New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1917, Page 8

" Britain _Herald. D PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. dally (Sunday excepted) at ¢:15 p. M. At Herald Bullding. 87 Church 8t. the Post Ofice at New Britain @ Class Mall Matte: a by carder to any part of the city r 16 cedts aiwaek, E5c a month. ptions for HApET to be sent by mall, le in advance. 60 cents s month, 7.00 & year. only profitable advertismg medium in the ofty: Circulation books and press foom always open to advertisers. Ferald will be found on sale at Hota- &'t News Stand. 42nd St. and Broad- New York City; Board Walk, At- tic Cit/, und Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. ess Office prial Room: FOR HEALTH’S SAKE. bunctlman Paonessa recently in- uced a resolution in the Cemrr:mn hpeil which had to do with pro- ng the community from germs might be tracked around by chil- playing near piles of refuse, or r insanitary surroundings. It is bod resolution and should be en- led to the letter. If the Health the Police Departments are anx- to co-operate In securing obedi- to this ordinance they. will find od working fleld in the immediate bty of the rallroad station. There, | 1ot in a direction somewhat west- from the approach to the depot, will find on any olear morning bodly gang of young boys playing nd: in the slush and mud, when e carthly accesSories are at hand. this morning, somewhat akin to arly day in Spring, when the ing process had turned the snow a soft liquid that in turn trans- hed spots: of land into veritable limires there were any number of k fellows romping and playing in ls of this stagnant, dirty water. Jan innocent enjoyment of child- i to play in water; but when the jum of entertainment is of such 14 oter as to be devoid of any- approaching purity older heads hld direct young feet to more thful and attractive playgrounds. health of the community de- rigid precaution in these s in some others, FOLK LIKE OOR AIN FOLK.” is a very pretty bit of senti- ‘prevalent among the Scottish Jo which is founded on the “Nae Folk Like Oor Ain It means just what it says: are no folk like our own. It bable, too, that every nationality e face of the globe has an ex- jon along similar lines, clothed +’in - different language. In Ger- this self same idea has taken Fession in the ringing challenge, tmacht oder Neidergang.” A biber of thoughts in the same chan- jare familiar to the English, and | French, and the Irish, and the ns, and the Russians, and the Indinavian peoples, and now with Japanese, who are building up hational sentiment which means pan Over AlL" kational, racial, religious, and class He are a few of the tralts that highly developed in the human e, no matter where the race unds, Going back to June 28, 4 when a Bosnian peasant assas- ted two Royal personages in the e town of Sarajevo we find a sen- ent, which, clothed in the Amer- In vernacular meant,” “No' prole- ian can’ kill 'a meépmber of the aris- racy and get away with it.” That s well enough; but when the pun- ment overstepped the frail carcass the peasant youth and rode rough- ad over the continent the sacred fifiment of class love had gong a steps too far. It ended in the os#a] war now infesting almost en- Europe, and which at one time reatepied to Btretc fts ghastly head sn acrosy the Atlantic ocean' and to the shoves’of America. It isfa- truism that love of self :ufl.u.fien goes 80 far as to breed ha- lba of others, If any people, no tter how great, think they are the y ones who inhabit the globe, the kde that cometh before the fall is hand. The time for the oppres- bn and the under-trodden has come. story is resplendent with examples. ere are manifestations of these lings every day in Europe, where tion after nation-is imbued with jdea, grown to more than mag- cent proportions, that there are kae FFolk Like Oor Ain Folk.” America, the Melting Pot, the land it holds all the folk of the entire rth, must soon learn the lesson of ae Folk Like Oor Ain Folk,” and ply it in a different way that now ling demonstrated in Burope. It a beautiful sentiment when not ried to the extreme, when exer- ped in the same magnanimous strain sting among those men and wom- of Scottish blood who have brought idea to these shores. To them, Folk Like Oor Ain Folk,” does that there is but one race , those Who bear the Caledo- nlan strain. It means to those who came from the Highland country that here in America there is & new state of affairs, a new condition, a New ‘World, where all men of all places are members of the one great fam- ily, where racial traits are discounted for the common good, where religious beliefs may flourish untrammeled, where nationalities are assimilated in the one great font, where class is un- known. If America does not mean that it means nothing. Because of that there are no folk anywhere like the folk in this land. If our motley gatherings were living side by side in Europe as they are living here in America day by day there would be an endless chain of wars and battles the same as now going on in Europe. The thing is: We must cultivate the idea that there are ‘‘Nae Folk Like Oor Ain Folk;” but we must not let it run away with us. Here in America we have every reason to be- lieve that there is