New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 26, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1916. EW BRITAIN HERALD EBRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. dafly (Sunday exceépted) at 4:18 p. m. #¢ Herald Bullding. 87 Church St ®d at the. Post Office at New Britain 88 Becona Class Mall Matter. liverea by carriors to any part of tne city 15 Cents a Weok, 65 Cents a Month. scriptions for paper to be sent by mall Payable in advance, 60 Cents & Month, 47.00 a year. pe_only profitable advertising medium 1o the city. Ciroulation books and press Toom always onen to advertisers. pe Herald will ve found on sale at Hota- Dg's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- Wway, New York City; Board Walk Atlantic City and Hartford depot, TELEPHONE CALLS. iness Dfice . itterial Rooms LET THE LABORERS IN. Just time when the business terests of the country are complain- & because of a shortage in manual of flamboyant embers of the national Congress are ushing and grooming the old lit- bacy test as applied to the immigra- at a borers _some our on laws and making ready to pre- nt it for consideration. This ite the fact that the last time this ran it was —it did not get a “place, pen *‘show”. If the literacy test is brought out the cupboard and forced on Con- ess for another protracted debate here is going to be a lot of valuable Ime wasted in its discussion. All the d Mne orators and debaters will ke a at it, there will be an undation of the sacred chambers by cheap, slap-stick debating fluid, id in the end the bill must die an- her natural death. It begins to look if this bogey has the proverbial ne lives of the domestic feline and erefore must be ever brought up ir execution, President Wilson has ready applied the veto in its first termination and if it ever gets back the White House for his signature he same fate likely will be meted v Shortly after the European war bt under way, and especially after number of outrages had been com- itted against the neutrality of the nited States by some persons sup- sedly of foreign birth, there was a eat hullabuloo anent the shutting bwn of the immigration gates. It las all done in fever heat. ‘“Keep em out of the country” was the y. All the fundamental principles our forefathers were at once re- gated to the scrap heap of oblivion. ut the storm soon passed and there is not a cloud tn the sky until now, st at a time when all should be Im and serene. At -present there no literacy test needed. It is fool- hness to even bring it before Con- de- “beaten to a nor whack ho ess for the simple reason that there practically no immigration at the sent time and not be eat influx for some moons to come. here is a dearth of manual laborers @king their way between the portals . this country and that in itself is for alarm, although many arters would keep them out forever of the boosting of wages: the end, if we do not get Furope, we must take and that must be may any huse fecause ut bor: Chin last were better to adopt a poliey of proposed in from coolie e straw, It fatching and walting for mendments to the immigration laws If this country. No one as yet knows Fhat fate has in store for us. There hay be such a dropping off in immi- ration that labor conditions all over he country will suffer materially. here will be lots of work to be done the future the task W immigrants who jore in 1 for and many men To cut off the are arriving here ow simply because they cannot read nd write is more foolish by far than tting off the nose to spite the fac Pesides, the € d and write arc not the ones who “the damage, if any damage is fe: it devolves about'those who are bssessed of well rounded educations, those who can speak fluently and te with ea grace. Those the ones to it there ping to be instituted a stem safety first”. Let the laborers in. ced immigrants who cannot % se and is of watch, IVER AND ABOVE PARTY LIN When William > gunced his proposed trip through the ountry following the footsteps of President Wilson did he have in mind he futility of against plan that must inevitably be brought o perfection if the nation ive? Did Mr. ause of present the @ople of this country are willing to isten to the man in the hen he would jtional and sane manner on a whje(-,t hat is very near and very dear to elr hearts? To be sure he did. md, further, he knew in his mind of finds that President Wilson is not Jennings Bryan argumentation is to sur- Bryan that day know be- conditions speak to them in a g out on the warpath as a rabid goi as a politician; as the' chief executive of a nation hat has done the Gulliver act, slept hile the lilliputians bound it hand nd foot, that the President is going 1 nor partisan White House | forth