New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1916, Page 6

6 B COMPANY. W BRITAIN Proprietors. med dally (Sunday excepted) at at Herald Bulid #7 Chure 15 p. m. st At Mew Hritstm Matter. ost Class Ome: Mail ered at the a8 Secona verea by carrtec to any part of the cfcy for 15 Centa a Week, 65 Cents a Month. psciiptions for paper to ve sent by mail, Dayable in advance, 50 Cents a Montn. $7.00 & Year. only profitabla advertising mcdmum in the cfty. Circulasfon bhooks and press room always open to advertiaers. found on sale at Hota- and, 42nd St. and Broad- Poard Walk, at- and Hartford Depox TELEPHOND iness Office torial R~ ty, carLE T What jxim Ebrat ptches M NNECESSARY Church street That thoroughfare silencer. of this which be part d its ma ent presence en in street the I the nd Corbin place gainir being t of ¢ din is rde “rom the y morn- to cool of the e ening All and racket kept up. introduction It Bl of popular latest needed the is of noise stor pric by out With o1ld “Tin melodi : ground yard on a dilapidated piano. novelty o h street greater the Alley” he police in name should pve the suff do something to ring of who live the those must day business The who spend in pations on Church street. t lies mostly those I with delight that in honking automobile ched t £ are idly atta o machines pding by. Of course, there wherein | | the end it is found impossible to grant other forms of which the ic officer on duty at the intersec- | of noise Church and Main street must but bec which is powerless to use he innot leave his of av prevailing custom acing ugh heavy itomobile truck: this | all the street is a cause of forced Complaints | an- hnce to those who are pend day fit occupants of apartment houses, | there. numerc guests in hotels, private residences, the coterie of hold late ness men Wh forth from ¢y morning to afternoon decry Inst the terrible noises in vogue. here may and there may not be the If society, By to silence hurch man, tintinnabulations street there is a or or it even | the | e force, that puts it in practice ad- | win the undying esteem and tion,of some five or six hundre« R who are being red to death by the all slowly constant s, unpecessary, that prevail | street that be- ts name. There is this one thing Church the urch street, the ng on street. No one hears ch organ; day soothing tones of t at least, not during OSOEVER SHADL OFFEND. btn the great ralroad | froversy that threatens the nation | sides in disaster have presented their| iments and artifices, and | simmered down | The eight hour | which all must place. The erhoods are holding out for this| e contention that it is practicable it hag worked The rail- | the amount | case has at last jnoe main point. is the pivot around r action take bilroading just as her ‘lines of endeavor. hold ary executive that honey neces to finance such a ct would necessitate a change in which cannot of the Commission. | has put the de- and squarely up to both of American broth his pro- rate schedule take without the sanction In-| ate Commerce ident v n fairly n p speakin not as President Jnited States but as one n talking to his rs side turns down hel scheme hever 1, that the a try-out ed, that side shall be held moral- the of the strike be off pend- of the con- ponsible in eyes rican people thes tiatians fra all the 1 il owne k 1eThoo not bee with other, or peop! 2 11V 1t ple are g for the event of and able. on into ht the presider may throw ligt x 1if Therefore, loss of both future are now their ¥ the a su- iting brs, after th ident has won from b the settlement of reach »th sid ive concessior S pould secm Istrike is within ca bith all the publicity I the that négotiations now taking e on this riomentaus question the | lic is very much in ignorance of t it means other than that a crisisl buoyant by any means. Some of thcl | gressives of California to the old guard | | naa | patch | sert that up to this time he has con- | dictions that Col. Roosevelt's whole- | attendant | is because of the very line Britain Rail- i ola Republicans in New are free to admit that Hughes is the biggest disappointment they contend is This nature of the railroad busines near. roading may be simple to those who | bigg spend their lives at it; to thase who | to with in ages. And towns around the state are experienc- The Repub- re pursue other occupations it simiply the running and stopping of | ID& the same condition The technical be surmounted rasp of the situation can be had are Whether the fram means to | licans of standing not en- thusiasti trains, difliculties vears ndidate, some- The in over their before a complete lead- New public unheard of the | thing usually i innumerable. eight- g member of party YLour day is practicable an | Britain has come out in the tion of the and ther of admit they are | prints with a denunc can- methods, the operating standpoint may be easy to Whether financial o it onnl b miade A sus ldidate’sicampaizn are