not another nation on earth as free as ours. There are no people under the sun who live in a more contented manner than we. There are no skles so fair as ours, no land so devoid of petty bickerings and distasteful associations. We are many in one. We should be one for all. Otherwise there will be strife. Holding too dear the love of the old countries we could easily transplant Europe to this continent and set up a nation of different peoples, all pull- Ing each against the other, like tribes- men of old, all holding tribal, ractal, religlous and class antipathies. If we are to believe the doctrine, ‘“Nae Folk Like Oor Ain Folk,” we must hold it in the true American sense, and that only. THE BILL TO BE PAID. Business men will no doubt rail at the proposal of Congress to impase a tax on their profits of more than eight per cent. on amounts exceeding five thousand dollars a year. The amount of the proposed assessment is also eight per cent. This tax.if it is made legal, will be In addition to the corporation income tax already in vogue. In addition to this, the Con- gress, in order to raise more money to carry out the preparedness program recently adopted, may increase the present inheritance tax by fifty per cent. The new Revenue Bill is oné of the most gigantic measures of its kind ever presented to the national Con- gress, It is but the aftermath of popular sentiment which having spread throughout the country de- manded unprecedented expenditures on the army, the navy, and land for- tifications. .The thorized for this expenditures . au- vear alone were somewhere in the neighborhood of $600,000,000. The sliding scale method of expenditures adopted will eventually bring the annual bill for war precautions up to $1,000,000,000 a year. Talking about the national defense, advocating gigantic schemes of im- provement and protection, and paying for the national defense are two sep- arate and distinct processes. The people demanded a complete overhauling of the army and the navy. Their dread of what might happen to the nation in the face of what occurrei in the war zone of Europe, where nations were unprepared, started a stampede. Now they are called upen to pay the bill. It is the unpleasant feature of the performance. Since money can be collected only in the realms where money flourishes, the national Congress has the right idea in passing by those who are least fitted to bear the brunt of the burden. But it is doubtful if the idea of tax- ing business concerns showing a prof- it of eight per cent. on amounts ex- ceeding five thousand dollars a year will work out just as easy as the sys- tem sounds. The men who do busi- ness dangerously near that mark will be theé ones who will have every chance in the world of evading a gov- ernment tax. Those who work on a gigantic scale will probably have to pay the bills for the little fellows. President Wilson in applying the veto to the Immigration Bill did ex- actly what the nation expected him to do. He is the third President of the United States to uphold the idea of Democracy in this way. He has refused to close the gates on those deserving citizens of the old land who are ambitious to start life anew on a soil free from the handicaps im- posed by Europe. The literacy test attached to this bill is what fore- doomed it to the White House veto. Because a man cannot read or write is no sign he is an unworthy candi- date for admission to this nation. Some of the heaviest blows struck against the nation have come from men who knew how to read and write far too much for the country’s good. When Theodore Roosevelt quotes Scripture Billy Sunday coins another slang phrase. FACTS AND FANCIES. Chicago has the apathy of a cow. It has emotions, but it has no effec- tive emotions.—Chicago Tribune. A New Jersey man lost his mind attempting to invent a sanitary top for milk bottles. How about consti- tutional prohibition of milk ?>—Louis- ville Courier-Journal. Kaiser’ Wilhelm has decorated Crown Prince Ruprecht “for winning the battle of the Somme.” Now that the battle has been won what are they sticking around there for?.—New Haven Union. Clock watching is as bad a habit for a nation as for an office boy. The fear lest somebody work longer than he ought to has grown into an ob- session with a great part of this na- tion.—N. Y. Evening Sun. When a man with only a few dol- lars to his name can read unmoved of the hundreds of millions in gold imports, of the billions in national bank resources, of the unprecedented railway earnings, he is a true philoso- pher.—Baltimore News. Maximilian Harden, the Spoiled child of German journalism, is per- mitted to praise President Wilson's course in turning toward “a new fu- ture.” Junkerdom may fipd one free voice useful in testing what the coun- try really thinks. It is not unlikely that those who are fighting the saloon may be fooled by “signs or viotory” in the maps show- ing dry territory. Putting the saloons out of business isn't a question of merely capturing land areas. ~ White “territory” shown on prohibition maps usually represents farm lands, while black areas represent congested pop- ulations.