New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1916, Page 6

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1916. ' BRITAIN HERALD [ALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. Iy (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., erald Building, 67 Church St at the Post Office at New Brital econd Class Mail Matter. i by carries to any part of the city 5 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Mont! fons for paper to be sent by mal ble in advance, 60 Cents a Mont! a Year. profitable advertising medium eity. Circulation books and pre always open to advertisers. jald_ will be found on sale at Hot: New Stanc. 42nd St. New York City; Board Walk, & c City, and Hartford Devot TELEPHONII CaLLS. Office Rooms and Broad- e It might happen that course of events President Wilson, Ty handling of men me ures, if good fortune attends him, shall guide the ship of state through the narrow straighty of adversity and emerge on the other side safe sound. It might be that after all the fuss and fury of the past two weeks, or months, or years, President Wilson will see to it that the peace of the nation with that there shall be no diplomatic rupture, | no trouble with any nation over the It might be that after exercis- during Jjudicial and 0 and h. n, n, is preserved honor, n 83 a- | s ing all the patience ever given to one to poss President Wilson might see fit to make all offenders against the United States of America come to terms, and do this amicably, 1S t- man R COUNTRY: FOURSE IOX IN HER IN- WITH FOREIGN S MAY SHE ALWAYS THE RIGHT; BUT OUR FTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. —STEPHEN DECATUR. ruination of the country. lating,” is the only sort of policy to pursue in a time like this when hot- headedness and display of temper is unbecoming a means destruction, 'ENTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. ast have hat the citizens of New [ the zreat the thermometer on tl bank thereon National and LW recorde day’s achievement in the can o rais uhb "wenty-one thousand do! ew clties of the country could f a better ci iy to a better start fnpaign. The populace wi pardoned for experiencing the at goes with a noble work we for glowing that with just means prid bmething for city itself. P men and women who, by the: enerosity, made it such wonderful poss amount o on the first day of a campaig: a ps as its ultimate object the of eighty-five thousand dollars pt only contributed dollars an jhey have done more; they have in the hearts of the citizens put a certain spirit that argues the future of New Britain. B; lorious sentiment that wa through the city yesterda fhe news of the pant feeling of partnership, ing that means the closer re of all those who dwell within fines of New Britain. And thi f is an accomplishment great- bigger than the mere gathering s to construct a building o nd mortar; greater because i that many more such enter- an be put under a happy ending. ity that the boys’ way club fun t reach the mark set by those hve started on the shall it go over and above th desired. If needs be, New Brit- h gather money for these goo es far and away past all reck- happened yesterday merel the wonderful Irk in New Britain, a city whos s pnce is not readily weighed or p many people outside its por- One of the youngest towns in ticut, it has grown gradually, leaps and bounds, to be well u list of municipalities -, and has taken a place amon nified and elect. ktacles set in its way, hutages that would have halte hbitious spirits, New Britain has p a manufacturing center that pgnized from one end of th to the other. The great amount Ith incorporated within the rel- small area here is what made ay's collection possible, is what romise of a greater future. Fo wenty-one thousand dollars a comparatively small sum of , & sum that might be scattered uandered by any idle son of y father, it is not so insignifi hen viewed in the light of on for a “cause.” p» the greatest of virtues, an the message of peace and goo ong raen. All this because tified with one of the happiest s that the mind of man can be d upon—the betterment of the ‘When these twenty-one thou- fiollars shall have been expendea with other and the doors of the new boy ppened, then will there be gre; ng among the mothers s, the brothers twenty-one and ers Britain, because a great deed was n the twenty-sixth day of Apr It is a day that shall ever be i back on by those boys of the who will reap the benefits bor expended by noble-hearted of a 'worthy community. been with a feeling of ritain building 10ney for a permanent response to a wor- in the land ever on a sim- the pent of the boys of the city and ble to achievement to every home the men and behind this altruisticmovement up a latent sense of obligation, with