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P s - BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SA’[’URDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1918. bw' Britain Herald. much his fault as it is the fault of his political managers who for some miracle to overturn the tide that When custodian, has promises of other gifts that; will place the local museum on a par With any. In this connection it Pnight be suggested, however, that s s | ma more articles of public interest - < A . | many more ar of thelmE st ot ;‘)“y\_:f OB° | und value might be obtained for this surd, actlons cver taken W satety | MUSeunyif loans were accepted, Under board in the city took pladl#Tuesday | TeSent “Conditions the museum ac- copts only gifts that shall be the per- | night and under the head of efficiency; A o and. that 1s. the shifting l_;. the four | IManent property of the museum, re- Washington, D. C.iNov. 18.—TFol- palice sergeants avery three months | (USINg to accept loaned articles. This lowers of the war newsfrom the Bal- \\-o_sn\l,, a:fl“{(:]):;\:\l:lI:VY;U])]‘\I'":;\ ;‘n;‘:h‘ g ot 5 > quest is reasonably answer: by i pod D e e, o so that each officer takes the othe: Inestioniafincasonablyfanaviered 8 DY@ wantand | Grecitzonealofiaativity sill| N S ubeiii hopes of punishing the Eastern job for that period Is this for effi- | Mr. Schurr, who states that it has been > Xerxes s pes " Jobifor chat perlod Bgt0 7| founa impractical fo take loans for 5°arch alf but the largest scale maps | the ‘impudent Athenians' vanish. I c Y, as oners Steele anc . i VR Y @ r arine a nf, Moran would have the public believe? | the reason that loans. being the prop- in vain and-pore over many of the The great marine drufm _\\hhh Maybe it is, but it is hard" td seq their | cTtY of the lender, can he taken back Standard encyclopaedias in a fruitless | Was enacted in thege waters fronting Point. While the merigs of shifting |PY him at any time, and thus it is Scarch to locate Keratsini, where, ac- | Keratsini, probably on September 22, the two streot sergeantetand also tho | impossibfe to keep the. museum COrding to a report from Patras, the.| 480 B. C., has been described by S desk sergeant may bo an open ques. | ATticles pragerly catalogued. Because French flag hagibeen holsted on the | of the foremost geniuses of anclent tion, therc dwlittle doubt that no | f this #son coming to the mu- Greek light flotill¥, And yet this vil. | Greece, the poet-playwright Aeschy- efficiency wild he derived from Shift, | scum fo view a particular article la€e overlooks waters upon which was | lus, who was himself a participant in ing the detdotive sergeant, . On the | would not care to rellnquish their [OUSht one of .the most momentous the battle. It was eight years (I;) 3 other hand, it will. tend to work |had been removed AL R B0 ST iU, e [ L S 0 | against the efficiency of the potice de- It 1s believed that news by direct wire fram are Wwailing early Wednesday mornin a freight train should be the returns to Mr. time. It is eleven days since election. \ R ii> rubiSEQe company. | | 4 dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., t Herald Building, 67 Church St has already inundated them. Mr. Hughes does congratulate President Wilson, if he ever does, the effect will have been lost. will iughes} Ke"—g&fsini, A Difficults ' Place to Fine on Map. tory of Keratopyrgos, a mile to tha red ot the Posi Ofice at New Britain HMil Matter pifit of the city 1 month The punch It submarine Deutschland collided tug T. F. Scott, merchant - ship in fartunate that the Bs Second Cla 3 T not be there. merchantman with its veted by carricr to an foR 15 cents a week | offmiions for paper to be sent by mail, Joasabic in advance, 60 cents a. month, 700 a year. | : THE Every mather convoy, ‘the KATING POND. with overy skating go with his the Boagd of Tinanee may find a way to arrange for the expense of replacing the dam Jr., and not wf no enthusiastic with a children way Forwarding connected with i skating age BB irsnianie and Capany. The” loss ogmtalwayia advertising hooks medium i andy,yress to advertisers. " o vain who would a lives is something td be deplored, vet had the any ship other than this tug there is no telling the extent of the damage. Then in Stanley Park so that a safe skating again, intense feeling might have been surface provided for all our again stirréd ‘up had a foreign ship young people this winter as in years in