to science. awaken the public con- Mr. Bryan with all his ora- tcrical powers would have a fine time uying to combat a safe and sane pre- sentation of facts anent the national defense. There ds no use talking, the United States is like the boy who has outgrown his first pair of pants. He must be refitted. ° The nation has overgrown its first line of defense. It is a child in swaddling clothes no longer. With all the nations in the world armed to the teeth, there is no use letting our own Uncle Samuel g0 about with a pop gun on his shoulder. He must have a new outfit. Whatever thoughts we might have possessed on our securedness two years ago must be alterably changed sigw. The European war has brought ahout new conditions, things never be- fore dreamed of, dangers no one sensed. It would be foolish not to take these things into consideration,] childish to go our Wway unprepared while dangers lurk in the offing. Wolves in the forests are no respecters of human rights. It is all very well to aream of the millenium, to w all on earth would be peace and ¢ will; but when such is not the case it is rather ticklish to lay aside all arms and surrender to fate. The war in Yurope may soon be over, and then again it may be prolonged. And after that war, what? Where will the United States find itself? ~ What is going to happen? Probably nothing; but then again probably something, and, in the latter event, it be well to be on the safe side. able military preparedness thing. It will be-interesting to fol- low President Wilson’s line of argu- ments in his appeal to the citizens of the nation. He wants to reach all parties. Tt is a national problem that confronts the nation and one that be- longs to particular section or party. will Reason- is the no EEN—— THE INCOME TAX. Now that the constitutionality of the federal income tax has been af- firmed by the United States Supreme Court there remains the pleasant duty of fixing a fair and just method by which the tax shall be imposed. From Washington authorities it learned that with proper handling the tax can be made reap a national revenue of more than $100,000,000 over and above the present amount collected. That in itself is encj‘;mg- ing. Many bills have already! been | introduced in Congress which will de- mand a tax of more than fifty per cent. on all incomes over the million dollar mark. The idea of getting down lower in the scale also has been suggested,—that is, taxing the in- comes from labor, trade, investment, and the various professions. Natu- rally, a graduating scale should be applied. The Supreme Court in its ruling has decided that authority to impose a tax upon incomes is not ex- ceeded when a discrimination is made as to rates. It is but fair and just to make all incomes above the mil- Hon dollar line yield a greater per- centage of revenue than those that come under five thousand dollars. The big fortunes can stand the heavy tax,—the smaller ones should be let off much easier. is COLONEL HARVEY PREDICTS. There is no gainsaying the fact that as prognosticator political prophet Colonel George Harvey both fame and respect. at a or has He this acquired has had fairly good success precarious business. So when he comes forth with the statement that Wilson and Root will be the two gentlemen pitted against each other in the presidential campaign in this year of our Lord the Colonel must not be passed by too lightl His word, while not law, is weighty. As to the Wilson end of his prediction there can be hardly a doubt, barring death or unforeseen accident. When it comes to Root, the Colonel has the knotty end of the He gambling and he knows it. As a re- sult, his of presidential suffer. rope. is reputation bilitie a picker pos may He plays safe only when he refuses to come out and say just which one will be the successful candidate. CANCELATION. An order requiring second class passengers on trans-Atlantic liners to be taken to Ellis Island for examina- tion has been temporarily canceled by the immiggation authorities. All of timely removal of an ob- Instead of being tem- Immigration which is a noxious order. porary the should make order permanent. between the second cabin passengers Service the rescinding of this The only difference and the first cabin passengers on these | great liners, for the most part, is a difference of money and that, in the long run, is no consideration. Some of the most refined people the world, because of financial embarrass- ment, the second cabin, while any one with the “price” can seek the seclusion of the first cabin. Because of the ample appointments in the first and second cabing examination at wea is an easy in must needs take refuge in | whereas the does not Because conditions Ellis Island must perforce be brought into But for cabin ngers, matter, hold true for the steerage. of crowded there same use. the second pas no! Add famous phrs “May in beautiful as your lightnings of Janu- | that effect. Yyt your Sunset April be as or words to One thing is apparent and that is the Haitians can be gogd when they are made to be.