New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1916, Page 6

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Pw Britain is blessed by nature an abundance of trees and foli- In turn, there are great gather- of birds in this vicinity. by the wealth prial. of home making In the early morning hours | ncessant chatter of many feather ed throats gives evidence of the y of Yet there ot as many song birds around as | s of these wonderful little beings d And so as we i on the of a belated er it may be well to contemplate manner families birds. like to have. threshold a or means of enticing singers to our midst. In Troy, York,:the boys of the pls have set about making bird Ps, cozy, little, apart- s for the 'birds. And these are d in the trees where families of might move in and have rent The result is already manifest. grammar attractive Bingers of many tribes have ar- are making their places of . Prepared to spend the summer. fame thing can be done in New n if the boys only get around Each boy, instead of spending afternoon in the futile pursuit asing cats or hounding dogs, beset himself to the task of pre- E a neat little bird house, to be H in some convenient tree near pme, and thus serve an invita- o the birds to come and be his pors. We_offer this suggestion at it is worth. The parents of who are inclined to run the might get their offspring inter- n the project by furnishing the r, the nails, the tools and the necessary to carry on such work. long run the city would be the , the boys would be better off bving devoted their time and to humane pastime, and Judge I's duties in the juvenile court | be considerably lessened. | PPING IN THE “JOKERS”. v male resident of the United who has reached the voting | s &t some time or other in his | looked around for a soft berth employ of the federal govern- | This is a natural outcome of articular form of government. [y these persons get discouraged r search for a particular posi- d eventually take up some form ful work. There is one po owever, not yet created by ss but which should be given a bn the list, and, if this is ever it should be the ambition of patriotic American boy to make ation for securing this “job”. osition, for want of a better we will call “The Office of Con- nal Searcher for Jokers in Leg- Bills.”” Lest there be some people who are not wholly fa- the term ‘“joker” onal lexicon, we | | | | { with the Congre as a to explain. A joker is some- vhich on the surface appears to thing and when subjected to g Or, a joker is a fake; a disguise; uerade. It is a wolf in lamb’s It is just the opposite of Thus it legislative found to be quite another appears to be. joker on its B are not particularly anxious brought to light; but which refully steer past any publici lereby fool a busy public. We suggest, in view of the numer- ers sent through past that “The Office of al Searcher for Jokers in Leg- Bills” be hereby established, at with corps of assistants under him, ed in Wa s seen bill which in a or is something Con- Con- a competent man, a shington to ferret out monstrosities. an example of the are slipped Con- solutions, the Bill into we take /A“_“y Reorganization “"lh-‘c“*;()is:’rréin;hrough the of the Senate an:r:"{w =2 e House. re two jokers alreaqy ¢, 11; but too late to iy e has something to do i, a Congsessional tization e awards 'of medals of honoy, attempb=to discredit the war of Major Gen. Leonard Wood medalreceived for work done ection with the pursuit of bund in The inve attracted | joker, which was inserted behind the doors of the contained in one little para- closed Conference Com mittee, is graph that provides for the appoint- ment of Judge Advocates in the re- { organized “Provided further, That of vacancies created in the Judge ate’s Department by this act, one such vacancy, not below the rank shall be filled by the pointment of a person from civil life, not less than forty-five nor more than army, and which reads as | follow | the | Advoc of Major, ap- fifty years of age, who shall have been for ten years a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, shall have served for two years as a Captain in the regular or shall be proficient in the Spanish lan- volunteer army, and | guage and laws.” Admittedly this joker was inserted at the instance of Representative | James Hay, Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, for the purpose of giving office to a friend of his, the only living human being who | can come up to such qualifications as | the bill. This | Judge Adam C. Carson of the Su- | preme Court of the Philippine Islands, | who is now in this country on leave | outlined in man is of absence and whose home is in Vir- ginia in the Congressional District of | Mr. Hay. The Judge fills the bill to | the letter, having served as-an ‘officer in the Philippine army which took up the work left off by the regular army in the suppression of the Aguinaldo insurrection. He also speaks Spanish | fluently. Al of which goes to show | how a little “joker” can be fixed up to | suit some particular whim of any | Congressman who is on the “inside”. | It can be readily seen that there is | great room for such an office as that | Here is | suggested in the aforegoing. a good chance for some bright, dustrious American boy to win favor from an over “jokerized” country. in- “DEAR OLD BILL TAFT.” It was our own Professor Hiram | Bingham, of Yale, who told the Col- | onel yesterday while the Roosevelt | Republican Committee was holding forth at Oyster Bay why the nation | wanted T. R, back in the saddle. The ‘ professor in his chosen line of archae- | ology has been wont to spend much | time in the countries of the | world; but because of the manner in | old which Americans are despised and | made the targets of humiliation he has abandoned his foreign explorations. | So, after reading the Colonels | speeches on Americanism the pro- fessor could see no other way out hut to join forces with the celebrated citizen of Oyster Bay. Now d. The professor is of William Howard under- star an ardent ad- mi the professor’s college in Haven. Notwithstanding all this, Professor Bingham sidled up to the Colonel and told that gallant old war- | rior that William Howard Taft held no charms for him, that he had sur- rendered, and baggage, to the Rooeveltians and he could no longer | giving the Colonel his support. | as I love dear old Bill | told the Colonel, “I had to come out for There. | The whole show The Pro- | fessor is an alternate to the National Convention and carries much weight. | It is presumed that by this time at bag res As much Taft,” the Professor ou. is over. arrived back | at Yale. er Bay was | made with the few selected to convey to Colonel Roosevelt the official | the Republicans of thirty Bingham has His trip to Oys men Professor notice that states had determined he should be the party’s regular candidate, this over and above the fact that Justice Hughes | ran away with him in the Oregon | primaries just previous to this visit. | So, having fulfilled his part of the en- | gazement, of announcing the gladsome news to the Colonel, Professor Bing- ham probably went back to teach his | glving up politics for the And, by some fate, he might | classes, moment. have chanced across his genial fellow professor, “dear old Bill Taft,” walk- ing across the campus. If so, what be the thoughts likely to run the mind of the archaeolo- some psychologist near by would through gist? We and given a chance to study the sturdy | behavior, | o | little politician-professor’s he might have something interesting in his notebook. Such and then again they run somewhat as follow to record thoughts might, | might not, Why did T desert “dear old Bill Taft?” Surely something of the heroic in my make-up, to go all the | way from New Haven to Oyster Bay | in search of the leader of the Repub- | lican party when the recognized leader 5 party lives right here in the Elm City. I am afraid I made a faux pas. “Dear old Bill Taft.” He is good-natured, and he may forgive me. will he think of Colonel Roosevelt, who has blazenly con- .d the leadership of the Repub- knows I must have 8o of that But wha fisca lican one party, when no Whether the Colonel is a Republican or Progressive, or what he is, po- litically> “Dear old Bill Taft, I trust he Will not feel this too deeply.” And 0. We pass that by, how- d get to the real joker, which r the more interesting. This g0 the Professor will ramble on, if we And he will do no more than other men L get the psychology of it a-right | in the book of books. | ness {and a committee appointed by ! any practical pirpose. The conference as ! of certain provis Tagt, | Wickan. 2 ' | expressed the sentiment of whilom occupant of the White House | pje o and now dispenser of legal knowledge | he hoped “the good Lord who guards New | the drunkard s the countr; try confidence it has placed in the power ?nd authority of the Senate to fulfill its promise in regard to our land de- fenses has been misplaced. ate | Guilty NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1916. would The wi circumstances. antire nation just t ail this demonstration means for Colonel Roosevelt, when by every rule of politics the Colonel should hew to under similar is wondering his own lines and leave the Republi- Ana “Dear old Bill said nothing to date. can party alone. Taft.” He h: But if he ever gets started, he could say a lot of things, things that might upset the entire arrangement of the Colonel’s admirers who are trying to I priest of Americanism and thrust the h the ring, coat, vest trouse all in a heap. We feel sorry for Professor Bingham if his friend, “Dear old Bill Taft,” ever giv ture on the present political situation. into hat, a lec- It must be remembered that “Pitch- fork Ben” Tillman has been for some time a member and is now chairman of the Senate Naval Committee, so when he defines “an adequate navy” there is'reason to write the definition R s A e The battle for Dead Man’s Hill rages with great violence. When it is all over the name must be changed to the plural. FANCIES. ible that Texas is en- ’s unsavory lynching Herald. vious of Georgia record ?