New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1916, Page 8

o NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER- 19, 19186. Britain Herald. BRALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Propriétors. d dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Churgh St. ered_at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. flivered by carrier to any part of the city f for 15 cents a week, 65¢c a month fPacriptions fo vaper to be sent by mall, payable In advance. 60 cents a month, #.00 a year f | e only profitable advertising medium in | the .city Ctrculation books and rress room always open to advertisers. ald will be found on sale at Hota- | Vews Stand, 12nd 3t. and Broad- : Board Walk, At- tford Depot. CALLS. TELEPHONE P2aitorial Rooms REMEMBER THE CHILDRE An appeal was made yesterday in hese column for the Children’s fome, the orphanage established and romoted by the Rev. John E. Kling- dvg. Tt is the bhelief of the Herald 4t there .can be no greater charity fun thdt which makes for the hap- especially of -little " children, on these boys and girls are mother- and fatherless. For the past year. Mr. Klingberg has to | in and day out the of an one hundred has provided them with the neces Santa Claus such children. | role ore t Avies of life, and, when possible, §th a few of its luxuries. In all his he has never asked the peo- on the outside for donations of ind. . Yet he has managed to uid to furnish four dif- | hoye the girls and boys ages Now that attention n cailed to the noble work hopeg that those citizens | witably inclined, those Lave children of their own,and e an to add a ray of sunshine | ous lot will re- Mr. but The is to of Christmas spirit to the little chil- It suggested yesterday these gifts take the form During the present asked to make b 2the of little orphans, made not by the Herald. token pond to the call lingherg by ca send some e en at othing or food. all citizens are additional purchase doing eir shopping. . At the gracer’s an tra peck of potatoes, or a sack of was of ee s when pur, or some other commodity might purchased with the instructions at the gift be sent in the donor’s me to the Children’s Home. The me spirit of generosity might be acticed- at any of the other stores the city. “Each and every merchant hows where the goods should be sent d will be glad to take care of all [ders destined to the Children’s pme. Do not forget the little ones. | COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING. Major Géh. Hugh L. Scott, Chief of le General Staff of the United States my, testifying before a committes ‘the Sendte’ yesterday declared that s country must have an army of 500,000 trained troops at the out- eak of any war and a like number addition ninety days theéreafter. is proposed to secure these 3,000,- 0 highly trained troops by com- lsory and universal training. The of compulsory military ing will not be received kindly vast majority of Americans been raised in an atmos- different idea the ho ‘have ere far from any ht in European i c preva- where in the inherent | of life... Yet the greater part of population of this country realizes | countries, e army is an rt 2t something has to be done, and mediately, to safeguard the nation m any war of aggression. The fun- mental principal in all national wel- the individual must be society. Because there o that rificed is for sacrifice looked 5 been for b 1865 our people have htly upon all wars until this collosal uggle abroad on them. that no nation g as tHere is a coalition little cause It has now dawned is safe so of other wers seeking territory. '0o this end, the meral Scott command in passing attention by every man then, words of will more mother and wife If Congress disposed, if the President every oughoat the nation. avorably willing to sign a bill for universal litary training, the United States y take on the semblance of training for the able between soon camp military. ery man physically ages of eighteen and forty-five will bably be made serve a period in maybe one year, maybe more. At the end of that time who have undergone the rigid ining back to their fnes and placed on the reserve list be a part of that giant army of 00,000 General Scott would have led ninety days after the beginning army, ) or hse will be sent a nation. repugnant to the Later part of the American ‘people, they do mnot favor the system of ltary training proposed by General with any his idea is !'ana which | care of the begging for men during the past de- cade. There are not enough men in the various component parts of the to really take care of all equipment belonging to Uncle Sam. There are not enough men in the navy to look after the battleships and man | army the the cruisers. It is not surprising then . that radical steps are considered. For the plan proposed hy General Scott h the eral Leonard Wood, head of the De- | nction of Gen- | partment of the East, and of the War Department, is indeed radical In some of its phase American. It savors of the militarism of that as ignominious