New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1917, Page 6

1 ; U i ] i A A 4 a4 e — Brit_a_i_n Herald. ERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. M., Herala Building, 67 Church St. d at the Post Ofice at New Britain Becond Class Mall Matter. Ted by carrier to anv part of the city 16 cents a week, 65c a month. riptions for paper to be sent by mall ble in advance. 60 cents a month, & year. y profitable advertistng medium i city: Circulation books and pre pom always open to advertisers. Herald will be found on sale at Hot: ag's News Stand, 42nd 6t. and Broad- 7. New York Clty; Board Walk, At- ntic City, und Hartford Depoi. TELEPHONE CALLS. ess Office frial Rooms . A WORTHY OFFER. esident George M. Landers in ering to Governor Holcomb the ices of the New Britain Cham- of Commerce in this hour of na- anxiety takes a step the impor- P of which is not readily realized lhose outside the organization. thp\pnst two years the Chamber Jommerce in this city has been ly engaged in making inventory of pssets of New Britain, both in the ér ‘of men and measures. It s to a nicety the capacities of in great factories in this city that be turned over to aid the na- h1 government in the defense of nation. It has on file names of who may be called upon to render able help to the statc and na- when duty demands. In any wures that the Governor’ may ;Enmcnd for the protection of the b the co-operation of the local mber of Commerce will e com« e with the wishes of the hle of this city. “OUR COUNTRY.” ‘was Stephen Decatur who up the guiding spirit for all eans in time of national stress. this great patriot who pointed when he said: ‘‘Our country, ar intercourse with foreign nations, “shelalways be in the right; but right or wrong.” In the ‘Wwhich has presented itself before tion we firmly beHeve that our htry is right; but even were things jrsed, and it was in the wrong, we i firmly stand in back of it, ready o whatever it demanded, to sac- e life or treasure if needs be, for fvindication of the national honor. ' country! If she is mnot worth ing for, if she is not worth dying she 15 not worth living in. There ‘a true American citizen, native ign-born, who will not, in the » of trlal, stand ready t® sacrifice that life holds dear if the nation jands such action. la breaking diplomatic relations the Imperial Government of many the President of the United es did only what the honor, safety future life of the nation demanded alling the circumstances which led such a break, Senator Lodge, of achuse the worst political my President Wilson has, outside ‘heodore Roosevelt, said yesterday ernoon in the United States Senate amber: ‘‘Party lines have vanished, i any criticism of the president is mced for me. When my country is controversy with a foreign nation an sec for myself but one duty and t is to stand by and support the bognized authority of government.” i hator Lodge has but followed the irse mapped out by Stephen De- cur, the way of all true Americans en the nation reaches a state of atroversy with any foreign nation. Our country: d in the wide, wide world. ses its patience. But when Pans business. For two btes allowed Germany buld not be given by hltion. ck and watched vears the any international Instead, ht known to d it did not grow mad. [lm 1y to Germany ror pointed out of her ways. is rope Germany v other power or human uld do who mistakes Bwardice, she hanged herself. inch, she took a foot: given a foot he took a vard. all things and ppressed emotions Uncle Sam in has sent rning. rins W ny n how or acknowlcdge when it It is the most tolerant Good- jtured, it walits a long while before it res up, when its spirit is aroused, it And in this case it is United | leaway that For two years this nation sat its people and its ips manhandlea in violation of every law. it the And, given all did what almost being kindness for Given But there is an end ! nis | the He cannot be ' on friendly | tion that refuses to | has | in this nation will pray that such a dreadful thing may never come to pass. But if it must be, they will stand the consequences, renewing the faith of the men who founded and builded this Republic, and firm in.the love and defense of a common country. WAR IN THE OFFING. Latest despatches from the State Department at Washington indicate that the sinking of the Anchor liner California off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine is not an overt act. Just how the State Department reached this decision is made plain; but, the American people must walt until the official is forthcoming. The men who are charge of the Federal Government have means of ascertaining the various not explanation in circumstances that surround incidents of this character. The American at- taches of the various embassies and consular offices abroad are in position to determine the gravity of each act, | and they forward their information immediately to Washington. Since the sinking of the California is not considered an overt act by this gov- ernment the declaration of war on Germany is held