New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 6

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1916. BRITAIN HERALD ERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. h daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Church St. d_at the Post Offce at New Britain Becond Class Mall Matter. red by carries to any part of the city br 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mall, yable in advance, 60 Cents a Month. f.00 a Year. pnty profitabla adverttsing mcdtum in e ‘city. Clrculatton books and press pom always open to advertisers. erald will be found on sale at Hota- g's New Stand, 42nd St. y, New York Cfty; Board Walk. ntic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONI CALLS. a8 Office 1al Rooms . HAVE A CARE. ring that strange, weird, month happily gone Into the from whence no month e’er re- there occurred in the state of lecticut a total of ninety-six t deaths. Of this one were due to automobiles. ay now number the weather been such that au- traffic found going what proportion of the fning seventy-five have bile easier knows might due to this same means of exit human life? Or, the grand total s would have been figures. mingly, ed newer of violent sent into with every car there dangers it i o and greater the automobile. Whether the part s or pedestrians no one yet forth to explain. It is however, that something is es- recklessness on has easily lly wrong somewherc and, un- e papulation of the Nutmeg state | the be | during should be vitally reduced g there fent precautionary ed. Too many brought ourts have been summarily dis- on the grounds that the man wheel was not to blame. summer measures cases In there are many cases of this Where the driver has no control onditions, where children dart the center of the street with- arning, where old folk become fed and jump out of the way p car into the way of another. ones then must be impxessed he dangers attendant playing; that every one sidewalk upon all grown-ups should time they cross to another they lheir lives in their hands unless eep .their. heads up and- their na eyes open; drivers should be ssed with the necessity of being abave all other things. The ss of racing through city streets be discontinued and the motto , “Better Late Than Crippled.” PREPAREDNESS PARADE oicing approval of the prepared- arade which will take place in rd next Saturday afternoon and that New Britain shall be rep- pd in that demonstration the pn council last night in a way the of zens of this It e .capital city of the state of ticut should be the scene of Other cities idered the sentiment city. number is fitting air of this sort. state have con: of ps and, for one reason or another, ad- ity holding preparedness keen fit to postpone or abolish priginal intention. Not bec eople of y in accord w use these cities are not h the great prin- S but it such that stration of the kind to be held tford might be somewhat out of || especially in those communi- orking overtime in the It would like an advertising scheme to of preparedne; onditions make a manu- e of war munitions. preparedness pa.ade in Bridge- r in any of the industrial cef- evoted to output of Hartford with pro- the In parade can be held The aesthetic capital city need be accused of commercialism in solely land ammunition. oader sense. what arrangements will be to represent New Britain in the pra parade have They need not been de- elaborate, since the fundamental idea merely to together those men and women till hold sacred the [Which this nation was founded Y may march for the edifica- not be er, B demonstration is principles pt the Peace-at-any-price folk. need be worn clvilian elothin no uniforms; Each parad- ether @ citizen foreign or native (Will carry an Americ jablem of sincerety. since New is not to have a parade of its a6 it should have, it is fitting e Hardware City be we)| in the preparedness brd. This communit all others 1.< up of peoplée from all nationg earth. We have here those rst saw light of day in far off in all the various nations of Eu- in the northern and. southern Ibheres, in every land the sun an flag as repre- parade in in Connecticut, more prob- | =i 2l | because | over angq | Ishmes on. They are met on this soil under one flag, as citizens of a tion strange to all those of the Old World, or, if they have not become cit- | izens they are preparing to do so. And | na- on an occasion of this kind, when the people of free country undertake to voice thelr opinion on a big ques- tion, a principle that means the fu- ture life or death of the nation, a it is but right and just that every one who believes in the safety of the land go forth and voice approval of the big idea prevalent today,—prepared- The’ men who one ness. have come here from other countries are just as anx ious; and, in many for the welfare of this those who were