New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1916, Page 8

s NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1916. W BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. ued dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Building, 67 Church St red at the Post Ofce at New Brita 48 Becond Class Mall Matter. 5 vered by carrfec to any past of the ofty for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Mont] criptions for paper to ve sent by ma! Payable in advance, 60 Cents a Month. $7.90 & Year. only profitabla advertistng mclmum A the oity. Circulation books and press Toom always open fo advertigers. Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Poard Walk, at- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONI CaLL2. ineas Office . torial Rooms WHO THEY WANT. jit would be rather a nice thing for Democrats of Connecticut to minate H. Holcomb- for ernor. ‘“Nice” is the word. When Py assemble in convention next week New the followers of omas Jefferson tould perform no bler act than lay down their arms fondle to their bosoms the boom the Republicans. Such action uld immediately set a precedent for other states in It uld do away with political parties e and forever, and, if followed on Marcus Haven the union. P same lhes as suggested for Con- ticut, the realm of litical activity growing e spot in the sight of Republicans, Democracy. No softer, soothing m could be poured over the spirits those who boil with indignation at mere thought of the Democratic ty. or the promotion of harmony and itical peace throughout the state Connecticut: and the country at ge there is no better panacea than one aforementioned. And, If rcus H. Holcomb was the entire publican party, the Democrats to an might see that this step was en. There are some who think bugh of the old gentleman from thington to do such athing; even the risk of losing party affiliation i political identity. All of which to show that the Democrats do hold party above everything else. etimes the man, as in the case of podrow Wilson, gets the greater part their love and adgmiration. But Brcus H. Holcomb would not be the e beneficlary of such sacrifice as Democrats might make. That ster of political satellites hovering r around the bright star at the d of the ticket would reap the hefit. Those are the boys who get the butter off the bread. Their es are legion, they need not be ntioned here. The initials on their keage are famillar to each and pry man, woman and child who ever hrd of state government domineered political bosses. They are the lit- shepherds of the kingdom, with b accent on the King. Yo, Connecticut Democrats will not 1d to this altruistic impulse and ce the name of Marcus H. Hol- b at the head of their ticket, how- r much they honor and esteem the eseng executive, Instead, they will low. the regular order of things d name their own candidate. It Ly be Colonel Osborn who is so re- tant to give up newspaper work; may be George M. Landers of New itain who will some day have to sake his avowed intention of re- hining away from the honor; it may Homer S. Cummings of Stamford 0 has every qualification for the sition; it may be,—but why go on? ere are any number of formidable n who might be placed in nomina- bn at New Haven and who would be credit to the state of Connecticut elected to the governorship. There no dearth of material. And even ould Colonel Norris G. Osborn de- line the honors, as it is hoped he will bt, even at the risk of losing one of e state’s greatest journalists, there il be nominated one to give Gov- or Holcomb a good run. Not be- use the Democrats want so much to bfeat Holcomb; they do not feel hat way about it. Personally, he s the stamp of thelr approval lhey are after that trained troupe hat follows Holcomb's caravan. And good many citizens, not Democrats, ink the same way, remove from the ever | RETALIATION. It all dépends on how the shoe fits. laced onlthe wrong £oot there is the evitable pinch. + England now ery much perturbed over the amend- ent which the United States Senate iecked on the revenue bill for the pur- ose of counteracting that Infair blacklisting of certain Ameri- ag firms. The diplomats of Great ritain who gather in Washington do ot like this measure of retaliation in he least. Yet, they have little cause br complaint considering the methods bhich invoked this slap at the mis- Jress of the sea. During these térrible times when all he wo’rld is seemingly topsy-turvy ome of the nations at war are bsessed with the idea that whatever hey do is all right. They may step on ue toes of outsiders just as much as is nation's they please and there should be noth- ing said. For, is that not the specific use for neutrals, to be pushed and shoved around to the advantage of belligerents? 