off for some future time, or, until the pledges of the Im- perial German Government, given in reply to the Sussex note of April 19, 1916, are absolutely violated. The tension is drasing tighter. The Tirpitz reign of terrorism is begin- ning to manifest itself, and, judging from what has already happened in the past few days, it will not be long before a commander of a German sub- marine oversteps the bounds of cau- tion and sinks an American ship with- out warning. thus plunging American men, women and children into eter- nity. When this happens the war will be on. One avert act on the part of Germany will command immediate action. One overt act, the President told .Congress, and, “I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and ‘our people and the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas. I can do nothing less.” If the California was sunk without warning, it was only a matter of good luck that established it as a ship which carried contraband of war, this being the one phase of the sit- uation that would free the German submarine commandgr from i crime. Even then he would be obliged to look after the safety of non-com- batants aboard. , Whatever may have happened in this case it is easily seen that the possibilities of a disaster are great. If-t is not the California that will- bring_on war between the two countries it will be another ship. Sink- ing ships without establishing their identity is a dangerous husiness. The ports of America .are filled with American liners, of American regis- try, not loaded with contraband, ready to sail the high seas in the pursuit of their peaceful and legiti- mate business. One or more of these ships will leave port within the next few days. They cannot stand by and bend to the dictates of a Germany gone mad. Once they point their prows into the waters of thc Atlantic and start for their European distinations the fate of this nation will be placed in the balance. The sinking of one of these ships, the loss of one American life through the ruthlessness of a German submarine commander can have only the one ending,—War. The President 18 pledged to go before Congress and ask for the mnecessary means to pro- tect the lives and property of Ameri- can citizens. He will be called by the voice of the nation to live up to his There can words. down. be no hacking FACTS AND FANCIES. Nagging your husband is an art.— Life. Not only is the Old World on fire, but the sparks are falling on the Americans’ roof.—Chicago News. United States at last joins the only effective league to enforce peace.— ‘Wall Street Journal. President Wilson might call in T. R. and ask him to write the mext letter to the Kaiser.—Detroit Free Press. other A strike of baseball players is threatened. Quick, another Adamson law!—Los Angeles Times. Birds of a feather flock together— cold wave, coal shortage and jani- tors’ strike.—Chicago Post. Anyhow, we're for a ruler who pre- fers the spilling of ink to that of blood.—Atlanta Constitution. The banging on the battle fronts may be the “peace door” swinging in the wind.—Newark News. We are perfectly neutral war. We don't care peace.—Atlanta Journal. in this who makes It is well not to overtry the pa- jerstepped all-the hownds of. friend- | tience of a people a little proud as p. One overt act on the part of | v, ny now means war, and &1l that lies,« ‘The vast majority of folk and when it will fight—New World. . The automobile of the farmer who e P Tiives at home has its frequent park- | ing days in front of the town bank.— ! Atlantic Constitution. “Your money or your life” is old ! stuff. But a holdup man cannot be expected to invent any new and pleasant phrases.—Toledo Blade. Seizing liquor shipments at the bor- der is the great outdoor sport in Iowa these days.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Whenever the entente powers start out on a new plan of any kind thew | begin by sending an ultimatum to | Greece.—Kansas City Times. We have to get used to whinning children, but the world never adjusts itself to a whinning Erown-up.— Windham County Transeript. 1s it possible that Villa is the Wan- dering Jew of mediaeval romance? He is always being killed, but never dies. —San Francisco Chronicle. The natives will know to whom they German-American Allegiance. (New York Evening Sun.) In Philadelphia an American named Friehofer has announced his readiness to raise a regiment of German-Americans for the defense of the flag. In Hoboken a former mayor has started a movement to encourage the display of the American flag. | Here in New York the Staats-Zeitung has exhorted all German-Americans to he true to the tradition of Her- | Kimer. We have never seen any reason to doubt that the bulk of the naturalized Americans of German origin were with the United States as a matter of principle as well as of advantage. In the struggle of allegiances that each of hundreds of thousands must wage within himself, American allegiance must usually and normally prevail, for it should rightfuily prevajl. Loyalty to the older country may represent loyalty to race and past; but loyalty to the citizen’s future, to his children, to his deliberate choics and voluntary oath trustfully accepted by the American government and therefore the more inviolable. Loyal- owe allegiance when the Stars and Stripes and the cost of living are raised in the Danish West Indies.