New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1916, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY' HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1918. New Britain Herald. HERALD FUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Jasued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St. Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65c a month. Bubscriptions for vaper to be sent by mall, payable in advance. $7.00 a year. medium ress Whe only profitable advertising the city: Circulation books and room alwaye open to advertisers. The Ferald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office .. Editorial Rooms OF INTEREST TO ALL. Da old Tee Main street has stood on its bresent site. It stood before there was such a place as New Brit- Jeuin, street it is moment, Since Colonial the ouse on there wa be Main dreamed of; go. At the the structure has been turned to it there vas ever was ore and now phout last when to o« men who plan modern occupies, are preserve No S0 the ground it this want il on of tizens city They some of do. one thought thing long Lee house, the oldest structure he aroused, to Jit, ver them of such ps the n this part of the state, remained for wind and storm to demolish; but now t it is about to be done away with, here is a grand stampede toward its @lvation cla with the Lee historical standpoint, Burritt home, which is the sight of the popu- ace by a motley array of city dwell- 1t With all the ociations, that be- it should its In the same from hu from U an the thunted s is in an alley. the memories, ong ‘to the Burritt house, left to present task,—harboring some twelve fourteen families. Instead, it ould be the home of all the relics hnd mementoes of New Britain’s ear- fer d Its owner honored hile he lived, was mourned when he The city, the state, and even oreign nations joined in a great cele- when the ever have been perform pr was flica. pration upon occasion emory of Elihu Burritt was fresh in he minds of citizens hereabout. And fter that his home, the place where pe did so much for mankind, was al- owed to be boxed in by commercial one difices and lost to view. Jn a smaller way it is just as ig- oble to allow the Lee mansion and he Burritt house to go neglected as would have been to abandon Mount ernon fail to log or preserve the abin. where Abraham Lincoln was | orn, There is not a city in the union those people do not manifest interest n the preservation of all its historic New Britain should To this end, | woman who cherishes n his or her heart a love for the s that count, for the connecting ssociations. rove no Ve exception. man and hin inks between the past and the pres- but, should attend the public meeting yhich called for Monday L in the office of the Mayor. At hat time there will be considered the dvisability New Brit- the purpose of the old It is time for has been i of forming a Historical Society to preserve and-marks of the city. hin rhich will be pomething to be done. FOOD, Food problems are engaging the world, The undoubtedly hrought many of them about, and severe are in ntire war he most those coun- But been ries that are engaged in war, countries i ed in the maelstrom nonetheless, n B nd the shortage of meat has sent the prices bounding until the et an'example to the peopla he neutral have ing ha; y eck among ordering two meatless days every his household. In Ger- the scientists are at work trying o solve the problem, Professor Cohn- jheim of Hamburg going so far as to dvise the people to bolt their weekly of meat so that it will re- t digestion. pllowance In France a scientist, [Professor Kersting, takes the extreme opposite view and tells the people hat Iletcherizing is the thing. Such condition is unlikely to come about In this country unless we too get inta he war. But there will soon havé to e something done to lower the cost of foodstuffs and if meat goes much the people must other life-sustaining food B0 high. gher resort to SO ¢ not Our problem is not the food supply regulate the price We have abundance of food products, lenough ather nations besides so to is much ave as it 0 an to feed jour own; but we are not deriving the | benefit we should The hands on the from specu our over- ors have got main-spring ‘and operation of the law of supply and demand to suit themselves. By creating a fictitious scarcity Nupply their check the of foodstuffs they build up a false de- | gand and thus reap profits that are gsolutely illegitimate, The public, 80 cents a month, 4 not in a position to know the whole truth, is easily led to belleve there Is a scarcity of foad products when there is really an over-supply held in the great warehouses of the country. True, there might just as well be a dearth of food for all the good the public may glean. But if the makers of the nation tackle the prob- lem in the praper manner this con- dition will be done away witth. And it is time for prompt action. The President has now given his attention to it and in the near future the nation may realize relief from a burden placed