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t he marked B place stroets have been opened ; ever; ) al progre 91 | r park a meager stretch | experiment with bithu- 1 hd 2today e city compare favorably | ace standpoint with the | Many fner times a reproach political plum and every | waged either for the downfali or the | new eity’s money was almost | one will blame the crafty warrior for | ; knew rather more about | which Americans may turn over > | and. the organization of | and the A. B. €. powers in the pro- 1flecade ago few could | going over to Carranza as they were s Sl to do With the revolu- | 35 fhere is one ‘flagrant fault | pedestrians. e reets of New Britain frec particle ondon’s financial e world's war. Instead of | s, k hat, there is now A N R STREETS. n people who have been and a fow years ago, the old | ted, the city boasted but | ¢f permanent pavement. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1915. the financial district of London have decided to come down to the of the proletariat. In the olden days the high hat was a mark of distinc- { tion. Onliy he who had money, or who handled money, was privileged to wear | one. Coupled with a cane an ‘“‘double-bow knot” there w. of aristocracy that promenading shiny turban, . But all that has the high hat is going on a long vacation. Thus does cruel war make inroads on the little vanities of mankind. It re- duces all men to the same level, it were level it Office at New Britain Matter. : an air Ftier to part of the city ‘Week. 65 Cents » Month. PADEr to be sent by mall dvance. 60 Cents s 00 a year. accompanied the | young gallant ner advertising medium In changed and on, books and press oben to advertisers. Bbe tonn: on sale st Hota- ind, 42nd St. and Broad- ork Cit: Board Walk. e\ \Harford devoy brings on sacrifices that EPHONB CALLS. dreamed of, takes away luxuries that have become part and parcel of life itself. In the old days the song ran, | “Have you seen O'Grady, oh, hes | dressed up so complately, oh, with his | high silk hat and his knot; he's a divil among the ladie | Oh.”” But that bit of doggeral must be The wanderer returned | gupoiaieq by a more dismal dirge, that factories have ex-| 1o o'Grady is not up. If ha"“i is dressed up he has no place to of antiquated | the dressing is futile, Cab- arets are closed, never 16 clty Eb#i a protracted double-how once impressed on their development dressed business blocks he g0, and s dence séc¢tions have do- for want of actors i and actresses who are ecither fizhting been transformed. | iy the trenches or nursing the wound- more he | The he sees, and ed. Money is not being spent as lav- turn. local | | Ford shly as in the past, because the life way notes the develop- | of the nation depends on saving at this | it he watches the devel- | ime. And so with the high silk hat day to day and the old and e N e forgets |'that all the joy is being green 'in the mind of | yp,. et i Bavellor. ! v udes of war, and when of the latter the oth¢r | jooming of cannon has been silenced lled to mind the start- | o5 (o il ang the sunshine of peace hat have transpired in | jigis yp the darkness of strife the last decade. Street | were arparently UP- | pjace in the ranks of civilized haber- is mind. . The' city ‘has | gacnory. in.this branch ; . the money mart feeling | disappearing from | of London comes the aken out of the the departed. much However, eavor within recent | WHAT WILL THE ANSWER BE? When General Villa, that romantic figure in contemporary Mexican his- | ¢ tory, stood eight prominent officials of | | his regime up against a wall last Sun- day and ordered them shot there was much fol- | lowing. According to the best reports on the affair, the sturdy little bandit- fighter fears there s going on in his own camp. He believes is de of Main street front- alt was the city’s proud | consternation among his rch street foliowed and The people pvrmanent the new value era. of a conspiracy central one of his gallant alissimo about to incite some of the zene i ibalterns to treason, desert the Villa forces and n the country. f&treets have mnot heen | go over to Carranza. To prevent this | of these streets | the Chief has ordered for all following this bent of mind. Wita hen the street depart- | the bhattle of Torrcon about to he execution to superintendent in { ultimate triumph of the Villistas no ed. Men were chosen | his action. There is, however, one thought street construction and in| of the moon than of | their minds as a result of this killing v, were eclected to do.