New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1916, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEVIBER 14, 1916. Herald. SHING COMPANTY. ietors. IHERALD PU Pro| ed daily (Sunday exce ted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Buildin, 67 Church St. ptered at the Pc New Britain as Second Class Mo | livered by carrier to ¢ part of the city for 15 cents a wee a month to be sent by mail, in advance, 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year. he only dvertising medium in ation hooks and press | n to advertisers. profitab! found on sale at Hota- 42nd St. and Broad- ty; Board Walk, At- tford Depot. way, New Y. lantic City, TELEPHON hsiness Osice - fitorial Rooms CALLS. THE LIESS y | If the present mtial status of the week presi- | elections held one ago | Hay is undetermined in the | inds of some men, of whom the Re- blican is one, there s thought: The people ho took part in those elections have about their country, and politically, than usually learn in a full college, or uni- candidate is consoling hrned more beraphically ey would m h school, rsity their se they meda be- definite Those who took aw: earlier academic rs possessed certain rted upon exam- go might have the owledge. demonst: htion, months en miserably before simple estion: How many votes are there | college? Or, what terious electoral college? | ‘the electoral this sta my: the difference between the toral College and the Electorate? | how electoral votes does state in which you live possess? w does the apportionment of Rep- lentative: effect electoral of various | tes? And so on, etc. ow every one in the ‘e many made by Congri votes the nation pos- sing the knowledge of the language | ty of can kr any or all of these questions. Re- ling the Presidential elections of b6, any man who studied the after- th of the Wilson-Hughes struggle show how forty years ago Samuel ilden, although he received 252,- more votes than Rutherford B. es failed to be clected President the United States because Hayes led one more clectoral vote. Con- plating that election, and knowing t Wilson’s popular vote was near half million mark with a possi- ty of his losing the electoral col- the matu reason an- = b, the man of 1916 is ready to see hange in the system of choosing Chief Executive of the nation. In ng a sample of the inequity of our sent system of electing the Presi- | t, the New York Sun of today re- | s the presidential elections of 1884. n, “Grover Cleveland carrled New | k by 1,149 votes. He had 219 | toral votes, 37 more than were n to James G. Of the 37 but one were New York. 1,149 votes polled 30 | At that same eloction | fine went for Blaine by 20,089; and | by 81,019, votes and Pennsylvania ' B cast by ine. btoral votes. Maine cast | | not enterea. | war will not be allowed to occur again. | betore the present shaping of the na- comment Utterances with favorable among Buropean scholars. by Premier As- meeting in the publi quith, Lord Grey and the beloved Vis- former Ambassador to press count Bryce, this countrs discussion of the idea. Regius Profes recently article entitled “The United the War” which he benefit of hi | trymen the reasons why America has the have caused a general Gilbert Murrs sor of at Oxford wrote an States Greek University, and in analized for the coun- and will not enter, war and then to | other things:—*If America can help like the present goes on say it a collosal iniquity The feeling needs explanation. William Howard Taft's series of arbi- ir those no tion treaties, following initiated by Jghn Hay, made him the natural champion of this further ef- fort to orsganize the prevention of future wars. The general idea is quite simple and well known: Powers bound to settle their differ- by conferences or arbitration, and equally bound to make joint war on any Power which, in a dispute with one of them, on a League of ences refuses arbitration This fantastic scheme. and is obviously no It is accepted by leaders of both parties and by the enormous preponderance of Amer- opinion, conservative, educated. insists on war. the ican both progressive both and educated un- Almost all opinion in Eng- land agrees; so, as far as my. informa- tion goes, does opinion in France. But in America, the course of events has and to the front and faced it more emphatic alternative. If we and our allies respond to this movement there is a good hope for the world; | if we reject it there is before us not merely the possibility of known future war, such as there was with a far some tions; there is a peril clearer and more precise. There are definite seeds of international rivalry already sown and growing; there are on both sides of the Atlantic the deliberate beginnings of a movement which, however justi- fiable at present, needs but a little | development to become dangerous; | there is the certain prospect of those | thousand disputes which are bound | to arise between two grand commer- the a cial nations competing hard for same markets.” brought the movement more sharply | among | as Taft, as president of the league, is| the planetary system