New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1915, Page 8

W BRITAIN HERALD lmRALD PUBLISHING CUMPANY, Proprietors. 4 daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. Herald Bullding, 67 Church St at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. ed by carriers to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 ‘Conts a Month. friptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. only profitable advertising medium In o city. Circulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers. [Herala will ve found on sale at Hota- s News Stand, 43nd St. and Broad- v, New York City; Board Walk Atlaotic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ¥ AIN'S TURN NEXT. his'is Old Home Week: in Water- . Reviving an old custom of ing wayfaring sons and daughters home at some stated interval ng the year, our neighboring city chosen the one best week in the [ndar for this occasion. If there er & time when the human heart s for home it’is = around this on. At Thanksgiving and at stmas where is the man who does think of the old folks, of mother father, of all the friends at the stamping grounds? So, having ed this most auspicious time erbur, Home Week should e wonderful success. o bring the same idea home, why 1d it not be a good thing: for New: ain to hold some sort of a muni- 1 festivity wherein all the wand- b8 ‘might. be -invited to come back ‘participate. 1t would not neces- ly have to be held this year, or year, or even the year after that. '’ the fdéa were fostered at this ¢ ‘preparation could ‘be made, hs formulated, and, perhaps in a wonderful celebration could taged in our own city. And it 1d have all the significance of ome coming for the ones who are y. There.are many former resi- s of New Britain scattered about country, in New England, in the kt, in the South, everywhere, who hid be only too glad to come back the scenes - of ~their former imphs and renew the friendships acquaintanships that have long dormant.” These people could ly be traced by their friends e. Bach resident -of the city 1d be given five or ten invita- hs to send out and from that num- a goodly proportion might bear t. urthermore, if some of those who the precints of this city ten or lve years ago weére to come back ay, or tomorrow, or next year. y might never go away again. For y would see a far different New tain than the one they knew. py left a town; they would come k to a city. And what has been omplished in the past ten years 1 be more than doubled in the t ten, if we may judge from the bsent stride of things. New Brit- is going along on an even Kkeel, sails are ‘set' to the wind, therc b no shoals ahead. By 'all means have a home week. it is nothing more than a large ily reunion, it should be staged. pterbury has done the proper & There is more joy in Water- y today than in any other city of nnecticut. And all because the elcome” has been placed on bnt-door mat, the glad-hand com- ttee is down at the station greet the visitors, and everybody hnking of everybody else. There no selfishness in Waterbury today. here is instead a broad spirit of herosity, "4 Something which Per- pates brotherly love, and that od for-any person, any city, any hte, any mation. It is the thing at should be cultivated everywhere the United States. Waterbury wi ve accomplished a great deal if it s a is ows to its sister cities in the state | le advisability of holding reunions .this kind. Let us hope that rn comes next. our TO STOP THE FIGHTING. It is really time to bring this war <a halt, They have been fight- long enough the direct- g members of the women's peace rty who last night announced at ew York that every woman's club prominence in the country would appealed to this week to 'send vegident Wilson telegrams asking m to conmfer Wwith neutral . nations @' urge ‘peace in ‘Europe. It might so ‘be a good plan to send cable- amg to the Kalfder, the King of 1 all the Russias, the lord say the \Mikado. nd everything should be in the hands f these folk by Thanksglving Day. that scheme not practicable, ¢hy send ’em all Christmas rds advising that the season ig here or peace on earth and good will to n. This is urgent, is the | postal | LONGEVITY IN ITS RELATION TO SEX. For centuries,—well, since Sir Walter Raleigh’s day,—the nations have wanted to know why fewer men than women attain old age. And this is apart from the time worn plati- tude- that women do not tell their ages after they reach twenty-five, that they. stop having birthday celebra- tions, or, if they do recognize such occasions it is only now and then. From life insurance statistics and death notices, where truth will out, it has been learned that men, as a rule, die younger than women. ot course, there must be some reason for this, .and medical science ha: come to the fore with an explana- tion. A physician in Chicago, from whence comes the solution of many things, now informs the public that it is not because