|off of the Villa men. That is, will on of the city and town | Villa stand behind the United States | It will be pledged Svhich followed mearly | posal of peace for Mexico. j§-responsible in larze | remembered that Villa has himself to consideration of this plan. But Villa by his action of Sunday in killing off the eight prominent men e city’s improved con- ard of public works, times bitterly 2/ its worth. 1In streei | lone this is apparent. | damized streets mnow v criti- | of his party has contradicted himsell for the reason that those massacred were not so much w were bent on d. those were generally | with siding with the peace faction in True the'advent of the | Mexico. By the very nature of the th the consequent de- | deed then, it is seen that Villa is not and' better highwavs | jn peifect sympathy with any move- | ment that would unless ay céhstruction which | by that peace Villa would be given in ree®nt years, but the | more power in the affairs of his coun- ity has kept pace with | try. ds ds. & point worth [ All the leaders of prominence ind praising and this is | Mexico with the exception of General d by hejreturned citt- | zarata have received the Pan-Amer- ickl ,'??“i“r: the change | mean pcace, in fcan note urging them to adjust their differences in peace convention ! This information has been received by Streets, 'n6w that they | the State Department and replies are onstructed” They | looked for about September 1 at the . will stand the test of | jatest. It will be interesting now to await the developments of the nest {wo weeks, to see in what terms the They are, not kept a4s | pan-American note is by should bed “It requir.s | the coterie of bellizerents south of the Buest oft swind to Nt | Rjo Grande. Particularly do we want ace of afly street in | gh dust and;dirt to blind This should | cleaning depart- effort 1o a has ‘d'’right to be ave them and,.that is their answered to know what is going to be written TFran- 1f s his sword we when that fire-eater General cisco Villa takes his pen in hand. street exert his pen is as mighty a intercsting literature State | | may have some to add to the archives of the | Department at Wasington. hamper the | The work | the streets clean and in | important part of ty to lts populace. every of debris or ac- that might ¢ ymunity. As the Teutons, Magyars and Turks are leagued on one side and the French, British, Russians, Italians, Belgians Serbs, Montenegrins and Japanese are lea ed on the other tide to destroy the wealth and pros- perity of the world, 8o we Americans chould mow and at once league our- with them the selves with Lh(; hSn:xh American re- ‘ublics and with Norway, Sweden, it doyous?—that the hish | [0 °0 PN o a ) Switzerland and disappearing from the | cpain to protect and preserve the Aistr wealth and prosperity of the world Ae : Never before, since tac history of o as CreHE Bbe manvi| i lization began to,be written, has man had such an opporiunity to dis- play the highest order of stateman- hip and to serve so greatly the hap- piness and wealth of the humar r B aliti | as now has the President of the air qualities of Tommy - 77 POV g4 ivee in this opportunity to evary’ bonnet. Derbies | : | HATS HIDD | s returning from abroad | sad as the Londoners call being headpiece which has | of string. aniste of the Kaiser. ter? Wilhelm's comp | “topper” may come back and take its | g silent bust as Herald. terial, she’ll never need the sturr, but if she the centre of \ith Athens about to enter the lime- light. would pect cial. cuiring voman men E spending call the neutral nations of the world ‘have also come to join thig natién 'in the formation yBLe t fall from tne| O a league for the protéciion-of un- d thé swagger feit ha iversal neutral rights and the pro- and others of | Tiurope.—New York American, into | motion of speedy peace in war-cursed The Wailing Ford Gag. “If you would be a Wallingford, why, start a jitney line,” sings Charles Hanson Towne in McClure’ thus starting without premeditation, W¢ | e willing to believe, the Walling car gag. x —_The sun Diai be a Wallingford: jimey line,” haulingford shall be thine! Waltingtord, “pp hoard, Take care it's not allingford, A stallingford like —Philadclphia “If you would Why, start a Just buy a litti And riches But it you'd be And gather an a s mine. public Ledger. A runabout, or callingford, Should never he a crawlingford, - But should meve forward fleetly— Unless it be a bawlingford. A baby-carriage squallingford, Then push ic siowly, sweetly. — York Kvening Sun. Jew of lollingtord wesires of mine; tallingford a fine. Most any kind Would sootlic Just was no And 1 could pay a fine. I yearn pot for a <Imhng.;lnrd.. A Hressed up, plushed-up, callingford, I only want a hau ingford, To take me down the so it line. —Wy Ladd. FACTS AND NCIE 1tors who burn their fingers shares cannot complain that were not warned.