humbler soldiers in ranks the cess from a point of view is q T 1wty who frankly auite another thing There are so vote against Hughes. So California is not the only state in the Union sore plexed on this thought of many details involved, so many ques i tions and and schedule | and W of rate time weight and lacomotive power and to he nas it some way if the at and other things hat officiency considerec an expert would But understand these there must be dilemma and that has of occupied all army ifled. if the public does B children Kastoria, Greece. coursc the little Greek for it. know or things know the does out FACT, of two sides cannot find a NCIES, differences nt moment they can adjust their _ Attor “Turks take Mush,” which is what il the Germans have been feeding them. | —Wall Street Journal. an experiment has | This, States conducted the President Unised suggested. invites the the ad executives to try out the eight what it is worth, difficulties. been the of has He railr and one city employe for voters. How long before ~Buffalo Enquirer. Boston has | every eight it is fifty-fifty - brotherhoods pateh- If hour day for the ing up minor inl frave primaries eliminated the wick- ed bosses or are the wicked bosses eliminating the primaries?—New York | Sun. | the men their without | serious loss, the case can be presented to the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion and a new schedule of rateg pro- mulgated. The question is therefore ta one side or the other, the rail- executives or the brotherhoods. concessions Mr. Hughes has not yet betrayed the slightest symptom of homesick- ness for the dear old supreme bench, up ——Washington Star. Fosd The Turks in Constantinople are learning to play football. Evidently to harden them for warfare—San Francisco Chronicle. CALIFO¥ CTICUT. Up to the present the Philadelphia North American has been an ardent supporter of Charles Evans Hughes for Presidency. Yesterday this newspaper, a recognized Roosevelt or- gan and one of the strongest Progres. Skirts will be longer next season. If they were any shorter they wouldn't be skirts, they'd be Kkilts.—Syracuse the Post-Standard. One of the most prominent shadows at Shadow Lawn is that of a tall man with whiskers.—Pittsburgh Gazette- Times, sive papers in the BEast, printed a spe- | cial which stated that Chester Rowell, Pro- dispatch from San Francisco | gressive leader and member of the Re- | (o oo ool Hughes is balancing on the fence. | When Taft climbs up a breakdown | will be inevitable—Atlanta Constitu- | tion. national campaign commit- Republic Pro- publican tee, candidate has denounced the n for “abandoning the editorial of comment upon Mr. Hughes the says:—*“It points to | var on the | react on in the doubtful wolves.” In this denunciation North American an impending Progres ;andidate which the situation Tnion, | A letter from Los Angel Cal., to Stuttgart, Germany, has just been de- livered minus an enclosure of $225 The British censor should at least 1s- sue I. O. U.s, payable at the close of the war—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. sive may casily state the in every especially in - The Visitor. (From the Detroit Free biend of good and bad, laughter and of tears, 1 reckon when it's over, I've lived my string of years | And have been the I shall’ke and have known all I shall know my visit here is ended and come my time to go, shall turn, as friends departing, this kindly world and say grateful for the gladn was strewn along my way. states. That Mr. “spokesman Press.) Hughes went to California = the Re ken from his own A of as of tional | | Anda is when publican party statement, and this stand has not been viewed kindly by the Progr best ssives who thoughts of their own. The dis- Francisco goes on to | might And e from San that Mr. Hughes 2id nothing at all which would better | I to have . I have heen the wiser course than thus am that to ignore the plans of the Progressives. Progres- | A blend of loss and gain, and of bit- ter and of sweet; 1 reckon at the fin met all £ shall meet, for me o day is dawning that shall bring another friend Or victory or failure, wheh my visit’s at an end, 1 shall turn as one departing from kind and gentle host And thank the world for gladness that in life was uppermost. In a further analysis of the sive situation, the North American has But , when I've of to be desired. the following “Mr. Hughes’ left much present speech-making campaign, not | commen letter acceptance | ang As to the | ‘\ even his most ardent admirers will as- B vinced the waiting public that he pos After editorial exceptional strength.” reviewing the outlook, the “One condition, however, is defi- and the Progres: has not swung entirely over sesses I wonder every morning what new joy will come my way, ive | What new friend I shall discover with the passing of the day, | And what glad surprise is waiting, for it really seems to me That each day is always different