New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1916, Page 6

W BRITAIN HERALD| BRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. d dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., t Herald Building, 67 Church St d_at the Post Office at New Britain Becond Class Mail Matter. ered by carries to any part of the city pr 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. riptions fcr paper to be sent by mall, layable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, 7.00 a Year. only profitable advertising medium in he city. Circulation books and press pom always open to advertlsers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ng’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ay, New York City; Board Walk, at- atic City, and/ Hartford Depot. TELEPHONH CaLLS. less Office fal Rooms ..928 ..926 YOU SEE bm on top OW YOU DON'T of the heavy winds [blow this way from Chicago can en the latest political prognosti- ng heart and soul to let the people nation know just what is going ppen at the republican national mntion three weeks hence. This mean job, with a list of candi- for the nomination as long and midable as a page out of “Who's All except sixty-two of the slegates have been elected. Some hundred of them instruc- According to the latest infor- n from the Center of the Storm ry, Justice Hughes is running far of all other persons mentioned, heodore Roosevelt, while he is stronger with the rank and file e is generally given credit for East, will be lucky if he even pomething to say about putting plank for someone else to stand ien the new platform is built. fvo to one victory which Justice ps scored over the Colonel in the s of the experts who are try bear pnt primaries has been duly dis- d, for there were no names of ential candidates on the official ican ballot and those who wrote se two names did so for effect, ‘ect being in the end, a petty of Hughes over Roosevelt. It nothing in the state because the es will go to the Chicago con- firmly tied to the apron strings Old Guard. The same thing pn from the outcome of the lvania primaries, where Roose- o suffered defeat, this time at Inds of Penrose. But all these s and defeats are not labeled jhe personal element. In the hey are taken as accomplish- river or tributary stream, has a prob- that few cities of problem that every day and the way to oblivion. within the immediate present must go a long way expenses | lem in this matte the a nation posse: grows larger and greater the city lives and thrives The present method is on Anything done grows. toward ing unnecessary in the future. All those citizens who must depend their trans- faciliti the means of communication upon the street cars for portation s and for tele- phone for must thank the mayor for his timely hint at better service from these two public utilities. The common coun- cil should take up this matter before any other item in the message is touched. The Public Utilities Com- mission must be called upon to investi- In the months the ‘tel- | ephone service ha worse, complaints have been filed with | zate. one from bad to the city officials and the newspapers, {and vet there is no relief in sight. On taking up a telephone transmitter to call an operator here, one sometimes wonders whether this is a city of some 60,000 souls in modern New England, or a tank-town in the Big Bend coun- try of Texas. The se the efficiency of the police and be well received recommendations -made to in- erea fire departments will by the common council and the peo- The two branches, of government are constantly be- factors in the affair: and they ple at large. the city coming of the municipality greater should receive every deserved attention. The police court must needs be placed in a more pleasant environment. There is enough food for thought in this mes- sage from the chief magistrate of the city to entertain for time to come the activities of those interested in New Britain’s welfare and develop- some ment. OUR NEW ARMY. it seems that between the From this distance, the agreement reached conferees on the army bill is not just what the greater army men wanted, nor yet has it come up, or down, to the expectations of the little arm¥y or the peace-at-any-price ele- ment in the nation. Senator Cham- berlain, who is one of the strongest advocates of real preparedness, while not entirely depressed over the con- dition of affairs, is not even edging near the state of elation. He thinks, however, that while possibly disap- pointing to some, the army bill will men, of the Old Guard. And the of the West are viewing them h. Ana the Old Guard has its 0ld in the East. Therefore it a battle of sections at the Chi- nvention, for the Western men ermnied not to let the Eastern all the dictating, or all the They feel that enough of t ‘of thing took place four go and they are not going to s time without knowing some- bout the spot to hit. These to be taken prognostications, pt they are worth. The politi- ervers are in the tower, they ching; and although the great s but three weeks away the seems rather cloudy to the the trenches, and the tower- e not so keen on eyesight. MAYOR’S MESSAGE. r Quigley’s annual message, d before the common council night's meeting, is by far the pmprehensive and important nt he has ever penned Devoid of since be the mayoralty. ers, figurativeness, or attempts pric, this epistle, printed in full | Herald today, simple, , statement of facts as they f 2 close student of municipal is a ees them, with the accompany- | commendations that should y come from the mayor of the | f the common council takes up d every item laid before it in fsage, scrutinizes and allots the place for every recommenda- d if these recommendations are accorded the deserve, New Britain hearty re will fadr way soon to remedy most prevalent unsatisfactory con- n with, the mayor points out ssity of a new system of as- It has long been con- hat some of the property in is not ta full quota, fer property is overburdened. houia o tatlon, no representation with- jtion. The appointment of a | ee of six xed its be no ation without representative citi- e to. work in conjunction with | ors in studying and planning should learing up this ew system, 20 2 long problem. hg over the paving proposed new White Way a Jphich must eventually themselves, as wants so y speak for themsely ted that the mayor h it is made u dispo: jge from New Britain. use of its peculiar situation, the immediate vicinity of any tion anent the | clare that the framework recommended by the mayor, | for o of streets | take | be welcomed by the reasonable and unprejudiced as “a good bill.” TRep- resentative Hay is elated over what he terms a victory, in that it may be seven years before any sort of an army can be built up, and then the people of the nation will have lost some of the zeal brought on by the present spirit of preparedness sweeping the The general staff of the army, allowed to publicly disapproval, nation. while not being voice its approval understood to be pointed at the outcome of what prom- something worth while. body will not it de- laid that any number of officers and men can be whipped into shape and made the within the In the event that the war abroad holds the attention of the belligerents of Europe for some months to come, as there is every reason to believe, the United States army will have a chance It is pointed or is somewhat disap- ised to be ‘While this directing a working basis as large as like, have might nevertheless, experts SO nucleus of a great army course of two or three yea to catch up with itself. out by Senator Chamberlain that the agreement which was entered into on the army bill, and which will now be enacted into a law provides, for the first time in our history, ‘‘for an army that is well balanced throughout and which will be an efficient fighting ms chine.” Says the Senator: ‘The bill provides for troops enough for the re- s garrisons, and the re- home quired overses maining at will be such as will make up complete brigades and nd the regular army will no be a ‘hit collection of regiments and battalions, as it has | heretofore been, due to piecemeal le; Under its troops | aivisions | longer and miss’ islation of former ar terms the army can be so adjusted as to meet and all exigencies. any ! That is, the internal structure of the regiments and companies of all arms have been so arranged as to permit of automatic expansion. Lessons learned in recent wars have been instrumental in shaping the new organization. Under this new order of things, the volunteer army has been abandoned. This will be looked upon as un- tunate thing in many circles. In place of that section of the Senate bill which provided for the volunteer army there has been written a provision for | training camps wherein persons who do not join the National Guard may be cducated for the military at the ex- | Pense of the Federal Government. L 4in, 1t must not be forgotten an 1t under a previous Congress “uthc United can, | President of uitable force Under the new rize the | bill the National Guard will be given the importance its advocates have i NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 191 6. been calling for during the past year It will be under the watchful eyes of the regular army officers, who will see if it lives up to expectations. or so, Its maximum force has been fixed at about 17,000 officers and 440,000 en- listed men. Leaving aside for the moment the possibilities of the Na- tional Guard, the regular army is the thing, as it must always be the na- tion’s first line of land defense. Upon its | rest the safeguarding In the past it has sometimes utterab shoulders must of the country. been neglected, Yet, when called upon it has always rendered service, and service that is written high on the pages of history. Because this is a compromise bill, as all such be, the regular army has not come into what many believe it is entitled to; but it has re- ceived an impetus such as it has never known in years gone by. It has been increased that it will eventually have thirty regiments of infantry; ten regiments of cavalry; fifteen regi- ments of field artiller) of engineers; two battalions of mount- ed engineers; of squadrons. bills must so coast artillery, .and eight aero The necessary number of the higher uni also provided for, so that the regular army of the United - reach time of peace eventually war In States will total of 261,500. the maximum strength will be about 11,000 officers and 175,- 000 men. This, not counting some corps, medical depart- Philippine scouts and unas ned recruits. So it can be easily seen that while these troops will not be to look for quartermaster ment, ready go out and trouble in foreign countries, which we | will, | do not want them to do, they put the fear of God in foreign prince or nevertheless, the heart of power who essays to raid these shores. It is a good start on an army for de- fense only. any All the streets around the Coliseum in Chicago will be paved with mats during the republican national con- | vention. PUSSYFOOTING, EH? And sessions will be held at night if necessary. Time for the¢ dark work, maybe. John O'Neill. One year ago today, John O'Neill, You went aw Into that Land from whence No Trav'ler e'er returns. And going, left behind, John O’Neill, A Mem’'ry kind And thoughts that ever hence Shall soothe Life’s burns. Nor think that we Forget, John O’Neill, You're with us yet In Spirit! Love intense Ne’er loses all it yearns. FACTS AND FANCIES. Gospel for gardene ‘Watch and spray.—New Haven Register. Carranza doesn’t even admit “mistakes.” ew York Sun. Just at present the cry in this coun- try is, See Mexico first.—Troy Record. The only fly in the old guard’s oint- ment is T. R.’s bee.—Columbia, 8. C., ‘State. Columbia Seniors have voted cock- tails the favorite class beverage.— Meriden Journal. What has become of the old-fash- ioned politician who used to rock the boat?—Atlanta Constitution The bonds of the father are visited | ters, | times as large as the mother coun- five regiments | ninety-three companies | : captured by the Belgians, lies on the of the army | { north. | ed, is confined to the last thirty or | terests in the signal corps and battalions to serve | both 25,000 men enlisted in the signal corps, | 2 mile ahove sea level, with giganti [0 Belgian Troops Holding T heir Own In the Congo Washington, D. C., May 18—News of the success of Belgian forces in conflict with colonial troops of Ger- man East Africa gives timeliness to a war geography bulletin, issued to- day by the National Geographic so- ciety from its Washington headquar- which says: “When the American public reads that the troops of the Belgian Congo have defeated the colonial troops of German East Africa at Shangugu and that the victors are proceeding south- ward from Lake Kivu in the direction of Lake Tanganyika, it is hard to realize that the two colonial posses- sions involved have a combined area four-fifths as large as all of contin- ental Europe, the Russian empire excepted. Belgium’s territory ‘alon in this quarter of the globe is eighty while the population le wilds of the Congo estimated at from fourteen millions. The German col- nearly double the area of the home country, while the population is estimated at eight millions. TIn possessions, however,: the num- her of Europeans, chiefly officers of the home governments, does not ex- ceed a few thousand: “Sthangugu. the of the basin is position recently uthern shore of Lake Kivu, a mag- nificent body of water having an area almost as large as the state of Rhode Island, and situated nearly peaks looking down upon it from the “The march of the victorious col- i s along the Rusizi river, which conveys the waters of Lake Kivu for sixty miles to the south into Lake Tanganyika, the longest fresh-water lake in the world. “The history of hoth the of German East Afric the governing countries Congo and » S0 far are concern- as forty years. Belgium owes her in- ‘Dark Continent’ pri- ¢ to her late sovereign, Leopold who founded ‘International Ass ciation for Exploration and Civiliza- tion in Africa’ in 1876. As a result of this assoclation’s activities in effecting treaties with native chiefs, there we developed the Congo Frec State, neutral independent sovereignty, fi recognized as such by the United States in 1884. Leopold, whose in- terest in the new region had beea keener