New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD,' WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1916. JEW BRITAIN diRAL HERALD PUBLISAING COMPANTY. Propriators. ISsued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. &t Hermld Buildin; 87 Church St Entered at the %3 Secon. Post Office at New Britaln Class - Mall Matter. [Deliverea by carriors to any part of_tne city for 15 Cents 2 Weck, 65 Cents a Month. Bscriptions for paper to be sent by mall Payable in advance, 60 Cents & Month, $7.00 a year [fhe only profitable advertistng medium in the oity Circulation booke and press Toom always open to advertlsers. jfhe Herald win ve founa on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42na St and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk Atlactic City and Hertford depot TELEPHONE CALLS. fusiness ofice .. dizcrial Rooms 25 THE NEW LEADER. New Britain will soon be the pational limelight. Why? Because a andidate for the’ presidential nomi- ation of the republican in party bout to launch his boom here. Who ¢ he? None other than Henry D. stabrook. You don’'t know him? fever heard of Well, ‘ou are not on his mailing list. Y e has such a thing, and twenty-tw keep his political iends informed as to his greatness. e is a big man. e says so himself. is him ? o 'pewriters to Claiming to be a “Speak for Yourself, John” fame, enry grasps that prerogative. He plieves in it. If the proletariat know bt of your greatness, inform them. he is on his way to New Britain let us in on the secret, to show us © personality and expound the prin- ples of Henry D. Estabrook. In the good old days when men ew tall, and great, the typewriter ks an unknown quantity. Then it hs that presidential candidates were osen by the people for the simple son the people knew the man of choice stood head and shoulders his fellow men. Now, all is ferent. With a nation grown large bn have become small. The only y in which they can attract atten- In is by a blare of trumpets or a hking of typewriter keys. Instead the people telling how great a man | he man must now tell the people great he is. That is why Henry Estabrook must perforce adopt his sent methods. He is but a victim ircumstances. nd yet.it is a sorry sight. It is blorable that such a condition must —that men should perforce be Jir own press agents. Any financial paign of this sort is despicable. s the thing that has already killed | ator Weeks, even before his boom | under way. _The. hired press| ts and ananynious boosters do not | hand in hand with greatness. Mr. | Jabrook has adopted as his cam- fn motto, “Protection, Prosperity | Preparedness.” His press agents ! him forth, in a book on the sub- | as “The New Leader.” They 1d have added “Of What?" CAPITULATION OF OLONE” DAVIS. bxans will blush for very shame | he “Cy- " Davis who, because his wife after him, abandoned the rule of etime and has decided to don &n e collar hereafter when he ap- s in tne House of Representa- at Washington. What may we ct next? Probably he will be promenading down Pennsylvania ue attired in Prince Albert coat, and spats, mayhap, Heaven forbid. He i o} “0Y- complete surrender of silk hat ng a cane. es of re-election from a utafe gave us Joe Bailey, the avowed [gonist of the dress-suit. Old Joe never surrendered. adition with him. But now the Star state sports a representa- whose next move may be the donment of the tobacco-chewing and the rivaling of James Ham- Lewis as the fashion plate of fress. And all because he fell for leollar, the voke of civilization. s will never cease. . SPIRIT AND THE FLES is all very joyful to think along ines of Secretary of the Navy does not doubt for “we would receive ten ls who a ent that kand telegrams. from experienced offering their services to the navy hay after a declaration of war.” still farther, it is probable that Publed, prienced men” might rally to the But what amount to if it were gained in that even half a million would their experi- pld navy? The man who was d on a three-masted frigate has siness hobnobbing on a subma- no more than a mixer of paints a preside plumbing hent. Recruiting a navy Paniels’ scheme by an influx over a ex- under of ams offering services, Is some- Llike gotting together in 1916 the pion football ‘team of 1900. It pe done, and, if it could, the somehow would not amount to much. Time has played havoc with to see some of the treasures of Dutch Presidential timber. | scendant of the Puritan John Alden, | already done enough to ruin his ' Tradition | umber of such telegrams might | | the members of these old teams and the rules of the game nave changed. Aside from which, the spirit may be willing but the flesh,—well, the flesh, at best, is weak. It be in { training. Secretary would | realize better results if he got those ! men in the navy now instead of wait- ing for the day after a declaration of war. must ever Daniels “GENTLEMEN, CHOOSE YOUR GERMS.” To have loved and lost is better than not to have loved at all. By