New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1916, Page 6

# NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916.* W BRITAIN HERALD ued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building Church St ntered at the Post Ofce at New Britaim % Second Class Mail Matter. Peliverea by carries to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail, payable In advance, §0 Cents a Month, $7.00 a Year. Be only profitahie advertising mcdium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. be fourd on sale at Hota- ling's New Stanc, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot he Herald will TELEPHOND omee Rasms CALLS. usin; ‘Atorial FOR BETTER FARMING There riticism, Rmps, hich the has been little or no adverse even in the rural Wilson the enemy political a Pros ir credits law ident signed earlier week. On contrary, it is @iled as the great awakening, as the rerunner of better conditions of has e farmers the land Because iculture ever heen the lagging ember Sam's economic pmily, of Uncle everyone realizes the time is ere when help i edits law Iy lift fifty vears behind the times. it needs little prodding along, and this the rural vill do. It should eventu- farming from its sphere now, to en- a other it In other words the will agriculturists ane in keeping with B avors of taday. bill ng he Civil War the Twentieth Century. The United eatest enacted into law tend to of place them B American out Period and States should the the Even under present conditions be agricultural nation in orld. ith some of it jotsteps of their ell up In the tural farmers fallowing the it is The They grandfathers, front rank. advantages are here, t await the financial assistance that | They do n purchase. skilled labor and scien- | the Republican party in Good | tinguished from the Republican party This i. chance c methods at hand. edit means a to purch od labor, and with scientific man- | the situation it merely ement available under the new era | the desertion of the gallant leader United | of the Bull Moose. He has vaiting, the farmer of the htes will become Jl he surveys,—and tills. MEN IN THi? MAKINC Vhile of conditions surrounding some of the criticism leveled our troops Mexican border it will all The hastily sent down bilized on the just, in the end best. t N rn out be for the ational | ardsmen t the citizens to pro- lives and properties of Amer n will develop into compe- ht soldiers under the strict discipline regular army officers. Because re is no action other than the daily itine of setting the military house | order, the newspaper correspond- s must lay stress in their dispatches voiced the to on the many complaints hong the militiamen Likewise, gossip-mongers, quick anything that might be used found hndal The 'ly reports of bad food administered soldiers have run down false of food have been without United States their opponents, have where no scandal exists. the been d found brtage Stories also mdation. In fact, the vy officers attribute whatever negli- there is to the and t heads of the ce is young in- npeter militia organ- tion Without criticising the men who are iuard it National they are char of the st be admitted that inex- when with the of West work rienced compared duates Point Therefore, to don swords pir greatest has been pss uniforms, buckle shiny their and go h their companies sides, out on parade The difference sween marching in dress parade streets and camping on has not all the Fough city hirie land that im- pvements of a modern community to dawn on some of these After of this beginnin ng offi rk men @ en i1 m cers. a siege they will become infinitely bet- nd officer were It against than they they left home, sweet home. then that never be charged they took food allowed troops out ioned with enough last ht ough if that ppened the such to days and the men to than their allotment in les: time. Theses things really while the the militiamen were way to border 3ecause negligence, mostly attributed inexperience, such odes a unch er Fighting epi on a Cleveland bakery room at Erie were in order. Fred Funston life into the men from th how soldiers ne real army a live ious stat. will know like and to pir foodstuffs accordingly of border mobilization the greatest Bo, in the the cle end, am’s troops along of this season Il be one the blessings Preparedness being the “day, given the right of way order puld be who of preparedn The n § in preparedness are those who lar the khaki ny routine on the border. m their soft berths at home, cast- aside the conveniences of modern follow regular Coming and B in the city, they will at first ot-lm&t for a beginning this number for | nominate | buy, Y\|h. { commanded all the factions in the var- | dential | not see fer complaint at their lot. That After a month or so of perience, however, they will have “roughing is would As on interest suflice time goes natural. ex- ' renewed is manifested in the