born American soil. It sometimes happens that those showered with blessings from the very-beginning grow forget- ful of their benefits. Newcomers are more likely to appreciate advantages. That is why preparedness meets with such great approval. So, while we de- plore the fact that our own Common Council or our Chamber of Commerce, { or whoever it might be that takes care more so, cases, nation as and raised on of such things, did not have the initia- tive to hold a preparedness New Britain, with the thought that this city parade in ourselves will we console be well represented in the Hartford Either a goodly representa- The next time, what the occa- | parade. tion or nothing at all. however, np matter sion, New Britain should speak for it- self and not be used as an appendage to glorify any neighboring community. THER NOR TROJAN! GREEKS “NE of Colonel Roosevelt's speech at St. Louis delivered straight There was no hint politics in vesterday when he from the shoulder his idea of Ameri- sm and how the various citizens the should live up to If there had been just can of nation this doctrine. the mere semblance of anything smacking of the campaign ahead, with preference to the Chicago conventions more next week the Colonel would be re: ‘ ily forgiven by ail those devoted the cause of straight-out ism, of pertaining to the hyphenates the Americans. It that no American American- anything —Amer- t T without the taint ica for was such an utterance citi- {1 zen could take as an offense, whether he in was born Italy, in Turkey, countries, this land, his father's father over in the Mayflower or in the steerage of some in German: in Sc: he whether in ndinav Ireland, an | whether in was born or his father or came t recently docked trans-Atlantic liner. The Colonel merely pointed out that when men seek liberty on these shores after that, if they are to remain here, become one thing or the There division of There such thing I they must, other. can be no lova can be no T c as a German-American, an Irish- American, an English-American, or French-American Irish, they a Either theéy |are German, or or English, or | French, or are American. | Whether they are of German, or | | Irish, or French descent If they the English, or matter. all does not are Ameri- American, | an they are way nothing. His When abroad forefathers ] or they are illustra from visit the even | tion was happy. men | this country and {land of their | their own land a fter becoming citizens | looked go { here they are not upon as | people of that land, but as foreigner: ! Americans. If such is the | They are it must necessarily be so case abroad States. ; of in story printed | the | to the United 1t the who put the whole According to newspapers not long stating York in | | was Emperor Germany case a nut- | shell. a |in the lin ago | Emperor is quoted as & | member of the New Schuetzen v man-Americar rein who was introduced as a Ger- | “What do I hear | | | | | I know no such German-American? I know only Americans.” Colonel 5 during the course of his St. There can be | such thing divided citizenship. There must be either one or the other both try to them- ‘{ s is left The | German-American be Germans and Roosevelt aptly people. | used th Louis no remarks. as a and when assert a who both and the end becomes neither a German nor The thing holds man call vacuum, tries ves there to American in a German an an Amecrican. same would The drawing true with the who himself an Irish-American. of the hyphenatc is rapidly to Ever, the of the European war the sun has been sinking in the west on all those who would set themselves up in the mid- dle of the Toad, going neither to the left nor right but trying to be part | and parcel of both sides. Soon they | will be in utter darkness, for only those who are wrapped heart and soul in the great principles of Americanism the of the | noon-day sun. In a few weeks there will be in full day a close. since dawning can stand searching glare swing one of the greatest presidential campaigns ever witnessed in the his- this nation. The candidates being groomed. They all Americans, whether they be Dem- ocrats, es, | tory are of now are Republicans, Progressi ‘Pl’[)hiblu'\)l\lr\.i, or Socialists. An at- | . to take is old black s own —Memphis S —New down the receiver” out of the presidential race didn’t have far-to drop.