New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1916, Page 6

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"The ay in the councils will remain with ! fail. things other memories the when all making complish some- | zuidance and ' ¥ are men in want to do things, & thir With the prop without ostentatious show of grown-up authcrity the hoys will automatically The men ! work to the proper line. aiding them in their and are acting in the guise than prefects. companions rather As u result great good will be obtained £: not om such conferences, geod that will this but in| The boys of the men of the future. be manifest in day i future gcnc are ons v fathers HI. PROFOSED Under the of the | > Constitution of the United States | BARGO. | | | | commerce clause vested with power to | to foreign s Congress i nations | i justeas it can place certain restrictions | the regulate exports upon commerce among several | Be- | cause of this power it is proposed that | the short session convenes next | week an embargo be placed on food- | Any such attempt will lead to | intgresting debate that | filled gource of information ever given the | tes and with the Indian tribes. n stuf(s. an and one should be with the greatest various | ¥ be a special com- | all the | data, a temporary commis- | tion on the conditions of it Therc nt crops ma i Uy ed to obtain £ to | »n with powers somewhat similar those exercised by the interstate com- l which would | have to report back to Congr | mer commission and The high cost of living has set Lhei American people in search of a | out of their difficultics. An embargo on | s hs | f the first foodstuf < been advanced by many | as one measures of relief. | It ent been intimated that the of »rmous shipments that has pres- | the price wheat is due to 50 abroad that the people herc are | use higher prices can | As with wheat, | The which should find their way to Amer- be 50 obtained abroad with other crops. foodstuffs fean tables before the surplus supply | sent to appease other appetites are 4 to be shipped directly out of the | ccuntry, thus causing an abnormal de- | 1d and a short supply. If this con- on is found to be a reality and not ; n a myth then there will be some excuse an If on the contrary | for embargo. have | 1t that Foarded up the nation's food supply in | = speculators found great warehouses and the advance in prices then the em- bargo will be out of order. To many mind 'g0 on foodstuffs will bring about > panacea proclaimed for it. Econ- omic theories have a way of being de- molished in the face of practical con- is that ditions. we are exporting more than our surplus sup- | The The se must be determined before foodstuffs, condition facts in ply of might the Ry ‘embargo is radical in the extreme. It would tional life. farmers be the reverse. radical action is taken and an It would react first on the who would necessarily cut down their crops because of a smaller throw of em- Such a reduc- market 1 thus out ployme f falling many men. tion supply would in itself prevent off of the whateve any prices. From the angle is viewed, it is an interesting one and food t the mere contemplation fraught with all Aimed primar- affords much for thought. Cer- tain it is tha of embary gorts of possibilities an ily to aid the people of the nation Drawn folk his providing foodstuffs for com- it might boomer: to it work of act alleviate the 18 a g. suffering of city might hamper the farmer in munities unfitted for such production. of at of following a plow. Eurely no tiller the soil tills for the mere del Therc be rcasonable return and when crops cease to pay, farmers 3¢ a T in [ make are waiting for | it is a mooted question if an em- | tend to upset our entire nav; question | i will cease to produce. Prices lowered | below a certain level because would tend to age planting in the future. of the things to be place limited market cou { arc but few con- | sidered in the to foodstuffs. proposal an embargo on THE GRAND INQUISITOR. the As there is in scheme of gov- ernment at Washington an Attorney- Genceral so there should be an Inquisi- the United State to the I'r vear : tor-General of hs before March Lest anyone sten advance suggestion the dent’s in- thus | steal a march we hereby for the in the Cabinet the Oracle Bay. augural in next d nominate new position Oyster nobler, no greater, no s the United States today the Colonel. He has just completed, ' unofficially, a Jjudicial inquiry into the recent national eclection, impanel- himself as jury and presiding the inquest as judge. His ver- of There is no ander inquisi in than ling over dict is rendered in the current number It is to the ef- people, up of strain of humanity somewhat akin of The Metropolitan. fect that the the most - American for part, are made a to He fears United It the Colonel pa Hap- there were some who did not hit which exists in China of compliment that for States. ation the high his fellow citizens. the China is a pily, the sawdust trail, who did not vote for Wilson, who remained elegant to They | the last and held qut for Hughes and IRoosevelt. But for these there is no telling w might eventually nation. The Colonel in his