—Bridgeport Standard. How much longer do automobile owners propose to pay double taxa- tion. Is there any other class of prop- erty in the country taxed along sim- ilar lines. Just as sensible to tax horses and vehicles in Hartford and where they are owned as it is to tax automobiles. Where is the law maker equal to the occasion to rise up and inquire why double taxation exists?— Middletown Press. Genius. A cunning and curious splendor, That glorifies commonest things— Palissy, with clay fromi the river, Molds cups for the tables of kings. A marvel of sweet and wise madness, That passes our skill to define; It clothes the poor peasant with grandeur, > And turns his rude hut to a shrine. Full many a dear lttle daisy Had passed from the light of the sun, Ere Burns, share, Upturned and immortaled that one. with his pen and plow- And just with a touch of its magic It gives to the poet’s rough rhyme A something that makes the world listen, And will, to the ending of time. It puts a great price upon shadows— Holds visions, all rubles above, And shreds of old tapestries pieces To legends of glory and love. The ruin its builds into beauty, Uplifting the low-lying towers, Makes green the waste place with a garden, And shapes the flowers. dead dust into It shows us the lovely court ladies, All shining in lace and brocade; The knights, for their gloves who did battle. In terrible armor arrayed. It gives to the gray head a glory, And grace to the evelids that weep, And makes our last enemy even, To be as the brother of sleep. A marvel of madness celestial, That causes the weed at our feet, The thistle that grows at the way- side, To somehow look strange and be sweet. No heirs hath it, neither ancestry; But just as it listeth, and when, It seals with its own roval signet, The foreheads of women and men. ALICE CARY, Georgin Bought a Slave. (Atlanta Constitution.) The State of Georgia was at one time the owner of a slave. Whether or not any other state ever owned a slave or slaves is not known, but cer- tainly it is higly probable that no other state ever owned a slave and a railroad at the same time and worked them together, as was the case with the slave owned by Georgla. The negro’s name was Ransom, late called Ransom Montgomery by rea- son of the fact that before he was acquired by the state he was owned by a man named H. B. Y. Montgom- ery. He was purchased outright by the state through an act of the legis- lature of 1840 for having saved the Western and Atlantic railroad bridge over the Chattahoochee river from destruction by fire, ‘and later was placed upon a salary under the su- pervision of the “principal engineer” of the Western and Atlantic railroad. Subsequently, when the civil war was over, Ransom, now a free man, was again remembered by the state. Although the state was practically bankrupt. an act of the general as- sembly, approved August 3, 1868, au- i thorized the superintendent of the state road to pay to Ransom from the treasury of the road the sum of $562.50 and also to provide him with a home during the rest of his life. American Cities. (Cleveland Plain Dealer). “They were named,” savs the Louis- ville Courfer-Journal, “New -York, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans. They are called N’ Yawk, Yarrick, Chicargo, Sint Louee, Newer Teans.” And—er—might one mention Looah- vul? COMMUNICATED. OUR CITY STREETS. cies in the Manner and Mode of Naming Thoroughfares—Of Interest to All, To the Editor of the Herald:— The 1916 cIty directory contains a list of 299 street names. Bond is Te- psated as if there were two streets of that name when in fact there is only one. The names of two streets re- cently changed, are listed under both names while Stanley street is also these four repetitions omitted, the list gives 295 street names. To this number may be added about 20 streets, shown on the map but not included in the list of streets, thereby making a total af about 315 streets, The 1916 directory map is the same as that for 1915 and as it was copy- righted in 1912, we may presume that the 1916 directory map is four years behind time. It shows 66 pocket streets, but how many of these are accepted streets does not appear. In some speclal cases, as for example, Court street, they may be tolerated although they should not have the city’s approval. We presume that every man has a right to make and open any kind of a street he pleases on his own land. The map shows that our streets were never laid out. Like Topsy they ‘just grew up. The sole object of giving names ta streets is convenience and utility in alding the general public to find them readily, and that consideration should always be the prime factor in giving nmames to streets or In changing the names before given. Duplicates in whole or in part should be avolded, as far as they can be, as they tend to canfusion. OQur list of streets glves Roxbury Road’ as running westerly. The map gives another Roxbury Road running northerly. The latter ought to be changed. As to duplicate names, people In general make no nice distinctions be- tween streets, avenues, roads and drives. As their terms are generally used there is no difference whatever in their meaning. Such affixes are not sufficiently distinctive to identify the street, especially as it is nat always easy to remember which affix is em- ployed, thereby tending to confusion. For example