New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1916, Page 6

‘NEW’ BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1916. " New Britain~ Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING Proprietors. COMPANY. (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Building. 67 Church St. ntered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Pelivored by carrier to any part of the eity for 15 cents a week, 65c a month. Bubscriptions for vaper to be sent by mail, pavable in advance. 60 cents a montk, $7.00 a year. he only profitable advertising medium in the city: room alwayz open to advertisers. e Herald will be found on sale at Hota- | ling's News Stand. 42pd St. and Broad- way, New York Clty; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE Business Office .. . Bditorial Rooms . ALLS. W ..925 ..928 THE NEW THANKSGIVING. During a period of almost three jundred years, or since Colonial Days, e American people have had some- hing for which they could be truly bhankful. Always there have been freat periods that stood out over and bove all others when Thanksgiving | nought when he and | This was noticeably so after | committee as due. Then President Lin- he winning of Independence. gain 1864 In established the regularity of pro- aiming Thanksgiving there huse, in this section of the country least, for being’thankful. Eventual- it worked out that the entire na- pn was thankful that a terrible crisis 8d been met and passed over. Now this day we have more reason than er to be thankful, pt at war or embroiled in when was in the Eu- ppean struggle, thankful we are en- ving properity in the miidst of dis- fter. To this end, Thanksgiving in P16 takes on a different aspect. In- ead of the customary rejoicing and erry-making for the mere sake of leasure and festivity the President of e United States would have the lerican ' people devote the last ursday in November to ought and meditation, and to the al- iating of suffering abroad by donat- g whatever contributions that can afforded. In all the cities in the | hd there prospect that this | ought will be the prevailing one | tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. is solemn ! i | | Circulation books and rress thankful we are | ‘stilutiun as they have in demands placed upon the hospital, de- mands that grow apace with the city itself, President Hart points out the need of greater appropriations from the state and city. These appropria- tions have remained at a fixed sum during the past six years while during that period the work of the hospital has more than doubled. Were it not for the aid extended by the manufacturers of New Britain and philanthropically inclined citizens the achievements at the General Hospital | would be greatly hampered. As it is, the sum of $10,000 was paild out for enlarging the plant and this money had to be borrowed from the banks. It was necessary to remodel and | equip three buildings to take care of the patients who entered the hospital. These buildings will be of permanent | value. Requirements of the state medical board call for other improve- ments that must be installed in the very near Tuture. President Hart need have no fear that his hopes will be dashed to the executive trust ‘“that the philan- thropic citizens of New Britain will feel disposed to stand behind the in- the past The people of this city realize the good work that has been and is being done at the General Hospital. They are fully aware of the incessant toil and cares of the good women who administer to the sick and the dying. They know of the efforts of physicians and surgeons to make this hosppital the equal of any in the state. They | realize the corporeal works of mercy done, and they will not see retro- gression set in where progress is de- manded. The people of the city will not forget the hospital and its needs, as the hospital stands the hour of tribulation. ever ready in | | cleser together. A MARKET BY MAIL, Department of Agriculture and Post Office officials in discussing the high cost of living have agreed to ask Congress for an extensive investiga- tion of the subject with a view to | using the parcel post as a means of bringing the consumer and producer The idea is not al- In all the churches of the land | together a new one. When the parcel ere will rvices will be | at which offerings lcen up for the various charities of le country and in some cases, fol- ng the suggestion of the Presi- nt, for war stricken Europe. ganizations that devote themselves the relief of the poor and suffer- will hold to the letter and the | irit of the President’s proclamation | d America wilf do its part in heal- | i’ the wounds that will never be Iy closed until the passing of great | e. Half a century of Thanksgiv- | ks have gone by since the first one | national importance, that | e when the Thanksgiving was con- | ed primarily within our own land, d then within only a portion of it. the years grew apace and the rious sections of the country came since jck from the