inquisition finds that the result of the election is more easy to explain than it had been to foretoll. He exple hap- pen to the Then he goes on to explain. ins that the people of the nation were too busy to delve into the gsreat problems that beset them on all sides and so they to the appeal that “He kept us out of war,” and that we The “average s the responded were prosperou did not po: ‘vision” to disregard such an appeal, says the Colonel. man" It would have been to the credit of the “average man” if he had disregarded “but the fact that aid disregard it merely means that we were not able to this appeal, he not the issue clear to his eyes.” Otherwise, thinks the Colonel, the “average man” would not have re- mained “‘morally obtuse.” of the incomparable That is a terrible indictment but the cast at “the people” whom the | believe “average man' to slander Colonel tend to look at such crimes as the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania as anal- ogous to disasters such as earthquakes and fires, that eet catastrophies should properly excite a dis but which do not call for ympathy, | sympathy, | any action that would jeopardize the comfort and well-being of those not immediately people attitude, concerned.” Insofar our permanently preserve this. says the Colonel, they tend to the Chinese level. the Colonel will steadily And then goes further and shows how the Hughes candidacy torpedoed and why. Hear him: “Moreover, there v ing of the issues be three years of Mr. Wilson's term the leaders among his nominal party op- ponents cither feared to criticise him at all, or else split, half of them as- sailing him because on some ven policy he had gone too far and the other half because he had not gone far enough. “When a public man who had for three years praised each of Mr. Wil- son’s acts separately, turned around and during the campaign condemned them all collectively, he did not carry conviction. Nor was_it possible to exert the full opposition rength gainst him when the leadership for three years had been such that until the campaign opened it was not pos- sible to foretell exactly what ground the opposition would asked to take The ceding a real blurs 1se for the first G be graph immediately all the pars has pre- of conscience earmarks an examination someone’s | and the medita ion thercaiter. In a | flourish of rhetoric the Colonel very | skillfully hides of the | “public man” who had for three years the identity Wilson's public round and con- | demnea them collectively. Surely it was not the Colonel who did this. Was | it Mr. Hughes? * Was it Mr. Taft? | There is no answer. The Colonel re- | fuses to tell. What he how Mr. Hughes was defeated; vet he tell that He | fails to mention the Old Guard of the | praised each of Mr. acts and then turned s does tell is | does not completely. | Republican party that was repudiated ih,\' the ves and how those i Progressives refused to let the Colonel and George W. Perkins lead | back into the fold to the mys Progress them ic music of rustling leaves from a check book. | The “average man” was not “morally when that | fact, under- j estimates what we could call the perceptivity” of the “average It is two-edged. That is why llhr- Coloncl is not as effective in this | day he Still, we highly recommend him as the In- al of the United States. 1 Mr. of he saw the | obtuse” through Jinr 5 | trick. In Colonel “moral | man.’ as was some time ago. quisitor-Gene Hughes will re- sume the law. He will | probably get along without the aid of Galonel Roossvelt On January practice —— | “wWhno NEW BRITAIN DAI D FANCIES. de Milo was explaining her misfortune. *“The allies made us hand over all our arms,” she said.—Phila- delphia North American. If coal and wood go much higher it will presently be less expensive to go riding In the automobile than to sit by the family fireside.—Buffalo Com- merclal. Venus With baseballs and golf clubs to go up something like half, sport next vear will have to pay Its share of the | increased cost of living.—Springfield | Republican. ‘here is no danger of this country placing an embargo upon food stuffs. If necessary, we must share our cru with the needy people of the world.— New Haven Journal-Courier. In reading Colonel Roosevelt's sertation on the defeat of Mr. Hug we have a suspicion that he stopped dictation at the end of each para- graph to give three cheers—New York World. Our distinguished friends of nu- merous, and in some instances disin- terested, peace movements may be able to bring the warring nations to concord as soon as they have settled their own quarrels.—New York Sun. Stoughton Cooley puts it nicely when he says in the Public: “A large part of the republican press engaged in a campaign of vilification that will require years to live down. It saw red, talked bhlack, acted vellow, and feels blue."