and cruel, as the cause of the present war. : i With an army of 3,000,000 the | United States would military i power greater than any in Europe at ‘ the of present England’s army today, after two and | half years preparation, numbers | approximately 4,000,000 t i Germany's | probably ‘stronger; but at the outset | it is decidedly un- Furope has been branded be a outbreak the war. | ined men. is about the same or of the war it.is doubtful if France, | or England, or even Germany | possessed ‘as great an army -as that which the General staff and its head | would fix this countr) It would seem that some | other method could be devised for | setting -up an army capable of taking United enlistment | stitution in | firmly as an fir interests of the | | s‘ States. The of men between the ages of eighteen fort move. their families will add greatly to the unpopularity of such a movement. Without being in compulsory -five will not be Fathe and a popular | taken from | s away any way connected with the United States Army, Colonel John M. Parker, who ran. for vice-pra on the Progressive | what seems on face to be a better scheme than that the sidency ticket, advanced its put forward by General Scott. Colonel | Parker would compel the enlistment of every boy in the country between | the ages of eighteen and nineteeen in a sort of auxiliary to the army. At that age the military training would be beneficial to the boyvs and a safe- guard to the nation. In after years these same troops could rally to the defense of the flag and require but little seasoning. If there must be compulsory military training in the United States it should be put in ef- fect where it will cause the that among youngsters under twenty-one. least in- convenience; the AN EPOCH-MAKING SPEECH. All wires are cleared today for the ono great piece of news,—David | Lloyd George's speech in Parliament. | It is doubtful if there speech delivered upon that commanded the attention of this | was ever a any occasion epoch-making oratory. The entire world awaits the words of the new | Premler. There was a like interest | displayed at the outset of the war when Viscount Grey discussed the ad- visability of Great Britain entering the war. But even that speech will fade into insignificance with ‘the forensic endeavors of Lloyd George who is practically to decide whether England shall accept the peace pro- posals of Germany or wage a relent- less warfare. That the stock mar- kets of the world will he effected one way or the other by what Liloyd! George has to say is a foregone con- | clusion. Blllions of dollat wiH be lost or gained on the position he takes, If, as is anticipated. the English | government fails to accept the peace note at its face value the cause must | be attributed to the vaguecness of lhcl proposals and the indefiniteness of | the advanced by Germany. | Even before the note was handed by | Walter H, the bassador In London, Office, neutrals all had been disappointed the peace proposals. There proposals | that suited the vast majority of those | interested lasting peace. The political organs in Germany ad- vancing a reason for terms Page, American the the am- to Foreign over world by were no in a in the vagueness of the note say that for Germany to have gone into details would have been a handicap. Possibly so, but | until one side or the other goes into detall there will be little if any chance for negotiations that mighi eventually lead to p. Somehody has_got to pave the way and Lloyd George seems indisposed. Boston today will decide whether John Barleycorn may hold residence within its classic confines for the next | few years. The odds against John are the same as those placed against roll to bet on Wilson which may be species of bird ptt they have themselves to blame. ~army and our navy have gone Wilson when Wall Street took out its | another way of saying that the city will be wet for the next year or so: but then you never can tell, ; There is a concerted movement in this country to do away with the pestiferous English sparrow. The League of American Sportsmen has declared a three-year war on this D TANCIL Of course it is none of our business; all the same we don’'t think a girl should wear ear hobs that rattle when Dallas News." | she chews her gum. The senate shut its doors to prevent Japan from hearing what it said. But Japan has heard enough of that kind of talk to know what it is.—Cleveland Leader. At any rate the notion that the time has come for Teutonic kultur to dominate the world by virtue of its very supceriovity has been given its quietus. - ipgfield Republican. How chianged the aspect of the uni- verse would be if Carnegie, Hughes, Fairbanks and Roosevelt did, and Rockefeller, Wilson and Bryan did not—shav Journal-Tri- bune. -Knoxville Pr to hi tion brains, leade sident. Hadley of Yale may stick opinion that ‘“organized emo- can never take the place of " but he n't make the cheer s believe it—NManchester Union. Every time the gans of plutocracy ew York house or- count Senator La Follette out he sails in and defeats his Wisconsin opposition by a bigger plurality than™ the time hefore.