be- art of flying the aerial army Will grow come accustomed to it.” into greater proportions. Aero and when they come back to their clubs the country have throughont homes in the various states will have | heen asked to co-operate with the something better than money can | national government in this work, and lessons learned under the com- | they alvcady begun to do so. aia have petent guidance of United States greatly in build- officers. Thes of the tomorrow B army | Cities, too, will e boys today will ing acrial army for the United ates New pressed a desire to be of service to the up an prove real men of ex- AND STILL THIY —— Britain has previously GO. . its The, some Charles Hughes the Republican | country by organizing among nominee for Presidentinl honors is | '0.ung men an aviation corps. . vork has bec der way fo peeved at the way the boys are cutting | ork has been under wa L | time. have been sighted, and the full completion of the awaits but appoval of the War Some of the finest voung and rightly so. Yesterday he told ertalrocrulity callers that dissension among his sup- porters must cease. He practically i corps Department ¢ et men of the city have expressed a de- o ogethe to call work for ious localities get ranks of ecivilian avia- A tutor has sire to join the tors on the reserve list. been selected and his services will the made subordinate what he choose their petty differences, and | s he the election of the ticket he heads. tentative This cause o secured moment plans if that command | SecUred u | | | the | (tion at Indianapelis laid plans to | a complcte state ticket. At | of delegates Conssion e the in answer to the ol 8 q are permanent is Indiana Progressives in conven- eventually of national pirit that will the public complete awakening toward duty. a meetin, from various more to The are Acrial means nation preparedness than distric last in state night presi- laymen realize. electors were chosen and to- possibilities of an acrial reserve day the convention is going full steam many and varied ahead away from the port of Repub- licanism. off. And nothing can head them FACTS AND FANCIES, The right kind of doesn’t need to wait for leap year.—Bloomington, 11l, Pantagraph. This Mr. Hughes will not action one bit. He Guard and the is to be deplored, too, be- — o cause like such gl It is not what he bar- ned for. between of tranquility the Old wants peace woman can make her by merely saying heard something Ky., Leader. Progressiv it hushand tremble that she has just about him.—Lexington, any Indiana as wants all of 1912 and the men of that year who just he to prevail between the deserters still boss the Republican party in 1916. two-thirds of the in the Eng- President Detroit It world’ lish langt Wilson wrote Free Press. is said that correspondence i Yep, and most of it, too Otherwise, there can be no Hughes landslide 158 a strange thing control. Human nature is and sometimes difficult to though, no of surface Boston decline in the cargo ships Journal. So far, selling price has been noted. The progressive ranks being made of ht up in human as Mr large part being: the 1 can- Hughes does. | | se | in master of almost | the traces and on top of hi | | banner and pro- | as the | shop ana | instills | conserve | are receiving their first real | difference hetween 1916 a to have leit divisioned up and no ew York Evening Sun. DL Sce any The president seems the Colonel all place to go.— 1912, If there is anything new in Unless you are willing to be a lonely hermit, living in an isolated spot or some other remote place, you can't expect to avold associating with hypocrites.—IFremont Tribune. s to do with icked over stampede sold out his followers for thirty picces ced in polities do under obligations in love to Those who keeping men Those who being under Steubenville sucel of silver. And this will never do, will [ so by succeed obligations Herald-Star. to them. do so Dy women-— never tend to bring the thinking of the the Republicanism. men Progressives ranks of They into would rather r Criti Iaven travel alone than be hitched to such m. a star Union.) tried to dictate of other nations from our well- relation to Mex Globe-Demo (New “We had internal ¢ Mr. Wilson established s So it goes. Instead of things be- the until not coming brighter a e the days go on, the situation from a Republican point of departed course in the St. view becomes more muddled. I’ro- | | 1l«'n 2% crat Was it not dictation affairs” of Colombia dent Roosevelt in States took over the the island republic, virtually forced the resignation of Palma and lished a provisional control American direction? Was it not dfetation in affairs” of Columbia when Itoosevelt Panama in used the resources | United States prevent from trying r bellious Was it affairs” of President Roosevelt forced on that nation a treaty under which an agent of the United States appointed by him took charge of the