than that of any other ruler and whose private purse had de- frayed much of the expense of ex ploration, was named as the sovercisi of the new state. By a will ,exccuto four years later, the king bequeathed the Congo to Belgium. After pro- longed international controversies over alleged cruelties to native: { ment of natives. { German East by Europeans in 1858, when Richard | Burton | Lake Tangan ! shores the town is the Belgium par- ume full responsibility for a colonial possession. ce eight years ago, and to recognize the new Leopold's liament finally control of and the territory This took 7 the first nation power in central Africa was many, in January, 1909. “Germany’s control of the terri- tory lying on the eastern side | the continent opposite the Belgian | Congo, dates back a quarter of century when the sultan of Zanzi- bar ceded his mainland possessions of 364,000 square miles to the European empire for a mere million dollars. “The early his*ory of the coast of what is now German East Africa | goes back four or five hundred years before the advent of Portuguese nav- | igators who found Arabs in possession of the native villages in the sixteenth century. When the Portuguese with- drew after two centuries Arabs again assumed cpatrol, extending their power far. inland. England was of- fered contral of the region by the Zanzibar Arabs at about the time that Stanley was making his famous explorations of the Congo, but the offer was declined. Then began 1,]\0‘ activities, secret at first. of the Ger- | man Colonization society, which eventually resulted in adding the territory to the Kaiser's overseas do- main. tIn regime, voted to western side of the continent the Portuguese naval officer Diago Cam discovered the mouth of the Congo some ten ars before Colum- bus set il on his voyage which re- ulted in the finding of the New World. It was many centuri how- ever, before this river, with a basin of a million and a half square miles, larger than any other in the world save the Amazon, was explored for more than a few miles above its tuary. “One name of interest in connec- tion with the Congo is that of Sir Roger Casement, now a prisoner in England charged with high treason. Sir Roger, when British consul at Boma, the Congo capital, made a journey through the upper regions of the great river basin, in 1903, after which he made a famous report al- leging many atrocities in the treat- “The most interesting settlement in | Africa is Ujiji, a town inhabitants, chiefly Arabs. and ivory mart of the century was first visited of 14,000 This slave nineteenth and J. H. Speke discovered viki, on whose eastern tuated. Of even more interest, however, is the fact that it was here that Henry M. Stan- ley's famous undertaking to find the lost explorer David Livingston was accomplished on October 2Sth, 1871.” —— e COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE'S LIST THIS WEEK || r— Counter-currents, by Agnes Repplier. his | churche | Passed by the censor, the experienc | To upon the children; aye, even unto the | third and fourth generation.—Life. Harper's Weekly has been discon- tinued, but no doubt you dropped it off your mailing list years ago.—De- troit Free Press. British slackers will be pulled from | > last ditch and sent to a less com- France.— the! fortable one somewhere in Brockton Time For Japan to make four hundred million Chinamen lie down and roll over would be another world spectacle. —Toledo Blade. Where congress would really like to have the censorship law start is in the press gallery, and it may get around to that yet—Boston Evening Tran- seript. Looks as if the persons who main- tain that the militia is our needs might soon have a chance to demonstr it. — Philadelphia North America If the kaiser did indeed write the note with his own hand, he is more facile with sword than pen.—Syracuse Post-Standard. Cigarettes undoubtedly go up in smoke, but they are beating the rec- ord as revenue bringers in the to- bacco stakes.—Buffalo Commercial. And to think that, after her exploits in England, anybody should dare to plant alarm clocks in a meeting ad- dressed by Mrs. Pankhurst.—Cleve- land Leader. A woman rights in the she expects in other matte sometimes wants equal matter of balloting, but hade of the best of it Atchison Globe. Chancellor Day of Syracuse is against preparedress, but there is Nno record of his having turned down any endowments.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. | ception sufficient for | . o Fundamentals of military service, hy L. C. Andrews. PR Highways and byways shire, by W. F. “History, literary comment, de- cription specially of architectural subjec of the many splendil which abound in this coun try, are pleasantly mingled in thi volume, which has been written with the motorist in mind.”"