the same process, to have lived and died is better than not to have lived at all. And this despite the fact | Gwell even in the presence of disease- | 1nden bacteria, that we are prome to fall before the fighting forces of “Microbia.” For, we have ever the | Joy of escaping attack, and also of | listening to arguments put forth by the medical men. For proof positive of the delight of life we take the case who we must ! of the two Chicago physicians welll | have challenged each other to duel. ! And all because believes the human body should be bathed in oil, | and his opponent says soap and water | is the proper fluid. Let them go at it, tengs. fighting over their theories the world will benefit. And these are going to choose bacteria their weapons. One good little bacterium 1s Letter than all the muskets in ‘the world. And the outcome of this affair of honor will result in informing a waiting public whether open air street | cars are healthier than the closed | type. It seems that the doctor who, advocates the oil baths is also a great | one hammer and | men as believer in fresh air. Through his influence the street amd elevated | transportation companies of the ‘Windy City put on cars without win- dows. As a result, the wife of the doctor who stands by soap and water for bathing purposes, caught the grip while riding on what her husband elegantly terms the “fool” cars. If we are to learn the proper bathing fluid, something the world has been longing for since the old Roman baths went out of existence, if we are to be further enlightened on the rela- | tive value of fresh air, then, as diffi- | cult as we find it to condone duelling, | we say,—‘Gentlemen, choose your germs.” i In considering the effect of the European war upon the standards of | music, some of the British essa: are somewhat disposed to take a lugubrious view of the subject. They ' claim the war is leading to a general ' deterioration of taste in musical per- formances; that trashy music has been forced on the people in the nan of patriotism; that singers and pl ers are tolerated who, on their merit: have no right to appear, or ever ex- pect a hearing. It must be But what would happen if some dili- gent business firm shipped over a boatload of American rag-time.? awful. If there is any truth to the sug- gestion that the natural of late King Milan is about to be pro- claimed King of Serbia, at that country is in fin | This fellow bears the name of George Cristicz and he has been a wanderer of the world, appearing in the various roles of vaudeville actor, typewriter agent, and salesman automobile tires. He sheuld make a great Ruler. son the Belgrade, for a carecr. singer, ot fined and sentenced for writing a poem will get little sympathy from this magazine reading nation. Anything but poetry goes here. Lovers of literature will the loss of Miss Jeannette Gilder, who during the past half century, | tributed many gems to her art. i FACTS AND FANCIES. ‘Who put the fist in pacifist?” Who put spurs on the fighting doves in the ark of peace?—Philadelphia Ledger. con- When the Lusitania sinking is dis- | avowed, in black and white, and paid ! for, in gold, the Lusitania controversy will be over—Boston Journal. Mrs. Wilson must be a thoroughly domestic sort of person. At least her name disappeared from the news col- umns as soon as she became comfort- | ably settled in the White House.—— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. | Now that Percy D. Haughton has | Braves we'll probably have the am | teur faddists asking for a rule to bar | football coaches from participating in the profits of “summer baseball.”— | Binghamton Press, At last the British appear to have developed one good General. The man who successfully withdrew the | army from the Gallipoli should he | given a chance to show what he can ! do in organizing an advance.—Buf- | falo Express. Diplomatic humor—the American legation at The Hague welcomed the Fordites as private tourists and con- gratulated them on their opportunity Any time medical men get to | pest. The Swiss editor who was heavily | mourn | | purchased an interest in the Boston : painting and architecture.—Glovers- ville Herald. ! A Washington dispatch says that President Wilson will take the stump | and appeal to the people for approval | of his national defense plan. This | gives some weight to the hint that Mr. Wilson will have to depend on Re- publicans to p: the patriotic pre- paredness legislation now before Con- gress—Newburgh Journal. 1 Germany may win campaigns and ' conquer enemy territory. But she | cannot thus end the war or secure her future after the war. She will have to face crushing war conditions ever after she obtains peace. It will be vears after hostilities cease bhe- fore she can expect to recover from the economic as well as the military effects of the world struggle into which she over-confidently rushed.