There is no venture. possibilities in this Overcoming natural It then takes ferent garments, arrays itself in beautiful robes of big-hearted- nd generosity, aligns itself with thou- and neutral his bring great nation; it might that the policy which will things out all the end. And if all these things true it good luck, we will call it that, to keep the nation i is in are and is President Wilson’s e out of the war, will enemies band themselves together and brand him a i and a wea as a coward ling, a jelly-fish, having done noble a thing? There is evidence that these things might come to pass, that he will be scathingly arraigned for net plunging the country the maelstrom of European di Naturally, it the political enemies of President Wilson who will resort to such tactics, for that is the way of if they stand up and abuse the President, we will cheerfully recall to mind the fact that on the pages of the Congressional Retord of last Tuesday there is print- that James R. Mann, minority leader, whose home is “somewhere in Illinois’”:—*“I am op- posed even to breaking off diplomatic relations with any of the countries at war in Europe. I think we ought to remain at peace, to stand even insult and injury.” for £0 i headlong into er. 11 will be 11 le politics, and, should ir ed this opinion as delivered by of | famous statesman n and orator, d ¥ s 34 POOR IRELAND. Following so closely on the heels of the capture of Sir Roger Casement and the German ship bearing weapons for use in Ireland, it might be rea- sonably supposed that the insurrcc- tionist riots in Dublin are but part of a gigantic scheme to embarrass and defy the Government. Because of the rigid censorship established by England the news of the Casement adventure was not given out until three days after it came to grief. This was in itself unfortunate for those who might have hoped for concerted action. Even now, little is known of what takes places in Ireland, althoush the British censorship has not suc- ceeded in keeping from the world all the news it hoped to suppres: With the flash that proclaims the establish- ment of marital law throughout the entire area of Ireland the mind's eye can picture of the scen It is readily recognized that the plans a e t a e d some ¥ | for this latest rebellion in Ireland, it has all the ear-marks of such, been long have in the making and were carefully worked out. Just what the will be now that thing has gone amiss, no one knows, e consequences the The o1 hope of those fairminded people in all parts of the world is that no dread- ful catastrophe befalls the folk in Tre land who have waited and longed for independence these many years, but who, when the prize seemed to 1 within their the victims stances. there is no means of knowing. P g a grasp, have been of cire It has been the histor: the case that everyone of these upris- ings but threw Ireland’s chances back into the dark valley of hopeless That is the sad of it all. The course of politics is a long drawn out, but in the long run it seems to get more than violence. always unfortunate n- e of ness. art r is sometimes tedious way; CIGARETTES. One in New Britain which, among other things, makes cigarette cases, has an output of these articies that is amazing,—it is something like two thousand cases a day, although that is not the exact number. Upon hearing of this enormous manufacture of such an article one naturally won- ders where the demand could+be for such a supply. Turning then to the report of the United States Govern- ment we find that the output of cig- arettes in this country the past year seventeen billion, five hundred Think of it! 17,500,000,000. It is almost beyond the imagination. But when we get those figures firmly plantea why a SOME firm i a d a it was e at | million. of in our minds we may realize one firm, two in New Britain can turn out thousand to hold some of that, BooAly s g e orders, they are making approximate- ly six hundred thousand cigaretie cases here in the course of one year. il, these ci ettes, and granting a of without the shedding of blood or the It might ve that President Wilson’s policy, which has been branded as “weak and vacil- be America, on the face of these fig- ures, would seem to be rapidly assum- ing or taking cupied long Spain,—a of And yet that is not place so ac- nation the by cig- arette smokers. the case. The cigarettes in the United States during 1906 the amount manufactured was only four billion.