New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1916, Page 8

ew Britain Herald. HERALD Flg!l,ls‘HING COMPANY, ed datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St Entered at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mall Matter. Boiivered by carrier to any part of the eity for 15 cents a week, 65c a month. jubscriptions for to be sent by mall, panls 60 cents a month, Be only profitable advertising medium :n [l the city: Circulation books and rress || room always open to advertisers. dhe Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd 8t. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. ;- TELE! Business Office ., [Bastorial Rooms TOWER-HO Nine months ago the gatemen in harge of grade crossings in this city Ipetitioned the New York, New Haven And Hartford -Rallroad for better Working facilities, calling attention at that time to the urgent need of tower- instead of the ,ground level The reasons set forth were out the act that unless the gatekeepers were placed in such positions so they could se over the tops of shifting freight fars serious accidents were liable to appen. The deplorable tragedy at xcellent ones and .pointed [ ridicule the idea. England with a new | government practically dictated by Lloyd George too many is making and thus the war may go on for another year or more. Anyway, formal steps have been taken in the advancement of these peace proposals, and the Allies can- not afford to them. Instead they must discuss them through the regular diplomatic channels. The pressure is too great. The United States, Spain, Switzerland, and all the ignore present Germany’s proposals and they must be respectfully considered. Granted they are rejected; there will be others coming to the fore, if not from Germany, then from England and France and Russia who have, under the entente pact, pledged them- selves “that when the terms of peace come to be discussed, no one of the allies will demand conditions of peace without the previous agreement of each of the other allies.” Germany's proposals would have to be acceptable to all of her enemies before any ac- tion toward permanent peace can be taken. And, within twenty-four hours after the first proposals were issued we know that England and France will have nothing to do with them. There would be revolutions within the confines of both these nations if they fhe corner of Washington and Lake treets last Saturday when Michael J. Plaughsey was killed and three mem- Pers of his family seriously injured Pindicated the views of the gatemen. : the railroad might rn even more lessons. | At the time the gatomen petitioned fie railroad, the attention of the city Eovernment and the Chamber of Com- flerce was also called to existing con- litions. Mayor Quigley and Presi- fent Landers lost no time in adding je weight of their influence to the titions of the men; but to no avail. hus, the records show that the men fi charge of the city government and he business interests of the city fealized the importance of the sug- festion advanced by the satemen, © tower-houses should then, or fhortly after, have been established. that event there might have been 0 need for the railroad to send its pspectors to this city on Saturday ist to inquire into the causes of the cident at Lake and Washington irects. 'When railroad officials learn hat foresight is infinitely better than indsight then may the public feel hfeguarded. It is time again for the bwer-houses to be placed at the prin- pal grade crossings of the city,—at vashington, Main and High streets. is the duty of the city government b sce that the railroad steps to the har! the gatekeepers the roper facilities to enable them to at- to their duties. The tower- first, other improvements aft- such a cost Give end o rward. NO PEACE YET. All stin the would rejoice if a peace were declared between ligerent nations of Europe. But world he b e peace proposals advanced by Ger- any do not include such a possibility. nd the war will go on to the struggle reach agreement. A truce is ut of place, inasmuch as such a thing vould be but a breathing spell. Once ne or the other side were recuperated he fight would be taken up again fhe war is on ntil both partie lome definit accepted the peace proposals laid down by Germany. It takes only one to start a war, it requires the bar- gaining of two to stop it. The war will not end then until both sides feel in the mood to lay down their arms. TO PROTECT THE PUBLIOC. Manufacturers and wholesalers who ship drugs from one state to another, according to an amended reg- ulation of the Federal government may do away with the now familiar legend on all such packages, “‘Guar- anteed Under the Food and Drugs Act” A method for guaranteeing foods and drugs which will be less misleading to the public has been provided by the officials of the De- partment of Agriculture. Under the new plan, according to officials in charge of the enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act, manufacturers may guaranty their products on the invoice or bill of sale, or by certain other methods, but according to a food inspection decision which became effective on November 1, 1916, they may not make any statement regard- ing a guaranty or serial number on the labels of packages of foods or drugs which enter interstate or for- eign commerce. However, labels