and thus com-l puting the various dimensions of other stars and satellites. To the exact second they could tell when a comet would appear in the heavens even if it had not showed its spark- ling head for more than a century. These are the men who fisured even before Dr. Lowell's time that Mars had a diameter of 4,230 miles, diurnal rotation of 24 hours, 37 min- utes, 22.67 and a year of 686.9 days. Dr. man parted from the exact figures, at least far as the cerned, and dre a seconds, Lowell was the who de- lay public ed his work in some- thing that appealed to the imagina- He inhabited the planet Mars with a particular class of people which he called the Martians. No one has yet seen a Martian, although at times the fiction write; play- was con- tion. s and wrights have given us samples what might be the Girl Mars. Dr. Lowell used his telescope to great advantage when he the canals of Mars in 1909. Those linear markings on this planet which appear double at certain seasons and which known Schia- the from discovered _were previously as parellian canals under watchful eyes of Dr. proved Lowell to be the great irrigation stem by which the redeeming their arid Some day an aviator will tra- Martians were lands. verse the distance between Mars and rth just as birdmen now go from Chicago to York, and then we shall know the true relation between Flagstaff, Arizona, and Mars, between Dr. Lowell and the Mart At any rate, be today on M New there should sorrow FANCIES. FAGTS AND An onion can go anywhere without un- | losing its identity.—Toledo Blade. like whole Evil thoughts, the green apples, system.—Deseret Perhaps if skirts were lower shoes wouldn’t be quite so high.—Columbia (8. C.) State. Nearly every girl worth having is the one who has been in love before —Memphis Commercial. As further evidence of world pro- gress much love-making is now done | by telephone.—Toledo Blade. The best boy in the world—the one Racial antipathies are not the only | causes that lead nations to war. The strugsle for commercial supremac had as much to do with the present war as anything else. Iurope, in a seeming dead-lock, realizes that. | The | nations at war know that while thQYL | are fighting to the death America at peace with the world is gradually gaining new markets. As the com- merce of Europe diminishes the com- merce of America expands. America has grown greater commer- | cially, she has also grown bigger and | stronger as a military power. The resulted can naval and army activities. Europe fears. These The are the | things ine and Pennsylvania to- | League to Enforce Peace sounds £00d | pearance didn’t | in Furope, because by jher cave Blaine-a plurality of 101, votes, carrying 36 electoral votes, | its very first principles it would prevent the arms { brow h 1on And, as ‘\ quirer. number cast for Cleveland by New | ©f America from being thrown into i 1 York counted for just as much | 101,088 votes that were in | ne and Pennsylvania.” here is inherently something png with such a system that admits | Fo many possibilities of unfairness. | h the agitation that has heen ted, it would not be at all surpris- to gee the next Congress amend | cast tration. Furope that knows what In other words, 1,149 votes in | & War with any nation without arbi<| yurned the midnight oil, now has i | war means does not want to see Amer- | ica in a future war, deep as Europe may resent our having kept out of this one. War viewed as a collbsal iniquity, which it is in the case of Europe, has no charms for America. All this talk about America too proud to fight, being etc., and because | button. Censtitution so as to insure the of that there is disrespect for the | htion of the nation’s head by direct of the people. | willingly A COLLOSAL INIQUITY. n France and in England the pres- _war is looked upon as a collogal wity, The socialists of Germany | i nome of the leading journallsts, ably Maximilian Harden, express pame sentiment. Because it he greatest war in the history of world, because it is conducted on s previously unknown, because of many cruel aspects, crueller by far R those of other wars, the thinking of the belligerent nations say it such a thing must never happen in, Civilization has d ek from which it will take cen- les to recover. The nations at war ® already lost enough men and erial treasure to render them pau- 5 &8 compared with their former e. With these thoughts in mina men of Europe turn to Amerioa pec the.greatest neutral natlon on face of pnded rece the earth enjoying un- prosperity. Bmotlons of v and jealousy must arlse {n those ntries that want Uncle fight on one the sincerest thought isx that erica, if she keeps out of the war, i be the.guiding hana in ken Burope to itself. ed plan of the League tc e which was recently formulated Hoam In slde or the othe: The pros Hrea | American flag is mere rant. truth is, any nation in Europe would change places with Ameri- future war. SORROW TODAY ON MARS. It's long from Arizona, to Mars, nounced red color. 