New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1916, Page 6

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916. EW BRITAIN HERALD ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Building, 67 Church St fitered at the Post Office at New Britala A8 Second Class Mail Matter. Plivered by carrtec to any part of the otty for 15 Cents a Week. 65 Cents a Month. bacriptions for paper to pe sent by mall, yable in advance, 60 Cents a Mfonth. $7.00 a Year. e only rrofitabla advertising mcdium 1n the oity Circulation books and prese Toom always open to aavertisera ® Herald will be found or sale at Hota- ling’s New Stand, 42nd 3t. and Broad- way, New York City; Roard Walk at- lantic City, and Hartfora Depot. TBLEPHONE CaLL! sineas Omice itorial Rooms JHANGE AND A RE [Almost every doctor has at one time ised one or b patients to go away for a change d st. of the sojourners ve come ST. another ad more of Py Some back with the humorous Jsertion that the hotel keepers on h occasions got the change and the iters got However that py change y can expended en jo harness a normal str de fit to stand another strain. the huma rest be the n organism needs and a rest. In this way gy be brought nerves restored and the body No htter what kind of work a man does, lether it be rhysical or mental, he eds relaxation. despatch from Europe shows that great ain, ngth, mount of energy expend- by men in munition factories, pere they are worl overtime, pds to break down a great number n the workers. To prevent this con- jion the work has been sened, the high en off, and the men are not forced work too long or too hard. The d for munitions is just as great it was a year ago, probably more; of the worke somewhat pressure has been the conservation pysical strength tant. The London Committee Health of Munition Workers has ported that too long hours put the men forced the nation is vastly more im- on in into “extravagance of paying for work pe during incapacity from fatigue.” discovery was made that work- n engaged for time actually lls than those irter hours. he United States could well take what very long periods turned out fewer who worked the is happening in | Work- rd under Almost mple from Jrope in munition factc o here are pggssing forw rain never known before. ry in the is going blast Men king and being paid for overtime. ) 'the’ money they make is of less ortance than the health they are ble to destroy if they keep at their under high pressure for A break-down industry land night and day. are ks any 2thy period. must e sooner or The human stitution can much and more. It remains true today as for, years, all and no makes Jack a dull After protracted period of stress every later. stand so as work boy. ker needs a change and a rest. WAIT AWHILE hose newspapers that diligently trying to make nl:t a e against Judge Morris B. Beard Republican the Democratic nominee for gov- or, are having a time of it. TFail- at all things else they now set him ; as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, publican posing as a Democrat. nted that he was, at one time or bther, a Repub Is that any- g to hold against the man? He i a Republican now, and there are se who doubt if Judge Beardsley r was a member of what some call ola Party “Tom” lly has christened the Grand eless Party. The Judge himBelf fously doubts his erstwhile affilia- with the Republican party, and Judge should know. 0 headway will ever be made by claiming the fact, or falsehood, t Judge Beardsley was at one time His gress will be in no way hindered heightened by the No re than will Governor Marcus Hol- b be c of the Republic v previous 1888 e acy ed a a Grand and > oter in the Republican ranks. statement. n out because to he cloak of Democ: and always with say that the glad to he time n to affirm today Judge hrdsley is lined up on the other side he fence. These two men are good In and true. There nothing ir personal past history that can hauled out and flaunted in the es of voters for the purpose of bkening their canai That ernor Holcomb time Pemocrat may, in the eyes bple, prove he started out on the Iht track but got lost in the shuf- That Judge Beardsley is now a ocrat, if he ever was a Republi- , might also serve as a soothing up to those who love to dwell in past. The point is that in this of our Lord, Judge Beardsley the the Jeffersonians. Democratic of Mr. true party get rid Holcomb is no more to facts that the Republicans are joyful because is in acies. was at one of some is a Democrat, and proud of it, and Governor Holcomb is a Republican, and they are facing each other in a political fight that no matter which way it ends should leave no bitter scars. Democracy in the state of Connec- ticut is growing stronger every day. There never was a time when a Dem- ocrat had so much to be proud of as he has in this year. And those who hold the Democratic strength lightly are indeed brave men. In a Republi- can stronghold, so-called, there nev- er was so much cause for optimism on the part of a party looked upon as in the minority. There is more joy here for a Democrat than there is for a Republican in many other states the