con- taining the guaranty legend and serial number which were printed prior to May 5, 1914, the date on which the first notice to discontinue the guaran- ty legend and serial number was is- sued, may be used until May 1, 1918, in order to prevent the loss that other- wide would occur from the destruc- tion of such labels. Originally it was provided that the manufacturer or wholesaler who de- sired to guaranty that his products complied with the Food and Drugs Act might file a general guaranty with the Department of Agriculutre to the effect that the foods or drugs he shipped into interstate commerce were not adulterated or misbranded. Upon the receipt of a properl executed guaranty the department as- signed a serial number to the manu- facturer or wholesaler who filed the guaranty. This number used on labels then indicated that the guaranty preparations to give in at this time, | poweértul neutral nations will formally | l NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 191e. for fraud where the blame belongs.i That is why a provision was inserted | in the law to the effect that, if the | dealer secured a guaranty from the | manufacturer or wholesaler or other | person from whom he purchases, the | party the guaranty would be | T the law, dealer would be relieved of responsi- | bility Then if dealers see that all foods and drugs which have entered malkin sponsible under and the | interstate commerce are guaranteed in the aforementioned manner the pub- lic will be safeguarded. Paris and London editors who are so insistent for the continuation of the war are safe. The pen, besides being mightier than the sword, is much less dangerous. FACTS AND FANCIES. Now ’tis said Villa had a Ford in the tool box and escaped in it after his car was torpedoed.—Kennebec (Mex.) Journal. Airships are about the only things now going up that the poor dear pub- lic doesn’t have to stand for.—Bal- timore American. Those who are oblized to buy meat at existing prices can readily under- stand what Shylock was quarreling about.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. If thHe congresswoman elected as Jeanette Rankin become by marriage Jeannette Jones, does she lose her title to her seat?—Concord (N. H.) Monitor. As we get it. that California polit- ical machine skidded because the chauffeur of another .car chucked a monkey wrench into its steering gear. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The crime of seducing Rumania into the war and then abandoning her to her fate is something the al- lies must answer for. The war has developed no greater sin—Passaic News. Tyranny and graft go hand in hand. As for the janitor, it's only the graft that is now coming out, the tyranny is an old story. High prices of milk and ice are partly accounted for.— Brooklyn Eagle. One of the latest surgical theories is that cancer is caused by high liv- ing. Then at least the great majority of us can be grateful that the econ- omic conditions of the present give us immunity from one malady.—Provi- dence Journal. THE The bravest battle » fought! Shall T tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find :t not, 'Twas fought by men. “hat ever was the mothers | Nay, not with cannon or battle shot, With a sword or noble pen; Nay, not with eloquent words thought From mouths of wonderful men! or But deep in ‘a walled-up woman's heart— Of a woman that would not yield, But bravely, silently bore her part— So, there is that battlefield. No marshalling troops, no bivouac song, No banner to gleam and wave; But oh! these battles, they last long— From babyhood to the grave. Yet fafthful still as a bridge of stars, $he fights in her walled-up town— Fights on and on in the endless wars, Then, silent, unseen goes down. THE BOYCOTT. How It Originated In County Mayo, Ireland, a Generation Ago. (Providence Journal). Food boycotts are reported from all parts of the country. How many of those who engage in them recall the | origin of the word? | Captain Charles Cunningham Boy- cott was agent for the Karl of Erne's estates in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1880. He refused to receive rent from tenants at prices fixed by themselves, and was subjected to severe treat- ment in consequence. His life was | to abandon his employment, his fences were torn down, his mail was inter- cepted and his food supplies were tampered with. The verb “to boy cott,” thus originating, came into common use in Great Britaln and has been utilized even in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Russia. In this country it has taken a firm hold, though it does not imply the harsh methods of County Mayo a generation ago. It Captain Boycott were allve to- day he would find himself strangely famous. ~ Who could have foreseen, at the time of the disturbances of which he was the center that he would be so persistently commemo- rated in this extraordinary way! If he had chosen a mode of im- mortality for his name, it would no doubt have been quite different. But history is full of instances of thwarted ambitions. Men are not al- ways remembered in connection with the things they would like to be re- membered for. One of the most eml- nent of British surgeons is commonly known, not so much on account of his sclentific achievement, ag because of a whimsical remark he once made about chloroforming men when they got to be sixty. A young man who was earning a hundred dollars a week as a cartoonist in New York took his own life because he could obtain no Tecognition as a serious artist. All that most people know about an an- clent Asiatic king, who no doubt hoped to be recalled as a wise and successful monarch, is that he ate grass like an ox. Fame is fickle. and mysterious. There seems to be no rhyme or rea- son about her choices. She ignores solid endeavor and proclaims to every corner of the earth a man’s chance and unvalued accomplishment. Tt might be worth while for some stu- dious essayist to collect the more striking examples of her eccentric largess and inquire into the appar- ently {llogical processes by which her favorites—or should we say her vic- tims?