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much stock in the Had Wilson be guilty he would have been impeached fanatics took Colonel’s charge. BRITAIN HERALD ALD PUBLISHING GOMPANY. Proprietors. daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. [ 107& ago. Herald Bullding. 67 Church St . aturally Col Roosevelt comes in for a rebuke at the hands of the Senate He could he said In that good d at the Post Office at New Britaln a3 Second Class Mall Matter. investigating committee, 94 by carriors to any part of tne ity | not substantiate 15 Cents = Week, 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mall Payable In advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year. anything Wilson is like It is easy enough to substantiate The making against President respect the Colonel a many other people. nly profitable advertising medium 1n city. Circulation books and press Toom always oven to advertizers. to make charges; them is yet another matter. Colonel's one best bet charges, and he bas a lot of imitators. The finding of this committee that looked into the whole affair was noth- ing more than expected. No of the TUnited States government would aet in the interest of foreign ship owners in a period like this, no matter how corrupt he might be, matter how depraved. Wisdom would is lerald will be found on sale at Hota- News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- P, New York City:; Board Walk, tlaotic City and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Difice official HIGH COST OF LIVING,—AND DYING. - some years past the prices at- | no save him. To even think that a presi- i | dent of the United States would do asce: scale until to- | ¢ ally ascended lhfle scal | e e he gentle art of living has be- = B mewhat burden even to | Colonel Roosevelt deserves the con- B R demnation he gets at hands of . i boiche ncbae | Dt it repert ovhich B ortarer hove o ted their | Pukes him for his “slanderous attack = ; ik the highest ot bis Eov— as expen- | 3 ; i | ernment.” The Colonel set a bad ex- o die as it is to live. While he is the N BX oM edical ?'““"“ ‘:" y | “nyphenates.” as he calls them, and fees allotted | 4onouncing nis feliows for their d d to the necessaries of life have a reason. of a : laden the Justly upon officer 5 so that is almost Now comes ample. out flaying leatened incr in P | loyalty to this government it would e time immemorable the doctor B e | be i the ) Because his one greatest po- who has been underpaid. nature of his not icians. well were he to profes- The it so. one man of GG [ litical opponent sits in the executive workimade mansion is no particular reason that the Colonel shovld him with and every under the upposed to be paid, and, in | charg cases he is not paid, high rates. | .o.con crime br is he looked upon as the good life fellow of dise skies. Especially is this so when the | devoted | Colonel cannot prove a word he ut- man, to well that others If | fited hy the Colonel’s mistake. his | His whole of itan. King care his ters. It were pro- is ever any one wedded to is the ul | e he tic, good, g, sincere, physician. A wonde NEVER SAY From debates taking place in con- gress it looks as if something might be done in the nature of forbidding their seas on ships must have,—kindly, sym: | DIE gentle, That is the . He must be willing to do more his sha at of gh sac- gracious, | human. American citizens to exercise rights to travel the high 1z to O’Gorman of New contended that it r before him,—visit the sick. And for the lamented imes he must bury the dead,— | McNeeley to have sailed on a belli bad. But ever and anon the doc- | ent ship. Straightwith ust be up and doing. And, be- | Lodgse of Massachusetts unburdened | of this irregularity in his life, | himself with this declaration:— For the United States to its citizens not to travel on the senger ships of any nation with which this country is on terms of peace would be tantamount to mak- ing it an ally of one of the powers at war.” re Out of bed all night, storm the he must race the belor any of the belligerents. York was the to answer Senator - Never must he complain. ye eat corporal work of mercy | terday not necessary Consul Senator se he is going night and day, ing here, advising there. missing od things of life, seldom having ent to himself, the doctor imes very negligent about send- is bill. Or, if he does send his o one pays any attention to it. | There is no reason pay the doctor? We must pay | Why citizens bnt, and the grocery bill, and the Should not haberdashery | the ships of nations which el e are not at Especially so when we have the sacred is urge pas- is in the world the United States be allowed of to travel on we owe at the with we We s and other places. But when bach the doctor's sanctum sanc- | the Austrian government to the eif- we are exempt from | fect thati— The doctor is a kind- | “The Imperial s way into | war., is this word of h we feel nnoyance. and Royal govern- | ment can also substantially concur in the principal, * * * * that private the good, the bad, the | shipg, insofar as they do not flee crent, and, knowing, he forgets | offer registance, may not be de- orgives its discrepancies. | stroyed without the persons aboard have banded | D¢IP& brought into safet or the p { German pledge that: “Liners will not protection. | be sunk by our submarines without going to advance the prices | warning and without safety the At that i of the passenge the L to take this assertion seriously. | The doctors will forget all about | omorrow. Even if they do raise ate they will 1. He knows human nature in form: now the doctors er for their own are SF provided escape or eir services. least If pledges of this kind are violated it is up to the offending nations to | | make reparation, not to outraged cit- | | izens “~ | because international law I8 | broken, Granted it is always figure them- | on board neutral ve : G | what guar- p lucky if they can get five. They | antee has anyone that these not enforce i ; { Cucel ) on to sacrifice their rights has afer to travel n merely They have no protec- been ters not if their fee the; els, ships will It would | not be treated in the same manner as to spoil their life-work by | those of bhelligerent natior here charging of exorbitant fees, } show that the hey will n Not if they live up | Norway, Sweden, traditions of the profession. Of e there are a few who get a lot | joney orking for humanity. c. Records countries of Denmark Hol- land already have lost as many ships by subma attack as England ome of these ships have been | within the thr. candanavian guarantee if nations neutral and 1e out of the medical profes- | but these are very few and far ben. They are the on e very wealtl | | sunk e the mile limit of who cater coast. There <an the throw be members of the | no or one way other unity- And as the poor in spirit | reality are far numerous | the rich, it follows as the night that doctors are not going to choose to law to the four winds and do as they please on the high The truth of the matter is, it is not safe to travel on | any ship that wends its way into the “war zone,” whether that ship belongs to a neutral or a belligerent nation. But this shouid not be the case. The bigh seas arc property of the United States as they are the property of England, Germany, Aus- tric the | 45 of | mo nation, more seas. ery far with an advance in rates. too bad they cannot, for, if ever n lived who deserved all his fel- | men could give him in the way | B lurment it as much the 3 the doctor. Long he practice. [ DID Yor “sELL our” Hungary, or any nation on earth. of fact, they belong to Henry Cabot Lodge, the scholarly senator from the Bay State, pw, what a matter ge made fics that Wilson ptary of State Bryan “sold out’ | IS an authority ngland when they advocated the | He American citi- Lge of the ship purchase bill last | Zen is at liberty to travel on any pe senger ship traveling the high seas. has to happened publicly by a scion President and cn international law. contends that an 2 The exact manner in which the uated that the ident and his supporters had “en- ored interest of certain fen business firms to secure for d States the power to pur- e the interned ships of one of the These the the any outlaw nation ana destroys that giving the their lives, should made to answer for its crime. The United too big and steps in the br. ship passengers e was framed insi without first in the a chance for that nation be Unit States government is gerent were words majestic to sacrifice thoe rights of its citizens for ainy nation an | earth. It is not likely the gress of the United States will ordain that these rights be yielded no mat- ter what the outcome. From pres- sent inclination the senators are heodore. Yesterday senate d minority and the that the both the fority rov committes of kstication charges and } upanimous the whole a fabrication of the first water. into these y declared con- | countr NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916. To begin with only a few wild eved meh, for the most part, to stand be- hind the president of the United States And, if be sure of the in the stand he has taken. they do this they of man. may Ame citizens to the The Americans support last never when cringe any tribe, gang, or motley gathering, or before Not while we lecok back upon such names as George Washington, Davy Crockett, Sheridan, Grant, host of others upheld the Stars and Stripes. can a will come will before any nation, Taylor and a who EDITORIAL REPRINT INHERALD REBUKED Exception T&&x to Article of Dec. 94 Entitled, “As to Med- ical Freedom” the Editor of the New Britain Herald. sir:—Is it not rather curious that the New Britain Herald should re- print from a weekly paper published at Lemar, Mo, a heated defense of “the regular school of medicine” from the c e of attempting to abridge the rights of the people to medical freedom? And is it not also strange that such a defense included a gibe at “Ch 1 Science healers?” Medical freedom is nothing more or less than the right of every citizen to choose any known method for the prevention or cure of disease, and the right to have the aid, if he so desires, of a practitioner of that system. For any one to deny that the regular “hool of medicine has been trying to it off this right is a foolish denial ¢ evident facts. Within the last bills which were calculated to this right were introduced into the legislatures of New Hamp shire, West inia, Minnesota, and