Union. If party lines mean any- thing, it is better to be a Democrat in Connecticut than a Republican in, say, Texas. But, and this is the thing to consider, the Republican in Texas should be, and generally is, given just as much consideration as his Demo- cratic brother, The same applies in Connecticut. The men in the Demo- cratic party here are entitled to just in as much courtesy from the public as their friends, the Republicans. At- tempts to belittle the efforts of any party are not in keeping with good broad Americanism. The time to set- tle an election is at the polls, and the voting in this instance takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Mon- day In November. Whit until then HATS. style . THE TARIFF ON Fall hats coming have all the earmarks of the mi The campaign slouch is the thing, so haberdashers tell us. For the young man it is the chapeau of the caval- ry soldier that attracts. adorn their placid brows with felt trimmings that distinguish the colonels and generals in the heavy artillery, or the light infantry, which- ever becomes their particular bear- For the tall, athletic, striking it is the wide brim. For the short, pudgy, comfortable and opulent form, the shoulders must be shadowed by a very brief re- of the hat worn in the corps. To purchase any aforementioned styles re- or four, five dollars,—mever more, never les: That is the original cost. Then comes the tariff, the fee that is paid at hotels and restaurants and other places for the “protection” that comes with checking bonnets. In some places this varies, anywhere from dime to. a half dollar. it the Before the costs two into Older men ing. character, semblance ambulance one of the quires the sum of two, or such a Twenty-five cents usual tariff. is over the that dollars, or four dol- lars, or whatever it is, will, if the wearer be a frequenter of cafes and places of that kind, cost some- season hat other where near twice its original price. A manager of a hotel in New York has made the statement that a man of his acquaintance paid, in the course of five months, eight dollars in tips for a hat that cost him four dollars. That is due to the high protective tariff on hats. It is presumed that if there were no “protection” on hats the diner in a large city restaurant might have to walk home bare-headed after the So are the hat checkers to prevent this calamity that they go to the managers of hotels and enter' competitive bidding for the meal. anxious privilege of aiding the diners. Boys and girls are stationed at the en- trances of and other places and told to relieve guests of their hats. No oné yet has ever successfully run the untlet. Life itself is at stake when the process of collection takes place. A nickel inad- vertently handed to the boy may mean a stab in the heart for the offender. No fee at all is punishable by in- stant death. It is the tariff on hats, that might be removed someday when different parties get in the hotel The best that can be said for it is, it is not a democratic busi- eating emporiums business. ness. ‘Wall street is against Wilson, tooth and nail. But the market speculat- ors are still getting theirs, and there is no dearth of money on the mart. Some say the Street will throw $70,- 00,000 in the campaign to defeat Wilson. All the more reason why the workingmen should cast their votes his way. FACTS AND FANCIES, If Maine didn’t hold her election in advance of the other states probably | she would never get her name in the papers.—Galveston News. It is never safe to boast of our civ- ilization. . There is no telling when somebody will throw a pop bottle at an umpire.—Toledo Blade. girls have got to fare through the bitter winter with shorter clothes than ever.—TFall River Herald. When Japan and Russia are in agreement as to the integrity of China and the open door in the far east, John Chinaman is warranted in wo: rying.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The question which chiefly concerns the soldier boys on the border just now seems to be whether or not they According to the pictures, the poor | 1 shall get but of the cactus, sagebrush, and chiggers before Christmas.—Man- cheser (N. H.) Union. A high Chinese official has been arrested for participating in a con- | spiracy to cheat his government. Who sald that China was not accepting Occidental ideas?—Cincinnati Times- Star. Argentina is a good fleld for trade opportunities all right. Caruso is go- ing to get $200,000 for singing there thirty times. No further proof is needed of the willingness of the peo- ple of Argentina to spend money or that they have it to spend.—Milwau- kee News. “Any talk along the line of ‘as goes Maine so goes the nation,’ is foolish- ness,” says The New York Evening Post. Not strictly foolishness; just campaign fireworks, always resorted to by whichever party has the chance to touch them off.