—Rochester Tt appears that a number of our battleships are not in a state of re- pairedness.—Brooklyn Eagle. The necessity is more for trained men in an army than for the numer- ical strength of an army.—Syracuse Journal. The policy of American prepared- s formulated by Mr. Root is for patriotic Americans of a]l parties, and no party has the monopoly of it. Who has stated the broad doctrine of preparedness better than it was stated on February 15, 1916, by Elihu Root? Certainly not Theodore Roosevelt.— New York Sun. Billy Sunday is to begin his cam- aign in New York city on January 1 the mayor is looking up a site for a tab- ernacle to seat 20,000 persons. Some New Yorkers who remember the “Elijah” Dowie flasco of a few vears ago may still believe that Re Dr. Billy will meet his match. TIf so, they are likely to be disappointed. Billy is irresistible.—Springfield Republi- can. The latest discussion over the military in the Scnate bill was lacking in report which the Se pelled to accept was and some of them much, though ators felt com- not satisfactory took pains to say their condemnation | ons was purely Pick- Senator Brandegee doubtless many of fellow-citizens when he said that 1d the fool Nevertheless, keenly that will save the coun- whatever will feel The sen- has made a very poor showing and its acceptance of a poor com- promise is an admission of its feeble- ness, the brave but futile words of some senators of the country not- withstandi New York Times. Dear Featrix Barefacts: I am eighteen years old next week and for two years have heen keeping company with George Brown He seems to be very nice. Last night he issed me and asked me to become Brown. What is your advice? Josephine Pogliatchinerensken, By all means, change your name, TO SERGEANT CHICK Who, in Describing a Battle With Mexicans Said: “Him Damn Fine Fight.” Sergeant, greatly I'm distressed To have read some observations Stated to have been expressed By you while discussing rations, Of your fight the day before, “Him damn fine,” you said; no more. Sergeant, I'm disposed to look With verbal toleration the liberties you took When you made your observation; Only, sergeant, ‘him” wrong, And—well, “‘damn” is rather strong. some At But I really can't forgive That, referring to a battle, You should use an adjective That the pacifist should rattle, dear sergeant; Me, oh my, That you thus should qualify! And the crowning fault of all Is that you should fall to things- To arise and meet the call When the chance came to expand things! Four words, sergeant, merely four, Instead of several columns more! Maurice Morris in the New York Sun. lana WHEN MR. BRANDEIS SI) of Conduct Unbecoming Lawyer in Refusing Fees. (Springfield Republican.) one of the workers in a M Florence Kelley, most respected social America, well known the founder of the consumers' league, makes a contribution of inter to the Bran- deis case in a letter to the Surve; from which the following is ex- tracted: “Joseph H. Choate 1907 by the was invited in attorney-general of Oregon to join in defending the [ one day, Oregon_ten-hour law for women in a case then pending before the su—l preme court of the United States. Josephine Goldmark and I conveyed the invitation to Mr. Choate, who de- clined it courteously, explaining that he could see na reason why ‘a great husky Irish woman should not work in a laundry more than ten hours in if her employer wished her tc do so.’ “Surpris: isappointed at Mr, Choate’s refusal—which he ma since have forgotten, so brief w episode—we conveyed the invitation Mr. Brandeis, who acceptted at once and has, for eight years, suc- cessfully defended in the courts of resort of the nation and the states every similar statute of which the constitutionality has been .as sailed, giving his services free of all charge.” Mrs. Kelley seems to think that Mr. Brandeis- deserv credit’ for doing legal work of great social and industrial importance for nothing. Mr. Choate’s fees in those cases, ‘had he taken them, would have aggre- gated at least $100,000. Mr. Bran- deis threw $100,000 away. We were simple enough to ,entertain Mrs. Kelley’s idea until our studies of the Erandels hearings at: Washington he- fore the senatorial lawyers of the judiciary committee hegan. Now we bave discovered that every time Mr. Brandeis has done a lawyer’s work for nothing he has aroused deep suspicion among brother members of the bar. Charging nothing has been one of his chief crimes and it is one of the reasons why the honorahle senate should never permit Mr. Brandeis to become a justice of the United States supreme court. The case of the ten-hour law is only one of many in this wicked man’s legal career. There was the Lennox case, so much relied upon to show Mr. Brandeis’ unfitness for the bench. As the