shadows into the sun- ine the Thanksgiving overflowed h and every portion of the states. | saries. Thanksgiving | tWo great departments of the govern- this occasion the be special ’l‘hanksgiving‘ post was first put into effect there whose inhabitants established trade relations direct with the farmers, and butter, cheese, eggs and dressed poultry found their way from the farm to city homes through the mails In order that this method of buying may be revived the Agri- cultural and Post Office men have de- cided upon three general propositions: First, they would reduce the postage on foodstuffs so that farmers may market their products by mail. Second, enlarge the service cities to rural communities where a specialty is made of food products. Third, in- crease the size of the foodstuffs basket parcel from ffty to one hundred pounds. It is the belief amonsg those who are studying the question that the middle- were many cities from man and not the farmer is the cause for the present high prices of neces- Because of this the officials of jows no national line, stops not at | ment would give the people a weapon shore line of the Atlantic or that the Pacific, neither does it halt at middleman head. mat- ta hold over the It would be a comparatively easy e boundaries of Canada or the bor- | ter to get in touch with some farmers of Mexico. nerou the over lines of d breathes a spirit of good will to | Whatever | © men of all nations. Instead, it carries the | and make arrangements to have but- irit of the American peo- | ter, eggs, and the various by-products demarkation | of milk sent by parcel post. If the shipping baskeis are allowed to carry > hundred pounds of - these food- il other nations are supposed to | Stuffs at a reduction in postage rates nk of this broad lds no petty hates or dislikes. pathy of the OWS no enemy. America, land The American peopl | And so we give part of our time | [d good fortune in thinking of others d in materially helping them shake | the' problem. the problem will be greatly simplified. Something must be done to protect ! the people of the country against con- | spiracies in the manipulation of food prices and the session of the Congress which convenes next week must tackle Congressional action the sorrows that oppress them. In | will do more than anything else to al- contrast that naturally comes to | leviate the present condition. fore after just why we should be thankful, such meditation we ! Speaker believes which of the House Champ Clark a bill shauld be introduced iy we should set aside one day in | would prohibit the interstate shipment fs year above all others to thank | of young animals for slaughter. divine Providence for the gracious | whol bestowed. | they have a chance to reach maturity nefits and blessings ere are no, clouds hanging over E nation. Starvation k through the land. does pg lines of men camping in (he‘method of living in America. Miseryifarms have been neglected for the nches, fodder for cannon. d death for millions of homes have resting place on American door- | lights of Broadwa pS. The country is not fllled with | Broadways in the citi phans, made fatherless by the rav- , the nation Instead, the | youth of the country that is very al- of the war god. fture is a bright one for America. ; luring. € head /of the average family here sit down her tomorrow with the smiling not | There are no | trouble goes back to the present day to his Thanksgiving | The ale destruction of calves before is one reason for the high cost of beef. In the end however the whole The glddy life of the city. The electric and all the little s and towns of have an appeal to the As a consequence they for- sake the farm, they refuse to till the soll when they can sow oats, wild and | otherwise, in the fields of amusement. €8s of his loved ones beaming upon i Tt is too lonesome back on the farm B from every angle of the board, | and, as a result, therc is a dearth of len as it must be with the choic- | farm labor. When the exodus from viands of the Land of Prosperity. | the cities to the farm lands becomes ere are indeed many things for dich to be thankful. L THE PEOPLE'S jn the annual tain Hospital, other part of fesident Geo: HOSPITAL. the appears Herald today, New in report of which the lowth of the institution, and its needs i will get their revenge on a Because of the heavy public, the future. e P. Hart calls atten- | m to the remarkable work accom- | Ished during the past year, to the as great as the eszion from the | farm to the city then may we hope for | a complete solution of a very vexa- tious problem. In the meantime the plan advocated by the Department of Agriculture the Post Office offi- cials may lighten the burden. pro and Some of the eggs boycotted Chicago may escape from cold storag in in.a vear or so and then the dealer spiteful FACTS AND FANCIES. “Millionaire” used to be a title, but now it is generally an epithet—Gal- veston News. \ This is the week in which Massa- chusetts deer and hunters get shot.