—have been ratsed upon their capricious pedestals. SASSAFRASS, Tea Made From Roots of Tree Be- licved by Old “Mammies” Panacea for All Tlls, (Hartford Courant.) A vandal who invaded the grounds of Colonel Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill and cut down one of the Colonel's sassafrass trees has moved the “Char- lotte, N. C., Observer” to deliver a sermon to its readers on the value and greatness of this tree, and to in- dulge in a discussion of the merits of sassafrass in general. While most New England boys know sassafrass and pass it lightly by this newspaper says that Northerners do not know much about it, and that only a Southerner, especially a Tar Heel, appreciates its virtues and its extensive benefactions to mankind. The people of the North think of the value of the twigs, the bark and the leaf of the sassafrass, but they are all wrong. The greatness of the sassafrass tree is concealed in its roots, and those roots are without doubt the panacea for all the various ills that the South- ern negro—and white man for that matter—is heir to. The tree grows in the Carolinas almost entirely on aban- doned Ted clay fields and when the first breath of spring approaches the negro mammies send forth their offspring to the fields with their hoes to Be | threatened, his servants were forced | S(ates government. | Saving Our Biggest Trees In Sequoia National Park ] ‘Washington, D. C., Dec. 12—For the first time in the history of the estab- lishment and preservation of Ameri- ca’s national playgrounds In the form of forest parks a national organiza- tion has come to the aid of the United The story of how the Giant forest, which contains the | largest and oldest trees in the world, has been saved for the American peo- ple is told in the following bulletin: “In the scenic heart of the Sequoia National park, the only section of the magnificent 160,000-acre playground situated in California which is at the present time accessible to motor-driv- en and horse-drawn vehicles, stands a Sroup of trees, the sequoia washing- toniana, known as the Giant forest, and in this forest are 670 acres of sround on which grow the loftiest and most venerable things that nature has produced in the countless ages which have passed since the waters and the earth were separated, and the greater light was placed in the heavens to rule the day. “The Sequoia National park was constituted a government preserve to safeguard these very trees some of which were 2,000 years old when the Christian era dawned. But it was a preservation which did not protect, for the very acres upon which grew the finest specimens of the sequoia washingtoniana were not purchased by the government but remained in the possession of private parties in California. “Some months ago, the department of the interior, realizing that the con- stantly increasing value of timber had become a rapidly growing temptation to these owners to convert the trees into lumber, secured- fromr. congress an appropriation for $50,000 to pur- chase the coveted land. When the ef- fort was made to buy the holdings, however, it was discovered that the owners would not part with their se- quoia trees except on condition that adjacent property be purchased also, | the supplementary lands bringing the price up to $70,000. “tAfter learning from their expert appraisers that the actual market value of the timber standing on these holdings amounted to $156,000 and that the price of $70,000 was, there- fore, most reasonable, the dcpartment secured an option on the land for six months. i “With the expiration of the option only three weeks off, and with no prospect of being able to secure the necessary additional appropriation of $20,000 from congress during its pre- holiday session, the department of the interior had practically lost all hope of saving these most highly prized of all trees for the American people. In this predicament one of the officials of the department—his name has not been made public—recalled the splen- did work which has been done for a number of years by the National Geo- graphic society in stimulating public interest in the preservation of the nation’s playgrounds and in safe- guarding our song birds and wild life. Why not appeal to this society, whose more than half a milllon members represent every state in the Union and who would be deeply interested. in- dividually as well as collectively in the preservation of thisforest wonder- land? The suggestion was adopted and the appeal was submitted to the society’s board of managers. “As was so earnestly