the Saund figured in the collision. gone by. This year as always the city's Fgirl will pray that submarine struck found on ‘sale at Hota- t2nd St. and Broad- Citys Board Walk, At- Hartford Depot — may be PELEPHONE CALLS " : : ‘ re G 1. | Pensians), in which the victory Js so rogardless * of | Which helped to preserve Greele clvil THANKSGIVING. prociamation November President Wilson urge Pvote part of their time in thinking { budget is a heavy one and the Park Board’s appropriation less, as usual, would like to see it, else done and | than this work many would have been ready by now. When the troops went to the border properly urged n all city departments so that under no circumstances might | Mayor Quigley very | economy counts.—Chicago Herald, Boston, bliss tran series pennants in a row —New York | Evening Sun. FACTS AND FANCIES. partment .and to the demovalization i of the detective bureau. And this i why. The detective’s job is a- thagl- less one at the best, as most af 'hi work is done on the quiet and the public does nof-know Billy Sunday is now assailing sin in | The detective “#hrries in but to what greater state of ; ready for instant u could the Hubgeonsent to be.|about persons, atcd after winning two world | that stand tFe department in good stead. With these facts in his mind, the detective, the moment To the vangfjshed belong the re- his head, events and much about its unlimited facts conditions anything | ization from Persian spoillation. The National Geographic society, from fts Washington headquarters, issues the following war geography: bulletin on Keratsini and its historic environs “It is less than an hour’s walk in a northwesterly direction from the rail- road station of Piraeus, the second city of modern Greece, to Keratsini This suburh of the chief seaport in the kingdom is situated at the head of a small inlet in the mainland shore, di- rectly opposite the Bay of Ambelal, tHese facts it might be advisable to acaept loaned articles. There are to be a number of people in this who have valuable relics and other things of historieal interest, handed down from generation to gen- eration, that they would willingly permit the museum to have in its cases for public inspection, vet who would not care to reliqquish their title to them. On the whole, it is not thought that many of the loaned Ay magnificently recounted, was enacted in the Theater of Dionysus at Ath- ens. This is one of the plays. out of the ninety written by Aeschy- Itis, which have been preserved Standing on the beach at Kerat- sini and looking toward the south the visitor sees the rocky islet of Pysttal- ela g(Lipsokoutall) barely -two miles away. At this strategic point Xu stationed 600 picked men, many of whom were of noble and incely blood. They were supposed fo lia in seven © suffering abroad and in extend- ths de‘?endcnts of soldiers suffer any B clote hani t5 the men angl|Berdships. Atithe same tme the council in a forchanded manner not happens, has at least a good idea oOf.| where to begin looking for a solution | few were, the value of the others and he likewise knows wha are the | would more than make up for the hest people to see for assistance, If | loss. If it was not thought best to 7 e this man is permitted to do detective | haye the loaned articles with the not administered rellel oy on yort ther: ome of & fight— | work but three months out of the year | owned articles, ‘a depart- but initiated the bill drawn New Orleans Statos. his headfull of information, obtained | ment might be arranged. and af- by years of work and study, is worth A visit to the musenm is And probably if women's suffrage | Put very little to the city as it can- . worth the time of any should ever come, women will find it | "0t be applied. Also, the detective] tor. necessary to have one hat for the pri- | Pureau in this city is fast developing mary election and anotner for the con |into a valuable cog in the city’'s ma- | S on oA e e chiner: There are many office records to be kept and other data pre- Beginning foxt - month Wheeling | Pared. When the man in charge con- | or «life, and the pursuit of stogies will be cut one inch in length | tnuously {his work it is Per-|pappiness”—unless he happens to be | and also increased in price from three | foCtY systematized. ~ Ta change the | "¢ oipa1 enthusiast to five cents. In other words we won’t | [1an_every three months means that | : i have to smolke them o long or smell | the Tecords