New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1917, Page 6

NEW Drirany oMoy Britain Herald. ALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. ! . Proprietors. 3 daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Chureh St d at the Post Ofice at New -Britain Second Class Mall Matter. red by carrfer to anv part of the city I 15 cents a week, 65c a month. fiptions for paper to be sent by mall, \yaple in advance. 60 cents a thonth, #0 a yer jnly profitabls advertisng medium :n o city: Circulation books and rress om alwayz open to advertisers. erald will be found on sale at Hota- News Btand. 42nd St. and Broad- Nsw York City; Board Walk, Ate {atle City, und Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. . 938 928 | A SHIP AND A CREW. pre was a great demonstration at . jort News, Va., on Thursday last the superdreadnought Missis- was launched. Fifteen thou- i spectators witnessed the great 4slip off the ways and into the p o£5 of the historic James. | the fifteen thousand people [at in the shipyard and the many thousands throughout the coun- ho read of the event, how many \ldered the main problem attend- e commissioning of a battle- How many thought of the men ad to man this vessel? feording to statistics given out by INavy Department, the super- Anought Mississippi, third naval named after that state, will have Led of twenty-one knots and will lace 33,000 tons. She is almost (lical in design with the Arizona the Pennsylvania. Her main ment will consist of twelve b hch guns of larger usual “re; thus assurng long range and ing power.” Besides her second- Armament, she will carry three aircraft rifles and four 24-inch 2do: tubes. \e will also have to carry a crew ne thousand men, if she is prop- . manned. Her tonnage and speed larmament are already taken care the plans and -specifications. The /[ thousand men are not .in sight, ss they are taken from other bat- Laips and cruisers, thereby crip- other parts of the service in or- ‘to properly fit out the Mississippi. ney can iy battleships. Patriot- Jone cen man them. The Ameri- people, if they so desired, could ip any nation on earth at this ‘fn ‘building up a navy; ‘but the Would'be useless if ships alone contracted for, ‘There must be aboard these ships. . —_— CE FORCED BY THE SWORD™ #%6 more than two years the one word that stood "ana above all others in import- , now the magic word Peace seeks audience and holds the attention n entire world. Just what sort "8 hearing Peace will get remains | be seen. Its day in court is at ¥ The voice of its counsel must rd;and-its trial by jury. The Jifi retiifhed will be awaited with ety by belligerents and neutrals e On that finding Peace will be fgated to society's scrap heap, or scot free, Phose vitally interested in the case ve had something to say; but their ices have been as those crying in 3 wilderness. The Central Powers tled the world in early December | proposing peace negotiations. In same month the President of the fted States advanced these pro- to the Entente Allies who \swered them by setting forth im- ssible considerations for “a Ger- any - conscious of victory.” One k ago today, carrying on the plea r an understanding between nations, e President of the greatest neutral tion on earth addressed the Senate 1d 1aid bare his idea of a permanent smce for all the world, and the terms s0n which it might be concluded. The dominant note of President Tilson's message was ‘‘Peace without fotory.” As if in answer to this the jperor of Germany on Saturday, in yration of his birthday, sent to Berlin Academy of Science g8 message: than [ Fho are prepared for every sacrifice blood and treasury, will, L trust Boa, preserve the Fatherland the | “The unshakable il to victory of the German people, | not shown a dispo v anything that savors of a “I’cucc without Vic- | tory.”". They' are bent on crushing { the militarism that holds its head high: in Germany. . Thus, with both sides’ ready to follow the sword to Ats last stroke Peace is hard put for a hearing. N Seemingly, the war gods have not yet feasted to the full. On the con- trary, their appetites have merely been whetted for the bigger things { to come. They will not be satisfied until four or five million more men | have been slaughtered for the feast. It is a gruesome spectacle, but it probably will go on until the men and women of the various lands at odds sicken and tire of the revelry of blood. 