— Newark News. Field Marshal Oyama is dead. The victor in what was until recently the greatest war of modern times, lived long enough to see another war that made his look like an election day riot. —Charleston News and Courier. California at the Bat. (Davis in St. Louis Post-Dispatch). The outlook wasn’'t brilliant for the democrats that night; New York had gone republican and Wall Street claimed the fight. They thought it was a landslide and the horns began to toot— If New York went republican the west MUST follow suit. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest Clung to the hope that ever springs within the human breast, They thought if only Illinois with her brave suffragettes Should swing in line for Wilson they would soon be cashing bets. But when New Jersey threw ‘em down the democrats were blue; Then Illinois declared for Hugzhes— and Indiana, too. Upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat, For California’s’ choice was slim for getting to the bat. Then Colorado singled to the wonder- ment of all, And Kansas and Ohio knocked the cover off the ball; i Nebraska nicked the pellet and the clouds began to 1ift, | 7or Hughes was now depending on the “Minnesota shift. Then from five million throats and more there rose a lusty yell; It rumbled through tne valley and echoed through the dell, pounded on the mountain and re- coiled upon the flat, For mighty California was coming to the bat. it It Ten million eves were on her as the votes came rolling in; Five million tongues were rooting for the president to win, Ten million hands applauded as the tickers ticked the news And it was plainly evident the stuff was off- with Hughes. “Fraud!” cried the maddened mil. lionaires, and Echo answered, “Fraud!” But one scornful look from Wilson and the plytocrats were awed; They saw Hhis face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Mr. Wilson would be president again, The sneer has fled from Hughes' lips his whiskers curl with hat Te knocks with cruel violence hammer on the plate. now the votes are totalled and now they let ’em go, now hopes are shattered by old ifornia’s blow. his ‘And h And Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, And somewhere there are people who are shouting with delight; And somewhere bands ara playing and the children romp and shout, . But there is no joy in Wall Street— California slammed it out! How 0142 (Boston Post.) The value of “young hlood” in the strenuous competition of Industry and | commerce is unquestioned: but at Wwhat point shall he drawn the divid- ing llne between the competency of youth and the decadence of age? The common acceptance of the limit of forty-five vears is perhaps based ‘upon the schedule for entrance upon military service: but even thus we see that under the stress of con- ditions on the other side of the world this has been extended to sixty yvears, as by the recent edict in Germany. In the absence of any such sharp nocessity hereabouts, it is interesting and significant that the merchants of Chicago are frankly advertising em- ployment for men bLetween the agzes of forfy-five and sixty-five vears. Ap- plications In response have come in at the rate of 500 a day. Just five days before Christmas, | Here is encouragement for a great many—in Chicago the census shows there re 10,000 of them. And to | those evervwhere who at torty-five | step forward upo th path which they unwillingly acce as that of advancing age, it is permitted to brace { up with confidence that thex have not vet left behind them youth and its l energies. ¥ LACK OF HOSPITALITY That Appears When Unexpected g Guests Arrive, (Irish World.) Hospitality seems to be almost a ost art in the present age. The days when the unexpected stranger at the door was bidden in to eat and sleep are past. In some parts of the west. however, one still finds that open- hearted hospitality in homes where the hoSt and his wife are always glad to welcome any traveler who happens to come to their door. But the mod- | ern housewife of the Iast-is almost } unacquainted with impromptu enter- | taining. She must be forewarned n i plenty of time before she will even at- tempt to dine a friend. It is rather a pity that this highe farm of hospitality should be allowed to die out. After all, it is not much of a tax on one's hospitality to enter- tain a friend or two at dinner or lunch when the invitation has been given a Wweek or so in advance. Any woman can do that kind of entertaining with ample time for preparation. | But one’s true metal as a hastess is i shown when a friend arrives unex- of the house turns ap with a business acquaintance or two for dinner. That is a sort of a situation which tests the real value of one's hospitality, and un- fortunately very few housewives rise ta such occasions at all successfully out in vour home. Encourage your husband to bring his friends home for dinner and your daughter to bring her girl chums to lunch. Keep