New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1915, Page 6

dtios . to. advertisers. jale at Hota- | the ff. gn sale st Hota- | the wharf, to see him o oard Walk, d St. ‘'ord depot. CALLS. IT. i1l be no joy in living. ¢ new, lnvngt{gn& heck the pleasures surcease ,of - sorrow Always busily engaged in of the good old - Kiss resonator, in- 1a Conkling Reeves, n-town of Stoyes-| y;egqum'te of Penn- | the grave. N i 5 .forced into this Three beautiful wve graced his life this_ device mellow music of, volumnious to his sympathetic vibra- ;}flgm taking “parlor Yare watted Riknetic raafation here Joshua holds it es .on the propor- . din_of . ‘mighty of his soft felt slip- frasty right foot his ” ih Tess time than | woman her equal who will lead the ' (no critical attitude toward Warden ‘érstwhile, gay.and \ is_seen hurrying ’ opposite from St 0) 2 3 6N, led. accordingly. against plates l’ any Kkissin’ _sound floats and I hear it | Jist common: 2 neck sounds over Turkey in Novem- Y sounds like why ' did make an’ inno- d like the roar in* the. .trenches. this ma- al machine. Al- | rthe finndfi of the. an .the end of ~in his glass 'smash rtising medium in oR books and press you ‘de l he gets letters contain- e feathers until he ghakés off his cowardice:gngikoes to: the*nea Egéruiting officé and ‘enlists' in the Then when he has served his full’ alottment of drill duty and . his young ladies who sent him the white feathers are down to the station, or And for his ) reward, he gets roses, and, sometimes, kisses. The effect has bsen wonder- tul, so we ‘are told." And'what.man :2 ‘would not prefer roses andrkisses to white feathers? It wgsd take more than g doward to forego:.the roses and kisses, even if they were the last ever to be conferred. PR i\ And. 'many ofthe womieR,of coun- tries now at war have gone further than the sending of white feathers. They. have actually enlisted and: gone to the front, partaking in many bat- tles. And, we learn from the. cor- respondents, the women are as heroic as the men. Many are the stories told of women who have stood shoulder to shoulder with' the men in ‘the “trenches in the midst of heavy fire. through some of the severest cam- paigns. In order'to serve in' the armies the women :have -had to de- ceive the enlistment officers, but they have suceeeded in doing this to such an extent that at the present there are known to be more than one thousand ‘women in the armies now fighting. 3 ‘ Americans ‘can recall with great pride the fame of Moll Pitcher, also that other valiant woman, Stark. These are instances of where | women have borne hardships equal to those suffered by men. ‘And’ what about that wonderful French heroine, Joan of Arc? Who knows but what the war in Europe will develop a troops to one mighty victory and over- ' throw the whole( system of fighting. As'the Maid of Orléans went out with those valiant warriors under Her com- maxid, 86 thete may be some woman fighting -in the ranks of ‘one of thé armies today who might ge forth in ' her armament and overthrow one of ‘the powers, thus bringing a cruel war i to a timely close. | BADGES AND UNIFORMS. | Drivers .of motor \l_'egnclea_, in the! immediate vicinity of New Britain ! have been frequéntly held up and ar: | | rested by men purporting to' be ofm- | cers of ‘the law ‘but-who'have - dis- piaved na.padse of autborlty and, some cases, wore no uniforms,, . . . The question has naturally arisen, When is an n@c‘ar:_ not* an “officer? | | '/And the answer suggested is,. “When | he does not ‘wear his umiform or dis- play his official: badge.” et As et forth'in ‘the Connecticut law governing motor vehicles, a * ‘Police officer,’ or ‘officer,” ” shall include any constable or other official authorized “‘fl ve more privacy {'to make arrests or to serve process, } :;Vupurs were this es ever patented on the public B er at our com- | -worthy Mr. from the use of “him think of his rhen he, the gal- to pay, his atten- maiden who aft- Ris life with the three t now spyving e wonder- e taltar of his be- provided he is’in uniform or displays ‘his badge of office on the- front of his outside .garment in a conspicu- ous place.” - * . That is a good ruling. Unless’ an official wears a uniform or displays a badge of some kind there is no telling whether he is what he repre- sents himself to be or whether.he is annoyance. This has been known to happen in other localities ‘and the same thing might be done on Connec- ticut roads. If the law is to be.upheld the law must command respect. - That is one regiment 'is ordered to England thel They have gone ! time | Molly ' I 1o be proved is whether these can be- i some fanatic holding up people on | the road for the mere sake of glving | |Scanning the News | 1 We wish someone would teil us what Became of the “advisers.” The thing is just as clear to us As war plan of the Kalser's. The mayor has used his veto on Some old thing or other. One thing is plain, He'll spare no pain Advisory board. to:smother. 