—A. L. A Booklist. | [ Hunter's camp-fires, by House. “ s » in Lincoln- Rawnsley. of an American newspaper man in France, by Wythe Williams. P Ruhleben venture M. Pyke. “Mr. Geoffrey Pyke's experiences and escape from Ruhleben read bet- ter than half the adventures of fic- tion. His account of his confinement at the Alexanderplatz and the Stadt Vogtel prisons is admirably vivid Athanacum. and back, a great in three phases, by ad- (€5 = | PR | Verdun to the Vosges, impressions of the war on the frontier, by Ger- | ald Campbell. * For Teachers. American college. “Valuable and inspiring. Among the contributors are Presidents Faunce, Thwing, Rhees and Profes sor Shorey.”—A. L. A. Bookli: PR * % { Backward children, by A. Holmes. “The aim of the author is to give to the teacher or parent a true con- of the differences between permanent and temporary backward- | ness in children. Full of interest, suggestion, and cannot fail to helpful to the trainer of children.” —A. L. A. Booklist. * e P in the mind of the E. R. Mumford. . Dawn of religion child, by E. B Dramatic instinct in education, by E. W. Curtis. ° . Education for industrial workers, H. Schneider. | “A suggestive, on industrial education, made special reference to New York Cii —A. L. A. Booklist. P e | with . Exer: in education and medicine, by R. T. McKenzie. x ox oa to know your child, by Scott. | “Mrs. Scott does mnot delve into ! yehology, nor has she any learned | theories of the emotions or volition or character. Yet after veading hor, you decide that there is more assim- ilated science in her book than in| many psychological manuals, How { B ! of | tale constructive report ! Mr. and Mrs. | with womans life and with the tragedy of | youth’s encounter with the world. | modern M. F.! dition | is science that conceals science.'— New Republic. * Methods of teaching, their basis and statement developed from a func- tional standpoint. by W. W. Charters. * % oo Methods of teaching in high schools, by S. C. Parker. “Well arranged and full of illus trative material based on the author's experience in teaching educational methods at the University of Chica- go.”—A. L. A. Booklist. % Lauvehter and life, a book dealing with the problem of amusements, by Robert Whitaker. “The argument is original, the style crisp and epigrammatic. Tt is a book to make one think and, as a result of’ thinking, do his part to- ward rescuing fun from the grip of | the devil and making it an agency in | developing a wholesome joyous life.” —Publisher's note. ! | | x x New manual of method, by Garlick. * oo New physics and its evolution, Lucien Poincare. imple art applied to handwork, by H. A. Rankin and F. H. Brown. “Good manual in which brushwork gns, and stencilling and needle- work. The text is for the teachers | of young pupils.”—A. L. A. Booklist. hing of elementary by David Smith. mathematics, * ics for purposes of ation, by C. R. Mann, wow Fiction. Daughter of the storage, by Howells. rching of phy general educ W. D. inium lady, by S. C. Bates. “A dainty, very light little story the kind usually and tersely de- scribed as mmer fiction. The is gracefully written, and con- ins moments of true sentiment.’ Y. Times. * G | Par— Pierce, by Cameron Mackenzie. “Life amidst ial struggle of the effect the financial and so- a great city, dealing of business upon a A of modern isher's note. PR tory —Put living co rd. in Aus Pioneers, by K. S. Pric “The pioneers live Strength of character grows their life, and the tale of how fought their hardships and of their children reaped the benefit alia. they how of their inheritance and unusual story list. | | strictly concerned with the tratfic home atmosphere. t: Under the title, | Country . Years of plenty, new novelis: | our inter | Oxford life are memorable and pro- | | o the war. tion. political exuberance induced by requirements of the pending ppeal to the voters, reaucrate are prophesy an unchecked persistance of | prosperity during the war and after I the forecast of experts founded by the developments succeed- terances of our seem something more They are in keeping with the contem- porary | refuses to admit ! much ' after the European struggle has sub- sided. s with | bear from e Department of Commerce that Here ! their work and paid the penalty of | should be no business letdown when makes a readable —A. L. A. Book- P Return of Dr. Fu-Man-Chu, by Rohmer. i .o Roberta of Roseberry Gardens, Frances Duncan. . by i Under the country sky, by G. S. Rich- | mond. “A love story suffused in a pleasant It appeared ser- | Ladies’ Home Journal “The Star in the | ublisher’s note. i v o | by Ivor Brown. | of unusual merit, by a| of promise.* * * Partcf t is in the unusual power | Brown in analyzing the mind | and part is in the quality of his style. The two com- bine to make a novel of unusual strength. His characterizations of | ally in the S] . “A story of Mr. of the student, phesy much for the future’—D. L. | M.