-—Boston Eve- ning Transeript. tempt will ganizations calling ances” to discredit these candidates on thy men or be made by certain or- themselves “alli- the grounds that have voiced sentiments committed acts that across the hyphenates are derogatory to nations sea. These the of whom the United States are real They are wholly un- it seem to not will have none. American. Hard a may they They g to elect an American president but up to standards set’ up in some other coun- The American are traitors. are a man who measures try foreign from. this. people should see to it that these un- patriotic men and their principles have no place in the coniing elections, uttér deteat. aid, and said truly, -and no place but Roosevelt has it can be applied- not only to one set of hypenates but to all, that “I want to serve notice on these men that our purpose next Fall is to eléct an Ameri- not .a Viceroy -of the German He might just as well have said an under-secretary can President and Kaiser.” to the King of England, 6r a mémbef of the cabinet of the President. of France, or a Prefect of the Czar of all the Russias. The people are going to elect an American Presi- Americans. We are neither We are Ameri- American dent for Greeks nor Trojans. cans. there is a stampede of ‘“fa- vorite sons” ready to climb aboard the Republican vice-presidential band- who be- lieve that Hughes will be the nominee. Now wagon. These are the men No one yet has suggestd a candidate to run with the Colonel. It will soon be time for the Colonel ouch hat out of the ring and throw in a straw one. FACTS AND FANCIES. A wise Congressman constituen knoweth his t.—Dallas News. That fluttering sound comes from he army of June brides.—Boston Her- ald. It appears that a number of our bat- leships are not in a state of repaired- ness.—Brooklyn Eagle. Thoughts are the quickest and the ongest and the saddest things in life. Commercial Appeal, House and Senate be the Sixty-fourth or the Congress?—Brooklyn Ea- Wwill known our as Safety-first gle, It seems that Justice Hughes was he discoverer of the River of Doubt. York Herald. ; Where culture and real civilization revail no one on a party line “‘takes to listen.—Atchi- on Globe, are something like fifteen people in Mexico, estimated, and no-accounts.—Toledo There nillion “ounted Blade. Henry D. stabrook has dropped Well. The favorite sons mayv hate each other, but they are all hanging to- gether in mutual fear of Hughes and T. R.—Brockton Times =— The pacifists seem going the wave of preparednes; country, but they are Baltimore American, down in weeping the dying hard.-— With one form of disturhance Amer- ican consumers can sympathize these days—the food riot.—Newark News Therc is also a fairly 500d chance that the war will end before the battle of Verdun does.—Indianapolis News A South street woman has heen try- ing for two weeks to get her hushand mad enough to heat the rugs, sut so far without success.—Bennington Ban- ner. If the Allied strength of will holds out Jif it refuses to be carried off it feet even if Verdun should fall, Ger- many will be forced not to offer does now, but to sue for peace.—Buffalo Commercial. While the Colonel is complaining of Justice Hughes' silence it is not amiss to remind him that he is silent on the question whether he will run any- how-—Buffalo Enquirer The Salvation Army has graduated a class of eighty women to act as life savers at bathing beaches. Most anyone would he willing to get a good wetting in order to he saved under such auspices.—Rochester Times. Sir Edward Grey says the time is not ripe vet to talk peace. When the time is ripe we wouldn’'t wonder if it dropped and hit somebody quite a sharp blow, the same as the apple did to Sir Isaac Newton:—Syracuse Herald. The arrival of the alleged special messenger from Gen. Carranza with- out a note, or any knowledge of a note, gives a humorous touch to the Mexican situation that makes it look less grave.—Springfield Republican. Tt is not a question with the United States of not having the means to create a standardized navy. The country can afford to put all the money needed into what is really only a highly advantageous form of na- tional insurance. We have spent money lavishly on the navy in the past. and what we do not have now. js that expert control of our naval lying | Colonel | the dollar out of every dollar expend- ed.—New York Tribune. Whatever one may think of the Brandeis appointment or of Mr. Bran- deis himself, it would be well if there were more men in America who pos- | Dr. Eliot's noble and courag- independence.—Rochester Her- | sessed cous ald. The Yale professor of archacology whe has come out for. Roosevelt be- cause Americans are treated with dis- respect in Peru Jjustified, Anyone who could be cruel to an archaeoclp- gist stands outside the pale of hui- mani ew York Evening Post. “HARD TACK” 50 YEARS. g G, SEN Veteran of Pickett’s Division ishes Souveni KEPT Cher- of Gettyshurg. (Birmingham (Ala.) Dispatch’to the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Amgng the interesting mementos of the great wa¥ the ‘vets” are bringing to .Birmingham, onc of the strangest is & piece of hardtack in possession of T. F. Perkins of Hartsville, Tenn. The hardtack was among the last pieces Of rations served at Gettysburg., Hard as a brick is the piece of hardtack