than hearted indorsement would that | P oushti il solnE iR result. Neither has the of | And when mv stay is over, when my the Progressives to abandon the party | shexefol il Syernad, 3 + I shall thank the world for doing all this i l it could to keep me glad. adds nite obvious strength to Hughes, despite the confident pre- have decision organization for vear produced that effect. “It would be absurd to belittle the defection of such men as John M. Par- Lindsley of of Califor- of Massachusett J. A Judge Nortoni dge Colby of New M. Wallace the Pr Wilson T have wept nd T ha whimpered, I have suffered davs of pain, But have lived to wake to smiling and to the sun a in. selfish people, men T've them T've lived with and kind and clean. be forgotten- and Atsappear, at ker of Louisiana, Judge view Francis J. Heney Hale of Colorado. M I've encountered some brutal the most the and nia, hew a0 Edwin Lec Indiana, 2ut of Hopkins of New Jc heen bi will the wrong will Tl thank th arting for the jovs it gave me here. sy : | And G of 3ainh Aand are York editorial Missouri, and Henry i i, that raressi will poir will go to not 8E MeAdams 1 WILSON, in st Dispatch.) Position vote which represent mercly opposition to Hughes. Progre r (Glavk Louls Post- “There are large numbers of . : believe this have strongly We which says, ‘“‘who Yes. Tuell Finding Rather A, Hogh sthing it President Wilson. sives the in know through reached At or Anc Ha hat the prote us from readers who are vir- | iy think always in accord with us. but who not follow us in condemning Wilson Te'll h t a the record of the administra- wig factorles running intry tion.” | Nor the North American stop | Jhase on But The he's thought of to sort of Bay the moon does i alout the President tashion: | he foresoing ques- Further with st reference in this to tion Wilson is made o It may Euroy Where Are not But in Republt We instat On being herever one dips into the Progres- | yo. o The Autumn cometh Ings will Clarify a bit think of some- hing at will help ke a hit After all The fight on Wilson Is not his In any we And the folks Who are behind May advise him What to say ote a strong Wilson sentiment is | nen's souls their own, this dearte, Another ominous fact is that while ad Wilson is able to do things, Hughes only criticize In the editorial it is stated: Mr can him shown promise.” Mr. Hughes Is not discussing Rural credits And finance; Nelther ls he Much dehating Ways the people May advance. Al we've left For him Is iMng And there eannot Be a doubt At the presnet Wav, he's golng, That the man 1s ifling out. “Mr. Hughes' progress thus far is not inspiring to his supporters in Califor- nia the effect | tively depressing.” 1 The same may be said of the condi- The Hughes s porters are not over-enthused at their | If the effect in | | this state is not depressing, it is not made by him is posi- it tion in Connecticut Beating Wilson weot Luella, Seems to look A little black. Maybe Mr. Hughes | Wil wish he Had his old candidate’s showing. have had | other are crying | | | | { about $2,000,000,000 so far. | means A Serious Situation, (Manufacturers' Record, Baltimore.) The price of paper, which hag ad- vanced from 100 to 200 per cent, or more over prices prevailing a year seriously threatens the life of number of publications the country and at- profit of others, if any other United States serious a of a | large throughout 1y lessens the It is doubtful incustry in the had to face so because when prices teri have advanced the facturers of the finished have advanced their prices thrown the burden on the consumer. In the newspaper busi- this nat yet been done. The ncwspapers, from the largest dailies to the smallest weeklies have been bearing the burden which to many publications will mean com- plete destruction and to others the wiping out all profit. The day laborer, the mechanic, the farmer and nearly all business interests, manufacturing and mer- cantile, under the activity of the times are showing larger earnings than for years. But the newspapers as a whole, are meeting a more per- plexing problem in the doubling, and in some cases the trebling of | price of pape and in the absolute inability to contract in advince for supplies, than they have ever had to face before. The statements which have reccently appeared in the daily papers on the subject do not at all cxaggerate the seriousness of the problem. large has situation, raw ma- Is manu- and thus ultimate \ noss as Our Navy As a Trade School. (New York World.) A phase of American naval develop- ment less obtrusive than battieship tonnage and armament but making for greater efficiency is illustrated in The Sunday World account of the technical schools maintained by the Naval Department for enlisted men. A boy enlisting in the navy now en- joys most of the educational advan- tages of a student at a vocational {raining college. In the electrical schools at the Brooklyn and Mare Island Yards he