on its shoulders by unscrupu- lous speculators. law- THE WHIRLIGIG OF DISRUPTION. With Bucharest, the capital of Ru- the Germans, and Pleschl, the important railroad junc- tion town, thirty-six miles northwest of Bucharest, taken by the same forces, renewed interest is manifest in the European Espectally this so in view of what is happening in English politics, with France very likely to experience a revolution of the same sort. The Asquith Ministry has been the victim of Tory intrigue and its overthrow was predicted some time ago. the near future remains to be seen. But the powerful Lord Northcliffe is back of David Lloyd George and he may be the man to pull British politics out of the mire. What with the capture of Bucharest and the tangle that obtains in London there must be great rejoicing in Berlin. If David Lloyd George is success- ful it will be one with a Unionist flavor. Further, he will demand a war council whose express duty it will be to press the war with more than it has hitherto been conducted from the British standpoint. That is the main trouble with Great Britain as it stands today. It is dissatisfled with the way the wheel of fortune has been turning. The famous old British pride is asserting.tself. Where once Great Britain thought it could go out on the fleld or sea of battle and sweep everything before it, manla, captured by war. is Just what will happen in in in forming a cabipet vigor there has come ireat Britain will be lucky if she is not returned the loser when the final count is made. With these thoughts 'consistently coming to the top of British minds the government is overturned. If the next government offers nothing better it too will suffer a like fate. an awakening. There is one thing in favor of David Lloyd George and that is he seems a real man of war when a nation fight- ing another nation needs a warrior at the Head of its ministry. The Asquith government did not press the people, did not seem to malke them realize a war was taking place with all the vigor that the war is being conducted. Otherwise there would be no slackers in the empire today. With Germany pressing through the Reich- stag a Man-Power Bill aimed to make available for work all able bodied men between the ages of eighteen and six- ty has seen the light and knows that the street-corner England orators and loafers must be sent to the front or put out of the way. Out of the whirligig of disruption there may come some sort of order. It costs maney and lots of it to run a government such as this one be- longing to Uncle Sam. The estimates submitted by the of the Treasury to Congress show that wh the fiscal year ends Jume 30, 1917, the government will be behind the game to the tune of $82,000,000, and when the next fiscal year ends, June 30, 1918, there will be an increase in the cost of government over the actual appropriatians made showing a deficit of some $282,500,000. brought about by Secretary n the great d for preparedness, The national fense is costing more money than was ever spent by the government in its entire existence. At the lagt session Congress imposed new taxes to meet the great costs of the various defense measures; but they will really prove adaquate. These taxes which nd de- not i have been in working order for some | time will be realized at the close of national business on June 30 of next The Secretary of the Treas- in his report estimates that the from these taxes will yield approximately $250,000,000, — extra The deficit for vear will be met out of year. ury returns revenue, this fiscal a large sur- plus saved by the treasury from last vear's operations. ensuing year means another taxation. When the Congress imposes this there more preparedness, Rumania is done for. capital, Bucharest, in With There will be no mania as in the c; for the former ympathy for ses of Itelgium and A country chose its own way with its eyes open no honor at stake. It could have re- mained out of the war. It went in to get whatever spoils might come its way. Instead, it reaped spoilation, This deficit is | The deficit for the | may be some let-up in the howl for | | Michigan. 151 Great sand hills have hee the hands of | for commercial reasons. Germany, it may expect little mercy. | portion of what remains of the in- [tu- | teresting section should be nreserved. have | | l | dcne pr i ver It haa | park and in 1V PACTS No matter how high his price may soar, the Thanksgiving day turkey will never be boy neisco Chronicle. Every married man would liké to have as many strange blondes chasing him when he is down town as his wife imagines he has.-—Luke McLuke. What has me of the old-fash- joned Thank ng dinner that was served in hotels ror fifty cents a plate? —Pittsfield New Boom towns soon go to pieces, gardless of whether the boomin done hy the real estate men or men directing the artiller Sst. Pioneer Press. the Paul It is proper to explain that the cold with which President Wilson is af- flicted was contracted before receipt of the message of congratulations from Mr. Hughes.