New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1915, Page 6

) | has succeeded yin winning.a.victory cé @t New Britain Matter. 7 part of the city Cents a Month. to be sent by mail 8 advertising medium in lation books and press open to advertisers. found on sale at Hota- Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk, ity and Hartford depot. ILEPHONE CALLS. DEN OPPORTUNITY. day of the European war ‘the manufacturers and ex- the United States that a trade must be established country and the twenty- of South America. This ‘paruions should be set to bring about this con- @ salesmen of England and fare not traveling in Brazil B and Argentina this year. for the most part, telling ners’ stories. in the trench-’ while the: cominerce of these countries is ‘being crippled Fnot any perceptible move- ot in America for -young. ks ';le-men to go to the land ou h and carry with them )f American goods. There is ortunity, in this field of for young American men ® a working knowledge of men in the countries to ld welconie American nt banker from Brazil re- d this country and told iderful opportunities that the trade of America in L This man is an American ¢ to South America some nd has built up a won- ting business. He men- ,0f the demands that would upon American business ng business with South d names as the salient re- longer and more liberal n the South Americans are Also, he would have lesmen realize the fact uth Americans want what i when they want it. In they do not want sub- _ “just as good” articles. en one of the great draw- jcan salesmenship in ‘Our salesmen, in many “attempted to conyince g purchasers that thé. lat- f7do not know what their ",thu they should try new ¥ s which the salesmen pmmend. The result has Jof faith in’the methods &lesmanshin boys grasp their oppor- study the Spanish language e moments, if American en extend to their Ldtin- hren a long time credit 4 W Thort time credit there sibility of American goods manent. foothold in South supplanting the fast an'#nd English houses business there so long. h and Germans have al- t\m !vuth American mer- es n.l‘l the credit they ‘honey in it too, ‘-u ‘Interest can al- tten and the South Amer- ‘good payers. Up to now, ‘ has been the limit ‘of by ‘Americans to the and in some in- ¥ do not want to give that reversal of policy our i may, have a greater door opened to it. SATISFACTION.” ‘Wilson’s pen bears all the of being mightier than the er many days of patient rand waiting and with the [fllled with the portents: of ‘words of Woodrow Wilson st struck their mark and the maze of misunderstand- bitterness 'is breaking the . Germany has decided upon in regard to the Arabic the action of the German ‘will be .in line with the 3 law laid down by Presi- , according to Berlin dis- Zithout bloodshed, without hout sacrifice of honor or dent Wilson seems to pded in bringing the diplo- Germany to their senses. hbma.rlne warfare will'be ‘in accordance with recog- peiples of international law, more nor less than the ates has contended for all ©f a break with Germany z of the Arabic case the peellor, Dr. von Both- reading between the Wilson’s last note, # over the patron saint of submarine warfare, Admiral von Tirpitz, and has brought about a recognition of Presi- dent Wilson’s demands. There is to be no war with Germany, because Germany, does not want war with the United States, any more than the United States wants war with Ger- many. The stiff note of Wilson brought Germany to a realization of what might happen. From an American viewpoint the whole situation is clearing up in grand fashion. On top of the news' that Germany has decided to yield to American demands comes the assur- ances from the British Ambassador that Great Britain has also seen the error of her ways, has been impressed with the grievances expressed ; by American merchants over her holding up their goods, and has decided to let through all purchases bought in Germany even though they were not paid for before March 1. Thes¢ can- cessions in the enforcement of the Orders in Council are what we have been contending for all the time. Until detalls are given out later in a memorandum from the Foreign Office in London it will not be definitely known just what quantity of Amer- ican goods will be allowed to pass the blockade; but, it is assured, their value will run in the millions. Amer- ican importers will rejoice at this de- cision, because it will relieve them of a burden they have been bearing ever since the British Order in Council establishing the blackade went into effect. “It- would seem from the present status of affairs that two birds are being killed with - one stone. of course, the final assurances from Ger- many and Great Britain have not yet been presented in formal form. But we have the words of the two Am- bassadors that everything is getting along in ship shape and it will not be long before the real diplomatic as- surances are given. The friendship of the United States after all is the great prize which the nations of Eu- rope are striving for and nothing is gaing to be done to court an open break with Uncle Sam, especially aft- er President Wilson has laid down the law in the situation. Knowing FACTS AND FANCIES, Look for developments in ‘the Ko- dak case.