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,'own country to sludy the mnguuge of South America? There is something wrong and it should be remedied at once. There is no reason why the next crop of high school graduates should not know Spanish. Aside from being a matter of courtesy with them it should devolve into the world of business. For, if the war in Europe lasts many moons longer the bulk of trade on this side of the Atlantic. and the Pacific, will travel between the ports of America and those of {fHuth America. It is ential then that we should know Spanish. RITAIN HERALD | leuBLISHING COMPANTY. Proprietors. unday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. g 87 Church St Office at New Britaln nd Class Mall Matter. rriors to any part of tne city a Week, 65 Cents a Month. jtor paper to be sent by mail in advance, 60 Cents & onth, $7.00 a year. ‘ fitable ndvertising medium in Circulation books and press iways open to advertisers. I pe ‘found on sale at Hota- Stand; 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk. City and Hartford depot. KEEP ’EM AROUND With things as they are, with war in Europe that threatens to set the whole world ablaze, it is well for the United States to have an eye to the future, It is well that the subject of preparedness be given some thought. No one can say, no one can tell when the slightest thing will pre- cipitate this country into a quarrel with another country, and, no matter how much we may wish to keep away from it, matter how much dread war, fight means fight. Be prepared, is a good slogan and per- tains to every phase of human exist- ence. Even to death. It is well to be prepared in any emergency. As an illustration of what has been intimated, it might be well to cite a story that is going the rounds in the south, a story about an old preacher and a gambling converted. a PLEPHONE CALLS. [PREVENTION. ness against sickness is a Bl worth harboring on a is. Every man owes it to i to his family that he keep as long as possible. At re is an epidemic of grip the entire country. New has almost capitulated to of the human family, and s along the Atlantic coast hroes of grip. Wet, SOggY, pgreeable weather is con- spreading this malady. his, it is the wise man, or ho takes the precaution to pbers before going out in the lhing more, nothing less than vorn slogan, An ounce of worth a pound of cure. o we colored man he It runs somewhat as fol- lows: “After dec sarmint t'mor night, Brudder Simmons,” said the old dea- con, OULD KNOW SPANISH. most part, there are few in the actual workings of Pan-American Congress ened yesterday in Washing- | capital of the nation. And 1 it should be of interest to In the nation from the Presi- fn. One year ago dclegates 'y nation on this hemisphere at the same place in a rican Scientific Congress, and nations of the world were | h interested in the proceed- is year there is a larger k of delegates from the South countries and much more is being manifested in ths is year. Naturally, scientific I be primarily interested in ome of the second congress. ing at the whole affair from business standpoint, every seventeen years of age in ntry should take to heart the esson that is taught by the ion in Washington. That is he men from South America e English language almost as the men who were born and in America. And the men as a whole, cannot | “we all is gwine to hab a rousin’ hozanner meetin’ an’ burn up yo’ paragraphs, bless dc Lawd!” “Yo' all is gwine to hab what? Yo’ all is gwine tuh burn up which, sah?"” returned Snowball Black, the recent- ly converted gambling man, in con- siderable astonishment. “Yo' gambling W’en a spo’tin’ d paragraphs, sah! man gits converted an’ washed whiter dan snow, dey allus burns up his kyahds, an’ dice and sich scan’lous stuff as dat, midst loud shouts o’ praise. De Lawd is wit’ ’em, an’ de’ gambling brudder steps fo’'th an’ slings his gambling paragraphs on de fiah, an’ he stands wif bowed head whilst “Not me, suh! Ah ain’'t gwine ‘do no sich-uh thin, “But, muh goodness brudder yo’ shore converted, isn’'t yo’ and” ‘“Yassahr! Ah is shore converted but ah mought backslide an’ dat stuff!” And there is the story. It illu- strates a great point and can be well read by the peace-at-any-price peo- ple, the men and women of America who are out on the street corners ad- vising Uncle Sam to sling away his arms because a big army and a big navy might combine for the destruc- tion of the country, that they might lead to militarism. That is probably true if the propoganda is allowed to go too far; but, if dealt with in a safe an sane manner there is no such danger. To do away with the entire outfit would be like Snowball Black throwing away his deck of cards, We might backslide,—or somebody else ! might backslide,—and then we might be sorry we threw away the cards. This