—Kansas City Jour- nal. Most people will not care much what changes in the-coinage are made as long as the irritating and elusive three-cent silver coin is not revived. —Providence Journal. One of the most damning accusa- tions against war is that it can be waged more effectively by an auto- cracy than by a democracy. When the people rule in all parts of the world diplomacy will be more likely to pre- vail against bloodshed.—New York Sun. court requir- The United States supreme upholds the New Jersey law ing motorists from other states to take out a New Jersey license. The automoblle now has the distinction of having come before every court, from a police magistrate’s up.—New York World. I Lay in Deep Sorrow. (By Charles Mackay). I lay in sorrow, deep distress'd; My grief a proud man heard; His looks were cold, he gave me gold, But not a kindly word. My sorrow pass'd—1I paid him back The gold he gave to me; Then stood erect and spoke my thanks And bless'd his Charity. I lay in want, in grief and pain; A poor man pass’'d my way; He bound my head, he gave me bread, He watched me night and day. How shall I pay him back again. For all he did to me? Oh, gold is great, but greater far Is heavenly Sympathy The Housatonic and the Seekonk. (Providence Journal.) The trolley and the automobile have rendered practicable a transfer of the New Haven the Housatonic, college campus. Yale rowing course from harbor to Derby on ten miles from the The Housatonic, which in many places is winding and narrow, here affords a two-mile stretch, straight and bread enough to allow three parallel boat Janes of ninety feet width each. Guy Nichalls, the English coach at Yale, says the new course is the best two-mile stretch he has ever rowed upon. T{ must be a great imprave- ment over the rough water of New Haven harbor, on which so many Yale crows have had their preliminar training. The only serious drawback 1hat susgests itself is the possibility of the interference of ice with the early spring practice, The fact that the Housatonic at Derby is ten miles distant from Yale is a matter of secondary importance; vet it is worth pointing out that Brown University has a first-rate two- mile course on the Seekonk river, only a mile from the campus. If Yale can g0 ten miles for a sheltered river course, why is not Brown ready to use the equally good facilities that lie s much nearer at hand? Brown supported good crews when the number of its students was less than three hundred. It supported a baseball team at the same time. Now it has a football team, in addition to its nine, but has abandoned rowing, largely or chiefly on the ground of e pense. Rowing is unremunerative, be- cause admission fees cannot he col- lected. But it ought to be possible to revive aquatics at Brown on a modest scale without draining anyone’s pocket severely. . Class races could be sccond hand shells. that with casily rowed are pracurable: and if the interest aroused | by this inter-class competition sufficient & gradual development the supnort would naturally follow. Many preparatory schools, as well as colleges, Nnow have their crews. And many of them are hampered by inferior facilities and resources. proved of Lake Michigan’s Sand Dunes. (From The Indianapolis News.) It is apparent that if the dune re- gions of Northern Indiana are to he preserved as a state or national park qu action will have to be taken. A few days ago 1,500 acres of this land froniing on Lake Michigan was sold to a company which has given option on the property to the Bethle- hem Steel company, and yesterday another section of 3,000 acres west of | 1ct was transferred to the same The only large acreage re- maining in the region suitable for in- dustrial development is in the dunes, and it is reported that the Steel cor- poration has been engaged for weeks in exploring the 1land along Take Much of the primitive landscape of the dunes has already been through the invasion of industries. n levelled A substantial and Tllinois clubwomen eworthy work for the dunes into a singing about Department Indiana the con- on o a4 hearing If the worked need for action ig the Trrterio project for which they ha is to become a reality, the immediate and definite urgent- by i marred | national | €00D ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED —r— IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Ambulance No. 10, by Leslie Buswell. e . Bess of Hardwick and by M. S. Rawson. “A most interesting volume of rem- iniscence of the red-haired ®irl, Eliza- beth, Countess of Shrewsbury, known among her friends and intimates as “Bess of Hardwick,” the aunt of Queen Elizabeth. he work is reminis- cent of the greater portion of the f_wmonm century.”—Publisher’s no- ice. Her Circle. e Early American Churches, by Aymar Embury, “To all those interested in early American history, or in colonial archi- tecture, or ‘n the early ecclesiastical history of the United States, this book will prove of interest and value. The 102 photographs show the interiors and exterior. of every American chureh of the Coionial perfod which 1s of architectural interest or has histori- cal associations.’