—Boston Herald. Konsldur thé postage stamp, mi son. Its ‘ufefulness konists in its ability to stick until it gets thare— Josh Billings. As time goes on the claim by Rus- sla originally that she was not pr pared for war, will be taken seriously. —Middletown Press- Count that day lost whose low de- scending sun does not see three or four new strikes in Bridgeport begun. -| —Springfield Union. It is gratifying to sece Germany in the matter of the Arabic showing a decent respect to the opinions of mankind.—Boston Globe- The very worst effect of Germany’s reported climb-down is the increased prestige ‘‘elocution” may enjoy com- pared with “action.”’—Springfield Re- publican. And to think that some of us used to call them nickelodeons and wonder what people could see in them that was entertaining. Now, if you please, they are the picture dramas, and who is exempt?—TUtica Observer. Count von Bernstoff seems to have been a remarkably active diplomat, and he ought to be given a much- needed rest. There would be a good deal of satisfaction all around if the vacation order were issued by the German government.—Wilkesbarre Record. This country now holds something more than $2,000,000,000 in real gold. No wonder that an increasing num- ber of citizens think it is only pru- dent for Uncle Sam to ‘invest in a Teliable gun, which to protect him- self while walking around with all this treasure in his inside pocket— Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern. The Crown Prince of Prussia writes ecstatically in an address to his troops f “the joyful life of offensive battles’” a¥ compared with ‘“our mole war of bardships.” Either way, the joys or barships lead to the same thing for the, hundreds of thousands of men killed for the greater glory of the Hohenzollern dynasty.—New York World. New Jersey furnishes fresh proof that this’ is to be a big crop year. Even the huckleberries in that state are so abundant that the supply far exceeds the demand, huckleberry pic is at a discount and bushels of the product are going to waste- Nature is prodigal; but somehow the cost of that the nation stands back of the man in the White House has some- what opened the eves of foreign diplo- mats after their long period of slum- ber. A SAD TASK FINISHED. After more than four months’ steady effort the salvage corps of the United States navy has succeeded in raising the hulk of the submarine F-4, which riunged to the bottom of Honolulu harbor March 25 last, carrying with her a crew of twenty-two men. Re- ports from the island today are to the effect that no bodies were saved. Had the hulk been lifted within any scasonable time after the disaster there might have been some chance of redeeming the remains of those who were caught in the undersea craft. Fecause of the great holes torn in the cides of the submarine by the terrible undercurrent, admitting sea monsters, there was no hope of recovering the dead, nor is there of finding out just how the F-4 happened to meet such a fate. ‘With all the disappointment attend- ant the failure of finding traces of the men who went down with the F-4 there is nothing but praise for those who helped raise the submerged craft. They worked under the greatest diffi- culties. The F-4 lay on the side of a steep incline and the cables which, after grappling, were fastened to the hulk repeatedly broke away. The boat weighed two hundred and twenty tons. Raising the craft little by little, each day she was towed within shallow- er water gradually getting her away from the three hundred feet depth. But it was not until after pontoons had been built at' Mare Island and taken to Honolulu that the final suc- cess of the venture was assured. New London Scaside Park. (Bridgeport Standard.) New London has a fine breathing and bathing place upon the water called Ocean Beach. It is kept with great care and it not unlike out Sea- side park in many respects. It is pro- posed by certain enterprising citizens to add an annex to Ocean Beach which shall be stocked with ‘“‘attractions” like Savin Rock, or Coney Island and which would call in crowds of amuse- ment seekers and overflow the whole beach, to the benefit of those having “‘concessions” of one kind or another for