New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 6

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916. EW BRI[AIN HERALD ued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. ®t Herald Building. 87 Church St Post Office at New Britain fitered at tne Mall Matter. as Becond Class livered by carricrs to any part of tne city for 15 Cents = Week, 65 Cents a Month. bscriptions for paper to be sent by mall Payable in advance, 60 Cents & Month, £7.00 a year. @ only piofitable advertising medium 10 | the city. Circulation books and press Toom always open to advertisers Be Herald will be found cn sale at Tota- lig's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk Atiaatic Clty and Rertford depot TELEPHON fistness Dffice ..... fittcrial Rooms CALLS. MR. HEALEY. Mr. Healey of the safety board, (he still “of,” not ‘off,”’) refuses to ksign at the or demand, of r city's M We cannot help ex- ‘essing our Hurrah for 184 anything are request, vor. atis ion. dia he has done : We risk Democratic Organ” by € friendly little visitor that journeys wn from caley. he never se hole ping called a we satisfied lot this time. will Hartford every morning ith its columns of tainted political EWs and its perverse editori w i1l ;risk being shoved into hopele plivion by tid'revengeful hand of the hief executive of the c who plans square himself with the people of €w Britain through the agency of e same little visitor. We will risk ything in expressing, even if it r last dying gasp, an appreciation the effort Mr. Healey is making in is deavoring to force a show-down on e methods of Mayor Quigley The Mayor has the authority to re- ove Mr. r. Healey will probably lose his job. e admit it. But Mr. p show the people of HY he loses his job. flice goes we do not Healey. Of course he has. Healey plans New Britain As far as the doubt for oment but that the commissioner is Prectly willing to hand it to the first jan that comes along that ants it. We cannot imagine for a ment why the gentleman wishes to ep it. We cannot imagine why yone would wish to keep a uder the present administration. powever, Mr. Healey wishes vindica- on and we heartily hope he gets it. e is entitled to it. Good for you . Healey. Let us ALL see the gree of smallness that exists in the ayor’'s office today! a really job ANOTHER BRAIN STORM. New Britain is being treated to an- her act by the Quigley School of ateur Politicians. Before the cur- n descends, the public must bes lith the childishness of the leading an although its atience is well nigh hausted by the farce that started jvo year: spring. Mayor Quigley continues to bull in a china shop. Bluff, the Gold Dust Twins still busy and hot winds r ago this run Imuck like a unk and politic: pme whirling out of Room 208 in the ity building. Why all this sudden virtue on art of the adminis e the beara of public onths ago cacried on the payroll the off duty W the Members four ration! satety ame of 2 policeman who w: Their object iey sympathized lecause of illness. ot personal ith the policeman. cer and they considered it a sound hunicipal investment to do all in their ower to return him to health if pos- ble. I or the fact that e policeman’s name was on the pay- o1l that intellect at now sulks in its But then came the fdeath! The villians are (Me God W Ind - Abraham - Lincoln” i pb. The great defender the eople’s liberties and rights, who nev- two months ive t; denouement. escared m discovered! shington George on of never eats and never r peepul” are in distre; sleeps, bhile the *'c ells the public in a efore the common oul-racking discovery. blew that night! When Mayor Qu was being carried on aid If they are guilty to- be- The joners of the council of his How the wind policeman the ayroll illegally he dismiss the ommissioners? they not ju. answers are obvious. were as guilty ore? The act is that board of public safcty have been asked had backbone ay the commis o resign because they mough, emselves against the pifflc or of an excited executive. heir sin. They dared to talk, had the hudacity s their opinion of ew Britain’s boy mayor. Therefore, ey are told to go henee by thc great :are deal. Muzzle; of muz- manhood enough, to defend and ran- That was expre: pxponent of the sq karcon, let us have a round les. Shades of Frederick 'T. I'hat New Britain should see such ay in her golden history. The commissioners do well in re- ng to resign. Of course they un- Herstand that Mayor Quigley has the power to remove them but it would be a confession on their part that hey knew themselves to be in the lwrong should they acquiesce meekly Stanley! a | embl, | shooting of Villa, the | rests | daramatic speech | ey learned that a | to His Honor's demands. Their self mith The admiration they have arous- administration is strengthened by their determination to.go down fighting. EVENED UP. With the recall from Stuttgart of Consul Edward Higgins, charged with being oo free in his anti-German ex bressions, the State Department may now consider itself absolutely neutral. { It was not long ago when T. St. John Gaffn was taken from Munich because he w: his post at s Dbiased the other way ‘round. He played on the right side of his hosts. It is to be de- plored that our consuls, in some .few cases, let their hearts run away with For the most part the men in this service”are capable, clev- er citizens. But once in a while one member of the corps does something he should not do and then suffers the recall. Just at a time like this the represent the United States the overguarded The the demands are Heavy | their heads. a men who Consular Service in belligerent in ten- rations should be their every word and deed. sion is great, and, after all is said and done, it is not such a wonder that one or two have fallen into disrepute with the governments they visited. But there should not be too many such These two should be the last. cases. THE HUNTER AND THE GAME. It is all very well to gloat over the order sent out by the First Chief Car, ranza giving authority to any Mexican citizen to kill the outlaw Francisco Villa on sight; but,—and here comes the question:—“Who is going do the job?” How many men are going up follow Villa over the trail of his guer- rilla wanderings? Who is going to trail the lion to his den? It might sound like a wonderful thing to chase General Jose 1. Rodriguez out of his te parlor car with his name to own p oned on the side, run him into the cactus bushes, shoot him full of holes, and then his body back to Juarez in a box-car to be put on exhibition in a Railroad Sta It might have been a great ac- complishment to get hold of *'Villa’s Butcher”, Bacca-Valles, and carve him daintily into four quarters. But believe us, Xantippe, the gentleman who takes Mr. Outlaw Villa in hand has his work all cut and dried for him. What boots it that the guerrilla has more his luxurious suite on his private train of cars; or that his Ro- man bath, and roll top desk, and h typewriter have been taken away from him, or lost in the shuffle? What mat- ters these things so long as he has his eagle eye, and his cold heart, and his trusty gun, and his dagger, and his pony, other attributes that stand an outlaw in good stead when him? A mere ship mutilated tion. no and the hunters are after snap of the fingers. In the near, there have bcen the immediate many wild stories will come out capture and | gambler as in past, the Any g00d would take a 100-1 shot that each and every one of these stories will be de- nied the day after first publication. Some one may get Villa but if the trick is done singie handed this man’s name must be carved in letters mountain high on the pages of of Mexico about in the end; AMERICAN SARDINES. For some reason or that licious deiectable of the deep, the sar- the off other de- dine, known in the Old World clupea pilchardus, thrives better the coasts of uropean countries than off our own shores. And that is not saying the Maine and California prod- ucts not true sardines, although | superfastidious epicurecans oft to the native kind as “herrings”, “minnies”, and “silver fish”, and other are refer and proletarian members of piscatory cir- Your true sardine, understand, aristocrat. All other pilchards to the peasant classcs. These flood the marhet cles. is an | belong latter clupeod fish because no particular attention catching has paid to the time of they are salted packed, whercas the royal sardine cncascd in the best brand of tin, taken from his native haunts at certain time, bathed in the very highest and softest selection of olive oil, and then the palates of riminate. understand, Iuropean war got a is different. { been how and them, or is a sent forth to tickle who this happened, the start. But learn from there is a scarcity of the imported sar- | dines. The German soldiers have the using this as an appetizer. And all at a i when from i | | | thos All fore be ir We that now all government reports |a corner on choice fish ! this had to come just the output sardines waters has been greatly cut down. The of our own United States government has under- taken to try in Maine and, as a result, ther quantity. supervise the sardine indus- greater quality but less { lowing the old law of supply and de- mand the prices on sardines arc going to go up this winter, but no one will care if we can be reasonably assured that our native crop really represents the and not “kip- pered herring.” " ) sardine at its best respect could not permit them to sub- | ed by refusing to wear the gag of the | Philadelphia, was made MUSHY NOVELS. Washington Irving's little friend, Rebecca Gratz, of a heroine in a novel,—Scot “ Ivanhoe,”—that form of book has played a great part in shaping *he destiny of the United States. Awmerica is practically a novel fod nation, or was so until the advent of the yellow back and yellow gutted magazine, the same periodical that thrives on the gullibility of a certain class of readers. Taking stages of progress in country, or of deterioration, the Vi ious epoch of American history, is an easy matter to trace the fluence of the magazine. We are just getting over the ‘era of the sex novel, the brand that had so much to do with the exploitation of that, some- traffic labeled *White Since Jewish the vdrious the r- it in- what mythical Slavery.” % ¢ Out of the long list of American novels one particular type may be chosen which has spread its influence down the ages, favoring no particular era, but taking part in all stages of the nation’s life, and that is the “mushy” novel. It has been Wwith us even since before the day of Mrs. I. D. E. N. Southwick, who has been referred to as ‘the she-devil with many initials,”—even before some of the most famous “sob sisters” poured forth all their food for the feminine masses. And these are the novels that are blamed for the wrecking of so many American homes. “Many marriages that otherwise would have been happy are wrecked on the shoals falsely created by ‘mushy’ novels,” is the way 250 Cali- fornia librarians in session at Los Angeles view the condition. And there is much truth embodied in that con- of idealism, sensus of opinion. “‘Disillusionments following this sentimental reading em- bitters young married women.” There are few men in every day life who can measure up to the requirements of the ‘mushy’ novels,—few men who would want to be branded as such. They seldom paint real men on such canvasses and that is why so many young girls have their ideais shatter- ed after marriage to a man of com- mon clay. There should be some way to prevent young girls from devouring these ‘mushy’ novels. While the question of raising the sal- ary of the chief of police is uppermost in the minds of New Britain’s tax payers at this time, it migit be well to peruse the following letter submit- ted to the borough council of Irwin, Pa., by Charles A. the lone member community's force:— Livingstone, of that “I hereby tender my resignation as chief of police. I have bheen chief, dog catcher, health officer, truant officer and policed a pop- ulation of about 10,000 living here and in adjacent towns for three years. Ahout every time I made an arrest some one tried to lick me. If it was necessary for me to use force, I was arrested and con- victed of assault and batter “If I killed a str: unlicens dog. T was arrested for cruelty to animals. Now you can get some of the smart Alecks who claim they would police the town right for the job at $80 a month.” Some chief! intends to Messrs. Maybe Mayor Quigley send a diplomatic note to Healey, Alling and Holmes. Please notice that the first initials of Messrs. Healey, Alling and Holmes spell “Hah.” Can it be possible that the safety commissioners are trying to give His Honor the “Hah Hah’? After all, there isn’t mueh differ- ence between axe and ex. the adopt Safety some It begins to look as if Board would do weil to “Safety First” methods. A’ man known is accused What's in a Ignatius T. T. Lincoln name? as of being a German spy. Cost of Culture. (Philadelphia Ledger.) The college freshman year was proving very expensive to father, so father decided to have a ‘“heart-to- heart” talk with Charles, home for the week. “Now, son affectionatel spending j » he said sravely, but , “your mother and I are as little mcney as we possibly can. I get up at 6:30 and work until after But, son, the money won't go around at the rate your expenses are running. What do You think we had better do?” For a moment Charles’ head was buried in thought, and then he re- plied: “Well, father, I don’t see any way out but for you to work night; T The New Cookery For Girls. (Philadelphia Bulletin.) Frederick Palmer, the war corre- | sponent, said at a dinner in New York: |~ “Girls all over England are making | ammunition now. Lady Mary Ham- ilton, Miss Nancy Cunard, Lady Diana Manners—all these lovely girls are making ammunition. “They say a girl was talking one day at a’tea about her ammunition factory work. 9 “ ‘Oh,’ she said, “it just as easy as anything to make a high explosive shell. You take a tablespoonful nf{ nitroglycerine, two cupfuls of guncot. N, half a cup of trinitrotoluol, three cups of liddite, and so on, just like the cook books you know.’ ” Rolling Stock That Gathers Remorse CHEER UR WE KIN MAKE T [N 3 HOURS ey No HURRYs WE_ o~ ONLY CARRY PASSENSER /// =" )y WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- to the i | changes that Herald Office. come Three Great Americans. (New Haven Union.) Birthday anniversaries of great Americans, Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson come this week; Morday, Wednesday and Friday, respectively. The first was our most able diplomatist, a cel- ebrated author, philosopher, states- man and benefactor of mankind. The last two noted generals, so splendid in their heart loyalties, have left us the hcritage of a rich inspiration. Franklin’s prodigius labors for the Republic, always prompted by lofty motive and undertaken without hope of personal gain, were rich in achieve- ment. Lee was one Confederate lead- er and Jackson another, against whom the people of the North harbored no resentment. Their devotion to what they thought right was a splendid les- son, and in post-bellum days the fine character of Robert E. Lee became one of the links which drew the North and South together again. Franklin was a man of marvellous versatility and wide diversity of gifts which he employed for the upbuilding of the nation Jackson