1In this instance, how- ever, the crowding became too intol- erable: TUncle Sam the efforts of England to back into a and jostle him as it pleased. So he placed in the hands of the Chief Executive of the nation a very effective and formidable weapon, although a peaceful one, for the purpose of holding England in her place. If the blacklisting continues the President is authorized to refuse clearance papers to all those foreign grew weary of him corner vessels which refuse to carry goods of blacklisted firms back to the ports of the old world or any other open mar- ket. The only reasonable excuse for such action on the part of the ship’s owners is a lack of freight facilities. One such order from the President would cut off supplies for England, a thing that England herself will take good care to forestall however it may serve to aid her enemies. Nor is this the only gripping provi- slon which will be objected to in the new revenue bill. There is another feature that demands the attention of the warring nations and which, while it may not be brought to bear at any present day, can always be fallen back upon at some future time in case of emergency. This provides that any nation which prohibits the importa- tion of American goods not injurious to health or morals into its own or into any other country, colony or dependency, shall not enjoy the right to dispose of any of its wares in the United States. If our goods cannot go into those countries their goods have no rightful place within the confines of these United States. This is fair. Any nation that might, for one rea- son or another, consider putting a stop to importation of American goods into its land will now look well before it takes a leap that would close to its merchants the richest market in the world. England, too, will learn that her high-handed methods do not go when she is dealing with a nation that severed {tself from her more than one hundred years ago. AS MAINE WENT. Whatever satisfaction derived from the returns of the Maine elections must be experienced by the Republi- cans. The party swept the Pine Tree | State. The elections of a governor by a majority slightly under 15,000, two United States Senators and four Rep- resentatives by very substantial mar- gins, show that Maine still clings to its old traditions and basks today under the Republican cloak. The joy to Republicans is greater than they anticipated. It was felt that a ma- Jority of 10,000 would be hailed with glee. The 18,226 Progressives who voted for thelr candidate for governor at the elections in 1914 had not been counted on returning en masse to the party. And yet it seems as if they did this very thing. previous years the Republican jority in Maine has been considerably cut down. Even this nowhere ap- proaches the old figures of 20,000 or 30,000 such as were evidenced In the olden days. There is no gainsaying the fact that Maine is a Republican state. It is just as much Republican as North Carolina or Tennessee is Democratic. There has been only one Democratic presidential registered in Maine since 1872. To claim then that because Maine goes Republican the entire nation will follow suit is just as toolish as to assume that because Virginia goes Democratic the country will go the same. And yet this might be done by Democrats were elections in any of the normally Democratic states held previous to those in Maine. As a barometer to indicate the w the November voting will drift Maine is a past number. There no tell- ing one way or the other. If Hughes wins out two months from now it will not be because Maine pointed the way. Four years ago at the Septem- ber elections Maine went the same as it did yesterday,—Republican. years ago it rolled up a plurality for Woodroyg Wilson. And even that is no gunm:gce that the same thing will hold true this year. It must be remembered that Presl- dent Wilson for office in Maine. He was not a candi- date either for the Governorship or for a senatorial toga, or a seat In the national House of Representatives. The fight for these offices was waged between Republicans and Democrats of Maine. The Republicans were lined up on one side and the Democrats on the other and the battle was fought In helter skelter fashion, the issues being so multiple and complex that few in the contest knew what they were fighting for other than that it was Democrat against Republican. That the latter won, and, in good substantial majority, shows just which party is stronger in the own In ma- victory v 1s Four in November was not running local field. The same results may come after the November ele 1;01’\3. Again they may not. When oodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes are pitted agalnst each other, the country is | going to witness a struggle such as it never saw before. It is the belief among experienced students of politi- cal affairs that the voting will not be as cl other presi- There are Re- vote for Wilson ! se to party lines | dential years publicans knew. who will for any one of many reasons and Dem- ocrats who will vote against him for the other side of the reasons. There are so many clements already entered into this campaign that Maine cannot properly be counted same national on as pointing the finger this way or that. “A swallow maketh not a summer,” the poet sadly' sings. Nor does one state reveal the fate of candidates and things. FACTS AND FANCIE! More trouble for Wilson. The re- public of Panama elected no less than four presidents last week and all want the office.