New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1917, Page 6

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M., &t Herald Building. 67 [ D8 ) fine M at the Post on\g ‘at New Britata livered by carrier to anv part of the oty for 15 vents a week, &3¢ & month. riptions for paper to Be sent by madl, In advance. €0 centa a momth. 49 & you.. ) A enly pr adverijemg medium n the eity: Circulation books and Frees foom always open to adve=tisers. on_sale at_Hots- l'-m‘_lnml. 420d nr.d.&a.‘:w:t ew York City: Board Wi will be 1 s Ne 2, “In God Is Our Trust.” Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the wild war’s desolation; & Blest' with viot'ry-and.peace, may i the heav'n-rescued land Praise the Pow'r that hath made and-preserved us a nation: hen conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: is, our trust!” nd the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave % Ofer the -land of the free and th X ‘home of the brave. é B S FLANT T NOW. iccording to the = United States partment of Agriculture it is ab- "tely necessary that .the agri- ral output of thé country be in- ed in large degree this year. fide<from having our own needs to We, haye. an .e;‘tnwdlnlry di placed upon ' us by our Allies F this war. . . . Fhe ipations’ fighting Germuny- will uire more, foodstuffs in 1917 and 6 first part of 1918 than they did the year and a lui( gone by. The or wheat crop for the past year s only two per cent. more than that § the year previous. This, despite world-wide. shortage. Because of favorable weather the winter wheai in 1917 will probably fall million bushels short, as com- ith 1916. The 1917 crop, it mated, will be almost 250,000,- § bushels less than the 1915 lead. | are going backward ‘instéead of \g ahead. or is the wheat crop the only one considered. There are other :erops to be looked after, b'- & the garden products. The Plant len movement has a fairly good but much more remains to be v In New England there is room Teat’ jruprovement. The staple ucts, corn, potatoes, peas, beans, vl exowMere. Secre- of Agriculture Héuston also rec- ends that this sectlon give some to the raising of buckwheat. spite of the, cold weather of | Rerday Spring is here. The time | ¥ipe now for planting. No time be lost. Every day means so | h time lost unless the planting is ed. The land'is re&e;_v to be put ice Yof Lcrops is l “In God ¥ 3 by er the p determined upon, Plant it Now?’ UARDING CHILDREN. tever happens because fica’s ' entry into the war, the ren ‘of .this land must be lected. They will be safeguarded Bilong as the nation lives. There § been fear in some quarters that children in America might’, be rived of the blessings that have | o surrounded them. With 5 men of the nation at war, with | P dearth of workers in factory and | fid it is thought by some that the e might arrive when children be- en the ages of twelve and eighteen ren younger might be taken from class room and put to work. There ! @Bl _be no’ cause for worry on that 5 of Unitsd Staies is prepared to | battle with the'utmost care and eision. To .begin “with, it \will le for an army of two million men. is less than one-fiftieth of the re population of this country. Aw e are some twenty million men ‘the country fit'for military duty it B easily be secn that a much greater than the one proposed can be ted without serious = handicap yYoung folks. One out of every physically fit will be enough. announcement of yesterday that éd men in the National Guard _federal gervice, or under call ral service, who, bave fami- ¢ discharged from the service, Ber they desire it or not, the war ent shows the tenor of the ad- livlihood. Then will come the five hun- dred thousand strong who will be called upon to bring the ranks of the United States army and the skeleton- ized units of the National Guard to ‘war strength. When thesc enlistments take place the last of the volunteer- ing will have been done. on' the prineiple of selective draft will be in order. “'By'the very nature of the system outlined by the President-and his ad- visors ‘for establishing ‘an army of | -two million men. by selective draft the children of the nation will be pro- tected. ‘In all its actions so far the war department has been guided by the cxperiences of Great Britain and France. When the war broke out these two nations were as unprepared as America was at the samé time. the death throes of battle, while at- tempting to perfect fighting machines ‘big and strong enough to cope With their enemies they mistakes. Seeing all this, making very careful note of the blunders committed America goes into the war without handicap. After two years and more of war, Great Britain is now seeing the fruits of ‘some of its errors where children are concerned. With some of its best manhoed completely obliterated the nation now turns to see where its rising generation stands, and seeing,. it shudders, ‘The Children have been neglected. They were almost forgot- ten. Confronted with sudden war- fare Great Britain forced some of its | first' war economies in the educational system. School buildings were turned over to the' military authorities. Night schools were abandoned. Meédi- cal inspection went out of existence. The age limits for schooling were changed so that many little ones were taken from under the care of educa- tional authorities and thrown into/| There was a dearth of | idleness. teachers; because many enlisted in the army ‘or the pavy. - These are the things that happened unger the indis- criminate volunteering then in vogue. ! .The good men gacrificed their lives | ten muke mistakes.