and Mr. Perkins says it ‘always was.” Mr. Perkins served in Pickett's di- vision, 11th*Virginia cavalry, Long- street’s corps, and is attending the an- nual reunion of Confederate veterans. FOR WiFE-PROOF OFFICE er Anxious That Aid His Cause. Innocent Suffe the Press “Will you please,” asks a secret suf- ferer, “write something about wives who make unexpected calls at their husbands’ offices? I am not guilty of anything, but I think that even the most innocent of men suffer acutely when his wife visits him at his office. There is no way for me to make my wife understand this, unless I appear boorish and brutal. Can't you sa something about it? Many wives read your column.” Yes, friend ays “The Cleveland Plain Dealer.” We will put it in the form of general propositions, hoping thereby t ostep on no individual toes. We hold these facts to be proved: That no husband ever wants his wife to call on him at his offie during business hours, except upon his in- vitation. That no wife can know how she up- sets his routine, disorders the mental processes that go on during those hours, and subjects herself to the gos- sip of his office mates. That there is no easy way to make a wife see this. We proceed from these truisms to a few observations. A lovely creature breezes into her husband’s office, just because she hap- pens to be passing. She sa Now don’t let me disturb you a minute— I know your busy. Dearie, what good does that desk light do you at tat angle? Don't you know you will ruin your eves? What a mess your desk is in! Look at Mr. Office- mate’'s—how neat it is! Well, just let me stick this package in your lower drawer and you bring it home with vou when you come. “00-00h, dearie! I just opened that drawer to slip this package in it, and I couldn’t help seeing that bill from Smith’s—and you told me it was paid! Tell me about that tonight. “Well, I must run along, for you're busy. Come out to the elevator with me, dear, I want to speak to you Who is that disreputable looking man who is waiting in ‘the outer office to see you? Why, it’ perfect disgrace to have such callers! I told the to tell him you were out of town. “You have an appointment with him? How can you make an appoint- ment with such a creature? Well goodby, dear. Get your shoes shined before you come home—you look awfully sloppy.’ And if husband protests against that call her eyes fill with innocent tears and she says: “Why, I wasn't there five minutes and you weren't working at anything when I came in! And your men on you and stay half an hour! course I'll never come again. Are you ashamed of your wife? America’s Most Original Club. A writer in “The American Maga- zine” says: “There exists in one of our great Western cities a unique secret club, called by the members the Get-Out and Get-On Club. It was organized seventeen years ago by ten ambitious men who looked upon themselves as not yet having won success. Mem- bership for twelve years has heen limited to fifty. The rules are what makes this club different. No mem- ber may call himself a success until the club votes him one, and when the | club votes any member a success he is expelled and his place is filled another. But hefore a ceess is pelled a dinner is given in his honor and to welcome the new member. At this dinner the success must read a paper explaining to his fellows how | and why he won. These papers are preserved. by ex- Renominate Gov. Holcom). (Rockville Leader) Without the slightest de: to throw stones at any of the other candi dates for the republican for governor September, voutly to he hoped that the cans will have the sense and the sand | to renominate Gov, Marcus H. Hol- | comb. He's the party’s one hest as- set in the state, he accepted a draft against his own personal inclination, and he has served the state faithfully and well. “Uncle Marcus,” as he is affectionately known, ought not to be | obliged to go hunting for delegates The rank and file of the republican party, no matter where the leaders | stand, should make it their business to see that Gov. Holcomb gets the delegates. The sentiment of the state of Connecticut unless we are ' greatly mistaken, is overwhelmingly for him. Let this sentiment be con- verted into votes in the caucuses, votes that will be for men who will stand by Gov. Holcomb, who has | nomination | it republi- | in is de stood by the state and done his jevel development which gets the worth of | best for it. 1y | tales of ja | organ | G. than cork | other CO0D ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUT Behind the scenes at the front, by George Adam. "By Parls correspondent of the London Times. A book occupied chief- with facts, cheerful, despite its devastation, in that it gives new idea of continually improving aition among the trench —A. L. Ay Booklist [ forces. K. Chesterton: ‘a critical study, by Julius West Germany vs. civilization, by Thayer. ’ “With intense passion for the finer fruits of democracy, the author traces ;‘the stages by which the ancient pa- gan ideals revived in Prussia, and how Prussia has diffused them through Germany.’