the men are good that they die young; but because the men are bad,—they smoke cigarettes and cigars and, in some remote in- stances, even go so far as chew the weed. Horrors! This is a fact, Chicago medico. according to the Every time a man reaches in his vest pocket, brings forth a fat perfecto, lights up, and lolls back in his easy chair to enjoy the evening paper, or the day dreams of his own creation, he prunes just so many minutes, or hours, or days, or weeks, or months, off his gay young life. This information was divulged before the Chicago Medical Society, an institution held high in the world of medicine men. Natural- ly, the period of time which man sacrifices for a long, cool, smoke de- pends “largely upon the various at- tributes of the cigars, cigarettes, or pipes he uses. The size, strength, color and length of the cigar has much to do with the hours that are taken off a man’s life. The brand of the cigarette likewise enters into the equasion. If they are “tailor- made,” or home-spun, that is, roll- ed from the ‘‘makin’s,”” they must necessarily be much different from the ‘ready-made’ kind,—whether they are better or worse depends upon the brand of tobacco,—saw-dust not considered. As to the pipe, it probably depends on the age of that instrument. The little short stubby pipes are deadlier than the long, crooked stem ones. But all of these things have a demonic way of cut- ting down the length of a man’s life. Statistics, quoted by the Chicago phy- sician, show that twice many women as men live to the age of one hundred years, despite the fact that women are not prone to admit this. And the death rate of men is blamed on tobacco aided and abett- ed by that arch-demon of them all, Jawn Bawleycorn. All of which probably bears some semblance to the truth; but the fact still remains that no matter how much a man might wish to prolong his life, even if he eliminates tobacco and other vices from his make-up, there is always the probability that he may step off a curb-stone too soon one day and as FACTS AND FANCIES., The trouble with the Italian de- mand that the methods employed to check submarine warfare in the Eng- lish Channel and North Sea be adopt- ed in the Mediterranean is, aside from the fact that difficult local conditions exist in the Mediterranean, that Eng- land could not spare the pursuing ships and Ttaly does not possess enough of them.—New York Sun. Great Britain is looking forward t3 $25,000,000 a day as the cost of the war at an early date. It may =o higher before many weeks have pz ed. A nation to endure such a drain must not alone have wonderful re- sources in the present but even most wonderful recuperative powers for the future. 'The end of the war will only mark the beginning of the real burden.—Wilkesbarre Record. The Germans are gaining in the north of ‘Serbia and the Allies in the south. When the two hosts meet and it comes time for both sides to dig in or fight a pitched battle, the des- tiny of the world may_hinge on the choice of these twg methods of fight- ing. That will be an event well worth waitful watching.—Burlington Free Press. “The chb, slow or fast, but ebb, all the same,” has arrived in the Teuton tide, said Mr. Balfour declared, and ir a speech of eloquence he paid tri- bute to the force and power on which the strategy of the Allies is based-— the British fleet—and ‘“to the ar- mies which Lord Kitchenet's has raised from the country.” fine contrast to the tone of “whimpering press” and the ‘‘carp- ing Lords” was the cheery and splen- didly optimistic speech of the First Lord, who, in passing the hail “all's well with the fleet,” added “all’'s well with Kitchener's armies.”—New York Herald. All signs point now to the rapid uncovering of the biggest alien con- spiracy ever hatched on American soil. This conspiracy has had for its object the disorganization of Ameri- can property as well as of foreign property under American protection. It was an attempt by alien sples and secret agents to carry the war into America, to break our laws for the purpose of alding one group of Eu- ropean belligerents. We hope that gullt will quickly be established and punishment follow in enough cases to end forever the dastardly conspiracy which has defied our laws in the hope of gaining some military advantage for the Teutonic allies—New York Tribune. & A vital question of this hour is this: Do the American people want reasonable preparations for the strengthening of our defenses to begin early in 1916, or are they willing to wait two years longer for the be- ginning of the execution of a larger and more expensive plan, or at least toc postpone all action on defensc for many months? The time for action is now, not later. We have dallied too long with the question of defense and we must make up our minds to take what we: can get, especially as that is obviously so much more than we had reason to hope for a year ago and will take us a long step in ad- vance of the comparatively unpre- pared state which we have hitherto endured.