preparedness. Keep ‘em around. is need merica, bne word of Spanish,—the one ke that predominates in South e aforegoing statement there jh food for thought. The ques- hturally arises, Why does not erican high-school boy have knowledge of the Spanish ge? And the answer apparent- INo one seems to care. While, hnd weeks, and months and lare spent willingly in acquiring wlcdge: bf Latin and Greek,— | ead languages,—and German, ench, and Italian. there is rare- bver, a thought given to Spanisi. above - all, that is the one pge which should be prevalent high school eourses. To get ldown to the bottom of the whole hat good is it going to do to ness of the United States to our boys well versant in Latin reek, and yet have no knowledge panish? What good will it do? e ever yet sold a bale of cotton se he could translate an ode Homer, or because he knew by the Gallic Wars of Caesar. It/ I well and good to insist that who would follow up purely emic studies should know some- of the two principle dead ages; but for those boys who hd to go into business after their | school courses are completed,— there are many such,—the | uage of Spain should be their first hght after having acquired the | is BON VOYAGE. Today marks the going of Captain Boy-Ed, the German military attache stationed for some time at the em- bassy in Washington. He is going back to his own land after a series : of depredations committed against the neutrality laws of this country. There will be no sorrow over his de- parture, nor will there be gloating over his riddance. No one holds any personal animosity against the officer who sacrificed his honor in the performance of what he saw as his duty, The greatest crime he committed was the mistake of getting caught at the job. Could gone on with his nefarious uninterrupted complacence would have had a harsh word say against him. But, like murder, his deed would out, as all such things ments of English grammar and | must, sooner or later. With the necessary things that go with it. | generosity of the American heart is easily seen then that Ameri- | even after what he did against the s are put to shame by the men | Peace and tranquility of this nation, come to this country represent- | the citizens here will wish Captain South America. It is sometimes | Boy-Ed a safe journey home, probab- barrassing to stand within hailing | ly accompanied by the wish that he ance of these folk and have them | never comes back. questions in your own language,— ly do it with such ease,—and then he have work no one to in Some idea of New Britain’s advance unable to even wish them the time | along the road of prosperity may be day in their native tongue. Spanish | gieaned from the estimates put on the been rated as one of the easiest | value of the Burritt school property. hguages to acquire. It is very'| Four hundred dollars a front foot is a nple and at the same ‘time very price well worth considering. sical. It means a lot at this time | years ago the same land could have the American bankers who would , Leen bought almost at the price of the financial interests of Uncle | grazing pasture. Fifty years from entended to the countries to | now its value may be increased again e south of us. There are practically | three fold. All of which shows the ly two languages spoken on this | wisdom in sticking around. pmisphere, English and Spanish. It & people of South America have iy Perhaps it was not intentional, but | hough ambition to study the la : ;_’h;:i w&;‘;é:g: b;selénl}l] igterest; ;letid : % B y Ford had reache he @ of the United States, why them kfepor side of the ocean before they the people of the United | élimbed out of the trenches.—Spring- enough regard for their | field Union, Fifty | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, 'ACTS AND F Nebraska republicans are determin- ed to keep in the political spotlight if they ha’ to nominate Burton—Bos- ton Transeript. | NCIES true, as reported from | the Federal league is to pass out of tence; but while it lasted, the baseball boys got good salaries.—Norwich Bulletin. It may be Chicago, that Bernard Shaw’s latest advice to ! Englishwomen is to put peace out of their heads. They probably would if it were just as easy to put sorrow fout of their hearts—Detroit Iree Press. The new general whom the Brit- ish have sent to the front to take the place of Field Marshal Sir John French, who has thrown up his job (it is said voluntarily,) is best known i by his record for masterliness in re- treat. Humph!—Providence Tribune. Speaking of the silver bullet, for the financing of the war Great Britain | | has drawn in $2,500,000,000 frox abroad, $2,000,000,000 has been with- drawn from banking accounts, and $1,500,000,000 has been transferred by the banks from employment in the money market—Boston Globe. It it be true that the Serbian ar- mies in their retreat took with them 40,000 prisoners of war and shipped them to France, they must have been far from demoralized. By spring the Serbs may be reorganized and prove again a factor in the war. Gen. Boro- evic was right when he gave them the highest praise as warriors.