New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1916, Page 8

'NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, rRIDAY, DECEMBER I, 1916. Britain . Herald. “HERALD rUBL G COMPANY. Prop RETI “uuaa daily (Sutiddylexcepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Church Su | Bntered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Olass Mail Matter. -)Dluvared by carrier to any part of the city Aor 15 cents a weelk, 650 a month. KSubscriptions for vaper to be sent by mail, payable In advance. 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year. iThe only profifable advertising medium in the cit: Circulation books and press room, ¥e open to advertisers. The Heral found on sale at Hota- 2nd 9 and Broad- 4 Walk, At- and Hamrora Depot. 1§ LE TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office Editorial Room OLDER BOYS. There is serious work ahead for the delegates to the Older Boys’ Con— terence which opens here today. The American boy and the problems that gurround him are topics of intérest to he entire nation. That Connecticut has taken the lead in bringing its plder boys together once every year o discuss the various features of boy ife is a source of gratification to all hose who reside wizhih this jgom- onwealth. i the smé{o ve ollowedsuit; g‘t it it gam be sl;n What great good is 115! onferencdy such as itness g the n ot be I THE by will lays it will e $¥ch things will b in opddr aff over the country. _The peopls of the city and state 11l watch with intereSt. what takes e at these meetings: of the older of Connecticut., If there are hose who fully realize the joy of liv- he they must be the boys who have feppedy @t of their knickerbock- = gnnea the garb« of their EFE. 7 there are those who ap- reciate what it'méans to stand on the reshold of @’good and clean man- ood then they are these youngsters ho have been saved from the pit- lls and temptations that enshroud he unfortunates. Because of this pey will do all in their power to make br & better and a brighter boyhood .others. We have great faith in these older boys can do when ey get together in serious confer- ce. Any suggestions coming from em should be worthv ones. AMERICA AND PEACE. Talk of peace in Burope must al- hys be taken for what it is worth. y -statement supposed to emanate pm the capitals of the various bel- erent nations and having to do with oposed peacde plan®'always, when alyzed, cn%fl,l €ome, phrase that es on the aSpect 6{%‘11 joker in the k.” Evei™~Emperor William’s tel- ram of"ggngratulation sent to Chan- llor von Bethmann-Hollweg on the ter's sixtieth birthday contained e of these phrases that augurs ainst an immediate peace. Asking ine Providence for an end of “this provy time of trouble” the Kalser pulates “a final victorious end.” On e other side there is also a desire for final victorious end.” It can be without the aid of high power isses that when both sides ’,f’ a ikle are holding out stubbornly for finak victorious end” the end is not in sight. Some one must be dis- [pointed. Terms of peace cannot be dily agreed upon when the ends ght are so great. in his speech In the Reichstag on b day of the Kaiser's greetings, the perable chancellor made a remark- fle analysis and presentation of the ktructive forces that keep the war g. Stating that the Germans are dy to end the war by a peace guar- eeing the future of the empire, he jnarked that “Our enemies do not desire peace. They have superior mbers at thelr command, and al- st the whole world delivers war terial to them.” In that indict- ot America looms to mind. Al- igh America has taken mo part in war, has not aligned itself with p side or the other, it is one of the gest firms in that part of “world which “delivers war ma- al to them.” For this it has been indly condemned abroad. Its peo- have been decried as mercenary, clous, as worshippers of the al- hty dollar, children of mammon. le Burope fights to the death, erica grows fat and wealthy. And “when we come down to bed-roclk, erica had nothing to do with the ng about of the war. At the Aning of the terrible. slaughter ca was taken off its feet. It was prepared for a disruption of its e relations, it did not want to see things come about, it had noth- f to do with the conditions thrust it and the world. But it.. did the power to smooth over the Jhulent waters that rocked its com- fal, financial and business enter- es and it Jost 4o time in doing so. any of it8 Wrosperity