—Publisher's notice. Great Valley, by L. Masters. Mr. Master’s third volume of poems. Plays for Small Stages, by Mary Al- dis. “Five one-act plays, written for a small theater near Chicago and suc- cessfully acted by amateurs. In them ‘the expresed word, the mental atti- tude and the interplay of character character are of more importance than physical action.”—A. L. A. Book- list. .o Political Thought in Idngland, the Utilitarians, by W. L. Davidson. “Logically precedes Barker in the same series and is largely devoted to Bentham and Mill. Supplies the need for a summary account of their writ- ings, personality and influence that is both readable and informing.”—A. L. A. Booklist. o Sociology, by J. M. Gillette. “A simple primer intended for the | general public. . The author de- fines the field of socinlogy and gives briefly the main features of the sci- ence. Only in the final chapter touching on specific problems.—A. T.. A. Booklist. e Songs and Ballads from Seas, by E. A. Helps. “A oollection of virile verse from all parts of the far-flung British Empire. . Over the Songs to Save a Soul, by I. R. Mac- Leod. “Mr. Braithwaite says “Her lyrical verse is as light as gossamer, her bal- lads as vigorous and wayward as that form is in its perfection.” Frde Years of My Yiuth, by W. D. How- ells. “Tnteresting reminiscences life fn Ohlo. of his and Finance. American and Foreign Tnvestment Bonds, by W. L. Raymond. “A valuable hook of reference. Discusses all classes of bonds thoro- Busi oughly and Intelligently.—New York Times. “We cannot recommend this book too highly.—Moody’s Magazine. *e . Estimating the Cost of Work, by W. B. Ferguson. “Compiled partly from memoranda issued from time to time within the past four years by the author to the embers of the hull estimating and planning staff at certaln navy yards, as part of their instruction and train- | ing.”"—A. L. A. Booklist. o How to Deal With Human Nature in Business, by Sherwin Cody. “Discusses human nature: how to handle it, correspondence, merchan- dising, advertising, personal sales- manship, in a practical popular, con- crete manner, which will gain the at- tention of the persons engaged in business, either as principals or sub- ordinates.—A. L. A. Booklist. w Principles of Factory (fost Accounting, by E. P. Moxey. % Stockbroker’'s Office Management and Julius E. Day. * Piction. Dark Tower, by Phyllis Bottome. ““The situation is not handled in the usual way, which together with the clever character studies makes the novel well worth reading. The war is touched on at the last."—A. L. A. Booklist. Organization, Accounts, by o Irvin 8. Cobb. Cobb at his funni- ber set of ed by a of a boys' Fibble D. D.! b; “Here is Irvin est in a dry, ridiculousl letters, ostensibly —compos young curate in charge camp.”—Pblisher’s notice PN Hatchways, by Bthel Sidgwick. The Boston Herald says “As a social satirist she has few equals among Tnglish novelists of this generation.” oo Lion’s Share, by Arnold Bennett. “The Arnold Bennett of meticulous study and observation here gives way to the joyous story-teller—the deft mixer of amusing situations and quaint characters.”—Publisher’s no- tice. P Little House in War Time, by Agnes and Egerton Castle. TLocal Color, by Irvin &, Cobb. “‘Local Color’ is a group of short stories, each dealing with a particular phase of American life today. The volume includes some of Cobb's finest work.”’—Publisher’s notice. P Men Who Wrought, by Tum. Ridgwell Cul- E. V. an English Lucas. letter Vermillion Box. by The contents of in wartime.” . Whale and the Grasshopper, and other fables, Seumas O'Brien. 1o by TOO MUCH GOLD. Ts It Becoming Too Cheap? TIs Tt tho Cause of the High Cost of Tivirig? Pia Bryan Tave the Right Tdea After All? (Waterbury Democrat.) Is gold becoming too cheap? much gold one cause of the increased cost of living? What will happen if Zold continues to pile up in the United States treasury? Can Great Britain— the mother of the gold standard main- tain her credit by continued gold pay- ments Ts there any danger that Great Britain may go to a paper cur- rency with the indefinite continuance of the war? These are some of the inquiries raised by the federal reserve hoard’s warning against the too free puchase of short-term, high-interest notes now being put out by the British zovernment. Tn effect our federal re- serve board has said: “Go a little slow in taking the credit of warring nations. Gola is hetter than promises. We have good uses at home for a lot of our money.” Incidentally, the federal recerve hoard remarks in passing that there is much unnecessary worry in certain quarters over the menace of too much gold in this coun- try. The =old reserves in the reserve bank system have not yet been fully paid up, and until they are, this foreign =old can go into those deposi- tories. How long can Great Britain continue to make gold payments to meet the interest on her war borrow- ings? In a talk with a man who spent nearly two