—Albany Journal. and treasure and ieven ambition itself. The slackers andf shirkers, useless for the most part. stayed at home. From then In: naturally made | and | Had ! used the army and navy as a means of responsible for the e)’(orbitlnt price | charged’ for flour, FACTS AND FANCIES. Repartee is the smart thing you think of while sitting on the side of i the bed pulling off your shoes for the night.—Toledo Blade. Anyway,. the winter styles have ac- customed the world to the promised short-skirted bathing suits.—Chicago News. 3 A “wholcsome truth” is an fact in disguise.—Despret News. ugly ’ e Success Lrings its own smile, it takes a might; good loser.—Memphis Appeal. ¥ but Commercial No one is now sufficiently familiar with potatoes to presume to call thein spuds.—Chicago News. That ‘distance lends enchantment to the view” is proved by the pre- vailing delusion that'the old times were the best.—Albany Journal. Retrenehment, is always easy until | one begins to tdke up specific items. | —Charleston News and Courier. No patriot will weep over the | threatened dispersal of the .dancing . masters of the restaurants and thejr ! theoretically fair. clients. The craze ! has fallen into decay; there is no ! room or time for it. The dragon of war engulfs the tango lizard and the | lounge snake, and may they never be restored.—New York Sun. Texas is making sausage from | jackrabbit meat, and we expect to | hear any time that fdod has taken .an- | other jump.—Boston Transcript. Call a man a ‘brick’” and he is com- | plimented; call him a “bonehead” and { he is ready to fight—Memphis Com- mercial Appeal. The light of a red nose leads into . darkness.-—Toledo Blade,, | ! Willingness to admit error is a characteristic of those who do not of- 1 e S e B The Fighting » Race. | \ { they been any good they might have : “Read out the names.” and Burke sat taken' the places of (the teachers or | others who went away. They were | not and sp the ranks of the pedagog- ‘ists were cut down to flll the ranks of the army. In-the case of women teachers, they:enlisted as Red Cross ! nurses. Of ouvurse, all” these things have been changed to great extent in | Great Britain. But the harm dong i back, And Kelly drooped his head. While Shea—they called him Scholar Jack— ‘Went down the list of the dead. Officers, seamen, gunners, marines, The crews of the gig and yawl, The béarded man and the lad in his teens, Carpenters, coal passers—all. Then, knocking -the ashes from out his pipe, the earlier days of the war will h‘l\l Said Burke, in an off hand way: felt by the little ones for some time to come. It will take years to put | tain back where it belongs. All be- cause of blunders. that the United States will not profit by the mistakes of ather nations. If the examples are taken well to heart there need be no fear for the rising generation of Americans 3 p WHO SAID TT? / ‘There has been no finer statemont of our principles, of our ideals, of the motives that influence us, since the days of Lincoin than that stated | in the matchigss state paper of Presi- dent Wilson in his recent message.” Who said that? No, it was net Mr. Joszeph Tumulty, - Secretary to the President, nings Bryan, greatest orator in th Democratic party, It was not an member of the Cabinet. It was not a Democratic Senator. It was not a Democratic member of the House .of Representatives, It was not,—but why ‘go on? Who was it? - None, other than Charles ‘Evans Hughes, the.candidate pitted against Woodrow Wilson in the late presidential campaign. not a political admirer of the Presi- dent who has said anything.to equal this endorsement of what will go down in history as the greatest state paper since Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Political partisanship died a natural death with the sounding of President Wilson's message the Congress in the early part of this month. if" this couhtry today. reason to hold back it is Charles Cvans Hughes. He has tasted the bitterness of the dregs of defeat. Yet he paves the way for all good Ameri- cans in standing firmly in back of the ' President. 8o long as these things come to pass there need be no tear for the ffiture of the nation, If the Germans on the west con- the . Russians may actuality. hecome a foreed We wonder if, after all, scarc is nof the resylt of the war intensive and manufacturers of agricultural im- plements. istration. The first men who will B duty in the ranks of the fighting of the United States are the onal soldiers, men who have The man who tried ta blow up the flour mills in Minneapolis deserves to be hanged in publicc. But not any more so than the men who may be 1t is inconceivable { Tt was not William -Yen-l There mi fore i There is no party prejudice | If anyone has: timue to retire, that offensive against | press agenting by garden secd sellers “We're all in.that dead man’'s list, y by Cripe!. 