1If the will of the German people for victory is unshakable, as the Kaiser says, if they ‘“are pre- pared for every sacrifice of blood and treasury,” then there will be no peace but that forced by the sword. A { “Peace without Victory” is impossi- ble in the face of these thoughts. There be, no peace, under such one side or the conflict has bit- can circumstances, until other in the terrible ten deep of the dust. THIE MASK TAKEN OFF. During the latter part of October of last vear readers of mewspapers were presented everyday with full page ad- vertisements setting forth the dremd- ful calamity that would happen ta the nation if a Democratic President were returned to the White House. The forecast of what was to happen was anything but pleasant to contemplate, There were pictures of soup houses, breadlines, and closed factories. Elverywhere there was to be ruin and desolation. The ,workmen . were warned against casting their votes®for anything or anybody that the stigma of Democracy. Now comes the Secretary of Lahor with a record of the increases in pay that took place in the ranks of labor during the months of November and December last. Altogether, than one million workers have profited by advanced wages. Ang, what Is more. these advanced rates in pay were put into effect because the managers of the large manufactories throughaut the country saw-fit to do s0, without coercion, without strike- menace, wifhout being asked. The raises came from voluntary influences on the part of capital. 1,100,000 in- stead of stepping into the breadline, or entering the soup-houses pictured before glection, have been well taken care of. How many more were so benefitted cannot be told, as ' the records are not complete. Nor do the figures in the possession of the Labor Department show that workers in mu- nition factories are the only ones who reaped the harvest. The increase in bore more wages took place in almost every line of endeavor. In the fall of 1920, when the next Presidential campaign is on, the na- tion may expect to hear the same old arguments from the Republican cam- paign managers. The literature dis- tributed throughout the country will be flavored in the same old ‘way. The headliners again will be the bread- line, the soup kitchen, and ‘the closed factory. The full dinner pail will be the token of Repubicanism then it was in the McKinley campaign. But the people will have a new in- sight into things and will not be so easily fooled as they have been for twenty years before Woodrow Wilson appeared on the scene. The work- men of the country know now that there has been nothing but false- hood attendant upon the vast jority of campaign arguments that the verge of hands of De- The eight years of the present Democratic admiinistration will go down in history as a plete refutation of all the bulldozing, buncombe, and balderdash, prac- ticed by the Old Guard and its subal- terns for lo these many vears. Nothing short of a Balaklavan charge will ever right them in the good graces of the American workingmen. as ma- show this nation on ruin if placed in the mocracy. com- All women,, of course, are more or less beautiful; but will some one tell us why it is that those less beautiful among them make the best wives and mothers? from luin contemplated by its enemies and | Pl force by the sword the peace ecessary for the blessed development f the people.” Instead of a pry, vy the Sword.” That is, illiam has anything to nd he is not defeated. ords it would scem that Peace may “Peace without Vic- if Emperor do with it. From these nave her day in court, but it will be a | very short day, if it is not already ver. The Gark night of war is de- icending on the few bright rays that have struggled thus far to enlighten he world. Unless the Allies can stop he Centrak Powers in their design to ¢ peace by the sword, there is bility that the ‘war -will go on jther vear, and even another after . The Entente Allies, too, have * then, it will be'a “Peace Forced | | We.don't know how effective Eng- {land’s new commerce protectors are ! until the Deutschiand tries the come- | back.—Burlington News. If the potato could open its eyes and observe the price it costs us, would it | ehrink from shame or swell with i prid Atlanta Constitution. Giermany confirms the suspicion that she was playing a part in her offer for | peace, by declining once again to malke public tarms of reconciliation with her encmies.—Ansonia Sentinel. | The report that Villa has shot his { secretary for doing too much writing | may start a rush of overworked sten- ographers to Mexico.——New York Eve- ning Sun. The true optimist who has been hit ‘hard by the cost of living and still is driving his year-before-last automo- bile consoles himself by looking at the brand-newpess of his license tags.— ] Louisville Courier-Journal. The county Jjail is not full this win- ter. The' old rounders don't favor Litchfield ' in the winter time, espe- cially along about ice-cutting time.