—Springfield Republican. No, the chap who turns night into shedding more light on his activities— Paterson Press Guardian. Blihu Root suggests putting surplus lawyers at work on the farms. IYden‘t the farmers better issue an injunc- tion ?—Newark News. The French soldiers have been or- dered to shave off their beards. If it helps thelr campaign Mr. Hughes should take notice.—Chicago Post. The Santa FFe President says that his road will not obey the order of con- gress to increase the pay of his men. But he probably will. It is the law.— Syracuse Post- Standard. The Maryland board of health has ordered soda fountains to substitute paper cups for glassware. Won't it be funny when the rule is extended to saloons!—New Haven Union. The small boy is probably wonder- ing what sort of a scare can be ar- ranged next year to delay the opening of school three weeks—Norwich Bul- letin. A scientist points out that while the death rate among young people is steadily decreasing that for persons between fifty and seventy-five is in- creasing. In other words its Is no longer safe to grow old.—San Fran- cisco Bulletin. It has been said that Hughes and Roosevelt really share the same opin- fon. This is entirely incorrect. Hughes, for political reasons, is com- pelled to tolerate Roosevelt as his ally during the campaign. — Cincinnati Volksblatt. The stock market doesn’t appear to feel so very bad about conditions in the country. It is most unusual that early September of a presidential year should give evidence of such wonder- ful investment and speculative con- fidence.—Utica Observer. Your Chance. By Folger McKinsey. When her heart forgets its singing, Then’s your chance to do your part; When her rosy cheeks are fading, Then she needs you, mind and heart, When the summer of her spirit Sinks along the shadowy isle, Then’s your chance to turn her sorrow Into beauty and to smile. If she ever tires of loving, That is different, and the blame Shall not rest in ju ce on you, Nor shall you have cause for shame. But when through the grind and struggle She forgets to smile and sing, Then’s your chance to make happy— your chance to be her king. her Ther Just a little kindly feeling, Just a warm and tender will, And again the sunbeams stealing To her soul will cheer her still; And again the songs come winging To her lips from far away In those meadowlands of grilhood ‘Where her memories often stray. When her lips forget their laughter And her heart forget its song, Then'’s your chance to bless and help her, Then's your chance to strong, And she'll only ask one promise: That your love come back in gold To her twilight of the shadows As it used to do of old. keep her Words, Words, Words. (Hartford Post.) elaborate- bill which has been drawn to make it possible for sol- dlers on the border to vote, con- taining probably close to 3,000 words, is a reminder in its verbosity of college boy's directions as to the manner of sucking an egg—'"Make an incision at the apex and an aper- ture at the base, then, by forming a vacuum with the tongue and pal- ate, suffer the contents to be truded into the mouth by pheric pressure.” To which his aged grandmother re- plied: “La, do you have to go to all that trouble? When Was a girl we'd just make a hole in each end and then suck it.” Such a verbosity may be necessary to satisfy the legal requiremets of the situation, but it cerainly clutters up | the document with mere words. “The atmos | Not Hopel (From Puck.) can I get a drink? Native—Of what? Jones—Not prussic acid! I've only AZOt to stay here two hours, day doesn’t @o so for the purpose of | | trusts would the | pro- Jones (in prohibition town)—Where | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely gquestions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office. The Wall Street View, (Boston Post.) That Wall Street is strongly for } Hughes and against Wilson. Wall | Street itselt admits, although it fears that it is nat good politics to press its views too much to the forefront. ! Around the stock ticker, however, the gosstp is all to the effect that thd only way to Inflate stock market values is to elect Hughes, who will construct such a high tariff wall that the big trusts will be sure of mak- ing monopoly profits. Here is a sample of the views ex- pressed on the “Street,” quated from one of the Wall Street journals: ** “We have heard enough of Mr. Hughes to know that a republican administra- tion will give Wall Street a square deal,’ said ane banker. ‘Mr. Hughes' utterance on the eight-hour day legls- iation clinches the supposition that he will treat big business right. There was a time, under McKinley and Mark Hanna, when Wall Street wanted rore than a square deal. It wanted favors. That time is past. " But the time when Wall wanted favors is not past. never been satisfied with ministration since McKinley’s plus Mark Hanna, It was violently ap# posed to Roosevelt