—Boston Transcript. THE LATEST THING IN POETRY. | Being An Example of ‘“Paroled” As Barred Against “Free,” or “E: caped” Verse. (From Don Marquis’ column in the New York Evening Sun.) Inspired by the vast amount of Free Verse in the warld today. W. D. has invented a new form which he calls Paroled Verse. ‘“Paroled Verse,” he explains, “is verse that has a string to it. Free Verse comes and goes as it pleases:® it may be criminal, or it may be in< nocent; there is a doubt about it; the only thing known certainly about it is that it is Free. “But Paraled Verse is verse that bas been tried and found guilty, it has served part of its time and is now on good behavior. Here is an example of Paroled Verse: Sweet Penelope Died of syncope When her avuncular relative Who lives in the antipodes Sent her an antelope.” A great deal of Free Verse, in our opinlon, has been pardoned because of political influence. And some of it should come under the general title of Escaped Verse. Here is an example of verse that is neither free verse, nor yet paroled verse. It cames rather under the classification of verse that has been | acquitted because the jury wanted to | get away—Not Guilty, But Never Do It again Verse: Once Bill and I our cups; We had been time. Suddenly Bill saw an elephant. It came in through the keyhole anc began to expand and got large and larger and larger. It filled the room to such an extent That it was crushing Bill into the corner and smothering him. | I wept with pity for poor Bill, but | how was I to save him? It was Bill's elephant and I had no cantrol over it. Suddenly just before Bill was quite smothered, I had an inspiration— I saw a mouse! And my mouse chased Bill's elephant were sitting over sitting so for a long | | | L) | the have no | almost e war but too in of the lluropean to be supplied, argument is demands longer Mr. Redfield’s war munitions. He reduces der business to about | the country’s total industr: mercial activity and deduces thag the disappearance of this trade-wilf be negligible The trouble with ing that like the relative importance between the try’s foreign it ignores the his line of comparisor which made roportions of tha cou nd domes commerce, very great influence which foreign trade kind h on the price level of domestic indus- try. A large umber of commodity and mercantile markets cannot fail¥p have their aterially ected” b the loss the of war de- mands. Buying for war purposes Is imperative and urz It takes lit- tle account of s it cannot af- ford to wait. 3 prices which war time buying 1 very large amount of domestic ir has been adapted in duction and operating Business problems which European peace will bring will not be =o fling as the problems of war. less our strength has for war purposes we lLiave every rer son for confidence that the business problems of peace will be satisfac- torily solved. Yet it is going to mi work for our flnance and commerce to shift from a war to a peace foot- ing and the task will not be lightenegd if Washington persistently advertises the future in terms of an economic joy ride. is ic any s prices 1 of ctor and the made a co: dust equipm pen to Mergers That Come Home. (New York Press.) Maybe we are going to have $60,000,000 merger of compani ing automobile accessories, not, to effect large economies enforce measures of co-operation ig handling parts and supplies for car But nothing has done than the motor-car business to mse the pub- lic appreciate the importance of con- centrated control. The motorist who rolls service station dozen miles from anywhere and asks for a particular service only to be informed t he can't have it because the station doesn’t handle parts for the particu- lar car that needs them goes away and cussses. It gets to him at last that there is too much competition and too little service and after that he realizes that competition and service. often are pretty directly antagonistic to each other. Not being especially devoted to the Anti-Trust law and being at the moment very concerned to make™ his car take him on to the next place where there is a usable hotel, he im- bibes some substantial prejudices against economic systems that inter- fere with efficiency. Maybe he doesn’t phrase it in that way, but that's what he means. What he actu- ally says would be improper to print., We are getting nearer to an un: derstanding of the necessity for serv- ing- our needs instead of some of our preconceived notions. The motor- car business is one which can be un- | derstood; one as to which the im- portance of unification and co-opera- tion is obvious. Yet it is merely more obvious than as to many other indus- a mak- maybe and more