other states. In every one of th states these bills were supported by regular doctors, and in several of them they were openly backed by medical societies subsidiary to the American Medical association. No longer ago than last April the Journal of the American Medical as- sociation published and widely a tributed an editorial in which the claim was made that no one should be allowed to practice any method of healing who could not malke a physical disease. This editorial To o year, | “Without a correct diagnosis, any fo of treatment is guesswork.” The e dent purpose of this statement was to ; the efficacy of any curative not on ph; i It was med at the practice stian Science, which was specifically ..amed. The logical conclusion, however, from the premise in question is that medi- | cal treatment is guesswork, for it is based on physical diagnosis and diag- nosis is uncertain under the most favorable conditions. The recently published statistics in the 3,000 patients at the Ma General hospital, in which condition discovered .by post-mortem exami tions were compared with diagnosi made by the hospital staff, showed that the diagnoses were mistaken in 461 per cent: of the cases. It has been pertinently observed, “This o curred in one of the leading hospitals of the country, where all available American Medical association ypears to be dominated by that part of its membership which aims to com - pel all citizens to employ the regular of medicine, or the schools which it may be disposed or .4 to share a monopoly. The so- ailed campaign of education now conducted by this association does not usually deny that such legislation is sought, but tries to justify it. As a c n public man has said, the ad- vocates of medical monopoly try to justify it by clothing it in the gar- ments of an alleged public necessi I am glad to say, however, that the regular school of medici is not unanimous in either clamoring for, or even wishing to obtain, legislation which would abridge the right of ev, citizen to medical freedom. A considerable part of the medical pro- fession recognizes the fact that no stem of medicine is safe and certain it were, it would not need to be im- posed on the public by statutes; and since no system of medicine is safe and certain enough to get a monopoly by the natural law of supply and de- mand, an artificial monopoly for it would be a monstrous violation of human rights. There are other con- siderations which emphasize thi~ point of view, not the least among which is the fact that the practice of Christian Science is the practice of the Christian religion as it was taugh and exemplified by Jesus Christ, and the further fact that this method often succeeds where material medicine has failed Yours truly, CL{FFORD P. SMITH. Jan. 1, 1916. Boston, M FACTS AND ANCIES. What if after all this dreadful note of preparation Colonel House does nothing at all?—Philadelphia Ledger. othing less than a State Commis- on on Hens will ever be able to dis- cover why Lady Eglantine is worth a hundred thousand dollars, while other hens are worth only about eight, even cents for the pot— Rochester Herald. The decision of sity ive ten schol tudent from ew Yor Uni rships each Latin-American lead to si ir action the part other institutions. Tt is an excellent way by which closer relations between the United States may on of and the southern republics can be cultivated.—Buffalo Courier. enough to be a natural monopoly; if | [ American chambers of commerce, by K. M. Sturges. “Shows their development in the United States, with particular refer- ence to their modern functions as civic organizations. Does not pre- tend to cover all des of the sub- ject but, through its full footnotes and biolography to point the way to further stud David A. Wells prize essay, Williams College.’—A. L. A. Booklist. Escape and other essays, by Benson. “These essays were written in time of peace and the author questioned the propriety of publishing them now. “Is it right, is it decent, to unfold an old picture of peace be- fore the eyes of those who have had to look into chaos and destruction? And he answers his own question: “Yes, I believe that it is right wholesome to do this, because the most treacherous and cowardly thing we can do is to disbelieve in life. Those old dreams and visions were true enough, and they will be true again.”—Book Review Digest. * % ow Flower of youth: poems in war time, by Katherine Bynan Hinkson. * oo by A, C. Laughing man. “ ‘The laughing muse’ inuse, Arthur Guiter- 00D ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK | earlier and | | Anvil of chance, by G. Chittenden. is, indeed, that rare thing— a collection of humorous verse that really repavrs reading. Mostly his themes are of New York. though not of New York Narrowly interpreted.’ "’'—Springfield Republican. ® * % Haymarket theater, some records and reminiscences, by Cyril and Ralph Maude. * Jesus, a passion mann. “TI read it with its technical workmanship high poetic value.”—Bliss Perry. “I have enjoyed this portrayal of the human de of the last week in the life of Jesus.”—Dr. O. S. Davlis, lP!