5 the educational pystem of Great Bri- |, Kelly and Burke and Shea. j‘Well, hete’s to the Maine and I'm ‘sorry for Spain.” { Said Kelly and Burke 4nd Shea. “Wherever there’s Kelly's there's | trouble,” sald Burke. \ | “Wherever fighting’s the game, | Or a spice of danger in grown man's work,” Said Kelly, “you’ll find my name.” “And do we fall short,” said Burke, getting mad, “When it's a touch and go for life?"” Said Shea, “It's thirty-odd years, bedad, Since I charged to drum and fife s heightsy and my old can- Stopped a rebel ball on its way, There were blossoms of blood on.our sprigs of green—, Kelly and Burke and Sh And the deadq didn’t brag. here's to the flag!” Said Kelly and Burke and | “Well, Shea. | “I wish ‘twas in Ireland, for there's i the place,” | said Burke, ‘that we'd die by right, In the cradle of our soldier race, After one good stand-up fight, | My grandfather fell on Vinegar hill, And fighting was not his trade; But his rusty pike’s in the cabin still, { With Hessian blood on/the blade.” “Aye, aye,’ said Kelly, “the pikes were great When the word was ‘clear the way!" ! We were thick on the roll in ninety- ! eight— Kelly and Burke and Shea.” “Well, here's to. the pike and sword and the like!” Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. the And Shea. the scholar, with rising joy, | Said, ‘We were at Ramillies; { We loft our bones at Fontenoy, ! - And up in the Pyrenees; | Before Dunkirk on Landen’s plain, Cremona, Lille and Ghent, We're al] over Austria, France and Spain, Wherever they pitched a tent. loo To Egypt and Dargai; And still there's enough for a corps or crew, Kelly and Burke and Shea.” Oh, the fighting races don’t die out, If they seldom die in bed, For love is first in their hearts, no doubt,” Said Burke; then Kelly said: “When Michael, the Irish archangel ; stands, % The angel with the sword, And the battle-dead from a hundred lands [ Are ranged in one big horde, Our line, that for Gabriel’s trumpet waits, Will stretch three deep that day, Jehosophat to the Golden 1 { From Gates— Kelly and Burke and Shea.” “Well, here's thank God for the race and the sod,” Said Kelly and Burke and Shea. —J. I. C. CLARKE, good man to be a |\ | We've died for England.from Water- NEW, BRITAIN 'DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1017. -+ -COMMUNICATED. AN AMERICAN OR NOTHING. ° This, the Land of Opportunity, Asks From Its Citizens Nothing More Than It Gives, To the Editor of the Herald:— So much is being said and( written in:these days of increasing cruel w: fare, about “German-Americans,” that I, too, am inspired to write briefly, in vindication of those, who, like myself, happen to be born in our glorious land of the Pilgrim Fathers, —but of German parentage. . My parents came to this country from Germany, in their early teens, mother being a mere girl of fourteen. They had, been neighbors in Germany 'as childrén, and afterwards, quite by chance, they met and were married in this country, Some twelve vears ago it was ,my privilege to wisit the -home of \m! grandparents in Germany, and while | there, T took pains to ascertain the reason for my 'parents’ leaving their native land while they were yet mere children. Vfhe reason, in short meter, glven me by the honost.old souls: in the community, was, that those chil- dren, with many others of that period, had either to fly, as best they might, to America, or starve to death in Ger- many. 2 It is pertinent to -ask right here, whether Germans , gencrally, have come across the once wide ocean, 7o this “home of the brave,” flving the flag of true freedom for all, for any better reason than the onec my parents had for coming? Tt is plain, it seems to me, that Germans, with all fareigners, have come to this country for the greater blessings promised them here, and not, primarily, for the blessings they could bring. Then, if Germans, who have now, during long years, enjoyed ountiful hospitality of “Uncle and who, by adoption, have become citizens; and the native born, who have been pleased to have them selves ‘German-Ameri- cans,”—if these, generally speaking, desirable citizens, have not in the past freed themselves from the malevo- lence of mere blood inheritance, then, the shock of this crucial world-hour should at least awaken in them the | sense of justice which has lain dor- mant in them, and which must con- strain them now wisely to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caeser’'s, and unto God the things that are God's.” It seems a pity to. me, that a few Germans, or German-born, in merica, should have proved them- selves so un-American as to;oblige our government to have added concern on account of the possible disloyalty of a single resident or citizen, And also, I am, in these trying times, so often reminded that my parents were German, that I find my- self almost apologiting for the mis- fortune of my birth. . And vet, to