may be more or less ve [ fhiom 8o longl B hehire bocie muddled hy the different methods em-| What has become of the carefully | ployed. Take another view. During | prepared plans to remark safety zone the last part of the detective’s period | traflic lines on Main street by filling on duty something happens and he|in chiseled grooves with white ce- does good work getting to the hattom | ment. of it. Before he has finished another man takes his place. What results? Bither the officer keeps his informa- tion to himself or he tells his brother officer. While there is no douhbt of | heen placed between the rails, as- harmony in the department, every |suring a more even road for traffic man likes to receive credit for what [ and abolishing the old mud hole that he does and it would not be natural | formerly existed in this spot. Also for the retiring detective to turn his | the Main street crossing, | information over to his successor that *oxox | the latter might finish the work he| When Ma ;as started and then get the credit.|meeting in New Haven on December ! stand out with special distinctness, the olicemen are human. Of all the Jobs | 5 on “Civil service and how it works : g in the police department that should | out in New Britain,” we wonder just | CORCentration into a limited De permanent for efficiency’s sake, | what he will say. | the two groups of partisans that of the detective sergeant is it for | * ® ! with exactly opposite motives, the very reason that the work is con-| One of the ported Mr .Hughes because of tinuous and never ceasing. His know- | cently purel antipathy to the president’s forecizn ledge is always being brought into | lic works policy, and the wide diffusion of the play and a fact noted today may bhe | ing an Wilson vote, particularly in those of immense value six months or a|gasolina per day. The operator says = Parts of the country which are most | vear from today. Tt would certainly | he drives about thirty-five miles per Solidly American and apparently leas ! Tent OT | seem the most efficient thing to do | day. Inasmuch as the board of pub- . disposed to partisanship in regard to not in an actual majority for him. . {5 have the detective sergeant per-|lic works has a chauffeur and me- ' the war. That this Is forlynaie can This will probably srengthen the | manent and if then it is thousht hest | chanic in its employ it would seem . hardly be gainsaid. If one part of the | colonel’s conviction that the regular | t5 have another sergeant familiar | that he ought to be able to make ad- A country had been intensely pro-ally in | army ought to be increased.—Spring- | with this work let him -be detalled | justments that would make this ma- . temper, and another part as intensely | field with the regular detecti®h for a cer- | chine a more cconomical one to run. DPro-German, the result would have been to accentuate sectional lines in ———e n period miles per gallon is pret- Hand on the Shoulder. for a little machine like ' an unwholesome way. As things have t s fallen out, the votes determined by (Author Unknown). foreign issues have in great part When a man ain’t got a cent, | fallen in the same area, which makes | days to make the plain service uni- And he’s feeling kind of blue, them difficult to trace and easy to for- | form serve for all occasions, to do¥ And the clouds hang dark and heavy, Both groups have been snowed | away with gold braid, as the plume [P andieon Gl fineten Sening throush, | of olden times have heen done aways It's a great thing, O my brethren, with. A middle course may be de- that remain. One of | the suggestion is worth considering.” For a feller just to lay sirable. The soldler is a man. -,.,),;, 5 S P The suggestion is wortn | His hand upon your shoulder that perhaps the solution of his poor | vears, or who have made a careful | most men like to be well dressec nest customs that ever gained a e S oy marksmanship might lay in the fact | Study of opinion as reflected in the | There is no doubt of utility of thd ghold in America Shadow Lawn has been | 2 3 that he is left handed, while he was | Newspapers of the different parts of ' plain uniforms in war. But the Marjge about in the aforementioned | @ name to conjure with all during the | 1t makes a man feel curious: shooting with a “right handed” gun. ' the country, agree that interest in the Corps sticks to its blue and gold, and ner. It is the chivalry of old | late lamented campaign. Orators have A It makes the tear drops start, He meant it too R \\:u-lm,\ 1:>on mm': less marked in tire ;:v'w\: n of Il:”;("\yl“;:’\y:”“ .'