—New York Times. The Heart Interest Counts. The secret of this wholesale hulla- baloa over the poor Mttle atom in Chicago ‘“Heart interest” sums it up- The setting for this particular inci- find himself beneath the wheels of a big, lumbering, motor car,—and the man in the back seat may he puffing joyfully at a luxuriant and fair #avana perfecto. Such is fate. 1 A FOOLISH QUESTION. From all parts of the country come | various opinions regarding the move for preparedness and national defense. Some want preparedness in its most formidable form, others want it in its pink and baby ribbon stage, others would have it neither one way or the other. And those who decry against the propaganda of national defense !have just this one big question to { hurl: “How are we going to raise the money?” To a nation that has been watching the football season, where | at every game young men with dip- | pers and pails have passed through | the crowds and collected money | enough to finance suffering Europe | the aforementioned is a_very, very | foolish question. It bids fair to rank with the one of a decade ago, “How Old Is Ann?” | Through the energy and ability of the United States Bureau of Mines the cost of radium has been cut two- thirds. Any one interested may now purchase this precious for the trifiing sum of $37,000 gramme. How many grammes will you have? ore a Local History. (Troy Times.) New Orleans has introduced into its schools study of local history. Much may be said in favor of the plan, and there are other localties in which it might be tried with advan- tage. For instance, take Troy and vicinity, including the Hudson, Mo- hawk’'and Champlain valleys. What history has been made in this region from the very first exploration an: settlement by whites, through colon- ial and Revolutionary times and up to the present, when one of the greai- est enterprises in the shape of canal construction focuses right at the door of our city- That sort of study should be an inspiration to any real live young American, dent was such as to catch the inter- est of the public. No technical de- scription of a group of babies suffer- ing from the very things which caused the Chicago surgeon to decide not to operate, would affect the public as did the story of this “one wee lamb.” This fact has been illustrated peatedly in widely different fields, since the beginning of the war. The description of a mass in battle never commands the same Interest that is occasioned by retailing an isolated case of a soldier whose deeds of hero- ism and self sacrifice touch the heart strings and set the imagination into mation. The horror of the Lusitania was not so fully apparent until stories began to drift in of individual cases—of children torn fromi their parents, of babies consigned to the mercies of the deep by. distracted mothers. The description of wholesale fam- ine where thausands die does not seem to impress the public so much as cit- ing the case of one child, who, look- ing llke a skeleton, asks for bread. The human mind is capable of di- gesting so much and no more. After a time the very hugeness takes away from the ability to appreciate. re- Killing Off the Deer. (Torrington Register.) John M. Crampton, superintendent of the state game commission, says that as the rate deer are being killed in Connecticut there will be none left in six months. This statement should give the people of the state something to think about, We have given to the deer all the protection that is granted to property until the law passed at the last legislature went into effect August 1. Since that time the Killing of 600 deer has been reported to the game commission. This is only a small part of the number really killed as many farmers have not taken the trouble to report killings to the commission. The law now on the statute books provides for an open season for the killing of dcer. The provision that the killing of deer by farmers on their own property. The provision that the killing be done on the killer's prop- erty is in many cases ignored. fact is that deer are being wherever and whenever found. The question is, of course, for Con- necticut people to decide whether they are willing to allow the deer to killed e exterminated entirely. If they are willing then there is nothing more to say and it is only necessary to con- tinue the present law on the statute books, but if they are not, action should be taken at once or it will be too late to remedy the situation, The ., WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. The Last Big Lumber Raft- (Louisville Courier-Journal.) When the Ottumwa Belle brought down the river a few weeks ago, the last lumber raft of any size that is expected to be towed down the Fa- ther of Waters, the Belle had aboard as a guest of honor the man who, 71 years before, had brought across the