— Connecticut Western News. Billy Sunday having remarked “I've cut out slang since coming to Boston,” the audience sald “Good night.”— Meriden Journal. We are waiting to read what John M. Parker says in his after-election message to Roosevelt. It ought to be rich.—Indiana Times. The saloons can't close, because the Unitel States government needs the $325,000,000 of internal revenue. Wa must be loyal as taxpayers.—Brooklyn Bagle. The men who sell on the street pamphlets entitled “How to Become an American Citizen,” should get out with a companion booklet telling how much good it does you to be one 0o for sale to people about to take passage on liners bound for the submarine zone—Don Marquis in New York Evening Sun. Another Hyphenated Tale. Miss Five-Feet-Three bewails her lot, Because, forsooth, she thinks For Six-Feet-Two all seats made— The selfish little minx! are Suppose that she were Six-Feet-Two, And her lover was Five-Feet-Three, And she sat on his lap when the lights were low— Oh! where would the poor boy be? If Five-Feet-Three were Six-Feet-Two And sat in a cross-seat car, She’d soon find out that her . of limb ‘Was s-much too long—by far. length Tf seated at table Miss Five-Feet- Three Should grow to Six-Feet-Two, She’'d find that storing her feet and legs Would give her something to do. Now, if in a berth of ship or train Rides little Five-Feet-Three, At least she can stretch and in com- fort sleep, But Six-Feet-Two, can he? In attic or cellar when it is dark, With rafters and pipes forgot, There Six-Feet-Two gets a crack on the bean, While Five-Feet-Three does not. In many a tight Five-Feet- Three Can go with comfort and ease, ‘While Six-Feet-Two, poor son-of-a- gun Must follow on his knees. place If Five-Feet-Three were Six-Feet- Two or only a single day, gamble a cookie change To Five-Feet-Three to stay. R. M. M. in the New York Times. ra she’d gladly Mr., Ford as an Alcoholic. (New York Evening Sun) Nobody would think of him in just that light, but if we discard the doc- tors’ specialized use of this substan- tive and consider it simply as mean- ing a man devoted to the use of alco- hol, - without imputing any personal saturation with the destroyer, we may fairly think of him as such. For Mr. Ford declares that alcohol is soon to supplant gasolene on the farm and highways, indeed, it may be that it will displace love as well as gasolene, and “rule the court, - the camp ‘the grove.” There is not much which alcohol will not do to a man, in the ancient usage, and nobody should have the hardihood to say it cannot do as much and more for man as a fuel as it has done to man merely as a species of kindling. Indeed, Mr. Ford has no doub: has been studying the practicability of using alcohol for farm tractors for the past cighteen months, and that is a long time for Mr. Ford to devote ex- clusively to any single subject, even such an important one as a new fuel. He says that Sir Boverton Redwood, official petroleum adviser of the Brit- ish government and leading expert, has glven warning that the world's supply of petroleum will be exhausted in twenty-five vears. Long before that time the price of gasolene will have risen far out of reach as mo- tor fuel. Alcohol, says Mr. Ford, works better than gasolene, is clean- er and more powerful. It can he manufactured very cheaply, some- times for ten cents a gallon, and there is an unlimited supply, because it is producible from so many differ- ent forms of vegetation The point about all this is that Mr. Ford may be right; he has frequently been right in mechanics. He has been very wrong in politics, but there is no particular reason why he should not be right in chemistry, if he stud- ies his subject. The Silver Lining, (Paterson Call.) mother was injured in a motor car accident lately and a few days afterward her little boy sald: “Mamma, T am glad you were hurt.” “Why," exclaimed his mother. Recau, he replied, ‘now you are always home when I get 'back from school.” A Riverside Humorous. “Marcella?” “Ye “Where is the milk?" “Right there is the bottle.” “This one-" “No, the next one. like you.” “What i “To reach right over the sweet one and pick the sour one. You always do that.” “Not always.” “T'd like to know when you didn't “When I got you.” “Huh “When 1 hed over lemons and pic “Oh, Waverly! Waverly—— That is Jjust vou, Marcella, whole bunch ced a peach.” —Exchange. 