a stock of canned goods always ready on your shelves and a supply of clean table linen in your linen closet for such occasions. The New American Doll. (The World’s Work). The day of the old-fashioned Ger- man doll' has zone, probably forever. She was always an unnatural, arti- ficial product, with her porcelain face, painted llike a chorus girl, her pop- ping blue eyes, her mass of unvary- ing golden hair, her highly colored | “ruby” lips. No single thing in the nursery was the tragedies. Drop her on the floor and the head would usually go flying into a dozen parts, and legs and arms con- stantly to suggest the carnage of a European battlefield. Little girls who could easily manufacture a baby out of the family ragbag had no difficulty in mothering one of these queer prod- ucts of the Germanic ®genius, and so millions of Americans have been brought up on them. But their day we are told, s over. The European war, which had end- ed most kinds of immigration, has shut out these little wanderers. American genius ,which is now being called upon to manufacture coal tar dyes, hexamethyline and manicure is also turning its attention to dolls. Our succ has been so great, we are told, that not only shall we not import any *more dolls from the Fatherland. but that we shall probably sell them in self! For our dollmakers have turned realists. Their products are indi- vidualized like a real baby. No more unglazed porcelain faces: those Amer- ican dolls are really flesh color, and of durability. These little creatures are already so popular that our toy factories are running day and. night to supply the demand. It is one of the pleasanter aspects of the war. A Collar Button Suggestion. (Providence Journal.) In keeping with the general uplift of prices the cost of detachable collar buttons has now gone up. We can avold getting hot under the collar on that account. A suggestion is offered here which if adopted by all men would“cut down. the consumption of this particular commodity by nearly fty per cent. * Here is the idea— either more nor less, in all its simpli- city, than using no button to fasten the ordinary Troy collar of commerce to the back of the common or garden collarless shirt. Next time you lose your back collar button, just try the experiment of dis- pensing with it altogether. Better still, | leave it out anyhow for an hour or two and you will find that there never was any earthly reason for its exist- ence except as provocative of profan- ity. After you have foresworn it about a week, and have found that the collar does not climb because of its absence, you will decide that the back collar button and the two holes army of unenlightened souls among the most unnecessar: in human life. Down with the high cost of collar buttons. Boycott the one on the back of your neck. are things What Everyone Knows, (Kansas City Star). was divided Bve ana an into three outgoing That Eden parts, Adam, turn-style. That Alexander ran out of worlds. That Diogenes was the first railroad brakeman. That Caesar burned his bridges be- hind him. That by succeeding in his chosen profession Demosthenes set a bad ex- ample, That Milton employed the first stenographer. That Cotton Mather and Eli Whit- ney were not quite contemporaries, but near enough to be confusing. That Macauley was dry reading, but necessary for a diploma. That Johnson is dead, but Boswells are more numerous than ever. That Richelieu was the basis of good show, That Horace Mann built a great many schoolhouses. That Henry James died an English- man. pectedly for lunch or when the man | Don't let impromptu hospitality die | cause of so many | bled sawdust so profusely as | Nuremberg it- | their heads have the additional value | which it connects on the neck of an | That Achilles was shot in the heel. That Jonathan divided his apple | with his friend, David. | That Dido was quite a charming hostess. RIFLE PRACTICE IN THE NAVY, (Arms and the Man.) In its report on small arms prac- tice the navy department is sounding a new note in giving publicity to rifle practice, so far as the government is concerned. Instead of confining itself to making blanket statements as to how many men in the service quali- fied as marksmen or better, this branch of the regular establishment is doing its best to inject human inter- est into its reports, to the end of giv- ing credit to each individual for the work accomplished during the year Thus, in the pages of the annual report on small-arms firing, the achievement of no man in the fleet is too small to warrant mention together with the score made, and thé docu- ment, in addition, contains a list of the relative standing of every ship in | matters of target practice, commen- datory letters written to various men in response to worthy achievemen | with the rifle, and other matters of in- terest to the sailar-marksmen of the government. The edition of the report, too, is large enough to permit of supplying every one of the 50,000 sailars of the United States with a copy, thus fos- tering among the men a