New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 10, 1916, Page 8

s\ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1916. BRITAIN HERALD EHERAM® PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. d daily (Sunday excepted) at at Herald Building, 115 p. ™y 7 Church St d st the Post Office at MNew Britals a8 Becond Class Mall Matter. vered by carrfec to any part of the cty for 15 Centa a Week, 65 Uents a Month. riptions for paper to ve mont by msal, able in advance, 60 Cents a Aonth. $7.80 & Year. only profitabla advertising mclsum ip the city. Circulaston books and Dress Foom alwavs open to aGvertisers. Herald will be found on sale at FHoca- ng’s Now Stand, 4Ind ‘3. and Broad- ay, New York City; Moard Walk. at- Isatic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHOND CalLLe. inems Onice tarial Rooms WELCOME THEM HERE. 'here is now some talk of allowing returning militlamen from the der to stop over in Hartford on bir way home and parade there for delight of the Capital City. Hart- d influences are being brought to hr in the hope of having the entire st Regiment honor that city with various units presence before its b allowed to go to their respective If New Britain people pos- s the initiative and the stamina by are supposed to have they will e no time in thwarting this activity the part of the neighboring city see to it that New Britain’s sol- r boys return to their own home ft.. If there is any parading to be e in Hartford by the entire First giment, Connecticut Natianal ard, it can take plaace at a later e. here are two companies in the necticut National Guard whose imbers enlisted from this city. en they went away at a time the nes. ion demanded troops on the bor- they did not leave from Hartford. ey left from the modest little depot New Britain, and all New Britain ned out to see them go and wished m God-speed. When they return by should come back to the same rting place and march through the e portals where an entire clty fxiously awaits to do them honor. ey are our boys, not Hartford’s, and the jubilee of home-coming, for Pse two companies at least, should e place where it belongs,—in New tin. The welcome awailts these s whether they come singly, in ps, in groups of three, in squads of in complete companies. lere is a rumor to the effect that hr, or L of the companies may arrive later n its companion. In that re will be two celebrations, 1 the second one he less glorious n the first. New Britain has rted out to welcome its returning [dier bo in true American spirit nothing short of an order from President of the United States buld be allowed to prevent the plans ng carried through—unless there | b plans already formulated by the | hr Department, plans which cannot ily be changed at this time. ere is a way of finding out these ngs. case nor NO CONCERN HERE. be many who ticise the methods of German sub- at what they call the very of American ports, it should remembered that so far the opera- ns of these under-sea boats have len within the law,—that is, there | s been no violation of international since the so-called Sussex note m Germany which was sent on | ¥ 5 of this year. In answer to the merican the Imperial lrman government pledged itself to | edience to the law and notified this vernment that the commanders of | bmarines had received the following | der: “In the general inciples of vislt and search and the structfon of merchant vessels ognized by international law, such ssels, both without and within the | ea declared a war zone, shall not be While there may orway ultimatum accordance with nk without warning and without ing human lives, unless the ship empt to e | Ambassador ves- day after his visit with Presi- nt Wilson at Shadow Lawn told the wspapermen that, sed to conduct ape or offer resistance.” Von Bernstorff “Germany has her submarine rfare in accordance with the rules om cruiser warfare, and Germany al- promises. That ould be sufficient for the present, at hst, to show that her hys keeps her Germany is not ing to carry within activi- three mile limit of Ef 1t = ot ere is the following from President which should help “The 11 of course at first submarine the erican territory, ilson, quiet the tion's pulse: Eovernment inform itself as all the facts, that there may be no istake or doubt so far ag and the country G they are neerned, sured that the be held t of ent of the United S lght to question its 1fill them.” may rest government fulfill- erman the complete to the tates T have no to ent its promis govern- willingness Nor has anyone else the right to question the sincerity of Germany’s pledge. That pledge stands today unbroken, and the German Ambassa- dor emphatically states it will not be Lroken. If it is, then will come the time to act. But the Ambassador further assures the peaple this ccuntry that Germany keeps her promises. It may be argued, and with some degree of propriety, that Germany did not follow the most delicate diplomatic lines when it ordered the destruction of merchant shipping at the very the United States. It can also be shown, as some of the returning correspon- dents paint