4 The Russians put a check upon The Germans in the west. The American-eagle, sorely tried, 1 Is screaming on its nest. The Orduna might the target be Of another German shot. “T. R.” and Co: |_Are not so slow, They'll fight if things get hot. {‘The Carnival was made the scene + * Of a pretty little fight. - i One chewed another’s finger, when, A black man met ai wi;:teA A In trying to effect.a pinchl, [ A zopicr's eye was blacked, For Mr. White s active quite, ert'lliough his head was cracked. The Germans-lost some trenches in |~ A place called Lingekopf. = [(Our tinguistic Knowledge swells i “With all this foreign stuff). | | The Austrians bombardment made From sea.and aeroplane. ' 0. & Italian shells The death list swells, " They keep in winiing' strain.i Murphy, the Witness for Becker. dg (Waterbury American.) | Murphy, the Sing Sing life convict, ! svho now. claim¢ to have hearq Jack Rose, Vallon and Webber conspiring fogether to put the guilt on Becker, was brought up to Albany and ‘cross- ¢vamined by Governor Whitman, ‘He i couldn’t explain why he had kept this gecret all these years. He was tripped by the skillful and = relentiess cross- | éxaminer into admitting that he had Lad an' -interview with Becker the day . before made his statement in Becker's interest. He admitted that he had got into the death house, where Becker is confined, by a ruse, ‘pretend- ing to be one of the members of the Mutual Welfare league, which is allowed.to entertain the prisoners in the death house by singing. ' i Of course this brought about anew | he Gsborne’s reform, and the governor immediately called up Mr. Osborne by telephone and told him what had happened as a result of his lenient f:x.les. The warden couldn’t under- stand it and there will be an exami- nation. - \ '+ It might as well be admitted in the first place that criminars iike those in Sing Sing cannot be trusted far with- out having some' betravals and lapses of diseipline. The thing tnat Temains made fewer and fewer zs men.are | ynade more trustworthy by being tpusted, and whether the advantages of the modified discipline are sufficient to compensate. for the disadvantages. Evidently this life convict was allowed #ff 'the death house, .not by the new 1dleg,” but by "vialaticn of them and u, betrayal of the confidence placed.in the men belonging to the Mutual Wel- fare League, ‘an organization’ among the prisoners for self-government. Building Ships. (Waterbury Demuocrat.) The shipbuilding proauctivity of the United .States has increased | enormously since the war egan. -All our shipyards on both the eastern and western seaboards are running at | capacity. Five yards on the Delaware. river are now building 46 merchant- men, and the New England yards show just as striking an outbreak of activity. A great ship vard s bheing built in Alabama, and others | are projected. Many of these new ! vessels, perhaps most or them, are | for foreign nations. European ship- | yards are so busy now with naval | work that orders for trading vessels { naturally come to us. in spite of the | higher- cost of building them* here, | The result that the country is rap- | idly getting the best equipment it has ever had for turning out mer- chant craft of all types and sizes. We shall soon have facilities for building the great merchant marine that the nation needs and wants. | When the war ends, roreign_orders will fall off‘and our shipyards = will be ‘free to work for American. ship. pers and help restore our flag to the FACTS AND FANCIES, Why should the strikers at Bayonne wish to burn the ‘engine house of a fire company? That looks dike -sheer anarchy.—:sulhlo Bxpress. Owners of the powder company stock now selling for $690 a share probably search the newspapers': col- umns indread of finding 'signs. of peace.—Buffalo Enquirer. \ Why are the foreign governments such spendthrifts ? They do not hesi- ;:“e o pay out vast sums of money iring spies to take pictures of our fortifications, when it would be pos- | gible for them to buy the same pic- Ures on souvenir post cards at a cent aplece —Watertown Times. Assuming that the board of inven- tors will fulfil the purpose of its pro- moters, it is obvious. that it will be- come the custodian of secrets of vital Importance to the nation. Their suardlanship should be entrusted to men loyal beyond the possibility of suspicion; and their clerical assistants should be men entitled to the same im- Dlicit confidence.