1 of got res He | tality LEE HOUSE ONCE A PRISON. James Shepard Calls Attention to an Interesting Incident in Early Days of New Britain. The notice of the old Lee house in the Herald of Nov. 25 under “Town Topics,” reminds me of the following early military history of New Britain, Stephen Lee, the first of that name in this place, was captain of a Farm- ington train band. In 1740 a com- pany was formed, mainly by New Britain men; Jonathan Lewis being captain and John Patterson, lieuten- ant. The latter was afterwards made captain and served in the French and Indian war at various times from 1755 to 1762. He was the father of General John Patterson of Revolu- tionary fame. General Patterson married a daughter of Captain Joslah Lee. She was a first cousin of Col. Isaac. Captain Josiah Lee was a son of Captain Stephen and an uncle of Isaac the owner of the Lee mansion. Joslah Lee commanded a company in the Sixth Regiment for service at Fort William Henry in 1757, in the French and Indian war and again command- ed a company from March to August in 1758. No doubt Col. Isaac Lee saw his uncle Josiah, and other New Britain men, depart from here for service in that war, The Rev. John Sayre of Fairfield, a church of England misslonary, was a prisoner of war under confine- ment for about seven months, at the house of Col. Tsaac Lee. He was sent here by the governor and coun- cil as a Tory. In July 1777, the church wardens and others of Falr- field, petitioned the general assem- bly for his release and return under bonds for his good behavior. The petition was granted. After his re- lease he wrote as follows: “I was at length banished (upon the false and malicious pretense of my being an enemy to the good of my country), to a place called New Britain, in Farmington, about 60 or 70 miles from Fairfield, where I was entirely unknown, except to one poor man, the inhabitants differing from me both in religion and political prin- ciples. However the family in which I lived showed me such marks of kindness as they could, and I was trcated with civility by the neigh- bors." THE CAUSES OF DEATH. Three Uppermost,—Heart Disease, Tuberculosis, and Pneumonia— safety t Campaign Effective. An interesting fact in the summary of mortality statistics for 1915 issued today By the Census Bureau is that in the area where reports are reg- istered and complication can be made nearly one-third of the deaths were due to threce causes, heart disease: tuberculosis and pneumonia, Those wise counsellors who that we are living too fast mag find support in this summary, Heart dis- which considered in many a manifestation of the severity of the struggle to get rich, to keep up appearanc to burn the candle at both ends, are placed first as a cause of death. Tast vear the deaths from these diseases numbered 156.2 to each 109.000 of population. This rate shaws a marked increase as compared with 1900, when it w v 123.1 to the same number of persons. It is cheering to the progress made in the prevention of tu- berculosis has brought good results. The recognition of the contagious character of the disease, the conse- quent isolation and th» employment of the open air treatment have all had a part in the decline of the death rate. This has been twenty-five per cént, in the last ten years, Pneu- monia, too, has shown a marked de- cline in the same period. The rate, however, has fiuctuated from year to vear, being much higher in 1915 than 1914, which was the lowest on record. The only remaining death rate higher than one hundred in 100,000 population was that of Bright's dis- ease and acute nephritis, The mor- from these causes has been increasing since 1900. The same is true of cancer, the sixth in order of deadliness. In this century only two vears have shown a decline in this disease as compared with the years immediately preceding. Epidemics have not for several vears exacted a, heavy toll upon our population. One of the gratifying ngs in the report is the marked de- cline of the mortality rate from ty- phoid fever. The decline, in fact, is greater than that shown by any other important cause of death. Improved methods of sanitation, better systems of water supply and sewerage, and mpaigns against files are factors which are cited as proving valuable in reducing almost two-thirds the death rate of this disease in the fifteen years of this centu The safet: borne good insist eases are cases first campaign Thas ruit. There has been a considerable reduction in fatalities due to railway, strect car, mine and machinery accidents. The number of deaths from automobile accidents has increased, but the increase has not been so rapid as in the number of machines in use, The census shows fact that last year firearms caused nearly as many deaths as railroads and street cars combined and more than twice as ma as automobiles, Out of 11,216 cases of suicide reported fircarms were used in more than one- third, Tirearms caused almost 5,000 other deaths. Tt is evident from this report that there has been a lowering in the death rate of the country. This, no doubt, is due to the doctors, an in- ing interest in sanitation and health and better methods of -con- serving lives in dangerons occupa- tions, But if the United States is to make a really sat showing in mortality statistics apparently should limit the use of firearms, and heeding the advice of the sages, stop living too fast. the astonishing “After the Transcript understands, authority, that the in. Bawl. The Boston excellent awl will be exclusively a re- -of the Teutoni Pride of German People [ Munich, the Magnificent, | D. C., Nov. 29.