.;n,;m“lzu exemplities irself in presont daffiggated aboup it; pocts have poetized; | And vou sort o' fecl a flutter S B G s o de corps 1s due in part.to’ths ers have™Ming to shades that fell |y % (T8 Teflon of the Resrti = be applied to the map, it would be The subject of miltary uni- at. Shadow Lawn; jesters have jested; | You don't know what to say found to show a marked temperature not to be lightly regarded. paragraphed; | When his hand is on your shoulder sistance. “Humph! When T have such | in the corner which went almost solid- | General Bell's first contention is for the | In a friendly sort o’ way. prosecute it myself, and be- | ly for Hughes, and to stand at normal | neatness. It is an importasit part of | lands behind the bars,” he | in the greater part of the vast ex- |discipline. One of the hoasted ad- S | oh, the world's & curlous compound, | panse which was for Wilson. This in- | vantages of the olive drab is that “it With its honey and its gall: dicates not only that the election, as | does not show dirt.”” Clothes that do With its cares ana bitter crosses— has frequently heen pointed out, | not show dirt are frequently dirty. | But a good world after all will resnlf in Captain Butler | turned on domestic questions and that | Biue coats have to he carefully clean- | And a good God must have made it given cl of Eneinc com- | the country is satisfied with a pacific [ ed and brushed. We hope that Gen- Leastways.that is what T say ! Captain Souney of | foreign policy, but that the majority, | eral Rell’s ideas will not be disregard- n the battle is over, no matter | Charles Evans Hughes abused it; even | ywhen a hand is on my shoulder transfered to | as it shows on the map, represents.a |ed. 1If a handsomer uniform on par- hard the blows struck, the true | Theodore Roosevelt used the Big| Tn a friendly g 10 Cantain Crowe of | high degree of neutrality in regard to; ade makes a soldier more contented tsman, defeated though he be, ex- | Stick on it, and yet Shadow Lawn B v will he ziven charge of | the war. with his lot. let us have the hand- | s his congratulations to his victor. | ny. This is not to say that people in the | somer uniforms stands tonight serene and magnificent | e is the hand-shake before the southern, western and southwestern states are destitute of ideas and opin- unter and the weil wishes after. e U e PM?HI’I\’V i Dne of roothall teamy e very much of the same variety o wio ands be: | opinion exists there as elsehwere, but he gridiron and shake -hands be- | were crept from . the St wa o el Doorlit i much evidence goes to show that feel- plunging into the contest. After | over-fertile minds and i HRC SR (I L ) I foveh et gas o R TE o) tray is over the teams gather in | once and for all when the clear light | arguments through the advertisiig | ps and give a cheer and a yell prepare a | columns of newspapersi and to cm- each other, the ploy other forms of advertising, such less strong. The astronomer, to get a correct view of foreign planets, has to s is tr v | as sign, street-car cards, cir- | candidates his eivil Sl ing. The same is true with base- | i, e, Ol AR e |t il L O imagine himself at the center of the use at | carth: to get the true Amercain view school of Wurope the political astronomer elties. was the lowest me e e ”;(“ )L'V;::l‘r‘,‘,’:]” the Scemed for a while to have happened | " The poster advertising during the | who was cast “T“ ‘r""l’y‘_z“‘"'”:‘."'i:"\fi‘g'(;r o e, op @E4N. Mr. Bryan says he would last campaign was very fine. Some ! thirty years SE R DE : et where Change to a system of choosing elec- R el : patriotism in this regio tors hy congressional districts insteads A of the other kinds was very but | tion to. heine a Do tan ressio i the newspaper advertising, as a wholo | highest man in prot of by the States at large. j was very bad. It was poorly written | a rank’ of 9% and badly displayed. It was abusive | Higgins rather than argumentative, [of fire stock is highest is. of course, sheer The answer is, that under Mx The best tempered and the most ef- | Butler, was second the nonsense That ther ryan's plan it still would be possible fective advertisement of the lot was | And.