—Milwaukee News. No doubt the cold wave tound the’| coal bins of the foes. of,preparedness empty.—Baltimore . Amgrican. Captain von ;Papen's . captured Lmemoranda indicate a belief the plot- ter is worthy of his hire.~—Chitago Herald. e Mme. Schwimmer must have been thinking of the Montenegrin surren- der when she tipped Henry Ford that she had inside dope—New Haven Union. We reckon Mr. Du Pont never knows how many powder plants he has, considering that there is a loud report every dz Dallas News. The first typhoon is a vexation, the second an offence, the third is a calamity, the fourth is a catastrophe. But the fifth looks uncommonly like a pernicious habit.—Manila Times. Events isdom have demonstrated the of the admonitions.to United citizens to leave Mexico.— Quite a few noted rulers were in- clined to give King Milan's son the glad hand unti] the terrible secret was disclosed that he had actually been working.—Washington Post. Chairman Hilles says there is not a single ripple in the Republican party. But just wait until the Colonel jumps into it.—Southern Lumberman. Apparently the Kaiser trusted that precious throat of his to a German surgeon at last. Like all other de- partments of human activity the do- main of science is full of the effi- ciency and skill of German surgery. —Rutland Herald. While it is well of interests which Americans should be clearly Tecog- nized, and that a good understand- ing among all the nations of this con- tinent should be diligently cultivated, it is also well to remmeber, as Owen Wister savs that to speak of the Old World and the New World is to speak in a dead language. The world is ! one, and “America can no more sep- | arate itself from the destiny of Bu- rope than it can scape the natural laws of the universe.” A consid- able part of South America is nearer Furope than it is to the United States; all of South America is more heavily indebted in Europe than it is here, and with the exception of Brazilian coffee, the products of South America find a readier and a larger market on the other side of the Atlantic than with us.—New York Journal of Commerce. that the existence are distinctively Just a Butterfly. (New Haven Union.) spatches from Chicago that Miss Vivian O’Gara, a weal- thy society girl, declares she is tired of the steady round of tame social af- fairs and is bored with endless recep- tions and dances, therefore the time she formerly has spent in the draw ingroom she will devote now to horse- back riding and other outdoor sport: Another of a social butterfly without intelligence enough to see that if she would turn to something of servico to others, even routine would not bore her, Rvidently Miss O’Gara flits from one pleasure to an- other like thousands of her kind al- bored, dissatisfied, and wonder- ing why. What she needs is employ- ment which Wwill render real service of the unselfish sort. It takes no for- tune teller to see that, T us inform case Our Paul Men. Pr b ¢ sis our for sitting in young woman another in the babble ! Has it to love s old, a university, Beloit, to he's Young (st. Pioncer Hari Chand of Punjs American young men the parks “with one in the right arm and left, and talking love What a land this Inc park seats, and no girls Chand is twent graduate of a Mid-West and now is completing in a Wis., factory, his preparation an electrical engineer. And ing back to India, where he the young men sit at the feet of philosophers and religious leaders d the theories of life. Hari Chand is envious, that's all. He dosen’t want to return to Indi though he has been absent five years. se same young men who, Te ,waste their time, on superfictal- s by talking love babble, somehow, in America, alwags turn out right. Everyone, in America at 1 goes through the love babble stage. These same feHMows who have been decorat- ing park benches, ecither arm draped attentively about a girl, and sighing for more arms and more girls, be- come financiers and governors and now and then presidents. There was an India, it seems, aeons before America was dreamed. And how far has India got, though it has heen sitting at the feet of wise men down the centuries? The comparison i not pood for the land. In progre: a nation and in 11 the things that go to make ways ahead of Hari Chand’s country. though we began only in 1776. The country no 8O- s t, as Chand criticises is pursuing its ideals so rapldly, his old, old eyes fail to catch the glimmer of its gleam. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Hasten Slowly. (New Haven Register.) In momentary lulls of the din of those who ar outing for and those who are shouting against that fetich “preparedn rises the voice of him who counsels, “hasten slowly.” What' man can unde and this war—its present state, its progress? What man can know, at th time, its outcome? What man can say what shall be after it?. In what physical state, in what mental state will it leave the nations? These arc questions which many recking are foolishness. Until some of these questionssare are | to ahswer, but their answers | King Cotton May Take His Throne From South Washington, D.. C. ‘Cot- ton, the staple of primier war renown and of blockade notoriety, was the foundation and backbone of the pros- | perity that English administration has been able to bring to Egypt in recent begins a bulletin just prepared by the National Geographic society. In lower Bzypt and in the Soudan, the English believe that they have dis- covered the miest favorable cotton- { growing countty on, earth; and en- thusiastic plali{ers. of Egypt have pro- claimed the cottorf:ef the Nile delta as the finest in the whrld. At least, they have statistic#‘on iheir side to prove that thegper-atfe. pfeduction of the fertile déMta field¥ can be made the swered, how can a nation such as rs decide on a sane policy? A sane policy, surely, we must ‘have. course we take must be reasonable. It. must be a considered course. It >uld be one which we shall have no wse to regret, from which we shall not need to retreat, Amid our con- ion as to actual conditions, we may be reasonably sure of one thing: no nation or nations are in any condition, or will be in any condition for at least | threo years, to menace us. The need for frenzied haste exists only in fren- zied minds. To these we ought not to listen. Obviously, there is another reason why we should not listen to the con- fusing voices. This is the year when we elect a president of this great country, and a more momentous ele tien we have faced seldom in our his tory. But many of the voices we hear ure those of political self-interest, not 0! patriotism or thoughtful state manship. Let the din die Let the election pas we can get opportunity for clear view end calm thinking. Until then, the best counsel is for conservative ac- tion, Once More the Titeracy Test. (New York Sun.) At no time in the nation’s history has there been less excuse for a liter- acy test for immigrants than there is tod The labor supply alarmingly depleted. The prospect of serious shortage is recognized in all parts of the country. The future course of immigration is not known to any man. And yet the effort to exclude honest, competent and indus- trious men because of the hardship of their youth is revived in the House Representatives. The argument that illiterate aliens make less worthy citizens than those who can read and write, that they cling more tenaciously to loyvalty he lands of their origin, cannot be trought forward. Ixperience has shown that the ability to read and write does not assure adherence America, comprehension of her ideals or devotion to her interest. One stock defence of the false theory has been rendered obsolete by the incidents of the last year, and cannot be used against to influence the judgment this generation Representative has succeeded in eliminating the ex- emptions in favor of Mexicans, Cu- hans and Canadians which were part of theoriginal draft of the measure. As it now stands in the committee it provides one rule for all, and thus the objectlonable nature of the pro- posal is made ‘more obvious. The un- ry, harsh and ill judged pro- is made all inclusive.’ Mr. Sabath wisely has forced it to a form in which no exceptions offer shelter to its more timid opponents, Three Presidents have vetoed the literacy test. None has had oppor- tunity to veto it twice. That oppor- tunity may be Mr. Wilson's, if the Sixty-fourth Congress proves as weak predecessor; and if it comes to him, there should be no doubt that he will improve it. bath of Tllinoi The Danbury Primar: (Bridgeport Farmer.) The Danbury democratic town com- mittee voted not to call a primary for the decision of the post office ap- pointment umiil after the spring elec- tion. This is o wise decision. It will prevent an important matter, which should be decided on its merits, from becoming an adjunct of a larger matter, which would touch Danbury at more points. After clection the primary for a choice of postmaster may be hela, when the selection for the most sat- isfactory man will be uppermost in the minds of the citizens. In the development of the direct