can learn electrical operation and construction and wire- less telegraphy. In the artificer school at Norfolk he can learn the painter's blacksmith's or wheelwright's trade. In the yeoman schools at Newport and San Francisco he can learn naval bookkeeping and clerical work. In the training schools for the hospital corps he can learn emergency surgery, hy- giene, pharmacy and nursing. If he prefers to he a cook or a baker or a machinist or a coppersmith or a band musician or an aviator, there are schools for him. And for all the while he is learning the trade that will fit him for special duties in the service and make him self-supporting when he leaves it, he is learning it in the company of other youth who constitute what Admiral Dewey calls the “finest enlisted men in the world.” The government’s own gain from treatment is in the improved qual ations of the men whom the hting efficiency of the navy depends on A Big War Fortune. (Meriden Record.) 7 P. @ in his time a of his country, didn’t really know how to make money. The present J. P. Morgan is said to have made as much in the last two years as his father made in his whole career, or at least as much as he left at his death. The elder Morgan found his portunity in the consolidation of American industries into trusts. The vounger Morgan found his opportun- ity In the European war. And he has made the most of it. Under a contract with the British government the Morgan firm has re- ceived a commission of two per cent. on all munitions and .supplies pur- chased by the allies in this country. Those purchases have amounted to It like- wise. gets a banking commission on all loans ralsed here for foreign govern- ments. Such loans are sald to aggre- gate at present about $1,500,000,000. There are also commissions for selling many hundred million dollars’ worth of foreign-owned American securities for the British government, and com- missions for call loans and commis- sions for stabilizing British exchange. Tn fact, it's hard to imagine any man- ctary phase of the war that doesn’t bring in commissions to the House of Morgan it's a a pride. Morgan the elder, although re- the financial king op- record in which Mr. Morgan husiness man may Jjustly take But the comparison is ¥ no all in his favor. The elder Morgan was more than 2 money-mak- er. During a good part of his life he devoted more attention to art than to busine The art collections he left were worth nearly as much as his business investments. The vounger | Morgan cares little for art that he rapidly selling and scattering those collections. s0 is With (Toston Difference. Post.) German submarine merchantmen of the allies h been renewed with a good deal of vigor, and to bad effect for the allles. Where- | upon cc n of the anti-administr | tion papers are parading the editorially with the inference that | president is being flouted by German admiralty. But what they forgot to mention is that in no instance whatever has there been any valid evidence that these I merchant ships have been attacked without warning and without giving | the crews ample time to escape. Tha the point, and the only point. Of course. the United States never asked Germany to stop sinking encmy merchantmen. It only demanded that the sinking should not be without warning, and the chance for escape of the people aboard. Germany acceded to that, and has, so far, at least, kept her promise. But imagine the glee of some of our republican papers if some day the news should come that Americans had been murdered by a German sub- marine. aeotivity against n- Lot the the i l products | many | EW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1916. U. 5. Fishe ries Now Hold Lead Among All Na tions ) e sl Aug, 23.—Flesh but America’s forever the Washington, D. C and fowl may fall us, fish supply going cording to censuses of tribes which inhabit lakes. | streams and coast waters from Alaska to the Ilorida Keys Dr. Hugh M. Smith, the leading authority In this country on the subject, tells of Amer- ic surpasging fisheries in com- munication the National 0- graphic society now made public in the following bulletin: | “With the acquisition of Alaska { there came to us marine resources of | | such transcendent value to over- | shadow all other natural products and | to give the United States fisheries the | leading place among the nations. | “The creatures which support fisheries are not all fish, but belong In various classes, some of those con- | tributing most notably to the import- ance of the industry being crustaceans and mollus The total annual value of our fisheries at the present tlme is approximately $76,000,000 | “The numerous of econ- omic importance on the cast coaat of the United States is the -menhaden | which {s known also by a large num- ber of other names, some of them in- appropriate and misleading. Tt is a | member of the herring family; goes in | great schools in the ocean, bays, and | sounds, and