died in battle, a fine type of the fearless leader making the supreme sacrifice for the cause to which his heart and soul were devoted. Lee was great in war but greater in defeat, a true hero. Three men of high ideals, devoted service and fine char- acter. The Baralong Case. (New York World.) Germany’s warning that it will adopt measures of reprisal must make Great Britmin realize its mistake in long case. Sir Edward Grey's propo- cal to couple up several other cases in which German manders were charged with violating the rules of war a®’d submitting them all together to a court of American naval officers had the appearance of evasion. Every case stands on its own merits. The accusation that at the time of the shelling of the transport Nico- sank the German submarine and kill- ed helpless members of the crew still stands unanswered by the Brit- ish government. It is a poor defenso to offer after the event that German naval officers have been guilty of un- Jawful and inhuman acts. By that rule of argument any offense may be condoned by the government respon- sible for its commission, and murder on the high seas, under cover of war, may be given the color of law- fulness. The policy of reprisals, once it is entered upon, leads to an endless ser- fes of deliberate atrocities. many, in the belief that it Is vindi- them in retaliation for the killing of members of the crew of a German submarine, Great Britain will have to choose whether it shall take revenge by executing German prisoneds or overlook Germany’s measures of re. prisal. The slaughter of prisoners will only provoke fresh outrages on both sides. For its own honor and self-justification the British govern- doubts that envelop the Baralong af- fair. Getting Up Before Light. (Boston Transcript.) This is the time of year when all the beginners of comfort for our practice the heroic virtue getting up in the dark. While you, most serene highness and head of house, are getting that last sweet sleep on which, in your opinion, efficiency and even good temper seem to de- pend, someone is dressing by gaslight starting up the furnace fire to make your bathroom comfortable, getting together the elements of your break- fast. It is a dark and dreary | for somebody which precedes and | produces that agreeable odor of cof- fee creeping up the stairs with a hint to your nostrils of the pleasures of the dawn. Do you, who so seldom get up in the dark, take these prepa- rations and satisfactions as a of course, a tribute of nature to your superiority? ~ Or are you a man of ful? ary The sun rises late, these Janu- days at about—oh, well never | mind! I suppose you have your own | almanac and it is just as well that 11 should not be cross-examined on a | point I know so little about—but late three ! ! where the Russians and not clearing up the facts in the Bara- | submarine com- | { I suppose the milkman gets up in the slan the British patrol boat Baralong | And yet he Lake Van the Great Sea of the Armenian People Washington, D. C., Jan. 22.—Lake Van lies in the heart of the region, Turks are once more at grips, in the heart of the region least bespoken in the war de- spatches, around which a zone of si- lence seems to have been drawn, en- closing the age-long adversaries and | concealing the latest acts of their im- placable hostility. scribed in today’s primer on war geography by the National Geographic society, bisects, according to reports from the Caucasus front, the | drinkable, battle line. The primer reads: “Lake Van is the Great Sea of the Armenian people, and earily the most striking physical feature of their high prlateau. It is the largest lake Asiatic Turkey, and, roughly, one of the wildest borders of Near East, a border to which authority of Constantinople seldom reached and to which sack has not yet come. “Van lies near the borders of Per- sia and Russia, and upon the bounda- It is a lake of respectable size, having place of some 30,000 people, of the mixture of half Kurds its | and half Armenians.” ries of Armenia and Kurdistan. an area of 1,400 square miles. greatest length is 80 miles and Van, which is de- | in marks from ealiest times. 1n the ancient world, it played a role Before | the the as a highway for commerce. has the outbreak of the present war, it | the ordering endeavor of the Russian Cos- Its greatest width 50 miles. The mighty Tiuphrates and Tigris rivers rise in the ; mountains near the lake, | “The physical aspects of the coun- | try are as savage as is | Densely-wooded, massive | succeeded by chill ! girt the lake. its history. mountains, Much of the irregular | shoreline is rugged and dangerous, | while the forests behind form a 'mo | man’s’ land, where the hasty usuages {of the race feuds hold sway. The recent | vvater of the lake is bitter and un- and, in the autumn and winter, its surface is swept by flerce storms that make all navigation haz- ardous. It stands more than 5,000 feet above the sea level. “Lake Van has been navigated For a short time fioated 90 sailing boats, of 20 and tons burden, which were mainly in the transport of wheat and firewood. gion, lake, called Van, and is is, also, cil-and-water