—Newark News As the Sun Set. (Harold Begbie in Kansas City Star). The sun was falling off to sleep Upon his clouded bed; You seemed to see him blink his eyes And nod his weary head; He turned the heathered hill to gold And all the pines to red. A lark was singing in the sky; You heard it, far away, With bleatings of the folded flock And hum of insects play, And all those gentle sounds- that lull The slumber of a day. But in the glory and the peace That clothed the flaming heath, One sad and piteous sound heard— A little sobbing breath, Where, wounded, under fronds A rabbit bled to death. was bracken “Brother,” him the great sun called, “With every day that dies Ten million things that love the light Close evermore their ey You are but one that will not see Tomorrow’s dawn arise.” to ““Monarch,” replied the dying thing, “Humble I am, I know, But T have loved this heathered Where now my blood doth flow; I feel that it were sad to stay, And that 'tis to go.” hiln 1 knows but you may live gain kindly thousht d: and great sun on that with sobs To vex my glorious bed. If he who wounded you shall live—" He ceased-—the thing was dead. The Chink ceaso Down sank the sun; a silver dusk Swift o’er the heather stole, Veil after veil that night let fall, And silence came nursing in arms little furry soul her A 1AN IW PRUS ms to the Cre sal States. (From the Montreal Star) Prof. Gilbert Murray has hit upon the obvious policy of the Prussian im- perial party in his statement that what they seek is not so much terr torial annexations as the creation of vassal states. The Germans are clev- er enough to know that annexations of territory, peopled by foreign races, are cxceedingly dubious and often dangerous operations. The nation that trics too much of it is liable to dic of indigestion. That is the fatal sickness in Austria. But it s quite a different proposition to leave nefghboring states nominally free, but really in lage to the Prussian king. That was—as he remark: icy of Austria toward Servia. Aus- tria tried annexation of Bosnia; and it caused her great internal trouble and finally brought her into this war. Vassalage would be much more com- fortable and might he made almost as profitable. The German chancel- lor has said that he does not propose the annexation of Belgium, but does desire that Belgium shall not be- come a British or Irench outpost. That is, what he wants is practical vassalage to Germany. The new trun- cated kingdom of Poland is to be an- other. vassal of the east. Berlin is likewise talking of a vassal kingdom of Lithuania. These two vassal king- doms are to fence off the legitimate revenge of Russia. The whole Bal- kans are to be so many vassal king- doms—Servia, whipped and whimp- ering; Bulgarla, bought and paid for; Rumania, taught a heavy lesson: Greece, left with no choice. Turkey is to be a great vassal empire, tak- ing orders from Potsdam. The whole mightly combination will be the greatest power in history—if Ger’ many gets her greedy way. The Allies cannot accept any peace which even risks the creation of such a servile community of states. We must fight on until every “little na- i tion” is free to live out her own life and develop her legitimate destiny. THE POLICY. Which T tion of Vas- the pol- . A Bad Egg. (Springfield Republican.) While the Chicago health officials are looking for bad eggs among the “egg king's" cold storage collection of 72,000,000. Other officials might be looking up the king himself A possible specimen. 'I'l\r'rf‘ is some- thing suspicious about his pers eml bbbt e, | eration LY HERALD, ,‘j b'p’ic;j the | Towrir The discussion reviston school some sort sorship for considerable among chartey committee members of the | board's agitation regarding of a moving New Br commient, picture ain is causing | pro and con. In this connection it should not be overlooked that the wish of nm’ school board is not to pass censor- ship on the pictures to be viewed by . adults and older minors, but is simply | to have pictures censored that are to | be seen by children vears of age, thosc tic period of adolescence. a solution the members put. Many men of intelligence | throughout the city hold to the con- | viction that in numerous pictures that | are interesting and point a genuine | moral to the adult are some little | scene, quickly forgotten by the older | observer, that is suggestive enough in | its sexual imitations to remain in the young child’s mind as the salient part of that picture. It is admitted that things which deal with the forbidden | and hidden have strong attraction m{‘ the young child. People do not ltke to discuss it, but it is folly to deny it. Tt is human nature, and every human | being, unless he be out of the ordi- can see In his own memory that this Is so. Thus, the school board feels that the witnessing of such pictures perverts a child’s mind to a certain extent. But how to avoid it? Forbid the young children from seeing | these pictures is applicable insofar as it concerns the young ones who at- tend the shows alone. But how about the countless children who go with thelr parents? Can the school hoard | any other committec presume to | dictate to a parent to what entertain- | ments he shall take his child? If | any committee tried it the result | would certainly prove interesting. But it must be admitted that to a certain extent at least there may he some evil result from a child seeing certain pic- tures. No matter how small a fac- tor these pictures might be, If the result is not good it should be over- come. But