—New York World. War in Earth, Sea and Sky, (Boston Herald) War has becoms clemental, in re- lation to the ancient elements— earth, air, water and fire; with the | last of these as the main force for use in the others. As regards the carth, mining has become more than ever one of the most destructive me- thods. The soldiers on either side along the Franco-Belgian frontier or in the Gallipoli trenches can never be sure that they and the ground be- neath their feet will not be blown up and scattered in fragments to the winds This subterranean ceeded in extent, by submarine warfare is ex- if not in intensity, warfare. So rapid is the improvement of undersea craft that the new submersible boats now lying at the Charleston Navy Yard may become obsolete before the Brit- ish government can receive them. They are almost toys.compared with a submarine that is now doing deadly work in the Baltic for the allies—a vessel of 5,400 tons displacement, 400 feet in length, with a cruising radius of 18,600 miles, motor power for an undersurface cruise of 275 mile space for a crew of 120 men, and tor- pedoes to the number of 60. Not less notable is the advance in acroplanes. , The description given m | the Sunday H’cl:\ld by Dr. Christmas of the 11 immense biplanes which his company is building for the allies discloses a remarkable development of the battleships of the air Not even the latest and largest Zeppelin can have a chance against the sky cruiser that is armed with two power- ful rapid-fire guns and four machine guns, that drops high-explosive shells 66 inches long by 14 inches in diam- eler, that carries a crew of six or eight men, and is driven by motors of 1,600 to 1,700 horse power. Wa ! wish the war would end before these wonderful vessels could be used, and that then they might be employed for purposes of peace, as was the original design of thelr inventor. Our Apt Pupils. (New Haven Register.) Not a prejudiced Cuban, but our United States consul general at Ha- vana, reports that Havana is not only free from yellow and other fevers, but from mosquitoes and even from flies. Nothing but eternal vigilance in climinating all breeding sources has done it. And the Cubans learned how to exercise and apply that vigilance from our sanitary engineers. Eighteen years seems a short time, and it's less than that since there was a different condition of things in Havana. The worst thing that ailed ‘the city and countr to be sure, was Spanish rule, but it was made materially worse by the scourge of yellow and malarial and typhoid fever, ‘which we now know were cngendered by the filth and flies and mosquitoes of Havana and its neighborhood. We do not need to be reminded how we first cleaned out the Spanilards,-and then taught the Cubans, along with self government, how to clean out the causes of the fever. So Havana, a city in what we used to call a malarial country, a city whose inhabitants might be presumed to be less sensitive to sanitary niceties than are we, is free from disease, flies and mosquitoes, while we still suffer the threefold affliction. This reflects favorably on the Cubans as apt pupils. We know so much more than our teachers that we are not content to make such sacrifices and exercise such vigilance as have delivered the people of Cuba from their greatest enemies. And when we look over our mortuary statistics, we cannot deny that we have some incentive to do what they have done. Ancient History. (Collier’'s Weekly). A great many people who write to us about out anti-German convictions make the point that H. J. Poppleman of Marvin, Grant County, S. Dak, makes in a recent letter: Just quit foaming about the Ger- mans and read your little General History and 100k up how the English used to treat the Irish. Quite true. What the English did to the Irish from one hundred to three | hundred years ago was much worse | than what the Germans have done to i the Belgians. But we cannot follow | the reason of any man who says that i on this account we should now be against the English. The world would { nomically { have no part. never get forward very far that way. It won’t do to match an ancient wrong against a present wrong. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1915. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Oftice. A Side Swipe of the War God. (Ansonia Sentinel.) New England has been always con- sidered as sufficiently far from thy battle front to be immune to casual- ties. The intervening ocean has been long thought a sufficient barrier against harm from belligerent nations that have troubles of their own. But the war god does not always strike direct- ly. He has a few cherished sidewinders that are liable to land even here across the ocean. We are earning this through the sad lessons of experi- ence. Right here in Ansonia Mars and his militaristic pupils have been pro- viding us with strenuous lessons ©on the subject of the interrelation of the na- tions of the world. Wae suffer eco- in a quarrel in which we The rush of goods to Europe for cxample, has so swamped the railrcads that there is but little chance for do- mestic traffic to secure a right of way | The rail- | from maker to consumer. roads along the eastern seaboard, with which we are vitally concerned, have heen forced to place an embargo on traffic for the time being in order to clear up the congestion on their lines. And because of this congestion and this embargo, due to the war largely, we are obliged to go on short com- mons in New England. Some cities. which were not provident in time, are facing the possibilities of a coal famine. The mines are cut from the consumer by miles of crowded tracks. And similarly with other goods. They are delayed and held up most vexat- iously t prosperity. The time js coming and coming rap- idly when the call will be made upon the full tide of our export manufacturers and distributors to see | that domestic business has the call over export trade. The country may not demand it now but it will when any acute pinch develops because of a right of way given to export trade. Even with the exigencies of the Euro- | pean war considered, it is necessary that the advantage be given to our domestic business. Not that we love Europe less but that we love ourselves more. “With a View to Matrimony.” (Torrington Register.) As marryving and giving in mar- riage may be described as almost if not quite the chief business of llfe.‘ many people doubtless look with favor | upon agencies intended to help along ‘the process. At all events such agencies flourish beyonde beliff and | the number of persons who are ready and eager to enter into a correspon- dence with an unknown member of the opposite sex “with a view to matrimony’’ appears to be countiess. An issue of a matrimonial newspaper published in the Northwest that has come to hand contains hundreds of requests from both sexes for corres- pondents who are looking for wives or husbands. The reader of only a | few of them will be amazed not only at the recklessness of the whole scheme—the mere purchase of a pug | dog would develop more caution— but at the frivolity and vanity dis- played by the great majority of these cager contestants for tickets in a matrimonial lottery. For example, an Indian girl says she is ‘“a good Christian maiden, fair to | Jook upon,” and,after further descrip- tion of herself asks. “Who is the lucky one to win this prize ” From West Virginia the ‘“sweetest girl in the sunny South” writes to secure a co: respondent ‘“for fun and results.” Trom Illinois comes the request of “a Jolly mald of twenty-one as sweet as boney in a gum.” Another maid” of North Carolina, who is also “as sweet as sugar,” wants to corres- pond with “a sweet little manly boy.” I “sweet and pretty” Towa girl who “likes to be kissed” makes the unex. pected announcement that she is "not a bit forward.” perabundance of Western and South ern sweetness, the reader turns with | relief to the somewhat more matter of-fact New further gratified to find an element f caution, as in the announcemegat of a Maine widow who gives fair warn- ing that ards need apply.” In a large number of cases there is a fortune to be given away, and there is usually at least an indefinite statement regarding ‘‘means” present o1 prospective. The ages of the fe- | male applicants for the most part| range from sweet sixteen to twenty one, to being in the thirties and one or two—miracles of frankness—that they gre on the shade side of forty. These extraordinary announcements contain not only a full enumeration of the charms of the applicants but often a statement as to the church connec- tions of the applicant—‘'am a Bap- tist” or ‘“am a Methodist” the description of physical and other attractions. The “Gents’ Personals” are no less amazing and scarcely less absurd, though there is often the frankest of | confessions that ‘‘business” is meant snd “money” is sought. There are al- most as many ‘“handsome” men as there are ‘‘sweet” and beautiful women advertising for consorts, and the former seem to be nearly if not quite as much interested in the color of their own eyes and hair. For example, for his “ideal,” gives the description of himself: “Age - 35, height 5 feet 9, weight 150, perfect model, handsome, attractive, a little peach, full of fun, good health, black hair, dark eyes, of noble parentage highly respected, industrious, intelli- gent, stylish, honest