supports a fishery from Maine to Florida. “Although the menhaden pal- atable food fish, its principal value | now, as in the past, is for conversion into oil and fertilizer. At times it is | exceedingly fat, and yields a cheap | grade of oil much used in the indus- | tries, while the part remaining after | the extraction of the ofl is rich in ammonia and is one of the best fer- | tilizers, whether employed alone cr in combination with other ingredients. The chief purpose, however, which the menhaden serves is as food for numerous valuable fishes along the entire coast. It forms at times the | principal diet of bluefish, swordfish, squeteague, mackerel, Spanish mack- | erel, etc.,, and often when we eat these } fishes we are really consuming *rans- | formed menhaden The abundance | or scarcity of menhaden in a given | season or on a given part of the | coast may determine the abundance or scarcity of various important food fishes; and for this reason, in addition to immediate value to man, it has by some persons bheen regarded as the most important fish on the Atlantic coast of the United States. is on ac- | finny as mo fish is a | oil | of fertilize: million Greater most conspicuous is the oyster idea of the abundance and the magnitude of the ye gathered from the fact that in 1913 more than one billion fish were caught and converted over six and a half million gailons of | nearly ninety thousand tens | valued at three and a half These fish, if placed have extended in ‘Some menhaden fishery may into and lolla end, end would to an unbroken line six times around the earth at the equator, and their weight | exceeded that of all inhabitants of | New York. “Among the fishery products which America pre-eminent, in | the | This, | our most important aquatic resource, ( is not only more valuable than in any | is our | other country, but more valuable than | her in all other countries combined. The American oyster has the further dis. tinetion of being a staple food of | comparatively low price, while in practically every other country having a well-developed oyster industry the oyster is a high priced luxury. Its commanding position is shown in the facts that it is a commercial com- | modity in every coastwise state except two (Maine and New Hampshire); | that it is the leading fishery product in fifteen states, and that it the most extensively cultivated of all our aquatic animals. The annual oyster crop of the United States is about 35,000,000 bushels. “The salmon resources of the Pa- cific states are among the natural wonders of the western hemisphere, but they now take rank after those of Alaska, whose fisheries as a whole have experienced their remarkable de- velopment and attained their present surpassing importance chiefly because of the salmons. Since Alaska became a part of the national domain, the to- tal value of the products taken from the waters of the territory up to the present year has been nearly $300,- 000,000; the fishery reached its climax in 1915, with a value of $21,000,000 | which is three times the purchz price of Alaska. “The ample experience private | fish culturists in all parts of the country confirms the opinion often ex- pressed by national and state fishery officials, that under given conditions aquiculture may be more profitable than agriculture; that an acre of the best water may yield larger returns than an acre of the best land, and that food supplies of untold volume and value may be expected from what ara | now unused waters.” is of Why Do Men Become Counterfeiters? (New York World). Has any one ever made a fortune | hy counterfeiti money Has any counterfelter, indeed, ever made a what he might | the exercise of skill and industr; prompted by the | seizure by cret service agents of an elaborate plant on Staten TIsland, parently designed for the manufacture of bogus treasury notes and silver cer- | tificates. The equipment included expensive photographic , lithographic and other atch- ing, engraving and electrotyping out- fits and supplies of costly paper and | ink It embraced, in fact, all the fit- | tings of complete printing and pho- | to-engraving business. In the hands of men of honest industry, with f’u‘; less technical skill than that required | to run the' plan successfully on th’ gitimate lines, it could have heen ! made to yield an immediate income and could probably have been de- veloped Into a lucrative business. As It 1s, the costly machinery is con- fiscated before operations are begun. It a trite saving that crime does not pay. But is there any branch of crime less profitable in the long run, and as measured by the talent and preparation needed for it, than coun- terfeiting? Burglary necessitates apprenticeship. But a counterfelter must be lled workman, to begin with, and once embarked on his ne- farious calling he is suspect, not alona | by the tradesmen who change his bad | bille for him but by the most effl- | clent of detective