—Albany Spec on war they Journla. proposal made Kaiser probably attached to it a generous length Burlington rrec Press. — | And now the Bri 1 deport the pi- | What's she been playir sitions ?—i'tica Press The alleged the Czar by the peace 16 had Ha If William Jennings Bryan, jore Roosevelt and Ilarry Thaw keep much longer, something will | sure as shooting.—Rochester ma- | that Holland accumilid on the ing war theory probably loes need it she'll neec It mighty | hadly.—New York World. ! Scfia arc momentarily | diplomatic interest, Nish and The put on the fall of an entirely war.—Ruffalo | Constantinople | direrent as- | Commer-.| *Several paragraphers have been in-| for the old-fashioned youns who used urge ihe younz ! ve their meney instead of it all on but so far there seems to have hecn no respor to the appeal—Utica Pre to History does always sclf but the € Tte's di: from Moscow ust now in Russ Chronicle. not peat it- Ty boleon Bon- rous winter retreat has a peculiar interest nd winter Is not far away, | —Rochester Democrat and | o report from Switzerland that the Kaiser is planning to make his | h son, Prince Joachim, King of ! Poland will be interesting to the | Toles, whese wishes in the mafter ap- | prrently are not to bhe considered The Germanization of that part of Tussian Poland which has fallen into the hands of the German troops i already in progr but how far it | will depend on the fortunes of war. | The grcat conflict is nowhere near ite end and until it is brought to a | slusion the future status of Rus- | sian as well as German and Austrian | Foland will be in doubt.—Springficld Union, The There is no reason on a Public Service Commis should he made a cons: There are many reasons against the | change. There are far ftoo many constitutional offices, ana it is illogial | to decrease the number with the one Lkand while increasing it with the | other. Moreover, what is the sense | of creating a State Department con- | sisting of two commissions with equal | 2nd co-ordinate powers distinguished | one from the other oniy by gcogr phical jurisdiction We are famil with two-headed three-headed and five-headed commissions, but a State | Department with two nedies and no head is something new in our admin- istrative zoology.—New York Times. popularity of that soul-stir- ring anthem of patriotism “I Did Not Raise My Boy to e a Soldier” | icads on to inquire what the would prefer in. the way of a | for their sons. It is not unlikely ! that the woman who puts her soul into that splendid celebration of th civie virtues would be glad to see her | son married to a woman able and willing to support him in the style to which his indulgent parent has ac- customed him_ Failling this, she | would be cenfent to him the Chairman of a vice comm or | a reformer of the kina that down to live among the poor.” Cer- tainly she would be proud to have m a professional pacifist, with an | income estimated in marks Instead of dollars. In short, a great many of the paths leading to glory are still open to the bey who hag been hrought up with a proper contempt for the old-fashioned qualitics of courage of a self-respecting Frenchwoman sing- ing such a song in this nour of peril. It would be dangerous for a German | to attempt it. Therc have been times in the history of our nation when no American woman would nave wished to sing it.—New York Herald. earth ioner: why | hip The ngers | career | see m “goes The World’s Disclos (Bridgeport Standard.) A considerable 't of the greatly intorcsting disclosures of the New York World as to the details and ex- tent of the German propaganda in this country has been known for some time, as a matter of quite certain con- Jecture, but it is now made sure, and a great deal more is added to. it, by | peared in the Sunday | nam | recti | ment of | Germany and sending them i Senator Cummins ¢ | check | this being i heard | tn | the United States | there | likely w1tuiional offic i | the intelligent i after its organization. | the ; fided to the ! conurse not. I membership 1,000 co the World’s collected evidences, which that journal has begun to publish and the first instalment of which ap- L edition. The s of the German agents for af- a German hold upon the press | and people of thig country, of influ- encing public opinion here and creat- ing a pro-German sentiment are print- cd by the World with such evidence as renders the matter practically sure. In its first installment the World shows that the cditor of the pro-Ger- man weekl theriand, is in re- ceint of pay through the agent of the Germa overnment and that his pa- per is practically owned and con- trolled in Germany. There is a great deal more