Yankee.” An- other says he is “‘a brunette gentle- man,” and a third begs the “girls” to write to him, for he “wants to get married the worst way.” Among so many desirable and “handsome young men of honor,” altogether too numeroug to be convincing, it is an agreeable surprise to find a Minne- sota applicant frankly stating: “I am “Jolly | Cloyed with this su- | ingland female and is | “no flirts, dudes or drunk- | but a few unexpectedly confess | following | one man, who is searching | following | Efficiency of Swiss Army, Relation of Nation to U. S. school, and begins learning the ele- ments of the soldier drill on the school-house playground. Long be- fore he is old enough to be called upon for service he has learned to do the annual exercise and to go throuzn “Nowhere else in the world has the art of self-defense better adjusted it- self to geographical conditions than in the little Republic of Switzerland,” says a bulletin of the National Geo- graphic Society. “While the subject of national pre- paredness holds such a large place in the minds of the American people, it becomes of value to study the remark- able system the Swiss people have evolved—a system fitted to national ideals which do not accept the doc- trines of militarism on the one hand, and which reject the doctrines of pbeace at any price on the other. The Swiss system is particularly interest- | ing to Americans because of the kin- dred theories of government in Swit- zerland and the United States, the similar aspirations of their people, and the close relationship of thelr needs. “Although they have democratic tendencies stronger than our nwn, al- though they believe in local self-gov- | ernment perhaps more thoroughly | than we do, and although they possess | a very deep conviction that central authority must not encroach upon the rights of the cantons, the people of | Switzerland haye made themselves a | nation under arms, yet a nation w | out the slightest thought of adding a foot to its territory or of disturbing | that peace whose blessing it Iloves “ and appreciates. | “There is nothing in Switzerland cor- | responding to a regular army. One might hunt for months around the i | i | | him for a soldier. ! “When a boy reaches 17 years he is | liable to service—a liability which | continues until he is 50 years of age. | Even after that he may be hable, | if he is capable of doing any other work than soldiering, such as acting as baker or veterinary surgeon. | “Yet with all of this universal train- | ing, the only people in Switzerland who make arms an exclusive pro- | fession are the Commander-in Cinef, selected by the Federal Assembly, | and the General Staff. These form the brains of the army. The rank and file belong to the cantons just as the militia to do the state in this country. “At the age of 20 every able-bodied Swiss youth becomes a unit in the first line. During the first liability he must serve vear he is called to the standard. Service in the first line continucs un- 32. Thereafter he becomes a unit in the Landwehr of First Reserve, 'n which he remaing until he is 44. He must give 9 days of service during each four years that he belangs to the Landwehr. From 44 to 50, he serves in the Landstrum or Second Reserve. more, and 11 days for each successive | til the citizen has reached the age of | country without finding one man whose profession .is military; yet al- most as hard would it be to Jiscover | one able-bodied citizen who has not | had some soldier training. | “While Switzerland has a tion smaller than that of Ma: setts with an area twice as large, can mobilize 240,000 men in 24 hours. On the same basis, the United States could put 8,000,009 men into the fleld, though of course it would take longer to get them tn cen- tral points of mobilization. 3ehin 1 a field army of 240,000 the Swiss have a reserve of equal proportions. The United States could under the Swiss system, have a trained army of citi- zens reaching a grand total of 16, 000,000 men of all arms. Under that standard we would have 160 trained men from every town of 1,000 popu- lation; while a county of 30,600 in- habitants could thus send 2,400 men to the front and hold as many mcre in reserve. | “There is no soldiery in the miii- tary world costing as little per man as the Swiss. “This difference arises from the fact that the army of the Swiss Confed- eration is in truth a citizen armyv. 