New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 15, 1917, Page 6

Britai Id ritain Herald. PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. @ally (Runday excepted) at $:15 p. m., Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. 4 at tie Post OfMce at New Britain Becond Class Mail Matter. aty | d by carrfer to any part of the ity [for 15 “conts n week, 05 cents a month. ptions for paper to be sent by mail. yabie in advance, 60 cents 8 month. 90 a yea: alum in only’ profitable advertising me he city. Circulation books and vress alwavs open to advertisers: Herald will be found on_sale at Fota- fing's News stand, 42nd St. and Broad- Way, New York City; Board “Walk, A ntic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Office Rooms i Why We Fight. The victory of Germany in this | Jar means that an outworn sys- ! m of society, which most of the lorld has been striving to throw ¥, will be perpetuated and ex- nded. It means the victory of atocracy over democracy, and it eans this not merely for Europe, at for us; if we should escape ‘e actual domination of Ger- any, we would still be com- slled, in pure sclf-defense, to aintain great armies and \vies, to change our govern- lent into an effective military achine, and to treat with other luntrics upon the basis of med duelists. That, to my ind, is the reason why we are hting. Just as in the Revolu- Snary War our forefathers ht England in order to win e chance to live in freedom, |8t as in the Civil War many of ir fathers died in the belief that ey were struggling to extend id make permanent that free- im. so we of today must hend ‘ery energy of body and mind perpetuate and make safe that me freedom. —MARCUS H. | | Mhers and mothers 5 to give accounts of their boys in service of Uncle Sam bespeak the | %t interest manifested in the Md’s campaign for complete Br of those who went from New Bin to the colors. At the same | they show what neslect has been | lent in the keeping of any sort of ¥d for our boys and young men | patriotically, volunteered to fight | fie army and navy. fe gathering of these Bid go on until the last man who & away is duly recorded. There 4la not be one name left off the | § Every boy who went away must 5 one friend at who takes agh interest in him to see that this k is done. It does not require ; W moments in which to fill out a ! k. It does much i, other than the usc of a pen or rall. This be there should be | fMavalanche of blanks to i1 office every u HOLCOMB. SEND THEM IN. visiting this t u i a t names | B! least not require ng so, returned day. _FINISH. TO THE throughout | peace | little | a | is now recognized world that not a premature ch would be lasting ls er than all; lee which would in fact be nothing | would a | Germany no peace at that be b after I sharpen the | Bra and go path. s because of this thought t the | igerent against Germany with move that | Jnade in the supposed interest of e. fhe latest advance toward the | BHoration of worle suffering comes | the Vatican. This in itself is piring were it not for the fact that '\ ¥ Vatican and such | Bfee friends. ;r]es has been in touch with Rom the beginning than a truce thing spell for €ch she couid again out on the war powers suspicion every Vienna are The court of Emperor e than ever since Sin Vienna is able the consent | ot nwer nothing without & advice of the !louse ilohen pern, much of of Pope | hedict's 1 1o ) g;\pt. to bring t pashtly or not, rman intrigue iz again PW own interests. that the h:g of Kaiser Wilhelm are trving bpain to_hood-wink the world. MDesirablé. as peace is, the nts no peace that will not ear-marks of permanency. any at to ter it will be thought that is working in diplomat- world show This g we call civilization has received ude hlow of Ger ny. The antil fis estabi hadow doubt bin be %t Germany rid s necessaril: from the hands re can be no livin hed beyond the Germany will never halance, again the foundations. And calls for a fight to finish. Any different end to the , any truce, would merely mark period in which Germany, bragging blustering, would again break out ahie to the ipset cannot rock to its very a e T T - - -1 8 | neutrality. there put out peace. proposal Germany would get the bet- ter of all the argument. colonics would would be but a meagre settiement for raine ance, the Central jand capably represented. free manja are ¢ whether end now or fought to a finish. will of sirable such a thing might world will | many, | school lit 1 and force an unwary world to knees. international trans- has taken it From the many which part in the past easily actions in Gern thr word is not to be ar o seen that her taken at its face value. with the tcaring up of the paper’ Beginning “serap of Belgium's which guar has ntecd been one long series of Dblunders the lmperial Whether necessity, Wwhat r comumitted by Governinent. for German these thir were done or otherwise, or for The military cason, matters not. point is, they