25,000,000 Mar: a way Flagstaff, the planet To be exact, Flagstaff ; so far that the people who in- of pro- miles from to habit that mysterious even know that the Percival Lowell, dead today Flagstaff. After twenty-two work at his astronomical observatory not Dr. in land may - discoverer, is vears’ during which he made some remark- able and radi discoveries, the famous astronomer has earned his rest. can and this whether his theories were right or wrong. For Dr. Lowell reformed the science of astronomy to the end that he it more popular. There haunted never repay, made s a time when the old men street imperfect with hugh telescopes, WI'nu‘J.h which the populace could see the 3 conceded the notion changed. thousht who corners and moon at five cents a look, were to be astronomers. Then w mathemati freaks with teles ures this way and that measuring al- a1 who seldom busied them:elves pes but who arrayed fig- it 1s 2l astronomers | The | | | to tell father.——Macon News. And many a man with a Webster lobster brain can tell Milwaukee News. Pumpkin pie is at bat, mince pie is on deck and apple ;pie has just stolen second.—Milwaukee News. Some one says that the office boy will soon be as extinct as the dodo. Nonsense. How could a business sur- ive without him ?—Philadelphia In- Those new dimes are lavely, but it a pity they did not come along in the good old days when a dime would preparedness movement wkich was a | buy ten cents’ worth of anything.— by-product of the Buropean war has | in a shaking up of Ameri- | Chicago News, Did you ever look into a strange, full-length mirror and mistake your- self for somebody else whose ap- trike you as pleas- ing? It's a disconcerting experience. —Toledo Blade The man who, when he was a boy, a son who is also burning it, but in a different way. He uses an automo- bile.—Columbia (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun. When' there are three women to get off the car each must push the Otherwise, in case the car failed to stop, only one could threaten to take the company’s franchise away from it.—Toledo Blade. Our Own. (By Margarct E. Sangster.) If 1 had known in the morning How wearily all the day | ca, and then take steps to prevent a | rhe words unkind would trouble my mind That I said when I went awa; I had been more careful, darling, Nor given you ncedless pain, But we vex our own with look tone We may never take back again. and “or though in the quiet evening T may give you the kiss of peace, Yet it might be that never for me The pain at the heart should ce How many go forth in the morning Who never come home at night, And hearts are broken by hard words spoken sorrow That can ne’er set right. We have careful thoughts for the stranger, And smlies for the sometime guest, The world owes him a debt it | But oft for our own the bitter tone Though we love our own the best. Ah! Lips with' curse impatient, Ah! Brow with that look of scorn, 'Twere a cruel fate were the night too ate undo the work of the morn SASRE S To Californla Soclal Diversions, (From the Holtville Tribune.) Friday night there patty, with wieners featur The pavty a desert allum ibly fire was as the <cr awoke to the her friends were giving her @ Dbirthday surprise. She rose to the occasion and blew ~yt the candles and cut the ‘Washington by Willlam Moward | ways with the sun as the center of | cake, i of who is trying to persuade mother not | You never | { would it have made? | another blunder, due to_Old | chaperonship, a, Results Show Count to Be Full of Independants ¥Free With Their Knive (New York Times.) The time has come for the Repub- licans to lay on Mr. Hughes the blame of a failure which not his but theirs. The surprise is, not that he did not do better, but that he did so remarkably well, It is not Mr. Hughes' fault that there are two wings of the Repub- lican party and that there is on the semblance and pretense of a re- union between them. It is not M Hughes' fault that the progre who sincerely belicved In progr legislation and were not merely here worshippers could not be transferred to the republican camp when Mr. Roosevelt sought to hand over the whole progressive party into the hands of it: unreconciled enemies. It is not Mr. Hughes' fault if the progressives, especially in the west, although the same spirit is revealed by the diminis ities in New England, were attracted by the progres purposes and achievements of Mr. Wilson’s ad- ministration. Tt is not Mr. Hughes’ fault that the republicans had no i sues, no clear policies except protec- tion, a scarecrow hung out at the eleventh hour, and inviting only guf- faws, The republicar change of administration to ‘‘beat Wilson,” and they could give no good reasons for the change and the beating. Mr. Hughes was vague and negative. So was his party. What would they do or done ahout Mexico, about Furopean questions? Did anybody find out? Apparently they would do or have done what Mr. Wilson did, only in a “firmer” way. ‘Why should the country change cer- tainty for uncertainty? Why, when such grace international questions were pending, should it give notice to the. world that its foreign policy was discredited, and so weaken the goy- ernment and its