customs houses and administered the finances of the little republic? What is “dictation’ “internal affairs?” It differ honestly with dent Wil- son’s handling of the Mexican prob- lem and quite another to say that his actions have been revolut Louis gressives are fast flocking to their own are spurning the offers of in “the internal when President 1906 the United government of Republican leaders throughout the They even refuse to be com- | that country. manded by laudable gentleman, | Yet Hughes bathe Progres- Charles Evans Hughes. that Mr, power will did the it estah- never be written under all of He them the absolute necessity of their coming | not do in his to “the iternal President 1903 and of the Colombia the re- wounds the disgruntled sives. has pointed out to “took’ military to to back into the fold if he the ticket which Republican majority is to be set up in both houses heads is to win, and a : SORJUEE state? dietation in “the Domingo when not interna of Congress. If he is put in the White in 1905 must with words, n House he have Congress him, for, according to his own a President with even one House of Congress against him politically And it looks now as if this would be the case were Hughes He would least one House of Congres sibly twe against &I their own tickets the is gravely handicapped. what are thing to and is P one elected. have at s and pos- him; for if the Pro- ssives in many more states nominate oNaLy Republicans will | B A Woman of Paris, Dean have a stiff time of it carrying votes | the political plexion of the Senate and the of such Porter, dent.) Retreating toward the Marne, his r iment Would at morn suburb through; thither walked his glad wife, intent To see her and tr And in her ar | light feet Beside her steps, boy proud hould Their little with Upon the curh she stood as past filed, When something and unawares, lme a moment and child corporal saw ;and their springing from seized her arm; “Courage, Madame! hushand fell Yesterday, by my side, at Maux.” Ah well . . well her Cerer e G com. | (Fdna in the Indepen- House tepresentatives. ther than critical see a situation at a period pass i neighborins in our national history there are many who will vote to keep Woodrow Wi in the White It finitely better, in Mr. Hughes own esti- President And son House. is in- soldier, strong and e; brave mation, to have and 1S, or patt with gress agreed politically than to hav President with a Con- ing of Congress in opposition to him political- she held her baby even one House O the moment greet Victor when his oy Such a apped,” he elected President “must be grave- Mr. ly. Iy handi and Elizhes brimming o'cr were woitld undoubtedly ey be such a President. barred the way AN AERIAL RESERVE. backed officers | The stayed; then wife Secretary Baker, all officials by the influential army and A the father's friend of the War Department, & 1y creation is enthu And the ranks accomplish | iastic out the cal | Proves the ple of the x proposed setting of to a special President eronauti- courage Your re W has pas erve. ifson ap- n and ssed upon many | This ccommendations made. to Ah her eyelids still can closed, addition Uncle stood “forth harm! he heart Sam’'s milit what ary forces will under the provision of thg national defense act which month and come What oy henc wile, grief can Then: swifl deathl raised - her and cried, all her will hoy, S head, with hy authority made into which the to augment the fly given that, 2,000 to- law President is ng | ap- She presenting him given (efidelp - DAL show anguish, “Viva Ia France!” A thrill throngh the throng, the line’s advance Cheers filled the morning sky her and France no soldier in died!- France, mortal, women or proximately 300 officers be and enlisted | Ran and with gether in au men will gathered 1 flying squadron under the | for pices of the National Guard. | Under of the act the | aforementioned number of men would the terms As if his place had For secure, invincible, im- be assigned to twelve divisions of the | aeronautical reserve. Experts agree | while N potare atiits portal! and | he | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all questic changes that Hernid Office. sides of timely as discussed In ex- come to tho A Profitless Seed Distribution, (Providence Journal.) The pending agricultural bill wijl not be weakened by the climination of the old-time provision for free People seriously interested in ing and gardening are not looking the government for packages of s and it is doubtful if any candidate for congress owes his election hi tivity in sending these to his constit- uents. The seeds. farm- to to department of that nothin sending out sceds, and apparently the only advocates in Washington of the practice are the members of Congress, who think that the customary distri- bution adds to their indicidual pop- ularity. The convincing argument against the ‘‘free graft’” its expense. | During the