—Louisville Courier- Journal. Seeing Health Problems Straight, (Bridgeport Farmer). The Boston Board of Health sees the health problem straight. Here is what it says in an official five line statement just issued: Do you know that make better health? That better health citizens? That better citizens make a better nation? Poverty is the prolific sire of in- temperance and disease. It is one of the main supports of the social evil with its white slave traffic. Poverty means poor feeding, poor housing and care. It is the source of delayed marriage, which is the source of many evils, By ‘“‘good wages” the purchasing power of money is intended rather than its mere amount. High wages of low purchasing power are not high wages at all. better wages makes better A Little Tane. (Anne Porter Johnson, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat). It isn't long since barefoot days— a-dancing down the lane That treads its beaten way among the rows of swishing grai | Tll hurry, hurry, to he great, wide, | streching road, For father will be coming with heaping two-horse load a Today I'm playing make-believe— a-climbing up he wheel Till father’s hand can reach me, and I give a little squeal Because he swings me high upon the big, fat jumpy sacks— T'm above the horses—I can see their shining backs! Just thinking of it brings a smile— a-bouncing on the seat, » ‘While father chuckles low, and then, to make my joy complete, slips the long, brown thrilling lines into my coaxing hands, as I'm wishing he would he always understands! He Just | Oh, let me be a child again, a-waiting | in the road To hear the jolly music of that creak- ing two-horse load; A child again! Again—for wee half hour or so. Just time to ride with father through a little lane I know. just a That “Dumping” Bogey. The growing disposition this country to discount fears of foreign “‘dumping” at the close of the war is strengthened by statement from Phillp Heineken, director of the North German Lloyd steamship line. His words can hardly be regarded as meant to deceive this country; their logic and common sense carry con- vietion. If, he argues, it is true that quan- tities of goods are being accumulated in Europe to dump onto the Amer- ican 'market the moment the war ends, what nation is accumulating those goods? And how can It ac- cumulate them? And what isiitgéobh- ject? - Rves belligerent powerssis | finding it necessary to use for the | prosecution of the war all the labor, all the capital and all the fuel and raw materials it can command. In a life-and-death strugsle, is it reason- able, or possible, that the nations should turn aside and divert their hu- man and material resources for the sake of & visionary commercial vic- tory when the fighting is done? Even viewed from the standpoint not of the nation but of the indi- vidual business man, operating on business principle; Mr. Heineken finds the “dumping” theory absurd While the war lasts, both labor and materials are prohibitively scarce and expensive. What manufacturer would | be so foolish as to produce a great stock of goods at an unprecedented cost, and hold them for an indefinite time, with a view to sclling them ul- timately at prices below the normal peace level? Mr. Heineken admits that Germany is building merchant ships to replace those destroved; Engiand is sald to be doing the same. He admits that there is some accumulation of chem- ical and dyes in Germany, due partly to the difficulty of exporting them during the war, and partly to the desire .to have something which at the close of the struggle can be quickly turned into cash to help re- store Germany's foreign exchange. 3ut beyond this, he says, Germany { will have mighty little stuff to sell {abroad, and so will Germany’s trade rivals. Tn fact, the dumping is likely to work the other way. The bel- ligerents will have to huy great quan- titles of merchandise of all sorts from the United States. Eventually, when FEurope recovers from the war, there will no doubt he keener industrial and commercial competition than any vet experi- enced; and it is well for Americans to look forward and prepare against that time. But we seem destined to have a pretty clear field, in our own markets and the world’s markets, for several years, in a I | right to wear the unmiform for such | the commi ! ing their endeavors. ! received | been | son COMMUNICATED | | Commissioner Explains Reasons - for | ‘Withholding Support of Boy Scouts in Collection of Sol- dier’s Relief Bags. New Britain, Conn., Sept. 25, 1916. To the Editor of the Herald: Some question has arisen concern- ing the position the Local Council of Boy Scouts, through the commis- sioner, has taken toward the collec- tion of Soldier's Relief bags under the auspices of A. G. Hammond Camp, United States War Veterans. The commissioner has not changed his mind and re-iterates his former stand with the following facts in mind. (1) The committee in charge of the canvass, has secured the services of Scouts, in the case of bona-fide | Scouts, without consulting the com- missioner. In order to safeguard the standing of the movement, and to be certaln of the worthiness of en- deavors seeking the aid of Scouts, | irrespective of the merits of this par- ticular case, every organization de- siring such support, is required first to make application to the commis- sioner, who in turn, must secure the approval of the executive committee