#ét the low man change of temper since the brief wave a pl 1 v L plurality of the whole people to e v ¢ the Spanish X of imperialism evoled by t L favor one man while a majority of the MAYOr | that written and paid for by Henry | was®30 per cent. was appointed! Hord { cuesfidn nas heen tedly : his w war is qu rue, but that was in it- A 1;r‘*;2(“;::rtjnrnflfl,\l Tt ap. DPresidential electors gave the office to pealed'to the adventurous spirit whieh 1is rival. Ca..lids (for vice-presi- dent, in particular) still would be John Wanamalker, who is said to be | to why it is TG i (o o ik responsible for the protective tariff | man is given the appointment s | offectually do advertisements, certainly failed to do | has been the case in the 1 i i arbiglo. Womid gs tecalled, and Uf & wait for the Greeks as they should flee before the Persian fleet. As events developed, however, the Pery sians were so: desively beaten that in - their flight they had no time to think of withdrawing this select body of men. They were left to their fate, a tragic one, for Aristidest he whom tha Athenians delighted to call the Just, organized a band of citizens, landed on the island and put to the sword. “ “The bloom of all the Persian youth, ! in spirit The bravest, and in birth the noblest * princes.’ ”’ which indents the nearby island of Salamis. “Overhanging Keratsini to the | northwest is a hill upon which & | powder magazine has been construct- ed but which bears the exalted and sigificant name, ‘Throne of Xerxes." Legend savs it was from this eminence that the Persian despot, seated in his lver-footed chair, watched the de- struction of more than 200 . (the Greeks claimed 1,000) of his ships of war by the ‘wooden wall’ triremes commanded by Themistocles. Some historians identify the rocky promon-= Some people have reached the con- clusion that the bulk of the Irish voters in the so-called pivotal states went to Hughes because I'resident hen of Europe. and | @pproached by any other city in the | state e conirast between lturope even these only suffering off land brica is sc at that know of the in that far | promptly separate | by the corporation counsel rmed to draw mental pictures | trWards introduced by Senator Klett and to | Which was passed by the legislature | providing for the reimbursement to | the towns by the state for all moneys expended for the rellef of soldiers’ That money to the extent of about $3,000 will be carried back to the city treasury shortly after the legislature convenes. When we think of New large contribution to the state treas- ury in the form of a state tax which annot takes place all k Divine Providence that is free from the miseries of war. | people. had hitherto | hanksgiving Day as a | [amilies. he terribleness of it this Now that politics have been rele- gated into the background the citizen can- exercise his constitutional right erty American ed upon does n hpliday, a day when MILITARY UNIFORMS. Olive Drab; [ | stable, do ye know where T a toddy before she gets bacl, ) can get bricans the banquet table to rate the blessings and prosperity Away With the Back Britain’s Why is the ornamental light stand- ard at the corner of Main and Com- mercial streets of a different tvpe than those placed elsewhere about the center? belong to them more than to any With the Trim Blue Coast and e i Gold Braid. ue (New York Times.) Brig. Gen. George Bell, #| mand of the Fifth Brigade at El Paso, is an advoeate of the retention of blue | uniforms and gold braid in the army. # | The olive drab”suffices for war ser- | vice, but its use on all occasions, this ~' ' experienced observer contends, leads to neglect of personal appearance; ! even to slovenliness, among the sol diers. General Bell goes so far as te believe that the military dandy “ex- erts a good influence. Probably he is right. There is a generhl idea that the khaki has lent a remarkably neat their Aappearance to the army, that a sol- dier in an ,olive drab shirt and breeches, with leggings or puttees to match, looks very. soldierlike, but the civilian knows less about soldiers and army development than an authority like General Bell. He believes that the dull uniform makes the soldier dull in his few hours of ease, thag the trim blue coat and the gold braic of the non-commissioned officer tend to make the man prouder of the ser- vice, that he feels the importance of . his calling more keenly, which is per- hips desirable. There is a strong movement nowa- r people on the face of the globe. Just as Barleycorn was counting } : himself out rescue arrived. William has to be paid and for which little