enough to rob the breakfast-getting are others more | who are at work at day’s task before sunrising. The of a great factory proportion of hu- manity habitually in winter gets up in a scrap of a bright- eyed boy in overalls this morning be- fore 7 with a dinner pail in his hand moment’s pang to think labor that afflicts our was bringing his breakfast to his father | | who is a brakeman And there longer of its cheer. whose hours are rigidly measured, thei lighted and windows how large a the dark. I saw and had a of the child land—until I learned that he road run. 8 must always get up in the dark. And there are others—the newsboy who, I hope, gets breakfast before he starts to bring me the morning news. dark all the year round. is quite cheerful about it, caught him whistling one for ST morning { when I had to take a very early train If Ger- | cating its rights, selects a given num- | ber of British prisoners and executes ' | rot ment should properly clear away the | day | the | hour | | hideous to tism as moderns receives a shock and | matter | enough to be considerate and grate- | and found it a most prodigious bother, even with the help of the women folks and the shrillest of alarm cloeks. I didn’t feel in the least like whistling, T remember, and was not a little as- tonished at his happy mood. In fact I have had a new respect for milk- men ever since, though T fear I should be incapable of their high standard of cheerfulness. Civilized Warfare. (New York Sun.) Both tragic and ludicrous are the efforts of mankind to wage war in this century after a manner that goes to prove that the race is not as barbarous as in former centuries. To assert that the average European to- day when engaged in slaughtering his neighbors is not intellectually and morally superior to his ancestors a thousand years ago, that he make war on a more altruistic s0 to speak, than did the cave would be to hurt his sensi- shoul ‘to do him he would as- a grave injustice not accepted rules of civilized warfare, Hague conventions, international law and other safeguards against the ten- dency of men to become brutes when they go alking other men as their prey? Has not the use of Greek fire, chain shot and dumdum bullets been abolished? Would a German scalp A Frenchman or would a Frenchman scalp a German? Has not war, in short, through the progress of civiii- zation, become gentle, kindly, hu- mane compared with the kind of war that disgraced the human race in former ages When we compare the details of mediaeval warfare, for example, with the grewsome facts that have come to light regarding the brutalities that make the present war in Europe the imagination our ego- basi man tive sert we are forced to admit that war is, as it always has been, hell, and that the leading industry of hell is the manufacture of devils. Tt made no difference to the’ Amer- ican pioneer whether it was an Oneida a Sencca or a Delaware by whom he was attacked from ambush. In the broadest aspects of this dis- cussion, the questions to which of the warring nations belongs an un- on a night rall- But even so this child of Europe today is not material. damning, ! mains, lof any given outrage, | nations are at present carrying {war in ways that a incontrovertible fact re onial days would have been too proud to employ. the trees on account of the woods. It is not difficult to fog a large issue by insistence upon details. But the past year in Europe has brought | shame to the race at large, not mere- ly because many nations and millions of men have been cngaged In the most colossal struggle of all the ages, [ but because it has been demonstrated | more clearly than ever that there can- [not be such a thing as civilized war- i fare. | Warfare came from the jungle and | belongs to it. The mark of the beast s upon it and can never be removed. Diplomati; may p e their call- iing, international lawyers may ex- press their views, the technicalities {involved in one given outrage or an- other may be discussed by Presidents land Kings, Ambassadors and Cabinct officials, but as so-called civilized be: |ings they are hampered at the outsot | by the unchanging truth that war is i savagery, that it begets savages, and that all the ingenuity of man has not heen able to cleanse it of its foulness, to make of it anything but legalized wholesale murder. The Time to. Fortify. (New Haven Register.) t Judge Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corpora- | tion, is no pessimist, but on er hand he is not deceived into da gerous optimism by the present inflat- {ed conditions of business, in inflation the industry which he repre- ' sents has its share. He believes with many shrewd observers that the war is to end sooner than many of us | think—possibly this year— need, he warns us, to be already building our dykes. Or, to follow the favorite analogy, this is the time to fortify. With all our preparedness we need to consider business prepar- edness. Many sorts of business in the United States are now inflated because of war orders, because of unnatural- ly increased consumption in various lines. ““But whenever the war shalil close,” says