personal in- terest in the pamphlet, 3 In compiling its regulations to gov- ern small-arm work, the navy has also shown itself progressive. Those in charge of target practice are willing ta accept ideas which are worthy whether they emanate from a past- master of marksmanship or whether they come from an unknown blue- jacket. ' As a result the navy has forged to the front rapidly during the past few vears, and among the sailars of the different fleets there are today marks- men Wwho need take the count from the rifiemen of no other branch of the service. Married Men. (Kansas City Star). Warden Tynan of the Colorado State penitentiary told the City Club that “married men don’'t get into the { penitentiary.” More accurately, from 70 to 80 per cent, of the inmates are ! single men. Collier's reports the vice president of a big insurance com- rany as saying that a study of the work of nearly 24,000 agents showed a big advantage for the married men. They were more persistent and they get more business. “He travels fastest. who travels | alone,”” says Kipling. He may travel the fastest. but he isn't so apt to keep on going. FARMERS ORGANIZE. Examole - of Co-operation. i CANADIAN Impressive Economic (Toronto Globe.) This is the title of the new organ- ization of western Canadian farmers, which has been formed by the organic uvnion of four provincial associations that have all been in operation suf- ficiently long to have acquired each a considerable amount of corporate linfluence. The amalgamating com- | panies are the grain growers’ grain company, the united farmers of Al- | ber the Alberta farmers’ elevator { company and the grain growers' as- sociation. The resulting organization should be a strong one. for it has al- ready announced its purpose to in- crease its capital from $2,000,000 to 5.000,000. The fundamental idea of .each = of the separate associations - ‘was co- operation in the various stages of the marketing of grain, and especially of wheat. * Under its climatic conditions the West needs all ‘the advantage it can secure from factitious devices, and especially from economic co-op- eration. Already ‘the farmers have ‘fought the elevator’ issue to a finish and won, and;this is by no. means all | they have accomplished. .Ohviously it i will be to their advantage .to.ignore provincial boundaries and to regard the wltole “pf¥airfé”’ Tegion' as its un- | divided- area; of operation. | Nothing in the published reports | of the consolidation proceedings in- dicates any purpose to work for the improvement of agricultural methods, | but no doubt much good along this line will result from the widening of the individual farmer’s industrial horizon by discussions at the meet- ings of the whole body. The prob- lem of securing pure seed is per- haps the most important of those now_to be grappled with. Tt is, in fact, very difficult to over-state its importance, and yet it is easy to see that very much may be accomplished in lessening the weed seed evil by an interchange of widespread exper- iences and experimentation in new localities with well-tested remedies. | Where Credulity Ends. i (New York Sun) We are willing to bear carrled off a hog at Hibbing, Minn.; that seven fish, frozen for months, swam when thawed; that a Pennsylvanian caught a wild cat with bare hands; that the wolves in our believe that a zoo are howling for snow; that por- cupines have invaded Salt Lake; that a Maine cat dives to catch frogs; that wolf chased a woman at Willlams- a Kingdom of A rabia | Holds Many Deserts Washington, D. C., Dec. 18.—"The announcement of the formation of the ‘new kingdom of Arabla’ not long ago failed to elicit in America the in- terest which the vast extent of terri- tory involved would seem to warrant,” according to a war geography bulle- tin issued by the National Geographic soclety from its Washington head- quarters. *“The area of the Arabian peninsula, including that region known as Arabia Petraea and the Sy- rian desert, is about equal to the area of all the United States east of the Mississippi river plus Texas,” oon- tinues the bulletin, “and it extends through more than twenty-one de- grees of latitude, so that if transposed to this continent its northern bound- ary would coincide with the northern part of Arkansas, while its southern tip would reach far beyond the north- ern border of Nicaragua in Central America. “Having a maximum length equal to the distance between Montreal and the southern extremity of Florida. and a maximum breadth corresponding to the airline distance between New ! York city and Omaha, Neb., this great southwestern extremity of the contin- | ent of Asia is very sparsely settled, the estimates of its population varying more than 100 per cent. ity places the number at 7,500,000, which is conceded to be excessive, | while an ultra conservative figure is | 3,500,000, “Fully one-third of the Arabfan | peninsula is a waste of sand, the | three most extensive of the barren | reglons being the Great Nafud or Red | Desert, the Syrian Desert, and the ! Dahna