present administration the to the government has been more than a million dollars, and this does not include the wages of postal ployes and other cxpenses. The periment of getting along without free is worth trying. The dollars wasted in this kind of “pork’” can he profitably emplyed in legiti- mate government work. The senate amendment for doing away with the seed distribution should be permitted to stand. is by agriculture convinced is gained seed is e em- ox- “Another Gold Brick.” It is in dispute whether Col. Roose- velt said to J. A. H. Hopkins, chafr man of the New Jersey progressive state committee, that Mr. Hughes might “turn out to be another gold brick.” Mr. Hopkins says the colonel made the statement to him “in the carly part of the yvear” in discussing the presidential nomination, The colonel vehemently dentes Mr. Hop- kins' quotation and denounces it as “false, absolutely false.” As matters stand, the public is forced to judge probabilities. A man as garrulous intemperate of 1 and who hahitu- him having by and speech as the eolonc disputes words attributed may at least be suspected of a defective memor: On many colonel’s misfortune disagree other people as to his utterances. man in public life has faced this predicament, has more persistently, in the face of the evidence, hranded as a “liar” the whose memory appeared to be the colonel’s the with No often one occasions it has heen more and no person hetter than Expensive Government Publications. (Providence The United detic Survey maps ink, area Journal). ) issted paper, in States and Geo- series of two colors of how the coastline and portions of the earth's information 1ously st has on heavy show other surface, The is ing. not conspic valuabhle certainly not worth spending the pub- I money for. One of these maps shows the United States with the Dutch Bast Indies im- posed it. We find that Hol- possessions in the Orient than from Virginia, Portland, Oregon. Suma tra is bigzer than California. Borneo s almost equal to Colorado, South Da- kota Dutch New Guinea is New Eng land. But what Another may an iden the slze of Madag the Phil pines and Ttaly as compared with t United States. Madagascar wonld streteh from the Canadian bhorder Texas. The Philipp run north and south as far as from the Great Takes to Florida. Ttaly 15 bl vada. Again, what of it? These are facts that anvhody eould out of an atlas or cvclopedia, If he cared to do They are facts for the curious. But the National Treasury is in no condition to warrant their embodiment in elaborate pulblic documents. of interest- hut = upon island arther lane extend to is cbraska large and twice as as of of ip- o gives u scar, es is as dig s0. the Tdeals. ew York World). not divided in our let us work together to attain them.’ When Mr. Hughes this noble 1timent such members of the progressive are favorable to his forgot that ideal which he s represents in this campaign is availability. Seclu- | sion as a justice of the supreme court | during the six that republicans were ripping cach other up the is what gave him the nomination. | The more important of | frughes' party may down regular order thu il ing “We ideals; zave ser to party candidacy he ccially years NMr. in iden be set Reaction at the wiping reserve banking Ideal candidate, Elihu Ro. Vindication of Victon involving intervention behalf of big didate, Henry ‘3. Sympathy Washington, includ out the federal and currency systen. v of Huer- Mexica al ¢ iano ta, in business. 1dc Tane Wilson with the K he i the kaiser hut because in his controversy with the president of the United States the murderous misuse of submarines he permitted & democratle chief magistrate to win a great diplomatic victory. Tdeal can- date, Henry Weismann the Ge man-American Alliance. 4. Compulsory military every able-bodied Ameri with somebody or everybod possible. Tdeal dore Roosevelt. 5. A tariff sclentifically rewritfen hy attorneys of the various in tor be benefited, with particular attention to the eminent patriots who contribute largely to the Tdeal candidate an- ser, no bebause over service for i ands war as as Theo- andidate the “sts to rty's cam Boies Penrose 6. Emphatic opposition hideous doctrine that inalicnable rights to at even to the Americans have life and prop though all Europe at Tdeal candidates, Joseph Cannon and James R 7. No man to be appointed a mem- ber of the supreme court of the Unit- ed States who cannot get the indorse- erty he (e] sea war ann million | | mh Norfolk, | | moralizer | the | that | sometimes the | | auction Tl more soon | New York, and | Ideal candidate. Wall street, e street, Boston. William H. Taft. 8. Dollar diplomacy, with as many dollars as possible and not too much nonsense about diplomacy. ldeal can- didate, J. P. Morgan. i 9. America first and true Amer- icanism eludicated and practised hy the German-American alliance and not by that weak and tawdry imi- tation, the president of fhe United States. Ideal candidate, Dr. Hexamer. 