me, & “German-Ameri- can” is an imp: bility. As far back as T can remember T hear my father arguing for and defending, this new home to which hunger had driven him, and whereiln it was possible for every honest citizen to prove hirnself a king: To me, a citizén, or native, of our free nation is either an Ameri- ! can or he is nothing. A good citizen | can never be a blaod-qualified Ameéri- { can. 2 As our nation J4s founded upon principle, and is governed as'a demo- cracy, according to principle, so, to me, a citizen of principle knows no self-centered nationality. The selfish emigrant’s love of nationality pre- served at the expense of our equitable American government, may be likened to the loyalty of the bee, that secretly carries a poisonous sting fory -the “hand that planted the garden of flowers from which it extracts its honey. Citizens of- foreign or native birth whose hearts are divided, whose badies fatten upon the clover of the land in which they live, while their sympathies are re or less with the fatherland who autocratic govern- ment is clearly America’s enemy, are, to say the least ,of doubtful- citizes ship. America, will, in’the present hour, hold up the hands of the President of these United States cof -America; and every true man and woman, the world over, must feel grateful ta our Presi- dent, as I do, for the manhood, wis- dom, and courage, set forth in his war message to Congress, in which he pleads the cause of the people of the entire world; draws the line of de- marcatian between the German pecople and the 'present German government; exposes the unreliability of autocracy, and the imposstbility of friendship be- tween an arrogant government based on the personal will of the few, and the democratic government, or a gov- ernment in which & sense of basic principle governs through the ma- Jjarity, if not by the unanimous voice of the people. To my sense, it was not the voice of the people, which as a whole, may be said to be “the voice of God,” that in August, 1914, sent to other nations ultimatum after ultimatum, and dec- ,laration after declaration of war. As an ,American, pure and simple, who loves the German nation, as a people freed from the tyranny of the militarism af autocracy, as he loves 'all mankind, with more than a merely national love, I cannot help deplaring, the declarations of war made in 1914, as, if not a German mistake, at least, as a mistake “made in Germany.” And from this mistake, this one sin of personal determination or military domination, comes the today's awful world-conflagration; which, to help to extinguish, our beloved nation has now, with others, been called upon to give of her best. - God grant that the moral effect of our great nation‘s inevitable necessity may not prove the least of our contribu- tion towards the victory for which the people of the nations of the world are praying and fighting,—a victory which shall demonstrate forever the triumph of principle over the arro- Zant personal. that nations, as in- dividuals, may dwell together, and progress, for their common weal, in peace. ' As professing Christidns, wherever in this world fate may have decreed | Massachusetts it has long been .one of | ona ward, Edward: Peterson, Jr., and Every true American and friend of: that we should be born, we have né | excuse.- for. net understanding St. Paul, who had Christian principle | énough to deny what was merely personal or humaniy inherited, and who, with Christisn nobility and bold ness declared,as ‘an’{deal of" citizen. ship: = “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither band nor free, there is neither male, nor female: for ye are all gne in Christ Jesus.” ' 'JOSEPH G. MANN, 56 Maple Street. Town Topics 7The annual city meeting on nest Tuesday night gives promise of devel- oping into a real-affgir. Usually the city meeting is a routine proceeding, but if people now exhibiting, an inter- est in it continue to maintain that in- terest it is certain that there wilk be things doing. In view of the dubious outlook of the future, because of the war and possible heavy.taxes, Mayor Quigley has suggested 2 big slice in the estimates so that the tax fate will not be more than twenty mills at the ! most. Thus far he seems to have the | support of the city, but the rub comes | when the slicing of the cstimates be- gins: The board of public works as | well as residents 'of that district ob- Ject strenuously to any plan to .do away with the laying of a ‘permanent pavement in Park street. Likewise the resiaents of the southwestern-part of the city are at once plunged Into’ the depths of gloom and rise up in right- eous indignation when it is suggested that their new fire station be held up another vear. A plan’'to do away with the. south end park also meets with strong opposition, but seemingly not as strong as the othér two. Thus, it i§ evident if the citizens have the cour- age of their convictions there will be some lively action at the meeting on Tuesday. One thing is certain, how- ever, and that is that the tax rate should be reduced this year. e Indications point to next Thursday as being one