influence at a serious time? “Words, not deeds,” the repub- licans used to sneer in the beginning of their campaign. The deeds of Woodrow Wilson the multiform fruitful work of his administration, were before the country. They could not be hidden. The deeds were dem- ocratic, the words republican; and the words were vain, Coming from the Mr. Hughes' voice, like Vergil's in “The Inferno,” was *hoarse with long silence.” He did not at first show the vigor and fire which were his in 1908. But then and afterward the real weakness was in his cause, not in him- self. As he warmed up, as he caught the communicative oraer of crowds, his speeches gained in power; and, so ar as energy and force of speech can radiate from the advocate of am- biguities imposed on him, he became a eampaign orator of no mean degree Rut if he had spoken with the tongue of men and angels, what difference He had no case, He could give no good reasons why he should succeed Mr. Wilson. The lat- ter’s speeches were inded incompara- bly superior in form and content, but it was what Mr. Wilson had done, not what he said, that counted. Mr. Hughes made some obvious mis- takes. He should have lammed the hyphen, tHat now ridiculous and im- potent hyphen, early in his campaign. His late renunciation had the air of being forced, as did his declaration against 'an embargo. His avoidance of Hiram Johnson in California was Guard but the enthusias who were to give Mr. Johnson monstrous a majority are not likely to have taken kindly to Mr, Hughes. And the country is full of independ- ents, free with their knives, as the is va imply wanted a e supreme court, | returns show. If Mr. Roosevelt had been the re- publican candidate, nobody can tell what would have happened. But Mr. Roosevelt is a genius, a sort of ele- mental force. Mr. Hughes can’t be blamed for not being Mr TRoosevelt. Besides, ¢ne is enough. Tn view of the essential unreality of the republican ues,” hunted so eagerly and exhibited so vainly; in view of the positive and various strength of Mr, Wiison, Mr. Hughes did better than the republicans had any excuse for expecting. He con- ducted himself with dignity through an irritating canva: He retains the undiminished respect of the country. In this city he will be welcomed as a man of high character and ervice. In the practice of his profession, in the regard of his fellow-citizens, he will find some compensation for his defeat May his c; r be as long as it is sure to be honorable. The Colonel, (New Haven Journal-Courier.) The night of election gave day Colonel Roosevelt this statement to the embled reporters: am doubly thankful as an American for the elec- tion of Mr, Hughes. It vindic tion of our national honor. Because of some charges that have been made, 1 wish to state now that T will not vnder any circumstances make any recommendations to Mr, Hughes with reference to appointments to his legislative poli Tt will no longer be Colonel Roosevelt to rledge. The country lieved him of all respor Much more inter is the political future of that gentleman, if he be said to have any. We retract none of the many genuinely complimentary things we have said of him in the past. He could, if he saw fit, take over a large share of the credit for the political condition which now exists in this country. In part, his refusal to suppart Mr, T: when president niade Mr. Wilson’s election possiblo 1 part, his own work of educ: reople of the country in the cause of cocial justice has counted v The greatest mistake he was in for once miscaxulating the yopular thaught of the country. His chance came at Chicago when he r is a or necessary for that s already r for it remember ever ms fused the nomination of the progres. lMa.rune's fitness. hed republican plural- | may | ng the | to | 1 | tempt to say in what form the‘history cives and gave countenance to the THE FEDERAL FARM LOAN LAW. pargain arranged by Mr. Perkins with —_— the old line leaders. We will not at- An Agricultural Paper Does Not Like to See Republicans Discredit It. (From Farm and Home.) How foolish, for political purposes, of the past four months wauld have Leen written had he boldly kept his ! word to the party of his own creatlon ¢, 1y t5 discredit the federal farm { ond remained their leader. Ino e | { usefulness rested upon the larger un- | sponsibility | | that subject. | the total twenty-three, or near! | The New York | deeper | when We are confldent Mr, Hughes would have seen sis in the life of the ‘country which demanded his resignation from the supreme court of the United States, and we are by no means sure t Colonel Roosevelt would not to- y be the president-elect of the country. It is pure conjecture Colonel has a future in loan law! Both parties with cach other in framing that great statute, which became a law hy the 2lmast unanimous vote of both repub- licans and democrats in congress. The wisest politics would be for re- publicans now to vie with democrats in claiming the credit for enacting this law, instead of republican’ politicians repudiating that which their own members of congress rightly voted for