institutions, the gov- ernment secret service. From tha | time he first falls Into the clutch.s | of the law until he dies he is watched, | and the amount of money he can | make and circulate under the most favorable conditions Is negligible by comparison with what he might earn | honestly. Why men should aspire to be coun- terfeiters while possessing a skill that readily marketable for excellent wages is of the mysteries of w0 nature. Does a perverteq of craftsmanship of the ola survive in the counterfeiter ana ate him in the error of his wavs? ing comparable with by a | | earned degrec The question have similar of is an- an | apparatu presses, i | { is | | | no | is one B sride | Bras wetu- i Travel | (Philadelphia Inquirer) the 1a n 12 ¥ months the Penn- ylvania sysiem, including all lines and west of Pittsburgh, has trans- ported 454,000,000 passengers withou a single loss of life. “This ls an as- tonishing record. It means that what amounts to four-and-one-half times the population of the country ha made a trip in safety and the total mileage equals about one-ninth the dlstance from here to the sun Compare such record with safety of the ordinary pedestrian. In this city durlng the first half of *he vear about sixty persons were killed | by automobiles alone. Many tres- | passers on the tracks of the Penn- sylvania have been killed and many | who have not heeded warnings. Un- fortunately, some of the employes of | the company have lost their lives, but | the passengers have been transported in safety. According to these figures, the safest place in the world for a man on one of the Pennsylvania a the | 1s 1n.nm. I ner Pail’ styles for house and evening wear will ! Alps lles Austria. Campaign Slogans Past and Present | Hughes has raised the standard of “America first and America efficient.” “Thank God for Wilson' the an- swer of the democrats. But compare | hese keynotes with the campaign slo- | is gans of yesterday. At the approach of every national | campaign,” writes “Zim" in Cartoons Magazine, “‘the cartoonist casts about | for a symbol or some suitable mode of attacking the political foe or uplifting his own candidate. Thus Bernhard Gillam’s famous ‘Tattooed Man' de- feated James G. Blaine. It was a cartoon likewise that returned William McKinley to the White House. is was Grant E. Hamilton'’s ‘Full Din- ner Pail’ cartoon, and the ‘Full Din- was taken up as a campaizn slogan. “So popular, in fact, was this nov- | elty that both Mark Hanna and Wil- llam McKinley, after election, compli- | mented Hamilton for his great work | In the campaign and declared that the dinner-pail idea, more than Mark | Hanna's campaign management, 8e- cured for Mr. McKinley the presidency of the United States. The public at | jarge ls not always aware of what hap- | pens behind the scenes in a news- paper office, for if it were. it might have seen a novel presentation of a mammoth tin dinner pail filled with tobacco, wines and cigars to one Ham- flton, asa token of love and in rec- ognition of his ingenuity. The ‘Full Dinner Pail’ will go down in political | cartoon history as one of the greatest | hits because its spoke the truth and | added a clean and inoffensive ele- ment to the campaign.” Down Go the Hems. (Waterbury Republican.) Just as the women have succeeded | in fustifying their short skirts on | the grounds that they’re artistic, con- venient, camfortable, healthful and | moral, it announced by fashian’s courtiers that skirts are going to be long again, Most of them, it appears, | are to be brought down to within six | inches of the ground. The extreme | actually drag, in the good brushing up any floors or haven’t been otherwise swept Why this about-face? Goodness | knows. Certainly men can't get a glimmering of a solufion for the mys- tery. Some vague, unknown power called “Fashion” has issued its omni- | potent and inscrutable decree, and that settles it. Skirts will longer Then the women will defending them, just as they have defended short | kirts, on the grounds that they’re ar- | istic. convenient, comfortable, health- | ul and moral. i Men, of course, are alw; and consistent about their old way walks that properly s t i 1ys senstble | clothes, | to the Farm Page. | (Louisville Courer-Journal.) Hughes started his campaign on the | fivst page. Now his calamity howl has | drifted over to the page on which | the chief item of interest to the | American farmer is that hogs are | ebove $10 and corn Is worth nearly | 90 cents, Back Beyond the Alps. (From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.) This {8 the way the Italian school- | Loy says It nowadays: “Beyond ‘ML | smiren | wives before taking the train throwir | emerging, WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions ar discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Hernld Oftice. Maine’s Great Days. (New York Evening Post.) The name of Hale as that of a can- didate for the senate in calls the palmy