— great production the past year,—in great demand To- bacconists have been very industriously is accounted for by the for American tobacco abroad. sing their foreign trade during the past few The American cigarette can be found in the remote It is said to have iner years. ‘parls of the :lo{he. been made popular by the American sailor on his various trips around the So we will not blame all the cigarette smoking on Americans. A coffin-nail takes place under other skie world. vast consumption of the Pancho Villa is one of the few who return, thus proving the falsity of the statement somewhat prevalent after the Reno affair. “They Lack. never come Help The Boy. He will appreciate it, and help you later on. of Merchant Vessels. despatch from leading tood to Losses Commenting on a Washington which says that German oflicials are under: | have prepared for submission to the Kaiser statements containing statis- tics of the submarine campaign for the past fifteen mont which state- rients are purported to show that “only five per cent. of the allied ghipping has suffered,” thus branding the submarine warfare as a failure, the Springfield Republican has the following: The foregoing information may be, and probably is, based on rumor. Yet if leading German officials or leading German civili should choose to argue that the submarine campaign has been a comparative failure, they can undoubtedly cite statistics to prove their case. These statistics, in fact, are supplied by the British themselves. A particularly enlightening statement has been com- piled by Admiral Sir Cyprian A. G. Bridge, a retired commander, who shows that the shortage of tonnage row experienced in British ship- ping circles is due not to the destruc- tion of vessels by the enemy, but to the ‘“great requirements of the mili- tary and naval services.” Moreover, he shows that commer- cial shipbuilding has not been sus pended during the war. “In 19 he says, “after more than 12 months of war, the steam shipping of the TUnited Kingdom increased by S8 ‘vessels and 343,616 tons.” As to France, though the enemy had de- stroyed 41 of her steamers, with a tonnage of 1 805, the country at the end of 1915 was ‘‘only nine steamers ‘and 12,574 tons short of the figures ‘of 1904.” Sir Cyprian Bridge’s figures of the losses of allied steam vessels from the beginning of the war down to March 23, 1916, are as follows: British 379 1,320,171 French 41 139,865 Belgian Ttussian Ttalian Gro Japane: “en 3 In the foregoing, the tonnage of 11 vessels, not being reported, is es- timated. These figures, of course, at- tain significance only when placed in cemparison with the total number of vessels and the total tonnage of each of the belligerent nations. Accord- ing to Sir Cyprian Bridge, Great Britain has 10,218 steam vessels with a total tonnage of 20,830,918; France, 1016, with 1,909.609; Russia 744 with 851,951; Ttaly, 655, with 1,513, 631; Japan 1155, with 1,826,068, Belgium’s figures are not given, Turning to sailing vessels, one finds that Britain has lost 31 vessels out of a total number of 1133, or a tcnnage of 19,119 out of a total of 443,150. France has lost 12 v out of Russia eight out of 512, and Italy six out of 522. In addition to these there has been a loss of 237 trawlers by the British, seven by the French and two by the Belgians. The loss inflicted by the enemy on the steam shipping of the British em- pire down to March 23 amounted to less than 4 per cent of the number of vessels and a little more than 6 per cent of the tonnage. Tt should he said that the Minneapolis, a large vessel, was destroved after Sir Cy- prian’s figures were complied, and that he does not include some of the 20 due to the latest submarine compaign. The French, in the same period, that is to say, nearly 19 months of the war, lost a little over 4 nt. of their vessels and slight- 19,267 sels t per 1y more than 7 per cent of their ton- nage, Yale’s Famous (Waterbury 53, American.) The late George W. longed at Yale to the which included Isaac H. Bromley, the brilliant journalist; Henry C. Robin- son, the leading Connecticut lawyer; General dward Harland of Norwich, distinguished in the Civil War: Rd- mund Clarence Stedman, the banker- po George H. Watrous, President of the New Haven Road; Andrew D. White, former Ambassador to Berlin and President of Cornell; Senator Tem Platt of New York, Senator Randall Gibson of TLouisiana, Charlton T. Lewis, prison reformer and insurance expert; George Shiras, Jr.,, a member of the United States Supreme Court; Episcopal Bishop Davies of Michigan, and the Hon. Wayne MacVeagh a leading lawyer, and in Garfield's Cab- inet. That is quite a list for one Yale class to produce. Smalley class of ’53, be- The author of “Peck 3ay Bo, The Pad n't so had the statt, but he got worse as he went along and; as he was nothinz if not funny, when he cea ceased to be anything.—Binghampton Press. | | h is | dcaa Boy wa of | >d to be funny he | | | | er. {in | federal FACTS AND FANCT This is a dreary, doleful time Democrats who would like to vorite sons.