Jennings Bryan announced yesterday B direct benefit to the city appears, that for the next four years he will B etivits, we are bound to look with pleasure devote himself to making the demo- s i [ on this $3,000 coming back to us, ana ' CFAtic party the advocate of national tter in that its spirit stretches out | Sy 2 prohibition—New York Sun. j on the passibility of spending half of double i it to restore the skating pond in' Stanley Park, easily reached by every- | one. From the standpoint of public e sons and daughters of America | N621th too, the project makes a obey the President’s suggestion | 9irect appeal. Without this skating “Our . be"m,‘} place children and others will be show their real gratitude towards | 4riven to ponds where ice is cut for B et strucale of family use and where skating is un- willingly tolerated by the Health De- | partment. The board of Finance will its | Pring joy to thousands of children and p" This done, Thanksgiving Day | YOURE People and peace of mind to, many parents by making this skating and woman | Pond possible this winter, i that sympathy | br in every way. ‘ | | | till is an American haoliday, it holds true that this nation is en- no other nation in com- * o o i Needed ! improvements made on Chestnut street the car barns where have been in front of pavement has | THE NEUTRAL Great American Vote Swamped Those Who Lived Up On but the day this vear VOTE. the waters and sees a Starch trust is the latest combine to or be ordered dissolved. If that works the same as dissolution of other com- bines it is but natural to presume the starch trust will commence to take it out of the people to make up for the cost of litigation.—Middletown Press. Ome Side on for Thanksgiving while at the b time it experiences a new thrill orld-wide love and sympathy, Other With European Belligcerents. (Springfield Republican) or Quigley addresses a In the political map two things i people could in t area o Kings, emperors and presidents in all parts of the worla are congratula- ting President Wilson upon his re- election, but for some reason the po- tentate of the Hotel Astor refrain New York World, which, sup- the nations | by contributing out of their ! dance to the relief of the suffer- new automobiles re- sed for theboard of pub- (sewer—d®partment) is us- average of eight gallons of which war has brought in is year will take on a new spirit The militia vote seems to have been malke every man strongly for the president, whether or participates in “A SUMMER WHITE HOUSE.” Recognizing the fact that the de- | sirability of a¥Summer White House Republican. TIURICAN SPORTSMANSHIP, bople of America differ from the | has been proven, the Springfield Re- | doubting “whether a new A 5o ty exp To an out (g it looks very much | this one. as though one commissioner was t ing to “get” a certain officer toward whom he has not hidden his ani- mosity. ive le of any other land. Perhaps | Publican, is because the people of America | One architecturally chaste and impos- L from so many other lands, be- | ing should be built,” offers the follow- | “Shadow Lawn seems to fill the | te persons want to ow ok Evidently this one was not included in the police civil service curriculum. During recent revolver practice at | 8et. headduarters one policeman who had | under by the American vote. made a poor showing was cheered up Those who have traveled much in by a brother officer who explained | the United States during the past two e they take the best traditions of | In8: LB aces, put them together in the | bill, and if priv S e t melting pot, and cling tenacious- | ¢hip in and buy it for the government The safety comumissioners should at least try and consistent. At the recent meeting” Commissioner Moran, discussing the appointment of a man to be the city electrician’s assistant, was reminded that it would be hard to find a man who would care to take the Job at the price sugested, which was $2.42 per day for the first year. The commissioner remarked that he thought it possible inasmuch as the | man would have the powerful incen- tive of wWorking with the possibility before him that in time he would suc- cecd to the city electrician’s position, And then within a few minutes Mr. Tt 1stramored Moran and Mr. Steele voted ta ap- 3 point Michael Butler, a man in the ranks of the fire department, to a captainey over the heads of two licu- fenants. Consistent? What is th incentive for these licutenants to work