of the gala days of the‘ decade, to go hand in hand with t'hnti memorable- day last fall when the sol- ! diers returned home from the border and were given o royal welcome. | Tvervbody knows, the meaning of Pa- triots’ day if they are at all familiar! with American history, but it is com- paratively new in this section fo ob- serve it thus prominently, although in ; the most important days of the year. April 19 marks the battle of Lexington when the shot was fired that was heard - around the world. When the Minute Men of the Revolution left their plows and gath- ered up their muskets to.take issue with Great Britain’s red-coated sol- diery and to strike the blow which ul- timately spelled freedom for those of us who live here today. It is fitting that this year New Eritain celebrate this day royalls Street parades. pa- d Jemonstrations e the spirit of the | New Britain should again find herself on next Thursday DR That séason of the vear has now ar- rived when évery man with a little ; plot of land should turn his thoughts to domestic gardening. The action of | several local men in donating, gratls, vacant lots they own for people who wish to have little gardens is a most commendable one and one that should be followed by others in the city who, mgre fortunate than their brothers, own considerable land: that is' mnot | used. At all times.are home: gardens a desirable and _beneficial thing, but. more particularly this year should the home garden idea be fostered by the citizens of New Britain in common with others throughout the country, and for several rcasons. In the first place we do not know what trials the future may hold forth, for war, al- wayae a terrific drain on the resources of the country, may yet prove embar- rassing in regard to the food supply. If each family has a little garden of its own, where at least some of the vegetables for its own use are raised it will be doing much to better condi- tions. In tke second place, in view | of the present high cost. of living even a small garden will’ count ma- terially in helping to redyce the fam- fly expenses and if it were a universal custom there is no doubt but what f{ts effect would be for the lowering of prices: throughout the country. Then'| too, there is the physical side of the garden question. Back to nature is regarded by physicians as one of the _best remedies for the tired city dwel- ler. While it may be physically hard | work to spade up a garden plot and care for the plants and vines, vyet such worke js-refreshing: wosk and by doing:it, the worker;ls hencfitted phy- sically, - In Germany,:Fraunes, Belglum and England the people have been | taught to use every available foot of | ground. We are told that in these ! countries it is an unknown thing to find large vacant lots, far from the firing line, that are not. used for- gar- den purposes. It is an economic nec- essity to utilize every available plot. If New Britain people would consid- er these facts carefully and .act ac- cordingly they would,he doing. an.in- estimable good for the country, as- sisting in solving the . economical question, assisting in raising standard of health and in. setting worthy example. It will indeed he a selfish land owner who, rather.than permit some family to till his sofl for their own benefit. lets the land re- mpin idle all summer to raise only a crop of weeds. .o Tn this connection laws and ordi- | naces strictly enforced, giving amplai protection to the amateur gardeners.. Many times people who plant small gardens are deprived of much of the | fruits of their labors by other sneak- ing in and stealing some of the pro- ducts. . Garden owners should be pro- tected and thefts from these gar- dens should be prosecuted severely. e The Hartford and Chestnut street cars do not stop for passengers at the corner of Main and__ Church streets, the wishes of the patrong not- withstanding. ‘e { the democrats within the nniversary of the | J. what the future will, hold forth for | the ‘two major partles, nevertheless the results in the fourth ward and the fiftth ward make an interesting re- sume. In the 6fth ward, which switched to the republican ranks sev- eral ‘years ago, - democrats have been -making determined efforts to again claim it as their own. Thus far their efforts have falled, but this spring an extra effort was made by ward to bring the district back into the dem- ocratic fold. It failed and the fact that the race was mnot even close, | the lowest vote recorded by & re- publican candidate was but 339 while ithe largest number of votes polled by & democratic candidate was but ; 263, indicating that there was no wave of demotracy surging through the ward this time. The democrats are not dishearfened however, and blame their poor showing on the fact that it was an “off year.” The republi- cans on the other hand are jubilant, claiming that in a regular’ election their hosts-will be augmented - even more. In the republicap fouth ward however, quite & 8c: was thrown :into’ the ranks of the G, O. P. and, it is believed, had the democrats be- gun sooner and worked harder, they would have won. As it was -only