disclosed in the World's exbosure, one item heing the establish- 2 munitions factory in this turning ont explosives - for abroad country continually, As To Valuing Your (Waterbury There is a curious thing about the cuforcement of ihat law, invented by Towa, which re- quires a passenger to swear to a valuation of his basgage before he can check it from onc state into &nother. In aggage. American.) cannot to Jersey City to its value. A who has just Te- to Pacific New York a trunk ove: without swearing Waterbu citizen, tarned from a trip coast, going out hy the Santa Fe and ceming back by the Canadian Rockies heard nothing about the law after he left New York. His trunks had to be valued hefore leaving for Chicago, hout the middle of June. When he left Chicago for the Grand Canyvon, no valuation was required. ife askel {he baggagemaster about it, and the baggagemaster said they hadn't hegun, as vet. to enforce the law out there. This was the last he about the Jlaw, though he checked the trunks from San Fran- ¢isco to Portland, Ore, and from there Seattle, Wash. and so on through {ili he reached New York and had to recheck them to Waterbury. Then he was once more ohliged to put a waluation on them. Fven in checking the trunks from Banff, in the Canad- ian Reckies, through to New York, when they re examined and sealed Ly the United States customs officer, no question as to the valuation was raised. Why, in heaven's namne, should this chnoxious law he enforced here in the iCast and ignored everywnere else in the United States? This is a ques- tion which ought to be answered by Secretary of the "‘reasury, or else by the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose func- tion it is to enforce the law. City you ine Way, Sentinel.) Finding a (South Norwalk After the Eastland tary Redficld of the department of commerce and lahor lamented that provision or anthority ntal testing of a v constriction. The supremely important question of stability been left to the discretion of designer and shipbuilder. The government had no right to inquire whether it was to topple over however, Secreta Redficld sucd an order remedying that defect. All federal inspectors are told to require owners of vessels whose stability they I any son to to malk “inclining tests"” are made for warships, under the supervision of expert naval archi- tects provided by the department of comnierge. No hew shipping Gisaster Secre- was no the sel's for governm Now o laws have been | passed in the meantime. The govern- ment's powers are precisely what they were hefore. What has happened is imply this: The secretary of com- merce, once recognizing the urgent need of such inspection, has found | that, after all, his department can pro- | vide it without breaking any laws. It's usually that In spite of the American mania for specific leg- ation, a really necessary reform can v be accomplished without res- toring to the passage of new laws. All that is needeé in most cases f{s determination to run things right and make the most of existing laws. way. The Manhattan Coc (Providence Journal.) The Manhattan club of New York is preparing to celebrate, in October, the 50th anniversary of its founding. The event will be the more notable because of the publication of the “History of the Manhattan Club" from the pen of Col. Watterson of | Kentucky. The colonel, it seems, has been a member of the club since soon The club and colonel have into institu- tions together. The ark of the Jacksonian covenan for these many years has been con- keeping of the Manhat- tan club. Col. Watterson's history will be no dry chronozical record—of The chairman of the an- commitfee says it will brace his political memoirs. be too had if the intcntion to of limiting the ecition at wn niversary to the club $10 a vol- persc political persuasions would consider such a work priceless, and cheerfully sub- seribe were the privilege vouchsafed. If our memory for historic dates is accurate, the club cclebrated its 25th anniversary by giving to the world the Manhattan cocktail. Horses and Motors, (New Haven Union.) Cheap farm tractors in the country and trucks in the cities that cost com- paratively little are displacing the heavy draft horse. The change will be gradual, but it is inevitable. Mo- tors are an economic saving in the long run and multiply efliciency. The horse will he promoted to the position of humanity’s chief pet and plaything but always with a sub- stratum of usefulness which will keep him from degcnerating into a mer The draft horse, the trotte “general purpose anima may go, but the saddle horse ought to stay and thrive. ume. Many had | SAY tmely WHAT OTHZIRS Views on all sides of questions, 2s