—A. L. A. Book- list. w. R’ . months at the front, an American boy’s bhaptism of fire, by W. J. Robinson PR My fourteen My harvest, by Richard Whiteing. “Reminiscences of the Rnglish journalist’s seventy-five busy years. Not only does he reveal ‘his own in- teresting personality, modest, full of joy of living, but his pen-portraits of the remarkable personalities he has met and his masterly condensed sketches of the social and political movements of the time throw real and side-lights on the general history of the last half century.”—Bookman. LR Romanticism of St. Francis, and oth- er studies in the genlus of the Franciscans, by Father Cuthbert. “Four distinct studies, in each of which “an attempt has beert made to present the inner thought of some aspect of the Franciscan life,” by a Catholic scholar who “sees in the origin and development of the Fran- ciscans a religious consecration of the romantic spirit of all time.” *“In- formed with a fine idealism.”—A. L. A. Booklist. ow o ‘World decision, by Robert Herrick. “Interpretations and impressions poignant some of them—of events in Rome while Ttaly was hesitating on the verge of war, and in France, wounded yet taking up her life again with new courage. The final pages deal with America.”—A. L. A. Book- list. * Farm and Garden. Agriculture and life, by A. D. Crom- well. . broad-minded, | illuminating | E’S LIST THIS WEEK | of “Perhaps the best single course- | book for a course in elementary agri- | culture.”—A. L. A. Booklist. «wo The Apple, by A. E. Wilkinson. | the whole matter of the latest modern | practices of apple culture.”—A. L. A. Booklist. P { K. J. T. Ekblaw. | . Farm structures, . by . Mushroom growing, by B. M. Duggar. PR | MecFar- | - | c- | My growing garden, by H. land. “A chatty familiar, attractively | lustrated record of the author's su | cess in transtorming @& run-down house and two acres of abandoned vineyard, in five years' time, into a charming garden home.”—A. L. A Booklist. . | Sweet corn, by Wilkinson. | | “Discusses planting, cultivation, varieties, insects and dis- | other topies.'—A. L. A. | harvesting. | eases, and Booklist » Fiction. | Battle months of George Daurella, by | | B. M. Dix. P Carfrae’s comedy, | “The author's first book, unexpect- edly novel, which was well received |in England and which exhibits better workmanship that most initial per- formances.”—A. L. A. Booklist. | i by Gladys Parrish. | . oe o Come out of the xitchen! by Mrs. Alice D. Miller. | | “An entertaining tale of how a most | eligible voung man rented a beauti- ful southern house for the hunting | season, stipulating that he must have | four servants who belonged to it."— | A. L. A..Booklist. | * | Gibby of Clamshell Van Dresser. . ¥ Alley, by J. S. . Heir of Duncaron, by Amy McLaren. | . » . oo Only Anne, by Isabel C. Clarke. | | This way out, by A. M. Sholl. “Mild mystery stories, in which a woman detective figures."—A. L. A. Booklist. PR When Carey came to town, by E. B. Delano. COLLECTORS WHO FAILED. When the Time For selling Came. (Cleveland Plain Dealer) The fad of collecting curios seems to be hard hit by the utilitarianism of the age. It is the that proves thi; Several collections have been unloaded on the public re- cently, and the prices received were not at all satistactory to the sellers. An exception might be filed in the case of books and manuscripts. Barly edi- tions and original literary drafts are pretty sure to rouse up bidders. But the curiosity shop collection, the odds and ends of early ages and early arts, seem to have little drawing power. A collection of considerable note made by a Brooklyn man, the fruit of time and travel and expense, was offered for sale the other day The authenticity of the articles was well attested, and they represented a great varlety of interesting subjecs, rang- jng from an unusually perfect sepul- chral vase of the time of the Ptolem- jes, down to a piece of metal from the irst Brooklyn city hall bell. The vase brought $15 and the fragment of bell twenty-five conts. Then the auctioneer by way of contrast introduced thirty cannon balls picked up on battle- ficlds of the Revolutionary and Civil wars, and somebody—a friend of preparedness, no doubt—bid them in for $26. As for the gold coins and the Greek and Roman silver coins and the un- nsual array of ancient they brought but little more their 5 at the mint. \fl}:eslmn. the appeal made by these (reasured reminders of the past, was unexpectedly weak. It shows that the collector who collects for any reward cave his own gratification, 1s doomed to disappointment. In an age that is