus | will be able to stand the strain of living up to it. We hope he will keep. his coat off and his sleeves rollea up until he finaly becomeg reconciled to. dwelling -again in retirement Raleigh, N. C. Or bettdk yot, that he will keep his coat on, sit in a far, far corner and devote hls undivided attention to keeping the Old Josephus. in limbo: meanwhife giving his ex-. perts a free hand to develop the nev, as it should be developed, — “A Right To Bc Proyd. (Ogdén (Utah) Standard.) The American people have a righ to feel proud of the work of the American Belgian Relief Commiesion | . What American energy -and intelli- gence can accomp.ish under the most discouraging conditions is entertainiy’ disclosed in Literary Digest, in quo-’ tations from the rcport of the Conufi. missioner and comments thereom, as | follbws: . American busincss methods have &b never achieved a greater triumph than in Belgium. The American Com- | mission for Relief in Belgium, In their report just issued, makes this abundantly clear when they state that they have accomplished th seemingly impossible task of supply- ing the Belgians with $65,000, worth of food on an sctual contribu. tion amounting only to $10,000,000. The secret lies in the fact that the % difference between these two sums has been supplied by thie Belgians them- selves under conditions which called for the most skilful financial opera- tion By degrees the Commission has ex- tended its banking business, until it is now able to find money to enable the cummunes to pay their offickls, run the schools, continue necessary muni- § cipal conditions by thus rendering civil government possible. ZAPATA FORCES f IN MEXICO C . L Washington Officials Fear That Great Suffering Among . the w 34 Will Result, : Washington, July 21—Re-ocex tion of Mexico City Sunday by Za ta army after evacuation by the Carranza forces under General Gon- zales took officials here by re, The Zapata forces were driven from there eleven days ago by Go who is speeding northward to the advancing Villa troops. h upposition here had been that tl Zapata forces, were operating Ik the railroad to Vera Cruz in an afel o tempt to effect a junction with ad-" vaneing Villa column. i News of a battle near Pachucas reached by Villa troops is momentar- ily expe: . “3 Officlals fear that great suffering among the pecple will result. - Elpaso, Texas, July 2l1-—General Villa’'s expeditionary force under General Ganuto .Reyes and Rodolfe Fierro has cut communication he. tween Vera Cruz and Mexico dg and made it impossible for Gener: Pablo Gonzales, who evacuated the capital to receive supplies from the ‘coast. This report was réceived 1o. day from Colorado, Zacatecas. It reached aere by courier from . in the state of San Louis Polos, 1o which point General Reyes had teles graphed from Pachuen. Reyes ro- . ported that-he had delivered to ] Zapatatistas a supply of ammun and that the combined forces would move immediately on Mexico city, MOBILIZATION OF DOCTORS IN ENGLAND < Medical Council Belicves Some Sort of Organization on War Footing Will Be Necessary. London, Juiy 21.-~A “mobilization” of all the doctors in England is being talked of here. = The dearth of quals ified physiclans apd surgeons owing to the large nambers taken for war wctk, has reached such # stag> that «ficers of the Medical Couucil believe that some sort of an organization of toe profession on a ar fooumg will » be necessary, ispecially as tho puklie A Licalth is al the preseni aacsmmt & matter of specal (mporiance, The question of rearvirging tae work of the doetors to meet Loth the military and civil demanrds is admit- a difficult one. Netther doe: nor patients are likely to be medical pernaps be work cng what migit “led iciency” lines. Many physiciane, ecespeclally . the cities, are . as they can be, and in these cases no readjust. would be advisable, but there are iarge numbers of practitioners m the ‘suburban and country districts who could be advantageously placed ° in sections where special need is felt. If this involves heavy loss to them, it may be possible to arrange for gove ernment compensation. » SLOUFEDS GEY PITCHER, Mount Vernon, Hiinots, July 21—’ ‘the Louis . and | u i ! » \