came about ough bloodshed on Eudope, Ameri- accepted it As'inevitable. was only yesterday that this ' ghout the problem, . great nation paused in 1ia way and of- , fered solemn thanksgiving for all the | blessings that have been bestowed. It 1t rejoiced because of the prosperity it has realized through blood spilled | on European battlefields. "Instead, it | poured out its sympathy o the strick- en people of other lands upon whom cruel war has fallen., It sent its of- ferings to alleviate the‘ suffering that has been brought about by other forces outside of America. If it ceuld, it would end the war today. Tt would have ended it yesterday. But America 1s powerless. It cannot bring about the end of this war until the two sides to the struggle lay aside the idea of “a final victorious end,” and realize that both sides to a quarrel cannot be victorious. In the years to , come America’s position may be bet- ter realized by the people of Hurope, of whatever nationality. They will know that in this hour of misery on earth America’s heart beats with the quick pulse of sympathy for all. | America enjoying peace shudders at the curse of war and all its horror. It grieves for the unfortunates. THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTERS, Of the seventeen million votes, ap- proximately, cast at the national elec- tlons, it is doubiful if any of them carried more weight and significance than the little handful, fifty-six, that placed New Hampshire in the Demo- cratic column. The carrying of any state ;by such a small margin is al- togéther too uncomfortable; but the official count made on Wednesday places the figures at fifty-six votes for a Democratic plurality whereas the unofficial count gave the state to Wil- son by sixty-three. A difference of seven votes is not a very great error. That staid old New Hampshire, with its grey granite hills, should overturn all precedent and give a Democratic plurality, even of fifty-six, 1s something that will astound the en- tire nation. True, it possesses but four votes in the electoral college. But by joining hands with the vast &nd glorfous West the Granite State administered the final blow to New York, hitherto looked upon as the very heart and soul of America. New York! If New York did not cast its votes for a presidential candidate and deliver unto him its forty-five electoral votes that candidate was doomed. Now York! It had to be New York or nothing. That 15 why the citizens of New York went to bed on the night of November 7 of this year and dreamed the dreams of the satisfled. It had cast its votes for Hughes elected. New Hampshire? =~ Why wait for New Hampshire, a mere little waif among the states, a possessor of a paltry Hughes, ergo, was, | would have been untrue to itself had FAOTS AND FA S. Down in Chicago a diet squad will try to tell the people how to live on forty cents per day. After the fast is over, they will probably go out to dinner.—Milwaukee News. The latgst 75-year-old bridegroon: “marfiage of old folks is getting it of the times.” Fudge! as old as old age itself.— 'vening Sun. P Somebody has discovered that 1 cost $7,000 to discover America. Sev- en thousand dollars wouldn't carry an ordinary precinct 'nowadays.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. ¥ < RN, Indianapolis has discovered within her bounds a young woman born in Germany who did not hear of the world war ungil Saturday.; A good many persons will envy her; most of us have heard far more of jt than is to our liking.—New- York Sun. Not only is Mr. Bryan gone, but the trail to the point at which he disappeared has been obliterated.— Topeka Capital. / 3 New York must feel hétpedestal tottering. She is getting worried lest Hoboken and Jersey City grab some of the glory of her “port of New York.”"—Paterson grsss Guardian. o2 Undoubtedly, life can be sustained in Chicago, on 39 cents a day, but is it worth the price.—New York Sun. The farmers are now counting their profits instead of counting their chick- ens before they are hatched.—Louis- ville Post. Only incurable opthinists, the young and men of short memories, take seriously the promise of a kingdom of Poland by the central powers with- out consent of the allies, with whom they are at' war.—New York World. LITTLE WILD BABY. (Margaret Thomson Janvier). Through the flerce fever I nursed him and then he said I was the woman—J!