-- New York Tribune. One of the compensations of Lhis war to those not engaged in it is the stimulus given to their own activity and their ability to provide for thom- selves. It impresses, for one thing, the value to any nation of a concen- trated efficiency and economy in the production of the things for which its resources are fitted, and their ex- change in trade with other countries. This country was especially in need of the lesson and the spur to enter- se. Its capacity for providing its own wants is much greater | than the people have been wont to real Industries may well be more diversified and more nighly developed | not only to meet more completely { our own needs but to furnish the | means of obtaining at the lowest =ost | the articles furnished to better na- | vantage by other nations. We 1eed not be dependent upon others for ni- trates that can be drawn from the | | air or dves that come from the earth | | in a form that is abundant in our own | land.—New York Journal of Com- merce. ONE THE ADMINISTRATION MUFFED. Once more the effete East has been outdone by the wild and wooly West. ‘While New Britain has been trudging along with a self-complacent air, smug in its belief that it has accom- | plished something wonderful in the | erection of a municipal 1ce house, it has remained for San Antonio, Texas, to deliver a shock by the proposed construction of a municipal bat roost. There are bats and bats but the kir of bats San Antonio has decided to encourage is a winged creature, with an appetite for mosquitoes. San An- | tonio is suffering from these sharp- ! beaked ‘“night lark has been suffer- ing for years, in fact. But the citizens of that thriving south western city have decided to be revenged on the No more do they intend to spend restless nights listening to the harmony of the ‘skeeters. Nor do they intend to expend their energles vainly swatting at the unseen roe, | ! ambushed by the dark veil of night. Bats have been rushed to the rescue. Bats, be it known, eat mosquitoes for breakfast, dinner and supper. So a municipal bat roost has been decided on, although it has not been con- structed as yet. If the sporting editor were called upon suddenly to write this he would probably, through force of habit, put , down a mark for the local administra- tion in the error column. How the idea ever escaped the eagle brain of the administration is past comprehension. Here we have a municipal ice house, the top part of which could be nsed as a bat roost at no expense. The bats could be trained to advance on the city every night and exercise their jaws on the swarms of mosquitoes that flit hither and thither during the balmy summer evenings. And it wouldn’t cost a cent extra except for the purchase of the bats. A number of well known politicians could he pressed into service to act as nurses to the bats. They would feel per- fectly at home,—among friends, so (o speak. Then a bat commission could be appointed, thus affording the mayor an opportvnity to confer titles on some more of his friends. Wheth- |er it would be known as the com- i mission on bats or the commission of | bats could be left for later discus- sion. In the event that the ice house con- tinues to have a depressing effact on the citv treasury, the building might be offered for sale to San Antonio, for @ bat belfry. The bats would take | to it right away as they would recos- | nize in it a structure suited to fheir needs and accustomed to the demands made upon it by their two-loeged cousins. “Watch Your Sneeze.” (New Haven Journal-Courier.) | It is an important warning which | the health department of the city has issued for the protection of the gen- eral public. The loss of life during the month of December reached an alarming number, and justified the health commissioners in reminding the citizens that tne step from a hard cold to pneumonia is a short | one. and that current experience is | proving that the short step is apt to | be a fatal ome. It is only a few | days ago that the lfbrarian of Yale | University a man in the prime of life, i Mr. Schwab, was swept away as a | | consequence of that ailment. Word | "was received in this city a day or | two ago that the Rev. W. Herbert Hutchinson, rector of Trinity church, at Utica, New York, and well known | in this diocese as a former rector at St. Peter’s at Milford, met the same | tragic fate from the same tragic | cause. These are but conspicuous | examples of the danger which faces | us all, and, in warning us against it, | the board of health lives up to its hest | traditions. We are a proverbially | | careless peaple, fatalists to a certain extent, and we are less apt than many other peoples to give heed to the warnings of the educated and experi- enced, but with examples all yut us of the recklessness of human na- ture it is folly for us to thus tempt Providence. To paraphrase the warn- ing of the local board of health: A word to the wise is sufficient.” I | way they are as conservative as those ! sound is to have its ! sumes the prerogative of king