— ‘Woodhury Reporter. Some day the honorable senate will wake up and discover that that dis- trict prohibition law applies to booze in the senate office building!—New York American. The stock” market doesn't quite know what to.make of the peace sit- uation. If it did know, there might be no market. Inability to prophesy cauises diversity of opinion and that is what makes bets.—New Haven Union. Thomas Mott Osborne has again en- tered upon -a perlod of voluntary mervitude in a United States prison for further {nvestigatien. Neither time nor reflection ocures “Tom Brown” of his spectacular methods of reform.—New Haven Journal-Courier. Boosting. the gold braid trade— Secretary Baker's decision that the Tuling of the judge advocate general forbidding civillans to wear gorgeous uniforms doesn’t apply to the staffs of governors.—Passalc News. Gen. Falkenhayn went from Bul- garia to Greece by aeroplane. Also by submarine. Also according to the Progresso, he is taking personal charge of the Austrian campaign against the Italians with German troops. A triumph of personal mo- bilization.—New York World. A Song for Our Flag. (By Margaret E. Sangster), A Dbit of color against the blue; Hues of the morning, blue for true, And red for the kindling light flame, And white for a naton’s fame. Under its folds wherever found, With hope in its every shining star; Oh! fling it forth to the winds afar, Thank God,” we have freedom's holy ground. of stainless Don’t you love it, as out it floats From the schoolhouse peak, and glad young throats Sing of the banner that aye shall be Symbol of honor and victory? Don’t you thrill when the marching feet, Of jubilant soldlers shake the street, And the bugles shrill, and #\e trum- pets call, And the 'red, white, and blue is over us all? Don’t you pray, amid startling tears, It may never be furled through age- long years? A song for our flag, boast, That gathers beneath host; Long may it wave o'er the iand We hold in fee 'neath our hand. For God and liberty evermore May that banner stand from shore to shore, Never to those high meanings lost, Never with alien standards crossed, But always vallant and pure and true, Our starry flag; red, white, and blue. " .COMMUNICATED. Peace Without Victory. This 1s sublime compared to “No Peace Without Victory.” The first is magnanimous, prompted with kindly emotions and good common sense, the second is barbarous—the fight to the bitter end—the strongest regardless of justice are successful, without con- sideration or justice, and with the feud continuing. : Tor example, take some of the fam- ilies of Kentucky, where for .three or four generations back, there was a dispute, but never settled by kindly considerations or arbitration, but car- ried along to the bitter end. These disputes are not settled yet. Fre- quently you hear where the third or fourth gcneration shoot one another on account of no settlement without victory, thus the victory war goes merrily on. Ts it kindly, it is Godly to fight to the bitter end? The above should be considered. Ivery kind and true heart should pray for “peace and good will among mankind.” . L. 8. our country's it a mighty goodly father’s Our Wooden Ships. (Boston Herald). The wooden ship is not going out of use as quickly as has been some- times supposed. For certain purposes, especially for the conveyance of lum- ber, it is preferred to the metal ship. According to shipbuilders’ returns received by the Bureau of Navigation the wooden merchant vessels of 500 gross tons or more building or under contract to be built in American pri- vate shipyards on December 1 num- bered 116, of 156,615 gross tons. It is very noticeable that New England’s share is no more than 16 ships hav- ing a tonnage of 17,073, the most of them schooners, the only representa- the brotherhoods revcked their strike order of last summer. The inference is that Mr. Lee supposes that to have called the strike then would have been to forestall such legislation as that now pending. The probabilities are quite the other way round. 