discussed In ex- changes that come to Herald office. The “Summer Capital (From the Baltimore Americ There secems to be belief that the 64th Congre make definite provision for mer residence for presidents. N urally enough, many Maryland people who know that earthly paardises spotted all over this land of Mary are forwarding suggestions about stites and situations for the proposel vacation home. There is no doubt about the rightness of tne assumption that, if there is to be a summer home for the president it must be located somewher, in Maryland. Whero else, in common sense, should located Surel noct m far-av Mains, or in far-awey Colorado, in any other spot far removed from the gover cnt center. It should b a place for retirement, vith restful cnvironmenis, an crating atmosphere, pleasant delightful walks and cheerful ways. It ougit to be out of the v of cranks and of people who ., regardless. And it ought more than four or nve hours re- noved from Washinaton for a good, high-powerca gasoline car. Iccations are to be found in Maryland that would meet all thes ments. There are heautiful overlooking the Chesapeake & section wh it is 24 mile that are within 30 miles of Was ton—wthin an hour’s drive in car, an.) widespread will a e sites bay a Small Change For Consumer., (Norwich Buliriin.) There cannot help being a interest in the direction state commerce commission nounced making a reduction Just in cite coal. In view tnder which many of the aTe Operating it can be expected tha it will be the ground for a stiff protest | a rehearing and even a demand for It when the large profits which othe rcads are making as the result of the lered it can as a step can be read hauling of coal are cons not but be looked upon the right direction. It y understood that terfered with it furnishes the great est_ground for a protest whether i i justified or not, Just how the consumer will benefi by the decision cannot be told. Tha the cost of coal is reduced might first thought be interpreted as mean ing that that reduction would accru to the henefit of the fellow who utilize the produc are the follows, about is when up for a instances where such actuall That it shouta be brough the one logical result, bu prices are to mak h 1er rate of wa fo the miners and the consumer to pay millions more than the ranies pay to the employes, it be readily seen that 1t :=s not such a difficult matter to apply tha when freight rates are reducel an instead of allowing the consumer tc get the benefit thereof, com 1ates until it effects the ultimate purchaser. Deaf Mute As Detective. (New York Worid.) Playing his cwn detective, Tlingham. a deaf mute, of 333 West Fifty-eight street, B the a rest on a charge of ¢ and rob- bery of Edward Broderick, 19 West Fifty-sixth strecet Both men are mechani At the Forty-seventh street station Bingham wrote out on « pad the story of the robbery. He wrote that whiie passing through Central park ovne night c¢ne of whom held him by the throat while another went through his pock- els, They took his gold watch and b0 cents since then he has bcen haunting Columbus circle on the watch for his assailants. He wrote that all the time he carried in his Pccket a note saying: ““That man assaulted and robbed me,” as to lie able to state his case policeman. He says he saw the street yesterday. Policeman D who was standing near, and made signs to him to fol- low him. When they weic clese to Broderick, Ringham pulled out the note and showed it to the policeman, who took the accused man to the ation. Broderick with the his sto was lock quic one of the men on He went to piro, ali Bingham alleged denied but his uck to ant ase, “Heme Remedies™ (Collier's) One secs the term rot cften as case, by venders of qrackery who howl their wares from billboards and street car placards Nestrums and lies 8o well together as twin agents of <ness, and have done so ever since the Fataer of All Patent Medicines offered ve his little epecific for the happiness of Eden It was a ¢ too, though not what the fair patient cxpected. Still there are and will be home remed of great value, but the trouble is that they do not come in six bottles for $5 10r are they for in anybod werld-wide and perdition-deep chain of drug stores. There's kindness which rcures the bruises and sprains cof living as nothing else has eve done, and even electricity cannot place it. Have you ever tried this as a remedy for your home? Time and thought are the means of its ap- rlication, and the most oubles vield in time to its persistent Humor will disinfect and heal merable silly littic pin pricks of sonal feeling which otherwise may fester into the family blood s that have devastated lives. Doracic acid soiuiion has no