have made a world suspicious of German actions. The good word of Ge¥many iz now iooked upon as a lic. ja countr Germany is stats The in the The world's faith in broken. The promises of her men arc branded treaties she might make would, as worthless. present stage, terfeit. be held up as coun- o be large there In a word, is not trusted. And the That Germany world being the cas of this at knaws it. is little chance peace espe 3 be Without com- and. suing for known to want when peace at time would favorable to Germany. in the open is ing out peace, Germany far ligerent nation. peace more than any other bel- Feelers for peace have been zent out in various channels from Berlin. Between the lines there can be seen the hopelessn of the German as it Ra than defeat, which continues long enough, would willingly invite a peace that would be nothing less than a truce, position, now stands. down to ignominous do if the war ther 20 she must Germany peace, a mare nor a peace that would furnish a resting spell in which her military masters might re- cuperate and reorganize. The terms of the of Chureh will be listened to attentively by world be- cause of peace advanced by head the Roman Catholic ations of the respect which all the the great is | accorded the occupant of this high of- And this regardless of the fact terms, as outlined, arc fice. that these just what the Central Powers would if they fit to sue for Under the terms of this pcace saw All her lost be restored. There he great wrongs she has perpetrated ipon the civilized world, Not one nch of her own territory would be The future of Alsace-Lor- hang the hal- be detern ouched alone would in its possessor to ined premature | man possibility. have a chance to sack Paris and London and thence to turn its destructive forces to our country. Americans are sometimes dazed by the report of the unspeakable out- rages committed by German soldiers. They cannot quite grasp the reality and the horror of these things. They wonder can have so0 completely what they into barbar- 1s how Germany sped vil from thought v tion ism. This slipping into barbarism however, a new No one who has studied this phase of lite ought to have been surprised at Germany has done, for while rdly Germany was to the public of clvilization, those who had cared to look bevond-the veil saw the certain death and destruction of that was sapping the life of a nation. not, thing. what out rottenncs The Song of the Banjo. You couldn’t pack a Broadwood half a mile— You damp—- couldn't Nile, And play it in an equatorial swamp. You raft an organ up the I travel with the cooking pans and pails— sandwiched 'tween and the pork— And when the dusty and tails, Yau should hear me spur the rear- guard to a walk! I'm the column checks my “Pilly-willy-winky-winky | popp!” it's any tune that comes into my head!) So I keep ’em moving they drop; r ‘em up to water and to | bed. With (Oh, forward till So I In the silence of the camp before the fight, and say can hear overnight Explaining ten to one your prayer, You my strump-tumpy was always 1y Absurd, I'm the prophet of the Utt ble and | Of the Patiently Impo: Vain, And when the thing that couldn’t has occurred, Give me time to change my leg and go again. P . x e . * Let the organ moan her sorrow to the | roof— I have told the grief of man. Let the trumpets snare the foeman tfo | the proof— I have known Defeat, and mocked it as we ran. naked stars the My bray ye may not alter nor mistake When 1 stand to jeer the fatted Soul by a conference at which Powers would be fully The setting action of of Things; But the song of Lost Endeavor that I make, Is it hidden in the twanging of the of Belgium, Serbia, and Rou- ured facts regardless of brought to There little doubt that all these things as in the pathway However de- be, the he better off when it can a peace at its own dictation and not that Germany might have a hand in making. Such an out- come will work no injustice on Ger- peace is brought | way, through Ger- scheming, the world at large Since the Imperial Ger- the war is an s be considered a peace at present. force on terms whereas if about the other man will suff Government be trusted, man cannot allowed to dictate its From the outlook it cannot be own peace terms. now, it is to be a fight to the finish. OUTWARDLY AND INWARDLY. Some thirty or more vears ago there wag graduated from a Vienna medical Paltimorean who is now practicing Not long ago he wns led to give some of a young in his native city. in Aus- Record. his observations & student tria ‘to the Manufacturers’ What he saw in Austria was not much witnessed in where he tudent. It rottenness different from what he the hospitals in Germany, also spent'much time s rottenness then, it It was not so noticeable then; come to the attention of the was now. wide. wide world now. According to this statement of the there was, dur- \itimore physician, ing his stay in a hospital in Austria, about 14,000 births annually