we should not tollerate Clark street and Clark Avenue. Dix street and Dix Avenue, Hartford Avenue and Hartford Road, Lake street and Lake Boulevard, Seymour street and Seymour avenue, because they tend to confusion, Affixes which clearly indicate samething less than, or different from a regular street, are more distinctive and may be per- mitted. As for example Franklin Square, Lake, Court, Park Place, etc. The name Lake Boulevard is ob- jectionable as it is llable to be con- fused with Lake street and further, because it is unnecessarily long and wholly superfluous. The word Baulevard alone is sufficiently dis- tinctive and it would be better to follow Hartford and call it the Boule- vard. The prefix Lake is just as clearly superfluous as would be the prefix Ggorge for Washington street. Public converlience and necessity require that no one continuous street shauld ever have different names ap- plied to its opposite ends, excepting as such ends constitude . lateral branches of a main thoroughfare, as for example, Roberts and Ash streets from the opposite sides of South Main or Stratford Road and Euclid Avenue from Stanley street. Although two different names in such cases are par- donable, it would be better to have only one, But when a street leading from a main road, like West Main, and wholly to one side of the same, has one name far one end and another name for the opposite end, we have been gullty of negligence if nothing more in permitting such a condition, thereby Inflicting upon the public an unnecessary inconvenience. Fortu- nately such a condition exists in anly two places, viz. Jerome Avenue and Hunter Road and Forest and Liberty streets. There are but few inhabi- tants on the former, and hence there is no serious inconvenience at present. A Mr. Jerome formerly lived near one section of this street and a Mr. Hunter at another section and naturally their names fell on the street with but little consideration. Both of these sections are probably parts of an original road, opened all at one. time. The Liberty-Farest street section were opened at different times and are so thickly populated as to be of much more importance and to cause seri- ous inconvenience. In fact Forest street 18 nothing and it was a great mistake for the city to have accepted that extension with a name different from that which the city had pre- viously adapted for the Liberty street section and all extensions thereof. Tt was a great mistake when the matter was before the city, a few vears since, that it did not apply the customary rule in such cases, and require the name Liberty to cover the entire street. It is said that the residents could not agree upon a name. That being the case, the city should have decided the matter for them. Of course, interested parties should be given a hearing in the matter; but who are jthe real interested parties fn this case? Nat necessarily those who reside on the street, for they know the situation =o well that they can generally find their homes with- out difficulty. Tt is that portion of the general public who do not know just where to find Torest street, that are subjected to inconvenfence thereby. As to the names Liberty or Forest, either 1s good enough for anyv street. No one can raise any valid ohjection to either name of itself. Tn fact we have not more than twa or three street names against which, as to the names alone, any one can ralse material objection Sentiment or elegance ought not to enter into\street names, unless public ntility and con- venience comes with them. The grocer, the baker. etc. da not cara whether a street is named Ash street or Buena Vista. The mere matter of liking or disliking a street name has no hearinz on the question of convenience, Misleading names should pot he tollerated. Tt was a mistake to change the name of the old turn-! | mgton Road. | toilowed it ten rods in going to South- | Attention Called to Some Discrepan- ' {listed under North and South; with | pike to the misleading name of South- No one would have ever ington, unless it was ior tne \purpose of getting off from it in order to go there, We did well to change 1is name to Corbin Avenue for whatever sentiment goes with the name Corbin does not in the least lessen the useful- ness of that change. It would have been better of to have called it Turn- pike, thereby perpetrating the wemory of the only street over which stage lines have been run through our town, 1t was a comamendable thing for our city to change the name of Kensington street, at its lower end to Arch street, whereby, with the new extension, we have one of the longest streets in the city. The longer our streets with a single name, are the better. Stanley street is & noble example; being the only street we have that extends from border to border through the city. It is well that Lincoln street carries its name from West Main southerly to the Berlin town line. It is laughable to have the southern portion thereof referred to as the extension, when in fact it is more than a hundred years older than the West Main street end. The general rule is and always has been that a street once established and named, carries that name ta all extensions thereof. This was the case with Grove, High, and Washington streets. In