making money. The New London Telegraph pro- tests against this proposition and be- lileves that the city should “conserve the ¢haracter of Ocean Beach, as al- ready with wonderful success estab- lished, and help it to growth and new beauties without exchanging the na- tural potentialities of the place, fine and wholesome, for a vison of a trans- planted Coney Island.” We imagine that this view of the matter .will pre- vail and we judge so from what we believe would be the answer of Bridge- port to a propositior to commer- cialize and vulgarize Seaside park or Beardsley park with Coney Island ac- cessories, living does not seem to come down. —Troy Times. It cannot be that the far reaching vlans of Mr. McAdoo and his asso- ciates for the extension of federal functions by the purchase of ships and the operation of a government- cwned merchant marine contemplate also the purchase of cotton planta- tions with money from ‘the Treasury and federal operation of these planta- tions in order that the government- cwned merchant marine may have government-raised cotton to carry. New York Sun. If Germany really entered the European war with an idea that she would fight until she could obtain India as the price of peace, she did rot do a very wise thing. She has lost nearly all of her own colonies, and nothing short of a complete vic- tory over the Allies will enable her to get them back. The loyalty of England’s colonies has placed endless wealth at her disposal; and, as an English stateman said, it is likely to be the last hundred million dollars which will win the war.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. 5 What is poison for one is meat for another. War, swiftly enough, turned the tide of the balance of trade. The movements of that tide have been somewhat erratic, sometimes inex- plicable, but the rush on the whole has been forward. It has hurried the country from the debit to the credit side of the ledger, new entries upon which are making every day, and for large amounts. In short, for not a little weakness much strength has been substituted, with confidence to correspond. , Hence, equilibrium in ‘Wall street. Brooklyn Eagle. Our hope is that the much-burdened President will find among his advisers gome one who will interpret for him, without prejudice, the position of the American public on the ship-purchase proposition. The President, from the inception of his administration, has shown his desire to harmonize his ef- forts with public opinion, and we are strongly of the belief that the one who has been his chief adviser thus far on the ship-purchase question has not zided him to a clear vision of the question.—Financial America, Fate of Toothbrush is in Balance. (Meriden Record.) Whether the toothbrush shall be discarded as unhygienic and a menace to the well-being of the user is one of the important issues to be decided at the Panama-Pacific Dental con- gress which opens today at the exposi- tien. Ten days of discussion, clinics, and holiday-making are on the pro- gram. The toothbrush is on the car- pet as a suspect in the spreading of disease germs, Itg fate will not he 1ightly discussed, for some of the foremost authorities from all quar- ters of the globe on oral hygiene, vacteriology prophylaxis and kindred subjects will present their views of the modern toothbrush. The indictment against the tooth- brush was brought by a New Jersey physician, who accused the toothbrush of being little higher in the hygienic scale than the broom of the street sweeper. i Sixteen foreign countries and all | the states in the union are represent- ed in the gathering of dental experts. In their honor, the exposition has named next Monday at “Dental Con- gress Day” at the fair. Will They Dump Goods Here? (Waterbury Republican.) That America will be a great dump- ing ground for European products im- mediately following the declaration of beace, 'is the opinion of Robert Grim- shaw, consulting engineer and lectur- er In New York University. Mr. Grimshaw, who returned from Ger- many a few months ago, declares that after the war there will be in Ger- many alone at least 2,000,000 men Who will return home and find that they have no jobs. He believes that these men will be put to work at about fifty cents a day and that the product of their hands Is going to be dumped in America. Mr. Grim- shaw states that by no means all the industrial population of Germany are engaged in the manufacture of products consumed in war. Moun- tains of manufacturers are being turned out and stored until such time as the seas will be open to German commerce. While this pictures a serious dan- 8er, possibly there are some contrary considerations. There will be some vears needed for reconstruction in