days of inance at Washington congress controlled Senator candidate, was mittce on appropr and the state’s other senator at the Lead of the committec on commerce. New York had two men in the Hause, Paync and means committec Alexander of rivers and harbors, But neither New York nor any other state could compare with Maine at the height of glory. The story cannot be bet- ter told than in the words of an Irate southerner who burst into Reed's office with the indignant demand “Who's running this government, any way?" Reed’'s “The great and the good, John, of course,’”” was the signal for the following retort: ““Well, the great and the good must 11 live in Maine, then. I come ur here on business with the secretars of state—Mr. Blaine from Maine. 1 call to pay my respects to the actinz vice-president—Mr. Frye from Mafne I wish to consult the leader of the United .States Senate—Mr, Hale from Maine. I would talk over a tariff matter with the chairman of the ways snd means committee—Mr. Dingley from Maine. There is a naval bill in the House in which I am greatly in- terested—Chairman Boutelle from Maine. I wish an addition to the public building in Richmond—Chair- man Milllken from Maine, -And here I am in the august presence of the great speaker of the greatest parlia- mentary body in the world—Mr, Reed from Maine. The story goes on to say that southerner ‘“‘went out laughing to lunch with the chief justice—Mr. Ful- ler, from Maine,” but that is drawing the bow rather long Fuller was born in Maine, but Cleveland took him from Illinois, The record shows one way, nevertheless, by which a state so small and certain that its electoral vote is not the object of hard fighting may obtain a tremend- ous influence in the government Maine Maine In T of re- dom- last ans by father chair the 1bli Halc presen man the com *rye, was important chair- of the waxs drawling, o the Healy’s Chances. (Bridgeport Telegram.) Frank of nominated this 1 The of speaker of the Hous to chances Heal Representa- for fall amount tives, be Ly the republicans measured wholly the of faith held by the leaders in Connecti- cut's Hkelihood of forgetting the Healy's public record in" the state He is just their As leader of the House ir he obeved their dictation and took his reward at the wind wielding his influence to vote into a flat sinecure at the expense the state. That is the kind date the hosses want everywhere, tractable, obedient, clever, and 1o take his pay out of the rel But unfortunately for | the present leaders did | dominate the situation Some years ago Mr. Healy Tartford county in the hollow hand, politically. A man sought o and went to see Healy about it E accompanied by witness did not get the office, and Healy not get a sum of which witnesses declared asked Charges were and scandal resulted red an ustained from a governor may by on The hosses personally man like Healy kind of 1915 then by e up himse of of candi- willing pork bar- Mr, Healy, always held f his He He did the s a money he for. public Woodruff charges passed Gavernor investigation, the and Healy state office was which re- 1 ho Healy slunk off palitically not the kind put.” He gradually on the old strings, bit by bit worked himself back Into the He worked himself back into leadership—at first in the face of Dbitter pratests. But he bided his time Tast vear it was his—easily. “The Loys” were with him that much But for governor-—that's cther matter, To make Healy th custodian the very authority which on occasion had yanked him by the seruff of his neck and barred him from the employment of the state! Will the people stand for it? ot the politicians, think of Connec- ticut’s big republican which normally maintains “Yes” Others +hot? elected into ohscurity and 5 for time of politician to began to Tut he burie 3 pull He house. the quite of another Some <ing majority cynicaly say “Not by a remember that the democrats Governor Baldwin twice ning.” There that opinion to win in raust put th thelir worst of the thing that if the r Cannecticut ofr best foot th view Our own wish they not publicans this fall forward A Telephone Kiss, (A. J. Lafayette in Pittsburgh Dis- patch.) Have you ever observed the tele phone kiss? Tt is mostly noticeablc railroad stations. There vou will f quently see men who telaphonc their kisses at the telephone wher hang up the receiver. The other even ing a dozen or more men r in the 'phone room at the Grand Central dropped thelr handbags alongside tha switchboard, called for familiar num- bers and disappeared in booths, talked an average of three and, waved kisses in the direc- tion of the transmitters. One man pressed his kerchief to his lips and another rubbed the back of his hand across his mouth, just as If they were illustrating a kiss. Of course, these men were quite oblivious to their sur- roundings and, of course, the kisses were spontaneous manifestations of affection for wives on the other end of the wir they hed minutes