in one of which it was his duty to there was an average hirths, of of those the hospital visit. Of the or 12,000 iilegitimate and the average violence of the ached by protected by these 10,500 w to scldiers, the civil | due the who could not be faw hecause they were the military Ii The fearful moral trated in that one hospital opened his eyves to was then going on in Avstria Though he contin vears to number W, condition illus- what and Germany. »d for many among his 'nds many people of those cout foresaw the end to the es. he whic 2 nations were hastening moral degradation. In the light of such facts as these we can comprehend something of the exist in the overrun reason of this conditions which sections of view with awful, unspeakable horror the bare thought that a nation thus sunk in immorality should by any hu- Belgium and France, and 1 | | converted strings? With my “ta-ra-rara-rara-ra-ra-rrep!” (Is it naught to you that hear and pass me by?) But the word—the word is mine, when the order moves the line And the lean locked ranks go roar- ing down to die. —XKipling. The Cost of the Dog. (Portland Oregonian) The dog is coming in for close | mustn't leave a fiddle in the| coffee | When it's good to make your will‘ fair. | t COMMUNICATED. WAR TAX ON LETTERS. Raising Rates From Two to Three Cents Would Curtail Business, Thinks Protester. To the Editar of the Herald: The proposed 50 per cent. war tax on our cwo-cent letter post wouid be a crime. Will it secure the expected fifty mil- lion dollars revenue for carrying on | the war in behalf of a world demo- | cra 3 On the other hand, will not the in- crease from two ta three cents in our democratic letter post so diminish the use of the mails within our own ter- ritoTy and with Great Britain, Mexico, Canada, New Foundland, New Zea- land, (established in October 1916), Panama, Cuba, the Dominican Repub- lic, only established in June, 1917 and | the other West india Islands with whom we have two-cent letter post conventions, as at once to reduce postal revenues, check up business, hinder all reform movements, and to heavily burden the poor? Might we not advance the common welfare infnitely more by preserving | our democratic two-cent letter post, | and, following New Zealand's lead at the opening of this century, by de- | x-la_ring a simllar service to all our allies, to China, Japan and especially to the Republics of South America ? These questions should be answered, I think, before this proposed fifty per cent. tax on our democratic letter post | is made law. : (Postal Commission—The 59th U. Congress, January 28th, 1917.) “Upon the postal service more than upon anything else, does the general economic, as well as the social and political development of the country depend.” What is true of the United States s ‘ true of the world. JAMES L. COWLES, Washington, D. C. | | | S. August 13, 1917, A YOUTHFUL PATRIOT. Boy, Under Draft Age, Did Not Walt for Call to the Colors—He Rushed ! in to Serve Uncle Sam. New Britain, Conn. Aug. 13, 1917 To the Editor of the Herald:— 1 sent you the clipping of my son’s 1enlntnn>n£ in Co. I. 1If all young men | had the same spirit there would be ]no need of the draft, for he is some | years under the draft law. When the call came he sald he was not going {to walt to be drafted. We let him | Bo, asking God’s blessing to go with hnn It isn't only the Germans who are protesting against this war. It is surprising to hear remarks of Amer- fcan people. I attended a meeting in | one of our churches, and heard a prominent member of the church stand up and say not one dollar of his money would o toward this war. That God teaches up to “love our enemies.” If the enemy invaded this country how much money would they leave him and what would become of his family? He ought to thank God that he is in this country, away from the enemy. We are proud of our boy, only 18, but a true American, and I feel that he is serving God, as well as his country. A MOTHER. Get Thee Behind Me, Worry! Bishop Woodcock of Kentucky preached a sermon recently in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in the course of which he declared: “Worry is an evil which destroys more than rum or vice, Worry wastes It is as sinful as drinking or gambling. It is a gullty, sinful and cowardly thin It is always a per- sonal weakness.” scrutiny from the economic viewpoint. It seems inhospitable, to say the | least, to count the value of devotion | in dollars and cents, and “man’s hest | friend” has always heretofore been re- garded on a sentimental basis, but war is war, and there is a growing in- ! clination to investigate. It is estimated by “The Manufac- turer’s Record” that there are 25,000,- 000 dogs in the United States. As a source of revenue they would produce $50,000,000 if taxed at the rate of $2 a head, provided the owners of a lot | of worthless curs did not kill them rather than pay the tax. The same writer estimates that the average dog consumes food worth 70 cents every | week. Authority for this figure is not given, but the argument that much of the food a dog eats would not be con- sumed by humans in any event can be anticipated with the statement that if it were fed to other animals, such as pigs and poultry, it would be into food supply for the people. e Singularly Alike. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) The two Clevelanders on the back seat were talking literature. “I'm reading Ruskin all over again,” Said one. “It's meaty stuff after so much modern frivol.” Ruskin,’ said the other man, “al- ways reminds me of Artemus Ward.” What's that! Artemus Ward? Im- possible.” “Not at all. The titles of Ruskin's books and Ward's lecturers never have anything to do with the con- The wedding of Miss Agnes M. Fusler to George L. Day took place this afternoon at 8 p. m. at the home of the bride at 16 Rentschler street. The bride was gowned In white georgette crepe and satin and car- ried a shower bouquet of roses. Miss Inez Boehm, who attended the bride, wore pale blue taffeta, trimmed with black. and carried a bouquet of pink | carnations. A cousin of the bride, | william March, was best man. | Friends were present from New York, Turners Falls, Mass, and Bristol. | After the wedding trip the couple will reside on Prospect street. OB FIRES ON SOLDIERS. | Helsingfors, Aug. 15.—In an ex- changs of shots between Russian trocps and unknown persons today several Finns were killed. The dis- turbances began when a number of shots were fired from a crowd. This utterance seems to have struck many persons as unusual, for a re- port of it has been printed in several morning newspapers, and space is precious in newspapers nowadays. Perhaps one reason why it sounded like an excessive statement iz the prescription for worry offered by the right reverend speaker. Said he: The absolute cure for worry is to be as the bird which fii above the wind blown dust and is therefore not sul- lied. So we must fly above the wor- ries of the earth. There may be an inflection in these words to convey a hint of something fanciful in the Bishop's point of view. But beyond the certain degree of ex- ultation which has filled almost every serious mind contemplating the world at war, mankind fighting for all that makes human life precious or, indeed, worth enduring, there seems to be | nothing but a lofty sense of duty and one of the most insidious of fleshly cleear vision in Bishop Woodcock's remarks. He is crying out “Retro Sathana against self-indulgence, lus Under cover of the virtue of pridence, it is easy for sloth and a slack sense of moral obligation to out- weight the duty of active co-operation with the rest of the world at a mo- ment when action is golden, and de- lay and questioning are conspicuous elements in the great heap of dross which American character should shake out and repudiate forever. Bishop Woodcock’s words are vivid with living truth. Senseless worry, as he warns us, is actually shortening lives in wo than useless waste. Worry run wild leads to panic and if any nation in ali the world has no cause to be panicky it is the United States. Indeed, this strong scourge of duty which is driving the flower of our manhood into war is unquestion- ably the instrumentality through which Americans are to be recalled to a sense of what all men should re- alize; that the day’s duty is some- thing for each man and woman to do for himself and herself, and not by a hired substitute, and that chil- dren who have never heard this teaching are wretchedly unequipped for human life. When the issue is clear as light and the duty as plain as that owed to parent, let not piti- ful worry over details clog the feet lfor an instant. In the great forward | movement now in progress all lesser | considerations become as artificial; none can provide against countless unforeseen contingencies. Let each do his duty, simply and fearlessly. The outcome is In stronger than mor- tal hands. Sk | mean education, i the HOMX READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS Thirty daily " ing informal in tene. e ———— LESSON NO. 3 NINE-SOLDIERLY QUALITIES. (Preceding Lessons: 1. Your Post of | Honor; 2. Making Good as a Sol- dier.) The three basic qualities, Loyalty, Obedience and Physical Fitness, were treated in the preceding lesson. There is another group of three soldierly qualities that are especially needed during the period of training, march- ' ing and waiting between combats. They are: Intelligence, Cleanliness, Cheerfulne Although these qualities are asso- ciated chiefly With camp life, they are, of cours carcely less helpful in all other ph of military service. Intelligence. i Intelligence does not necessarily but rather quick ob- servation and willingness to learn. There plenty of need for intelli- gence in modern warfare. The Na- tional Army will be forced to absorb within a few months a training which would ordindrily extend over a period