almost to a man, Nobody claims the new law is per- feet, but its imperfections may be remedicd easily by congress, when ex- pcrience has revealed what they are. Worse yet is it to pick flaws, mere- iy as a subterfuge for perpetuating the old system under which farmers have paid so high for money. The climax of such misguided partisanship is its recommendation of a method of short- term loans, the real purpose of which |is 10 to 15 per cent. interest to the | inside: The money power was thoroughly licked when farmers finally got this | Jaw passed, but now the money power seeks to ‘‘come back’ through polit- ical chicanery. All forms of open, ccvert or secret opposition to the es- tablishment of the federal farm loan stem were expected from the “in- terests,” but farmers did not expect that the money power would be able ta prostitute to its use a great po- itical party. vied the His whether politics derstanding he had of political re- It was he who gave em- phatic expression to the moralities of s republic. He now has to deal with a man who matches his sermons with rerformance, and wha id quite likely in the next four years to establish the country on a bhasis of political moral- ity to the extent of eliminating the further need of the Colonel's services, We venture the prediction that the Colanel out of politics. State (Waterbury Neither for By State. Republican.) nor for prohibition woman suffrage does a federal amend- ment scem necessary. Slowly but surely the gain is being made state by In ate. women South Dakota twelve s s were voting on November 7. has swung definitely into the suffrage column, making thirteen. This raises number of states voting from twen- ty-five per cent, of the while to twenty-seven. Moreover, the addi- tion of each state to the suffrage col- umn adds to the chances of other states, because it adds its bit to the general weight of public opinion on The World Meat Situation, (Indianapolis News.) French economists recently made public the results of an infestigation of the world meat situation. The out- look is not encouraging. The war in some regions has augmented produc- tion; in others it has exhausted exist- ing local supplies and drawn heavily upon the stocks of foreign countrie French investigators should set aside the claims of the United States as a of the whole number. | meat exporter. The opinion is that The most startling gain in every | this country, in normal times, pro- way is that of Micigan. It has always | duces not enough for itself, though been contended that states containing | the packing combinations continue to large ccities would not go dry. Yet |ship abroad. The result is an in- Michigan, containing Detroit with its | crease in domestic prices. As the phenomenally growing population, | World situation appears, the Argentine now nearly 800,000, has done it. | Republic, New Zealand, Australia, Moreover, Michigan is a heavy ducer of grapes | order named, are the principal ex- _ There is this in explanation, that | porting countries. fhe newcomers who have doubled De- | The visible supply is not increasing troit’s size in so brief a time are chief- ' rapidly. Consumption in some places ly laborers of'a high degree of skill, | is exceeding production. A shortage Most of the - automobile producers in- | Was certain when the war began, for st upon sobriety in their help. And @ Military if a man can't drink and keep his job | ton anyhow, what's the use of having sa- | loons around to tempt him? Just a waste of mental energy resisting. World sees in the the coming d olution of rty, which is “losing | e issue.” conclusion is that as fast people really want reforms they get them. Moreover, when they set them because the majority has thought out the whole situation for itself and decided in favor of the move the reforms usually stick and prove useful. The minority may try to vio- late the law, but it cannot reproduce the old conditions. The prohibition gains are even more striking. Four states seem to have been swung from wet to dry, making vy half in the development of grazing and stock breeding, as planned in many regions as yet little known for | their meat production. On the basis | of the figures obtained, it appears to | the Buropeon economists- that Brazil, Urugu the Argentine Republic, Australia, German East Africa, Mad- agascar, Mexico, Asiatic Ru and even China contain possibilities. The Germans prior to the war were re- markably successful in stimulating native cattle breeding in their Bast African possessions. The consumer, however, will find little comfort In these assurances, which are predicated upon the invest- | ment of millions of dollars, extending through many years. What we need State. by state woman suffrage and | today is a more liberal supply of meat, prohibition are. making their way. | All cuts remain at the top of the food There is not much use opposing the | price scale, and an excuse commonly heavy gain the prohibition p: its one distinct The general perance. | 5o high as the butchers’. Signs are Socioty Boubd 5t the: Core. ; not lacking that the American family