— New Orleans States. Married men in Norwalk need not run short on excuses for being out nights, with over one hundred frater- nal organizations in the city.—Nor- walk Hour. y "All men, doubtless, are created equal, but the differences in the dis- tribution of wealth makes. it seem probable that some are endowed with a longer reach.—Richmond Times- Despatch. There are 19 farmers in our na- tional congress, and one wonders how in the dickens they managed to get there.—Rochester Herald. Houston ladies are going to have a suffrage school. We advise that three-fourths of the course be de- votéd to teaching prospective voters how to pay the poll Post. Being Modern in the Middle Ages. (Waterbury Democrat.) Once upon a time there\ was a bac! ward community which 'decided l}b’ was up to it to show some of it poof- ing rivals a thing or two about doing things for the common people. So the boss of the camp came down from his manor hall and had the bugler sound the call for a congress of the Serfs. And when the hewers and the gleaners and the burden bearers got together in the parish church and kowtowed low before their Lord and Master, old snicklefritz with tlie port- ly front had his chief bazoo and yod- ler proclaim as follows: “Hear ye, hear ye, ser{s and chattels: the lora of the manor, in recoenition of your Autiful obedience to hi~ beck and call and the twelve hundreds cords of kindling you have just bestowed upon | his kitchen department, hereby doth proclaim a grecat beneficence which he is about to bestow upon your- selves. Give praise, all ye. The lord of the manor hath proclaimed a com- munity grazing ground, and hereafter vou may all keep cows!” Which was quite some step for a lord of the manor in those days and ages. And the same step, dear aunts and uncles, was what started our pleasant mod- ern custom of having parks and pub- lic squares where the townspeople can stroll and congregate. We don’t dif- fer so awfully much, you know, from our medieval forebears, even if we don't let the lowing kine gaze around in Washington ‘monument. In those halcyon days of yore the village mil- ler or blacksmith generally held his head a little higher than the common herd when he went to meeting of a Sunday to hear his lord and master’'s hired preacher chant the glad news of salvation. Today also have we gentry who hold their heads a wee bit higher—but they’re gemerally not the miller or the hlacksmith. In those days, too, the boss of the camp fre- quently worshipped a long ways apart so as to avold contamination from the mere human bheings that kept him fit and fat. How little the world has changed! ‘What Does Tt Cost the Rich to Iive? (Waterbury Democrat.) An inquiry into the cost of living is now being conducted in the District of Columbia under authority of an‘act of congress. As usual this investiga- tion is being limited to the homes of the poor, and ‘“special agents” of the bureau of labor statistics are poking their noses into the homes of brick- layers, laborers, charwomen,~ and street cleaners and insisting on being told just where the family got ever: dollar it spent last year and had eac penny was spent. They want to know how much food the family ate and how much was paid for it, whether the “0ld man” drinks and how much? The act of congress authorizing and appropriating for the investigation was put through at the insistence of those “friends of the poor” who are constantly trying to find out how little the workingman can exist on. They are not interested in finding out how much he needs to make him efficient, happy and hopeful. 'This investiga- tion, like most other sociological in- quiries, is futile and impertinent and is resented by workingmen whose spirit has not vet been ground out of them. What society needs 18 an in- vestigation of the cost of living of the rich. We mneed to find out how little a bandholder can live on. We need to find out how much food is wasted in the homes of the rich that is needed to feed the starving poor, who are still with us in spite of our vaunted prosperity. We need to have a clear statement from ‘the rich as to why they scattered from New York to Cali- fornia, when 65 per cent of the people cannot own their own homes, and/ when there are those who have no roof over their heads. We need to know what the 2 per cent. of the! people who own 60 per cent. of the| nation’s wealth are doing with what the other 98 per cent. are producing. If Uncle Sam will conduct this highly necessary inquiry, astonishing results | can be promised. tax.