while he was in office, and blamed him for the panic’ of 1907 because he threatened the “malefactors of great wealth” with the “Big Stick.”” It bitterly criticised the Taft administration because the department of Justice under Mr. Bonaparte was carrying an a great campaign for the dissolution of the “trusts.” It is now opposed to Wilson, although as a matter of fact he has glven the Street a squarer deal than dld either Roasevelt of Taft. The enmity to Wilson has been aroused because he doés not give the Street favors. The Street wanted a single government bank, to be con- trolled by the “money trust,” and Wilson created twelve banks instead, cach of which serves its own district fairly. The Street wanted a high tariff not, as it claims, so that wages might be high, but so that the be free from com- Wilson reduced the Street It has any ad- petition, tariff. There is nothing quite so ridiculous as Wall Street vociferously calling for a high tariff so as to keep wages high ‘.vh(:n, in the same brath, it is forever erying that there can be no real pros- perity in this country until labor is “liquidated”—which means reduced so that wages may be smaller and profits larger. Mr. Hughes may not have intended to become a Wall Street candidate, but when “High Finance” s so strongly for him it is well for the rest Of the country to analyze carefully Just what Candidate Hughes s promising that it likes so well, and In Wisconsin. (New York Times.) Mr. Roosevelt is badly needed in Wisconsin. In its second district Mr. Edward Voight, candidate for the re- publican nomination for representa- tive in congress “on a platform mak- ing a special appeal to German voters” has been nominated in the primaries. In the elghth district Michael Eber- leln, who “made his primary contest on the German issue, demanding, among other things, ‘strict neutrali- ty’,” has been beaten, if he is beaten, by only a small plurality by Repre. sentative Browne. In the fourth dis- trict Representative Cary, who “h made a special appeal to German vo- ters,” has been renominated on the republican ticket, and will “contest with Anthony s binski, running on an American platform.” And how many of the candidates renominated without opposition have been true to that Americanism which Mr. Roose- | velt preaches so well? | . He will find few regions in his | Western travels where Amerfcanism | has been more tampered with than in Wisconsin. i Failures. ‘We take this from Collier's: _ During the lifetime of the genera- tion which is just passing away there was probably no one man who so em- bodied the hardy anq sturdy qualities of America, the solid common sense, the practical building talents which make for individual comfort and na- tional growth to such an extent as the late James J. Hill. It was he who said these words: “If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or not, you can easily finqg cut. The test i simple and infallible! Are you to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as fate, for the seed of success i{s not in yeu.” Stand up, Socrates. You didn’t own obols enough to buy your own hem- lock. Stand up, Christopher You died broke. Stanq up, Charles James Fox. Your friends must needs contribute to your support. Stand up, Abraham TLincoln. widow was forced to plead | sovernment of your republic | pension. Stand up, a hundred thousand others of you who wrote your names on historles and continents and hearts and not on bank books You poor, paltering, worthless dubs. Non-Controversial. (New York Evening Sun.) For a considerable period America has enjoyed a degree of peace from | some of the forms of Teutonic propa- ( 8anda. Dr. Dernburg is no longer | here to issue a daily phonograph rec- or Other speakers and writers of the volcanic type are auiescent if not extinct. But this relief ends with the arrival of the Baroness Elizabeth von Schmidt Pauli from Hamburg, Ger- many. She comes upon invitation of Columbus. Your with the for a the American Commission for Relief in Poland to deliver a series of lec- tures. But lest anybody should im- agine that this is a mere matter of feeding the hungry, as the name might suggest, the Baroness makes haste to adad: “Our society, although relieving im- mediate suffering whenever possible, is working for the future rehabilita- tion of Poland. KEach town in Ger- many is a godparent to a destroyed town in Poland and has complete con- trol of all the reconstruction and re- lief work conducted there.” Just think of the completeness, the efficlency of the plan. The German government is fairly busy at the mo- ment. Of course it is perfectly com- petent to make over a Polish town in the true fashion. But the work must be attended to at once. Some un- Teutonic heresy, some lese-majeste of shape, color or custom might flood in on the tide of reasserted life. The new method in operation is not unlike the Big Brother movement. A mature, settled, perfect German town becomes responsible for a poor little walf of a polish hamlet. Presto! the thing is done. Why, the mere con- sclousness that the “godparent”‘ has ‘‘complete control of all reconstuc- tion and relief work” must be worth everything in restoring the Polish town’s shattered poise and creating a feeling of self-respect. With the facts clearly in mind we are prepared to accept at their true value the reassuring words of the lec- turer, “I come not to stir up con- troversy.” How could any one fail to accept without question the beauty of this “complete control” so touchingly described ? Origin of The really lies a Petrified Forest.”” “Petrifled Forest” of Arizona, a series of petrified forests, short distance south of Ada- mana, on the line of the Santa Fe Railw. There are four ‘forests,” included in a government reservation called “Petrified Forest National Monument,” created by presidential proclamation in 1906. The name “forest” is not strictly appropriate, for the petrified tree trunks are all pros- trate and are broken into sections. The logs are the remalns of glant trees that grew in Triassic time, the age of reptiles. The trees were of several kinds, but most of them were related to the Norfolk Island pine, now used for indoor decoration. Doubtless they grew in a near-by re- glon and, after falling, drifted down a watercourse and lodsed in some eddy or a sand bank. Later they were buried by sand and clay, finally to a depth of several thousand feet. The conversion to stone was effected by gradual replacement of the woody material by silica in the form called chalcedony, deposited by underground water. A small amount of iron ox- ides deposfted at the same time has given the brilliant and beautiful brown, yellow, and red tints which ap- pear in much of the material. Some of the tree trunks are 6 feet in diameter and more than 100 feet in length. 1In the first forest there is a fine trunk that forms a natural bridge over a small ravine, the water having just washed away the over- lving clay and sand and then, follow- ing a crevice, worked out the channel underneath. The length of this log is 110 “eet, and the dlameter 4 feet at the butt and 1% feet at the top. The petrified woods are .beautiful objects for study. When thin slices are carefully ground down to a thick- ness of 0.003 inch or less and placed under the microscope they show per- fectly the original wood structure, all the cells belng distinct, though now they are replaced by chalcedony. By studying the sections F. H. Knowlton, of the United States Geological Sur- vey, Department of the Interior, has found that most of these araucarian trees were of the specles Araucarioxy- lon arizonicum, a tree now extinct. Tt is known to have lived at the sameo geologle time also in the cast-central part of the United States, where the remains of some its associates have also been found. These included oth- er cone-bearing trees, tree ferns, oy- ads, and gigantie horsetails, which in- dlcate that at that fime. the rainfall abundant.—U. 8. Geological Su Remarkable Remarks, (Independent) Senator Tillman—The pitchfork is buried. David Lloyd George—The nippers are gripping. Princess Troubetzkoy—Why have a trial engagement ? Dr. Sun Yat-Sen preme in the Pacific. John Dewey—In times of peace it is possible to idealize war. Charles E. Hughes—We workingmen in this country. Annette Kellermann—Do out into the water too far. Prof. Trving Fisher— Any health is a study of wealth. Francis A. Kellor—We are the great adventure of the twentieth cen- tury . Mrs. Charles B. Hughes—I accept Mr. Hughes’ opinfon as my own. Romain Rolland—Whoever may be the victor, Burope will be the victim. Cardinal Gibbons—I have an abid- ing faith in the endurance of the re- public. Gen. Pershing—Villa can never again become a serious factor in Mex- ican afvairs. Tady Duff-Gordon—You a four-cornered hat with priety this autumn. Gen. Haig—Those who have looked to us for victory will have their pa- tience rewarded. Admiral Dewey—Those who make the charge that the navy is demoral- ized are guilty of falsehood. Gen. Joffre—The moment is ap- proaching when the military power of Germany will crumble. David Jayne Hill—Our first line of defence is not, as we are sometimes toid, our na it is our diplomacy. . Admiral Fiske—The dangerous cne- my of the Uniteq States is not Ger- many or Japan; it is the American politician. Cardinal Farley—It is very doubt- ful if the description of crime in mi- nute and suggestive detail has any so- Cial valua. not Japan is now su- are all not go study of may wear entire pro- l Hungarian Town With Four Separate Names Washington, D. C., Sept. 12.