forty-five votes separated the repub- lican trailers and the democratic learer. Judging from the showing made on Tuesday the republicans have more real occasion to Wworry about losing the fifth. In the other wards, although the voting was light, the margin between the two parties was about true to form. LR y, . heard the patriotic speech of = Compensation Commis- sioner George B. Chandler before the United Republican clubs on Mon- day evening was visibly . impressed. Mr. Chandler scorned the usual tac- tics of the patriotic orator. He did not once appeal to the martial spirit or passions of his listeners. His entire talk was a. somber business-like di- course, dealing with fact. It did much to open the eyes of many people: It gave them a greater sense of moral security in their nation’s step than would the speech of the more “fire eating” brand of orator. « e Those who The common council, when it con- venes for its April meeting, will pre- sent several new faces, some of which i have never before heen seen in ac- tive politics. These men are all coun- cilmen: Gardner C. Weld in the third ward; George C. Forsberg in the sec- Gustav Johnson in the fourth ward and Jacob Owsiak in the fifth ward. In the first ward Charles May will re- turn as an alderman, & new position for him, and it is expected tHat Har- ry Scheuy willsbe elected to succeed him as councilman: In the third ! ward Orson F. Curtis returns as al- derman. - These constitute about the only change in the personnel of the council. . It is to be hoped, for the i welfare of the city and their reapec- tive constituenth, that the new mem- bers will not join tiie unrecognized, ! but ever present, “silent members” of the council. It is likewise fervently hoped that they will.not talk unless they know. what they- are talking about. o 3 «as Orson F. Curtis has discovered a technicdlity which renders .void the council’s action in suspending the civ- il service rules that the safety board might obtain a larger elegibllity lst for policemen. - Leave it to the ‘third warder to find the flaw if there is one. e \ A few montHs ago.a house, store or vehicle displaving an American flag was the exception. Now it is the rule. PIRN One of the most important initial acts of the new council will. be to name an assistant prosecuting attor- ney. Already the present incumbent, Joseph G. Woods, has announced his candidacy as has Attorngy Albert AL Greenberg. It is now intimated that a move may be started to reappoint Judge George Andrew, who was dumped two years sgo in favoer of Lawyer Woods. Astute politicians think the time is now ripe for a dark horse candidate to step in and, profit- ing by the contest between Lawyers Woods and Greenberg, and possibly Andrew, secure the appointment. . A news item from Washington states that Mrs. Wilson, wife of the president, and Mrs: Marshall, wife of the vice presicent, as4vell as the wives of cabinet members have agreed to re- duce their scale of living to the sim- | plest possible form as an example to other women of the country. ‘They have alsp pledged themselves to buy inexpensive clothing and simple food. A worthy example to be followed by New Britain women, but many local families have been-living on the more simple forms of food since the pota- to soarea to such unscalable heights. For many weeks rice has been a well known, if not justly popular, dish in many families. .‘ .o * . The season of the “bug”, the real American bug of whom New Britain has her full share, has arrived. It was ushered in with “Play ball” on Wed- nesday. From now on we may expect to see augmented groups of excited fans and fanettes gathered. outside the the |score board windows with their pads and pencils. We expect to hear the dopesters doping/out their dope as 1o who is who and why. We may ex- pect the baseball pools to flourish as of old, even though they are frowned upon by the authorities, and we may vet expect, but not seriously hope for, to hear before long an unconfirmed rumor that the New' Britain baseball franchise is again zo.be taken up. . > 1f ‘the commfttes on cliies and bor- oughs ewer reports on the charter amendments, and reports favorably, it | will be up t6 the mayor to immed! ately appoint police and fire commi; | sions and while he is not naming any whom he may be grooming it is sure | that he will have no trouble in get- ; ting some capable men to accept po- sitions on each board. Heretofore it has oftimes been hard to induce some men to take appointmerits as safety commissioners because the two de- partments' were consolidated. Some While there was little interest in the city election last Monday, and it cannot be taken as a criterion of N capable men who would have been good commissioners have felt nnable to accept a safety board appoint- ment, because they were ~manufacy turers. They felt that if serious labog trouble occurred and they were at head of the police department {} would seriously hamper their efféc, tiveness: as commissioners and manufacturers. But ‘under separai commissions it will be ipossible to the men more congenjally cast. e is a strong undercurrent of -opiniol