of two of threc years. Those who in- | tend to fit themselves for promotion | should study thoroughly the manuals | and the drill regulations which affect their duties. In time they should learn something about map-making and map reading, the construction of field entrenchments, training and care of horses, signalling, the handling of | complex pieces of machinery, and many other subjects. Any practical knowledge that you | may now possess will surely be use- | ful and helpful to you in the army. | Capt. Tan Hay Beith, of the English army, points out that in the first Brit- ish forces of the present war the previous trade or training of every soldier was sooner or later utilized. Cleanliness. Cleanliness is important everywhere, but most of all in the army where Jarge bodies of men are brought to- | gether. In its true sense, it includes not only keeping your body clean, but also your mind and your ac- tions. Fortunately, it is a virtue in which Americans generally rank high. There should be little difficulty in | setting a satisfactory standard in the new army. This is a subject more fully treated later in this course. Cheerfulnes: Cheerfulness is always trait of good soldiers. Here again Americans may be counted upon to make a splendid showing, even in the face of any unexpected hardships or difficulties that may be ahead of u There are numerous episodes iu American military history to justify | this confidence. ! In January, 1863, the Union army | lay in camp at Falmouth, Va. About a month before had occurred the dis- astrous and bloody defeat of Fred- ericksburg. In the North it was the darkest hour of the war. Everywhere outside the army there was depres- sion and fear. On January 21, the | commanding general ordered the troops to break camp and move for- ward. At the same time “ a cold drizzling rain set in; the ground speedily became like a sea of glue; cverything upon iheels sunk into bottomless mud; it took twenty | horses to start a single caisson; | hundreds of them died in harness; but still the general persisted. But | the rain persisted also, and it soon | became a simple impossibility to go forward.” After two days of effort ! it was necessary to have the men struggle and flounder ‘‘through the wilderness of mud back to their Picture the situation feat with heavy losses; retreat; a cheerless mid-winter camp; rain; cold; mud; discouragement at home; | a long march under the most trying conditions ending in a return to the same camping ground from which the troops had started. A little grumb- ling might reasonably have been ex- pected. But the men of 1863 were | too good soldiers to draw long faces. The historian goes on: ‘“The march | a prominent ci Recent de- lessons ,offered to men selected for service in Na- tional Army as practical help in getting started in the right way. attempt is made to give binding rules or directions, the course be- These lessons are issued by the War Depart- ment which reserves right to reprint. ! the other siX in good measure—he is " after all only a camp-fire soldler. !.heing mere hatred of the enemy or | mere passive obedience to orders, on | goes a step beyond that point. Deci- ! you .No Was made in high good humor, the | soldiers laughing and joking at their | ill-luck with that comic brightness | characteristic of Americans in diffi- cult circumstances.” | Three Qualities of Battle. Finally, there are the three battle qualities of the good soldier: Spirit, Tenacity, Self-reliance. Unless a man has these three qual ities—even though he possesses all Spirit Spirit—fighting spirit—is far from blind fury, on the one hand; nor is it the other. Tt means cool, self-con- trolled courage—the kind of courage which enables a man to shoot as straight on the battlefield as he does in target practice. However, it even sive victories cannot be won by mere- ly repulsing the enemy. “Only the offensive wins.” (Infantry Drill Regulations, paragraph 511.) Like all the other qualities of a soldier, spirit can be cultivated. An untrained army seldom possesses it. But it can be developed. You can and will develop it until it becomes as much a part of yourself as any of your easy-going civilian habits are now. Tenacity. Spirit carries a body of soldiers for- ward. Tenacity is the quality that makes them “stick.” The thorough soldier is never ready to stop fighting until his part of the battle is won. Tenacity was never hetter expressed than in the words of John Paul Jones. Standing among his dead and wound- ed on his sinking ship which was “leaking like a basket,” he replied to his adversary’'s invitation to surren- der, “'Sir, I have not yet begun to fight.” Two hours later the battle came to a sudden end when the col- ors of the enemy’s vessel were hauled down. Self-Reliance Self-reliance is characteristic of the American, whether he is serving as a soldier or in some civil occu- pation. Much the same quality is sometimes referred to as “initiative.” It is