—Albany Journal, TS, for be fa- General du Pont’s “millions for de- fense; not one cent for aggression,” is a rallying cry worth while.—Phil- adelphia Ledger. Speaking of the disappearance of the single-term plank in Wilson's case what's become of the third-term ob- jection in the case of Roosevelt?— Boston Journal. Perhaps the Mex the American army mated by the same spirit which moves countrymen on this side of the horder to shoot at balloons.—Buffalo Enquir- cans who fired at aviator were ani- If the Poles in Prussia had been for thirty yvears as well treated as the Ger- mans say they are now treating them Russia von Bulow Polish policy might not have gone to smash as it did.—New York World. | | | i Nebraska's sitting upon the brothers Bryan shows anew the ability of her voters to think for themselv \’\,'ithi his hold upon his own state thus shattered, the likelihood of Mr. Bryan’s playing a great part in the coming convention and campaign -is | greatly lessened. Somehow his brand of peace does not appeal like Mr. FFord's.—New York Ivening Post. As the situation develops it becomes | more and more apparent that sooner or later the government will be forced to shoulder its due responsibility for the safe and continuous operation ot the railroads which it has, in the last quarter of a century deprived of much of the necessary authority and courage for the proper management of the transportation industry.—New York Sun. It may be unreasonable to hope that Congress Wwill pay attention to the protests against one of the unwise provisions in the ship bill which have | been filled with the House Commitiee | on Merchant Marine by a committee | of the New York Chamber of Com- merce, but if it disregards them it will hinder the development of an ade- quate fleet of merchant vessels under the American flag.—Rochester Post- Express, The Army bill should be a iaw and in force within three days. The pre- liminaries of the proposed federaliza- tion of the organized militia should be put in operation. Practical action should be taken in regard to the form- ation of a body of federal volunteers in every state. Steps should be taken to increase the supply of munitions, The regular army should be gathor- ing in recruits by improved method Yew York Times . Hold Fast Your Dreams. Hold fast your dreams! Pain waits for you, And care and fear They are very near! There is death, too— Death comes to every death Will'come to you. are near— dream and Within your heart Keep one still, secret spot Where dreams may go, And, sheltered so, May thrive and grow— Where doubt and fear are not. On, keep a place apart Within your heart For dreams to go! Think still not true. wish and magic work you, Be sometime: believe! Forget the calm that n disillusioned eyes. Though we all know that die Yet you and I May walk like gods and be Even now at home in immortality. of Jovely things that are Let at will in blind to sorrow—make lies we must We know many ugly things Deceits and wrongs and quarrelings, We know, alas! We know How swiftly go The color in the west, The bloom upon the flower, The bloom upon the breast And Youth's blind hour. Oh, keep within your heart A place apart Where little dreams may Hold fast your dreams! (Louise Driscoll in the New Times.) S0 g0, The § (Brooklyn Standard Sisal is a word new to the average American. Just now it is appearinz | in print because of the charge made | in congress that there is an interna- | tional sisal monopoly which is bleed ing the American farmer. The pro duct is a cheap Central America: hemp used in twinemaking and comens | chiefly from Yucatan, deriving | name from a port in that countr is a sharp competitor of Mani hemp. The charge that a trust is exploiting the Yucatan product fo | the disadvantage of our farmers who get it in the form of hinder twine may or may not be true. Anyhow, the trade commission has in- vestigated a upervising the mar- keting of what is left of this ve crop that to come to this country. sal Tssue. Union.) Te The Colonel as a Critic. (From the Columbia State.) ow, then,” snapped the Colonel, gritting his teeth savagely, ‘“have you got down all my statement on Wilson's note yesterday? Secretary—7Yes, sir, “Did you put down that part about cur shameful surrender of American rights 2" Secretary—VYes, “And the weal meaningless T of the note? ary—I have the And the part about the flabby, { ! i sir, | and social developments, particularly | Booklist. | written | scenes,”—A. { time when | American Review.”