primary Danbury Democrats lead the state, They have discovered a sat- .ctory and harmonious method for making political decisions, which ¥ operated to the very great advan of the democratic party and the sat- isfaction of the citizens of Danbur. The decision of the primary will be, in effect, a recommendation to Demo- cratic Natior S. Cummings man Jeremiah and former Donovan, Congre: They in turn recommend to the president, and he to the Scnate. Since Mr. Cummings and Mr. Dono- | van are in the front rank of demo- eratic progressi they will regard the decision primary of binding authority This is the American the people by their offic ballots make a decision, the dec binding upon the organization the locality represented of the as way. When 1l oath bound for Oakey's Oasi (Bristol Pr ssman P. Davis Oakey is into deeper water when he co-operate with the schem- are trying to touch Uncle am for the New Britain canal. That anal promi to be the last ditch for more than one ambitious poli- tician reputation, and Oakey is no better swimmer the others. If he wishes to serve Connecticut well he must keep out of the mud in that and similar plans to dig into the U, S. treasury. Cong; getting offers to ers who S than The | down. | Then, perhaps, | is already | to | to of | 11 Committeeman Homer | Congressman | grgatest among sall cotton-growing cquntries. “ Cotton, and Cromer’ made the re- | generation of Egypt possible, is the Englishmen cmphasized the im- piian cotton, by link e of their fore wa portance of E ing it with the most colonial statesman. This can crop is of still greater impor today to the people who have fostered developed by Inglish engineers large-scale cotton plantings possible; cotton crops set Egyptian labor free; put wages into the hands of the poverty-stricken nts; and transformed serfs on great estates into small proprietors. It attracted attention and capital to the land of the Pharaochs and Mame- lukes, and encouraged a temper in the people willing for administrative re- forms. “Igypt is essentially an agricultural country, with its great river, the Nile, a magnificent, costless fertilization plant, and the clear, sun-flooded sky, a forcing-bell. Where water reaches Tgypt's soll, crcps smile forth in pro- fusion, and cotton, neighboring the mills of Austria, Italy, Great Britain, France and Germany, took rank over all other products of the ficlds. “From 1804 to 1904, the cotton crop of Egypt doubled in quantity and value. The financial crisis of 1907 struck the country a still harder blow than it did the countries of Europe, rigation and the cotton plantings suffered se- verely. From 1910, the export of cot- ton grew to a total value of about $125,000,000. This advance was made in spite of the cotton worm and the boll worm, which made considerable ravages, more successfully due to carelessness of the native planters. “The best seeds have been distrib- uted to the cotton planters in Egypt, including the celebrated Sea Island variety native to this country. BEgyp- tlan cotton oils said to be remarkable for the soft quality of its lint, which, compared with American upland cot- ton, makes the latter seem rough and harsh in quality. There is, however, a certain element of patriotism in the Egyptian’s appraisement of his lead- ing crop. Besides being more silky, and somewhat longer than American cotton—the best hitherto grown in the world—,Hgyptian cotton mercerises easier; so that it finds a special mar- ket among manufacturers turning semi-silk and silk-gloss cotton goods. Cheaper neckties, glowing vests, hat- linings, and lustrous walst materials were largely made before the war out of the Fgyptian prcduct “Gowns, whose unsubstantial fabric seems to dissolve in their diaphanous waves and folds, were largely of weaves of the fibre grown on the Nile. The fibre of most of the cot- ton cultivated in Fegypt, however, is not as long or as strong as American Sea Island cotton, nor does it yield so large a crop as American uplana cotton, where the latter is properly cultiveted. American cotton is white, where Egyptians’ are cream-colored or brownish. This, in years when modes were favorable, brings a much higher price for the Egyptian cottons The promise of the Nile country as a region for cotton-growing has hardly begun its course of realization. Ir- rigation may increase its production, already important in. the world-mar- ket, many fold, while hundreds of thousands of acres in the Soudan may some not distant day be sown with this crop. The American and the Egyptian crops represent the two main types of cottons of world com- merce.” | Alaska’s Good Showing. | (Norwich Bulletih.) There is nothing surprising in the report which comes to the effect that