1t is organized on what has been cal- led the ‘voluntary compulsory’ s tem, to which the Swiss people have freely resigned themselves in order to guarantee the independence of their country. “The Swiss boy, at the age of is put into the gymnastic class “Rich and poor serve side by in the Swiss army, of the ‘crack’ regiment idea to found. There is only one and he is picked from a nation of soldiers; nor is his remuneration lordly, for his salary is only $10 a day. The caste system has not been mitted to creep into the Swiss army, for the very essence of the Swiss mili- tary idea is that all men start from the scratch, and that brain and abil- ity must win the race. very commune in Switzerland is required by federal law to malntain, at public expense, a safe and suitable target range of not less than 1,000 feet. he nopula- it | | ‘ to use this range free of charge. each club for each member doing a prescribed amount of shooting during | the year. The annual number of shots fired in target practice in the ed nearly 30.000,000 rounds, two- thirds of which practice is done by the shooting clubs. “Though surrounded on all sides bellizerent millions, whose inter- ests might be served by asking her to step out of their paths, land today by prepared to maintain her neutralify such a price for them that none the nations at war can afford to pay for their violation.” |SMALL ARMY'S DAY o, at not one of these ‘ever-so-nice’ fellows we read about and do not expect to marry an angel.” Perhaps he was saved by the recollection of the say- ing of a satirical philosopher that the | human race consists of so many m.illions, “mostly fools.” “Be Prepared” (Waterbury Republican.) According to a press letter from ; London, a curlous survival of the martinet spirit of the old army ap- peared during the recent visit of the king to the British troops in France, when an order was issued that the | officers should appear with swords | during the royal review. It was a | costly order for the voung officers, as | few were provided with swords, which | are the mest expensive part of a kit. Swords are obsolete as part of an of- ficer's equipment in the field, and many officers left them at home when they went to the front. A small ' | bamboo canc has taken the place of 2 P d | In anticipation of the royal review, [ %85 of 8 private nature. Gengral | an order was issued at the headquar- | \vood paid a short visit to the Quin- nipiack club where he was given a [ters by France for all officers fo DIPIACK | provide themselves with swords. This ;f‘;f‘lte‘::‘ and met a number of the Maj. General Makes Strong Plea for Military Preparedness New Haven, Dec. 28.—Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood was the guest of ! honor at a dinner given under the | auspices of the Economic club of New Haven in the ball room of the Taft last evening, when he spoke on the subject of “The Army as an Agency for Peace.” General Wood left for New York by the train leaving ‘here a few minutes after 1 o’clock this niorning. side | and there is none | | veneral, | per- | All legally organized shooting ' clubs of the commune have, the right | The government gives 60 cents a year to | army and in the shooting clubs reach- | Switzer- | stands an island of peace | in a sea of war, because she has been | and her freedom, or at least ‘o cxact | of | PAST SAYS W00D | in this countr: | the physicians must be organized into | training | who would serve without pay, When he had concluded his address | ‘McMILLAN S NEW BRITAIN'S BIG BUSY STORE - THE SALE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR much of the drill that afterward fits | RIGHT AFTER € HRISTMAS EVERY YEAR WE BEGIN OUR ANNUAL MARK DOWN SALE In the COAT and SUIT DEPT. Bargains this year will be greater _ than ever before, because we feel in a generous mood after having such a fine Christmas business. CHILDREN’S COATS Marked Down WOMEN’S COATS Marked Down WOMEN’S DRESSES Marked Down FUR COATS Marked Down FUR MUFFS Marked Down - SEPARATE SKIRTS - | Marked Down RAINCOATS Marked Down In fact, everything in our J& to-Wear Department has now a Ma Down Ticket. Comg for the Bar- gains. We are ready. D. McMILLAN STRERT | 149-201-207 MAIN be ready and prepared to give mili- tary service when required, one of which was the establishing of reserve forces, in which men would be ble to service for two or three years [ only. The college batteries, he would | use as an element of this military or- | ganization, and he would place the | 40,000 men in these college ranks - | der officers of the army to standard- ize the course of instruction. He | praised the work of the business men and students at the summer camps, and advocated organizing all univer- sity men into camps as regular ad- | juncts of this army which he would crganize. The more strictly mili- tary colleges would furnish their con- tingents to the general army. He advocated the teaching of military history and the policy, technique, fleld engineering and sanitation s at the universities such as is provided in the two-year course at Harvard. The army would obtain a limitiess supply of material from the athletic types of men, and from these two sources, the university and strictly military ecol- leges, it would be possible to obtain 10,000 men