of the Local Council. This is the rule of the Hartford and New Brit- ain councils. No such sanction was requested or galned. Scouts were secured without the knowledge or sanction either of the Commissioner of New Britain or of Mr. Ripley, the executive of Hart- ford. The matter of the support glven by individual boys came to the attention of both officers only indi- rectly. Inasmuch as the commission- er and the council had received no request for the services of the Scouts, with the opportunity that would then be afforded of making an impartial investigation of the merits of the re- , the only course, in view of the official ruling and in view of the pol- icy of protecting both the movement and the public was to repudiate our official responsibility. (2) Any Scout acting in uniform, in such a situation, has no official anding at the time. e has no purpose until the matter has been sanctioned by the Local Council. He may serve as an individual, if he choses, in ordinary clothes, but the Council, through the power bestowed in the National organization by the Federal government, may, and does forbid the use of the uniform, and the services of the boy as a Scout or in the name of the Scouts, in en- | deavors unsanctioned. Hence again ssioner was obliged to give the public nbtice that any boys ap- pearing in uniform were not, for the time being. bona-fide Scouts, and the organization was in no way sanction- (3) The statements of at least one collector, a boy in uniform, when fol- lowed up, were found to be incorrect | and the sanction he claimed to have from his Scoutmaster had not been given, and the Scoutmaster did not even know that the boy had helping. The boy also gave information as to his troop 2I(—E that the commissioner was as a false filiation, led to doubt his genuineness Scout. All of to- these circumstances, gether with the investigations made by the Chamber of Commerce, have made the officers of the organization feel merited in withholding the sup- port of the Scouts. Boy Scouts are always willing and eager to serve the public in every commendable way. They have done good service on various occaslons such as the Fourth of July celebra- tion, Memorial Day. the State G. A. R. Fncampment, the Public Health Cam- paign of the Board of Health and on many other occasions But in order to retain the high standard of work, in order to protect our boys, and in order that the public may continue to have confidence in the services of the boys the officers must retain the right to determine where and under what conditions Scouts may serve. Yours very cordially, ELMER T. THIENES, Scout Commissioner of New Britain. When Boys Spoke Pileces, (Philip Hale in the Boston Herald.) In our own day the favorite pleces for spouting on the platform were “Spartacus to the Gladiators,” ‘“‘Cata- line’s Defiance,” ‘““The Seminole’s De- fiance” (beginning with ‘“Blaze with your serried columns,””) speeches from “Julius Caesar,” *“The One- Hoss Shay.” and other poems of Holmes. There was a boy at Phillips Txeter who could speak pages from Southey‘s epic poems. He came from Portsmouth, N. H. Soon after the civ war a boy in the high school at Northampton recited TLincoln’s | Gettysburg address. The teacher had shown gallantry as a colonel in the Union army. Deeply impressed, he asked the Doy the name of the au- thor. The old reading books were worth saving. TIs the long-winded compari- hetween tact and talent now to be found, or any moral lesson by Jane Tavlor? Ts Peter Pindar now among the schoolboy’s poets? What torture it to speak especially if parents were invited to be present! One's schoolmates were far from | being sympathetic. They gleefully | anticipated Willie’s breaking down. They snickered at a gross mispro- nunciation. Good old ds Madam, ask yvour son to read a newspaper to you, and see how unintelligently and unintelligibly he goes through the task. was Back From Sea and (Collier’'s Weckly). Vacation is over. Numberless sea- shore and mountain resorts have sur- rendered their summer populations; camps and country houses have given the city back its own. Routine is to begin again. And now, after our | rest, we take up our work like chil- | dren at play. If we have been in quiet contact with natural things and natural people, if we have made new | of and better friends, if we have realized in nature new beaties of harmony, if we have felt the thrill at sea and mountain and star, then we are com- ing back to the shop with a new hold on living. The sea, perhaps, has called us outward. The sky has called us upward. Wordsworth, Beethoven, Millet—these star-treading souls felt the same zest of spirit at times and caught visions of new beauties, and through them insight into new truths. The magic of word and tone and color swept In unembodied beauty through them and was crystallized into last- ing symbols, Their souls were washed clean with God and they let them flow, purified, into the eternal images of art. The qualities that we love in the Tintern Abbey poem, with its quiet, sublime wonder, in the Pas- toral Symphony, with its fluting night- ingales and dancing peasants and booming