i) of average income may be compelled [fe). | to regard meat as a luxury, to be society ha fringe of de- | served .only once a week. There are We speak of our decadent | n few encouraging hints. At the re- our decadent literature, our | cent land bank hearing in this city an decadent youth, when in reality we | Indiana farmer said that the most are talking only of the fringes. We | profitable debt he could incur was one the fringes displayed in cities, | which enabled him to stick his place hecause, in comparison with the | with cattle. One subfect of the rural and more fundamental quali- | credits law is to stimulate the pro- tics, they have the power of self-ad- | duction and fattening of beef cattle. ising, we are likely to be misled. | Bankers who, through the new cur- h is that there never be- | rency law, have found a new field for uch an earnest purpose on | eneral Investment in the making of the part of our young people, and | Cattle loans are realizing the need of never has there been so much rea] | Increased national attention. feeling displayed by our men and | women gencrally over the really im- | portant things of life. Consider the | number of our college men in the am- bulance service of Burope and the extraordinary response to the call of the training camps. Lvery age is unable to see itself as other ages see it. It is too close to own line of vision. It is true that with us therc are profligacy, reckless- there are people than zother under and our mechs ittained such as to hlind underneath. never sturdily. amor Iy so tion sidin educational Every a Zeneracy. tashion e nd Bugaboos of Married TAfe. (Salt Lake Herald-Republican.) Many a woman hugs to her heart the delusion that she married the wrong man. In the inner circle of her bosom friends she may admit as much —in the strictest confidence, of | course—and her tale of woe in cor- | roboration is spun into sympathetic ea In 5 civilized | ¢ gathered to- one governmental roof, | i contrivances h every such rehearsal of domes- infelicity the most disconsolate part is the “might have beens,” which have been denominated the saddest | of all sad words. Lost opportunities s lm,.m:":“:} usually take on exaggerated appear- us to the hearts beatine | 20Ce in retrospect. Both Maud and But the trath is. that | he Jjudge might have been disillu- T e e 2| sioned had she devoted the latter part ¥ it e L SOl of her life to raking him instead of Rioting and dissipation | raking hay. our young people are not near- | mo make a jeremiad of this kind arked as they we genera- | ympressive it is only necessary to 0 wave is sub- ' mention two or three men of promin- t of our high | ence who were driven to despair by the outdoor | a “positive refusal” and who perverse- ness, But more really ever before e a | life, induced by golf, tennis and the | ]y went ahead on the highway of suc- seneral use of the motor car, the | cess, each with a life companion re- coming together of different kinds of | ferred to with scornful reproach as a people 1 these things have had | “spiteful hussy” not half good enough their effect, | for him. As a matter of fact, success In spite of so many of our obvious | in such cases may be due to compat- surface failings, let us not deprecate | iblo association of a real helpmeet our: too much. We are a great | that never could have been attained people. | with a discontented, scolding and fault-finding companion. | This is a reversible hypothesis, for | many a man harbors the hallucination that he made a mistake in his choice; and some of them are mean enough to add to the burden of an aching heart by saying so to disappointed and neglected housewives who share more of sorrow than of happine: Women who lament that other wives have the best husbands and men who deceive themselves with the belief that other men have the most attractive wives cannot judge with | precision What an amazing awakening there would be if the discontented could ex- change places for a time—an awaken- ing that would cause Jack to prefer his Jill and Jill to yearn for Jack elves Senator Martine's (Newark On March 4 next, Joseph linghuysen will succeed James Martine in the United States senate. Mr. Frelinghuysen's eclection was a foregone conclusion from the aa he and Senator Martine were the successful candidates in their re- spective party primaries. The election of Martine five years ago was the re- cult of ir hce brought to bear up- on the legislature to support the spirit of the senatorial primary law, which left it ly obligatory with the state lawmak body to select t{he candidate receiving the hlgl}e&'t popular vote in the primaries. The cfeat. News) st again, and settle forever the doubts issue transcended the question of that disturb connubial contentment. pro- | Uruguay ana the United States, in the | operations caused a cessa- steady march of democracy and tem- | offered by dealers in other edibles | { Is that their prices, after all, are not | GROWING IN NEW ENGLAND. Surprising Outcome of Elections iz This Section Breathe Hope for Democracy. (Springfield Republican) The extent