— | Hermannstadt, against which the new enemy of the Central Powers, the Rou- | manians, inaugurated a campaign simultaneously with their declaration of hostllities, is the subject of today’s | war geography bulletin issued by the | National Geographic oclety: “The former capital of Transylvania like the present capital Kronstadt, has four names—Hermannstadt (Ger- man), Nagyszeben (Hungarian), Si- bifu (Roumanian) and Cibinium (Ro- man). Its distinction as the seat of govérnment of the adjacent mountain- ous. province having been taken from it, it is now the administrative center of the county of Hermannstadt famil- iafly known as Saxon Land because it i3 supposed to have been colonized by Germans under the leadership of Hermann, a citizen of Nuremberg who arrived in this attractive locality sometime during the twelfth century. “The city, which boasts a population of more than 30,000, three-fifths of whom are Saxons and a fourth are Roumanians, clingsto a hillside in the valley of the River Cibin, a tributary of the Alt (Aluta) Which in turn is one of the important affluents of the Dan- ube, far to the south. “In medleval'days the last of the native Magyar monarchs accorded the city many special privileges and its commerce with the East flourished, desplte the fact that during the 15th and 16th centuries it was on several occasions besieged by Turkish forces on their way through Hungary to threaten Vienna. In those d it boasted strong fortifications of which there remain today only a few frag- ments of walls and one or two tow- ers standing near the muicipal build- ing. The center of the old town, the | main business section, is known as tha | Grosser Ring, and in this quarter stands one of the most interasting | buildings of the city, the Rathaus once the fortified dwelling of & pa- trician but purchased during the mid: dle ages by the citizens and converted into a town hall. It contains the ar- chives of the ‘Saxon Nation.’' Another impressive structure is the Bruken- thal Palace, bullt by Baron Bruken- thal, governor of Transylvania from 1777 to 1787. It contains a large ari collection and a magnificent library of more than 100,000 volumes together with many valuable manuscripts. The ecclesiastical buildings worthy of con- sideration are: the Protestant Church of the 14th-16th century, noted for g magnificent cup-shaped fount cast by Meister Leonhardus in 1438; the ‘New Church,’” which belfes its name in that by Elizabeth Tor, with its massive crueifix carved from a single block of stone, and the Greek-Oriental cathe- dral, built only twenty years ago. “Hermannstadt’s industrial activi- tles are numerous and varled, its manufacturers including soaps, can- dles, hats, boots, linen, woolen and leather goods, horn combs, gunpow- der, ropes and machinery. times it is garrisoned by about 8,500 soldiers, being the headquarters of the 12th Army Corps. As an adjunct of its martial life there is a military school here, and among the popular places of recreation are the Military Swimming Baths. “The nearest point on the Rouman- jan border lies due south of Hermann- stadt at the Rotenturm Pass, about fourteen miles distant in an airline. Kronstadt js to the east, a distance of seventy miles.” — The “Correction” of History. History should be rewritten from beginning to end for the berfefit of persons who are not satisfied until ‘they have found that the man who got the credit for a particular deed did not deserve it, but that it was due to some obscure individual who waited in vain for recggnition. present, we have the truth about iso- lated incidents only. It has taken us fifty years, for ex- ample, to find out that a woman came to the rescue in 1862 with the cap- ture of Forts Donelson and Henry. Lincoln sent her—her name was Anna Ella Carroll—to St. Louis, to write about an expedition preparing to descend the Mississippi by gunboat. She reported that the river was frown- ing with fortifications and that the tides were unfavorable. Lincoln and the cabinet were worricd. Then Miss Carroll “suggested that the true strat- eglc line was the Tennessee, which had not been fortified,”” and to make it plain to the stupid men in charge of the operations, drew maps and sub- mitted a written plan of campaign. Lincoln—but anyone would know the rest. Did not Grant capture Forts Donelson and Henry? Then came the tragedy. ‘Discussions were held in the senate and house to try to dis- cover how this brilliant plan originat- ed. Miss Carroll sat in the gallery, quietly listening. The cabinet had de- cided 1t would antagonize army lead- ers if they knew they were following the direction of a civilian and a wom- an.” Undaunted, she skowed how to take Vicksburg and Tsland No. 10. TIf Lincoln had not died so suddenly, she would have had her reward and our history books would read very differ- ently—and our newspapers could print other versions of the events., just as pretty. As To “War.” (Boston Post). One of the silliest of Colonel Roose- velt’s recent utterances is his asser- tion that the United States has had a “war” with Mexico under President Wilson’s administration. This country has engaged In many punitive expeditions on this continent and others, and not been at war. A very lively instance of this was fur- nished in McKinley's time, when United States troops, along with oth- ers, invaded China, and seized its capital after a march attended by bloody fighting. Nothing that iwe have done iIn Mexico can compare for a moment in severity and milffary re- prisale with that affair and yet this government denicd thal it was at war with China—and we have never heard that