a quality needed more than ever before in present-day warfare. Major- General Leonard Wood, in his intro- duction to the Fleld Service Regula- tions of the United States Army, says: “Officers and men of all ranks asd grades are given a certain indepen- dence in the execution of the tasks to which they are assigned and are ex- pected to show initiative in meeting the different situations as they ar- rive. Every individual, from the highest commander to the lowest pri- vate, must always remember that in- action and neglect of opportunities will warrant more severe censure than an error in the choice of the means.” . Making Yourself Stronger. The nine qualities which have just been reviewed are those which every- one of us would like to have for him- self. They are the essentials of verjle and successful manhood, whether in the army or out of it. Even the moral weakling and the slacker in their hearts admire these qualities. Doubtless you have developed some of them already—perhaps all of them to a greater or less extent. Many a man has discovered, when put to the test, that he possessed these qualities without having himself realized it. But under civilian conditions it is not easy to cultivate all of them. In the army you will have your opportunity in a few months of train- ing to strengthen these qualities in yourself. In so doing you will learn fo control yourself, to take care of Yourself under all conditions, to meet hardship and danger unflinchingly, to be fearless and self-reliant. " At the end of these few months of training will have gained immensely in Vigor and in strength. POPE'S NOTE MAY | AFFECT RUSSIA. German Agems Only Too Ready* to Make Use of It New York, Aug. —Charles Ed- ward Russell, returning to the city | with the Koot commisslon, expr 05<ed| the fear last night that the Pope’ peace proposal would have an un- favorable effect on the situation in Russia.. “One of the dangerous elements of the situation in Russia,” he said, ‘“is that the people have been told by cer- tain arrivals from the United States that the war is unpopular here, and that America entered it only because of the influence of the munition makers. Any encouragement, there- fore, of pacifist agitatian in the United States, such as will unquestionably re- sult from the Pope's proposal, will in- evitably be reflected in Russia. Ger- | man agents, who are circulating the reports of the unpopularity of the war in the United States, will say, | “You see, I told you so,” and the situa- tion will be aggravated by Jjust so | much. ; “It is unfortunate for the Russian | situation that the Pope's proposal| should follow by such & short interval the La Follette resolution in the sen- ate. First came that strange and sin- ister outburst of pacifism in the sen- ate, and then this announcement from . ; people in | cause would realize, | contemplated the | war, ten or twenty years from now, | the Pope, which, prompted though it was by the most humane of motives, will inevitably result in the greatest agitation by the pacifists the United States has known. ““Unquestionably the majority of the Russia want peace, but { there, as here, are the men of vision and courage who know the world must stand against a peace that would be worse than the war. The stimulation of pacifist agitation In the United States, due to the La Follette resolu- tion, and the well-intentioned pro- posal from the Vatican, cannot but complicate the situation.” Mr. Russell said that the people of Russia who were loyal to the allied | like the friends of democracy everywhere, that the peace proposal was ‘impossible” since it return to Germany of her colonies. “That would mean the restoration of Germany's colossal empire,” said Mr. Ruseell, “and enable her to rebuild along the lines followed before the war. It would enable Germany to resume her grasping policy of coloni- zation, and this would mean another more terrible than this Germany knows she cannot win this war, and | her sole thaught now is to save her colonies. It was Germany, therefore, that prompted the Popc's peace pro- posal, and is behind the pacifists’ agi- tation in this country.’ | Referring to the proposed socmust[ confereffce at Stockholm, Mr. Russell, who was expelled fram the soclahs't party here because of his attitude on ! the war, said he could not see why any | real socialist should desire to attend it. “There is nothing to confer about,” he remarked. { { dred perhaps may be chosen. FILLING THEIR PLACES. Unnecesary Service Now Rendered By Men In Various Walks of Life to Be Eliminated. (James B. Morrow, in The Notion's Business). The Commercial Economy Board was created ‘‘to investigate and ad- vise how commercial business may best meet the demands made on it/ by war.” This group is composed of five men—Wallace D. Simmons, a Yale .graduate and a merchant in St. Louis; George Rublee, a Harvard man and a lawyer; Dr. Edwin F. Gay, dean of a great school of business admin- istration; Henry