how? Since it does not seem probable to hope for producers to omit all suggestive scenes which to an older person are harmless and often helpful, it would appear that the only hope the local committee would have would be to minimize the danger as much as possible by abso- | lutely enforcing the law prohibiting | cen- | ho are in the plas- Ana to find | will be hard or 1y minors from visiting shows unaccom- | panied by their elders. Safety Com- missioner H. M. Steele has commend- | ably pledged himself to try and malke | the theater policemen enforce this | law. But that would not be enough. A small fine now and then would have no great terror for some men. Therefore, it has been suggested that if a state law could be passed in this connection wherehy any theater man upon his third conviction for violat- ing this law should be sent to jail not giving the judge any option of | imposing a fine, the practice would | automatically stop. Strict measures | the only ones at will | law. Take for instance the “per prohibi 1 from loiter about h try to are enforce any saloon | ke who is to really why ? ing minors toon men w And Because they that if they violate it and tected it means they lose their Ili-| cense. Stern punishment, but effec- tive. So would be a law sending the- ater magnates to jail for repeated violations of the other law. s oxox know | are de With few the holidays wee it the Christmas ing her bundles coming on in a | not amiss to warn shopper about count- change, holding onto her and pocket book and other | little things that would e an effi- cient crook the opportunity to reap | a golden harvest. Chief of Police W. | J. Rawlings has done well to lIssue such a preliminary warning. In a | Christmas trading crowd a pickpocket would have an al place to ply his While it may be generally that clerks are honest, never- s they are human and subject to | Thus their brains may be alert and they are more apt to make error in counting change, so be sure to count your change, theret saving yourself and likewlse save | casting a cloud of suspiclon on some | honest clerk. | e is id This fall has been a wonderful one indeed, and onc that has been a true| God-send to many of the poorer people who would have suffered had they been campelled to burn much coal at present prices to keep warm. The mild weather on Thanksgiving | Day, s contr d to the cooler day a year ago and the decidedly cold! Thanksgiving two years ago, has given | many of the older people a chance to | talk about the good old days and from the trend of their conversation one might assume that in the old| days when they were children Thanks- giving days were generally accom- panied by blizzards, that the wind howled and the snow swirled down the ¢himney, making those of this gon- think that the seasons have changed materially. Records show that these ideas are wrong inasmuch as they refer to a usual heavy snow- fall Indications are however, that the season’s temperature has changed somewhat during the later years. Old records show that a heavy fall of snow at Thanksglving time was never | a common occurrence, although on numerous instances it has occurred Just as did the mild weather of this year. About thirty years ago therod was a deep snow on the ground at Thanksgiving time and the children enjoyed coasting on that day. About twenty years ago, too, there was a heavy owfall on Thanksgiving Da Street Commissioner William' Towers had gone to New York to spend the holida; but when he noticed the heavy fall of snow he hurried right back to New Britain and took charge of the work of Keeping tho strects But real snowfalls, other than have been few and far bhe- tween. The idea has evidently avisen from the fact that the old timers used to figure winter as setting in on Thanksgiving Day. Itis & fact though ! s, SATURDAY, DECEMBER ! following | ponds of sufficient thickness to permit | skating. | of circumstances | friendless. | Dav. | can | not | sufictently | American | ana { courts of general 2, 1910 {hat a number of years ago a Thanks- | ving Day without skating was a rare Sccasion. Many local people can re- call one particular Thanksgiving a ittle more than twenty-flve years ago when the day before was mild, vet ithe night grew so cold that by the day there was ice on the The old Lock Shop pand was a Mecca for skaters in those days and the ice there was in waves as it had frozen the previous night. . This Thanksgiving was the first in three years that football elevens rep- resenting the New Britain High school alumni and the Hartford High school under fourteen | ‘alumni have not played their annual , game, The first twa contests were staged at Trinity field, Hartford, and were ties. Last year Hartford won at Electric fleld. At the time it was thought that these alumni games would be permanent events each year, but it is now extremely unlikely that they will be revived, due, it is said by many graduates, to the apparent opposition of the school department management to any of the alumni tak- ing an active part in any schaol affairs. Last fall the New Britain team played a ‘ringer,” Percy Wen- dell, once a famous Harvard fullback, All fair minded members of