‘e‘Sidcn! Chicago Theological Sem- inary. * play, * by Max Ehr- keen appreciation of its * % s My year of the great war, by Fred- erick Palmer. | dies and and | “Deals with the human element; the chapters on the British navy are specially interesting. Author was the only official representative of the American press with the British army in Francé. Frankly sympathetic for the Allies, and optimistic about their final success.”—A. L. A. Booklist. B Partitions of Poland, by Lord Eve ley. “A careful historical study of the three partitions of 1772, 1793, and 1795. The final chapter, “The Poles under three masters,” brings the his- * a glimpse into the future. The l('hor has done his work with insight and distinction Saturday Review. * o+ Peg along, by Walton. “Humorous. pointed little talk with many illustrations from exp ience and observation, in each of which Dr. Walton projects a maxim to ald invalids, fretters and fussers to overcome care. anxiety, fretting. fear, etc., and thus to ‘peg along’ more happily and healthily. A good companion to “Why worry.” "—Wis consin Library Bulletin. o * Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad, by M. T. Boardman. “With a foreward by Woodrow Wilson. A history of the American Red Cross work since Miss Boardman became the chairman of the National Relief Roard. describing work at home and abroad at the time of the Chinese famine, Philippine ty- phoon. Messina earthquake and other ! great di the Furopean War began. Booklist. —A. L. A, CEE Y Voyares of Captain Scott, by Charle Turley. “This book., which has been wyritten at the instance of Lady Scott, Is In effect a hiography, and very largely an autobiography. of Captain Scott. As far as possible, the author has d the story of his life, and in par- his two famous expedi- s to the Antarctic, in Captain Scott's own word.”"—Publisher’s note. PR We discover New England, by L. C. Hale. Mrs. | the sultan, tory down to the present war, with | au- | Rivit in | cording sters. as well as work since ; | Wells; | Thompson; “A lively, diverting narrative of a motor trip taken by the writer and at war, by Kipling; Socialized the illustrator, from New York through the Berkshires to Lake Champlain, east to the White Moun- tains and down the coast from Port- land to the sound. Places and | scenes figure less importantly than | the humorous incidents of the road. —A. L. A. Booklist. v o ‘What ought I to Trumbull Ladd. “A thorough inquiry into the na- ture and kinds of virtue and the sanction aims and values of the moral life. The Yale Review sa; “We find the same critical acumen, the same balanced judgment, the same masterly handling of material, the same manifest desire to be help- ful to those struggling with the per- plexities of the problem” as in the book, what can I know.” A. Booklist. * % Fiction, . do? by Geor;;»k —A. L. * “The book bears the marks of youth, especially a certain rather conscious cleverness in the dialogue. But the central character is drawn with real insight and the story is thought-provoking.”—Nation. .o Closed doors, by Montague. “Appealing stories of children written out of intimate experience in a school for the blind and deaf. “And because she has the power to see and construct and is in no mood to pho- tograph or to complain, she finds the essential drama of the human soul still bravely enacted behind blind | eyes and deaf ears.’—Dr. R. H. Ca- bot.” . .ok Co-citizens, by Mrs. Corra Harris. “A distinctly humorous tale hurle quing the situation in a sleepy sou- thern town when its richest woman leaves her fortune to the Co-Citizen’s Foundation Fund, an as- sociation for the furtherance of the suffrage cause.”—Open Shelf, Cleva- land. . H. R., by Edwin Lefevre. “Quite amusing and altogether ard entirely preposterous, the apotheosis of unique advertising. H. R. was bank clerk, “the trouble he was not in be- ing a bank clerk, but in being a clerk in a bank that wanted him to be nothing but a bank clerk.”—A. L. A Booklist. * X % ox Princess Cecilia, by E. H Davis. “An entertaining novel with a com- ic opera plot. Sam Riddle seeks ad- venture by taking orvice as poet laureate to a sultan of a semi-inde- pendent Philippine isle. They borh fall in love with the same girl and spurned, plans revenge, but his plot is foiled after much ex- citement, and all ends well.”"—A. L. A. Booklist. P grandfather’s neck, by J. Ca- ® bell. “The title comes from Andersen’s story of the China shepherdess and the chimney-sweep, and of the old nodding Chinaman who was never able to nod again after he had been broken in two and rivited together. Then its application to this story of the passing South—and that is not so easy. The rivet that holds the old South together seems to be a stiffnecked loyalty to its best tradi- tions.”—Book Review Digest. Library Notes. The 18 most popular novels, ac- to the Publisher's Weekly are the following, arranged in order of popularity: Michael O’Halloran, by Stratton Porter; Dear Enemy, by Webster; Felix O’'Day, by Smith: “K.” by Rinehart; Beltane the Smith, by Farnol; Heart of the sunset, by Beach; Grey Dawn, by White; Money master, by Parker; Far country, Churchill; Story of Julia Page, Norris; Research magnificent, \ Fortunes of Garin, by John- ston; Pollyanna grows up, by Porte Eltham House, by Ward; Prudence of the Parsonage, by Hueston; Mr. B gle, by McCutcheon; Rainbow Trail. by Grey. The best-selling tion were: Life of Thayer; Eat and grow thin, by I accuse! (J'accuse,) ar nonymous; The Pentecost of calami. by Wister; When a man comes <o himself, by Wilson; My year of the great war, by Palmer; The Hilltop on the Marne, by Aldrich; Spoon River anthology, by Masters; France Ge: books of John Hay, by non-fic- many, by Howe. Formerly Garden Land, Now Dreary Marsh | Washington, D. ¢, Jan. 6.