such effect on inflamed I's. Try humor and count ten or a thousand next time before you begin to scratch abused, once was this and though the that s0 so many sum- | at- | are | it be nor | invig- views, | ; drive- | 1y | push | not to Many require- popular of the inter- an- the rates for the transportation of anthra- of the conditions railroads in when profits are on but few and far hetween | poarg ship. is made can | poliey | a ax on another | charge somewhere else and still keep | Cutting rates seldom continues Floyd | the of 412 | re- | cently he was stopped by three men, | to | connection | re- | obdurate | peison- l vour vanity’s bleeding hide. It may save you a major amputation of the c which | the | NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” | soul. " There’s a sympathy | really does feed ~and restore | nerves when frazzled out by the d wear. No extract of malt can accom- | plish anything like the results which | arc scored daily by those wise enough | tc use this famous ol1 restorative, | Try it ncxt time gentiy on svere | pse. Nothing jg sajd here about love, that is a foundation, not a cure, without it there are no homes. me or | #na Special Sales Every Day This Week Big Values in Every Department. Cow Wanted o Be Milked, (Philadelphia Mounted Policeman | Wwas at Harvey avenue und Bay Fif- | | tieth street When he saw a cow stand- ing in the middle of the avenue. Be- | hind her stood fifteen automobiles | filed with Coney and goers, There | | is no record that the cow v doing | | anything but just standing and 1rm|‘-i { Inquirer, William Major | ing. None of the conve ion add to the cow by men autoisis { #erved by the police. but i | 1o be in a language | blamed for not under Lot o rr | T d by Major showed her his ked her to move to lap him behind the car is all the moving she dia. Then a woman who had been | watching from a big, cust-covered touring car heaing a Connecticut license number, 1adenly: “Why, T know what the poor crea- ture wants. Won't some one please et me a pail?” | Well, to make a long story short a pail was brought and the woman, Wwho Major said later wyre diamonds and most expensive summery gar- mients. sat down on the curb beside the cow. She sat there twenty minute ace cording to Major, and the longer she sat the fuller of milk waxed the pail | and the more cheerful grew the cow. Both the cow and the woman were { smiling, it was said, wnen those | twenty minutes clapsed, and the cow gratefully moved aside and let the waiting automobilists start again on their way—after they had cheered the woman from Connecticut auto- mobile. a was pre it Crepe de Chine Waists at $1.98 - White, Corn, Flesh and Black, sev- eral styles to select from. Many of them values that usually sell for $2.98 and $3.98. Now at $1.98. no anding : refused to be | | the motorists. | vadge and | She tried | but that on Manufacturers’ Samples Crepe de Chine Dresses at $7.98 Many of the most fashionable colors, also white. Beautiful Dresses, only one of a kind. Values up to $15. All at $7.98 each. Wash Dresses of Gingham, Percale, etc., at 49¢ and 98¢ For the children, years. Ginghams by the Yard New styles in Americ Ginghams at 12 1-2¢, and Scotch at 15¢ yard. s t The Use of Flags. (Hartford Post.) = A man of an inquiring turn of mind has asked if there is any flag that properly may be flown above *Old Glory.” There is one and just one. - | That flag is the Church Flag and- it t | is seen only on large yachts, steamers and warships during the hour of di- vine service. It is a pennant with a blue cross in a white field. The rule that allows the hoisting of the church | pennant above the National' Ensign © | is but one of the many-rules that gov- S | ern the use of flags, especially on r in sizes 6 to 14 it t D. McMILLAN - STREET V| Motorboatists, even on inland wa- t ! ters such as the Connecticut river, t | would do very well to study up a lit- © | tle more on the matter and find out " | just how many breaches of maritime ctiquette they are committing when | their crafts are decked out for the days' run. Doubtless some will be | surprised and will not care when told that a pennant with any lettering on | it whatsoever, excepting the water | flag, is bad form; that the Union Jack hould be flown only on Sundays and | holidays;; that two flags or peanants | | on the same staff is the sign of the| “|land lubbers in the eves of the salt | ete. Some may not care but then, if [ ¥ou want due recoznition from the craft that you in the sound or in | ocean, don't go prancing after it | bedecked like a float in a street par- 199-201-202 MAIN : DANIELS DENOUNCES LYNCHING OF FRANK Sceretary of Navy Looks to Georgias to Pumish Its Sons Who Per- petrated Deed Washington of the Navy a formal Aug 18.