Europ. That which has been des- troyed will have to be rebuilt, wasted and cCepleted stocks replaced, and the damage of the war repaired. Our help will be needed for that, and be- sides Europe will find use for every soldier who is lucky enough to sur- vive provided her liquid capital is not entirely absorbed by the war's expenses. i Justice’s Belated Stroke. (Ansonia Sentinel.) The mills of the gods grind slow but thy grind exceedingly fine. The night riders of Kentucky, who not so long since flourished and made hash of law and order at their own sweet will, esteemed that they had a strangle hold on justice and that their midnight floggings, burnings and as- sassinations wre never to be disclosed or brought to judgment. But all honor to the sober, second thought of decent Kentucky, their exultation was premature. Justice was not dead in the Blue Grass: She was not even sleeping, although the temporary im- munity of the criminals made this a Jjustifiable assumption. Quietly, ostentatiiously, without any brass band, the forces that represent law and order in that state were at work. They picked up the clues one by one that led to the men responsible for the crimes that shocked the nations’ months ago. And at last, when the net of evidence was fully woven, they struck. Fifty-three of the members of the gangs which disgraced Ken- tucky in the eyes of the United States are under arrest and will stand trial. Two have already pleaded guilty to cowardly outrages against helpless men and women. They are on their way to the penitentiary. Others, swho have decided to fight their cases are in jail. They will have a fair chance to prove their innocence but the officials of the state do not seem to fear the result. /It is a cleanup long overdue, but an encouraging omen. Perhaps the same apparently sleeping justice that has finally grip- ped these men will lay its hands some day on the men, who outraged the nation’s sense of justice in the name of Georgia, and bring them to book. The death of Frank, a trav- esty on law, may not go unavenged, even if Georgia thinks that it will in its heydey of mob violence. Germany’s Cavalry. (Springfield Republican.) Surprisingly little has been heard of the immense German cavalry force, supposed to be the largest employed in the present war which took part in the invasion of the Baltic pro- vinces. At the time some armchair critics disposed of that movement as a mere cavalry raid, but in German strategy it is always safe to assume an ulterior object. Other writers dwelt ons the prospect of a cavalry battle on an unprecedented scale, but nothing of the sort has been reported, and indeed singularly little has been said of the Cossack horsemen who were so much overwritten in the early and imaginative days of the war. That there is a splendid fleld for cavalry operations in the gigantic invasion of Russia is obvious, and no ‘doubt the mounted force has been doing good service. But the great function of cavalry in modern war is to cut to pieces and destroy a beaten army, and thus far there has been no chance for this role. So long as an army retires in good order, protection each withdrawal with a strong rearguard. cavalry can make no impression on it, but in feeling the ground ahcad for a pursuing army it is serviceable and if St. Petersburg should be the next abjective the Ger- man cavalry will have fresh oppor- tunities for operations on the flank. Von Pappcnheim’s Fate. (Boston Herald.) After months of suspense, the fate of Capt. von Pappenheim and his rarty becomes known. The purpose of the German cngineer's expedition was to blow up vijal parts of the Siberian railroad, especially in the vicinity of Lake Baikal, so as to cut oft Russian transport from the Pa- cific port of Viadivostock. Leaving Riao-Chau and passing through Pe- kin and Kalgan, he started across North Mongolia toward Urga, and then there was silence. But at length out of the Gobi desert comes the news that he and his party were at- tacked and killed by Mongol robbers who had supposed that the loads of explosives were treasurer As the gruesome story goes, the disappointed murderers threw the bodies in a heap, piled the baggage on top, and thus made a.funeral pyre, the result being an explosion that blew the bedies and baggage to bits the mo- mens the torch was applied. Ger- many is not the only nation that may think it necessary to ask what the Mongolias agreements of China Rus- sia and Japan have done to- make Mongolian travel safe, un- WHAT OTHIERS sAY Views on all sidles of wmely . questions es discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald d— " A Missing Submarine. (Waterbury American.) The London Standard’s intimation that the submarine which sunk the Arabic may have