—Mu- nich, the third city in the German empire, which recently received its, baptism of bombs at the hands of a French aviator, is described in the following bulletin issued by the Na- tional Geographic society: “The great railroad station at Mu- nich which the French war office re- ports was hit by bombs dropped by a captain of the French aviation corps, is the heart of a great network | of lines which connect the Bavariarn capital with all parts of Burope. Sit- uated in a plain on the River Isar, the city is 200 miles in an airline east | of the Alsatian border of France, and | about forty miles north of the Tyrol- | ean frontier of Austria. Its latitude corresponds to that of St. John's, Newfoundland, but owing to its prox- imity to the Alps (twenty-five miles to the south) its climate is extremely variable. “In point of population Munich is} exceeded only by Berlin and Hamburg among German cities. With 596,000 inhabitants it was somewhat larger than Cleveland and smaller than Bos- ton in 1910, but it is highly probable that this number has been appre- Qjably decreased since the war be- gan, just as in the case of Berlin, which had 2,071,000 people in 1910 but which had only 1,826,000 on Feb- ruary 1, 1916, according to official figures. “In physical aspects Munich is one of the most impressive of modern ci- ties. TIts royal palaces, its magni- flcent national theater, its great royal library containing 1,100,000 volumes and 50,000 rare manuscripts; its broad thoroughfares, particularly the Ludwigstrasse and Maximilianstrasse, bordered by the great office buildings of the Bavarian government, and its famous university, which ranks first among the German institutions of learning in the number of its medical students and second only to Berlin in the number of udents of all classes—all these and many other buildings and institutions make the municipality one of the chief prides people. “Most of the modern improvements and practically all of its architectural splendor Munich owes to Louis I and his art-loving successors. Louis came to the throne in 1825 and ruled for more than twenty years. One of the impressive monuments of his reign is the beautiful Propylaea, modeled af- Washington, ! here. ter the gate to the Athenian acropolis, and the relief’s which decorate this structure quite fittingly tell the story of Greece’s war of independence and the events transpiring in that king- dom during the eventful relgn of King Otho I, Louis’ son who was elected to the throne of Greece in 1832 but was finally expelled after thirty vears. Another beautiful Munich gateway is the Siegestor Gate of Victory), mod- eled after the Arch of Constantine in Rome. “The commercial life of Munich is scarcely less interesting than its ar- tistic side. In America the name of the city is indelibly associated with its most important article of export, beer. 1In sclentific circles Munich's optical and mathematical instruments have a world-wide reputation while the art of lithography had its birth More than 100 miles of canals thread the city in all directions. “Munich owes its beginning to Duke Henry the Lion who in 1158 es- tablished a mint here and built a bridge across the Isar in order that he might the more easily levy a toll on the salt obtained from the springs of Reichenhall and neighboring vil- lages. The city occuples the site of the ancient monastery of Tegernsee, hence its name (munichen, the monk). TIn 1327 the place was al- most completely destroyed by fire, but it was soon rebuilt by Emperor Louts, the Bavarian, in the form which it retained up to the accession | of Louis T in the 19th century. |" «America has had a share In the beautification of Munich for it was Benjamin Thompson, a nattve of Wo- ! burn, Mass., who laid out the magnifi- cent park of 600 acres known as the English Garden. For his many ser- vices to the Bavarian government the American scientist and administrator Was made a count of the Holy Roman | empire and he chose as his title the | name of Rumford, after the little New Hampshire village, (the modern ! Concord), where he had spent his | boyhood. 1t was Thompson who, up- on clearing the streets of Munich of more than 2,500 mendicants and housing them In an institution where they became self-sustaining said: “To make vicious and abandoned people happy it has generally been supposed | necessary first to make them virtuous. | But why not reverse this order? Why { not make them first happy and then virtuous,’ . GREAT ND FLOUR. hly Milled Flour Loses Nutritive Quality, periments Show. (New York Sun.) occasions The Sun has benefi - raging in WAR THE On several pointed out certain cent results of the war now Europe as cvidence >f the fact famine, disease and war are among the evolutionary forces that have de- termined the rise of mankind from the primordial cell to its present high development. It is reported that Walter Runci- man, president of the Board of Trade of London, will present to parliament a measure providing for the compul- sory replacement of white flour