mak- WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Simplified Spelling. (Manchester Herald.) There is no question that the pres- | ent spelling of English is absurd, in- convenient, etymologically inexact and orthographically exasperating. History can guide us little, for his- tory itself shows the most erratic al- terations in spelling from one cen- tury to another, and the question of which century modern people should elect to follow would be im- mediately answered in a dozen ways by as many people. The eighteenth century chose to hang a final k on the tail of many words of Latin or Greek origin now written by us as ending in c. ‘‘Historick” wrote the eighteenth century, and it was just as right or wrong, as we with our “historic.” Strictly and etymologic- ally both are incorrect and the word ought to be written ‘“historik” as feing from the Greek ‘‘historikos.” But on the other hand, against the simplified spellers it may with propriety be objected that they have not advanced any comprehensive ! and accurate scheme of phonetic spelling themselves. From the point of view of the true sound of tho word “wuz” is as absurd phonetic- ally as ‘“‘was.” Neither gives that peculiar sound in the English lan- guage which we donate in this word by a totally inadequate a, a vowel already staggering under the load of representing a great variety of dif- ferent sounds. Webster lists eight different sounds of a alone. The actual fact is that there be no thoroughgoing and accurate system of phonetic spelling for Eng- lish without the creation of a new alphabet, or if not quite that, the inauguration of several new char- acters. Simplified spellers must go the whole length or they mizht as well not do anything. It 1s not phonetic orthosraphy to use th ‘or both thin and the, as the sounds re- presented in each case by the same characterters are obviously dlfferent. Characters which will unmistakably mark this differentiation are re- quired in any valid system of phon- etics. The adherents of simplified spell- ing do not go far enough. In their: can | who advocate the retention of the Romantic orthography. There are twentyv-six letters in the English 'al- phabet saddled with the task of ex- pressing many more than twenty-six | distinctive sounds. Unless each distinctive pro- prietary sign it makes little difference how it is designated or what arbitra- ry combination of the limited number of characters now in use is employed to represent it. With the present Romanic alphabet only a few im- provements are possible and they are of minor importance. Before any ef- fective reform of English spelling can be carried out, the correct pronuncis tion of our words will have to be ¢ tablished. Orthoepy must precede fhonetic orthograph Kings for the Kingless. (New York Press.) From Rome has come the an- nouncement that the Austro-Ger- mans have hand-picked a new king for Serbia. He is described as an illegitimate son of the late King Milan. Milan was succceded by his son Alexander, who was assassinat- ed in 1903, the crime being one of the most horrible of its sort on rec- ord. So greatly was British opinion shocked by this cynical murder of king and queen by their household officials and army chiefs that Brit- ain long refused to maintain any dip- lomatic relations twith the succeed- ing government under King Peter. Yet in the strange mutations of d nastic fortunes Britain now King Peter’s ally. Peter, however, is Griven from his country was from Belgium, and Toubtless already may be tenegro, to seek refuge abroad. Se under Germanic influence must | ‘e a king: o Berlin and Vienna return to the old “legitimate” line— and pick up an illegitimate prince to e their puppet ruler. is Salonica, as Albert as Nicholas from Mon- ! big It was Napoleon who shook their | occupants off half the thrones of | Furope and placed' his creatures in | their places. After Napoleon’s time that sore of thing was done over again hy the *“concert of powers,” that dis- cordant aggregation which served at least to prolong the overture to the | present world clash. Berlin now as- ing. It will doubtless provide for Belgium and Montenegro in due tim: it has Greece neatly disposed of and Bulgaria under its thumb. Berlin kultur must have its own king of kings, and the illegitimate son of a decadent house will serve as well as another. He will be Prus- sia’s princeling so long as Austro- German and Turco-Bulgarian arms can sustain him. As To “As’Fedity.” (Louisville Courier Journal.) A physician says that asafoetida is “a specific fcr grip.” That will sur- prise many persons. But many others will recall that asafoetida once was more than a cure. It was a preven- tive. An authority says that asafoetida is “a stimulant to the sympathetic nervous system, an excellent carmina- tive and stimulate unstriped muscle fiber . . . used in hysteria, but in an empirical fashion,” and that it is a substance derivéd from an herb found in Persia, Turkestan and Afghanistan and that the product is composed of resin, gum, ethereal oil, vanillin’ and ferulic acid. The list of elements sounds interesting -and potent. But everyone whose grandmother made him wear a littte cotton bag of “as'fedity” around his neck during the period of the year in which he contained l “the dangers of winter. | The fact is that grip is among many ! fter the way | diseases which turn tail and flee be- City in France Like Our Own New Dritain Lens is one of the The town is ‘Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.