Davenport-Le Claire rapids the first raft of logs that was ever floated down the stream, The rafter had sent a boat ashore at Albany to take aboard C(apt. Steve B. Hanks, now (94 years old, the pioneer of all the Mississippi river raftsmen, says the Keokuk Constitution-Democrat. “‘Capt. Steve,” as he is known along the whole length of the river, was the son of Thomas ilanks, a brother of Nancy Hanks 1. . and is there- | 1 s Lincoln, an | is 141 miles and its greatest width is fore a first cousin of the martyred president. Tom Marshall of Keiths- burg, who knows the river about as well as he knows guns and shells and clay bird ranges, tells this story in the trap, gun and rod department of the Chicago Sunday Examiner. “It was in 1840 that Capt. Steeve first went into the pineries. ~He had been there four years when there came a demand for logs from St. Louis. Capt. Steeve undertook to de- liver them. He got a raft out on the St. Croix where there was no cur- rent, by throwing an anchor out ahead and then drawing the raft to the anchor by means of a capstan work by hand. After the raft was in the current of the Mississippl it was managed by means of long oars at the bow and stern. There were no bridges to dodge, and the trip to St. Louls was made safely and repeat- ed many times in after years. About 1866 the steamboat was first used for pushing rafts and later the towboat, across the head of the raft, removed the remaining difficulties of steering. Capt. Hanks understands that since he floated that first raft there have been 15,780,670,000 feet of lumber rafted down the big river. “He saw the beginning and he has just seen the end of rafting on the Mississippi. It is a long period of adventure and interesting experience for a single life to span.” Longest Vine and Whiskers. (Wilmore (Ky.,) Enterprise.) The Princeton Leader says: “W. F. Holeman has a tomato vine in his garden which measures 11 feet and 8 inches long,” and wants to know if anyone can beat it. The Enter- prise has found the vine, raised by Dr. H. H. Duley of this city, which measured over 12 feet in length and has furnished two families with plen- ty of fruit for over three months. Dr. Duley has not only grown the *)ngest, tomato vine, but also the Mngest beard. Some years ago his beard measured five feet long, and when standing erect six inches of his beard lay on the floor at his feet. Romance Is Not Yet Dead- Weekly.) “one of those even in Johnnie (Collies Barrie's Leonora was round whom legends grow their lifetime.” Private Poe of the British army, slain 'in battle in northern France, was an- other such. The papers said he was forty, but we never can picture him as more than twenty-five. Figures must lie when they make out that Johnnie last played in Princeton’s back field nearly twenty years ago. Johnnie Poe, as a hero should, shed his years, just as polished marble sheds the rain, and wasn’'t a day old- er when he took the King’s shilling than back in '98 when he marched away under the Stars and Stripes to help drive the Spaniards out of Cuba. We haven't heard yet what he did in Flanders on the western front; will it be worth comparing with his exploit in Amalpa Harbor, where as a captain in the army of Honduras, he opened fire on a Nicaraguan gun- boat and bluffed it out of the har- bor? Or with the time he was marooned in an open boat “to perish on the broad Atlantic’”’? That time a warship sighted the nearly exhausted soldier of fortune, and the captain called to him: “We can’'t bother with your baggage.” There was a splash—a tiny one; then Poe was hoisted on board. “What did vou throw over?” the captain asked- ‘‘My haggage,” said Johnnie; “I only had a toothbrush.” Legend, perhaps, but characteristic. In an earlier generation Poe would have been a frontiersman, with a long rifle and a coon cap, like Daniel Boone in the school histories and the unpictured forefathers of Abraham Lincoln. Born too late for that, Poe made new frontiers of his own, being a true musketeer, a D'Artagnan, but un- boastful. According to Thoreau, ‘the mass of men lives of quiet des- peration Johnnie Poe's life was something not so drah. Proof of the Pudding. (Milwaukee Journal.) If our memory serves, science got busy one time and proved for once and all that curved balls couldn’t be thrown, but the baseball pitchers were so busy they fell behind on their reading that summer and while science W announcing its results. they had carelessly learned to throw curved balls. No that me kind of carelessness has been indulged in by the high protectionist in thi; year of grace. He has been so bus: hunting up his proofs that he 1 neglected current history a bit. He is ready with his announcement of what will happen and what won't but meanwhile the opposite is happen- ing. Dyestuffs afford ample of thi a very good ex- for all manner of men have been saying that this coun won't go into the manufacture of dyestuffs without increasing the pres ent very considerable protection. In spite of the showing that we have been wasting every year $100,000,- j ance the president should be Topographical Items With War Interest Washington, D. C., Nov. 23.