the alumni of both schools deplored this act and as a result the New Britain High school alumni athletlc associa- tlon was formally organized with Senator George W. Klett as president. This board was to supervise all'alumni athletic activities and plans were in mind for other annuai contests, the proceeds from which would go to a fund which would be used for the pur- chase of a plot of ground to be pre- sented to the High school ag an ath- letfc fleld. Tast spring, however, Principal Slade of the HIgh school, supposedly acting on instructions from the superintendent of schools, refused to accept Dr. Frank Zwick as football coach after he had been hired by the athletic council, composed of faculty, alumni and High school members. The result of the contro- versy was that the council declined to recognize the arbitrary methods of the principal and superintendent and they in turn were summarily ousted. The inference was that alumni assist- ance was not wanted. Tt has not been given. e Thanksgiving at the Town farm a strangely pathetic affai The r agement of the institution provides the inmates with an excellent dinner, and vet to the eighty inmates who may be of sound mind and yet, through force may he compelled ta accept the city's charity, it must be a day for anything but thanksgiving. Certain it is that every inmate at the { institution at some previous year had a home of his own where, on Thanks- giving day he gathered around the dinner table with his loved ones. Yet today how different it is. He is an outast, a panper. In some cases this has been hrought about by the in- dividual's own indiscretfons and in others it has been brought ahout hy force of cimcumstances over which they may have had no control. But the fact remains that they are mostly ilone In the world and homeless, When, on Thanksgiving 1ceept the charity of their brothers is there not a as they look back over and think what used to might have been? * oo they fortur pang of regret the dead past he and what more ate The request of the Swedish-Amerl- Republican club that the clty court be given power to naturalize aliens is a matter that should be given the most careful consideration before any opinion is to be established. At a casual glance it would appear to be a natural and reasonable request, and possibly it is. The alien must now appear before the court in Hartford and bring his witnesses. This means the loss of his day’s and the ex- penses of his companions. To have the local court given the power to naturalize allens would be cheaper for the citizen-to-be. But here enters an- other element. American citizenship most priceless and sacred thing, a thing to be measured in terms of gold. Tt is not a matter of his convenience and If an alien is not interested in becoming an citizen to sacrifice his time some little money, if he does not think the benefits are worth it, then let him remain an alfen. Amerl- canism stands for samething higher and Americans want no such men in their ranks, But aslde from theso more personal opinfons on the matter there enters a legal question of whether or not the olty court can be given vower to naturalize aliens with- out a special act of Congress, Only Jjurisdiction have powers f naturalization, according to the United States act, and good legal opinton in this city indicates that no uperfor ccurt could give the city court the powers asked Tt is ex- tremely unlikely that the request of ihe Swedish-Americans, made in the best of faith, will be granted .. Generally the New Britain fire de- partment has what might be called a snap when the actual work at fires during a year is considered, but with- al, when they do have big fires they have them in bunches as has been the case this week. And when the critical moment arrives the local fire fighters are not found wanting. Equipped with the best of apparatus and men the department does its work in a manner deserving of much credit. That is when the de- pantment is generalized. Individually however, several suggestions might be made for the improvement of the de- partment and increased efficiency. This refers to the unnecessary shout- ing of officers and unwarranted back talk by the men. An efficlent officer should give his commands and en- force them, but in an unobtrusive manner. On the other hand, it is the duty of his inferiors in rank to obey his orders without question. Thelr is to do and the responsibility rests with the leade At one of the two big fires a certain company leader was half waylup a ladder superin- tending the taking down of a length of hose. As he did so he ordered a man just below him to stay where he was and then he remarked in a pay is a J 1’ Street Scenes in Saloniki; A Picture of Many Colors | Washington, D. C., Dec. 3.