10. Public office to he conferred ex- 1sively upon Republicans, all be Democera nt of as classed Jacol 1. Gallinger in the | gressives to | Ideal candidate, | This 1 ! | way of ideals as the exclusive property | f Mr. Hughes except tioe two little ones which he has nnounced since his | nomination. One of thesc is the prop- j osition that the indecent prosperity in- | { flicted upon the countty Demo- | { cratic administration 1s tg be ignored because it is only tempbrary. The other is that the efficient and havd- *working American ambassadors apd | { ministers in Europe, being nothing bt | honest Democrats, ought to be dis- hy superior Republican pluto- crats at once If Republicans and Pro | not divided in their ideals, | they fighting about for how did it happen that | didate they could was one had home, spealk, aves nothing much of o by a placed ressives are and can- vhat six vears, only upon this ye he W cen to when row was under way? The ideals to which { must subscribe are culiar. We are afraid to get them mixed Play (Philadelphia Must profits of playwright be relegated the cate- gory of financial fables The ap- praisal of the estate of Charles Klein suggests this distressing question. Mr. | Klein, who lost with the Lusi- | tania, was with drawing enormous sums in royalties. Tt v he who wrote “The Music Master, | “The Lion and the Mouse” and “Mag- gle Pepper,” and put into dramatic form the “Potash and Perimutter” | tales of Montague Gilass. All had long | runs in New York—-the last-named cspecially —and given at the time in other cities by com- organized for tho purpose. their vogue on the dimin- played in 1t appear from the figures that the writer received less customary recompense; In- | deed, he probably received more. Thus in “The Music Master” Mr. Klein reccived six per cent. on the receipts up to $5000 and nine per cent. on the receipts over that sum. meant at the least $300 a week perhaps nearly twice that while the play was at the height of its popu- larity. The percentage on ‘“Potash | and Perlmuiter” was only two and a half to 24,000 and that But in th o, of a portion of the profit to the orig- inal anthor. Tt is true that computation the manager mu the lion's share. He assumed the responsibili took the risk of failure, and were well e Aepended 1 the W in the than in musical P like a to all great Klein's | $20,- | Music | 10 away the from famil so ¥ M numerous that he Hughes and is going pe- Royalties. >ublic the to Tedger). successful e the was credited were same panies When hed they does not | available than the road were stoek up five over course, had o on any he his | rned cost profits doubtles: reely ich They upon Is Tless kind spectacles or if “Potash and made something the r bheen to fixed from he production 1=e of plays that of g | comedies mutter” million concerned Yet the amount estate at nt 000. The rovalties Master” arec held to of no value, | Mr. Relasco has reserved it for | (o e e o0 W iR | who may not appear in it again, Counting all the other plays by Mr. Klein—and the list A long one- out of the net cstate of $157.668 only $44,816 is credited Ities: the largest item is a life insurance policy of $100,000 | The moral from this sult the and not roat Rut 8 in a vear turn a must ory Mr. at only “The pres is since is to roy n he drawn | of the ! to be Ay fanc appear to taste Tt congenital of the does extravagance or heed- artistic temperament. Klein no “spender” or “high He managed his affairs with prudence, so fay known of ‘his comparn- found the fact wore zerated in Theat finance to The profits of pro- Ay reside the of the press “star’ has an tion of the value of nd it exceeds all author expects in his The plavright whao income mayv 1 fortunate lessne Mr, roller ordinary Tsht tive was as ¢ explanation he Vnings place hard poverty to his ¢ first in cxa ical fathom snccessful chiefly in passionate usually the is enormous n a imagination The appreci agent adequate his or her services that the dreams, rosiost gets a comfortahle gard himself nees where more than rirly The this came to doubtless comparatively re- as in- st him are fow At the ntmost he cannot compote with the c ins of industre a returns, lef andiences crowd t office ns they may, pta ancinl the n hox Germany's Debt to America. York World.) According to all appearances at this the Kaiser's undersea trader has no rights anywhere on earth except | those which it will enjoy a result of the firm stand taken by the United | States government for the freedom of | the seas. | Thus the remarkable voyage of the | commercial submersible has done | than vindicate American neu- | trality. It has shown that Germany itself is now depending upon the ver) law which the United States upheld in its ultimatum a the Tirpitz Deutschland has t will have plenty of it and on the to attack protected by the recent Ger traffic (New time, 1inst safe when n sea room departs deep it will not he subject sight, Tuse is Americ theory on the man i and of not ocean Mr. Hughes has heen asked to send one of his collars to the museum of a Troy factory. If he does,.it is to say it on it will not be found the initials “T. R.”