that H. 8. Tallard of the health & partment may ultimately find a pl on the police commission and of latg there has been a strong opinion favor of the appointment of Lawyef] C. H. Mitchell. He is aggressive, } a_strict disciplinarian and knows' p lice affairs from beginning to end De-&" cause of his service as prosecuting® attorney. That he has a mind entire:! ly his own and is most conscientio was proven several years ago whi he led the fight for a closed Sun Although' he faced the opposition almost the entire city, he stuck: his guns and while he knew that'h! action would ultimately cost him h position he remained true to his con: victions. Then, too, he has been; soldier: Not only in the militia, wher he ‘was a captain, but also in th Spanish-American war where, as member of a New York regiment, hg. was on the fining line in Cuba. There-} fore he does know military discipline and it is safe to say that with men |, Mke him on a police boird no groun of supernumeraries could appear be. fore the commission and openly chal lenge the chief and all but pass th harsh word that oftimes mea trouble. 7 L ‘:, WHAT THE PACIFIST DOES. His Smooth Fat Hand Brings Ag Much Destruction, as the i Mailed Fist. To the Editor of the Herald: I have observed this war at shorti range, having dodged ghells upon ¢t European front and hl(rln‘ visited camps, munition works and hospi of England and France. I have seen the wounded and the dead, the wid lx and orphans, and the ruins not czy of bulldings but of broad fields whis can never again be tilled;—none ‘ot the pomp ad circumstance of war all of its horror. B Again and again I have heard t remark, “If England had only listened & to Lord Roberts! If we had only' been ready this would never have hage i pened!” \ ‘ 4§ quickly became convinced thmt} what I saw was no more the resulti} of war than it was the result of the: pacifist.. Noble buildings which " were | the work ,of the imagination of the ancient’ artist are now" in a condition which may’ truly he said-to'be the work pf the lack of imagination of the modern pacifist. His smooth: fat hand has wrought as much destrug- tion as the mailed fist of the’ kaiser. Since returning from battle scarred Europe,Jghave traveled our own land from hfto South and from East to West. ~ Everywhere I find prosper- ity, but there is Iafking that presence | of & national soul (which may be nothing but the sense of a common# ' unselfish purpose) which.pervaded days and nights in Europe. It lles in the power of:our-congtess to:give our: people that feeling'of a common cause which alone will give strength, which will 'bind the rich the :poor and the poor to the rich and make. each one of us feel and’ kno¥ that we have a truly great countfy n because of its resources but beca: of its ideals and hecause we have th strength to make those ideals-sos thing more than idle dreams. ‘We only value that ‘which has' ¢ us something. Let every young give but his little share of time and work to the United States and he. wilf become -a true patriot. The plan pross posed is so simple, so small in cosf:; and B0 immeasurably great in value: that it should not be necespary for a' single man to raise his volce in its’ favor. Even if no emergency were's | now apparent, universal training should be adopted without dclay for: the unifying effect that it would bring: to our people, and even if we could soe” in it no such spiritual benefit i shounld be adopted td straighten the backs and il out the chests of our slouch: ing boys and ito teach' them the first’ principles of hygiene. g There can be but little doubt that our congressmen are individually im favor of this measurs, but perhaps they are not sure of the attitude to- wards it of those whom they repre- sent. In this case it may be suggest-'" ed to them that they visualize the' supporters and the;opponent of unf-’ versal service. In one rank are seen those whose faces are bright with knowledge and ennobled by the desire to serve. In the opposing ranks are the unenlightened, those who have . never felt the thrill of & common cause and who have no sympathy cither above or below themselves in the social scale. Shall we permit this fair land te fall an easy prey to the wild beasts’ which have devoured Belglum and harried all 9t Western Europe? In later years shall one of us say to an- other *“That ruined church shows the = _ hand of Villard”—*"That crippled man . makes me think of Pinchot”? Save. us from the work of these architects of destruction, you our representa-. tives. 4 Yours truly, 3 . i [OMAS ROBINS. . (Secretary, Naval Consulting Board.) Pointed Paragraphs, ' (Chicago. News.) Sunshine will eventually the thickest cloud. ' _ A man seldom gets so full of emo- tion that he has no room for dinner. puncture - There is a beautiful statue in every block of marble, but only an expert can coax it out. Deaf mutes are familiar withsigns, but only drunken men try to shake hands with the wooden Indians {in front of cigar stores. When you think that you are going to learn to love a girl remember that a little learning of that sort is & particularly dangerous thing, A