—Houston | | tributing [ aloofness. ty to America is the morally necessary course for the naturalized citizen from Germany, and he may be {rusted in the great majority-“of cases to follow the moral dictate. The thousands of German-Ameri- can homes where this choice i8 now being made in sorrow may feel sure of the enlightened respect and the warm gratitude that they will deserve from their thinking fellow citizens. Little Boy Blue. (New York Sun.) They are holding a bazar in,Chi- cago for the benefit of the Allied cause to which Slason Thompson, di- rector of the bureau of railway news and statistics and an intimate of Eu- gene Field, has contributed the man- uscript of Field’s “Little Boy Blue” for auction. A letter from Mr. Thompson says that the bid on the manuscript has been raised to $1,100. It is impossible to believe that it will not be carried much higher. The manuscript is the one Field sent to the printer and is all in his own small and delicate hand. The title and the initial letters of stanzas are in decorative letters. In the up- per left-hand corner is a toy soldier, presenting arms. A spotted grimalkin serves as a colophon. There is one al- teration in the text. Field had writ- ten: And they wonder—as _Wwaiting these long years through In the dust of that little chair— That they never have seen our Little Boy Blue . Since he kissed them and put them ’ there— The thousands of lovers of Field will rejoice at the inspiration which changed the third of these lines to What has become of our Little Boy Blue. the Mr. improving both! A happy change, thytm and the sense Thompson says: The four words, ‘what has become of,” were igterlined By me with Field’s approval. before sending the dainty copy to the printer. The poem was Field's contribution ta the initial number of America, in which it appeared April 7, 1888.. Mr. Thompson justly savs of it that “there is nothing in art's bravuras as strong and enduring as the simplicity of phrase and rhythm that appeals to the common sentiments of mankind.” Alien Teachers. (Meriden Record.) New York city has discovered, to its surprise, that many of its school teachers are aliens. They are sup- posed to be engaged in the” delicate and difficult wark of Americanizing the children of foreigners, and vet they themselves have not thought enough of American life and institu- tions to take out their first citizenship papers. It would be interesting to know whether this situation e s in other American cities. The chances are that it does. There can Dbe no objection, of course, to the mere fact that a teacher was born in another land. In fact, jmmigrants, when imbued with a gen- uine love of our country, as so many of them are, become udmirable teachers of patriotism, esTecially among children of their own type. The enthusiasm of the new convert to Americanism is contagious, and the enthusiast in such a case has the ad- vantage of being, in person, a good example of the lessons taught. But no such benefits may be.expected from a teacher who values the bprivileges of citizenship so itttle that h> has never made an effort to claim them. We want all American children taught genuine Americanism by men and women who, whatever their origin, are in spirit and practice genulne Americans. Cleveland and Wilson. (Springfleld Republican.) In regretting his inability to attend the dinner given to Samuel Gompers on his 67th birthday and the com- pletion of 50 years of service in the cause of union labor, President Wil- son gave his reasons more tactfully 'than Grover Cleveland did when he was unable to go to a Williams College Commencement ‘‘because T have Con- gress on my hands.”” Members of the legislative branch of the Federal gov- ernment took umbarge at that way of putting it. President Wilson ex- presses it in this way: “Unhappily I have been obliged to deny myself every pleasure of this kind because of the imperative duties which fall! upon me every day while congress is in session ! ment is having the effect of turning That comes to about the same thing | as President Cleveland's statement, | but times have changed since the two comunications were written. ! Mr. Cleveland held aloof from con- | gress expecting the legislators to do | their part without personal urging | in the things which he desired as con- to good government. He | the old-fashioned doctrine of | neld Mr, Wilson entered publlcl NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1017, v life with the idea that as Governor and President he was called upon to exercise positive party leadership, and has proceeded far along that line.: Lack of such leadership he regarded ; as accounting for many failures in our | form of government. More than Presi- dent Cleveland dreamed would ever be possible the president of today has “Congress on his hands.”