S. Dennison. pres- . ident of the Dennison Manufacturing company, and Arch W. Shaw, the ed- itor and publisher of System, Factory and other busines periodicals. Mr. Shaw is chairman of the board. How can a million men, or two mil- lion, or three million, again to ask the most vital question of the hour, be taken from the normal business forces of the nation and still leave a sum total of business done equal’ to the needs of the people, and in large part to the needs of Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium? The answer as given by Mr. Shaw can be stated in the following six words: “The elinrination of all non- essential service.” What is such service? Let Mr. Shaw reply in his own fashion. “If a grocer at a corner uptown * by simplifying his methods can re- duce his working force one man and send that man into a wheat field, an amunition factory or the army he will be helping to conquer the Prussians. ‘“The unnecessary service given the public would, if abolished, release ac- countants, bookkeepers, clerks, pack- ers, checkers, deliverymen and de- livery equipment for use elsewhere* and use that would count in time of war. ‘“Men with whom to fight Prussians must come largely from the nations’ forces of distribution. Farms must be kept going and also factories, mines and railroads. “Grocery, dry goods and depart- ment stores employ more than 200,-, 000 men to deliver goods to their pa- trons. Half of .those men could be released and the public would there- by suffer little inconvenience. The same grocers’ wagon would not go to the same house three or four times a day—one trip with a pound of but- ter, another with a loaf of bread, another with a peck of potatoes and so on—because the woman in the house would learn to do her business in a better way. “She would understand, too, that a basket in her hand or a package un- der her arm was a military service and that every time she carried either she was helping to whip Emperor Willlam. Her little son on his way home with a quart of berries or a spool of thread would likewise be en- Itisted under the banner of his coun- Ty, “Also the American people acting collectively and patriotically, can save milllons of pounds of wool and leath- er. Prussia by the stern hand of its military system controls all things. A man may own so many suits of clothes and no more. He cannot have a belt- on his coat or cuffs on his trousers. Wool must not be wasted, declare the battling Prussians. “In this country, among demoorats, laws to conserve wool are not so ne- cessary. We need only to be told of our duty. If it is unpratriotic to have cuffs on our pantaloons and belts and / patch pockets, we will not wear them once we know that our soldiers and sailors will suffer if not provided with * warm clothing. |‘Shoes in England for women can be seven inches high but not a frac- tion over. TUnlike Germany, where laws and penalties keep the people within drastic bounds, Great Britain relies both on agreements among its business men and the patriotism of its« men and women. Here In free Amer- ica I hope such drastic laws will not be necessary. “If our enemies in their man pow- er are more efficlent than ourselves they will win the war. I make this statement very seriously. I mean ex- actly what I say. ‘“Americans Gemand fresh bread. A loaf is stale in their opinion the sec-* ond day. So every city and town is filled with bakers’ wagons driving from grocery to grocery with bread hot from the ovens. “TMve per cent of the bread delivery to retail dealers is not sold on the day of its baking. The supply to that av- erage quantity exceeds the demand. On the following day the bread is* hauled back to the bakeries. where much of it is ground into chicken feed. “Threo million bushels of wheat, enough to teed 200,000 human beings, is wasted in this way yearly. The waste should be stopped. All bread should be sold, none taken back and the deliveries to grocers should be reduced. “The same waste is going on in fa- brics. Of a thousand patterns offered to the trade, a hundred or two hun- The woman at the counter never hears of those that have been examined and re- the . v < | fused by the merchant.” Parental Confidence. (Washington Star.) “So your boy Josh is in the army?” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Corntossel, “and we’'re mighty proud of him.” “Suppose something happens him?" “Well, we haven’t though much about that. When Josh gets into a mix-up he 'most invariably ain” thb' one that something happens to.” to Not the Accepted Time. (Kansas City Star.) “Can’t I sell you a nice, stylish suit of clothes today, Mr. Johnson?" in- sinuated the proprietor of an empor- ium at Tumlinville. “No, I reckon not’” replied Gap Johnson of Rumpus’ Ridge, Ark. “I never buy a new suit except when I« am going to be converted at the re- vival, and oniy get converted when I have a new suit. The way times is, I aim to postpone both for a year or{ two.” | A