—New York Even- ing Post. sale ! | Culture | thusis | that | the fact | erican tourists were crossing the At-|gprings as | Towed COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK | Above the battle, by Roman Rolland. “A plea for inte which will establish court, a tribunal of would complete and Hague Cour bli . a moral conscience that solidify the her Weekly. high p . ox Adventures in common FFrank Crane. “He wrote them originally newspapers, believing that the pres: could best pr the common man whom he —A. L. Booklis .. sense, by for the through ich to sought.” he . Bodily changes in and “The pain, hunger, fear ge, by W. B. Cannon. book a model of solid cientific achievement and should be read by all who want to see the spirit of modern science at its best.” —Dr. Richard C. Cabot in ‘Survey.’ v s r, by N. Patten 1s in what respect the Ger- and ldeals differ from the and why.”—Publisher’ pls man mind American Weekly. .0 oae Dstimates in Mather, “The art, Jr. author i for art esoteric breathes from have been Age. by Frank Jewett full of a clean en- and vet free from emotionalism that S0 many of the pages devoted to it."—Liv- ing PR First aid in emergencies, Eliason. “‘Clear, concise, fully illustrated work.”"—A. L. A . by L. well arranged and manual for first-aid Booklist. P Influence of joy, by G. V. Dearborn “Scientific explanation of the stimulating tonic effect joy has on the human orgapism. Describes its in- fluences on nutrition, the circulation, the nervous system, etc., with chap- ters on personality and its power."” —Publisher's Weekly PR Inviting war lenson. “Exposure preparedness hind it, by president. to America, by A. L. of the real meaning and of the forces the Socialist candidate hlisher’s Weekly. e be- of the Snar T.ondon Log by Mrs. Jack of for rnational sofalism | entertaining details “She tells in a leisurely ay many of the vovage but does not duplicate the earlier a% cont given her: husband.—A. L A. Booklist Moral obligation to he intelligent, and other by John Erksine. “our the ame theme-=, moral which Intelligence might be rendering our: ads mirations Al at omcs more more '—A A. essays, essays use put, and sensible Booklist. on the to in je: noble ur loy and .o Motlon picture by D. S. Huly fish. * work Photoplay, by Hugo Munsterbers. ‘““The latest hook Ly the eminedf Harvard psychologist, treats of ng less a subject than the “movies” an proclaims the picture a newt independent stands on thef" same high old arts.— Fublisher's moving art which level the notien. e Morlas, the wan Amerl in the He en. Forelen Legion Publisher's Soldler “Soldier Author. of can birth Philippines listed in the of the French army Weekly. of the el own 1 of but Frencl had descent in sceond Fiction. cottage, b Blossomy Montanye Perry. ... Cruis= of the Jasper B, by Don Mar: quis P Frey and his wife, by Mayrice Hew?® lett ‘ / little Times, s, story, is a vividly me tolc headlong London of the sul . Grasp Prisoner, by Alice Brown “Serious work which® shows peopls of fine reserves and beautiful strength under the strain of adjusting a man's life in a conservative New glan town after served several , he has + years in & federal prison.'—A. L. A, Booklist . hill . sylvia of the Piper. Sequel to top, by Margaret R, ‘Sylvia's experiment. InU.S. 10 | National Touring Week = Open August 6| Washington, July peculiarly ple not 105 (6l 0 they have of the great most of Europe, resources and only in that spared the horrors now devastating in the wonderful self, munic graphic is strikingly tion to society set the forth National from its director editor, Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor. part of the communication, issued a hulletin today from the society Washington headquarters, says “Rarely there been afforded more impressive illustration of the tatement that it pays to advertise Geo a and A a than is to be found in the story of the endless stream of tourists to Europe during the several decades before the great war. “The appeal of the art treasures and | of nature's scenic sociations of the Old World which is | the a all American explanation of vear 100 Am- home of sufficient until last original not that is really lantic to one American tourist who crossed the United States. The do- lightful literature which the European travel hureaus and steamship panies ted our appetite for lakes of Trcland and castles on the Rhine the scenes made famous by peare, Dickens, Victor Hugo, Goethe that we turned our bacl scener; more beautiful, wild ardens and forests incompa finer, mountains more superb, lakes more radiant than any to be ceen in the lands across the Atlantic. “It is