Desert. And in addition to this | wholely hopeless arca there is a cast | extent of territory where the supply | of water is so sporadic that the land | cannot support a secttled population. The inhabitants are divided into two great classes—the nomadic Bedouins who move from place to place as pas- | turage for their flocks of sheep and goats and thelr herds of horses and camels is exhausted and the Fellahs, who follow agricultural pursuits in the | small fertile areas and jwhere wells and cisterns are relied upon to store up the rain water of the wet season. “While the early despatches from Mecca, the capital of the newly formed kingdom, were silent on the subject, it is probable that the Grand Shereef Husseln Ben Ali is building his hope of empire chiefly on the three provinces of Hejaz, Asir, and Yemen, which extend from the Sinai peninsula along the northeast shore of the Red sea to the British protec- torate of Aden. Tn these provinces are the largest cities of the peninsula —Mecca, Jidda, Modeida, Medina, and | a1 Yambu. Both Heiaz and Yemen ate¢ vilayets of the Turkish empire and are governed by off s sent out from Constantinople. Asir is the home of a war-like, mountainous tribe which has successfully opposed numerous at tempts of the Turks to subjugate it: members. Asir lies between Hejaz and Yemen and its valleys are among the most fertile in Arabia. “Several important political —divic sions of Arabia doubtless will be un- molested by the Grand Shereef Among these are the Sinaitic-penin- sula, a dependency of Egypt which extends into the Red sea, between the Gulf of Suez on the west and thes Gulf of Akaba on the east; the Brit- ish protectorate of Aden, occupyime the most southerly extremity of Ara bia and extending along the Gulf of Aden, its rea being about 9,000 square miles, and the independent State of Oman with a coast line of nearly 1,000 miles along the Persian gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and em- bracing an area of 82,000 square miles. “The provinces of Hejaz and Yemen & have a combined area about equal to the States of New York, Pennsylvania, * Ohio and Indiana, but with a popa- lation scarcely exceeding a million, One author- | whereas the equivalent American area{§ supports more than 24,000,000 inhab- » itants. “In those restricted sections of Ara- bia, near the mountains, where the torrents bring down a sufficient sup- ply of water the soil vields abundant crops of wheat, barley, tobacco, su- gar, indigo, cotton, and coffee, while the date palm and the banana flourish luxuriantly. The flocks of sheep and goats, and the famous Arabian horses are the chief resources of the country while from Oman come the highly prized Oman dromedaries, noted for their speed and strength. The miner- wealth of the new kingdom Is somewhat doubtful, although irow, copper, basalt, lead, coal and asphalt- um are known to exist, while the pre- clous stones include emeralds, onvx, carnelian and agate. The pearl fish eries of the Persian gulf are the richest in the world, and these wa- ters also yield quantities of sponges “Travelers ascribe to the Arabs many virtues. They are a proud, and earnest people, sharp-witted, courag- eous, temperate and hospitable, but when wronged are bloodthirsty and vengeful. One of their most striking characteristics is their great love for poetry. The children of the nomads as well as the offspring of the fellahs are early taught to read, write and calculate, as might be expected of the descendants of that race which gave us our Arabjc numerals.” 1 A Startling Rumor. (New Haven Journal Courier.) The mysterious rumor has gained headway that it is the intention of the county commissioners of the state, we presume the twenty-four of them, to ask for an increase in salary. There is also said to be some talk of increas- ing the pay of the state officials, but it is with the county commissioners that we have to do upon this occa- sion. The moment the motion is made, if it be made, to increase their salaries, an amendment should be offered ap- pointing a commission to investigate and report upon the best manner of abandoning the county form of gov-' ernment. We suggest a state commis- | sion of investigation because the dis- | tribution of the dutles of the commis- | sions should proceed in an orderly | manner. There is nothing complicat- ' ed about the job, The duties can be easily disposed of, but the general as- sembly should not be formally asked to abolish the county form of govern- ment until all the facts are before it. There would be involved, for example, the transfer to a state excise commis- sion the power of issuing liquor li- censes, the transfer to the state of the care of the county, jails, county courts and county homes." These are serious and major duties of the county gov- ernment which could be better done by the state than by the coynty. In addition to the improvement that would follow in the administration of the county, then merged into the state, there would be removed from the political life of