been itself sunl, and go the Germas government feels safe in caying that it exceeded or- ders, is premature and malicious: But little by 1ittle light is being thrown on the difficulties of this under sea Wwarfare and it is being realized that it 18 not so safe and sure as German success has made it appear. Germanw has been waiting for this Submarine ever since the crime was Committed. With what anxiety must its delay have been studied. What about the others like it which do not return on time? Some of them, per- haps many. do ot return at all. This consideration helps to account for the periodical nature of submarine activity_—the terrifving success of the assassin work for considerable per- iods when they scem to be helpless Or absent from the sea. They have to 80 back to rest and recover from the exhausting work. We know what accidents happen to our few submarines. Is Germany 80 much superior in handling these craft that their by far greater num- Ler on much lenger and more trying Cruises escape these accidents en- tirely ? Not at all probable. Ard in addition they have to encounter the obstacles and traps laid for them and meet the shots of an occasional watchful destroyer which cannot fail sometimes to make a .hit. Not all the terror of these malizn craft is due to the secrecy of their operation, but some of it will be dis- solved by knowledge of their limita- ‘tions and of the way to meet them Flag Returned. (Boston Transcript.) A graceful vct of courtesy to a chivalrous foe js that of the Illionois Legislature in returning to New Or- leans the historic flag of Gen. Andrew Jackson, a faded relic more than a hundred years old, which has “smell- ed powder” on the battlefields of three wars. Carried by Jackson’s men when they won their victory over the British at New Orleans, later the emblem of a Louisiana regiment in the Mexican war, when the trying days of '61 came the venerable bit of bunting, a little tattered from Lhe scars of its honorable service, w still intact and was carried into many a fight: In Tennessee it was its fate to be taken by the 8th Illionois cav alry, and since the close of the it has veposed in the Illinois mem- orial hall, in the state-house at Springfield. Three generations have come upon the stage since its capture, and now the grandsons of the men who bore it back beyond the Ohio will return it to the great-great-grandsons of those who fought first beneath its folds. It is significant that the bill providing for its return to New Orleans was introduced in the Illinois Legislature by a veteran who lost & leg at Vicks- Furg and took part in the very battle in which the fiag fell. Soldiers are ever the first to forgive their enemies perhaps because they can appreciate better than can the stay-at-homes, their valor and their heroism. Gen. Jackson'’s Virginia Da; Monument. (Troy Times.) Women who figure in American history are getting recognition in ac- ccrdance with their deserts. Mem- orials to distinguished members of the sex are becoming numerous. One of the latest indications of a purpose thus to honor American womanhood is the successful effort to erect a statue to Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parents on this side of the Atlantic. Virginia's par- ents were members of the colony es- tablished by Sir Walter Raleigh on Roanoke Island, now part of North Carolina. It was an ill-starred vent for when after long absence the B ish Governor, who had sailed for Eng- land, returned the settlers, including the little Virginia Dare, had ap- peared. The ‘“lost colony” is one of the mysteries of those early -days, though there was at one time wide belief that those of the settlers who escaped death at the hands of the savages lived among and intermar- ried with the Indians. The actusl ate of Virginia Dare i!s not known. although there is a tradition that she became an Indian princess and that members of some prominent Southern families were herc do«con dants. At all cvents she is a ciently interesting and romantic acter to deserve the statue to be erected at her birthplace and which is the work of an American sculp- tor- When Congress Gets to Work. (Chicago Tribune.) Immediately congress is ready for business the leadership of both house will be called into action on legis tion that will range from the prob of an adequate national defcns the question of farm credits and rail- road strike prevention. A merchunt marine must be provided, either Dby government bvarticipation, a subsidy. or by a repeal of some of the ship laws. If foreign trade is to be opened up adequately, the necessary freedom must be given to the banks and merchants to combine to reduce selling costs. A traiff commission will be de- manded to study the entire tariff