—“Cy- prus is one of the most important is- lands in the Mediterranean,” says a bulletin given out today by the Na- tional Georgraphic Society, which de- scribes England’s reported offer to the Greeks for their aid in the world- war. “There are just two islands in the broad inland sea larger than Cy- prus, and these are Sicily and Sar- dinia. There are few islands in the world more rich in historical associa- tions, and none, probably, more cov- eted by powerful neighbors. “The island lies in the mouth of a pocket formed by Asia Minor and Syria at the northeastern end of the Mediterranean, being about equally distant from the mainland to the north and to the east. Tt has an area of 3,584 square miles, or is as large as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined- Tts greatest length sixty miles, while its average width is more than thirty-five miles. A great part of the island is taken up by two mountain ranges, one of which fills much of the southern and central part, and the other of which stretches along the northern coast. Part of British Empire. “The coast of Asia Minor lies forty- six miles to the north, and that of Syria between fifty and fifty-five miles to the east. Although nominally a possession of the Ottoman Empire up until the outbreak of hostilities be- tween the Turks and the Allies, Cy- prus has been administered by Great Britain since 1878, and now forms an integral part of the British Empire. English occupation has done mucha to improve the conditidns of health on the island, as it has been a stimulus to its commercial development, “The mountains of the island are wild and beautiful, and upon their sides the forests are still growing that were famed and prized in early Egyp- tian times. They also contain mines of copper, celebrated among the ancients and still richly productive the The highest altitude is attained by Mount Troodes, with a summit 6,406 feet above sea level. Forests Pass Away. “A wide valley runs east and west, through the central part of the island. This valley is about 60 miles long, with a breadth varying from 10 to 20 miles. The mountain ranges either side send their waters to the valley through intermittent torrents. much of this lowland is cultivated, though in the northern parts grain is grown. The soil of the whole valley is good, and there is no reason why the uncertain water supply might not bhe supplemented, bringing all of the land under cultivation In the day when western civilization was in its on swaddling clothes, Cyprus was widely known for its impassable forests, which not only clothed the sides and summits of its mountains with thick, dark masses of green, but which overgrew the whole floor of the valley between which such an interlacing sturdy tangle of trees and underbrush, that it was difficult to clear the land for cultivation. *The wonderful forests of the land, however, in the more than 2,000 years of exploitation that have passed over them have been almost cut away. Those forests built the ships of ¥gypt, of Greek Syrian rulers, of Asia Minor cities, and of Turks, and all that remains of their once much heralded glory are the pine growths on the mountains. Today the whole central plain is bare and treeless, and with the extinction of the forests many disadvantages of climate have come upon the island, so that Cyprus of the present is not the bright home for men so bravely praised by the Greeks of classic times. It is, never- theless, a valuable land, and much of its former splendor could be brought back to it by the proper administra- tion and development. The English have already begun this work of re- habilitation. Population of Island. “The population of the island is es- timated at 240,000, Greeks and Turks, The chief towns are Nicosia, the capis, tal, with 15,000 inhabitants, the largest city, and Limasol and Larnaca. Most of the people gain their live- lihoods by agriculture. The methods employed are almost as ancient ag are the traditions of the island, and the irhabitants are sturdily opposed to in- novation. The olive, mulberry, grains, grapes an dother fruits, oil seeds, cot- ton and all sorts of vegetables are grown. Irrigation works have been undertaken for the reclamation of the soil, so fruitful of old, and many acres have been brought under culti- vation, In passing, it may be stated that the miles of Cyprus have found favor in all of Britain’'s wars since that waged against Russia in the Crimea, “Cyprus does an annual trade of about $1,500,000. It is handicapped in the development of its commerce cwing to a want of natural harbors and to an Eastern fatalism too thor- oughly learned to permit of much initiative. Since the British occupa- tion some energy has been