—A strik- | ing pleture of street life in Saloniki, Greece, is glven in a war geography | bulletin of the National Geographic | society, compiled from a communica- tion to the society from H. G. Dwight. | “Somebody had told me that Sa- loniki was rather like Genoa,” Mr. Dwight, “My therefore, was of a disappointing flat- ness not in the least comparable to ! the lofty air—the piled, bastioned, | heaven-scalling air—of the Ttaltan clty. Yet Saloniki scales heaven, too, | in her more discreet manner. “And there is even something Ttal- | fan about her. This is most palpable | on the broad quay of the water front, especially when a veritable row of fishermen from the Adriatic are dry- | ing nets or sails under the sea wall, | just as they do in Venice. The ores- | cent of white bulldings facing the blue bay would not look foreign in any Ri- mini or Spezzia. “The White Tower, which s the | most conspicuous of them ,might per- | fectly have been the work of an Ital- ian prince. Indeed, a Doge of Ven- ice is said to have built the first edi- tion of it, and Suleiman the Magnifi- cent employed Venetians for, his own. “A ‘splendid palace’ opens florld gates of hospitality there. A skat- ing rink and a oinematograph offer thelr own more exotic entertainments | to the passer-by. Cafes abound, over- flowing onto the awninged sidewalk. Electric trams clang back and forth in proud consciousness of the fact that they existed when fmperial Constanti- nople was yet Innocent of such mod- ernities. “These cars writes | first impression, | take you around the eastern horn of the bay to the trim white suburb of Kalamaria, where consuls and other notables of Salonikj live, and where Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid | IT spent nearly four bitter years in the Ttalian Villa Allattini, looking out | at the provincial capital which he and | Nero embellished in their day. On the | opposite horn of the crescent is the Latin-enough park of Besh Chinar— | Five Plane Trees—where it is good | to sip coffee and listen to music in the | cool of the day. “And if you did not know that greater prize and ornament of Salon- iki for Olympus, the true Thessalian | Olympus of Greek legend, you might easily imagine it to be some white | Alp or Apennine looming magnificent- ly across the bay. “Look a littel closer, however, and this Ttalian appearing town has un- familiar detafls. The white campan- ili that everywhere prick up above | the roofs of weathered red are too slender and too pointed for true bell towers. Then, as you land at the| quay you perceive that the electric | cars are labeled in strange alpha- | | sat at no caffe in | ples. bets. The cafes do not look quite e they should, either. § “As for the people in them, a good many would pass without question, Just such slight and trim young men in Italy would sit at little tables on the sidewalk. Just such young wom- en, rather pale and powdered as to complexion, rather dusky as to eyes and hair, would sit beside them. And vou hear a good deal of Ttalian. But you hear more of other and less fa- miliar languages. And those red fes- zes are a new note. So are those mors numerous hay-colored uniforms that my Itallan days. “A more striking note is afforded by numerous dignified old gentlemen | taking their ease in their bath-robes, 2 1t were, slit a little up the side and tled about the walst with a gay silk girdle. Over the bath-robe they usual- ly wear a long, open coat lined with yellow fur, which guards them from the cold in winter and in the sum- mer from heat. And none of them s without a string of beads, preferably | of amber, dangling from his hand and glving him something to play with. “Such an old gentleman should he accompanied by an old lady, whe contributes what is most charactefs- tic to the local color of Saloniki. The foundation of her costume is a petti- coat of some dark silk, and a whita bodice crossed below her throat—a very thin bodice, cut very low at the neck and palpably unstiffened by any such mail as western women arm themselves with. “Over this superstructure the old lady wears a dark satin bolero lined with fur and two striped silk aprods one before and one behind. The lat- ter is caught up on one side, some corner of it being apparently tucked into a mysterlous pocket. But the crown and glory of the old lady is her headdress—a sort of flat frame, tightly wound about with a stamped or embroidered handkerchief, and crowned with an oval gilt plaque get off by seed pearls. Whatever its col- or, this creation invariably ends in a fringed tail of dark green silk, also ornamented by a gilt plaque of seed pearls, hanging half way down the old lady's back. In this wonderful tatl she keeps her hair, of which you see not a scrap, unless at the tem- And about her throat she wears strings of more seed this decorative, this often | extremely handsome old lady, a mother in Israel. The old gentleman | in the gaberdine is her legitimate con- { sort, while many of the modernized | young people at the cafe tables are | their descendmnts—very many. A | dozen different estimates of the pop- ulation are given, varying according to | the race of the informant; but they all agree on the point that Salomiki contains not far from 150,000 people, and that more than half of them are Jews."” | strings and pearls. “She is, louder tone that there were enough down there to take care of it if they'd quit loafing around. Whereupon those “‘down there” were justly riled and although they did their work it was not without muttered replies to their superior officer. Little things like this are what mar any machine. To run