and forbidding fancy cakes and pastry in Great Britain. If such a law becomes effective the resulting benefit of the English people and by their example to all other peoples will be incalculable. Mr. Runciman’s proposal has a sound basis in physiological facts. The mechanical devices supplied in the modern milling processes are ex- tremely efficient in separating the va- rious parts of the wheat kernel, which consist of the germ, the bran and the endosperm, the starchy part. Of the latter alone consists the white flour which is now in common use by rea- son of the erroneous assumption that its whitenes stifies to its purity. The milier suffers no loss by separat- ing these parts of the wheat. Indeed, he gains materially through the bet- ter preserving quality of the flour, and he sells the carefully separated outer part of the wheat kernel as food for animals. The consumer, on the contrary, being influenced by gesthetic preferences, suffers great Joss in nutritive quality of made from fine flour- Recent researches by Teller in the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have shown that the discard- ed portion of the grain contains sev- en-eighths of the phosphoric and eloven-fourteenths of the potash and iime contents of the grain, and thus robs the latter of some valuable food constituents, especially in the endo- sperm, which is rich in starch cells. Moreover, as The Sun has hitherto pointed out, there exists in highly n:illed flour a deficlency of certain es- zentlal food elements which have been designated as vitamines. These vitamines alwo are constitu- ents of the outer layers of the wheat kernel, as has ben verified in the ‘Iygienic Laboratory at Washington, where it was shown that wheat flour made by the old fashioned process still uséd to some extent in the south contained 1.012 per cent. of phos- phorus, an important index of food value, while the highly milled flour contained only 0.114 per cent. of phos- phorus. Moreover, pigeons fed ex- clusively on bread made from the wvhole wheat flour remained healthy, while others fed witr breaw from the highly milied flonr sickened, became paralyzed and some of them died. This simple experiment alone must demonstrate to the lay reader the certain loss of nutritive quality in the highly milled fiour. Disregard of the aosthetic requirements for white flour furnish bread of better quality, expensive and more nutritious. Pgaysiologis have long been insisting unon this faet, but custom has coun- teracted their teachings. It is to be hoped that Mr. Runci- man's war regulition for bread mak- ing will nvercome a custom which based only on aesthetic conslderations and from which arises great loss to the public. probable will 1es that | bread | | mestic and international. The Mexican Situation, (New Haven Journal-Coureir.) The Mexican and American com- rissioners have reached an agree- ment as to the relations of the two | republics. It 1is understood that ( President Wilson has already ex- pressed to the American commission- ers his approval of thelr work which makes the acquiescence of General Carranza alone necessary.. We are not yet prepared to share in the { gloomy view taken of his probable action, for the responsibility of re- ting an agreement which conserves the pride of both countries would be | too heavy for even him to bear. General Carranza for some reason { which it has been difficult to under- , stand, has never viewed in its right | light the attitude President Wilson | has taken towards Mexico from the | first. He appears to Have been labor- ing under a suspicion on our motives and to almost justify the suspicion on our part that he has been ad- vised by parties solely interested in intervention. We are not wilfully oc- cupylng Mexican territory with Amer- ican soldiers. We are perfectly will- ing to withdraw our troops under General Pershing if the provisional government will protect American towns on the border from bandit at- tacks. We must reserve the right to protect the border if the provisional government cannot or will not do so, and to pursue the marauding Landits into Mexico If that becomes neces- sary. This is what the joint com- mission has agreed to and it is what General Carranza must accept take the full consequences, That he will accept we are strongly inclined to belleve. The situation is not what it was before the election. { Mexico with all the rest of the world was watching to see whether the ad- ministration in power was to be re- pudiated with all. of its policies, do- Now that it has been endorsed by a very large popular plurality the world knows just what this country means. What Makes a University. (Philadelphia Inguirer) We have heard a good deal in the last few days about the troubles with our educational institutions. Some think they are too rich, some think that they are ruled by ignoble inter- ests, by men who are intellectually bound, and others say we should change our system for that of Ger- many. . All this discussion seems rather