stormg and star-still sereni- i in the fresh, rustic studies of the eyed Jean Francols—these qual- ities must have been the results of vacations. And so we come back, back to the desk, to the shop, to the work of head and spirit and hand, to breathe our rehabilitated spirits into flaggering common life of every day, thrilling with knowledge that even a prosale job may be a splendid art. We hope anew. We shall strive to achieve on a loftier scale. ~We have come back from the sweep of the sea and the sky believing that even ordin- ary things are worth while, remem- bering that the first attribute which God Himself displayed was a capacity to work. Hughes, the Boys of America, the Furopean Slaughterhouse. (Waterbury Democrat.) Gifford Pinchot has written a let- ter to the editors of newspapers throughout the country giving his reason for supporting Hughes for president, or rather, his reasons for opposing Wilsan. We quote from the letter as follows: “Worst of all is this: When every principle of freedom and equality for which our fathers fought was at stake in the great war, when our whale country eagerly awalited the leader- chip of the president, Wilson dodged. He refused to take sides on the great- est moral issue of our time. He ad- vised our people ta be ‘neutral even in thought, undecided between right and wrong. While our friends abroad were fighting for the principles we | held equally with them, he taught us that profits and ease were better than self-respect. President Wilson has done our nation .the most serious injury that any leader can do to any people by making us flinch with him from a great moral decision. Therehy he weakened our hold as a nation on the principles which alone can make ny people self-respecting, safe and rong.” In other words, the worst thing that Wilson has done as president, accord- ing ta one of Hughes’ most ardent progressive supporters, is that he has kept this country out of the world war. We have too much respect for Gifford Pinchot even to suspect that he is not perfectly sincere in his con- viction that millons of Amercan boys and | ought to be fighting side by side with the boys of Great Britain, France and a in the blood-soaked, vermin- ed trenches of Europe. We ad- mire his courage in publicly ating his conviction—a courage in which his candidate seems ta be sadly lacking. If all the loose talk in which Hughes | bes indulged about a ‘strong foreign policy,” “national honor,” etc., means vthing, it means that he believes with Pinchot that this nation should have declared war against Germany. If Hughes does not mean this then his talk is mere political bunk. A good many of the issues in this presi- dentlal campaign are pretty well mixed up but this issue of war or peace i beginning to be clearly defined. Wil- son’ has kept the boys of America— vour boys and my boys—out of the Turopean slaughterhouse, where al- ready upwards of 15,000,000 boys, just like yours and mine, have been <illed, maimed or ara suffering the horrors of prison camrp Pinchot says that this is “the worst of all” of Wilson’s: many crimes. And Hughes, afraid to be as frank as Pinchat, lest he lose the German vote, talks glibly about the weakness of Wilson's foreign policies and the loss of our national honor. A Generous People. (Boston Post). As onlookers upon the controversy in Europe, our people here in the United States have shown a lively sympathy in relief of those who are not fighting but are suffering because of the cruel fight there. Some measure of this relief is af- forded in the report of the Carnesgie | Endowment for International Peace. The total of funds contributed through this organization approximates $29,- 000,000 for the past year. Of this, the | starving Belgians > received about one-third and the German Red Cross —illustrating the absolute neutrality | of sentiment here-—scveral millions on the same basis. In short, contri- butions for dependent nationalities af- fected by the war’s ravages—including that of the American Jew: Relief commitfee-—reach a sum unexampled in histor; It the mos popular generosity which the records the world offe It is not our fight which the nations of Europe are conducting; but the distress which this conflict produces makes an appeal to our humanity to which our people re- spond. Let us hope that it will stop before beggars the people of Eu- rope. is notable instance of it Icoholic, Surgical The Chronic / Medical and Journal), It is generally acknowledged that society has failed in its handling of the problem of the chronic alcoholic. Arrest does not cure drunkenness; the habitual drunkard is unimproved by the cycle of imprisonment, release, fresh debauch, ar and reimprison- ment through which he passes again and again. Dr. V. V. Anderson, in (The Boston ' Ruins of Ro in Famous A man Temples ustrian Town .- Washington, D. C., Sept. 26.