—Lens, large coalfields. toward which the French recently centers of coal mining. made a tremendous drive on their way northeastward in the direction Arras, around which latter place the of Lille, forms the subject of the Irench and Germans has been fight- primer on war geography issued to- ing with increasing bitterness for day by the National Geographic so- months. It is connected by branch ciety: line raillways with Arras and St. Pol “Lens is a strong iron and steel and Bethune, in the southeast and center. Its great iron foundries sup- east, and with Lille, 25 miles to the plied a considerable part of the northeast. Lille is a railway center French trade in peace times, and its and a manufacturing town of first engineering works ranked high among importance. Lens had just before similar industries. There is also a the present war, a population of large factory for the production of 28,000. steel cables among its establishments. “Lens has had an eventful history, situated 13 miles north-northeast of | | | | | McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'E BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” OUR ANNUAL- MID - WINTER CLEARANCE SALE SPECIALS FROM OUR Domestic and Linen Dept. BLEACHED SHEETING 21-4 yard wide. Sale price 2§a Sheeting from our regular The place is not upon the tourist’s as all those cities have had which are map of France, however, for it is a scattered through the important yard. strictly modern business town, and northern and northeastern parts of stock, worth 34c yard today. before the Germar lines and beyond it, was full passed over France. It s grounds were frequently of restless fought over during the wars of the energy, of the unlovely noise and 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. srime of factories, and of the unat- outstanding occurrence in its military | tractive commonplace of labor and | history was the great battle fought in commerce. | its neighborhood by the French and “The region all around is an in- | the Spaniards in 1648, in which Louls dustrial one. Through this district of the department of Pas de Calais run II of Bourbon, Prince of Conde, gained the victory for the French. wore his “flannels” knows that it is the odor of the'drug which does the work. It frightens the germs of all| winter's overcoat or the chanice of afflictions of the flesh just as the! New London getting somewhere com- pied skunk by the roadside frightens| mensurate to its opportunities with- the country belle upon the way to)in the next ten years?” the ball with an ounce of perfume| So I'm not what you would call a scattered over her party gown. That|whale of a little old reminiscer. I'd is why everyone who was born when | gilve more, as a matter of fact, for there still were 0ld women who knew | & half a spoonful of tomorrow or two the secrets of life and death, with!drops of the day after than I would his blue flannel undershirt in late |for a millpond full of yesterday. October and walked confidently amid { Whether that's because I can kid my- That is why | self into looking forward with more he arrived safely at the season for|or less star eyed optimism, wheres when it suddenly occurs to me, “What { the annual drenching with sassafrasI seldom peek back into the past tea, after which it was time to look | without getting my nose full of forward to June apples and the swim- | gloom, is beside the mark. The fact ming hole as the reward of discre-!remains that the older I grow the tion. less inclined I am to rake over the Grip had not been discovered, or|ashes of burnt out memories for imported, in the days when a small | sparks of interest. E chunk of asafoetida was depended But when you say “roller skates, upon to form a coat of mail against|—suddenly, just like that—to me, “the pneumony fever,” congestive | You set me back 30 years with a chills, “agua an’ fever,” and other|hop, skip and a jump. You kick all winter illnesses. But if there had|my theories and all my established principles out from under me and been grip in the atmosphere no grip germ without a clothespin on his nose would have tried to get any- where. near the child protected. by, and saturated with, an odoy which had the penetrating power of a mod- ern projectile. Asfoetida is not a specific for grip. set the old-time bug to buzzing like a band-haw in a 16-inch log. For your old Uncle Commenator, children, was one first water, high potential, A No. 1 roller skatorial nut