Judge Gary, “the busi- ness of this country will be confront- ed with new conditions. The pur- chasing power of the whole world will have been v greatly reduced. | Foreign countries who are now buy- ing our products, because compelled, will withdraw their patronage in a |large measure. Other non-producing | countries will find their financial re- sources and credits lessened. More | than this, foreign producers, in great | need, wili strive more diligently than jever to supply the countries that are financially able to pay at prices i based upon cheap labor and low cost, as they have a perfect right to do. Our producers, including our wage earners, will find themselves in com- mercial antagonism with the most | persistent and difficult competition iever experienced, unless this shall be bare dark rocks, | engaged | The chief town of the re- near the eastern shore of the a dersea or an aerial weapon that de- stroys the lives of non-combatants in | The | whatever may be the details that civilized on ! mediaeval free- booter or an American Indian of Coi- It is easy to miss seeing | the oth- | which | and then | Are there | the deluge. Against that deluge we | Lol McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABDE™ JANUARY CLEARANCE OF WINTER COATS FOUR REAL MARK DOWN BARGAIN LOTS FOR Saturday’s SELLING N Don’t deny yourself of this oppor- tunity to buy real smart Winter Coatg at about 14 price. Every Coat in the | Store reduced for this Sale, including ‘Women’s, Misses’ and Children’s Coats, | CORDUROY AND MIXTURE COATS price $9.98 each. Values to Sale $15.00. SMART COATS IN MIXTURES Sale price $7.98 each. Value 5125% MIXTURE COATS Value $8.95 FANCY PLAID AND Sale price $5.00 cach. to $10.00. PLAID AND Sale price $3.98 each. to $8.95. Your choice of more than Thres Hundred Coats in this Sale in a good | assortment of colors and sizes. Special Sale of . SILK BLOUSES | Silk Crepe de Chine Blouses in eight | shades. New plaid, striped and changeable Silk Blouses on Sale Saturs day, $2.98 each. Values to $3.98. January Sale of . MEN'S SHIRTS At 69c Each Value to $1.00. In big range of colors. Sizes 14 to 17 inch. Soft and laundered cuff Shirts, all well known J makes: Lion Brand, Nonpariel Elaness and Imperial Shirts in fhis | sale. Now is the time to stock up. | | Manufacturer’s Stock of DAINTY GUIMPES . and COLLARS On Sale Saturday 45c and 87¢ each. Values to $1.50. JANUARY SALE PRICES ON SHEETINGS, COTTONS and LINENS D. McMIL.AN 189-201-203 MAIN MIXTURE COATS Values $6.98 <71 prevented by laws that are reasonahble and sufficient. Most of the foreign producing countries and quite likely all of them, will be thoroughly pro- tected by tariff provisions, and we should be on a parity with them ia this respect. This is not a guestion of politics nor for political partiest as such. It is one of economics amd of good business, and its affects ' ‘all the people. It is a question of the | greatest good to the greatest num- ber. There should be an effort to as- certain and establish a line of justice and fairness between the producer and the consumer. It must be re- solved on scientific principles affer | the ascertainment of facts and thelr | due consideration.” In the face of this, what is | condition? We have a congress t between a frenied program of paredness” for an unreal war when | a real economic war is upon them, and a nervous worry of how to ralse money by unsclentific and internal methods of taxation. Its prcdecossor committed the country to an unsound tariff plan, and it has no thought, ap- | parently, of radically remedying. that mistake. The theorists will not “jee that they face conditions which ut- terly vitiate and revolutionize thelr theory. In very self defense, the na- tions at destructive work will frau- tically set themselves to constructive work after the war is over, and will seek to dump on our markets thelr products. Can we afford to keep our gates open and be deluged Woo tag us if we take no precautions. L3 our n Local Government. (New Yor! Councillor-— American.) | First | looking strcet!” Second Ditto—“You're right! | What's the best thing to do with 1£2" “Let's have it dug up to lay a drain. proper to g(l “But wouldn't it be | it first,” “Of course: I thought you would understand that! Then, after it i§ | paved and a drain put in, we'll have | it repaved.” | “All in readiness to be dug | again for laying the gas pipe? se you understand | municipal econom And after we have had it paved for the second time, then what?” “Well, then it will widening*”’ up 1 the principles ot be ready for | ‘ A Mistake Somewhere. (Kansas City Star.) b A helpful friend recently requested us to game we write a funny piece used to play in glad ds called “Hiding in the Barn. He alleged that part of the gang hid and the rest searched fof them, and when they were founs #ll | hands jumped and yelled most gleeful- ly. This, he tried to remind us, wat very, very funny. Either our memary is failing or we have lost our sense of humor, for as we recollect it, our m?- er did the hiding and we jumped ahd yelled. And it does not seem amusing to us, even yet. 4 about: & boyhood's