out, that Germany might carry on a very formidable warfare on the other side of the Atlantic instead of transporting horror to these waters. Far instance, in the sinking of ships crossing the English Channel. Great PBritain is running vessels across that stretch of water every day in the vyear and the destruction of these ships is infinitesimal. It is estimated that John Bull has sent into and brought ocut of France a sum total of more that two million fighting men, and not cne has been killed on a vessel at- tacked by submawines. Students of strategy claim that here Germany has lost its greatest chance to prave the effectiveness of the submarine. Yet it has done nothing to destroy the transportation of soldiers to and from IFrance, across the English Channel. There is far more work to be done on that side of the Atlantic than there is at the very daors of the United States. Those are the facts in the case. Germany choses to send her raarines on rampages all Atlantic instead of where they might destroy British coldlers, that is Germany’s business. £ long as she confines the operations cf thesg machines of war to that vast expanse of ocean outside the three- mile limit of American waters, and holds their conduct to rules of inter- national -law and her pledges, the United States has little with which te concern itself. When Germany’s Pledge is broken then there shall be plenty of time to get excited. But Ambassador Von Bernstorff tells us Germany never breaks her pledges, end President Wilson assures his countrymen that the Imperia] Ger- man government will be held to the complete fulfillment of its promises. All in all, the United States has little with which to be concerned. There s no reason for undue excitement. e LT THE MEETING OF THE GIANTS. Senator George P. McLean in for- mally accepting the challenge to meet in joint debate Homer S. Cummings, the Democratic candidate for United States Senator, has done what his con- stituents and the admirers of his op- ponent would have him do. In his criginal letter Mr. Cummings sked the Senator to meet him in four prin- cipal cities of the state and there in public forum to discuss the main is- sues of the present campaign. Senator Cummings in ‘answering this challenge of always doors of It sub- over the keeping them mentions only one place, Stamford, the home town of Mr. Cummings, where the Senator has a speaking engage- rent on Octaber 25. The Senator in- tends to kill the proverbial two birds with the one stone. Public debate is a form of cam- paigning that has rapidly disappeared from the political arena. In the olden days no campaign considered worth while unless two mental giants of the opposition parties m was t and went cver the issues for the delight and in- formation of their followers. Such de- bates were always enlightening, enter- talning and instructive, and usually were the cause of converting voters one way or the other. Every state had its great debaters and they usually traveled up and down the length and breadth of their respective com- munities propounding the doctrines of Democracy In this way a very large number of peo- ple were enabled to hear and learn things they might not otherwise know. In this day and generation with the printing press at its present stage of perfection and newspapers flooding the land, the reading public is given all the news and Republicanism. and views that it can readily absorb, and so the debate has fallen into the discard. But if Senator McLean and Cummings meet or the public Mr. plat- form and cach on that particular oc- casion happens to be at his best then there is likelihood that Connecticut will be instrumental in bringing back a lost art. These two men are truly repre- sentative of their parties. There are few equal to either of them in bril- liancy of oratory or expressin. Each of them possesses the finesse, the per- sonality, the presence, the bearing, the fund of and the wealth of material that go to make a meeting of this kind one of the utmost import- ance. If it is arranged that they meet in joint Aebate towsrd the laiter part of this month the entire state will be anecdote anxious to hear the arguments pro and con. All those who enough o attend will be treated to an al fortunate exposition of politics such as rarely is permitted to those outside the game. Those who cannct make the journey | or secure the space within the auditor- rium where these glaudiators meet will kave recourse to their papers where in adjoining columns the debate should be set down so that all may secing, profit thereby. 1t should be a great meeting. see, and, assertion that the nation would save five-cent loaf of way to the ten- In making the consumers of the $25,000,000 if bread to give cent loaf, the master bakers evidently tried to define Candidate Hughes’ phrase, ‘“Temporary Prosperity.” the were FACTS AND FANCIES. Brooklyn will bring home the ba- con if Boston spills the beans.— Brooklyn Eagle, those football stars are in the After all, the most interesting kickers country.. ew York Sun, The promised importation of five- cent baseballs from Japan doesn't get here in time to be used in the world series.