question with special reference to the conditions that will prevail followin: the war; some changes will be aske for outright, as in the sugar schedule and a protection of the new infant in- dustries that bave sprung up since the German market has been closed. The supervision of railroad securities by the interstate commerce commis- sion will be brought up again: Ala development has progressed point where the old methods must be discarded and an efficient, direct government set up. German sympathizers will attempt | are in enforced to the | | the stories sent to this country to the ’u. align the American government iwlth the fatherland by laying , an embargo on the export of munitions of war. Action might be necessary on the Mexican situation. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has already announced that the administration will insist upon adopting a budget system and a general overhauling of government finances. Other agencies demand that the government settle the question of extending aid to the farmers by a system of farm credits. There was never a better oppor- tunity for geninue and patroitic lead- ership A \c“ Field, (New Haven Register.) A new vocation for women is open- ing in the field of retail book-selling either as clerks in the stores, or as proprietors of their own shops in which they may vend books, shcet music, photographs, periodicals and other products of the arts. It is pointed out that this is a field the development of a community cen- ter of art and literature, for which the educated women in the business world is excellently fitted. The publishers are willing to lend their aid to anything which will re- store the old-time book-shop, whither customers were drawn by the intelli- gence of the book-sellers and the cer- tainty of talk about books. A field for the enterprising woman? Most certainly. It was but a few the establishmenty of room or antique shop was regarded as a risky business chance. Those owned by women today prove the success of the venture, and opened a new field for the activity of busi- ness women. The retail book-shop of ‘the kind mentioned would do the same, vears ago that the small tea “He Kept Us Out Of War.” (Boston Herald.) Is is e: to foresee the slogan of next year's Wilson campaign. It will be the words in quotation marks { ovr this article—assuming that they are still true. And that assumption acquires increasing strength in the latest news from Berlin If the | European war ends, as it seemingly must before our ballats fall in 1916, and we have kept out of it, and if joint action of the American repub- lics results in some sort of a stay of anarchistic procedings in Mexico and we have kept out of there, too, Presi- dent Wilson will go before the coun- try as a man who, though badgered and berided by Roosevelt and the whole military crowd, has kept the greatest republic in the world and the dominant force in this hemisphere out of hostilities into which nearly everybody else had fallen. This is evidently what he is working for. It is no unworthy ambition. Its realiza- tion will afford him no small place in history. Any one who thinks “he kept us out of war” would be a weak and unat- tractive campaign cry makes a very low estimate of the mind and heart of the American people. We can think of few greater accomplishments. One of these, perhaps, would be to bring the world war to a close, and in the | mediatorial office the president’s turn may yet come. With war no such chance would have been possible. Since there are times when loyalty to country, with every right-minded citizen, should greatly outweigh any concern over party welfare, there should be no faint response in any quarter to the tribute which all Amer- icans owe to a president who, in these troublous times, “kept us out of war."” IDLENESS GREATEST BANE OF BELGIANS Present Eniorced Gondmons De- pressing, Says American Worker New York, Aug. 31.—Tracy Barrett Kittredge, of Berkeley, California, who at the outbreak of the European war was a studént at Oxford, and who cn hearing of the need of American workers among the destitute people in Belgium, went to that country and entered the service of the commission for relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York, recently arrived in New York after nearly nine months' work in the Province of Limburg, en route for a visit to his relatives on the Pacific coast, “I did not leave Belgium merely for a vacation,” said Mr. Kittredge yes- terday, “but business affairs made it necessary for me to get home. Inci dentally, of course, it will be a va tion and I anticipate much pleasure in visiting the Panama Exposition, in wddition to seeing my relatives after an absence of over a vear. After a visit at