—A. L. | force, is in the heart of the fabulously | Aragon and Castille as early as 1547. =l tory centers below ground, in the mar- | through Parral | from vacillating policy that dictated it? Bully! Now, bring me a copy of the note and let’s see what the man sald.” COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Civilization and climate, by Ellsworth Huntington. “Interesting and enlightening to the educated reader, the product of painstaking research in economic and sociological fields, made with an ob- ject of ascertaining the effect of climate upon energy and character.” —A. L. A. Booklist. v ow Denmark and the Danes, Harvey and Christian ““The authors, the one an English- man, the other a Dane, are able to give an inside view of present-day conditions and recent movements, noting those, fundamental economic * by W. J. Reppien. in regard to the tenure of land and scientific farming methods.”—A. L. A. Booklist. . Tinglish ancestral homes of noted Americans, by A. H. Wharton. * “A pleasant account f the autho its to patriotic shrines, infused with legend and history, which is“to remind us of “the rock from whence we were hewn and the pit from whence we were digged.”—A. L. A. , oxow Life of-Henry Laurens, by D. D. Wal- lace. “Scholarly, in a this prominent figure can Revolution. Of dents as dwelling on little considered causes L. A. Booklist. full in deta and spirit of admiration for in the Ameri- interest to stu- some of the of war.""—A. * - Longshoremen of the port of New York, by C. B. Barnes, A study carried on under the rection of Pauline Goldmark. PR di- * Masterpieces of modern drama, by J A. Pierce. “Gives thirty narrative, with 0 “plays abridged dialogue of the great A. Booklist. ‘own Patience Worth, a by C. S. Yost. “Amazing enough, whatever befits explanation, the messages out of the darkness never sink to the common place level, but always show high in telligence and sometimes are ev¥n tipped with the fame of genius. From the literary standpoint they have dignity, remarkable beauty, sus- tained imagination, and profound spiritual significance.”—NXN. Y. Times. PP People’s government, by D. “Traces the development of ‘he state from its heginning as an em- hodiment of force through the period when it was dominated by law re- garded as a sovereign decree, till the in some parts of the world at least the idea has been su- perseded by law as mutual obliga- tion. “Tt is doubtful if any study so penetrating, so immediately con- vincing, so free from philosophic oh- jections as this. has been here- tofore been given to public.” North A. Boklist. psychic mystery, J. HM. PR Drama. Beau of Bath, and other one-act plays, by C. D. A. Mackay. “Six little plays, suitable for ama- teurs, written in simple, rhymed verse, with not much dramatic ac tion, but with atmosphere and beauty.”—A. L. A. Booklist. P scenery for amateurs A. Mackay P Costumes and by C. D, a play of fancy in Arnold Bennett. M John Ferguson, hy St. John ‘Brvine. “A homely, absolutely naturalistic drama of peasant life with an inevit- ableness and an impact that are deeply moving.”"—Life. PR Master Will of Stratford, a midwin- ter night’s dream in three acts by L. A. Garnett. § " * o Players and plays of the last quarter century, by L. C. Strang. 3 (B i adventure, by . Great four acts, Play Complete edition posthumous plays. . %o Shakespeare and the modern stage, with other essays, by Sir Sidney Lee by Count Leo Tolstoy. jncluding : the . oo Technique of play writing, by Charl- ton Andrews “Sane and rather simple treatment of theory and practice—A. L. A, Booklist. » . Wreckage: a play in three acts, by J. H. Manners. “The psychology of the drug habit: an explosion and arraignment of this social problem, written also to bring a message of hope to those af- flicted with this habit."—Publisher’s note.. oo Writing and selling a pay, by Fanny Cannon Casey. “A hook of practical suggestions, intended for the mnovice, written from active connection with the theater as writer and stage director.”— . A. Booklist. . A Fiction. Behold the woman! by T. E. Harre. “‘Historical novel of the days of the arly Christian church. It suggests “Quo Vadis” in theme and treat- ment.”—Publisher’s note. P B. M, . herd, by Bower. * Seven miles to Arden, by Ruth Saw- yer. “A delightful whimsical little story, full of wit and action. By author of “The Primrose Ring.'—Publisher’s note. Phantom N oo Cleghorn. young and as Spinster, by Sarah N. “A sensitive, leisure-class woman grows into significant happy relations with the world a spinster.” ahete Swindler and other stories, by Ethel M. Dell. They of the high trails, Garland. P by Hamlin Parral, Mexico, In the Heart of Mining District Washington, D. C., April ral, Mexico, which recently was the scene of tragic happenings in connec- tion with the arrival there of General Pershing’s punitive expeditionary rich gold and silver mines district of the southern republic, mines which were among the first discovered by the Spanish conquerors and which be- gan pouring their streams of wealth into the coffers of the monarchs of This town, which has a population of | less than 20,000, has