—New Haven Register An Englishman has invented a non- slipable egg-cup for use of one-armed people. War never created a neces- sity that science didn’'t meet.—Detroit Free Press. Mother Jones a torch in a carload of dynamite, mixing in that New York strike. She knows no other coursg of reasoning but the appeal to riot. —Meriden Journal, Canada, it is announced, is to step shell making. Coming as it does on top of the announcement that peace is to be considered shortly, no wonder some speculators ran to cover Fri- day.—Middletown Press. Atlas Peck started in last week to dig a cistern at his home, but aban- doned the project after going a few feet down, having found enough fish- ing-worms to last him the rest of tho summer.—Hogwallow Kentuckian. Bang goes another household tradi- tion! Little Willte and Susan haven’t got “growing pains” at all. A mead- ical authority says that the so-calied growing pains are really rheumatic pains, and they’'re usually caused by bad tonsils.—Waterbury Republican. A nineteen-year-old Atlanta girl has won the women’s golf champion- ship at a time wher the sensational golf of an Atlanta youngster at the men’s championship contest is still fresh in mind. The new South at this ‘rate may lay itself open to a charge of sectionalizing golf, a really serious offense.—New York World. JUST THAT. It's not the big gift you have bought ° With time and money spent, It's just the individual thought Yon've given to your friend. One rose with loving meaning sent, A smile smiled just in time. A little card with cheerful trend, All these are most worth while. Why need we strive to do so much Or make a great display, When just the individual touch Aids friendship on life’s way? Of caurse it's fine to have fine things, We all agree, that's true: Advantages that money brings, T'd like them—so would you, * * * But after all is sajd and done, It's not material things, I’s just when Selfless Love has won, Our worthiest self begins. ELISE TRAUT. (In Child-Welfare Magazine.) COMMUN ICA’!TED. “PROSPERITY IN SPOTS (?)" To the Editor of the Herald: Charles W. Fairbanks, republican nominee for vice president, who spoke | at Engene, Ore.,, Friday, the 6th, on the “Policies of the Republican and the Democratic part other silly and ments: “There is at the present time pros- perity in spots—a kind of leopard prosperity——but in certain sections of the count: you know and I know, | that there is adversity, and this has been caused by the adoption of the policies of the democratic party. The republican party spreads prosperity from sea to sea—Ilike a blanket. “The sixteen years from the begin- ning of the McKinley administration to the end of the Taft administration were golden years of prosperity. Under the d ocratic Underwood law the industries of the nation began to furl their sails, and there was not a single part of the country that did not feel its effects.” As the above statements have been freely reported in the republican press there can be no question of their authenticity. Mr. Fairbanks specific in his statement kindly point ou a ‘*spot country where prosperity does not exist at the present time, under this much maligned democratic adminis- tration? If he will it will certainly be a matter of much interest and surprise to the residents of this sec- tion of the country. “The Sixteen Golden Years.” It ng strange, that neither Mr. Fairbanks, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Roosevelt and the other republican spellbinders, who at present do not possess a single practical —arrange- ment or in favor of a change of administration, that none of these gentlemen have a word to say about the awful, disastrous, withering fin- ancial panic of 1907-1910, known as the “Roosevelt panic,” which crippled almost every industry in this nation; which cast hundreds of thou- sands out of employment, and as many more on almost starvation working hours. This occurred, (and If I recall aright, there were othrs) lduring these “Sixteen years of Golden said, among untruthful state- should be more Will he in this daily news- | | side interference Prosperity,” which did not end til after Mr. Taft’s term of office. y Why do these gentlemen side-step these distressing years of dire ad- versity and industrial stagnation, oc- curring during a republican adminis- tration? Did Mr. Roosevelt, when he threw Mr. Taft into the White House by the scruff of the neck, as been carricatured, did he offer remedy to any prevent the occurrence of such a blasting financial, industrial visitation to the fairest country on God's earth, or did he hie himself off to the wilds of Africa till his suc- cessor, had in a measure, restored the country to its normal, rightful condition ? The democratic president, Woodrow Wilson, when he came into power, end under whose able and eminent guidance this nation is now enjoying the greatest, most wide-spread pros- perity it ever knew, not excepting the “Sixteen vears of golden prosperity,” had the tenecity to say that the gibel should be the portion of any man or men, who should precipitate