chort in poetry and romance and sen- timent, curios are largely regarded as junk. medals, than Pointed (Chicago News). Love and philosophy are sworn en- Paragraphs. em | man's is to = ambition The aver: lower his record stone reaches the foot due time, The rolling of the hill in screws have sunk more men ckets have saved, Cor and footing. compliments on an Empty abuse are equal way Mis- said that love will find a lot of spinsters are from It but, souri is a His satanic majesty hasn't much use for the man who attends strictly to his own affairs. A successful man is entitled to less praise than the man who makes an- effort after each failure. tells a widow that he of her love she mildly does not arguc the When a is not worthy cenies it—but point. man The Etiology of Crime. York Tribune). said they plotted the rob- bery over a box of cigarettes and mapped out their future activities from cheap novels.” “The boy utilitarianism test | senseless | So the storyl runs, and the hint is sufficient to sup- | ply the inevitable opening: “Cigar- ettes and cheap novels led to the downfall of two messenger boys,” and so forth. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, ia handy moral and another argument | against smoking! A great many tolerably good ones, have cigarettes. A few of them to escape the penitentiary, | one be caught in mischief, and the | first question is, Does he smoke? If he does, there are students of man- | ners who at once accept the circum- stance as a sufficient explanation of | his delinquency. It never occurs to | them that the case may be otherwise; | that the boy who indulges in robbery | may be so corrupt as to make no scruple of indulging in cigarertes. The opposite process is always recognized | as obvious and inevitahle. But why? | Do boys who eat candies never 2o | wrong? Has a rohbery ever been plotted over a box of chocolates? How | 1is it that we so seldom hear of pep- permints leading to the downfall of vouth? it possible that the crim- | inologists are too credulous? Would lit not be worth while to consider the possibilities of chewing gum as an cti- ological factor in a crime? and some smoked manage but let bad boys, The Quiet Country Lifec. (New York Tribune.) Those carping neighbors in Mont- clair whose souls are rasped by the | noise of a few peacocks give them- | selves away. No hardened commuters | | these, but tenderfeet from a great city | accustomed to the clolstered quiet of | elevated trains and flat-wheeled | street cars and rattly milk wagons. | By\life thus softened, they moved into the rural districts with the pathetic | faith of darkest ignorance. They act- | ually expected that such minor up- | roar as had enveloped them would | now vanish into nothingness, a sooth- | ing, suburban vacuum, with only an | alarm clock set for 7:16 separating | them from Nirvana. How sadly wide of the faith is any commuter (once con- vinced that you are not a possible purchaser of his house, sarage, lot and garden) can explain. Any ex- perienced week-ender will do almost as well. There is more steady, re liable uproar in Manhattan; outstand- ing, soul-stabbing, intermittent noise | is the suburban specialty. You have a full orchestra playing in concert hy your New York pillow. In Montclair or any other choice rural retreat, you have the same instruments, but blar- {ing at intervals, one by one. First, | an Erie locomotive bassoon. Then a little solo hy your left-hand neigh- | hor's White Orpington rooster—a ca- !denza on a scrappy cello. The | soothing flute of an owl almost puts {you to sleep when the guests of the right-hand neighbor go home for the | night, cranking their flivver with a | roar of kettle drums and clashing | cymbals beside which a Strauss sym- | phony and forty-three peacocks are | as the silent moon and stars. No. The gentle suburb reeks with | health; it is a marvellous creche and the one friendly and human method | of ensconcing yourself within working | | distance of a great city. But it is not | | quiet. Tuck yourself securely in your | { Harlem flat if truly rural calm is the | goal above all else before you. mark such | Berlin reports the appointment of a | dictator of food prices. Like to sec any one dare to appoint a dictator of ! gasoline prices in this happy land!— Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. “An excellent treatise covering fully | | nents of Mr | no great fear as to where Connecticut I not encou | cludes domination of China R. in Connecticut, (Waterbury American.) It is probably known only to a few that great efforts were made, at least here in Connecticut, to secure the in- dorsement of a representative body republicans for the so-called Roosevelt - Republican movement, headed by ex-Secretary Cfeorge Von L. Meyer. A very persuasive agenf visited many prominent republicans here in Waterbury to urge them to join this movement and we all know the result so far Waterbury is concerned. If Waterbury was asked, doubtless the rest of the state was, What was the outcome of this cam- paign? But two men, as we recall it, were secured In Connecticut, John P. Elton of Waterbury and Prof. Hirame Bingham of Yale, the Peruvian ex- plorer. If this all that plished by hard work in launching a of this kind, if these two men really represent the strength of the Roosevelt movement among re- publicans of high standing here in Connecticut, then certainly the oppo-y Roosevelt need entertain as is can be accom- movement will stand at the Chicago convention. If, as is probable, similar efforts were made in other states. the result of this preliminary Roosevelt work is aging for. the Roosevelt people. This is no spontaneous move- ment called forth by what undoubted- ly has been Mr. Roosevelt's strong stand in favor of true Americanism, but is a labored creation, one thaty does not have behind it the vitality which comes from spontaneit It would be unfair, of course, to judge the rest of the country by Con- necticut. But, while undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt has great strength, this latest movement does not as yet show that that strength lies where it would count in convention, that is, it has not appreciably affeced those who will have the final say in that convention. MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN. A Uniform Bill of Lading. (Providence Journal). Congress will have the thanks of the business and banking interests if the Pomerene bill of lading measure be- coms a law, as is now the prospect. The Senate has passed it, and thes hTe Senate has passed it, and the ~ House committee on interstate and foreign commerce is expected to make a favo vle report on it at early date. The standardization ing has been discussed for by the state commissioners on uni- formity of laws. Their experts long ago prepared a model statute for ef-.: fecting the reform, and fifteen or six teen states, including Rhode lsland, have enacted the provisions substan- tially as recommended, But that is still a long way from national uni- formity. Action by congress will make this useful legislation , effective throughout the country In the operations of trade, transpor- tation and finance the bill of lading has become an important instrument of credit—no longer merely a ‘‘con- tract of affreightment.” Since by bankers and payments by signees are made upon this of paper, instead of the goods in transit themselves, it is manifestly necessary that the bill should be of such forfn and description, and sur- rounded by such legal safeguards, as to insure those who handle it against loss by mistakes deliberate Billions of of bills of lad- many years loans con- piece on fraud at on the dollars advanced, home and in foreign countries, American freight documents, in annual movement of the great grain crops, cotton, raw materials and man- ufactured products. Yet, outside leading commercial states, which have adopted the model law, it is possible to negot fraudulent bills withont incurring eriminal penalty. are the o any Many Tn One. (From Songs and Sonnets To the red and the white and t here a heulth! the old and the man that's to be fame will I wish them much of wealth, r peace without honor, at's not free e blug To young and Not. or nor quiet uth, to theé West, To the, North, i t, to the To the blue and the all one color now, To the poor men that work rich men that rc To the men of the of the plough! to gray, theyfre and the pen and the m Here’s a health to them wherever they come! they learn one short head by heart, the figures are weak make up a sum, 1t the whole is a part is a part all, from May lesson by and That till they whole and a The red and the white are but one, the flags of all dipped in the sea children westering sun, and t! And nations When their set fi No Teuton, Celt we ne, no a cans rhe (The apanese Situation. June World’s Work.) There no good end to by calling attention to the policies and practices except affect the United States. But it is of great importance for us to keep cer- tain fundamental facts clearly in mind. Japan believes that kind of diplomacy helps Japan toward her destiny Japan belleves that this destiny is the overlordship of the east, which in- the the is be served Japaneso as they iny war or justified if any is it and end of the American of Open Door. Japan's pos policy sessions reach south al- | most to the Philippines now Japan holds a against the United of race discrimination. In these circumstances it is plain that peace and friendship with Japan are sure only so long as international conditions or our own state of nation- deep States grievance on account | | a1 defense makes demands or aggres- sion by Japan seem likely to be inef- fective.