8 Suppose the Suppose the tr been paralyvzed, trike had been called. flic of the country had with suffering and violence as the inevitable conse- duences. Popular resentment would have flamed up, and whether it chose the railroad managements for its tar- get or the hrotherhoods, or hoth, we may be sure that it would have taken the form of legislation to prevent the’ recurrence of such an event. Mr. Lee may be sure that if he had kad his now-regretted strike he would certain- 1y have also had by this time his now- deprecated legislation to compel nine- ty days notice of a strike or a lockout —if not a much more drastic measure. Hard to Be Polite. (San Francisco Bulletin) The other day a studious-looking young man with & book in his hand ! boarded an empty street car and sat | reading in solitary state. The next stop was a transfer point, and the car filled rapidly. The young man saw that there were women standing near him and with a blushing, ‘‘Take my seat, please,” he arose, made his way toward the front of the car and tried to read while hanging by a strap. People began to drop off, one at a time many of them bumping his book as they went toward the exit. He no- ticed that there were now several va- cant seats and sat himself comfortably to read once more. At the next cor- girls, followed by an eiderly man who walked with a cane, and seemed to be suffering with the gouf. Our hero gave up his seat again. Somebody across the isle sniggered. Two blocks were covered without change.: Then two family parties in the rear of the car got out simultaneously, and the youth sank into a seat with a sigh. But not for long. A flood of fashion- able women from an afternoon tea and three miscellaneous men came In. With despair the student noted that there were not enough seats te go around, No one else offered to get up. He rose uncertainly and wait- ed for one of the ladies to notice that he was offering her his place. While he hesitated one of the men took the seat, smiling a little insolent smile. Several people giggled. The young man swallowed hard three times; and then walked forward. Very Hlkely he was getting weary of well-doing. No wonder politness is getting rare. ‘We don’t encourage it. e P o 3 Ll Are You a Bore? (Irish World) Do you monopolize the conversation wherever you go with a breathless ac- count of your own affairs? Do you live over some trip you have taken with a friend until those around you never want to visit the regions you discuss? Do you tell pointless jokes? Do you talk round and round a subject before you finally get up to the point you want to emphasize? Do you interrupt another's conver- sation with ‘“That reminds me—".or “By.the way—"" Do you insist on pointing out every place of interest, which is interesting to you, but not to a stranger? Do you talk about mutual acquaint- ances- and then ask your hearer's opinfon upon them? Do you chatter on for the sake of fillilng up a silence? Do you take delight in explaining the why, wherefore and when of something in which your cumpanion may take slight interest? Do you fill up conversation with stories of people whom your audience does not know, never will know, nor has any desire to know? Do. you jump at every opportunity to trace a person’s family connections and ancestry to the fourth genera- tion? Do you read the letters at the mov- ies for the benefit of the entire thea- ter? % Do you annoy a concert by beating time to the music or humming with the singer? Do you talk shop out of shop hours? Do you laugh at your own jokes be- fore anyone else has a chance to do so? Do youstell the point of another's story before he has a chance to em- phasize it? Do you say, “Oh, yes T've that before,” and take away pleasure of another’s story? heard the “The Federation of the World.” (Waterbury. Democrat) Sixty-four years ago Alfred Tenny- son wrote in “Locksley Hall”: “For I dipt Into the future, far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vislon of the world, and all the wonder that would be: “Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations’ alry navies grap- pling in the central plue; “Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer and the battle flags were furled In the parliament of man, the feder- ation of the world.” Literature furnishes no nobler ut- terance. What President Wilson pro- posed In his address to the senate is nothing more or less than this “fed. eration of the world.” Between Ten. nyson and Wilson ‘numberless poets and statesmen and lovers of humanity have given expression in one form or another to this same beautiful aspir- ation. The president’s address takes high rank among these utterances. Tt contains more practical suggestion than any of them for so far as the president can do 8o it commits Amer- fca to the policy of joining such a federation provided it can be worked out on lines that are sattsfactory to this country. But even the president's address leaves much to be decided so far as the practical application of the theory of world federation s con- cerned. This Jack should not detract from the full credit that is due the president for sounding this high note at a tlme when most of the civilized natons are at death grips in the