this country into such industrial and fin- ancial run. A BELIEVER IN WILSON. FROM A BELGIAN PRISONER. Trieste, Sept. 16, 1916. To the Editor of The New Britain Herald: As a Belgian prisoner of war I am taking the liberty to send you a little request. Having much time to spend here in the camp I should like very much to make a collection of used postage stamps from all the countrics of the world. I should be very happy if you would be so kind as to publish that I will send a war keepsake of the Belgian soldiers in exchange for some nice stamps for collection, I hape that you also will like to help me to pass some hours pleasantly. Pardon me for the trouble and thanking you in advance, I am dear sir, Yours sincerely, OLESE DE ROCKER, Trieste, Holland. Mr. Hughes As the Hyphen Candidate. (New York World.) The Fatherland, which is alarmed over the growing prospects of a Hughes disaster at the ballot-box, de- clares that “in pursuit of his diabol- ical policy Mr. Roosevelt continues to alienate voters from Mr. Hughes by demanding war with Germany.” There is no evidence that any of the German vote has been alienated from Mr. Hughes by Mr. Roosevelt's speeches. An audience of several thousand pro-Germans under the in- spired leadership of Jeremiah O’Leary cheered itself hoarse Thursday night at Terrace Garden in behalf of Mr. Hughes and fllled the air with hisses when the name of the President of the United States was mentioned. The Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the principal German newspaper of the west, has no fault to find with Mr. Roosevelt’s Battle Creek speech. It calls it the speech ‘“of an American,” and says: ‘“Although Roosevelt is not able to deliver himeself from the false idea that the United States should have gone to war against Germany on account of Belgium and thus has worked himself into an unjustified hatred against Germany, his enmity is not so one-sided at least as that of Wilson, who displays his neutral- ity by hatred against Germany and by subservience to England. The Fatherland underestimates the strength of the alliance between Mr. Hughes and the German party. It is founded upon a community of in- terest that cannot be shattered by anything that Mr. Roosevelt says or does. German misgivings such as the Fatherland voices are disposed of by the New-Yorker Herold in this fash- jon: “We do not know how Mr. Hughes stands,” says the Irish World in an article discussing the presidential candidates, apparently without com- ing to a definite conclusion. Well, we do know where Mr. Wil- son stands, and that should be enough for any reasonable man. There is the case in a nutshell. President Wilson is unequivocally the American candidate. Mr. Hughes is willing to be the Hyphen candidate in exchange for the German vote. That is all the Kalserbund wants to know. It Takes Two to Make a Peace. (New York Sun.) Ambassador Gerard’s approach to his native fand is signalized by the revival of reports circulated at the time of his departue from Germany which represent him as the bearer of which Teutonic willingness to enter on negotlations for the of peace throughout the world is set forth, and the suggestions is made that the United S might appropriately take the in setting before all the ending the war, Mr. Gerard sailed for America on September 28. Ts it only a dence that September 28 date chosen by David Lloyd George, communications in re-establishment ates initiative belligerent powers a plan for was British Secretary of State for War to declare: “The whole world, including neu- trals of the highest purposes and humanitarians with the best motives, must know that there can be no out- at this stage. “Britain asked no intevention when she was not prepared to fight. “She will tolerate none now that she is prepared to fight. “She will tolerate none now that the Teutonic alllance should be willing to negotiate for peace on the bals of the military situation now existin but what of the Allies who within three months have found themselves sufficiently equipped to meet their enemies in the field on something like equal terms’ Another W (From a Vienna Reuter Despatch.) Calamity. Austrian beggars are suffering verely from the shortage of change. se- small had | cotnei- | the | stands for a preparecness sufficient io protect our rights and enforce them on land and sea. It stands for Americanism, keen of heart, strong of hand, efficient. Beautiful thoughts and words. You are wrong in your certainty that they are, and of right ought to be, the Hon. Charles Evans Hughes'. They were exuded by an arator more pas- sionate but not less original than he, the Hon. J, Frank Hanly of Indiana. Dry nominee for president. Lucky Girl, (New York World). Twenty-four-hour rehearsals began the other day for the principals and chorus of a new musical comedy soon to be enjoyed on Broadway. The re- hearsals, so the theatrical notes tell us, will be conducted in shifts of eight hours each. Happy little chorus girl, pirouetting lightly in joyous abandonment and the most abbreviated of skirts! What a gay life is hers! She hasn’t a thing to do except