hoped, the so- ciety's governing body immediately appreciated the, exceptional opportun- ity which was about to be lost to the American people for all time, and realizing that never within the life- time of a nation could nature repro- duce such trees, quickly appropriated the necessary $20,000. And thus was accomplished a unique cooperation of a great national scientific society with the national government whereby one of the country's greatest scenic re- sources is to be presented to the Am- erican people for their perpetual en- joyment. “‘Tnasmuch as the National Geo- graphic society has come to the aid of the federal government in this splen- did achievement, the department of the interior,” writes an official of that branch of the najfional government, “will ask permission of the society to erect in a prominent place in the park a suitable and permanent tab- let which will set forth the society’s important participation in this great priject.’ " A GREAT AMERICAN, Yormer Britain Man Haliled as One of the Nation's Greatest Scientists. The New York Times asks the ques- tion: “To how many hundreds of thousands of Americans is the name of Elihu Thomson even known, or If known does it connote anything mote | than some vague notion of science or invention?” The same personal in a question; more personal way, might be asked of | confidence or any in | wark, for he has no touch of selfish- Here Professor Tham—i He | labored within the confines of this city ;| well as by his own labors he further cach and every American citizen New Britain. on should not be a stranger. vears. Here he developed those faculties of science which today crown him one of the great men among Americans. Old timers who remember when the General Electric company had chosen New Britain as for many its home will recall the forerunner of that concern. The Thomson-Houston company. It was with this organiza- tion that held forth in a wooden fac- tory, since demolished, where the triangular space now exists between the railroad tracks and Lake street, that Professor Thomson plied his days in New Britain. for a number of years and married a daughter of the late Charles Peck. In recounting his present day achieve- ments, The New York Times, after asking this pointed question: popular referendum where, say, twelve most “famous” or ‘greatest”|in was a dog. were to be se-!surrender: men in the country lected, sands, how many thousands of ballots would Elihu Thomson only done great things himself, but shown an intense desire to help all who are struggling earnestly with sofentific problems. He has proved an inspiration to an ever widening circle of engineers and others who have in- trusted him with their secrets and sought his help in overcoming their difficulties. They have done this, knowing that they had only to ask in order to get the full benefit of his imagination and his power, and that | necessity and value of which the war He lived here they need have no misgivings that he would take any advantage of their credit for their ness. “Thus by helpfulness to others as that scientific research the economi { is impressing upon this country, lag- | gard before it in spite of the shining | example of Germany. ‘“As we take leave of this honor to America, we like to think of him, as | President MacLaurin let us sce him, i in his ‘laboratory built right into his house and an integral part of it a man from whose mind ‘probably ! thoughts on scientific problems are never wholly absent’ an ‘unselfish, generous, well-trained, well-rounded, well-balanced man of science.” " McMILLAN'S $1.00 Upward See These Special Cu Glass, Eight Piece Water Sets Priced $6.50 per Set. 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The “In al the | Vaux when the French troops marched He was not willing to | | Misses’ | Children’s Robes at $1.40 and $1.98. i fl | Men’s Robes, receive?” | rations the Germans had abandoned | how many hundreds of thou-; The only tenant of ruined Fort his bark rang out like a challenge. There was no guardian of the cases of cartridges and boxes of with neither food fQuantities of New Bath Rohes Just Received Robes, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98. .$2.490 and $2.98. Women's Robes, ..$2.98, $3.98, $4.98. goes on to say, editorially: “The quiet, fruitful labors of science pass unnoticed general in every nation. Blihu Thomson, English by birth, is an { but this mongrel of men | nor water, To him, bristling in by the|breach, may be adapted the lines: and tow sacks, in quest of these roots, When the youngsters return with their burden of sassafrass roots the wamen make up the annual family supply of sassafrass tea, and then send the boys the | | Women’s and Children’s ' which had been flled with the de- partment covered the products on which the number was used. After ntil-some gigantic victory was scored. n all the wars of the world there has cen one supreme battle. In this war O ye with banners and battle shot, And soldiers to shout and praise; 1 tell you the kingliest victories fought “Such a meagre troop, such thin | here has been no decisive struggle, not ven a turning point such as the battle f Gettysburg. Ostensibly, there has cen no Waterloo. Otherwise Ger- would need to make no peace roposals. The victor in such event ould dictate the terms, whether Ger- any or the