profoundly shocked Senator Warks solemnly notes in his summing-up; “Mr. Brandels made no charge against either Lennox or Stein for services rendered.” Consider also the mnow celebrated United Shoe Machinery company’s in- cictment of Mr. Brandeis. Ho fused to accept a fee from the inde pendent shoe manufacturing people who were fighting the United. Senator Works calls this a “most singular performance. In explaining Mr. Brandels’ reprehensible conduct to the senate sub-committee, Lawyer McClennen of the Brandeis testifled: “Mr. McClennen—These manufac- turers paid the firm of Dunbar & Nutter $2,500, and Mr. Erandeis returned these manufac- turers out of his personal funds $2,500. “Senatar Chilton—Do you mean to say that that money was paid the credit of the firm ? “Mr. McClennen—Paid firm; yes. “Senator Chilton—TIt was paid to vour firm, and then Mr. Brandeis, out of his personal funds, returned the fee to them? i “Mr. McClennen—Yos. 7T want say with reference ta that this We are engaged in the of law and expect to be paid for practicing law. Mr. Brandeis has a definite percentage of the progts of that firm, and while we can stand it for him to glve his time to public causes, he has thought that perhaps it was a little Tard on the rest of us to ask him to e his time to public causes when there was a client ready to pay him for those same services. That is the explanation of that.” Senator Works, howe to be suspicious. firm, Brandeis, into into the to practice as r, continued Te inquired closely, in his report, into Mr. Brandeis' mo- tives. “It was certainly an act of generosity to his partners,” he wrote r‘ouhtfful_ But evidently there was room for a villaincus ' se i tack of Mr. Brande p];:r:h e Infinately worse was My Brandeis® unethical conduct when emploved by stickholders of the Boston and Maine railroad to fight the absorption of road by the New Haven agaln he charged nothing for his ser- vices, which were certainly v valuable. And what did the rascal do then but take $25,000 out of his own pocket and pay it to his law partners as their share of the fee which he could have callected m the Boston and Maine stockholde but did not. Senator Works, of course, not commend such a performance. He found in it bad professional prac- tice from beginning to end. In his view, “the only effect of this course, instead of the unequivocal one of taking compensation from Mr. Taw- rence, was that Mr. Lawrence escaped the payment of a fee that was justly due from him, and Mr. Brandeis was placed in an equivocal and questionable position.” Senator Cummins of Towa wrote, in his re- port, of his own complete mystifica- tion: In this situation Mr. Brandeis paid to his partners $15,000 aut of his cwn funds, and rendered his s without pay. This pa solicited by his partners, but was cepted by them rather under protest. T bave not been able to fathom the motive for this transaction. More rascality perhaps! Mr. Bran- dels’ motive in making himself poorer by $25,000 must indeed have been sinister and malevolent. It may interest Mrs. Florence Ke ley to know that in all of these trans actions, including the Oregon hour law, Mr. Brandeis was wic guilty of unprofessional conduct, “Canons of Professional adopted by the American bar as: tion apparently leave Mr. Brande these matters without a leg to stand upon. Canon No. 12 in part says: In fixing fees lawyers should avoid charges which overestimate their ad- vice and services, (as well as those which undervalue them.) That is to say, in working for nothing for eight years in defense of the constitutionality of the ten-hour lew for women, Mr. Brandeis guilty of unprofessional conduct auite as much as he would have been bhad he charged extortionate fees. This country cannot afford to have placed on its highest judicial tri- bunal a lawyer who fails to collect his fees. Unprofessional conduct of that infamous character cannot be iorgiven, he g | There | could | Curious Condensations. (Pittsburgh Dispatch.) The first steel pens were sold for about ten cents each. One-fourth of the world’s lead sup- ply is from Great Britain. The geographical origin of wheat is a mystery, lost in the dim past. The largest meteorite known to have fallen to earth weighed 437 pound The Czar of Russia has an income of $80 a minute. The annual increase for telegraph and telephone business is more than 40,000 tons of copper. Hamburg has an experimental plant that obtains power from the ebb and flow of North Sea tides. The total product of the farms of the United States has amounted to more than that of all the gold mines in the world during the last six centuries. Ireland has 84,869 land holders having plants not exceeding an acre, | more than one acre | 153,- | significance Ravenna is 299 under fifteen and 136,058 not ex- | 61,730 who hold and not more than five acres; ceeding thirty. The college of mines at the univer- of Washimgton is to co-operate h the department of chemical en- gineering to determine the efficiency