each year, a body of men only as a duty to the nation - The time of small armies has gone by, he saild, and we must train here gigantic armies. Even Red Cross educates units. ite men The nation, that best in military and practice is the nation plece of antiquated etiquet fell heav- | ily on the purses of the subalterns. ' Pleads for Preparedness The vote means also to fight and | The king. on account of falling from | his horse, was unable to revlew his as suffrage is the foundation of the | | troops. after all, and it is said that government the obligation of suf- the king would have been the la frage is to bear arms. This was the man in England to place this heavy burden of the talk of Major General tax on his officers for the sake of Wood. General Wood's talk was | mere form, had he known of the or- |strong plea for military preparedness | | der. for its physical, and moral enrich- | Moral: Alwavs have an extra dress ment to the citizens of the United | shirt and the “fixings” ready for im- States. He pleaded that every boy | mediate use. -|should be taught at an early age {that he has a soldier’s obligation to his country, and argued that a strong and well-organized military system would make the nation better phy- | | sically, would reduce the amount of crime, and finally would provide a | basic resource for the country against {any invasion or conflict. He pointed | to the military system of Switzerland and even of Australia, a union-labor governed country, where boys begin Ive y Jope°k- | training at twelve years, and at eight- Noah was 600 years old before he knew how to build an ark—don’t | lose your grip—Elbert Hubbard. ! LEFT $1.490,371 ESTATFE. Wife of John D. Rockefeller, Died Last March. New York, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Laura | : 8. Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rock- | efeller, who died last March, |cen years reach the state of military estate valued at $1.490,371, accord- |training ,where the Swiss boy ori- mx tt:] U':’e :'D?rs‘!fl' tf"?d vesterday in | ginally started. We may prate, he said, e surrogate’s court. about our undeveloped military re- The bulk of the estate as anncunced jsources, but they are as an unde- when the will was probated, goes tn |yeloped gold mine in Wall street of charitable and educational institu- |jittle value until formulated into tions. The estate consists mainly of | definite organizations. railroad bonds and does not include He deprecated the volunteer sys- any stock in the Standard Oil com- |tem, saying that it had never really panies. served the country in time of trouble Mrs. Rockefeller's wedding ring. | Our present war system amounts to which she bequeathed to her son. |nothing, he said, a cry for volunteers John D. Rockefeller, jr., is appraised | who never respond in sufficient num- at three dollars. Her most valuablna | bers, when we get into trouble. There- plece of jewelry, a dlamond chain. |fore, he would have a military sys- valued at $12,000 goes to her dauzh- |tem enforced and he pleaded strong- ' | ter, Mrs. Bdith McCormick. Tha |1y in his speech for the formation most valuable piece of wearing appar- |of the state militia into a big federal el listed in the appraisal is a sea! |army, under federal control coat and muff valued at $150. it Means of Mobilizing. teen suits are appraised at $300 and He suggested certain means of mo- ten hats at $50. bilizing this army of men who shall Who | may be, | who come | well | but | felt { become efficient; which will best prepare (itself, He concluded his talk by saying that we | are living in a nation where whatever our own ideals about preparednes: we owe something to' thoae, after us in fortifying ou.. selves with military preparedness, Under Restrictions. Before starting for the train Gen® eral Wood in an interview saiththat like all military men, he was in a pos- | ition that he must not talk for publi- cation and this fact was perfectly understood. CGeneral Wood was asked if there i had heen an objection on the part of the national guard to drilling with the students at manocuvres. He sald, that he had heard of such objections it had been in solitary instances. General Wood said that he belle that the men of the National Guard that when a man goes into a training camp how difficult it is vo but they ultimately became supporters of them wherthey acquired the knowledge that wi given at these training camps. FISHER FOR MAYOR Middletown, 28.—Prgfess Willard C. Fisher can didate for governor twice democratic mayor of Middle. town, wae last night nominated f mayor by the Democrats in their cn cus. There was no oppositiog, hi name bheing the only one presentd The nomination comes to Profess Fisher unsought, as he Ixs been of town since last October, when went to his old home in Westeri N. Y. Dec progressive last year, an "