look pretty and go out to lobster and champagne suppers given her by handsome young mil- lionaires, ready and eager to lay their fortune and their honorable family name at her tiny, high-heeled feet. Al life is a pleasant dream to her. She is the frosting of life's cake, the rainbow reflection in the bubble, the bead on the wine. On a day when she works hard she poses for her pho- tograph and tells a few newspaper re- porters the story of how she was brought up in a convent, and destined for the life of a society bud, but her genius would allow her no rest in the life of gilded indolence, and here she is. Lucky little chorus girl! Just see her, all trimmed up in gorgeous clothes! What luxury, what joy, what pleasure without end! Lucky little chorus girl! All she has to do after a summer without a job, which she probably spent in a Forty-Something street rooming house, dodging the landlady—all she has to do after tramping the burning summer side- walks until her feet ached, and the artificial bloom on her cheeks fairly melted with heat and woe—all she has to do is to rehearse eight to eight- een hours a day, still without pay. under a more or less violent stage d rector, until the opening of the show. And then all she has to do is dance and dance, and dress and dress. and smile and smile. Isn’t she lucky! The Fly Exterminator. (Waterbury Republican.) The Piping Rock club of Locust Valley, Long Island, is very proud of its fly trap. That trap caught ten pounds of. flies last summer. The im- mensity of the feat may only be ap- rreciated when one realizes that it takes 6,000 files to weigh ane ounce. By carefully counting sample batches cf flies and weighing the entire season’s catch, the steward of the club figured out that the trap has put 1,000,000 flies out of business, A million flies, it may easily be im- agined, could produce considerable discamfort around a club, or even in a good sized community, not to mention their potency as disease carriers. Nearly all of them were bagged early in the summer. As a result, the clubhouse, stable and barnyard were wonderausly free from flies almost the whole summer and fall. The trap that worked this miracle was invented by a club member named J. R. McKe It isn’t patented, and neither he nor the club wants to monopolize it. Thers is a bottom plate or board, twelve by twenty inches, painted white. The bait is placed on this board. The club used mostly fish bones, but anything else that flies like would do nearly as well. At each end of the bottom plate is fastened a {rlangular plece of wood, standing up like an inverted V. On these two supports rests the trap proper, which is a wire-screen box, rectangular, ten by eighteen inches, with itis bottom an inverted trough fitting snugly over the two supports and its lower edges just a little above the bottom, the flies crawl under the edges , eat the food, then fly upward. They bump against the inverted trough, and finding little holes in it, crawl up through into the cage. There they stay. There’s a useful thing for a boy to make during the winter to keep his bouse and yard free from flies next summer. Our Real Standing Army. We may be tired of the old saying, that “We dig our graves with our forks.” But, in the light of the new wakening of the housewife to her great responsibility, that old saying is taking on a new meaning; and we might alsa add that we begin the | work of destruction with the nursing | bottle even before the fork can be used. How few women really know the market, the seasons of production, | the cost of handling foods, the best time to buy certain foods. How few women really know the condition of {he commercial foods they buy, We women hold within our hands the prompt eliminatfon of all adul- | terated, unsanitary commercial foods, for, if we mever bought such foods, they could mnot be manufactured. You should be acquainted with those who produce, outside of the home, the foods you buy. And vou could caslly become acquainted through or- ganization. Look abaut you right now and see what foads are pro- | duced near your home. Go to the factory and investigate it and see if its praducts are worthy of your pur- chase; see if the foods which it pro- duces are such as you want to place upon your table. Investigation 1s heartily welcomed by every honest manufacturer in this country. The commercial cannery, the cammercial bakery, the commercial laundry, the commercial factory of every kind, is an adjunct to the twentieth-century home. We have a right to know undor what conditions these indus- tries are conducted and what they produce, and an obligation rests upon L1s to obtain this knowledge. The co- operation among the honest maufac- turers, the consumers, and the trade is going to wipe out all products of lunknown quality and all unfalr The Isle of C rete Has Seen Many Better Days ‘Washington, present revolt D. C, Oct. 10.