in the days when there were roller skating nuts as were nuts. Let me, of thelate lamented Silas Wegg, drop into verse on this ip | tenderly agitating subject: Jte nee fas @ EXID | oW dear tolmy iheart isl the!old roller rink, oh! of about elghty-seven, with its thun- der of rolls like the surf on the | shore and the noise of the umpah as- i ~ 4 cending to heaven. How well T re- MRl Bl fEn, member the old boys and girlies who @iy Havengiunion.) i wheeled round and round to the tilt Michael Kenealy of Stamford had of the band, the haughty instructor a host of personal friends through: who picked the.good lookers and men of all taught them for hours with hand : within hand; the debonalr experts although he was an intense (o, a1t76q and did grapevines, say- partisan in politics. As an attorney ing nothing at all of the swagger he was associated in many cases of Dutch roll, the varying speeds of importance and in the.affairs of state {he circling skaters that ran all the government he was for many Vears wayv from a race to a stroll. in the confidence of the little eircle! 1 mind me the clothes of that of men who have very largely dom- ' siolicsome epoch, tight trousers, low inated the situation. Mr. Kenealy gerbjes, multitudinous skirts, when a was one of the old school political glimpse of a stocking was matter for workers, generous, affable and genial. ‘geandal and respectable males could He will be missed in the councils wear only white skirts; how the rink- of the republican party Where his| ers were dressed for the joys of the practical knowledge and native com- ‘rollers precisely as thouzh they wera mon sense were a great et, and | going to church, with the dudes ard among a wide circle of friends Where | the dudesses retting the homage and his wit and hearty good will were | the less rightly clad always left in always appreciated. | the lurch. I remember the sheen of | the high polished flooring. the treach- fore its perfume. cure, or preventive, is merely the re- vival of a remedy which served pre- vious generations as a talisman. out the entire state, parties, sy | erous spot that you struck on the Indiana As A Writer's Field. | turn. the haze of the pumice that (Meredith Nicholson.) i G s Indiana offers, on the whole, a falr | throat and vour nostrils, to burn. field for poets. The prevailing note is| I remember the thousands - and ity hardly a spot | thousands of fanlets, who spent all tranquility SERIRerefiefaraly their time and the dough in the in the state that touches the imagina- | ninks: 'twas a deal like the movies tion with a sense of power and gran-|are now in the matter of spending deur, and yet there are countless | for fun what might be else spent for scenes of quiet beauty. The Wabash! drinks. I recall with a thrill the gathers breadth and grace as it /1owS | censation of motion, as sweet and as southward. Long curves here and fine as a passage through air—and there give to the eye the illusion of { T remember with. oh, such acute rec- a chain of lakes, and the river's val- | ollection. how it felt to ascend and ley is a rich garden. The Tippeca- | alight on your hair. Ah, that was noe is another beautiful river, famous | the zest and the sport of the rinking, among fishermen and there are a|the adventurous chance that lay under number of charming lakes in the it all—to guess at the number and northern part of the state. The Kan- | place of the bruises to come to your kekee marsh was long haunted by |lot if by chance you should fall. the migrant wild birds. Poets and . I remember quite well the particu- novelists have found inspiration in lar partners I wanted to skate with the Kankakee. Maurice Thompson but didn’t quite dare, and the ones and Evaleen Stein have celebrated the that I did get, the fat ones and lean- region in song; and there is a tra- ©rs, how T drew all the lemons, my dition that the manuscript of “Ben chums all the fair. I remember the Hur” visited both the Kankakee and barrels and barrels of shekels I blew at the rink doors in those long gone days—if T had but a handful of them at this writing, they'd provide for a decade of good photoplays. And they tell me the roller's' to be resur- rected, that once. more we shall list to the old churning roar—you can bet T'll he there to take in the scene— but TI'll take it in standing, just in- side the door. Lake Maxinkuckee at certain crisis in its preparation. Oh! (The Commentator in Day.) as a rule, permit mysclf reminiscences. Several influence reflection For the Old Days. New London I do not, to indulge in reasons contribute to away from too intimate upon the past. One is that the mo: I search through the pages of mental diary the less ground I dis- cover for satisfaction with the use that I made of my earlier 3 other is that when I find my a thundering long way back dark ages that 1 have the fortable feeling of me Mr. Weeks' Amended ‘Biography. (Providence Journal.) The presidential bee, like a guilty conscience, is apt to