brought into the little land, but there still re- maing a great deal to be accomplished before a west-Europe commerce and c¢MILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABDE” Store Open Wednesday Evening, Closed all Day Thanksgiving. See Our Showing of Thanksgiving Linens Make your selection from this store your needs have been looked afger our aim is to serve the ‘public omnly with reliable merchandise. PATTERN TABLF CLOTHS, HEM- STITCHED TABLE CLOTHS, napking to match. SCALLOPEL TABLE CLOTHS, LUNCH CLOTHS AND TRAY CLOTHS CENTERPIECES, SCARFS AND DOILIES. PLAIN AND FANOY LINEN TOWELS MERCERIZED TABLE DAMASK, by the yard PURE LINEN TABLE DAMASK, by the yard. All our own importations, exclusive designs on all our own linens, ex- ceptional values. SALE OF CUT GLASS, All one-price, your choice $1.00, values up to $2.00. Several hundwed pleces of Cut Glass in this sale. Buy now for Thanksgiving and Christ- mas. WOMEN’S AND MISSES' COATS. Smart models of plain and fancy coatings, Thanksgiving specials, $5.98, $7.,8, $9.98, $12.98 cach, values up to $18.00. PLUSH AND CORDUROY COATS. For Women, plain and striped Plush Coats. CORDUROYS AND PLUSH BRO- CADES. Thankegiving specials, and $26 each CHILDREN'S COATS. Hundreds of them in this special Thanksgiving sale, $3.98, $4.98, $5.98, to $9.98 each. MISSES’ TAILORED SUITS. At $15.00. Really smart models. Your tailor would charge you - thut much just for the making. WOMEN’S SUITS. $16.00, $20, business management can become in- cdigenous. Great Britain administers Cyprus through a high commissioner, with the powers of a colonial gover- nor.” duct from which Europe makes these dyestuffs; in spite of the discovery of a new and cheaper process, we have been told at least once a week for something like a year that it's no go. A statement like that of Mr. Hill— he of Connecticut this time——that American capital simply wouldn’t go into the business under present tar- iffs, is answered by the purchase by the Stauffer chemical company of 100 acres near Pittsburg for the erec- tion of a very large dyestuff plant. Not only that, it has taken an option on 100 acres more. Of course this is just a little thing, one of several exactly like it, and all of them a good deal like those re- fractory ball players who went ahead and pitched curved balls while science was showing that it couldn’t be done. The Duty of Loyalty to America. (Bridgeport Farmer.) Some newspapers printed in the German language decribe the Coop- er Union meeting as a step in a cam- paign against the renomination of President Wilson. Tt is hard to believe that American citizens are in sympathy with such activities. Tt is natural that men of German birth and language should sympathize with the country in which live the friends of their boyhood and relatives with whom they were once in daily com- panionship. Thus any man must feel toward the country of his nativity when it is in dire distress. From sympathy for a foreign gov ernment to enmity for a home gov- ernment, is a lo way. The Farm- er does not believe that German- Americans as a class are engaged in a propaganda <t the president. Such propagan at the worst, is limited to a few hot-heads, who ars quietly stimulated hy reckless native horn politicians, who, being out, de. sire to be in. Such propaganda, at the worst, is by any means, and may be depend- ed upon to stimuliate by every means at their disposal the hatreds and prejudices inseparable from the great conflict. The president is confronted by one great duty. He is charged with the duty of preserving the rights and happiness of this country. Primarily he desires to America in peace. The task trmendous onec. In its German- keep is a perform- sup- ported by all who live this soil. Let each man sympathize will with other countries, but let each man sympathize first with this, his own country, in which men go about their useful employments in safety, and where the young men remain to be the support of their parents, and the husbands of American girls. Much liberty is afforded upon soil to all who come here. The coun- try has encouraged associations by which old country memories have heen fostered. It has permitted the publication of newspapers, and other periodicals, *n foreign tongues, believing that he will love this country best, who has the power to remember and love the country from which he came. upon as he this A propaganda against the gov- in behalf of a foreign power, through the columns of a press printed in a foreign language, can not but be regarded as abuse of a privilege which has not hitherto been abused. Not for one instant would the Ger- man government tolerate an agitu- tion against it so conducted, in per- iodicals printed in English, within the German empire. Nor would any other Kuropean state. The masses of Germans in country do not sympathize with any propaganda conducted against the government of the United States to benefit a