—The | in Crete has occurred | almost on the fourth anniversary of | the announcement of the island’s an- | nexation to Greece, made by the Greek premier on October 14th, 1912. Up to that time the Cretans had been in an almost constant state of revolt against Turkish and Egyptian domination for the greater part of the nineteenth and the first decace of the twentieth cen- tury. Today’s war geography bulle- tin of the National Geographic society tells of the resources of this revolt- riven region. “Crete and Corsica are practically tied for the distinction of fourth island of the Mediterranean, each having an area somewhat in excess of 3,300 square miles and being surpassed in size by Sicily, Sardinia and Cyprus. But while Corsica has sustained a comparatively inconscipuous role in world history, if one excepts the fact that it was the birthplace of Napol- con, Crete has played a stellar part in human events for more than 4,000 vears. “Oblong in shape, with a length of 160 miles and a width of varying from six to thirty-five miles, the rugged irland lies equidistant from Europe, Asla, and Africa. Its northern coast is greatly indented, and while the an- chorage is too shallow for modern steamenrs in all save one of its ports, in ancient times many of its 100 flourish- ing cities of which Homer spoke were regularly visited by the light-draft v sels of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. “Crete today sustains a population of about 850,000, more than nine- tenths of whom are Christians and the remaining tenth largely Moham- medan. Much of its land is bare and stony and the forests of cypress which were once its glory have almost di appeared. Tts rivers are scarcely more than mountain torrents, which rush down from snow-clad heights towering more than 8,000 feet above the sea. “Many of the narrow valleys and a few plains are extremely fertile, how- ever. Fruits of many varieties, espe- clally the orange and lemon, grow luxuriantly, and the olive is one of the most valuable products of the island, the oil being used extensively in the manufacture of soap. The vines ot Crete, which were noted in the Middle Ages, have deterlorated somewhat in modern times. Currants are profitably grown, but little grain is raised. The mineral resources of the island may eventually prove to be considerable, but at the present time gypsum, lime, slate, and whetstone constitute the principal output, which is meager. “St. Paul, in his Epistle to Titus per- _ petuated the indictment that ‘the Cre- tans are alv Hars', so it is astonishing to find in the legends of the island the claim that the supreme god of the Greek world, Zeus, was a native and that he was nursed by nymphs on the slopes of the famous Mt. Ida. He was even supposed to have been buried at Tukta, near the ancient center of Minoan civilization, Knossuus, or Cnossus, an account of whose astonishing culture thousands of years ago has been given in a recent bulletin of the National Geographic society. “The Cretans were the allies of Mithradates the Great in that Parthi- an’s negotlations with Rome, and a few years later the islanders espoused the cause of Cilician pirates, as a r sult of which the Roman general Me- tellus brought them under the yoke of {he Eternal City in 66 B. “When the Roman empire was di- vided Crete was apportioned to the eastern rulers and it remained under he Byzantine emperors until 823, when it was captured by piratical Saracens from Andalusia who held sway over the islang for 140 years. Then it was redeemed by the Byzan- tines. During the Fourth Crusade the. island was given to Boniface de Mont- ferrat. He immediately sold it to the Venetians (1204), who ruled it for more than 400 years. “One of the most prolonged | ades in world history was that con- ducted by the Turks from 1645 to 1669, when the last port of the island surendered to Ottoman arms, against whose sway the Cretans were almost constantly in revolt until the final an- nexation to Greece. The islanders fought shoulder to shoulder with the Greeks In the recent Balkan imbrog- lio: block- _— trading. upholding Heath in Magazine, We eliminate the bad by the good.—Mrs. Julian the November Mother's Undefended Nation. (Chicago News.) President Vanderlip of the National City bank of New Yark in his address before the American Bankers' associa- tion in Kansas City vesterday cau- tioned the nation against becoming submerged in its own prosperity. The United States he declared, should profit by the bitter experience of foreign natlons, and the people should not be “so intent upon dividing the proceeds of present prosperity’” that This they fall to safeguard its permanence. | The greatest need of the day, ac- cording to Mr. Vanderlip, “a need so fundamental as to make other matters inconsequental,” is that for universal military, industrial and economic pre- paredness. Like many others, Mr. Vanderlip confesses to have believed formerly that universal military ser- vice could be reckoned as economic waste. The history of the last two years has convinced him, as it has ccnvinced many others, that such ser- vice is of ‘“superlative importance.” Possibly the most subtle enemy within the borders of the United States is persstent forgetfulness of the great fact that all the showy prepara- tions for natlonal defense that have been made in Tecent months are based upon the false theory that nabody need fit himself to glve effective ser- vice under arms unless he personally chooses to do so. The American people must recognize that military training is a duty of citizenship. That cuty rests equally upan all the citizens. i The young men of the nation, for thelr own wellbelng no less than for the safety of the republic, should be required by federal law to undergo | preparations for armed service. Until public setiment compels congress to establish a rational system of univer- sal training and service this nation | will be inadequately defended against foreign invasion. A Guide to Voters, (New York World.) 