Alaska has had a record year con- cerning its mining operations and that the total output running up to $32,000,000 far exceeds anything | which has taken place before. That Alaska was a land of natural re- sources has been thorouhgly under- stood. Tt has long been in need of development and the heavy demands for metals of various kinds, especially | copper has given it the chance which it has needéd to show what it can da While that northern territory has for years been furnishing a large amount of goods to this country every ar in minerals, fish and lumber it s lacked the cilities for the prop- handling of them. The develop- | ment s been slow and tedious. It | has been obliged to worry along the | best it could and make as much of a show as it was possible to under the handicaps which existed. The treasure land which exists in Alaska has not been awaiting discov- ery for it is already thoroughly known but it has been awaiting the development which always comes with the building of railroads and while the showing that has been made during the past vear has not been caused by that, it is plainly evident that a much greater period of pros- perity awalts that section when the government line, already ~underway, is completed. Hven though - Alaska has done well this year it hasn’t be- gun to show what it can do. It is clearly a land of opportunity and there are many surprises in store for those who keep their eyes on its year- Iy growth. o er Il “Gagging the Navy!” | (New Haven Times-Leader.) Another big roar against Secretary Daniels. The press satellites of the munition makers and others who don’t iike the secretary because he’s for government armor plants and other cconomies, never miss a chance. This time he’s gagging the officers of the Terrible: it any naval officer is gagged | aud not permitted to express his | cpinion in speeches or writings, the responsibility not on Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, hut on Theodore TRoosevelt and William Howard Taft. The order which hag been called a gag” and which prevents Admiral Iiske from writing for a weekly | ruper or making a speech at the Chic Commercial club was issued Jenuary 31, 1902, by Theodore Roose- [ velt, then president, and was re- peated in a more drastic form on November 1909, by President Wil- lic m Howard Taft. Previous to the issuance | order, the same result was secured by I Articles 1517 and 1518 of the United States Navy regulations and instruc- tions for the government officers. | erder altering these regulations in the | slightest respect has been issued by Secretary Daniels, Thetruth is that in permitting publicity for the recom- neendations of naval experts, Daniels | has been much more liberal than any | ¢t his predecessor The answer to the charge that officers are gagged is found in the | fact that committees of congress may | | eall on any ana all these officers from | the highest to the lowest for any in- formation or expression of opinion | that congress, which represents the | public, may want. What the department will not en- | courage and will not permit is ac- tivity by military experts along poli- tical lines such an officer taking | the stump in favor of a policy or starting a debate with the secretary of the navy or the president on mat- ters of policy pertaining to the navy. | ravy. | But is of this No | To illustrate: There are a number of officers of the navy whe. have been working for the establishment of a | “general staff” for the control of the navy. By this means, it is claimed, these military experts would lessen the civilian influence over the navy and bring that institution more com- pletely under their own control. To this end officers would like to male speeches before influential political Lodies or write for publications. This will not be allowed by any ad- ministration. Vassar’s Daisy Chain. (Detroit Free Press). Vassar, by a vote of its Senlor class, has decided to abolish the daisy chain feature of its commencement exer- cises. The institution is held to be out of harmony with the college’s “democratic ideals,” and the selection of twenty-four Sophomores for the honor of bearing the chain is con- demned as a beauty contest. As Middle West barbarians, most of us probably don't care a hang wheth- er there is a daisy chain at Vassar or whether all the sweet girl gradu- ates decorate themselves with dande- lions; yet it does seem that the grave and reverend Seniors have rather mis- sed the point in making their pro- test. If the beauty contest is the objec- tionable thing, then it is nature and not the daisy chain which fails in democracy. For if nature were not sinfully partial and aristocratic in distributing comeliness there could be no