true that one finds a more ar cient culture in Burope. It is also true that ture. And likewise it finds there better art; was horn into the family tions Burope had c nd drals and masterpieces art sculpture. “But in that architecture which s voiced in the glorious temples of the sequoia grov: and In the castles of the Canyon, in that which i American lakes, which is geyser basins and fres- the he of a view of Scotland, of and Danube and upon flower ably for hefore Am- of na- cathe- erica stles of Grand art irrored In painted in coed unon the side walls of the might- { which towers nearly iest canyons, there a majesty and an appeal that the mere handiwork of men, solendid thongh it may be, can never rival. is “Nor is our country lacking in hal- and historic spots. Is Water loo, where Napoleon's star of empire set forever, any more red to the American heart than Appomattox, where a new nation was borh out of the throes of internecine strife? Are Austerlitz and Wagram, with sa hallowed tysburg, than Valley Plymonth Forge and Get- Rock, Independ- ence Hall, and Mt. Vernon? Does London or Paris or Berlin contain more of inspiration to ue as a people than Washington, the nations capital? ‘We have wandered far to find the picturesque and the magnificent, and vet it not entirely provincial phil- osophy which says that New York is in many ways the most wonderful, the most striking, and the most ing of all cities of the earth; neither it only the voice of the man who has never seen other shores that pro- Yellowstone Park the most marvelous picture-book of nature's library: nor yet is it the narrow pride of the spread-eagle orator alone that is nounces / their | hizh tides of the French empire, of | aggressive soil more sa-red or atmosphere mora | Milford has adopted a re interest- | hastening Shakes- | | apeake | Monawi he finds more splendid architec- | is true that he | com- | ik placed at our disposal so whet- | pead, and | the human hand | possessing | the | flords more i —How , awards to the Grand Canyon and the blest are the Amerjcan peo- | Yosemite and the Big Trees first been | place among the wonder scenes of the war | ¢ but un- paraliedel beauties of the country it- | originality and grandeur any caves in a com- | Europe, arth. | “Luray Cave, in Virginia | moth in and Mam- surpass in 1 Niagara F has no in Asia, and our are the glory of the ve, Kentucky, whilc i rival in Europe | American forests !'world | “Man to study the Rc ! plains reveal as any we know, and more magnificent in any that can found of the world. “Our country 13 goes to and forgotten ci skins to Agrica ilizations when tern Awellings upon orr own We and cliff stories in our of wn the past 1s stra onstitute a race than parts physique be in other is the treasure house Jewels, nd such an infinite that thousands treasures cannot in this bricf lubrious across the ocean; broad, hard, white beaches Ik the automobile coursc Ormond, sug to in Europe; ¢ Mount 0 many marvels matchless mentioned variety of our e be icle kot en Ny at perior any those at Mount bara, fan Di which parallels almost c chusetts t for aquatic cept in our Sound; oast scenes Marble- Tamaly Santa Bar- r0; an inland waterway the Atlant ast and § mtinuous Massa- Florida, w ibilitics enjoymient 1aled ex- wondre Puget any gorges Desert i from th S po: ow canals picturesque Holland, such as the mount n in and | and blue-gress pastures of the Che and Ohio Can Cumberland, ¢ Valley of the a desert with colors as heavenly as those the Sahara and, though de void of picturesque camels and Arabs, adorned with the extr cacti and desert ana studdec ington to the historia most ordinary vegetation on earth, works of Citys vhich thou- Alaska, fers in reglon Norway McKinley, mile higher than the loftiest peak in Europe, “One could spend an entire lifetime + seeing mnature’s masterpieces within our boundaries and not reach the end of the catalogue.” marvelous like 1 1 vovage with Salt Kkes, of liners grandest outside the 1pressive mountains like ake great fresh Yyou can take nd miles on the water on ocean gla world polar than Mt one and Wide In Milford. (Bridgenort Farmer.) The Milford demccracy may not be & numerous democracies of some other places, but 1t is wide awake and The town of for- 10 join Awnalie as as connittee mally inviting the progressive in the election of Woodrow Wils This, doubtless, mosi progressives in. tend to do, everywhere, unless, in. deed, they decide to nominate a ticket of thelr own, with Victor Murdock at the head of it. Milfora are not the brard rose, Crane of the on Progressives that swallow Pene pussy foot brizade, Cannon of yesterd and the rest of the motley boss crowd whose banner Roosevelt carries now ay, Every day someone informs us his “friends” have at last succeeded in dragging from him his reluctant cons sent to run for an office. “Friends® are so cruel and incopsiderate &t times.—Houston Post, containing **