—S8ecretary Daniels last night issued itement, denouncing the I¥nching «o M. Frank as the | worst blot on the name of Georgia, and declaring that it would be more sincerely condemned in the South than in any other part of the re- public. The statement in part fol- lows “There never any excuse for lynch law. In this casc there were thousands of the best men in Georgia and elsewhere who doubted the gullt of Frank. There were many in Geor- gia who believed he was guilty. I guilty, he to have paild the It of heinous erime, the that man can commit The rnor, after long deliberation, de- ed to communte the sentence to life imprisonment. Those who thought the government, should have let the sentence stand cannot even advance the poor plea that Frank had escaped punishment. “No man is safe when a mob takes the law in its own hands. I have no doubt the governor of Georgia will employ every possible agency to dis- cover the mob-murderers and bring them to trial and punishment. The honor and fair name of Georgie de- mand this. Tha case has become one of nation-wide interest und the eyes of all the civilized world, standine agha at the crime of the mob, will look to Georgia to punish the erim- inals who, under the cover of night, have committed a crime that = cries aloud for severest punishment.” | Two. Sentinel.) Dismissal 1% of (Ansonia There is justice tempered with mer- cy, in the decision of the secretary of | the navy and the president in the cas of the midshipmen at Annapolis - cused of cribbing. Two are sentenced | to dismissal from the service. Twelve others are disciplined and sweeping | | changes in the mecthod of conducting examinations are recommended, Taus | is ended a scandal such as has not for a long time stained the récord of the nav. The two men dismissed | who were directly responsible for the | “cribbing” scandal. They are in ef- | | fect, the ones caught red handed, the ! ring-leaders in the dishonorable enter- | prise. They were properly dismissed. | And it was equally just that those who | were only guilty of improper conduct | | but not guilty of deliberate cribbing | | should be accorded less drastic treat- ment. Many of the men accused were honorably acquitted on the charges. | The verdict is one that comends it- self to those who have the welfare of | the academy at heart and cherigh the | honor of the service. There has heen | no whitewashing. The men have suf- | fered in acordance with the degree of | their offcnse against the rules of hon- And now the thing for the men to who have suffered from the sen- tence of the court is to buckle down to work and live down the disgrace of their convietion. They will find now that they have been punished, they will be en just as square a deal as othe of men in d- emy. All they have to do is to live up ! to its regulations of devotion to coun- tiy and of maintainng their honor tinless in the midst of temptation. is ougit the vere those | gov a A\PPEALS TO WORKERS, 3 2 h Want Peace to Triumph of Right Ovey Parix, Aug. 18, § General Federation | French Revolutionary labor conference last night . ! resolution appealing to the interna- tional working classes to work “So that peace may represent the triumph of right over might and that, through the acceptance by all countries of ob« ligitory arbitration, the suppression of secret diplomacy and of the bupe dens of armament, may arise the I'ry Represent Might, The the body, at adopted a any the ihe 30 of a. m Labor, SHIRF | $8,000 CHEF Cheshire, Aug. 18.—The residence of Henry Leonard in Brooksvale was burned to the ground today with its contents, entailing a loss, it was es- timated of approximately $8,000. The fire is said to have started in a pile | of shingles near the door and to have | jolicy of a federation of nations ase communicated to the Tt was | guring to all peoples the right to diee discovered by tinncrs and other work- | pose freely of themselves \and safe- men who were repairing the roof. | guarding the independence of all na- | oniy caretaker was living in the | tionalities.” i house at the time. | With the object s | above point of view the conference | GENERAL BLACK DEAD, urgently invited all organized work- Chic Aug. 18.—General John men to accept the proposal of Ameri. k., Civil war veteran, former con- can lahor organizations to hold an in- gressman and former United States ternational congress at the time and commissioner of pensions, died sud- | place fixed upon by internationay denly yesterday in his room at a lecal | diplomats for the arrangement of hotel. peace terme, house. of afMrming the <o, i3 -

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