of wood tar and oils in flotation work. The experiments will correlate the work of the chemists in the investiga- tion of wood products and the miners in the use of the flotation process. An ingenious substitute for a phonograph needle was discovered re- cently by some sailors in the United States Naval station at Guantanamo bay, Cuba, says a contributor to Pop- ular Mechanics. A group of the sea- men had ordered a talking from the United States. When it arrived they found that while a num- ber of records had been sent needles had been overlooked. were bemoaning their plight when sailor climbed on deck carrying number of electric light bulbs. Out of curiosity he started the phono- graph and pressed the tip of one of the bulbs against the record. The sound of a popular song rang out clearly. The machine was operated for days in this way. sit a The Call for Hughes, (New York Evening Post.) Thrown back on the baffling mys- tery of the power in a political move- ment which does not exist, we have to cast about, In our feeble way, for cxplanations. If there really were evidence of a concentration in the re- publican party upon the name of Hughes, it could be pointed out that lie has been happily aloof from the party cantroversies of the past four vears. His judicial position has closed his mouth about politics, so that he had neither to fight nor to run away at Armageddon. Who, then, better suited ta make peace be- tween the combatants on that bloody field? It could be urged also that Mr. Hughes has always been nationalist school of republicans, ready to assert the federal pawer to its fullest extent. He would thus be naturally indicated as a candidate upon whom republicans and pro- gressives, in their present mood of being as heroic as they dare, might casily unite. Moreover, recalled that Hughes, in the caurse of his public career, has mightily pressed himself upon the country as a man of austere honesty, of trench- t intellect, of constructive abilit with a marked gift for moral leader- ship and effective campaigning. All these and other reasons might be adduced ta show that it would not be sc wildly impossible for the republi- cans to nominate Hughes. We do firmly maintain, however, that the entire affair is very mysteri- ous. Was there ever such a political mystery as that of a man who is not a candidate and who will not say a word or spend a cent to promote his nomination, vet wha is agreed by a great cloud of witnesses to be the most probable choice of his party? Girls Have Runaway Germ. (Philadelphia Record.) The old burlesque answer to the question “Why girls leave home,” which was ‘“Because they cannot take it with them,” has been superseded by a more reasonable solution, that of blood pressure. Dr. Max Baff, former fellow in psychology in Clark college, Worcester, after deep scientific investi- gation, declares that the ‘“runaway germ” is due to high blood pressure, and It is much more prominent in womanhood. “I have found,” said Dr. Baff, “that since Eve ate the apple there has been a growing instinct among the fair sex to run away. If conventions, fear of publicity and such things did not deter the women, they would roam more than the men. There is some- thing in the blood of the female that makes her restless, and some girls can no more help running away than they can help getting married when the right man comes along.” Dr. Baff also declares that many married women are just as prone to run away as are girls, but he adds that “they feed the runaway germ which is in their blood by around the stores for hours without buying or travelling about for suffrage | r some other cause. Dr. Baff used a sphygmometer in is experiments, which covered two years, with members of both sexes of all ages as subjects. - Fashions Set by Soldiers. (The Baltimore Sun.) Alexander the Great is said to be responsible for men shaving their faces. When his phalanx swept into Asia the beards of his soldiers were found to be a source of danger themselves. In hand-to-hand en- counters with the enemy the latter were found to pos ss too great an advantage in being able to grasp the | As a matter of military neces- sity Alexander ordered all his fight- ing men to shave. Today in the trenches of Europe soldiers are per- mitting their beards to grow as a pro- tection against cold—again a neces- gity of war—and doubtless the wear- ing of beards will be very generally revived in consequence, Leard. machine | the | They | a| of the | it could be ! im- | roaming | to | i = | | Eecclesiastica | Italian Treasure-Trove l Architecture | Washington, D. C., May 23.—Raven- | na, the scene of a recent bombard- | ment by Austrian aircraft, is the sub- ject of today's war geography bulle- tin, issued by the National Geographic society from its Washington head- | quarters, which says: | | “Forty miles east of Bologna, sev- | enty miles south of Venice, and a hun- | dred miles southwest of the Austrian naval base at Pola, lies the ancfent Italian city of Ravenna, which, with the possible exception of Rome, pos- | sesses more magnificent examples of ecolesiastical architecture of the Byz- antine period than any other city in the world. “In art, in literature and in historic a treasure- trove for student and traveler. 