Colonel Roosevelt claimed it. Being at war is a pretty well derstood state of affalrs. What zen, not possessed v partisan believes that we have been or war with Mexico? elti- bile, are at A Roosevelt Receivership for Hughes, (New York World.) A Roosevelt recelvership HTughes campaign has become neces- cary, and the Hughes managers have for the shown good sense in accepting The campalgn is bankrupt morally and politically, and if Mr. Roosevelt cannot put it back on its feet again nobody can. Mr. Roosevelt ran the Taft cam- paign in 1908, and he is exceptionally fitted to run the Hughes campaign in 1916. The tesk need not be arduaus. Mr. Hughes and Mr, Taft are much alike, except that Mr. Taft is abler and broader minded, with a larger ex- perience in government and a wider knowledge of men, Politically, Mr. Hughes Is Tather more conservative than Mr. Taft, but the Roosevelt in- dorsements that were given to Mr. Taft in 1908 will serve admirably for the 100 per cent, candidate this year. The Roosevelt assurances that Mr. Taft is “a man of my type” and fully committed to ‘““my policles” are as £00d now as they were elght years ago. Mr. Roosevelt put Taft over on the country in 1908, and the business of trying to put Mr, Hughes over | ought to prove equally amusing. If the country wants a repetition of the Taft administration, it has only to follow Mr. Roasevelt. If it wants another proxy president, Mr. Hughes LA Dobde it. At | The Suffrage Amendment. (New Haven Journal-Courier). The attitude of the leading suffrag- ists of the country like Dr. Anna How- ard Shaw towards Mr. Wilson's as- surances of sympathy with their cau- glves fresh evidence of their politic | sagacity, Dr. Shaw says: “If the president had come out for the federal amendment, as many perhaps ex- pected he would,, we would have known that it was a play for votes { He promised everything that he could carry out.” | Not all of the male supporters of ! equal suffrage believe by any manner of means that the vote should be { granted to the women by the proc of amending the federal constitution The argument advanced by Mr Hughes, that equal suffrage is inevit- able and that therefore the sooner it is disposed of fhe better, is a sur- prisingly flippant view for a former judge to take. In the first place, theré is no precedent for discovering a way of giving the women the vote which has never been practiced In making men voters. Men gain thelr right to vote from their state, and they cling fo that method of making voters in order that they may retain their control of their own soverelgn household. The inevitability of a na- tion-wide movement is not a sufficient reason for breaking the power of a sovereign state in a matter of this im- be established and it will be frequently resorted to. It is inevitable that Connecticut will sooner or later confer the vote upon women. It is inevitable because it is right, but Connecticut does not want the state of Georgla or any other state to settle this question for her, nor does she in turn want this question for other states. ~Ona of the great dangers facing the coun- try is the gradunl weakening of state authority and the excessive streng ening of federal authori This hag been so clearly poinied out Blihu Root in a series of tnoughtful speech- s that a general heed should ven the warning. Let the states ar- range their own households, by Up-to-Date Fgg ¥arming. (Farm and Firestde.) Another egg farmer with 1,000 lay- ers worked out a plan of supplying from 100 to 200 baby el of cwn pure bred stock to about a dozen of his neighbors, supplying that num- ber of chicks to each family every spring. In the contract it was agreed that no other breed of chickens should be kept on any farm where the pure bred chickens were established, and also that no male birds sho; e kept on their farms. The e from these 1,000 or more hens in the neighbor- hood flocks were bought at lated price and collected threc a week, and were used to help supply his special egg and poultry trade. This plan is proving more factory than carrying a stock of s al thousand hens on his own farm times Mere Formality. (From the Louisville Courier-Journal) «gShall we tell papa?” asked the girl’ “Huh?”’ “That you are his son-in-law-elect 2" “Don’t you suppose that the old man knows that something is up after I have been hanging around here for two years? What's the use of bother- ing him with a notification commit- tee?” s xpericnce. Puck.) No Previous (From Trafic Cop (to autoist whose car has just been in a bad collision)— That's the most complete smash-up I ever saw. Autoist (proudly)—Thank you. And would you believe it, it’s the first one I ever had. Masculine Env) (Richmond Times-Dispatch). First Suffragist—Why is it men are always saying women lack the Ingical faculty? econd Ditto—Pure envy. They can't understand the Susan B, An<’ thony amendment will confer the blessings of suffrage without inter the righta-of the-wtates, it is nearly 500 years old; the Chapel » In peacek portance, for once let this precedent” to settls « be,. his a stipu-©