. It is to be added that President ‘Wilson is not alone in this view of the attitude of the executive toward the legislative branch of the govern- ment. Governors who have accom- plished things have had to persuade legislatures to co-operate with them ! and in the presidential office Theo- dore Roosevelt had gone a g00d Wway along the path which President Wilson pursues. Whatever the theory upon which our government was founded, as a matter of practice there has come about a working relationship between the two branches that has deepened into practice that i{s very certain to remain in greater or less degree of application. Presidential Taxes. (New York World.) “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representa- tives,” says the constitution of the United States. If the proposal now before the ways and means commit- tee that in an emergency—when the treasury needs the money—the pres- ident he empowered to extend the in- come ‘ax to persons earning in ex- cess of $2,000 yearly hecome law, he and not the house will actually orig- inate the measure. The taxing power embraces the determination of the mecessity as well as the udoption of the method, and when one of these considerations is delegated to another department there i self-evident shirking of duty. It was not by accident that the initia- tive in such matters was lodged in the house. For more than a hun- dred years that body alone was di- rectly responsible to the people. The frequency of its election gives it a greater accountability even now than the senate. Under no pretext should it be allowed to evade Its most solemn trust. In operations, the measure sug- ested would give the president the lppearance at least of imposing taxes t his sole discretion upon a numer- ous element of the population. The argument that congress, fearing the president might exercise this power, would be less inclined to extravagance is hardly ‘tenable. The result would be increased recklessness, with = the expectation that the president would be compelled to stand in the gap. When taxes become so high that the house is afraid to impose any more of them on its own authority, the remedy is tdo curb expenditurg, not to set up new and unlawful agencies of assessment and collection. Volcano Runs Generators. (Engineering Record.) Volcanic heat is now being used successfully in the development of 15,000 horse-power near Larderello, a villiage in Tuscany, Ttaly. The finst of three 3,000-kilowatt groups of turbo-electric engines driven by steam jssuing from the earth’s interior was put into service in January, 1916, the second in April, and the-third last fall. * The power is transmitted elec- trically to Florence, Leghorn and numerous other cities and towns in Tuscany, .supplying industries that Tad been crippled since the war by the scarcity and high price of coal. Near Volterra, in central Tuscany, there are numerous cracks in the ground from which powerful jets of very hot steam spout high 'in the air with great violence and constancy, bringing up boric acid and other sub- sthnces of less importance. These jets have been utilized for many vears in the production of boric acid and borax and occasionally for warming houses in the nearby village of Larderelle. Most of the steam, however, was lost. The first use of this super-heated steam for the production of motive power was made in 1903. Prince Ginori-Conti, President of the Socleta Boracifera di Larderello, first applied a strong jet to a small rotary n\fior‘ then to a small reciprocating steam engine connected to a dynamo, which generated enough current to light part of .the borax works. Meanwhile to get a more ample supply of steam he bored holes in the ground to the source of the steam, which is under a hard stratum of rock from 300 to 500 feet below the surface. The holes vary from 12 to 20 inches in diameter, and are lined with iron_pipes. They give forth steam at a pressure of from two to three and occasionally up to five atmos- pheres, and temperatures varying from 150 to 190 degrees centigrade. *These jets have not diminished in their activity, and new borings do not in- terfere with the preceding ones, pro- vided they are at least 50 feet apart. After the outbreak of the war coal bhecame extremely scarce and prices prohibitive. This cause a trial instal- lation to be undertaken, using the volcanic emergy. The. results have been satisfactory and it is probable that hundreds of thousands of horse- power will be so developed soon. Summer Time in the Antipodes, Australia has taken the lead in le- galizing ‘'summer time,” otherwise than as a war measure, if, as appears, the davlight-saving bill, reported by our consul general at Sydneyv to have passed the federal parliament, is a permanent statute. Europe will prob- ably go on summer time again this year. Governments may order the hands of the clocks to be set ahead earlier in the season than last year, and set back later, and there is some talk of not setting them back again until the war is ended. Naturally, too, the favorable outcome of the experi- the mind of governments and people to the consideration of going on sum- mer time continually, after peace comes. But it is not necessary to de- cide about that just now. The statute of the Commonwealth GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Chronicle Of Friendships, by Luther Munday. Reminiscences of an English actor. . n . Community and the Citizen, thur Willlam Dunn. . rw Epistles From Deep Seas, being an- other