—Pa- renzo, on the Istrian coast of Austria, which according to the latest de- spatches was shelled by Italian naval forces, is the subject of today's war geography bulletin issued by the Na- tional Geographic society from Wash- ington: ““The ancient basilica of Parenzo, which Austria claims has been dam- aged by Italian shellfire from a fleet off the west coast of the Istrian pen- insula, is one of the oldest and most famous ecclesiastical structures in Bu- rope. The campanile, the roofless baptistry and church proper date from the sixth century and stand on the site of an even earlier structure, prob- ably of the third or fourth century, judging from the mosaic pavements and inscriptions which have been un- covered. The cathedral now stand- ing was begun about eleven years after the establishment of the Parenzo bish- hopric in 524. Some of the mosaic work in this building, which is dedi- cated to St. Maurus, is especially bril- liant, and in the apse walls there is rich inlay work in marble and mother of pearl, similar to that in the more widely known cathedral of Torcello, near Venice. “Parenzo enjoyed a considerable trédde before the outbreak of the war and the principal occupations of its 17,500 inhabitants, mainly Italians, were shipbuilding and fishing. The port is thirty-five knots by sea south of Trieste and thirty-five miles distant by rail. It is ten miles north of the interesting town of Rovigno, the Ru- biginium of the ancients. “The history of Parenzo goes bachk to the second century before the Christian era, when it was known ag Parentium, It was elevated to a plaes of prominence by ugustus Caesar who established a colony here shortly after his overwhelming naval victory at Actium where Marc Anthony fled. ignominiously surrendering all hope of a world empire in order to seek forgets fulness in the coresses of the Hgyp- tian siren Cleopatra. ~ “Under the Roman empire tlum became a town of 6,000 tants within the walls, while 10,000 people occupied the suburbs. During the ascendancy of the Venetian repub- lic it acknowledged the supremacy of the queen of the Adriatic, and as & result in 1354 was sacked by a Geno- ese fleet commanded by one of the famous Doria family which figured conspicuously in the history of the west Italian city during the 14th cens tury. “In addition Paren- inhabi- famous cathe- dral, Parenzo guards the interesting ruins of two Roman temples. The peninsula on which the town is built is supposed to be subsiding gradually, into the Adriatic as the pavements of the Roman period are three feet be- low the present street levels, while the city site today is in no place more than five feet above sea level. Overlooking the port from an island at the mouth of the harbor is a lighthouse. “A few miles to the south of Paren-, zo are the Brionian Islands whose quarries furnished practically all the stone for the palaces and bridges of medieval Venice.” to the ber of arrests for the group, 1,775), emphasizes the cause of this failure, namely, disregard for the fact that the problem is medical as well as so- cial. Only 10 per cent. of these al- coholics were steadily employed; 49 per cent were not self-supporting when at large. All of them were, maintenance while serving their sen- tences. That society pays a these chronic inebriates is obvious. Anderson found that 56 per cent. of them had a mental level below that of a child of twelve; 74 per cent. were mentally sub-normal, and all mani- tem, ed, seven insane, seven epileptic, thir- stitution, and the remaining seventeen showed alcoholic deterioration. Fifty of Anderson’s subjects were steady drinkers and fifty periodic. Of the steady drinkers, only 2 per cent were rated as of adult intelligence, and only 14 per cent had a mental level above twelve years. The periodic drinkers possessed a higher level of intelli- gence, Hughes Hangs His Head. (New Haven Union). Considering the Mexican record, Mr. Hughes hangs his head in shame. We have bheen ord to find possible this in cause for great He believes deeds, not words, so perhaps he is thinking of the occasion when Pres humiliation. ernor of Arizona in response to the latter’s request for protection against Mexican attacks. Sald the then re- publican president: “T must ask same danger recurs, to direct the people of Douglas to place themsclves where bullets cannot reach them, and thus avold casualty!” Thus while the Democratic method is to call the National Guard to colors, the Repub- lican method appears to be to order the citizens to crawl into their cel- lars, The War of Exhaustion. (New York Sun.) If David Lloyd George is an opti- mist upon the fortunes of the en- tente allies, Col. Winston Churchill is inclined to pessimism. Of the two the secretary for has been in closer touch with the British prepar- ations to fight to the bitter end. And it must be remembered that so long as Churchill was a Lord of the Ad- miralty and could have a hand in naval operations he was an invincible, and even a bumptious, optimist. Now he sees no vestige of hope that there will be an ecarly peace. On the con- trary, the war is going to drag on interminably. The German armies are more numerous and better equip- ped than ever, and Britain must or- ganize to the last pound of supplies and charter ships at admiralty rates or the worst will happen. Colonel Churchill seems his faith to Russia. and he urges the Chancellor of the Ixchequer to pour out