1. Compare the achievements of Charles E. Hughes as governor of New York with the achlevements of Woodrow Wilson as Governor of New Jersey and President of the United States. 2. Compare Mr. Hughes' speeches on the issues of the campaign with President Wilson’s speeches. The voter who does this without passion and without prejudice can come to only one conclusion: That President Wilson ought to be re- clected by the greatest popular ma- jority that any candidate ever re- ceived. Sign in a Department Store. (St. Louls Post-Dispatch.) BATHING SUITS Reduced to Almost Nothing. An Errand of Shame, (New York World). The most dubious engagement ac- cepted by an ex-president since John Tyler took his seat in the Virginia Secession convention is that which lIs to carry Mr. Roosevelt to the Mexl- can border. Texas is not a dabatable state, but near El Paso, where he is to speak, 26,000 American troops are en- camped, and throughout the south- Wweet near the international line there are probably 100,000 more, Mr Roosevelt will not speak for Mr. Hughes at El Paso. He will speak for the interests that want a war of aggression. He will defame the com- | mander in chief of the army. He will address himself to all the ele- ments of hatred and desperation which have terrified that frontier for many years. Worse even than all these, the intent of his vituperation will be to promote insubordination among the armed forces of the re- public. We know what he will say to the troops on the border, because we know what he is saying every day at home, He will tell them that their' ' commander in chief is not truthful | and that he is a coward; that the | negotiations now in progress by the International Commission are ‘“hu= | miliating and disgraceful,” because they look toward peace; that people who do not relish bloodshed have timid hearts and quivering voices, and, that we should be at war with Mex- ico. In some such spirit as this Clement L. Vallandigham sought during the Civil War to stir up sedition in the ranks of Union regiments in Ohic. He was tried by court-martial and sentenced to prison. With rare hu- mor, President Lincoln commuted the penalty to transportation into tha_. lines of the enemy, which is where all Copperheads belong. On this tour Mr, Roosevelt will sea splendid organizations of young mem, loyal, brave and obedient. They are in their camps today, strong and hopeful, and not in their graves by tens of thousands, because the presi- dent whom Mr. Roosevelt villifies re- gards war as the last and not the first resort, - Who among Americans that do not hope to profit by carnage and con- quest would have it otherwise? The Oracle of the Primary. Was it in the Maine town of Wells that, on a historical or legendary oc- casion, the selectmen, or other elec tion officlals, weary of their labors : longing for celebration and hard cider, are sald to have omitted a formal counting of the votes. ‘‘Let’s estimate ‘em,” said some genius in authority, and estimated they were. In the New Hampshire primary Henry W. Burleigh of Franklin, can- didate for representative, got 60 votes, Peter Dana 62. A recount by the bureau of elections at Concord last week gave 62 to each candidate. Peter Dana’s name was not on the printed ballots but written on them by the Danaites. Four of these, too slothful to write, used “stickers.” So Dana lost four votes, and Burleagh galned two. The candidates agreed to iy “shake off the tie.” “Heads or tails!” Peter Dana, unfortunate in the toss as in the primary, lost. This ig one of the few triumphs of the direct primary system, and it w won outside the rvles. Out in Wash- ington state the tie mightn’'t have happened. In several districts the same men were chosen both repub- © lican and democratic committeemen In one district the same man got both the democratic and republican pominations for member of the legi lature. Confusion of the voters, mis takes of ballots. On the whole, lsn’t the New Hampshire ordeal of the tossed coin, extended to all candidates and not merely used to settle ties, more satisfactory ? . 4 na ‘Where It Stands. (New York Times.) Emitted with resonance, gesticulat- ed with fervor and abundant these sentiments spring from the can- éidate’s lips and fall into an open- mouthed and hushed audience Tt honor. It stands for the enfranchise- ment of women. It stands for. the creation of a merchant marine. B{ \ motion, not ™ ~ * (the party) stands for national g |