for promotion naw? What will be the | - cffect in the department? el And in this connection the civil ser- vice as applied to the police and firc departments gets another jolt. It will| opportunity ‘hat presents them be remembered that when the first !y sporting chanes 1o make sood police appointments were made the i » ) position not given to the men whao stood the highest, hut were picked. History has repeated itself. Butler is undoubtedly a good fire- man and this is no criticism of him, | canent i b the best Very true. must have | considering. has favor. csprit uniforn form i Another officer was asked why when he had an unruly prisoner, he never charged him in court with iwhen the vanquished salutes the The hand-spiige after the lest is the prettiest bit of sentiment merican life. prious. re- paragraphers have flendish political opponents of President called forth the ghost John A. McCall and had it stalk o'er Shadow Lawn; cartoonists cartooned the Hartford Courant called mimicked it v case 1 fore he grunted } i | every walk in America there is | japlified that trait” of the New | 1d, generosity. It s seen at col- | athletic contests, amateur and | it; ical debates,—even at prize fights, | tain” for it; mimics P that fire department | “eur- company ¥ w No. 4 4 compa ot o company com) A Lesson For Pollticians, (Advertising News). At last it has dawned on the minds of managers of political campaigns that the least expensive and most ef- ey | in the moonlight of its complete vin- dication. There are no Shadow Lawn! What shadows there Illection 1oty bena paid, the loser Rrclousl ai oo That All May Be Equal. Post.) need shadows on ra mow (Boston i F: 3Irvan, too, sees 0! re- imaginings of Mr. Bryan, t , See for re ER here form in the system of electing a presi- dent for one man to receive a popular plurality while somebody else gets the office throt This paradox has happened twice With the recent gecident af the Vo- High school in mind it would nertinent to why every possible safety deviee azainst gotting | were dispelled eational under which it is possible | impear as! | of dawn came forth to ! cheery greeting for the sunshine that | November 8. defeated eleven ot s machinery is iy electgral votes. the Whereas Mr. into the dis and followed Wednesday, Recently it | | In the dignified college debate, | Shadow Lawn, well may you be pur- atter what the verdict of the | chased and es, the rival | fis before leaving T Wourth of Tuly committee of | made a | of the most T mmit- conjunetion ament commit- Loard for an “hall be celebra- for presented to the Na wd after | the chamber of commere White detractors stepped Government . as a Summer House, if all forth, and, in pentence, debaters shake recommendat worthy vast good . the stage. 1In | thy civil servi per 1lso ha longer ¥ kot fir department M riation of $1 cal contests, whether they be of this their hour of re- e L 50 even and bought national chipped in” magnificent equity. . state, or importance defeated candidate usually lates the man who won. who e than 200 that with 91 por chaste and service your To start the collection, we propose the Hon. John Bohannon, former con- for Fourth alsn Tuly, and ring summer the eclelra ricipal one and would cent whose average next “ight ere are many whilom supporters harles of Stamford, who in'an address be- IMifth Ward of this city told his enchanted hearers that after the seventh day of Nov fall thick Come forth, Evans Hughes who are now skeda rope uld « quickly Txpansion as the creation | B s T hirs not followe: re the Iepublican Clut that “manif destiny™ was seen 1t wuse he has not followed | fore the publican Club L to deliver electoral votes in close dis- g iway with having to to be a hollow thing Sihsctistions St s et tricts rather than because of states- & ary public amusec- | of a “white man’s countr 'stopped Millions of ddllars would ments. at the Pacific and the energy which poured into certain #otal 5 had gone into ploneering was turned States and high offices put in pledgs. the | back on making Amerfca a better [0r campaign purposes—and right vear's | countiy for the people who live in it, there is scen the reason why big poli- dclay, is about fo hegin active work | None of the encrgy has been lost, and , ticians love the present system on the construction of the Monroe | it has as much explosive potentiality Substitute an adding machine for street bridze. An order has heen as cver, but just now it is turned into : the electoral college! Total up all | suedfor the e eminently neaceful channels and is Votes actually cast for each candidate ment miuch more concerned with domestic Then the one getting the matters than with questions of nation- ' Most votes! That's common sense Make the ballot of a voter in one trafiic police- | a] prestige. middle-azed To a great part of the most Amer- State exactly equal in value to the seed” species | jean of Americans It never occurs to Vote of any other voter in any other )y to him and where th ask what foreigners think of our for- State—just equal, no more and ng Hea™ might he ‘How lone | cign policy: if it is good for America . 