vears investigating this suhject: an American; he lived a vear in London before the war broke out, and then was sent to South Africa to investigate the matter of zold produc- tion there. Fe spent nearly a vear in that work. He says that the situation is fthis: Shortly after the war began the Rritish government practically took over the South African enld mines, and has since been operating them. The nation’s financiers realized that nothing would he more important in winning the war then to insure the credit of the nation, and that nothing would go further toward insuring that credit than to make certain of a re- liable and bountiful supply of gold to pay interest on the national debt. In pursuit of this policy the government has. been producing gold in Africa in practical disregard of cost. It was no longer necessary that five dollars’ worth of gold he praduced at less than five dollars cost In labor units, Tn fact, the government is now ng twenty-one shillings for twenty shil- lings' worth of gold, a five per cent premium on every pound sterling of gold praduced Meantime capacity has heen largely increased. Not are old mines and machinery worked to the imit. but new Jand which has hitherto hoen the public domain and in nat susnected of S ing, have been opened up with new machinery and new labor. Also, the Australian mines, where the output had begun to fall off have been put Is too only bein nines on part of mant cases Md-bear- supposed | under forcedl pressure and are con- tributing a larger share than ever be- fore. Altogether the world porduc- tion of gold has reached the amount of 500 millions a year, of which it is estimated more than half is belng pro- | duced by Great Britain. This gold is | shipped to Sydney, Australia, on gov- | ernment crulsers, and thence through | the Indian ocean across the Pacific to | Canada, to Tondon’s branch bank at | Ottawa, where FEngland now keeps | practically all her gold, Tt is from | this Canadian depository that the New | York banks draw when the balance | requires o payment in gold to main- tain British credit. On the face of things it would seem that this would | insure England’s borrowing power for | a long, if not indefinite time to come. | A quarter of billion in gold a year, plus the zovernment's power to tax industrial production, would pay in- | terest on a very large debt. But sup- pose gold depreciates? Suppose the suggestion of Sir George Paish Is carrled out and the British permit their standard value to sink to’ the | Russian ruble? Suppose the British | g0 to a paper and silver basis, what would happen then? Tt is this pros- pect that moves the federal reserve exports to sugest that their rTeserves | be not too cluttered up with war bonds | The United States has railreads to re- build. rolling stock to replace. and 113 | million- people to feed, clothe. and | shelter. Tt i all very well to lend money and sell on credit to the allies, but, as Lew Fields has said: “Enough is a plenty.” i ¥ Anderson, (Boston Post). There's a sort of question to which older people, in particular, are ad- dicted: “Was Jennie Lind a greater singer than Tetrazzini?" “Was Tai lioni a greater dancer than Paviowa It's a sort of question that produces | endless argument and little proof. In the 30 years since Mary Ander- son retired from the stage, thousands have speculated as to the real great- nes of her genius compared with modern standards. Happily, here was one question that could be answered. The lady herself came out of retire- ment on a recent afternoon for a sin- gle performance in aid of charity. London's greatest critics assembled to view her in Gilbert's “Pygmalion and Galatea. They proclaimed her to be charming and beautiful and electrify- ingly talented. Tt is a great triumph for the older generation. It will give new heart to the volunteer defenders of the great- ness of Jennie Lind and Mario and the | elder Booth, Rich and Yet Poor. (san Francisco Bulletin). United States eleven hundred has ton | The ahout l;,um during the year just imported | of pure | passed. If gold keeps coming in and pr keep going up we shall eventually have all the gold in the world and be unable to buy a square meal with it. e 1 Four Great i{egiments \ In French Foreign Legion Washington, Dec. 5.—An intimate study of the spirit which dominates the famous French foreign legion in the present world-war is given by Lieutenant Zinovi Pechloff in a com- munication to the National Geograph- ic soclety, a part of which was releas- ed today by the society as a bulletin of its war geography series. Lieutenant Pechkoff, who was one of the first volunteers to proffcr his services to France at the ov*' '« of the war in August, 1914, is an subject who was unable to to his own country from Itz . .. the first few days of the great struggle. He joined the foreign legion as a private and after taking part in three thrilling bayonet charges was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, in which capacity he was leading & platoon against an entrenched machine gun position