most devastatng war in history. It is well that there is at the head of the great- est nation at peace, a statesman with the jdealism and the courage required to do what President Wilson has done. Tn its mope concrete aspects, the ad- dress was a direct challenge to those Americans who =till hold to the he- lef that this country can continue to enjoy all the privileges of living in the world of natons and share none of the burdens and responsibilities. Tt is too early to know what the full effect of the president’s action will be upon the peoples of the nations at war. That the president was aiming at them rather than at thefr leaders iz appar- ent from many expresstons in his statement. One thing Is certain. the president has let it he known that as the chosen representative of the grent- est democracy he wil not lend his aid to the establishment of peace and its preservation, unless it is hased upon justice to the long suffering common people of the fighting nations. Tt is more than a gentle hint to European monarchs that this democracy has nothing fn common with their lust for ageression and power at the expense of the men and women thev are | pleased to consider their subjects. | Correct Preparedness. | ner a woman got on with three little | nERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1017. (Newark News). \ Will anyone pretend that Waah- ington’s expert riflemen were not bet- ter equipped than British regulars with smooth-bore muskets? The North in the Civil War began to use its superior resources effectively ohly when Lincoln made the politicians keep their hands off the army, and when Grant, a West Pointer, was glven unhampered control of military operations, The same lesson lies obscured in other campaigns. The long bow was the most effective weapon of it time, hence Agincourt and Cressy, N poleon, besides being a strategist, ap- preciated the potentialities of artil- lery. And we are inclined to believe { that if our histories told facts and: weighed the defeats or handicaps bad preparation put in the way.of real- izing ideals, there would arise a firm conviction thut a yictory against really adverse circumstances is a very unusual occurrence, Behind most great victories tnere will be found three related factor: mainly adequacy of preparation all elong the line, either separate from or including strategy and morale. By strategy We mean all “hat goes into the skill With which the officers hah- dle the units, and by morale the con- fidence that the men feel in their officers not only, but also many other elements of good handling, not omit- ting national idealism and a govern. | ment that they have reason to love.” To indicate what we are getting at we would say flatly that the central reason for the German initial Success and continuing resistance rests in the faot that the Germans had stripped the nonsense out of history and rec- ognized that war was a business not to be conducted by amateurs. And they are being businesslike all the way through, while their antagonists never got away-entirely from the idea of war as a Sporting proposition. We will offset the German’s belief in kultur with the Frenchman' viction of republicanism, and thus match out the spiritual factor. We will simply hold to the point that the cause for the failure of any great campaign by any greats civilized peo- ple cannot be laid upon the shoul- ders of the individual fighting men per se, but can be brought right back in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- dred to the failure of those at the head of the goVernment, or of the public behind it, to consider war so serious a business that Personal, po- litical and mercenary motives have to be omitted, and to realize the side that wins is the one who has left no stone unturned in thoroughness of preparedness. That means health and content and aspirations*in peace, as well as actual material equipment and military training. The application of whatever ‘moral there may be to the United States is self-evident. If we make war our business—that is, militarism—sooner or later we will draw down upon our- selves such enmity and suspicion as accounts for the number of Ger- many’s enemles. But if we make ourselves and our wars businesslike and keep our purposes ideal we need not worry. — L o Zeppelinize? Never. (Toledo Blade) When the United States builds and launches whatever adaptation of the Zeppelin airship may be decided upon, as forecast in Secretary Daniels’ an- nouncement that the army and navy general staffs have agreed upon the adoption of that form of machine as necessary to the defence of the coun- try, it will be necessary to coin a new name