—New York Sun. . - There has been much in the conduet | of our correspondence with Germany ' to provoke natural resentment, and it must be held to be a subject for sat- isfaction that the president and the state department have allowed no slgn of irritation to escape them. At the same time it must be recognized | that the only dignified course left our | goyernment is to close thé discussion | by.a display of unmistakable, uncom- ‘ promising decidion.—New York Jour- nal of Commerce. ¢ 3 ( | The suffragist women who invaded a publii bpxing contest ene.night this | Wweek, established no precedent so far as the attendance of women at such ! contests is concerned. But we do not remember that a political issue has ever been confused with boxing before; | As a political expedient the women hit ! upon something new which may be- | come popular, though we do not be- lieve it will ever tend to clevaie the charaéter of these exhibitinas of the manly art.-——New York Times. If the southern states feel that they need to restrict their suffrage ma- terially they can easily accomplish | that end without defying he fifteenth amendment. The Oklahoma literacy test would be vastly much more ef-’ ficacious than it has heen if no exemp- tions at all were permitted. Tor the good of the community illiterate aliens and illiterate native whites ought to | be asked to make the same sacrifice that is demanded of the negro voters. Then no complaint of inequality could arise and the sense of racial discrim- ination and injustice would be greatly lessened.—New York Tribune. In all the excitement due to the war, to the booms in war munitions due to the billions of dollars foreign govern- ments are spending here while their home manufacturers are -unable to compete with ours as they would in peace times with the bars down to them owing to the democratic tariff, it is well to refleet upon the misery we should have been enduring .in- - this country under democratic mismanage- ment had not the war in Europe .oc- curred. We should prepare to see that prosperity be insured to the fu- ture through the return of the repub- lican party and its doctrines to power at Washington.—Philadelphia Star. His countrymen differed much as to the moral integrity of James G. Blaine. The opposition that defeated him = for the presidency was rooted in the dis- trust of his motives. But of the in- sight of some of his opinions about a proper national policy, especially to- ward the republics of Central and South.America, men of the generation following his agree. He argued for a Pan-American rapprochement prior to Mr. Root’s advocacy of the same, and was the first secretary of state since the days of John Quincy Adams to face squaveiy the implications of the Monroe Doctrine and the contingencies that some time might compel the two Americas to know each other better and to act together oftener. The na- tion’s love of justice should insist upon keeping Mr. Blaine in memory as a statesman with an imagination, an as- set that is worth more to makers and conservers of states than sometimes is eonceded.—Christian Science Monitor. 'l"rylng Pension Problem. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) ‘prime of their qualifications. WHAT OTHERS . Views on all sides of questions as discussed (n ex- changes that comie ro Herald B s S o 2 e e German Press on American Note. The American note to ‘Germany nei- ther accepts nor-endorses the — Ger- man idea: of - international law- ana neutral rights at sea and therefore me- cording to the German press, possibiy inspired, the American note is all wrong: But it will become established after a time that American opinion on intérnational matters is not manu- factured either in Berlin or London and there ig not the slightest doubt but what we can successfully maintain our position taken on the ground of lawy; right ana humanity. Becauge we do not accept the Ger- man proposition. with - referenice 10 the destruction of neutral lives and property, without warhing and in vi- olation of all the hitnerto established rules of war, we are therefore, in the view of the German press, acting and arguing:in favor of the Allies. . If the German .government .takes. that view and urges it, there can be very little more said.on:our part. We have taken our stand ang-shall not yield it to ahy argument in favor of the