this way we get the ad- vantage of an old name for a new street section. The longer a name stands the better it is known. It is desirable to have all street names reach as far as they can from our main arteries and especially our trol- ley lines, We presume that the lower portion of Forest street was named before the street was opened up to its present length. Had it been opened all at one time, no one would have ever: thought of giving it its present name. In so far as we know this is the only instance in our city in which a named street has been extended without also carrying its name with the extension. We cannot say that Jerome Avenue and Hunter Road are either of them an extension of the other. The Liberty-Forest street tangle can be stralghtened out by applying either of these names alone to the entire street. We should not think of such a thing as a compromise name - for that would necessitate changing two street names instead of only one. No street name can be changed Wwithout some inconvenience to the public. It would be a sin against the public to change two street names when a change in only one is neces- sary. We, personally have no choice between these two names but we firmly believe that the general public would be better served by extending the name Liberty to the whole street. The city has already changed the name of one street that was christened simul- taneously with Forest street. The name Liberty street has never caused any inconventence . It has stcod lons enough to became well known and is also well known by its nearness to the trolley. Liberty and Lincoln. What grand synonyms, twin veterans of -the civil war.. Let them stand side by side forever. Sentiment may find favor when she walks hand in- hand with Utility; but when she brings trouble cast her aslde. It is easy enough to find Liberty street, the only difficulty now is that Forest street cannot be so easily found. It would be a bad precedent to change the name ot Lib- erty street to Forest because it would encourage others to seek new mnames for other street extensions. The houses on Forest street could be now readily found by the general public if the name Liberty ran through that street. In this way we ~could get rid of all the trouble and we should strike directly at the bottom of the whole matter and not doctor the head for trouble with the appendix. A COMMITTEE OF SIX OLDEST TNHABITANTS BT Fifty Oents’ ‘Worth of B.‘{l\!(,\', : (Baltimore Sun.) The new half-dollar is ““ve attrac- tive’ in appearancc, =nd evidently the +allors of the mint have expended more than usual care in the srtistic costuming of the familiar lady who ajorns it. Is is a pleasure to have such a pretty plece of silver adced to cur currency and to have our pa- triotism and gratitude stimulated by the medlum which contributes to our material welfare. Beauty in a coin, as in a person, however, is only super- 1. M:Levenhemss‘ we welcome the new representation of Liberty, Wwith her cheaf of plenty, her symbolic stars and her plous expiession of trust in diviner things. She will not buy even a dozen fresh eggs at present prices but still, though she brings us but fifty cents worth of rellef, ske s en- veloped with such an atmosphere of i{deallsm and optimism that we are glad to count her among our friends intimates. i How Charlie Proposed. (Pittsburgh Chronicle ‘Telegraph). He wag not a very rapid wooer and she was getting a bit anxious, Again he called and they sat to- gother in the parlor, just those two.” A loud rap came at the front door. “Oh, bother!” she said, “who can be calling?” ay vou're out!” said the gay de- ceiver. “Oh, no. That would be untrue,” murmured the ingenuous one. “Then say you're engaged,” urged. “Oh, may I Charlie!” she cried as she fell into his arms. And the man kept on knocking at the front door. he Allied Scorn of the Turks. (Scranton Republican). Not since Gladstone uttered his fa- mous condemnation of “the unspeak- able Turk” has there been a more trenchant or accurate description of the sanquinary spirit of Ottoman cru- elty than the phrase in the answer of the Allies to President Wiison's peace mnote describing “the bloody tyranny of the Turks." When Stocks Fell. (New York Sun). Every time the millennium bobs up stocks go down. Miracles of Steel. (Waldemar Kaempffert in Magazine). Writers of historical fiction per- petuated the notion that the art of the old armorer has perished. And yet in cars sold for only a few hun- dred dollars, axles and crankshafts | are to be found infinitely superior in texture to the weapons of famous swordsmiths. The tales of supple yet tough blades that could be bent into circles without snapping are eclipsed in the less artfully phrased reports of tests conducted with crankshaft steel in the metallurgical laboratory of eny large automobile factory. Could the old swords be twisted through six complete turns before they broke? An axle-shaft can be so twisted. What was the tensile strength of the mace that.Godfrey of Bouillon or Richard the Lion Heart wielded? How far, in other words, could it have Dbeen stretched lengthwise before it parted? No one knows. But the automobile metallurgist is sure that it was not the equal In that respect of a modern valve-stem—a slim little member