money lavishly to equip her ar- mies and supply them with ammuni- tion. It would appear that Colonel of Hussars, who prefers a comfortable seat in the house of com- mons to the privations of the trenches, little faith in the British sol- dier. Perhaps Tommy Atkins has little faith in the descendant of an illustrious British General But when we cross the channel we find that ex-Premier Vivani, now min- ister of justice in France, is also de- pressed and hgs his doubts. For- merly no one more buoyvant and mag netic than he. He used to be the most fiery and eloquent of the French optimists. Recently he said: “Al- though victory is certain it will re- quire hard and prolonged efforts to break Prussian militarism and pre- vent recurrence of its crimes.” Even Mr. David Lloyd George, when we come to examine his language of good cheer and inspiration, does not find the Anglo-French offensive in the west quite up to expectations, for he said but the other day “The French and ourselves war to pin have a study of 100 “repeaters’” (total num- captured positions on the Somme of course, a charge on soclety for the | expenses of thelr arrest, conviction and | high | price for the luxury of maintaining | fested impairment of the nervous sys- | Thirty-seven were feeble-mind- | ty-two possessed a psychopathic con- ' looking over the rec- | dent Taft sent a message to the Gov- | and the local authorities in case the | the | front whence the course of the cam gn is visible, and I think in the dim tance we can see the end.” The “dim distanc is looking through the telescope at the big end. What we gather from the utterances i of these observers is that they have | no abiding faith in any offensive and are wondering whether Mr. Asquith was not right after all when he sai&’ ! that this would be a war of exhau tion, victory resting with the group ! of allies whose organization was the | better and whose resources of men and gold lasted the longer. d 1 Was Cleopatra Ugly? (New York World.) ©f muck-raking the illustrious dead there is no end. Now the numis- matists of the country who are im convention at Baltimore are seeking to impugn the beauty of Cleopatra, !and they point to her portrait on her coins as proving that the Queen who ensnared Caesar and Antony had big ears, small eyes and a scrawny neck. | Would the fair autocrat of Egypt have allowed her own coinage to malign her charms? [ “Clearly the numismatists are not | 100 per cent, chivalric. But as against | this evidence there is a silver coin | minted at Antioch and showing the | bus of Cleopatra on the obverse and | that of Mark Antony on the reverse | which gives the queen a neck by no | means scrawny, full eyes and a chin | suggestive of that of our own God- dess of Liberty, though lacking the graceful curve. The ears are in- visible as those of a modern New York girl, and only the nose invites | criticism, It is quite long enough to | disprove Pascal's saying that if it had | been shorter it would have changed the whole face of the world. The Antioch coin calls the queen “a - | 1ater goddes: Was the coiner a courtier, and did the official coinage truly depict her, in the Crom- way ith all the warts on”? more satisfagtory to put the blame on rudd ‘Forkmanship. 1t Cleopatra’s ct aid bt “begger, all description,” they must have had some potency to malke the slaves they | aia. Who will be left | world's gallery of the tiful in history if modern detraetors of the famous dead arc allowed to { have their way? more well i1t 1 rms | | | | to the rcat and beau- u in Get The Arabs. (New London Day). Thirty Boy Scouts, parading in New York, endeavored to coerce a street | boy into saluting the flag. “Scat,” re- marked the strect boy, and called his gang. The gang chased the Scouts into an apartment house, from which they were rescued by the police | and escorted to their respective homes to save them from being beaten up. One might draw from this an inter- national object lesson concerning .. | attempts to coerce rowdy. d na- tions, when you haven’t the goods | But a more immediate and useful | thought suggested by the incident | that somebody miscued when they | didn’t have the street boyvs in the Boy Scouts, The juvenile gangster is precisel | the chap who needs to be reached by | such organizations. If you mobilize respectability you just mobilize re- abillty and perhaps increase its efficiency by 25 per cent. But if you | convert gangdom into respectability you have done a vastly bigger thing and multiplied the eficiency of re- spectability instead of increasing it by a fraction. The movement for the making of better citizens out of the boys of the « country through the varlous outdoor | organizations looking to that cnd is a good movement. But to be made | the most of, it must get the kind of | boys who chased those New York | Scouts off the streets. A Strong Will. (From the San “My husband was confirmed smoker when I marrfed him a year ago, but today he never touches the g weed.” “Good!” said one of the group. “To break off a lifetime halit like that re-, quires a pretty strong will” “Well, that'’s what I've got.” Francisco Bulletin.) a