puerile. There are only two things which make a college or university— teachers and students. Any school in the world can be of the best if the student wishes it. No equipment, however large, is of any value where the student is not minded to work hard. First and last, any student gets out of college life just as much as he puts into it. The trouble is that in these days too few young men are minded to put much into their col- lege life. A Palmetto State Veteran's Thrilling Feat. (From the McCormick Messenger.) Mr. George Banks, a Confederate veteran, 81 years of age, a splendid soldler of Company C, Seventeenth South Carolina Regiment, now living in this county, a good husband and a good citizen, a good farmer, a good fisherman and a fine shot. He killed sixteen snakes at one shot one day last weel.. or | McMILLAN’S Busy Big “Always Reliable.” New Britain’s Store— STORE OPEN THIS EVENING Closed All Day Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) D. McMiLLAN 199-201-2083 MAIN STREET. FAILURE OF TARS, High Cost of Living May Lead To Action by Congress Which Wi Curtain Their Power and Authority, (New York World). Food can be monopolized in this country only through the agencies of interstate commerce. The whole ques- tion therefore falls under the consti- tutional power of congress, which is subject to no limitations, In this as in many other respects the states have failed adequately to assert their authorily, and the pross pect is that the matter will presently be taken out of their hands. The railroad problem must be ac cepted as exclusively a national affair, partly because the states have intro- duced too many differing systems of control and partly because in the last analysis they do not possess the pow- er to deal comprehensively with the¥, subject. So far as food is concerned. the states might have met the issue; but the fact that forestallers have in- creased in numbers and strength fast- er than local laws and enengies proves that here again no true remedy is to be expected. It was against some such comings s these that Blihu voiced a solemn warning ten ago. soon short- Root vears the earnestness I possess that there is brt one way in which the states of the Union can maintain their power and authority, and that way is by an awakening on the part of the States to a realization of their own dutles to the country.” There has been no awakening. Prac- tically every monopoly or conspiracy. in restraint of trade against which complaint has been made gained head- way in the beginning by subduing some state. From that vantage- ground the conquesl of whole sec- tions and in some cases of the whole nation was carried ou. ' To profit in a few ways from the operations of ar vast industry, citles and Common- wealths have licensed and defended the most rapacious business organiza- tions that the world has ever known. The system of warehousing and market control thus built up has now become too formidable for any state to master, If restricted in one place it transfers its chief activities to an- other. National regulation and in- spection, have resulted in much great evils of monopoly tion are still without may be depended upon States break down in emergencies of this kind because they have no rcalizatior: of their duties to the coun- try at large. They do not control. They are controlled. Instead of ex- posing and punishi wrong-doing, | they encourage it inst the cals of other localities they are always in arms, For their own rascals they sometimes have chidings, but punishments. When in the exercise of its consti- tutional rights Congress comes to ad- dress itself, as it soon must, to the question of transportation, it should} not fail to meet the related problem of a nation’s food supply monopolized or cornered. That body alone has thc power to deal with the forces which, defying or corrupting cities and states, are levying upon 100,000,000 of people taxes much heavier than any govern- ment of their own asgess. T good, but the and extor- that a check rarely My Way. Mayhap it stretches very far, Mayhap it winds from star to star; Mayhap through worlds as yet formed Its never-ending journey runs Through worlds that now are whirl- ing wraiths Of formless mists between the suns; 1 go—beyond my widest ken, I shall not pass this way again. un- So, as I go, and cannot stay, And never more pass by this way, I hope to sow the way with deeds Whose seed shall bloom like Maytime meads, And flood my words That thrill the day like singing birds; That other travelers following on May find a gleam and not a gloom, May find their path a pleasant way A trail of music and of bloom. —Sam Walter Foss, onward path with Well Trained. (Buffalo Express.) “Subster is a perfect husband.” “I never heard he was so wonder= ful. Well, every time he sees a mail- box he feels in bis pockets.” A Mean One. (Brooklyn Eagle.) Roosevelt is not going to the slands. Too many I's there al- ready? Col. “I desire to press upon you with all * specjally in sanitary affairs, ¢