—that he would wed; He sent a boat with men for his own white priest, And he gave my father horses, and made a feast, I am his wife; if he has forgotten me I will not live for scorning eyes to see. (Little wild baby, that knowest not where thou art going, Lie still! lle stilll Thy mother will de the rowing), Three moons ago—it was but three moons ago— He took his gun, and started across the snow; For the river was frozen, the that still goes down Every day, as I watch it ,to find the town, The town whose name I caught from his sleeping lips, A place of many people and ships. (Little wild baby, that knowest where thou are going, Lie still! lie still! Thy mother will do the rowing). river many not little sum of four electoral votes? New Hampshire? Indeed. What did New Hampshire amount to? And yet, in the end, New Hampshire, had more influence with its four little votes than did New York, the mighty, ‘| with its forty-five. It is a great lesson to all the voters of the country, this winning of New Hampshire by fifty-six votes. It shows that every vote cast at an election It shows the power of each and every individual vote. It is a les- son to the stay-at-homes, the folk who take no interest in the welfare of their country. It is an example to men of all parties. New Hamp- shire could have gone fifty-six votes the other way just as easily as it cast fifty-six votes for the Democrats. It could have been won by one vote just as readily as it could by fifty-six. More than that it is a lesson to the smaller states of the Union. They are just as important as the great and mighty New York. The Empire state cannot swing an election unless the other states are aligned with it. In the future the leaders of both realize the truth and then shall come the great awaken- ing,—the voters of Walla Walla, ‘Washington, are just as important as the voters of Wall Street, New York. counts. parties will August A, Busch, of St. Louis, per- haps the most famous brewer in this country, in noting tMat “the =rowth of prohibition is due to law-breaking saloons” urges ‘“co-operation by brew- ers with state authorities to put out of business every saloonkeeper who does not obey the excise law: If that very thing had beef advocated years ago there would” not now be the nationwide movement toward a dry United States. The people of the land who, have watched the violation of the excise laws time and time again, wha have seen intoxicants sold to minors, of both sexes, who have seen confirmed drunkards dragged further down the ladder, are the ones who willingly vote for the abolition of brewerles and distilleries. In doing so they do not necessarily hold an an- tipathy against the legal distribution of these beverages, or their use in moderation. = If the suggestion of Mr. Busch is followed rigidly, saloons be abolished and the service the bar in I to that town am going to search the place, ‘With his little white son in my arms, till I see his face. Only once shall I need to look in his eyes, To see if his soul, as I knew it, or dies. If it Hves, we live, and if it is dead we die, And the soul of my baby will never ask me why. (Little wild baby, that knowest not where thou are going, Lie still! 1fe still! Thy mother will do the rowing). lives I have asked about the river; one an- swered mae, That after the town it goes to find the sea; It he is happy without me, 80 best. I will take his baby, and go away to my rest. (Iittle wild baby, that knowest not where thou are going, Lie still! e still! Thy mother will do the rowing. The river flows swiftly, dark and deep; Little wild baby, lie still! lie still, and sleep). so best, the sea is Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway, by E. P. Gladding. “A book of timely interest and in- forming to the real or fireside travel- er. The first hundred pages are de- woted to a description of trips through California; the rest of the book to a faithful account of the trip eastward to New York by way of the Lincoln Highway.”"—A. L. A. Booklist. Ant Communities and How They Are Governed, by H. C. McCodk. “One of the best known and most authoritative books on the subject.” Publisher’s notice. . . Bernard Shaw, the Man and the Mask, by Richard Burton. [ From the Deep Woods to Civilization, by C. A. Eastman. “Begins where the Indian boyhood ended, when the writer, a Sioux boy of fifteen, left his wild life to enter mission school. It continues through his years at Beloit and Dartmouth, his graduation in medicine, and his sub- sequent work for the government and among his people.”