for that particular engine of war. Probably there is no such verb in the English or any other language as Zeppelinize, but the world in gen- cral and the United States in par- ticular has heen more than once stricken dumb with horror at the ac- complishments for which such a word stands. To Zeppelinize means' to drop flam- ing torches, sharp pointed missiles or exploding hombs upon unfortified and undefcnded hamlets and villages. To Zeppelinize means to range In terror through the calm air of the night, spreading death, injury and dis- aster among helpless non-combatants. To Zeppelinizé means to give to war its last red horror, to add to strifc its final cruelty, and cap with ultimate ferocity the climax of the world’s final barbarity. To such tasks as these no weapon of warfare adopted by the United States of America can ever come; to such heights or depths no warrior in the service of the general staffs of cither the United States army or navy will ever rise or stoop. and to such barbarities no soldier of the Untted States will ever be assigned. Therefore, when the TUnited States adopts lighter-than-air airships, they will be named for somebody or some- {hing other than Count Zeppelin, who has lived to prostitite a good inven- tion to a dastardly purpose. 'S con- Pointed Paragraphs. (Chicago News) The bee is never too busy to admin- ister o, stinging rebuke. Occasionally there is watered stock in the dry goods business Tt is easler to renew a good resolu- tion than a ninety-day note. doesn’t ‘make a wo- isn’t any hope for If matrimony man wise, there her. A man with a cork leg may or may not be a member of the floating pop- ulation. Fven the aristocratic passenger on a slecping car doesn't object to a low berth. One of the things a man can’t un- derstand is why his encmies seem to have so many friends. The smile of a good woman will do a man more good than a dgzen hand- ed him by thé bartender. It sometimes happens that a man is kept from squandering his money for mining stock because he has none to squander. LLAN’S New Britain’s Busy, Big Store — “Always Reliable” BIG REMNANT SALE | DRAPERY MATERIALS at On Sale Wednesday Morning. at 8:30 *} The entire lot of Remnants will be displayed in our norfh window until time of sale Wednesday morning. You all know what a Remnant Sale offers at this store, so be here and share in the bargains. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Three Days of Intense Selling Before we take inventory. ODI; LOTS KNIT UNDERWEAR ‘While they last 83c garment. Values up to $1.50. Mén’s Union Suits, Women’s Wool Vests in this lot. MEN’S WOOL SOX 86c and 39c values for the three days, 25c pair. Medium and heavy weights. next ODD LOTS WOMEN’S NECKWEAR 5c and 10c each. Values to 50c. ODD LOTS EMBROIDERED HANDKERCHIEFS At 8c and 12%;c¢ eac] Values to 19. ODD LOTS GLOVES AND MITTENS Of All Kinds. WASH GOODS At Sale Prices. Fancy Striped Bates Crepes, Regu- lar 25c values. Sale Price 14c yard. ‘ loc Yard - ! £ Our new business year begins | February 1st. Determined not to carry into it broken as- sortments, oddments, stragglers or encumbering short lines | 'we offer for the three remaining days of January, many ' remarkable value--giving lots at a big saving to you. ODD LOTS BED SHEETS, TOWELINGS, BUREAU SCARFS All Linen Toweling, 10%c yard, Bed Sheets,, good quality cotton, 496 cach. Burcau Scarfs, slightly soiled, 39¢ each. Value to 75c. Sheetings, at Sale Prices. 3 Palm Olive Soap, 5c cake. i One cake to a customer, with a pur- chase of 25c or over on toilet goods:® notions, stamped goods, leather good jewelry and shell goods, which aral being offered at sale prices, 7 R ot x g 5 SPECIAL OFFER AT TOILET DEP]"T PLUSH COATS for thq last three days of our sale, at* $15.98 and $28.98 each. Values tg . $35.00. y CHILDREN’'S COATS Sizes 2 to 6 vears, going at $2.98 eh. 2 Sizes 6 to 14 years, going at $4.98 ea. 2 a D. McMILLAN; 199-201-203 MA IN STREET San Francisco and Lod Angeles. (San Francisco Chronicle) San Francisco does not need to par- ade its greatness, and never does s0 unless challenged. The struggles of Los Angeles remind one of those which at one time existed in St. Louis against Chicagof St. Paul against Minneapolis and in similar cases which are familiar to all. Business and population inevitably concentrate where resources exist and facilitfes for the industries and com- merce for which they are the founda- tion. Los Angel natural business center of a few counti the south- ern part of California, mostiy desert, but containing quite extensive areas of zood land. for part of which water is available for raizing crops. By the aid of a beneficent government