when he received a wound which cost his right arm. For his exploit In this charge, which reulted in the capture of four lines of German trenches i the space of forty-seven minutes—the general staff had estimated that it would require two and a half hours— Tieutenant Pechkoff recelved the war cross with palms (the highest of the four classes of this order) and the military medal for valor The society’s bulletin. based Lieutenant Pechkoff's communication, follows: “The romance and the exploits associated with the foreign legion of ¥I'rance constitute some of the most picturesque and thrilling episodes in the history of that nation during a period extending over the greater portion of the nine- teenth centuury. It is not surprising, therefore, that when the hour of France’s greatest trial arrived in August, 1914, this notable organi tion, then in service in Morocco and Algeria, should have heen among the first bodies of troops to be rushed to the front, nor is it to be wondered at that the legion should have formed the nucleus to which gravitated thou- sands of eager spirits of other nation- alities who felt that the cause of France and Trench liberties was their own cause. adventurous foreign legion, and each battalion tral unit of a new volunteer regiment. 1t should be explained to the American army. In France strength of a company jon, four battalions to the the strength of the foreign sixteen regiments were a total in excess regiment, legion when i completed reached of 60,000 men. “When the legionalres first reached the firing line french warfare was in its infancy. No one could then imas- ine into what it would develop. In the early days of September those lines which afterward grew into vast labyrinth of ditches, and municating galleries, were more than shallow ividual in which each soldier sought to secure some protection from hursting shrap- nel and the hail of stecl messengers of disfigurement and death. But when the onrushing tide of the German in- vasion was finally stemmed and the process of rolling it back began then this revolutionary evolution of what is now known as ‘trench warfare was mplished “I have been asked since T came to America not the life in the trenches onous; how the men can strain of living constantly in an at- mosphere surcharged with danger, how the fighting men can endure the suspense of the expected attack every hour in the twenty-four; how the sol- dier can school himse!f to undergo the torture of awalting calmly the order to charge the enemy whom he many times whether or is monot- stand the of him; how he can adjust himself to the hardships and inconveniences of living for a month at a time between earthen walls that suggest nothing more forcefully than the sides of a pridigious grave which he has had to dig for his own body? “To all of these ratlonal questions it 1s impossible to find a reasonable answer except in\ the all-embracing reply that the modern soldier has been forced to adapt himself to u wholely new existence which often outrages his sensibilities, which re- verses all nis former habits of thought, which distorts his previous sonceptions of creature comforts, but withal, which does not make him any the less human, sympathetic, coura- geous or self-sacrificing. Indeed. T am convinced that this war, instead of shattering moral codes and brutalizi the men who are the active partici- pants in it ,wiH develop and crystal- lize the noblest impulses of those who in the emotlonal madness of the charge sweep ruthlessly over the en- emy. The soldier does not think of his opponent as another human heh?z. as a living, breathing entity, with heart, braln, lungs and Hmbs like him - ! self. If he were so to consider the | man against whom he raises his bay- onet for the fatal lunge I do not be- lieve he could complete the stroke. The enemy 1is simply an obstacle | which must be removed. This is the phychology of combat as I view it. In all their personal relations in the loyal friend, a more genial companion, a nurse of more tender solicitude for the stricken, a more self-sacrificing patriot—all In all a fincr ,nobler, big- ger man-—than the same individual who enlisted from civilian life two vears ago. “When the comes to he history of this war written the foreign gion’s share in its hardships, achievements. and its glori will cupy a page all its own. And on that oc- page will appear the names of men of ; almost every nationality. ~ Eight American boys, for example, were In on | the name of | “The French government was quick to realize the potency in the appeal of the glorious past achievements of the | cans. of the four regiments was made the cen- American laymen that the French regient is a much larger unit than the regiment of the | product, ready for wear. is 25 men; there are four companies to a battal- | regiment. So. with each battalion of four regi- | ments as a recruiting center for a new the | com - | nothing holes | knows to be only a fe wyards in front | trenches the soldier of 1916 is a more | le- | my company and one of the bravest of