kettle of sea-pie, by John Edward Patterson. .The author of this book ran away to. sea before he was thirteen, serv- ing for seventecen years; afterwards came to London where he gradually gained his footing in journalism. In this volume he gives clear pictures of his varied experiences on board ship in the merchant service of England.” woa o by Ar- Faith Justified By Progress, lectures delivered before Lake Forest col- lege on the foundation of thé late William Bross, by H. W. Wright. P Greece in her true light, her position in the world-wide war, as ex- pounded in a series of official doc” uments, translated by 8. A. Xan- thaky and N. G. Bakellarios. »wow Heritage Of Tyre, by W. B. Maloney. “At once a popular review of the history of the American merchant marine and a vigorous appeal to the people to give attention to<the pres- ent shipping situation and remedy it. ‘For the general reader who wishes to familiarize himself with the nec- essary data as the basis of an intelli- gent judgment regarding . . . the merchant marine, it would be diffi- cult to' find a better brief presentation of the facts.”—Nation. ¢ e Raymond, Or, Life And Death, with example of the evidence for sur- vival of memory and affection after death, by Sir Oliver Lodge. “Contains also communications, through mediums which 8ir Oliver be- lleves came from his son killed in France ;a sketch of his life.” e Religions Of Modern Syria 'And Pal- estine, lectures delivered before Lake Forest college on the foun- dation of the late William Bross, by Frederiok Jones Bliss. e Spiritual Interpretation of by Shailer Mathews, “Purpose is to prove that history does show spiritual forces at work which may renew our threatened idealism.”—Publisher’'s Weekly. P White Road to Verdun, by Kathleen Burke. An American newspaper woman's experiences and comments. History, the present year this daylight saving law became effective on the first of January. Now is the season of sum- mer in the Antipodes, of course. Union in Ireland (Boston Herald) The popular demonstrations evoxed in Ireland by the visit of a Canadiun Irish regiment are such as to strength- en the hope that the Irish people at home will yet unite on a form of =ov- ernment for their country. In thelr hands the question rests, and surely it is not beyond the power of settle- ent by themselves if the south and tHe north, at Dublin and Armagh, they find it possible to obliterato p-r- ty divisions and join party colors in honor of men of the Irish race who see nothing incompatible betwecen their enjoyment of self-government on this side of the Atlantic and their fighting of the imperial battle on the other. .These Canadian soldiers are not all of one faith, but they are all of one mind in not coloring their re- ligion with politics. At Armagh, last Sunday, one body of them attended service in the Catholic Cathedral and the other body in the Protestant Ca- thedral. When they' came ont thev formed up again together under the imperial. and Dominion colors. And most notable, because unprecedented, was this, that in that city of Ulster, that stronghold of the “Black North™ the partisans of the orange and the green, the Protestants and the Cath- olics, by common agreemant wore em- blems composed of two colors, thusg demonstrating for once a harmony of feeling that just needs wise expansien to settle the question of Irish govern- ment. For this waits only until the people of Treland agree. Plymouth Tercenters. (Boston THerald.) In order to clarify a situation now somewhat complicated, we would sug- gest to the legislators two considera- tions which they might to advantage keep in mind in forwarding their plans for the celebration of the ter- centary of the landing of the Pil- grims. Massachusetts should have nothing to do with expositions such as those of Chicago, Buffalo, Nashville, Oma- ha, St. Louis, Jamestown and San Francisco. Their relations with the government constitute a disgracsful chapter, and one to which we should permit ourzelves to add nothing. We ought to be more criginal and in- genlous than to panhandle the gov- ernment in so stereotyped a fashion. ! New England ought instead to find some way of being ‘“the whole show” bherself. Here is a section of un- rivallel scenic resources, from the yugged coast of Maine andl the White Hills of New Hampshire, to the sands of the Cape and the beautiful en- virons of Boston. Here is a section replete with historical associations. Here we might make a systematic ex- hibit of the development of our in- dustries and the progress of our arts, something which would maXe the celebration and the section alike dis- tinctive. In o‘her words, let us, on the most favorahle terms possible, extend our of Australia, enacted last December, provides that the hands of the clocks shall be put forward one hour at the end of September, and put back again at the end of March. To provide for hospitatities to the people of the na- | tion in their coming to see what New England has to show them of her own accomplishments in three centuries ‘Woman-—Bless Her, by Marjory Mac- Murchy. “Written by a Canadian woman to her countrywomen, these six essays aim to show what the .women's or- ganizations of Canada and the differ- ent types of women—the business woman, the college woman, the farm woman, the woman in the house— are contributing and might contribute to the upbuilding of Canada and the recontruction after the war.”