home, if I am still neeeded in Delgium, I shall return there and re- sume my work. Acted as U, S, “From the start 1 American delegate for in the Province of Limburg, with headquarters at Hasselt. The commis- sion's offices are at 35 avenue des Etas Unis—or United States avenue—and from Hasselt all the food for ‘the province is distributed. Conditions in the province are much the same as clsewhere in Belgium, and the greatest Lane of the people of Belgium today is | idleness. Perhaps the greatest num- ber of idle people in the kingdom is i the Valley of the Meuse, especially in Liege, where hundreds of thousands idleness because of the closing down of the great iron, steel and kindred industries of that cection, clear from Maastricht, on the Holland border, to France on the South. “In Liege, some of the fa-tories are operated on part time by the German authorities. I do not take any stock in Delegate, acted as an the commission cffect that the German military au- thorities have at any time forced the Belgians to work for them under pen- for | McMILLAN S NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE"” FINAL CLEARANCE- SALE OF WOMEN’S SUMMER DRESSES YOUR CHOICE $1.00 Each Values Up to $5.98. On Sale Wednesday . Morning at 8:30 o’Clock All our Summer Wash Dresses in- cluded in this sale. See them dis- played in our large show window until time of Sale Wednesday Morning. Women’s Raincoats $5.00, $5.98 and $7.98 each. Children’s Raincoats $1.98 and $2.98 each. Cotton Bed Blankets Wednesday morning 87¢ pair, Value $1.00. 11-4 size, in white and * gray. Guimpes, Vestees and Cuff Sets Wednesday Values up to oriental morning 45¢ 75c. Made of 4 laces and organdies Straw Bags and Suit Cases . 98c kind, Wednesday morning 996 each. Sale of Knitting Yarns Wednesday morning 6c skein. Ger- mantown, Shetland Floss, Berlin, SBaxony, Knitting Wools, Eiderdown. Children’s Stamped Dresses To embroider. Wednesday morn- ing 19c cach. D. McMILLAN 199-201-20:3 MAIN STRFET elty of forfeiture of food supplied taf them by the commission. I was within a short automobile ride from the city of Liege, the capital of the province, and never was able to verify any such etories. On the contrary, the Ger- mans, I have every reason to be posi- tive, have never interferred with the Commission’s distribution of food, and have never taken away, or threatened to take away, any that has been dis- tributed to the civil population. Well Treated by Germans. “Attaches of the Commiséion are, most considerately treated by the German soldiery. There are few re- strictions and the most important is that we are not permitted, under any , circumstances, to cross the border line of Belgium without a special pass- port, which is limited in time and provides for our return to Belgium within that time. It was often essen- tial that I should go to Maastricht, which is just across the Holland border, as often our foodstuffs came bv way of that eity. While the strict- est accountings for such absences from Belglum were demanded, there was never any difficulty, as the Land.’ strumers, on guard along the border, showed us every courtesy and seemoed 10 have entire confidence in us. The swift glance at our passports, how- ever, did not indicate any peffunctory mination, for itheir exp#denced eyes at once indicated that our bass- ports to leave and return were official, “When I left Belgium the people seemed to be optimistic and were lock- ing forward to an end of hostilitics at no distant date, However, if the needs of the Belgians continue to re- quire the service of the Commission’s men in the distribution of food there 1 shall return about the end of the year.” TO CARF FOR WAR ORPHANS | Solothurn, Switzerland, Aug. 31.— A woman, who thus far Is known only as “Frau Gertrud,” is interest- ing her Swiss sisters in a propesition W to take over for the balanee of the war, orphans from the neighboring countries. The Swiss authorities in this canton already have able . to approach the governments of two or three countries at war and have heen told by the German authorities that “Frau Gertrud’s plan is thor- oughly acceptable to them. A num- ber of orphans probably will be sent here from the southern German states, been TO MMONOR WAR DEAD. Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 31.—The Hungarian minister of justice has de- termined upon a little evolution legal phraseology or the sake of hon- oring men who have lost their lives in the war. He has ordered that in all legal proceedings and in documents respecting the estates of such persons they are to be referred to not as “the deceated”” or “the doparted,’ as hithe ™ erto, but that the following words must be odded instead: “Who died a hero's death for the Fatherland.