New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1917, Page 6

itain Herald. LD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. y (Runday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. rad Builaing, 67 Church st 8¢ tde Post Omce at New Britatn Class Mail Matter. By carrfer to any part of the city Cents a week, 66 cents a month. for paper to be sent by mail, in advance, 60 cents a month. &'year. Iy profitable advertlsing medium in 8lty. Circulation books and press alwavs open to advertisers. d will be found on sale at Hota- News Stand. atic City, and Hartford Depot TELEPHONE CALLS. pb of The Associated Press. The - Associated Press is exclu- rely entitled to the use for re- iblication of all news credited it or not otherwise credited in paper and also the local news Iblished herein. Traitors at Heart. he men who are speaking and ting and printing arguments nst the war now, and against ing that is being done to on the war, are rendering pre effectlve service to Ger- ny than they could render in fleld. The purpose and effect ‘what they are doing is*so plain it is impossible to resist the pclusion that the greater part of are at heart traitors to the ed States, and wilfully seek- to bring about the triumph of many and the humiliation and eat of their own country. —ELIHU ROOT. SIMPLE BUT SINCERE. Thursday of this week more two hundred men from New will leave for Camp Devens a Mass., there to be trained for yw National Army. yor Quigley after consultation leading men of the city has is- call for a fa,re\\ell elebration t that will be le -But sincere”. What though ive sent other young men with- lven official recognition of their : what though this celebration is d in that it will not include the quota and was not given on the hen every city throughout the joined in doing honor to the bd men; what though these things ye, the city of New Britain shall heless make amends for past We shall give these boys “simple but sin- ence. ectful farewell, for those already in training mp Devens, they can be remem- very appropriately by sending cartons of tobacco. Cigars and pttes, pipe tobacco, and all the ements that go with the smok- tfit should find the way to Ayer, chusetts. * On Thursday then let hought be a double one. Let us we are waving farewell to this detachment not forget the smal- pits that have gone before. How- simple both these acts, let them cere. MURDER WILL OUT. jrder will out. That is an ac- truth. History has proven it ‘here have been few, if any, in- ps in the annals of -crime where ally the truth was not discov- So it is with the nefarious ings of the German diplomat planned to have his Government |U-boats against Argentine mers vessels, to destroy and leave no n German submarine suc- d In sinking a merchant vessel gentine without leaving a trace ship, its cargo, or its crew, that ine commander was far more Int in his efforts than the Ger- diplomat who the he. It is doubtful, bubmarine could commit bn murder and up . There are records of all world ng. There ling when a devised however, even such cover the are ways and means ship has been eyes of German i be opened by this time. those who believe statesmen The should also be opened. At the ping of the world war the peo- America and other countrier willing to admit that the was the cleverest on Ger- py system They were also ready to stand r the wonderful devel erman corps p-set all Germar of being a lot, are exceedingly clumsy. have bungled more jobs, i jpacy and other fields, than any people on the face of the green In slmost every instance they diplomatic calculations ad { believe the ment had nothing to do with starting NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917. have started something they unable to finish. Never yet has Ger- many made a Never yet completely complets get-away. has German covered its tracks. There has always lying around somewhere, what the undertaking. As it has been with diplomacy up and the less refined intrigues, so it be eventual with the w Ger- many will be caught there, just as she or has been caught at other things. the past three vears her professional tried to make the Imperial German Govern- liars have the war. It notably in Leing made public 1t all sim- adage, is all coming to the sur- the instance of cer- by for- face, tain letters Ambassador Gerard. to the old-time out. mer mers down Murder w AN AMFERICA For the benefit of those who seem to have forgotten what an Amer- jean is, we recall the subjoined from the New York Sun: An American is one Who not only shouts ““Old Glory; but feels it: German | men possessors of such master | ctical, not a pas- Who pursues a ve, democra not only country, with it: ‘Who would not barter its tiniest blade of grass for the wealth of a uni- verse; Who respects its institutions, does not deride them: Who has the couraze of his convic- tions, not the acquiescence of his expediency; Who believes in stultification of i Who can be generously svmpathetic without being patronizing: A Who rocks the cradle with one hand and bhalances his books with the other: Who is childlike with vou in suce: and staunch in adversity; Who loves one woman, and honors all; TWho is mild with the simple, a rock with the sophisticated: Who can pat a puppy that bespat- tered his trousers; Who is square with himself lenient toward ignorance: Who is fair to labor, and falrly; Who is humble in his achievements, and generous wtih his praise; Who can be a stalwart champion as well as an innocent bystander: Who Believes in adequate prepared- ness, and will cheerfully dig up his share when the bills fall due; pr thrive with to die Tikes hut to is ready who principle, not the £ but and lahors Who observes the intent, not the let- ter of the law: Who can be gallant to a scrubwoman, and indifferent to the haughty: Who is as fastidious ahout his moral o his laundered linen: Who eats his own embalmed and forwards the better cuts those who serve his countr Who tries to be kind to every and color and creed hecause he has no wish to draw distinctions among those who will serve him in the pinch. shirt cufi NO MONOPOLY THERE. First to feel gas, the Canadlans Ypres are now repaying the Germans with interest at TLens. In a despatch from the British front an American correspondent, Percival Phillips, de- seribes what the Germans are receiv- ing from the men who first felt the dreadful invention. in dee the effects of poison who suffered at torments of this “Although the chambers fe est Germans zalleries may shock of the explosion,” says Phillips, “they protected against the deadly drift shafts and stairways and ooze through barred doors. Gas shells descend on them by the ton and they are unable or drink withont wear- A captured