ke up to a a out of the room and saved his | tries. life. 1 always rise to emergencies that way when I am in my cups. BUSINESS AFTER THE WAR. No Economic Joy Ride When Things Shift From a War to a Peace Footing. Not many of our men of affairs, our captains of industry ang our financial leaders, are willing to in- dulge at this time in circumstantial prediction about the business changes which will be invblved in the return of peace abroad and its sequel in the sonversion of European energies from destructive to productive cfforr. Tor | the most part they seem to be rc- garding the future with confidence equally remote from apprehension or enthusiasm, but when they express their opinion they direct pe ent attention to the formidable problems of readjustment which are inevitably contingent on the termination of the stupendous conflict that has shifted all the currents of commerce and fin- ance and deranged economic activi- ties throughout the world. This is as it should be. Tt is far | better that a degree of industrial de- | pression should be expected, even in | the United States, as an accompani- | ment of the universal business and banking shift back to a peace basis than that there should be no antici- pations of reduced volumes, con- | tracted values, diminished employ- | ment or curtailed profits at the end | The preparedness about which everybody is talking today | must include preparedness for new | conditions of enterprising endeavor. To the extent that the difficuities of the future are recognized they will | be the more readily overcome as they | aro approached and the extraordin- ary resources of wealth which this | country has been gathering will he conserved for advantageous employ- ment under the altered conditions which will follow the war, instead of being dissipated in extravagzant re- liance on their continued accumula- | be made for | the Some allowance may but our Washington bu- | a little too ready to When it is remembered how much were con- ng the outbreak of the war the ut- political soothsayers than ring stubbornness which that there will be of military preparedness political need In most they will close examination. is pleasant, for example, Secretary Redfield cas not Tt of | than of rolled out ened"” turn taste thick | tion trouble to create such a a fortune a New | tation for | shortcak We long since recognized that reil-* roads must not be allowed to run wildcat in rate competition, even if they want to. They used Lo do that, and it demoralizes the whole munity. They are required now- adays to charge the rates that the government prescribes for them; and it is getting also to be the generaly rule that they must pay the wages, at least the minimum, the govera- ment fixes for them. But if two of them merge in order to accomplish these ends most satisfactorily and economically they become a con- spiracy, After this war over and the world gets back to business under the more efficient methods that are being devised in every land the United States will have occasion often to think on these things. com- is All the way the Atlantic coast to Pacific rises the wail over the ing of the strawberry shortcal good reason, too, does the w Real strawberry shortc come strange and rare the nectar and ambrosia where- on the gods feasted on Mount Olym- pus—and well might Zeus and his companions have abandoned their ce- » lestial diet could they only have par- taken once of a feast of real short- cake transported from some Southern dinner table The Seattle too overcome by than bid a to the short the Providence its sorrow and communications fro on the pa Wi Seattle on P delioa as Post-Intelligencer emotion to do more and hopeless farewell of our boyhood, but Journal bitter in rails out the avil of foreign chef which, it claims, have corrupted our good American cooking. We though, that the trouble lies that. The willingness to a sham shortcake, which is true as paper lace on a to real Valenciennes, of the decline in our fibre. For the construction of a shortcaka of the sort that mother demanded hot and painstaking ¢ plication. There was no cake about it; the layers, between and on top which the strawberries were pack- as close as they could lie, were of pastry dough, “short- nicety and haked to a marvel of cookery r and butter hot as soon the berries were put into it. And plain cream—no whipped or imita- whipped stuff—was the thin to eat on it In this day of tawdry make-believe who would take the sterpiece is sad fear deeper accept to the valentine mptomatic is s national mor: sed to o ed to This with and ved was dressed sug to as m wondered York Bonif! pile up merely by establishing We have often how ‘g ce could a repu- e. And how many suitors would beset the twentieth century real old serving = maiden who could match such a dish!