—'"The country between Bagdad and Basra on the Tigris, in which stretch of Mesa- potamia the British and the Turks have on: a varying campaign months is as cheerless as any that could be imagined dreary, flat | sunglazed plains and vast desolate expeditionaries carried for war geography just given out by the National Geographic society. ‘“The Tigris pursues a lazy course through these tedious lowlands. To the right and left stretch barren plains of baked clay as far as the eye can reach, of- fering no advantage for defense, The red-choked swamps lie between, while the dull brown Arab villages straggle through plain and swamp alike, with indifferent impartiality as to the disadvantages of both. “World-wearied flocks and occasion- al Arabs constitute the sole like of the lower Tigris plaiu. The chimmer- ing heat frets the clay soi! with deep cracks in every direction, and makes the thick yellow river appear like a stream of molten mectal- This is the southern end of Mesopotamia, down | to the Junction of the Tigris and the | swamps,” according to a statement on Euphrates at Shat-el-Arab, whence mile after mile of dreary marsh takes the place of the dr plains. Throughout the marsh-coun- try, communication between villages is carried on by m of rush boat In the springtime of Mesopotami: history, it was all a garden land, country compelling the strange miration for its fruitfulness beauty. “Kut-el-Amara, well down the river, was at least for this region, a thriving port before the war, and large ship- ments of grain wers sent from here. This surplus grain was grown in abundance somewhere on the appar- ently arid plains. which if irrigated once more as in ancient times, might be an agricultural supply spot for the leading markets of the world. The old canals, which carriei water to the plains, have fallen into decay, and, in most cases, their markings have been leveled by time beyond all recogni- tion. Basra lies ahout five hours by boat below the junction of the two | rivers, and it has leen the principal port of lower Mesopotamia for cen- turies. Today, this city forms the base of the British expedition, the McMI LLAN’S New Britain’s Busiest Big Store — Always Reliable. [} OUR ANNUAL MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALEY NOW GOING ON The Sale you have beenwaiting for. The time to buy . is right now. Big reductions in all departments. . - ) A Saving on Raincoats ! ... All marked down for this sale. $10.98 and $9.98 Raincoats, NOW ...........$7.98 each . 7.98 Raincoats 5.98 Raincoats, 3.98 and 3.49 Raincoats, UMBRELLAS Marked Down. Don’t be without an Um- brella when you can buy them at such prices. Men’s, Women's and Children’s. Sale prices 47c, 69c, 90c. NEMO CORSETS Broken assortment of sizes at a reduction. NOW . 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One night an ardent lover called on the darling of his heart and =o en- grossed was he in looking into her beautiful brown eyes that he didn't see that the happy hours were rapidly flitting away. “Bessle,” shouted a large, masterful voice at the head of the stairs when the clock struck 12, “you tell t pale-haired, rail-faced, knock-kneed vap to take his hat and beat it or I will flam him so high that he will meet the airships coming down.” “Percy, dear,” said the fair girl, turning to the emaciated youth. “Yes, darling,” vesponded signs, Percy i ce 193-201-203_ HMAIN STREET prominently in Bryan’s first campaign for President, has been chloroformed by its owner. At the time Bryan made his first race for President Mr. Berridge was so confident Bryan would win that he prepared Maud fop’ a long trip after congr: to Washington, where, tulating Bryan on his suc- Berridge intended to present | the animal to him. dear, moving a step nearer the idol of | his fancy, “What is it?"” “Something seems to tell me, dear- est,” answered the pretty one with a sad sigh, “that you h-.d better go.” The Mule “Maud” Is Dead. Petersburg (Ind.) Dispatch to Phila, Inquirer.) Maud, aged 42, the famous mule or Saloniki of fighting in the south.” owned by W. R. Berridge, who figured At that years old, Maud abol® an was defeated, b Berridge s0 confident of Bryan's uitimate success that he said he wougd keep the animal alive until Bryan be= came President of the United States. Again in 1908 he made all arrange- ments for the trip. Maud was then 34 years old, but was hale and hea Again her owner was doomed to dis appointment. Not daunted, Berridge 11 had faith in his idol, but after van’s resignation from the cabinet Maud seemed to become despondenti Her decline was rapid. time Br) was was 23 om for Congress. (Collier's Weekly.) One sentence in the President’s re- cent message ought to be burned into the ry conssclousness of every coagress. s t is clear is that the industry of neration should pay the bills of { this generation.