Allies. Inventions of man seem to have ade it possible to conduet war on luch a scale that it ig almost impos- ble for one side or the other to ore an overwhelming victory, nd measures iqual, as in the present case. For wo and a half years the world has any men being approximately ditnessed the most terrific struggle ver waged on the face of the globe. Fet at this very moment the parties o the collosal effort are practically ead-locked. So long as nopey are available the contest might b on indefinitely, or until both sides ealize the futility of it all. A balanc- g of the books even to this day shows either of the contestants. No knows what has prompted Ger- to this action, the proposal of men and ho gain for t anything, both are the losers. b any eace negotiations. No one will care udge her motives. It may be it may be from a spirit ¢ responsibility, as the Chancellor suts it, a “responsibility before God, sfore humanity,” or it may be poli- it It may be, too, that the German pecople relent- Whatever the métives, the peace proposals have been made. They vill in all probabilify be rejected by he Allies. The French and English wevavers have already set in to are tired of waging a this method had been in operation for some time it was found that the guaranty legend on the label was mi leading to the public. It was incor- rectly assumed by consumers general- ly and some retail dealers that the guaranty legend on the label meant that a sample of the product had been examined by the Department of Ag- riculture and that in effect the De- partment actually guaranteed the pro- duct. The Food and Drugs Act pro- vides that no dealer shall prose- cuted under the provisions of that act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party residing in the United States, from whom he purchases articles of food and drugs. The new guaranty will be to the effect that the foods and drugs to which it applies are not adulterated or mis- branded within the meaning of the act. The object of this provision is to make the manufacturer or whole- saler or person who knows the com- _position of the food and drug products responsible for their compliance with the provisions of the law. be The new regulation formulated by the officials in charge of the enforce- ment of the Food and Drugs Act, will g0 a long way in protecting the pub- lic from spurious and injurious goods. Were fought in those silent wavs. O spotless woman in a world of shame ‘With splendid and silent scorn, Go bhack to God as white as you came The kingliest warrior born! —Joaquin Miller. Staving Off O1d Age. (The World's Work). as a preven- An advocate of play tion of old age is Dr. Louis R. Welz- miller, physical director of New York’s West Side Young Men's Chris- tian Association. man was in here just this morn- ing,” he said in answer to my ques- tion as to what he did to keep men young, “‘who is in the ‘old man’ class, and in years he is young. Let me sce,” and he looked at a card CcOv- ered with data concerning the man in question. ‘“He was born in ’'84. That makes him thirty-two, but he is as old most men of fiff With him it overwork, resulting in ‘nerve: He finds it almost impossi- ble to concentrate. When he starts along a certain line—when he wants to run along a single track, so to speak, he finds that his mind is con- tinually turning switches that put him on to the sidetracks. I am going to make him play. I am going to make { him play until he stays on the main line. I'll give him a medicine ball, and teach him to become so interest. ed in that ball that everything else is out of his head.” He stopped for a moment, and as is It will also be welcomed by the retail | dealers many of whom are not rully aware of the compositions entering in- | to the products they sell. Because the smaller dealers are not alw. ys in a position to have an analysis made (o determine ingredients in certain drugs and food, it is right to place the blama looked out on to the busy gymnasium floor. ,““Then some other tinued, “get into a rut, and can't get { out. Instead of being tched on to | ever) te track by their minds they | are kopt diligently at work on the men,” he con- main line. X “I get them interested in something P | age of the Carolinas, and aside from about among the white people selling what is left of the roots after the medicinal qualities have been ex- tracted. During the early spring months this tea is the universal medicinal bever- its medicinal qualities the drink is considered a nectar fit for the most elect. The “Observer” thinks that the tree ought to have been spared for the Colonel for it thinks a few draughts of the old fashioned sassafrass tea would do more than most other thingg to revive his spirits after his return fram his trip to the South Sea Islands, The editor suggests that a few bundleg | of the Mecklenburg variety be sent to him to take the place of that which he has lost. No Backers for the New City. (Cambridge Chronicle.) It is perhaps natural that the great- er idea Cambridge should receive outsido the city than chimerical side of ths is so apparent at home that little serious attention is given it. while distance seems to lend chantment, at least attention, the scheme, vet practically all com- | ment emanating from beyond our Forders deals with the subject as a dream and impossibility, at least for | a great many vears to come. Not one | paper that I have seen admits its | feasibility or probability. An idea | that can't win at least one friend ver- | ily isn’t much of an idea at all. more attention within. The proposition en- to Rush money to the banks is so great these days officials hardly know what to do with it. Sort of a free silver political argument in reality in tho midst of a harvest of gold. Somehow or othor Mr. Bryan is not alluding to | the fact these days.