been the center | of Franc: Villa's operations for several years. Its historical and com- mercial importance are seet forth concisely in a bulletin issued today by the National Geographic society whose headquarters is in Washington, o Situated on the banks of the semi- Parral river, at the foot of the; Sierra de la Cruz, Parral's whole his- | velou ich Veta Colorado (red vein) which runs from north to south | mining district, in- cluding Minas Nuevas and Santa Bar- bara “As early as 1600, before the first permanent English settlement in the United Stat there were 7,000 min- ers emploved in this district, bringing the depths of the earth the vellow metal destined to sustain in splendor, for a time, the opulent court of the then most powerfil monarchy in Burope. From that day up to the present al has continued to en- rich the world from its seemingly in- exhaustible store of silver and gold, the only interruption having heen caused by a rebellion of the oppressed natives who on one occasion flooded all the mines of the district and then deserted the city by thousands. “The richness of the ore in this sec tion is shown by the fact that Amer: can mining companies find it profit- able today to smelt the tailings or refuse of the old Spanish work: “One of the most interesting inci- dents in the early history of Parral centers about a time-stained church known as La Iglesia de la Virgen del Rayo, the favorite place of worship among the Indians of the district. In 1860 a devout native began the con- struction of the church. paying hi | the movement helpers with ingots of pure gold which | he produced mysterious once a| week. During the twenty vears re-! quired to huild the structure the pious Indian baffied the commission- ed to discover the source of his trea ure, but when his work was finished the Spanish comumnander summoned spies —Par- { the miner before him and demanded that the location of the mine be dis- closed. When the Indian refused to tell, he was tortured to death, carry- ing with him to the grave the secret which 200 years of search have failed to reveal. “One - of the ‘sights’ of Parral the palace of a multi-millionaire mine owner, once a humble peon. In this house, which is shut in by adobe huts and narrow streets, there are big drawing rooms and museums Wwith luxurious carpets, over which the owner’s fighting cocks are allowed to roam at will, it is said. Twenty pianos are among the most highly prized pos- sessions of this simple, public-spirited native the source of whose wealth Is La Palmilla (iittle palf) silver mine, which he discovered many years ago. “Parral was not always the c¢hief city of this mining district. In 1580 the nearby town of Santa Barbara was the seat of government for a vast re- glon equal to one-third the area of the United States today, exclusive of Alaska. The country over which it held sway embraced the territory now comprising Chihuahua, Coahuila, So- nora, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado.” Night and the Curtains Drawn. (Helen Huntington in St. Louis Globe- Democrat.) Night and the curtains drawn, The household still; Fate, with appointed strength, Has work’d its will, Close to the dying blaze We sit alone; Naught but the old days lost, All else, our own. Farin the corners dim The shadows start, Near to your strength I cling, And near your heart. Dearest, the whole world ends. Ends well in this: Night, and the fire-lit dark, Your touch, your Kis The candidacy of Theodore Roose- velt, according to a good many well- informed Republicans, lacks the spon- taneity and depth that characterized four vears ago. It true that the Colonel has a larger per- sonal following than any other man in the party; that it followin:g that will always be in in a pre-primary campaisn. But it give: no sign of representing a majorit of the party It deceives because people are apt to mistake noisc for strength.—Buffalo Commercial. / s is a evidence 'SAY ¥ Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed In ex- & changes that coms to the & Herald Office. 3 ! WHAT OTHERS A Queer People?§ “We are a queer people, we are— we sons and daughters of Uncle Sam- uel.” That is how we look to the Wichita (K: ) “Beacon,” at least The “Beacon” goes on to explain thai when congress figures out a plan tc provide for the defense of our coun- i try, a plan to prevent, if possible, any such from lives ican rave war as might cost all w 100,000 to 1,000,000 to nothing at all of Amer liberty,” some of us fume anc against the ‘“‘extravagance” of such plans. We then put on ouw hats and coats ys the Kansis paper) and go down town and gazc about for half an hour to find 2ul where they are showing Charlie Cha plin pictures. Wc pay our dime for a forty-five-minute smile and come home feeling a good deal better than we did when we read the newspape! account of those “cxtravagant” paredness plans. We do not stop ic think that we are paving Charlie $10,000 a week to pull some silly stunt to make us laugh We don't mind the notion that Charlie's new contract is reported to be $520,00( for the year's work, plus a bonus of $150,000. Yet those sums would pay the salaries of ‘‘five major generals, fifteen colonels, fifty captains, seven- ty-five lieutenants, and one thousand able-bodied American privates, and leave Mr. Chaplin enough for his creature comforts to equal the ag gregate annual salary of the Presi- dent's Cabinet.’ That is why the Wichita ‘“Beacon” thinks that the antipreparedness man who alleges “economy’”” and just dotes on Charlie’ Comic Capers is a rather funny per- son himself. By the way, we wonder if there really are many people like that in your town? the Americ: (s0 says pre- The Polychromatous Physician. (From the Medical Review.) We all know, of course, from dab- blings in psychology that colors have an effect on our moods. A saffron tic makes us languorous, while a purple one inspires us to noble deeds. Green produces a state of tranquility, while blue depre: us. And so on. Bu! now the chromatic scheme of thing~ entire has invaded the operating room, that hitherto domain of the strictly practical. Last September Dr Moynihan wrote to “The Le tating that for two and & half years he had heen using greer sheets and towels instead of Wwhite ones in the room, as they were more restful to the eye; he had also paint ed his walls green and covered the floor with green material. This sug- gestion was copled by some American journals. In the next number of “The Lancet” Dr. Mulligan expresses him- self as being in favor of such scheme, but Dr. Whiteford is much more enthusiastic. His operating room he has done tastefully in light French blue, the surgeons are dressed in white, the nurses blue, and the on- lookers red. In the next issue a Dr. Jean states that he is doing his op- erating rooms in blue this year. And so the chromatic chirurgeons con- tribute their impressionistic ideas of operating rooms. In time let us hopo we will have the perfect polychroma- tous physician; he will bewilder us with some such display as this: The anaesthetic room will be in rainbow colors, signifying hope; the operating room will be in red, meaning danger, the new assistant will be green, the patient’s relatives will look blue, and the future will appear black. Seri- ously, however, it is time that some such restful shade to the eyes as light green should supplant the glaring white of many hospitals, the dazzling operating room, the cheerless corri- and the monotonous patients’ “The Polysyllabic Physician.” (New York Tribune.) An attempt is made by “The Medi- cal Record” to acquit physicians of the evil habit of using hard words, or at least to show that they sin no more than others in that y The fol- lowing word is piciied from a paper in one of the chemical Jjournals: tetradimethylaminotetraphenylhydra- zine, and the coiner of this tongue twister, we are told, “refers casually to tetramethyldiaminotetramethyldia- minodiphenyldihydrophenazine.” Hig critic holds that after such “out- rages” as these no one should “accuse the physician of expanding his ideas into polysyllabic labyrinths.” If the plea is not disingenuous it is assuredly ve simple. No one ever quarrelled with the doctors for using elaborate words and phrases when they could not find simple ones. To speak, for instance, of the astra tibial articulation is well enough when a mere reference to the ankle is too vague and indefinite. Nor has anyone objected to the doctors bor- rowing the word dioxidiamidoarseno- benzol even since we have had & short cut to the same with “salvarsan’ or the still con~ cise *'606."” The words that outraged cal contemporary are rather than pretentious That is obvious. A hyphen here and there would render them comparatively in offensive, but they cannot vet be shortened. A populer demand will cut such words down if necessary Tetranitromethylaniline can fall to tetryline or even tetryl; but it at present possible to deal shortly with the outrages quoted? The quarrel with the doctors is not that they accept trouble when they must, but that they make it needles Jy “The Medical Record” agrees that an acute gastralgia is neither more nor less than a tummyache: it must know, too, that a prodigious jargon has grown about Freudism and grows inevitably ahout every cther new departure in medicine, to say nothing of the efferts made to adorn old notions with high-sounding modern phrases. The wantonness of medical phraseology the chidl cause popular resentment-—or shall say the chief etilogical face tor? idea more our medi- descriptive as is of we ~ 3 v