the state an ar- chaic instrument of government in itself objectionable as such, and a purely partisan machine which is practically superior to all authority and removable by none. It is purely incidental to the situa- tion that the present commissioners are all members of the republican party. The situation would be im- proved in no degree whatever by making them democrats. The fault i¢ in the system and not in the commission New Haven county might have elected a majority of democrats to represent it in the halls of legislation, but, so long as the leg- | islature remained in the control of the republican party, the recommen- expresses it, are figuring on trading { in their Fords for six-cylinders. Tt ought to be easy,—in Kansas,—to run down the causes of the high cost of living in Kansas and elsewhere. Food is dear because farm products are , bringing high prices. | One obvious remedy would be for the Kansas legislature, composed mostly of farmers to pass laws mak- ing it a crime for a farmer to charge more than $1 for a. bushel of wheat, { or six cents a pound for live pork Then the cost of living in = Kansas would go down and many other things along with it. . Governer Capper is old enough know that Kansas cannot ea cake and have it. to her (Meriden Record.) Why Die? You den’'t have to die if you don't want to. All you need is to educate yourself uo to perpetual heaith. So vs D. W. Starrett in a recent book. Some believers in faith cures and mental heéalings have heen known to say that before. But they put the em~ phasis on simple faith. If you just believed hard enough, they argued, you could make yourself live forever. Mrs. Eddy, for instance, put off dy- ing to a ripe old age, beating David's record of four score yvears ten .bv nearly a score. But she couldn't, among j quite make immortality on this planet. Chauncey Depew, who also thinks people die just because David told them they were going to, is now thirteen vears ahead so for. . He bids fair to beat Mrs. Eddy's record, but we don’t believe he'll live forever, either. But then, Mr. Starrett doesn’t lieve any individual can begin at any minute in his career and reach thig supposedly desirable result. What he does firmly belleve and steadily preach is that by careful education in laws of health the race may one day attain his ideal. It's not by faith alone that the result is obtained, but be- by rung by rung, on the ladder to-_ wards immortality. When death stops, childbirth will stop also—it is but a temporary expe- dient What Malthus would say to all this would be interesting to hear. The bellevers in Telncarnation might | port, Pa., and that Mr. Ditmars' |dation of the New Haven county leg- | also have entertaining matter to add .. | snails will eat nothing but hearts of | jslative caucus would avail nothing. to the dscussion. o lettuce at 19 cents a head. Authen- | The general situation would be more | But this much, in all seriousnesk. /5 tic tales about animals delight us. But | tolerable if the commissioners were | 18 true. By belleving firmly in long the red-headed alligator seen In Kan- | glected by the people and made re- | life, by building one’s bodily and {sas. mo! There are no scales on|gnonsible to the people, but the ut- | mentally strength carefully —with | stubbs. ter absence of any mecessity for the | that end In view, years may be added e County fora of Eovernment offrs a |10 Hfe on eapth. Not decsenit, Will Hurt Party in Power. good reason for its abolition. The toothless ,miserable vears, but joyful (New Bedford Mercury.) thousht of lts continuance under in- | SONE, g;"::cf“v‘;‘;‘"“&: Sl st sk Secretary McAdoo sees a vast de- | creased salaries is intolerable. time or other, out of sheer curlosity ficit in revenue ahead. The main T SR as to the world beyond. But this © cause is the cost of preparedness. Re- Foolish Talk From Kansas. world is full of a number of things publicans and democrats ~advocated So Governor Capper of Kansas Is | —why die before one's time if good the appropriations for this purpose. | going to appoint a commission to as- | sense and cheerfulness can prevent it but this will be lost sight of and when | oo ifin G causes of the high cost of | 3 e St ge > > This ought not to be difficult to as- (Boston Evening Transcript). ey gesiElnt ‘!\ansm; i The army and navy seem to be hav- % Kansas raises wheat, corn, cattle, | ing almost as much trouble urin Paying Election Bets. hogs, vegetables. Her farmers 'fl“@‘reiruits as the factories :msd“:mllli (Washington Star.) metting $2 a bushel or thereabouts for | are. ” “When a man pays an election bet,” | their wheat, 80 cents a bushel for | e - sald Uncle Eben, “he doubles his d their corn and 55 for their oats, Beef The policy of appointing democrats appointment. He feels dat he wasn't | and pork are selling on the hoof for | to office will be continued, despite Mr. able to save either 'his money or his|twice the price of a few years ago. | Hughes' objections.—Florida Timess country. IThe farmers, as Willlam Allen White | Union.