1€ The Constitution declares for mnd com:?" In- |t js good enough; this may argue = equality in all men. But on the recent o distance conld Lo | provineialism, but certainly not weak- election day, the vote of a man in vrely in the |y n1d perhaps the true provin- Massachusetts was not equal in value o “hick” famih dvised arolihasct P ottal e man in New Hampshire. and get ion of America from abroad. To Pennsylvania was not th she moved out of hear- | at the map is to see the political . cqual in value of a vote in California. ing distance the man hoarsly Whis- | strength of President Wilson's ap- | Why not ke one man’s ballot the pered to the policeman, “Say €oN-| peal to “America first.” l equal of any other man s [American spirit and sent hi cie julatio: to been con- for thes: wlice de T manship. still be President Wilson who the in the although official | vet All the S and potentates of the world have — Gy sent their cablegrams of con- The Hartford Courant chides ulations and Mr. Hughes still | New Journal-Courier I SO Phe only kind of taing his reticence silence Mr. sglected Mr. i i neglectod BRTONE Mr. | golls anything—prin emphasis upon | Hughes Tuesday night when the Wwhole | of political parties what not—is 100 the the kind that appeals to the intelli cent. sence and good-sense of the peopl : tising that is pleasing to lonl e dvertising that is P read. the ad conquered the wilderne but , ) nadgoonauans selected because of a supposed ability ¢ the kind of advertising which he em- | parfment and as would he con a | populax neces the ider conceded winner ber the shadows would and the ploys so successfully in his business. and at another time low The advertising is gets it due to the fact that politicians are not good salesmen; they haven't learned the advertising lesson, which is to present a case wi'hout the use of abusive, sarcastic, flippant or ‘smart” words proper, elections on Shadow Lawn. crude man t is fast newspaper John, and take up the collection! ratifying to hoard of puhl It s lTearn that nol 5 after a compiled. % e Unless the reader nas MOESE seum of Natural History and Art at | New Britain Institute ne will be un- able to properly appreciate what an important thing it is the city that | Without doubt, the iment of this musecum is one of civie things that the city has had in time, and it fills a long neecded vacancy in public needs. Without go- ing into detail, it might bhe stated that | the valuable olitical | lection of voliti- | South Sea T visited Mu- the Haven because 2 e o and for complaint now states that hes laid so much being 100 per cent does not explain why Mr, V " tabl 3 Naian O R IR wdvertising establis cangratulate s e nmentg: iples or I One of tells truthful one. A e our thi the . nmen . American, 100 prove gentleman itself country thought was some o a0t and per elected.” The Courant offers 1 nekod the real explanation when it shows its edged u Judge t “pust lidate he should useum contains genuine | ind im aric hird and mention the pric nda to Before mpaign per cent. true b S y g0 that and By sportsman sful | service is Hughes leaves him- | New York papers severe artford. “The electric telegraph has ta : t Hartford PR NAS ] ced effectively in advertising copy. | of Miithu Burritt and his own beaten the freight train,” it They should employ intelligent ad- |scripts. And Curator Schurr, who is Mr. Wilson probably got his| vertising men to prepare their copy. [a most entertaining and courteous how than reader national the the ] vintings, relics comes around to torget that doing so Mr. e open to criticism ke who hold to the little courtesies merican life. which come into 18 ought ¢ opin- to that of a Jook A vote in cinlg cannot he | not to = less lihrax Sl the manu- | ceamps, As again says. And yet it is not so