1ts be- ginning is attributed to the Thessali- ans, but there is more tradition than | fact in the accounts of the region over which it held sway until it :ame under the jurisdiction of Rome nearly 200 | years before the Christian era. It was | here that Julius Ceasar was nccus | tomed to come for his conferen with friends and political advisers | from Rome during his tén years' cam- paign in Gaul. “The importance of the port which | strongly resembled Venice in its eatly | days, but which is now six miles from | the Adriatic, dates from the time when Augustus Caesar designated it as the naval base of ‘the upper sea,’ its har- bor being able to accommodate 250 | ships at a time. At that period the marshy plain which now surrounds the town at the confluence of the Montone and Ronco rivers, was little more than a vast silt bed. The houses were built on piles, and at high tide | the sea formed numerous lagoons, the | | salt water so effectively removing the ! danger of malaria that the city soon | acquired a reputation as a health re- sort, to which the gladiators of Rome were sent for training. “Ravenna's golden age came not with the Augustan era, however, hut while the great Roman empire's doom was being sealed. Honorius and his remarkable sister Galla Placidia, be- coming alarmed at the steady advance of the barbarian forces from the north, transferred their court from the Eter- nal city to the Adiatic port which re- | mained the seat of government for | Ttaly not only during the few remain- | ! life but making a ing years of the western empire, but throughout the ascendancy of the Greek emperors. Here the Byzantin: viceroys or Exarchs for the peninsuls made their headquarters until the ¥ advent of the Lombards in the eightl century. “Many of the most fascinating epi- sodes history are associated with the name of Ravenna, such, for ex« ample, as the tragic story of Odoacsr who wrested the realm of Italy from Orestes in 476 and then waged bitter war against Theodoric the Ostrogoth for many finally being shut up in Ravenna where he withstood @ slege of three years. At length Odoac. er capitulated with the understanding that he and Theodoric would dividu the kingdom equally Between them. To celebrate the compact a magnificeit banquet was spread in a famous laurel grove, and here while the twa rulers feasted the Ostrogoth with his own hand slew his royal rival “During the famous battle of Ra- venna in 1512 the picturesque Gaston de Foix completely routed the Span- iards under Cardona, but threw away his own life in the excitement of vie- tory. It was in this battle that ,a Captain Fabian, emulating the exploit of the legendary Swiss hero Winkel- reld, seeing that his men could not break through the wall of Spanish spears, raised his long pike high over his head and brought it down cross- wise with crushing force upon the op- posing arms, thus sacrificing his own small gap in the en- emy's line through which his own men rushed. F “Two names which shine in the gar- land of Ravenna's renown are those of Italy’s greatest poet and one of the four great epic writers of civilization Dante, and Lord Byron. It was in Ravenna that the founder of the mod- ern Italian language died in 1321, and here his body is treasured in an urn, beneath a square-domed tomb. Byrop during his Italian sojourn, lived in this city for two years, being attracted not merely by the famous Pineto (pinewoods) five miles to the south, but by the charms of the Countess Guiccoli. Nor should it be forgotten that in the adjacent marshes Anita, the heroic wife of the Italian liberator Garibaldi, died of fatigue during her flight from the French in 1849.” of THE PRISON OF CHILLON. Ancient Swiss Dungeon Made Famous By Lord Byron. (Niksah in The Rochester Union and Advertiser.) | The prison of Chillan is a monu- | ment to the value of advertising. | Considered as a prison, it has little | claim to greatness. There are dung- eons far better arranged from sani- | tary and esthetic point of view, if | you are looking for high-class | dungeons. On the other hand, there are dungeons far worse and more in- human, if you wish to revel in thrills | of harror and pity. Chillon owes its | world-reputation to the activities of | Lora Byron, who wrote the “Prisoner of Chillon” and thereby secured the fame of Chillon for all time, Chillon is very accessible, thanks to the Swiss policy of putting no un- necessary obstacles in the way of the cightseer. 