—A. L. A. Ronl\-i list, | PR restricted to guests at tables, the public sentiment may be moulded alang different lines. Mr. Busch, if should know somethlnx N,Y anyone, Note Book, by | Leaves From a Field J. H. Morgan. { “Dramatic, often humorous, recit- als in story form of the everyday in- cldents and heroisms of life in the L4 trenches, the “mnoficiagl outcome™ of and Combination Blouses of Georgette Crepe and Pussy white and flesh. effects, pockets, belted models, at $10.98 each, with large pockets, at $14.98 each. for men and women. ton and fiber silks, in a large variety, 49c to $3.48 cach. designs for the holidays, 50c, 59c $8.50, $10.00, $10.98 to $12.50 Each. Bags, el each. $1.25, $1.65 each. tall wool silk and e U COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK | Average Woman, | world. 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Cham- ition of the planetesimal and its relation to the origin of the carth, a theory which originated with Professors Cham- berlin and Moulton of the University of Chicago.”—A. L. A. Booklist. Plays, Fourth Strindberg. » Series, by August . » Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. by E. J. Banks. “An interesting and untechnical de- scription by the field director of the recent Babylonian Expedition of the University of Chicago.” L. A. Booklist. Fiction. W. Dane Bank. trimmer in a by “The storv of a hat Tondon factory who rises in the The author has a gift of sym- There is genius in this novel.” News. pathy- —Book Cupid in Oilskins, by J. J. Bell, PR Helen, by-Ay B Havdm, ., | urday night, December 9. LEST Y ou FORGET THE BIG STORE’S ANNIVERSARY SALE comes to a close Sat- Those holding free somenir coupons must exchange them for free souvenirs on or beMSatu lay, DecemBer 9. == 8 L@a oyland & ~ Entire Sixth Floor of the Big Stort! Ev erythmg to make the youngsters happy. 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Booklist. diplomatic | short Cut, by “A romance of the describing ranch life, the sandy des ert, the rugged mountains and reckless primeval people who work out their destinles there.”’—Publish- er's notice. Jackson Gregory. modern W .. Turtles of Tasman, by Jack London. .o | Trufflers, by Samuel Merwin. “A truffler is one who goes after the delicacies of life. He misses the highest mission of man—to be of use to other men. The novel stands forth from among our many new stories as a real achlevement.”—Book News. Serbs Trying | 1 Loved City of Homeland to Regain Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.—Con- cerning Prilep, toward which the vic- torfous Serbians and their allies are pressing after having retaken Monas- tir from the Germans and Bulgarian the National Geographic society i sues the following geography bulletin: “Situated at the head of the Pela- gonian plain, twenty-five miles north- cast of Monastir—a long six hours’ journey over a rough road before mil- itary necessities brought about an im- provement of the highway—Prilep, also called Perlepe, is an important strategic point whose capture by the Serbians would be a material step in the retaking of their homeland. “Circling the town to the north and east are the rocky Babuna hills, and over these to the north lies the city of Uskup, some forty miles dis “Prilep’s value from a standpoint is due largely to the 3 that in this railroadless country even indifferently good dirt roads are ree, and at this point five import- highways converge. The most important of these, of course, leads to the southwest to Monastir, across the Pelagonian plain; another strikes war, ashevo. high up amonz | fifteen miles away; a third s a stony and meandering north- course to Kostove, a_ town situated at the source of the Vardar river; the fourth mounts the Babuna range of hills and leads to Koprili, about thirty miles to the northeast, a station on the Salontki-Uskup rail- way; the fifth strikes east and then northeast to Rosoman, following the bed of the Rajec torrent, a tributary of the Cerna river. “Prilep i r Serbian peasants for around it cluster countless stories of one of the nation’s most popular legendary supermen—— Marko Kralievitch, otherwise Kins's Son Marko. “The ruins of the Castle of King's dear to the hearts of all Son Marko overlook the town, and if the visitor proves to be a sympa- thetic auditor the guide will no doubt which strew the approach to the stronghold, the indelible hoofprints of the master's favorite