course here- | tofore adopted by . Germany, on. the sea. : 3 Were \England or France in = the place of Germany the American posi- tion would be precisely the same. ofBn I O Useful Men Past Sixty. (Torrington Register.) & The well-known so-called Osler pro. position that men past sixty years of age are mostly fit only for the sliding board, got another hard jolt frgm the ; facts quoted by one of the Assdtiated Press war - writers who says that General Joffre did not get his French army into real fighting trim until he fired 120 generals of different varieties, many of them comparatively young, and that he even called back for po- sitions of the very highest order a number of generals who had already goné on the retired list because of reaching the age -limit, Moreover, these old fellows all made good; and one, General Manoury, who had been two years in private life:when the war | began, proved himself a potential contributor in winning-the battle of the Marne. Dr. Osler has declared that a false construction was given to his state- ment as to the dead-line of man's usefulness, but the misunderstanding persists, nevertheless, as is oftén mani- fest in many ways in commercial and professional life, to the discredit men- tally and physically of men in the very Any and all information calculated to dis- pel this false and' cruel impression should be sedulously disseminated. Educational Progress. (Waterbury Republican). In round numbers there were 22,- 000,000 persons enrolled in education- al institutions in the United States in 1914, -according: to ‘the annual report of the commishioner of education just issued. .. Of these .over 19,000,000 were in elementary schools; 1,374,000 in secondary schools, -both public and prividte;: and 216,000 in colleges and universities. - . Close to another hun- dred thousand were in normal schools preparing to .be teachers, 67,000 were in professional schools and the re- mainder ‘were scattered through other types of indtitutions. The teachers for this: educational army numbered 700,000 of whom 566,000 were in pub- lic schools. In point of ‘rapid growth the public high school still presents the most impressive figures the enrollment for 1914 is greater by over 84,000 than' for the year before. The cost of education for the year, as estimated by the bureau, was $750,000,000. - “This three-quarters of a billion is a relatively small amount when compared with other items in the public expense,” declares the re- port. “It is less by $300,000,000 than the cost of running the federal gov- ernment; it is less than one-third the nation’s expenditure for alcoholic li- quors; it is only a little over three times the estimated cost of admissions to moving picture theatérs in the United States for the samec year. Measured in terms of Products of the soil, the United States spent Somewhat more for education in_ 1914 than the value of its cotton crop, somewhat less than the value of its wheat, crov, | extent of exempting them ‘from | cided that a statute lemand for this legislation we o not | know. . Travelers and railroads seemed | to be gétting along fairly ‘well, though, of course, there may have been some grievances. There was also the ques- ment for actual loss. Butijt was dés wag . necessary. Perhaps aftér the law has been in op- j eration for a time, there will be less delay and confusion. And it may be -found that ‘it serves a useful purpose. , But Jugt now it does.not seem to be POpUldr. The fortunate folk who are on théir way to seashore or mountains, With wagon loads of trunks, would rathér—it is _believed—take their chances under the old system than be | subjected .to the delays ahd incon- venl-r_u:c- of the new. Perhaps this is a Teform for which there was an in- sistent and genuine demand—and per- hapsnot; . Just now it-1ooks as though it Wefe not. The law is having a “try- out,” ‘ang: by ‘the time congress meets agdin‘the people will he in_a posmon‘ to say. whether. they like it or not. | ! Tiring of the Colonel. ™ (New York Evening Post.) Wednesday was Roosevelt day at San Francksco, and the colonel cer- talnly made a day of it. . But can he be sure that'the American people are not Just a bit tired of hearing hit prove, for the 100th time, that he is the only president whe never made a mistake, and that everybody fs ' entirély wrong who does not agree Wwith _him _ in .every respect? The | Athenians banished Aristides because they were wearied of ‘hearing him called the fust. Would they have waited as long as they did if Aristides had,gone up and down vociferating that he was the only just man in