to which the New Eng land states cut down expected repub: lican pluralities constitutes a striking feature of Tuesday’s voting: Thit section contributed to the Hughdl electoral vote, but did so not un: grudgingly, and the results shocking ly upset the calculations of the r publican managers. When Conneeti. cut goes republican by only about &, 500, Rhode Island by 4,700, Maine by less than 5,000 and New Hampshig hung in the balance the day after s things are not going as they ought te have gone to be in harmony with tht expectation that republicanism wat again to be enthroned in a way defy challenge. It is evident that had the democratt been as well organized and led ali were their opponents, there woulg * have been a lively possibility of caf rying New Engiand into the Wilsor column. Even Maine showed up at debatable ground, with her drop from the 12,148 lead for governor at the September election to less than half that plurality for the republican pres idental candidate. And then Ver mont, which clung to Taft four year ago and gave a plurality for Gow. Gates in 1914 of 20,781, yielded only a lead of 16,000 for Hughe . What the democracy in all the New England states needs is better organ ization and leadership. That which Woodrow Wilson had done for hi party in Washington, which constitut. ed the democratic hope in this con test, must be carried into the states i the democracy is to command enough must be carried into the states if thy democracy is to command enougle support to win victories. What & true in Massachusetts is quite as muck the case in the other New England states. Devotion to progressive prin. ciples <nd a willingness to spend an¢ be spent in their behalf is the nee¢ in Connecticut Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine. Mr. Wilson's appeal to young men, by no meant all of them of democratic antecedentd and their help in increasing numbers is necessary. Too much has the de. mocracy been ruled and organized by place hunters, who constitute the | poorest material with which to bid for success. A big injection of work- ing idealism must be secured if the democracy is to be kept on the up- ward trend. Meddling With Songs. (Rochester Herald.) The other day we quoted a minis. ter as saying of the modern songs in the Sunday school that they “are two-steps set to music.”” This man, 4 evidently ,would resent the employ- ment of Prof. Simon N. Patten, a teacher of political economy, to sa; what sort of language Sunday schodl | songs should embrace. But Prof., Patten has undertaken the work, un- solicited, and, while accepting the melodies, has made radical changes in the words. For instance, there is John Wesley's “Jesas, lover 'of my, soul™ & As Wesley wrote it, and as' millions of Americans—not all Methodists, either—have miemorized it, it runs:—#’ Jesus, Lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While ths tempest still is high; Hide me, O my Savior, hide, Till the storm of life be past; fe into the haven guide, Oh, receive my soul at last Just 1/hat objection can be found in reason to this appeal, we do not know. But it didn't suit. Patten, and, in his book of revised songs he has trimmed it to this condition:— Jesus, Lover of my soul, Brother, friend and comrade dear Brother, friend and comrade dear, No temptation can control, § While Thy spirit hovéss near '~ All I treasure upon /Dhe¢leame; They kind deeds all ‘pepple biesfh As a writer of hymns, we afg il - clined to think that Wesley will out~ live Patten by several generations, and we are ot surprised that there are preachers who show a disposition to ridicule the efforts of the moder- nists. The old songs are good enough for the ordinary Christian, the other kind may be looked“npen with a feeling akin to suspiclon. s S o East of Suez. (Christian Herald) Hotel life is bad enough anywhere, but it is worst in the Orient. You hear the mother of a twelve-year-old girl tell her to “run away whils mother smokes,” or tell hbr husband that she “will have a whiskey and soda, and the little girl can have a small one, as the weather is hot.” Such things ‘happen in America, but they are not the normal thing as they are in these polyglot trade ports. '.l'ht) commercial class accuse the mission- aries of being too exclusive and the missionaries assert that they ara not going to run a fancy bar to attract their compatriots—so there you are! How She Knew, (Detroit Free Press). “I'm sure that grocer of our glves us short weight,” said he, “No, he doesn’'t” said Ma. “His scales are correct. I weighed myself on them this morning and they showed that am twenty pounds lighter than thought 1 wam" 1 1 Different Now, (Richmond Times-Dispatch). “Is this cellar perfectly dry?” quired the prospective purchaser, “Well,” responded the talented agent, with a knowing wink, “it al- ways had been until the Prohibition Law went into effect.” in- Did Bryan Do It? (New York World) the interest of accuracy, the fact should be noted that, aside from the South, the Wiison majorities are coming mainly from the territory in which Mr. Bryan did his campligning thig year. In