steed Sharatz. And if you should happen to be in Prilep on the anniversary of Marko's festival or ‘slava’ you can prove to ‘our own satisfaction whether there is any truth in the widely credited peasant legend that at midnight the | doors of the castle chapel burst open and the hero, fully armed, rides in on his piebald charger, although the { Marko of the flesh has been dead for | 500 years. “In an Serbian balled called ‘Marko’s Judgment’ there is recited | this prophecy: Kral (King) Vuka { hine, Marko's father, whose chief for- ed city was Prilep, speaks first, ‘Son Marko, may God slay thee! Thou shalt have neither monument nor pos- terity; and ere they spirit leaves thy body the Turkish Sultan thou shalt scrve.’ Then speaks the r, Ste- | phen Dushan; ‘Friend 0, may | God help thee! Bright be thy face | in the Senate; sharp thy sword in bat- tle. Never shall hero surpass thee. And they name shall be remembered | so long as sun and moon endure.’ “And here, according to peasant | folklore, i how that prophecy was fulfilled: Upon the death of Vukas- i hine, Lazar Greblianovitch, Count of Sirmium, was elected Crar. Bitterly disappointed at the failure of his own candidacy, Marko threatened the lifs of Lagar and was forthwith deprived of his flef. Penniless and disheart- ened, Marko turned to the court of the hated Sultan and enlisted in his army to fight the Moslems of Asia Minor. (It should be remembered that it was no disgrace for a Serbian to | fight with the Turks provided the op- posing forces werc other Turks, for a Turk less, in whatever cause slain, Was a blessing in the eyes of the Ser- bians). old i | widely point out to him, in the slabs of rock 1 {and | “In time, however, Marls mand was brought west ‘o against the orthodox Prin Roumans. Loyal to his Mohammedsn | sovereign when he came *ffipon tho field of battle, Marko's heart failed him when he saw the men of his own faith drawn up against him, and fac+ ing the dilemna of choosing between | proving out, ‘Oh God, do thou this day destroy all those who fight against | Christendom, and foremost Markos { Saying which, he threw his body on the Christian spears and died without striking a blow. “Typifying the love in whieh ko is still held by the Serbians ! related that some years® ago j torfeal play was announced for { duction in little theater in grade. As upon all eneh. occasions, the place was crowded. The *plag,, at variance with the custom, | presented Marko in a most craved | role. There were no hisses or hoots, but a painful, bitter silence spread over the audience as the story pro- gressed, the people evidently hoping for & turn of events toward the close, Ma it is hig- pro- Bel- i { | | | but as the last curtain fell and Marko moment re-% some magnifi- and. self-sacri< of of the had not in the final | deemed himself with cent deed of courage fice, the mighty hea one adoring peasant group, volcing the emotions of all, gave vent to a des pairing sob, and cried out, ‘Marko is Not a traitor.” Such is home city to regain from Bulgars and the whose striving of the'y idol are now hand rm &5 the G Unreclaimed wpire. Leader.) these days of short crops and rm products it is in- teresting to read that very high au- thorities calculate the area of swamp¥v® lands in the United States, which can be drained and made available for agriculture at not less than 75,000,000 acres. Once dried out these lands would need no more expensive culti- vation. as a rule, than other farms, their average productiveness would doubtless be excellent. Swampy lands in many cases are exceedingl rich and lack nothing but rellef from excessive water. To value rightly the importance of such drainage work it is only neces- sary to know that the swamps which can be made fit for crops contain twice as many acres as are now de- voted to cotton, and if used for corn they would add seventy-two per cent, An (Cleveland In high prices for 'to the acrecage now required for that foremost of American cereals. Tt is beyond dispute that really adequate and comprehensive improvement of lands subject to inundation or exces- sive moisture might add at least ten per cent. to the volume of six or seven of the most important crops grown in the United States. Here is work worthy ot powers of the national government and the states. It will pay richly in the long run and it is needed more and more as the population of the country increases and its open spaces the best are filled up. ¥