—A. L. A. Booklist, A “aw Content With Flies, Jane Findlater. “They have written a charming book, but it just tells the detailed ex- periences of three women who sum- mer in Scotland, doing their own household tasks.”-—New York Times. .« w Divine Egotist, by V. E. Roe. e Hope Of Glory, a novel of the time of Nero, by Willlam Schuyler. ‘‘He makes us realize, as in but one other instance has been so vividly done, the heroism of that little band of Christians who, despised, perse- cuted, were steadfastly sowing the seeds of the ‘tree of life’ whose leaves were to be for the healing of the na- tions.”—Boston Transcript, “The author has shown vividness of imagination, skillfully interwoven with carefully sought-out historical and biblical facts.”—Springfield Republican. . . x by Mary and unusual which e Life Of Mansie Wauch, by D. N. Moir. More' taleg by Polish authors, trans- lated by E. C. M. Beneke. Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain, “All of the pessimistic reflections regarding the human race and its des- tiny that made dark the later years of Mark Twain’s life are summed up in this story.”—Book Review Digest: “It is difficult to imagine a mes- sage carrying a grimmer crado of de- spair, disillusion and contempt for human existence. . . As for tife book itself, the method of delivery, it is an excellent piece of literature.” —New York Times. > ow ok Whirligig Of Time, by Wayland Wells Williams, - ““Of two brothers, one is educated at Harrow in- England, the other at an American preparatory school. Yale brings out the difference in the quai- 1ty of this early training, the reaction and the development of the two being different though their mutual under- standing and dep#ndence steadily in- crease. An uneveén story, the plot in- teresting, but unconvincingly handled at times.”=—A. L, A. Booklist. Within these general Jines our law- makers may ywisely map out their course “Colored” Education. (Philadelphia yTelegraph.) ‘When the senate, took action which expels from the United States Burean of Education 157 men and women employes of the Rockefeller and Car- negie founda‘ions, it performed a val- ~ able public service. In support of this step Senator ¢ Chamberlain alleged that the founda- tion agents in question, while appear- ing on the payroll of the Federal gov- ernment at the nominal salary of $§1 a year each, receive their actual in- comes from the funds of Rockefeller and Carnegie. Thelir real service to their private employers, he explained, has consisted in sending out, under post office franks, the pamphlets ‘of the two foundations, with the stamp of government approval. “In two generations,” Senator Chamberlain. ‘‘they can change the minds of the people to make them conform to the cult of . Rockefeller or the cult of Carnegig . rather than to the fundamental pri ciples of an American democraoy. He continued with the assertion that universities that failed io modify their courses were dicriminated against uncer this swatem. Cn this point Senator Kenyon supparted his colleague with the assertion: ‘To my personal knowiedge the agents of the Rockefeller foundation have ex- amined the curricula of collegss and refused to endow those colleges un- less certain courses were stricken from the list.” : Much may be said in defence of a private donoi's right to prescribe courses in any university receiving his favor, although the practice might easily be abused. But no possible de- fence exists for the practice of per- mitting private foundations to frank their printed doctrines through the mails, or to pay the salaries of per- sons pretending to be public em- ployes. After ‘“the hand that rocks the cradle,” the educational institu- tions of a nation exert the most pow- erful influence over its ‘kultur” and destiny. That is why mighty private and special interests have always sought to “color” education at its sources. Eternal vigilance must be exerted to stamp out this pernicious influence. exclaimed Male Births in Francc. (An Exchange.) An inexplicable phenomenon that has marked the progress of the war is the large proportion of male children now being born. In one Paris hospi- tal there was born on one day recently twenty-three children, of whom twen- ty-one were males. On the same day, in an adjoining hospital out of seven- teen births sixteen were boys. This is considered a verification of the an- cient belief that nature affords a promipt remedy for the men lost in warfare. Suggestion for Paris. (Norwich RBulletin). Two dishe. e the limit for a meal in French restaurants now, but if theyve were heaped up with a New Engiand boiled dinner one might be made to of the white man on her shorcs,A.ufl\:e,