1t is nearly an ideal “sight.”” All the elements of interest are present, -conveniently arranged and properly balanced. There is the | mountain lake, clear as a mirror and fair as a jewel. There are the quaint cattages and the graceful villas about the banks, standing apparently on the upturned ends of their own rerfect reflections. There is the dark | forest staring moodily at Its own | aark image in the quiet water. To make all complete, you have the an- clent historic dungeon, home of romance and subject of deathless verse. It is no wonder that it takes | & war to make us see America first. The dungeon itself nowadays is a | graceful bit of architecture, like a church than a prison, with its | cool gloomy interior arched and pil- lared after the best traditions of the | builder’s art. In the time when it | was aperating actlvely as a dungeon, however, this open space was divided | up into little cells, and the graceful | pillars were used to anchor the busi- ress end of a chain; all of which con- | tributed largely toward efficlency but very little to the comfort of the in- mates. In spite of all that has been said | and written ta wear the subject of the old-time prison threadbare, you connot suppress a little thrill of pity | &nd horror when you sec the hollows | worn inta living rock by the feet of | some unfortunate pacing up and | down helpless and hopeless through | the years and the decades. In spite | ¢f forty-two-centimeter guns and | submarines and poison gases, you feel i that it is sagacious to be born in the {wentieth centur; Daylight (New York The adoption by several countries { of the scheme for saving daylight through a manipulation of the clock hands in spring and autumn 1llu trates how war necessities are bring- ing social and political readjustments that under peace conditions would have been slow or impossible. For a generation there has been wide academic discussion of pushing the clock hands forward an hour in | the spring and setting them back again in the autumn, so as to keep | the working hours of the day within { the daylight sector in winter and to | bring the hours of both work and recreation into the longer daylight arc of the summer. Tt was urged that this would effect a large economy in fuel for making artificial light; would be better for people, through making them live more in natural and less under arti- ficial light; would increase efficiency. Against this there has been some very cogent reasoning as to the diffi- | aving Plans, Press.) mare ¢ v 'nulty, in very warm climates, of try- ing to sleep in the early evening hours, with the air in the house like that of a furnace; and as to the folly of losing the very early morning hours in such weather for the re- freshing sleep which is possible only at that time. Germany was the first country to adopt the new schedule in a sweep-« ing way. Holland and some others followed. England was expected to reject it, as a tribute In part to innate conservatism. But the Com- mons indorsed the proposal and it will probably become effective May 20. At that time the clocks will be set for- ward a hour. People who on May 19 went to work, sun time, at 8 o'clock, will go to work the next day at what would have been 7 but for the change in the clocks; and instead of quitting at 5, sun time, they will quit at what would have been 4 un- der the old schedule. They will go to the theater an hour earlier, go to bed—presumably—an hour earlier; turn down the zas and * turn off the electricity an hour sooner. Will they? That's the question. Many people think the tendency to live a certain proportion of one's life under the gaslight will be so strong that people will nf up at night; if so, th vill be a loss w in efficiency and no - in in coal T perience will proy For ourselves we guess the G« They thought m watch, and if different orders he would n Iy sit later an the obey. Mexican Names., Exchange. To Pronounce (From Villa—VEE-yah. Zacateca Tamaulipas— Queretaro—Kay Jalisco—Hah-L: Guanajuato— Gwah-nah-HWAH-to Oaxaca—Wah-HAH-kah. Texicoco—Tes-CO-co Tampico—Tam-PEE-co. Hildalgo—Ee-DAHL-go. San Luis Potosi—Sahn-Loo-EES Po-to-SEE Coahuila—Co-a-WEE-lah. Aguasalientes — AH-gwas-cah-leh- EN-tess. Guerrero—Gher-RARE-o. Tlaxcala—Tlas-KAH-lah. Tuxpam—TOOS-pam. Chihualua—Chee-WAH-wha. Tehuantepec— T WAH: an ‘Why Not Taft? (Milwaukee Leader.) If the republican party is looking for a jurist for president, why doesn’t it turn to Taft instead of Hughe: Taft has been tried. Everyone knows where he stands and there is no mys- tery as to where he is likely to stand on any given question. It is true that Taft fell by the wayside four yéars ago, but that was when Roosevelt was popular. Now it is doubtful if Roosevelt could carry enough voters with him as a pro- gressive candidate to affect in any ma- terial degree the fortunes of the re- publican candidate. Alongside of Justice Hughes, Judge Taft is a whirlwind. As a candidate he has run with Hughes and outdis- tanced him. In 1908 Taft's plurality in New York was 202,602 and Hughes' 69,462. Is the republican party the doldrums? headed for We have in this country quite a lot who say it is not worth defending, but not one of them ever moves to any other country.—Buffalo Eng e