these was Kiffin Rockwell, a comrade of the trenches who subsequently joined the aviation corps and whose tragic death I read just few days after reaching America. Perhaps it would not be out of place to quote a paragraph from a letter which I have received from Rockwell’s mother. She says, ‘Just before going to the front last May with American Esca drille he wrote me these words—hi last that referred to death—If I die I want you to know that I have dled as every man ought to dle—fghting for what is right. T do not feel that I am fighting for France alone but for the cause of all humanity—the greatest of all causes.”" “The spirit which the foreign legion war is strikingly a the has dominated throughout this illustrated in the | following incident. TUpon my return to the front after six months in the American hospital in Paris I was talk- ing with a colonel of the legionaires who was wearing a war cross with three branches of palms (having been mentioned in the despatches of the whole army on three different occa- sions.) He seemed to be greatly d®- | pressed and when 1 asked the cause he exclaimed that the general com manding his division had informed him that he was to have the privilege of naming a number of men of his regiment for decoration, following a recent brilllant engagement. ‘How can I choose a number of men for special | honors,’ said the colonel. ‘when my regiment is composed of 4,000 he- | roes!” FURS FOR WOMEN. ‘What It Costs to Satisfy Fancies That Turn to Thoughts of and Other Kinds. York Lightly Sable (New sun) It is the custom Americans to buy worth of furs a year season when woman's turns to thoughts of humbler beasts. The manufactured fur trade in this country is, for the most part, by Americans for Ameri- While it is true that we import about $16,000,000 worth of undressed furs, we have been expoit from $9,000,000 to $18,000,000 ,worth, that the balance of trade in the faw | article is not heavily against us. TI huge figures are seen in the finished This comes from perhaps 1,400 factories more | than 1,000 of them in this city, each factory employing on the averags about ten persons. Each employee turns out about $5,000 worth of fin | 1shed furs in a year. | Before the war our imports of | dressed and manufactured furs ran as | high as $11,000,000. La | were $3,208,183, and in pleasure of $60,000,000 at this fancy lightly sable or the and about usually same 86 worth America of undressed market for ted States few furs get Germany, and oun England and Canada, ‘h(‘fl/! y all s ns of Canadian animals, “havc risen from $5,800,000 in 1912 1'.(7 nearly $10,400,000 in this last year, i period we exported $ of the same class of gooc ) In 1912 Germany nearly $7,000.000 furs. Lelpsic, a furs, was finding her best customer \ through to us frc purchases from sold to worth wortd the U No And we took a million’s worth from Australia direct, Most of the furs we import stay in this country, the grand. total ported furs, raw, dressed and factured, belng only $750,000. Of the money spent here for about one-third, or $20,000,000, /to the trappers of the United including Alaska From however, . the market r: than a million dollars worth a vear, that land’s greatest fur bearer. seal, gambols on the beach un- touched. for the law is on him and will be on for several years. of re- manu. furs goes ates, Alaska, ceives les a Calming Oneseif. A Chicago physician almost universal scotfs tife tobacco has a calming effect on its It is a common experience of smokers, | be says, to calm themselves by smol ing when they are nervous, but he at- tributes the effect to auto-suggestion and mechanical action rather than the sedative effect of the drug. The ex' pectation of quieting their nerves, to- gether with the purely mechanical process of smoking, are what make the nerves quie “Occaslon effect is produced at notion ‘that users. he s=eys, ‘“the samec by a ‘dry smoke.’ Others accomplish the same object by assuming a certain position. What the nervous man needs is to cultivato | control of mind, and that is j | as easy without tobacco as with it." Another authorit without sing tobacco at all, just ican habit of gum-chewing as an easy and harmless way of working off nervous energy. There's something in the mere motion of the jaws, he says, that calms the chewer. If the soothing effect of tobaceo is so large- ly mechanical, it seems natural enough that gum should produce a similar ef- fect. And it's a fact of common ob- servation that when men stop smok- ing, they are likely to take to gum. No doubt the ideal thing to do Is to master our nerves by ‘cultivatin, control of our minds.” But controlf ing one's mind is about the hardest work in the world. Isn't it fortunate tor weak human nature that we have these mechaniocal substitutes? his discus- ifies the Amer- Passing Thoughts, Profuse use of slang is cvidence of | lack of command of language. others s 11’ temembering some dreams that one has, one realizes the great blessing it. is that they don't come true, Looking down upon way to elevate yourself.