—Middletown ol | | laws American citizen of whom the United States will boast hereafter. He is of the minds, that produce a great and lasting effect upon national welfare and progress, that fructify civilization by the originality of their thought and their scientific achievement. “Only. the other day Mr. Thomson, who wears modestly the laurels of we don’t know how many native and foreign societies, of the Royal Society of London. On Friday night the Fritz medal was given to him. President MacLaurin of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, of the corporation of which | color to attract notice. Mr. Thomson is a member, mentioned his five hundred-odd patents, ‘a large number of them embodying principles so wide in their application that they might almost he classed as physical his master discovery of elec- tric welding, ‘one of the greatest in- ventions of the last generation’ and so on. Greater than the work, though, is the man; and not merely by the num- ber and brilliance of his inventions, not merely because of his contribu- tions to electrical engineering, the ap- plied science perhaps most character- istic of this age, is Blihu Thomson great. He has not been content to dwell apart in that region of creative jmagination which is the mathema- tician’s, the astronomer’s. The fact, uncommon, and one would have thought all but impossible, in this apotheosis of specialization, that his sclentific interest and knowledge have the widest scope and range, has not | engrossed him and confined him to the his own powers. In his youth ‘he was a teacher in the Central High school of Philadelphia He has not ceased to teach, and more productively than he could hope to do in a university. In President Mac- \rin's pondered estimation of mar this trait and habit are among cultivation of few in every generation, | industrial | | plled about him like cordwood, there received the medal | “deep mouthed welcome” that the | wear a collar the most significant: “ “Phroughout his life he has not chapped starvelings. Their barking stomachs refraifi But the defender of Fourt Vaux was | i not dangerous. | rations, Surrounded by meat | he was hollow as a drum. With 3,000 bottles of mineral water It was no he sounded, but a hoarse falsetto of| mingled deflance and distress. The | one mongrel was neither of form nor He had the pedigree of the gutter, which is none. | No doubt he was half deaf from the din of bombardments, Lacklustre ot‘ eve, unkempt and solled of coat, the| dog of Fort Vaux was a true soldier | of the trenches. | To the “poilus” all dogs look alike: | none is too low in degree to be taken | to their hearts. Common perils and privations make all dogs comrades. | Besides, this onc was the only Ge man holding the fort. He desérved decoratio And he had been left to perish too! So the dog of Fort Vaux was greeted with a clamor of del and then and there, as the went up, he was enlisted to sery France until the end of the war. captors waited upon him as if were a distinguished ally. Food was| set before him, and he lapped his fill of water. He joined the mess with | a tail wagging joyously. Henceforth this deserted bury his bones in soil to the Germans again: he will fetch | and carry for Verdun's heroes; the ! wounded whom he suceors will he | “poilus”; all his company tricks will be French, and he will be called by | a French diminutive: and he will with a brass plate in- | scribed “The Dog of Fort Vaux.” Of | course he will always march at the head of the battalion as its mascat. was not a drop to drink. His | dog will! never to pass hardly could | | in Scts or separate Mufis and Scarfs. | From swallowing up the foe ere they | had slain him.” | as a Best-seller. Furs A Man With a Message World) is criticised (New York The president because_ his refer He had nothing to say of tho of peace or He did he he failed to bo in address to congress to to problems supposed vital W, of 3 our therewith. relations not discuss food prices, and ignored tional defense and Mexico, na- woman suffrage. For many vears presidential mes-’ sages, touching lightly ant problems, covered everything from upon import- Arctic exploration and coast surveys to the boll-weevil and the ®rasshopper. They contained almost as many words Th were sent to congress and country in book form to be laid away for future reference, which rarely took place. They were not, in fact, presidential messages. They were a conglomeration of de- partmental reports. Mr. Wilson's practice of discussing one subject of urgent importance at a time has produced legislative resuits heretofore unknown. He has fixed the attention of the people as well as of congress on the issue of the hour. As he always speaks to the point and briefly, he may easily be heard again before adjournment, but not, we venture to say, in tiresome generalizations upon encyclopaedic topics,