Greece? And Americans, just at this | time, have special reason for irrita- fstion at a public man who shouts about the fearful mismanagement of affairs at Washington. We are facing a crisis in our foreign relations. The rest of us are trying tqQ keep still, and by restraint and patience to help the president discharge his delicate and difficult task. Nobody can take it out of his hands by railing at him; and the country as a whole, mindful of | this fact, is showing a strong desire | to uphold President Wilson.” And | this is the juncture which the colonel a master of flouts and jeers, seizes to endeavor ' to kick up‘a rumpus. Wa aré much mistaken if in' the"process he hurts'anybody but himself. Is “Disavow” the Word? (New Haven Register.) Some careful users of English paused and questioned, when in reading the note which our govern- ment sent to Germany on_ July 21, | they came to this sentence: = “The | government of the United States can- ! | not believe that the imperial govern } ment will longer refrain from disa- vowing the wanton act of its naval | commanders in sinking the Lus- tania.” * The old use of “‘disavow,” in the sénse of “deny,” thbugh now practi- cally obsolete, still’ flavors ‘all the meanings in which the ‘word is used today. . By -tine:best” authorifies, disavow is to- disown; to “disclain knowledge - of,” Tesponsibility or "con- nection with; repudiate; ‘deny con- | currence ‘in ‘or approval of; refuse tc own or acknowledge; disclaim. Now this may'describe what 'we asked Germany todo in the first place. But two-notes.from Germany have made it fairly clear that so far from disavowing the act of the naval commander of the submarine that sunk the Lusitania, Germany ag- cepts that act as its own, and infeed approves of it. To now yield to.our reversal of position, would be ingon- sistent and to a degree. humiliating, Germany has gone too far for dls- avowal, it is to be feared. That would have been the simple way out of it in the first place. What Germany should do to fully satisfy.us would be to ex- press regret and contrition for the ac« tion which it has now substantially made its own, and promise restitution and avoidance of anything like a rep- ctition of it. What Germany' is. more likely to do is neither to disavow ‘nox cxpress regret, but to indulge in | some more friendly generalities—and then, as we earnestly hope, to quietly | but sedulously avoid another Lusitan- ia affair or anything like it. But dis- avowal is somewhat more than . we can now reasonably expect, - GLEARANCE DAYS OF OUR ANNUAL - ~JULY SALE For Thursday, Friday and Saturdny, the last three day of Clearance Sale. all departments now for the final three days’ clearance, these prices positively for the next three days only, our big July Greater reductions in 50c Bureau Scarfs ond sShawls “at 39c cucn. Towels, large size, each, value 25c. “2_1-4 yards wide, " Regular price 32¢, Bed Quilts, large size, Extra heavy quality. THESE PRICES Wide Ribbone of all kinde, 26c values at 1%¢ yard, values.. At $1.39. M 'OR THREE DAYS ’, ONLY 7 i * g $1,00 Chiffon Cloth At 89¢ yard, Double Width Shadow Lace All Overs At B9¢, 89¢, 80c yard. All Vaiue to $1.25. Parasols Marked Down, $1:75 Suit Cases at $1.35, $1.00 Straw Suit Cases at 85c, LONG WHITE SILK GLOVES Full 18- button Lengths . at 69¢ pair, Value $1.00. WASH GOODS CLEARANCE, ¥ For the Next Three Days. Plain yard, Those and flowered tred @ e Reduced STAMPED GOODS TO EMBROIDEW interested in art needle work { can now buy pieces at a reduction. alling them the most unproductive .. I and unprofitable class in the nation, 1t is safe to say there was consider-/ able truth 4n his charge but today . war has brought a change. We Am- ericans still think England would be better off without its flunkyism, her- editary lines and its medigval aris. tocarcy. to admit that the peers have proved, as have the French, that talk about degeneracy on impotency is idle, But that does not commend to Americans, However candor forces us British notions of aristocracy. ‘A Maine Cattle Ranch. (Boston Advertiger.) » * A tract of land comprising about 38,000 acres in Washington Maine, le {0 be used for the develops ment of a large grazing ranch, those interestéd plan to put about 5,900 head of Wwest- ern catttle upopn it, as sooh as ‘the plans can be worked out. perts declare the soll as good ag that of the blue-grass reglon it Kentuciy, and it will be sown with that aded, and the cattle will be put on, after If the it is remsonably certain that will take it up. ' Properly cultivated, & large area of New England =oil offers’ county, and in the esnterprise Sofl ex« been mude rcody for its experiment proves r. success, othets i Regular $1.76 ‘Wi, Vorles, Crepes, ' Striped and Plain New Cloths, and Figured Silks. Value 25c and 29c, L8 of ’ ! “lwell his sions and recall entively . for the | 'a spying father time to pounce throw his car- t door. And Curbing the Dynamiter, (Philadelphia Ledger.) The Du Pont Powder company is doing what the state or the nation ought to have done long ago. It is going straight at the root of the bomb outrages that fill the news columns by curbing the sale of explosives to ipre- and less than half the value of the annual harvest of corn; while the na- tions bill for education was less by nearly a hundred million than, the value of the exports from the harbor of New York.in the calendar year just past.” ; Very little increase is vet to be the best grazing arca in this country. At present New England imports al- most its entire meat supply. Yet thia should not be so. Land is falrly cheap in many sections where graz- ing land can be decvioped casily, the | origipal investment ' would not be considering * the possibllities, ordeds for American ‘ships? . That will depend on Whether congress re- laxes the severity of our seamen’s jaw. It is posible now, at war rates jor transportation,’ to operate ships urder ithe La Follette law at’a profit ‘When yrices become normal again, most Bullets at the front and shells and shrapnel and grewsome guseous bornbs ore less terrible tp contemplate than the pension applications which are to be. filed by Senegalese widows whose husbands have perished wupon the French firing line. L of the reasons why uniforms are sup- ! posed to be worn by officers of ‘the | law. . It is the dignity of the uniform that commands respect. '~ It"'is, the | thousht that thé staté is'back of that | uniform which guaranteées -obedience | e Y e d all Tl ér' he | pelled to support L 9 :dre-dr_mn‘kf_zp 1 1 these. “ya-’M‘. demonie invention, he ,&pp’heap of - man. dare zather 2 must adopt the f policy for his daugh- fet him sit in the nen who call, d.- it he whl; but @fabolical re- : he sound of “does, it has AlL7) ade of Germany,: toorders received. from # uniformed policeman. But . when ' an officer rushes out on the road in his shirt- sleeves and attempts to make an ar- rest he has cast aside the most sa- cred badge of his profession,—the uni- form. Officers of the State who wish the law upheld, who Wish to be obeyed, will do well to remember that the peo- Dle of this day and generation have not yet mastered the ‘art of mind reading’and, until offders léarn to wear uniforms and display their badges of authority, there will always great niavies iof.. Germany - refuse’ to fig afraid ofach other. If Qd,"u true. block- e Jworld “to- sav- thus ipiop e Neutrall su | of our ship owners may follow: the | example of the Pacific companies and sell ‘the ships they vwn—not to mention the improbability of their buying any new ones—If they are not enabled to compete with the | foreign-owned lines on more nearly eyqual terms. Slang. (Stamford Advocate.) A Waterbury paper 1s receiving complaints about the increasing use of ‘slang. The complainws afe well founded., The case oi acquiring slang is one of the wonders or the times, while one is impressed every day by the fact that too small a proportion of'those who have had the savantage of: a public school traning are able ' to éxpress their ideas in good English, and- to spell common. words. Perhaps thig' is impressed upon newspaper- | vidrkers more than upon others, be- cauge they have a larger opportunity | for observation. -And‘ tnis 1s one of he chief reasons for an opinion, often pXpressed in print. that there must be /defect in the school system if a boy r girl from thirteen to rifteen vears of age cannot write.a plain statement ‘ot fact, in good English, -properly spelled ' and punctuated. It would not | be. fair to charge the slovenliness one ‘gees every day to ineficient teaching, ‘‘some ©Of the teachers should be compelled to take 18ssons in pemman- 4 d the use of punctuation marks they can be regarded sp quall- The Senegalese are Mohammedans, who are allowed by the Koran to have a2 many wives as they liké, and who in many instanccs, like many wives. The “happy warrior whom all should wish to be’ among the Senegalese is like the hero of the Anglo-Indian sngle: Wives 'e took, some tnree or four, Which was .few, so 'e.took more, And,jealous of the rajah, ‘Whose seraglio was larger, 'E ’'elped ’imself to .other galore. wives The tenderness of the American congress to the widows of soldiers