foreign government. They love the country they were born in, but more the country of their adop- tion. this Howells and the Others. (New York World.) ‘What is to be thought of a National Institute of Arts and Letters that awards & gold medal to William Dean Howells for his services to American literature? For half a century Mr- Howells has been writing novels, books of travel and criticism, poetry and plays, but as compared with scores upon scores of younger American writers he is an ignoramus as a military strategist, and as a statesman he is a disgrace to the authors’' profession. If the United States were suddenly threat- ened with war Mr. Howells would hesitate about leadinrg a million men in battle or taking command of the fleet. He has not undertaken to prove that he is a better general than Joffre, or a better admiral than Jellicoe, As a literary person, he is so dead to shame that he has not volunteered even to reorganize the United States army. He probably does not know enough military science to Iand 300,- 000 German troops In Long Island in four days. Even in the higher diplomacy Mr. Howells is hopelessly backward for a man in his position. We doubt if he regards himself as capable of formu- lating a Mexican policy that would be superior to Mr. Wilson's or if he is even sufficiently well advanced in the newer patriotism to despise his own country. It is deplorable, it is heart-breaking that in this age and generation a con- gress of American men of letters should be so heedless of the spirit of the times as not to see that William Dean Howells as a writer is a plain old fogy. Thanksgiving specials, $12.98 to $30. D. McMILLAN -201.203 MAIN STIFET admonitions. Girls and boys have risen to a newer independence, gand they seem to be enlarging it. The private back yard has yielded to the public playground, and because this is the children's century, the teacher at school is whipless. Par- ents, by force of circumstances, have relinquished their children to the community, but they have not given the community the right to say what children shall wear, and the right to supervise their clubs and fraternffies has been only lately achieved. And the children are organized bet. ter than their parents. This Is es: pecially true in the city, where apart- ment dwellers are barely acquainted with their immediate neighbors. The children of their friends go to other schools. The children of a commun= ity know each other and the parents do not. Mary is able to compin that all her friends go to the moving pictures in the evening without chap- erons and asserts that to be recognized she must have a pair of fur topped boots. The children are led on by public opinion among their companions, but there is no parental opinion to check them. It will avail father nothing to get out the shingle. If the mothers do not organize, their one time au- thority will have to be delegated Lo the teachers Not To Western Farmers. (Meriden Journal.) New England should grow, than buy feeds and small grains the western farmers The New England states have been ng out millions to western farm- ; cach year for small grains, in- stead of raising them at home. Hor poultry cats up more grain than she produces. Although the climate, soil and other growing conditions _are adapted to the growing of cereals, she buys more oats than she raises each year. The growing season, rainfall and the nature of the soils are all suited to small grain production. Continu- ous cropping without rotation has made many of her farms decreasimg- ly productive. Grain farming, with the use of manure and fertilizers to rebuild the soils to their former pro< Auctive ability, would establish New e rather of The Revolt Against Children. (Chicago Tribune.) For a good many years now the idea of women revolting against the tyran- ny of men has been bandied about. 1t is now no longer shocking. But a new kind of revolt is in the air; this time also a revolt of women, but it is against their children. Women, it seems, are just beginning to feel the tyranny of the young people. Parents have lost their in. fiuence. A suburban mother plained to her club recently of 16 were making their own social standards, deciding upon what they com- that girls England’s production higher and place her agriculture on a perman- ent basis. City Items Furs cleaned at the Union Laundry, 266 Arch street. Tel 904.—advt, Miss Gertrude Colton has returned to Manchester after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. Manning of 45 Union street. An anniversary requiem mass will be held at St. Mary's church Firfflay must wear in order to be considered in the social whirl, choosing thejr escorts after dancing school, disre. 000 worth of the very coal tar pro-lex‘nmcnt of the United States, made‘xardlnx all the while their parents’ morning for the late Mrs. Mary Mc- Cormack and a similar mass will be held Saturday morning for the late Mrs. Mary Hayes.