there has been created what its people call, a harbor, some twenty miles from the city, and which, in fact, is quite ade- quate for any commerce which it will ever have. It is connected with the city by a strip of laud about two blocks wide, which has been incor- porated into the city, so that by a typical Los Angeles fiction it can call itself a *seaport.” Los Angeles was discovered some twenty-five or thirty years ago by some Boston people, who at that time were building the Santa Fe railvoad, and whose people and press continue to lusfily proclaim that Los Angeles is the great city of destiny, perhaps because It is so different from Boston. There was gt the time available to Boston the services of a corps of per- haps the most accomplished, enthus- fastic and successful land boomers the world has seen, ahd who, having just completed their work at Minne- apolis, were translated in a body_to the then adobe village of Tos Angeles where they proceeded to chouzle the unfortunate Spanish ranch owners out of their possessions for a song and then sub-divide them into town lots and sell them on the basis of oranges and climate” s i the The Pullman Traveler. (Toledo Blade) “1f 1 don't care to talk, which usu- ally T don’t, I am a deaf and dumb asylum with a grouch on. If I do talk, I assume the air of Kaiser Wil- helm offering peace to his enemies and combine it with the air of a muni- tion maker reciting his profits. “I insist on being first into the car and first out, and it does me good to bump Into a lot of folks and cause them to look murder. I throw my feet around so that women shall trip over themw and if I have set a child squal- ling T am pleased for hours. “I rise early so I can be in the wa in the wash room and when the movement is toward the diner T walk up and down the’smallest passage in the_car. p “At home, I am a fairly decent cit- izen, considerate, courteous. But the mement ‘I board a train, I try to see how nearly I can simulate the man- ners of the hog pen. Why do T do it? I, don’t know. It just happens that I do.” A County Agricultural School. (Fall River Herald). The annual report of the directof of the British County Agriculiurd) school indicates that an effort aug to put instruction there: on a praciical basis. Teachers are re- quired to zo into the field with thelp how tiings them themad been made and demonstrate be done by do. Pupiis should selves, In other gests that demonstraie to the county that it needs s=uch an institution, ich it votad to establish’ without any good § reason. Jt has sent out an to nelp with advice such farmers as desire advice, lege and the ture are sending whe malke it possibie for the farsi- ers ‘o secure advice on the same sub- ject from separate sources and to dis- § ccver whether experts agree on farm- ing methods. Tt is a singular fagt that the iarger pai of tne couny school’s pupils have been drawn from the cities, and that Fali River hae sent 15. Perhaps it is not proper to' draw the conclusion that p2ople ac- inted@ with farming methods and ¥ sug, ta the school s respects, report the t ng Department of Agrie 1vi ~0 deeply impressed with the advan- tages offered by such a school as ars those who know little or nothing of agent § out simiiar agents, § just as the State Coly, ] ng in the country districts are act the subject, and that the back-to-the- § feim movement Ix going to 12 of the cities with an enthusiasia thi has never before heen suspected Peo 20ps, too, four years rot o 1] enough time to form a sound opinion | whether the investment in the schnal fs going to be repaid in pesmaneng . henefits that could not have heen sgs cured by a less costly undertakingy hesitate. therefore, to agres with tl:e Taunton Globe, which says: “THs returne which the community — wilf Teap from Its activitles compensate many times over for the efforts which’ have been made In its behalf, and’ foj the expense involved.’ That has nd vet been demonstrated in the rush rubils from the communites gave a majority vote on a re dum in favor of undertaking thi reriment and it certainly p-esumel ¢n the returns in at present ts con; clude that it is going to be 3 is e e From Furopesn Armies. (Buffal® Express). 3 Amos Pinchot led a delegétion of men who claimed¢hat they had served in the Swiss, Roumanian and Russian armies to protest befors a senate committee agalnst unive al military training. Were they speak=: ing from the viewpoint of national interest or their individual ; ence? An Earlier Commerce Raider, (Charleston News and Courier). __ When it comes to commerce. ra A< ing, even Raphael Semmes couldn'{ teach the Germans very much. prefoza 4 1 ) g } 4 ) ' 'z 7 ] ) ! i 4