smoothly there must be per- fect accord. The men must feel con- fidence in the leader and he in turn must know how to handle men. He must understand that he cannot be- little or abuse his men, but at the sama time must make them under- stand that what he says must be obeyed to the letter. ILeaders of men are born as jeaders. .o Christmas is now less than a month away and the time in which to do Christmas shopping is considerably less than that. Therefore it behooves the purchaser to ‘‘do his Christmas trading early.” This for seberal rea- sons. The early shoppers get a bet- ter assortment of goods to select from and by dolng their trading early the shoppers save the tired clerks much hard work during the last few days when they have to work night and day and are literally worked to death. It is also a great rellef to the clerks to have customers do their trading as early in the day as possible. Later in the day the clerks are tired and fretful, cannot give as good service and cannot be expected to be as oc- commodating. Then too, the elerk has regular houre for stopping work as do other workers, yet a crowd of late shoppers prevents this class public servants from being able cease when the right time arrives. .. By inducing the Bastern Motors company, a million dollar conoern, to locate in this city the chamber of commerce has accomplished some- thing that draws to the organization the praise of the entire olty. It should prove a business asset to the city that cannot be measured by dol- lars and cents. It means the infuslon of new blood in the city's industries. May the good work continue. .o Scores of the dabblers in the local stook market during the past week have been enjoying (?) all the thrills that is the lot of their more venture- gome brothers on the New York ex- of to change when the beare assume con- trol and put the bulls to route. In- cidentally, many of the local specu- lators have been sweating hlood dur- ing the drop that now seems to have ended. OH, THE JOY OF IT. You Have to Do the Week's ‘Washing to Really Know the Thrill it Brings. (Indignapolls News). 4 ride along the interurban cars on a fine Monday will show you line after line of snowy clothes fluttering in the breeze, and if you are a wom- on who has ever tried her hand at the washing game, vouwll envy the woman who has the bright afternoon suddenl; she has spent her morning so profit- } able. Did you ever pin freshly washed | clothes on a line out in the sunshine {and breeze? Clothes that you had washed with your own hands? You {haven’t? Well, you needn’'t say it | with such a scornful tilt to your nose, You're to be pitied more than envied, for you've missed one of the joys of being a woman. Maybe the real work of it, the scrubbing and boiling and rinsing part, couldn’t be called pure joy, but hanging the pieces up, clean and sweet and white, then standfhg back to view proudly the whole long row, ah! then you taste the glory of real achievement, and it gives a satls- faction that few achijevements give. It's such a worthy work, making the world a cleaner, more wholesome place, by beginning on yeur own solled raiment. { And it's a cure for a lot of ail- ments, too, washing is! It is partifu- larly beneficlal for that worst of all allments, the blues. |/ you rise with an unusually deep shade of blues some morning, make a good hot suds and tackle your shirtwalists or dotlies or curtains. By the time you've put a dozen pieces through the suds and taken the dirt out, you'll feel the blues fading out, and when they are all rinsed and hung up, and you stand back to gaze at them you'll feel like a different person. It gives you such & good working knowledge of how to tackle dirt—both physioal and spirit- ual dirt, At a long ago meeting, where brethren and sisters were called upon to tell their experfences, one good sister rose to tell of the joys of the Christian lfe and sald: “T1 tell you what real oconversion feels Hke. It feels just ke you do on a nice bright Monday when you've washed a nioce big washing and hung It on the line.” When she sat down, a less sancti- monious sister got up suddenly, lke a jack m the box, and piped up. “Yes, and I can tell you what it feels ke when you've had religion and then baoksHd. It feels just like when yow've washed a mloe big washing on a Monday and hung 'em up on the line, and the ilne breaks! There were some tittering from the back seats and frowns from the fremt seats. The tittering was from thoughtless boys and the frowns from sterh men. Nelther class une derstood the f{llustrations, but every women present understood them. The women knew the beatiftc mood following a washing well done, and they knew also the sickening sensa- tlon of seeing one's snowy gaArmen®y trailing in the mud. They were as good {llustrations as ever were given in a church, but they wouldn't mean anything to you, if yowve never done a washing. Reason for His Opinion. (Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Grubbs—What makes you so cer- tain the Gemans will not violate ther promises as to the conduct of sub- marine warfare? StubbsAll the war experis are cons before her to do as she pleases since vinced that they will.