that can be extended half its length in a testing-machine before it snaps in two. As soon as the metallurgist dis- covered "that the properties of steel could be subtly changed by the addi- tion of very small quantities of such elements as chromium,*carbon, man- ganese, nickel, tungsten, or vanadium —as soon, in other words, as the problem of making the automobile durable and safe had been solved by research—the designed ventured to consider the ecohomics of motoring. Heavy automobiles endure, but they consume much fuel, and they wear out expensive tires very rapidly. Light automobiles are more cheaply maintained. And so new demands were made on 'the laboratory in the effort to save weight without sacri- flcing strength or safety. Is a gear required with teeth on the outsidé as hard as tool-steel and yet with a core that shall be soft and tough, a gear that shall not weigh more than a given number of ounces? The metallurgist is asked not only to discover the for- mula for a steel out of which a part can be made and which must be ex- amined with the microscope to detect the wear.to which it ‘has’been sub- Jected after having run ten thousand miles, but also to indicate the meth- ods that must be followed by the fur- nace-men in heat-treating the metal. ‘Without the laboratory the designer would be helpless. There would be little progress from year to year. Harper's ! system ot had at least some acquaintance with practical government in America| his thorough studies as scholar and jurist gave him a knowledge of ad ministrative politics in other apheres. As secretary of foreign affairs in 1781-83 he did more than any one in the home government in shaping its foreign policy. But the system he indicated was *** not the ‘militia unsophisticated impulse, but that which the law of nations had at the time sanctioned as the best mode of conducting internationa. aftalrs. His course as secretary was based on the law of natlons as thus understood by him.”—Gaillard Hunt in Harper's Magazine. ‘Whose Hat? Is your hat distinctively individual (Woman's World.) or is it just a covering for the heac as suitable for anyone else as for yoa' So much depends upon the hat in the smart or indifferent look of your get- up, that more than a little though! ought to be given to this important adjunct of your toilette. Many times dollars have been expended upon the purchase of a hat without obtaining the effect so devoutly desired, wher for perhaps less than one dollar a be- coming shape might have been found which, with the addition of snappy wing or pert bow, would have markec you as a chic, appropriately dressec woman. Don’t ever be induced to take a hal because it is ‘just the thing they are wearing this season” for the chancer are that the saleswoman has instrue tions to get rid of that particila shape, due to an over-stock in thal line. And because the model in the store looks well in that hat is no rea son to believe that you will, too; sHt is employed in that capacity becauss hats in general are becoming to he and she is an asset to the department If you have discovered the characte of hat that is especially vour style the one in which you feel and know that you are improved in appearanscg because it brings out your good points and detracts from the others, try tc procure others of the same type, o course with such modifications as t¢ meet seasonal up-to-dateness. A hat may add several years'ta yout face, or contrariwise make you appear younger, so if you have reached yeart of maturity seek for the one that tends toward a vouthifying effect. You wik be in no danger of dressing “‘tog young for your vears,” for your judgmeni will take care of that. It the line of vour face—providing vou have lines—have a downwaré tendency, be careful not to select 4 In Loving Memory. (The Milwaukee Journal.) A little old man came into the office of the Chicago charities and laid down $150, “to help out some needy families.” Then he told them a story: “Years ago, when all of my folks were living, I couldn’t afford to glve presents. Things are different now, but miost of my folks have gone. I went shopping, just as if my folks were alive. I picked out a shawl for an aunt of mine. She's dead and so I didn’t buy it, but I put down the amount of money I would have spent. Then I went and got some things for my dead brother and for my father and mother and for a few old friends of mine. I didn't really get them, vou know, but I priced the things I thought they would like. When I added up all the money I would have spent it came to almost $150, so I added a little to it, and here it is.” Has any one heard of a finer, more beautiful way of showing a man's love for his dead The things he had wanted to do it was too late to do now. He might, it is true, have spent money on stone to make more arti- ficial and melancholy the quiet hill- side where “his folks” rest. He found a better way to spend his affection, to remember in fancy those he could no longer reach and then to see that his loving memory of them went to make others happler. He made his love for his dead a power to gladden the living. He laid tribute on grief and made it a blessing. It is not a sad story; we need not pity him. But we cannot help loving him. OUR DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Its Father and First Secretary Was Robert R. Livingston. Our first secretary for foreign affairs was Robert R. Livingston of New York, a statesman and Jjurist who ranked high among giants who ruled the Continental congress and carried the country through the Revolution. He created the depart- ment in the face of difficulties which would have driven a less courageous man away from his work, for in the congress there was a general fear of government and a general disin- clination to depute any governmental powers. So the excutive departments which were created were kept in leading strings and were not allowed to go beyond reaching distance of congress, their mother and master. The department of foreign affairs was created in 1781, and Livingston was put at the head of it. He resigned in June, 1783, and the department was suspended until John Jay was made the secretary in Sept. 1784, Since then it has had a continuous existence, having been expanded into the department of state in 1789. Livingston had charge under con- gress of the conduct of the country’s foreign affairs; he gave advice and information to congress; he was the medium for instructing our ministers abroad and of communicating with the French minister in this country; he had an office with assistants and clerks and a systematically organized executive department. Let the editor of the Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Dr. Francls Wharton, describe the father of the state. de- partment: “Livingston, much younger man possessed in his dispassionateness and his many sidedness not a few of Franklin’s characteristics. From his prior administrative experience as royalist recorder of New York he he says ‘“‘though a than Franklin, hat with a drooping brim for it will emphazise them to your disparage- ment, Seek rather the slightly rolling brim, or one upturning on the side to soften the countenance and diveri attention from the lines. Also avoid the hat with a hard, straight line, as it gives a harsh, un- " desirable look to the face, especially if a softening of the features is sought. Unless we make a study of oursdlves as related to the hat question and work out our problem in some satis- factory way, there {s not much hope Among the things we might avold a Selecting picture hats if we afe tiny mites of femininity: if tall, in- creasihg our apparent height by the use of high trimming: if broad of face, emphasizing that fact by select- ing close-fitting, little shapes; placing a hat atop our heads, instead of starts ing at the back and lLringing it for- ward down over the forehead; wear- ing our hats straight, instead of ati an angle. A tilt to the wearing of a hat is as the sauce to the pudding— it gives it the requisite finish. Don' be afraid it will look too rakish; per- | haps that is just the touch that has | been lacking to give u trimness and smartness to your attire. Suppose we make up our minds not to let this hat problem get the better of us. but try to turn sorrow to re- jolcing by studying our individual re- quirements and when we have found what 1s best suited to our tvpe, ad- here to those lines “Scraps of Paper.” (New York Commercial). Merchants and manufacturers treat contracts to buy and sell merchandise as scraps of paper which may be can® celled or repudiated at will. A large importer of raw materials and mates rials partly finished for use in manu- facturing has refused to accept orders » from some of his customers because ! he believes they are trying to gamble at his expense. He thinks that they wili take the goods if the market shows a profit at the time of delivery and they will cancel or refuse to ac- cept if tho market goes down. Ha, therefore, fecls sure that he will be left with the goods on his hands it prices go -down, so he has refused to* help them. 3 For two years most merchants deal- ing in staple merchandise have made larger profits on a steadily rising mar- ket, so there has not been much trouble, but this canhot last forever. Manufacturers and wholesalers are now refusing to accept orders when they think they are suspiciously large. They are trying to check the propen- sity of retailers and jobbers to specu- late and they hold them down to thc actual amount of merchandise they are likely to sell in the regular way. From top to bottom, thfs abuse should be abated, and there is a sure, and easy way to do it. When a sale is made draw a bill of exchange or draft on the purchaser and insist on his accepting it. Turn all these con- tracts into negotiable commercial pa- per eligible for rediscount by a Fed- eral Reserve Bank and fulfill the con- tracts to the letter. This converts un- settled liabilities into quick assets. To a considerable extent the scar- city of raw materials for use in manu- facturing is due to the unwillingness of importers to take chances. They have been importing less than their customers require because of lack of confidence in their business integrity. The importer has to order months ahead from foreigners who tdke no chances, and he is not asking too much if he insists on his own custom- ers helping to finance such transac- tions by accepting bills or signingt valid’ contracts that will be specifically eaforced,