beauty contest, because everybody could be equally attractive—or rather there would be no such thing as beauty. The move for the Vassar girls to make, if they really desire to establish a perfect democracy and a perfect equality, is to abolish beauty After doing that they might proceed to equalize mental equipment and do away with all class honors. Centigrade. (Waterbury Democrat.) The United States weather bureau is trying to arouse general interest in the use of the centrigrade thermo- meter to replace the Fahrenheit. There is every reason why the centi- grade system should have the prefer- ence. The Fahrenheit thermometer sets the freezing point at 32 degreess and the boliling point at 212. There may once have heen some esoteric scientific reason for this, but to the common mind these points are simply confusing, and the zero point doesn’t scem to mark anything in particular. On the centrigrade instrument zero is the freezing point. 100 degrees the boiling. This is simple and logical. Also a decimal system is easier to work with them any other, as is proved by the case with which our money i§ reckoned and the trouble we have with inches, ounces, scruples and gallons. Habit may make people resist the innovation at first, but those who install the centigrade ther- mometers will soon find the change Justified. Shell Contract Famine. (Toronto Telegram.) A shell contract famine rapidly to the indus- The cause and to the uttermost detail of the problem. to seek. Factories will soon be closing down for lack of shell contracts. Workmen will soon be on the street because they cannot find employment, unless Britain places new shell con- tracts in this country, If factories have to close down, and of workmen are thrown on the street, a oondition of idle shell factories and approaching menace irial life of Canada. cure, if any, The cause is not far 'McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE" Savings Are Many Opportunity Presents It's Se f Right NOW Your Dollar Has extra buylng power at Mc- MILLAN’S Mid-Winter Clearance Sale. Things yowll need at prices you can afford to pay. Stock up now. LINENS AND COTTONS At a noticeable savings. LINEN TABLE DAMASK Sale price 79c. Value $1.00. MERCERIZED DAMASK Sale price 35¢ yard. Good value at 60c. SHAMS AND CENTERPIEC Sale price 69c. All squares of work with hemstitched are extra values SALE OF EMBROIDERIES At 29c yard. Values to 50c. 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The cause may be sub-divided inte two causes, 1—Lack of size in Sir Robert Bor- den’s premiership. 2—Lack of size in Sir Sam Hughes' shell committee. ° ' camr & Sidney Lanier, the poet of the new. South, both in his verse and in his letters, disclosed the thinker on prob- A Poet's Vision. (Christian Sclence Monitor.) lems of society in general and of the United States in particular. Like the New England singers of the ‘Whittler-Lowell type, whom he fol- lowed in point of time, he had & civic as well as an aesthetic cons sclence leading him to wutter him- self on contemporary issues and fo prophesy. Hence it is not surprising now to find, at a’ time when the southern states areg counting thelr gains from diversified crops harvest- ed this year, that he based all hope of ultimate renewal of the Southj former rank, as a political and cul- tural factor in the nation, on a revo- lution in agricultural economy such as now Is under way. He long ago challenged the rule of “King Cotton and preached reliance on many rather than on one staple product. RAILROAD PURCHASED. 1, and St. Paul Pays Five Million for 100 Mile Line. ‘Wash,, Milwaukee Jan, 26.—The and St. Paul has purchased under fore- Spokane, Chicago, 1ailroad closure proceedings for approximates ly $5,000,000 the Washington an Idaho Northern railway, which operates 100 miles of road betweel Epokane and Metaline Falls, Washy it was announced here today. . The sale, held at Spirit Lake, Tdahgy was ordered by the United States diss trict court of Idaho to cover the firgh and second mortgage bond issuesy practically all of which were held by, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad. \ STERNBURG DEAD. 26, by Wireless to Saye ville.—James Alexander Speck Vofl Sternburg, brother of the late Baram Speck Von Sternburg, German . ame bassador at Washington, is dead at the age of 60. One of Herr Vdn Sternburg's sons was killed on the French front early in the war, and another soner in France VON Berlin, Jan, 150,000 CARNATION St. Louis, Jan. 26.—More thap 150,000 carnations were on display at a down town hotel here today In cons nection with the of the American Carnation society, which began a two days' Session with cars nation growers from all parts of the country attending. meeting