is historic. No member of congress will stand idly by and see the widow ofian American soldier neglected. Every member of the -body stands ready to “see and raise” any colleague who proposes financial betterment for any class of dependents of soldiers, byt especially widows. But no American soldier leaves more than - one widow. The situation of tha members of the French lawmaking body, composed of gentlemen habitually gallant, 1s most e¢mbarrassing. . They can nardly con- sider without tears the spectacle of a multitude of = Senegal women, :sur- rounded by a subsidary multitude of children, weeping for a single brave. They must admit that twenty widows, cannot subsist upon what would suffice for fiye. It may require a special bond issue to solve the problem that has resulted from drawing upon African possessions for cannon fodder, noted in the average term for public schools. Between 1910 and 1913 tha increase was from 157.5 days a vear to 158.1—a growth of only six-tenths of a day in three years. Attendance has improved. however. The average number of daye atended by each per- son enrolled increased from 113 in 1910 to 115.6 In 1913. The Baggage Law. (Indianapolis News.) It does not appear that the people whq are traveling are.favorably. im- pressed with the new regulations of the railroads with reference to bag- gage. There may be some: who do, not understand that the regulations were made mnecessary-—at :least so the raii- roads claim—by the . Cummins , law, which, of course, was designed to pro- tect the interests of the people. ‘Whether there is enough: protéction to compensate for the inconvenience suf- fered by. the traveling public is a ques- tion of ' some: importante. Senator Cummins, who disclaims responsibility for the amendment, that * has" caused the trouble, felt that the railroads ought -to, be: prohibited from limiting their labjlity -for baggage. . As it is now impossible to limit liability, the ! railroad very properly insist on know- ing the value of every.piece of bag- gage. that is checked, and for which they will have to pay: if lost. Hence the requirement of statements from the owner. % Whether there was any considerable sponsible parties. Hercarter nobody can buy any of the stuff from which tragedies are made unless his identity—and that means of course, his responsibility—is known - to the firm. There are always going to be men. with Teal or imagined grievances against individuals and against the siate. There are always going to be tome of these with so little moral sense or so fickle a sanity that for a fatal moment an urging toward assas- sination or vandalism will rule their actions. The only way to gurb’ such men &nd to check tne deliberate | criminals who live by terrorism is to | make the securing of explosives all but impossible. A little social sanity van do-it. Du Pont shows the way. Aristocracy. o »(New -Haven Union,) England is the most. autocratic of nations but the Wwar Hds leVelléd the clabsés .extensively, making quite & decént citizen out of the titled gentry. Thé list of titleda men who have laid down 'thelr lives in the theater of wur quite as the Tomrhy' Atking of tradi- tlon does, is imposing. . A barongt and at least one peer, the Earl of Cran- ford, have enlisted as'privates. Frahce and. Flanders, Africa and the Darda. félles have levied an extrentely heavy toll on thé peers and the heirs of peers. It was only’a little “over “a year ago thdt Lloyd George was be- rating them for their Mrz“‘;‘fl, large, | While it is true that the number cattle in New England has decreased in the past ten yeams, more, the fact remains that there has been no such decrease in the value ot the cattle. serub cattle any longer. pay to breed the right sort of cattle, ot steadily or It does not Pay to brecd But it does NATIONAL DEFENSE FPROGRAM. Not to Be Made Pubfic Until Com< pletea Says Garrison, Washington the administration’s program, of na- tional defénse now being formulated » . will not be given out until completed, if Secretary Garrison vas prevent it, This s made clear In a_ statement issued by the secretary and published today, in which he urged that he be not pressed for detalle until the new military policy is ready to be lald be- tore the publie. July. 28.—Detalls of Fears that adverse criticlsm of parts of the scheme might endanger it hs o whole 18 given ag Garrison. YALE CARETAKER DEAD, New Haven, July 25.—Willlam H,. . Plekett, wi morrow, was Y v taker of Buttell chapel, Yale univer. sity and. served ib a like v the reason by Mr, % 4l funeral will be held. 0. ‘many years the care-. .. i