make cowards of the best of men, and this accounts for some of the little weaknesses of poli- ticians when seeking high honors at the hands of their fellow-voters. This psychological fact is suggested in uncom- being a great dis- tance from home; and the third is 2 sted | that the future, either of the indi- | bY @ reading of the self-prepared biog- | vidual or the world, seems to me to | }aPhies of congressmen as published in the Congressional directory. That of Senator Weeks of Massachusetts for geveral years when he was in the House, and for some time after he be- be about a million times more im- portant than the past. Not that T fail utterly to under- stand the mellow joy that lies, for m some people, in contemplating ' and | came a senator, included the state- living over again long-gone days; | ment that he *is a banker and once in a while T can get into a ten- | broker. But after 1914, or about | the time that he came to the front us a candidate for the nomination for president, the ment disappeared from the biography —a delicate and, possibly, a wise con- cession to public opinion of the pres- ent day. der and interesting mood toward such things myeelf; but it is only once in a while and even then, about the about the 9 and a wee bit maudla about the eyes and a wee bit maudin about the tight spot in the throat. I generally come out of it with a jump republican | state- | The cotton. in blazes has all this to do with next While this lot lasts, Sale | SPRING PILLOW CASES Size 45x36, made of good durable sSale price 10%c each. TOWELING Sale price 123 ALL LINEN Worth 15c yard ard. BLEACHED O ING FLANNEL 27. inches wide. Sale price 63%e yard. TURKISH TOWELS heavy weight price Towels. 1be Large each. 25c value. TABLE DAMASK All linen. Value $1.00 yard. Sale price 79c yard. New designs. Sale prices on all Sheetings, Pillow Case Tubings, etc., for the balance of this month. 1,200 Yards of Newr Embroideries at January Sale Prices. Now on sale at 12 1-2¢, 29c and 49c yard. Embroidery Edgings up to 18 inches wide, in this sale at 12 1-2¢ yard. Value 19c yard. 22-inch Baby Allovers, sale price 29c yard. Value to 48c. 18-inch Baby Flouncing in the dainty new overwork edges. BSale price 29¢ yard. Value 39c to 45c. 27-inch Hemstitched Baby Floun- cings. Sale price 28c yard. Value to 27-inch and 36-inch Flouncings of dainty Swiss and Embroidered Or« gandies. Sale price 49¢c yard. Values to $1.00. STYLES Standard Fashions The new Spring Fashion Book now i. ready. Price 20c. With one pattern —the old roller rink free. 0. McMILAN TAO-EAT AT W AIN STREEY SOCIALISTS WOULD f FIGHT FOR COUNTRY Congressman London Declares in Speech in House in Attack on tional Preparedness Program. Washington, Jan 19.—Every social- ist in the United States would defend this country if attacked by a foreigh foe, Representative London of New York, the only socialist in congress, told the house yesterday in an address against preparedness. Attracted by the comparative novelty of a soclalist on the floor, the house shouted down attempts to limit London’s time and spurred him on with questions. His declaration that the socialists would fight was greeted with thunderous ap- plause. Representative O’'Shaunessy of Rhode Island demanded of London what would be the attitude of the so- cialists in case the American flag were attacked. “I desire to say that if the people of the United States were attacked every socialist would fight,” London replied. “What is the distinction between the flag and the people?’” half a dozen representatives immediately asked in as many different ways, while London smiled and fenced the question. “The people throb with life,” he said, “while a flag is an emblem only. Any lunatic from an insane asylum can attack the flag and trample on it, but it is a vastly different thing for an . attack to be made on the people.” London then was asked if he sup- ported a socialist pledge against en- listment. ‘“As for me,” he answered quickly, “if we were attacked, noth- ing would prevent me from sacrificing my life.” “Are the socialists in foreign coun- tries helping their nations in the pres- ent war?” asked Mr. Lobeck of Ne- braska. “Yes,”” Mr. London replied, “but at the same time they are urging that peace negotiations be started.” “The social democracy .of the world is opposed to war,” explained Mr. London, “but if we are attacked we must defend ourselves.” KING OF MU~NTENEGRO HANDS OVER SWORD ‘White Flag Hoisted ~at Grahove— Monarch Says Surrender was New cessary to Prevent Ruin of Country London, Jan. 19—According to re- ports received by the Exchange Tele- graph Company from Cettinje, King Nicholas of Montenegro has issued a proclamation to his people declaring that surrender was necessary in order to prevent the complete ruin of his country. The white flag was hoisted at Grahove, where the King handed his sword to General Herlees. Generals Oistovic and Valutovre, re fusing te surrender, the advices ada, Jjoined the Serbiana. -