Prussian offi- the troops in crucify the man and the mine be heav against cannot be vapors which down air- to sleep, eat ing masks. cer said he Lens would willingly who ‘invented’ poison gas.” It was a German chemist vented poison gas. Upon the realiza tion of his achievement this man was probably decorated with the Order of thought who in- the Crown, or had pinned upon his | The | to a breast an Iron Cros that cross is Kaiser Bill, reverherated against his own troops, shrift of the man something that the The idea in Ger- do something no other And that is all there What manly nailed irony of he be the suggestion wooden fate. malke short invented may who enemy can use. many is to people can do. is left in Germany, ideas. Germans think they they actually distinct things. fo are two separate and NOW IS THE TIME. Although a steady comes into this office each and every day, names of those who have gone to the list vet of rall but colors, the entire is not The Britain's completed. work New honor is smooth rate: not fast There is no reason why the od hefore the that along at a hooks should not be ¢ cold weather se scems 5 in Wt any parent who has front should be sufficiently in his record to send the required data to the Herald. It secems that interested any kinsman or friend who knows of were diplomacy been a loose end no matter must world Ford l'urd run this war he’d make money on it—New York World. ballot, and we shall next this progressive famlly is in favor. of the inftiative, the recall.—Boston Transoript. boof | to | race | ! was now that poison gas has the can do and what stream of names | to | “spuds. compiling Y P | and that is not a figure going ! able crops” ent a boy to the enough time and trouble to find out it the soldier's name s in the list. There is only one way to complete this task, and that is by the co-operation and help of every man and woman in the city who knows of a young man with the colors. Now is the time to be up and doing. FACTS AND FANCIES, nothing in its bunk- -New York Sun. Tammany ers hut bun s even hetter known Nan Berkshire Somew her n Paris Eagle. or Italy seems to have a decided aver- slon to waging war in its own terri- tory.——New Haven Register. You never can tell. Many a fellow asks a girl to share his lot that is pretty heavily mortzaged.—Paterson Lvening Nev It is casy enough to see what the first and last digits of the 102d regi- ment stand for, but what about the one in the middle?—Hartford Times. 1t scems as though there might be some relation between the recrude- scence of Mr. Bryan and the rise in the price of silver, but it is too much trouble to think it out—New York Evening Sun. Eggs will not go to a dollar a dozen next winter, Chicago dealers promi: because the public won't stand for it. So that's what regulates egs and but- ter prices, is it >—Norwich Record. The mistake of the Germans conspired to spread tetanus is that they did not scatter the bacilli of lockjaw in the United States senate.— who New York Evening Post. “I am in favor of a 95 per cent. tax on all excess war profits,” says Henry -If Uncle Sam would let Henry The Romaunoffs have suddenly come appreciate the advantage of the hear that to the referendum—and Soldiers of the Sofl. No bugle blows; no drum is beat | To stir us to our toil, There Is no sound of marching feet That tread the quiet soil; No captain have we but the sun, Nor ever yet have trod A path of blood to battles won— Whose general is God. A million miles of trenches mark The ancient war we wage From dusk of dawn to early dark All nature we engage. We scatter powder seed like rain, We charge with horse and blade Untll the ranks of ripened grain Stand sturdy at parade! Then all our acres rise to meet The call for volunteers, And countless regiments of wheat Uphold their golden spears, And through a sea of banners green That glisten in the morn Shine out in endless sweep of sheen The bayonets of corn! They stand and sway and swiftly fall That men may eat and live, And we go back to wait the call Another spring shall give— And now it thrills and now it stirs Our souls amid new scenes Where hoes are more than howitzers And bullets bow to beans! And now we challenge soil and sky For Freedom to provide— That richer flelds for man may die Than ever vet have died; That endless hosts of food may sweep Across the bristling To where the brave their virgil keep For God and Liberty! —LEIGI MITCHELL ‘HODGES COMMUNICATED I’TL:\[RLR MORN FEditor of the Herald: any one say why the To the Gan State | police waited until about the last day of the Fair before arresting the Vam- pire crowd, and was it very much worse than an act shown in Keeney's last week where Soptember Morn clothed in a veil. how much longer will the public stand for such things, what is law, who is there to enforce any thing. MRS. MARTHA ol ¥ (Kansas City There was an old song that used to be sung of Kansas. Never true, of course, it was sung in the days of Kansas adversity, when the ‘folks back East" were sending their second- hand clothing and other articles of aid to their relatives in the new state. Oh, potatoes, they grow small Out in Kansas. Oh, potatoes they grow small, And they cat them skins and all, Out in Kansas. But Kansas raised 4,301,063 bushels of potatoes last year, and it wasn't a SANFORD. star). i good year for potatoes, either. This year Kansas literally has fields | of potatoes to where it had gardens of them last veai Barring the danger of too much moisture and too many | bugs—always a menace to potatoes— Kansas likely will raise this year close ten or twelve million bushels of ' The crop last year was at almost four million dollars, to be sneezed at in times of emergency. But with potatoes rated among the luxuries of life this year the Kansas crop ought to take a high place among the “‘valu- of the state. The Peril of Success. {(Arkansus Gazetie) When vou get to those Germans, Jim, bust ‘em! Do it even though you may be in danger of being sent to the Legislature by your county when valued a young man in the khaki would take lyou return because you did it. | Unless perchance DOING HIS BIT HENRY W. RICE, When Columbia cnlled Henry W, Rice was one of those to respond. He enlisted in May. as a member of the Naval Re New York di- vision. At present he is stationed at Brooklyn and will probably see active service soon. Rice is the son of Mrs. Henry Kuper of 214 Maple street and one of the most popular young men in the town. He received his education at local schools and at the time of enlistment was connected with the New Britain Gas Light company. Fraternally he is a member of New Bridin lodge, B. P. O. E. xable Liberty Bonds. (New York Journal of Commerce.) The suggestion that the new issue of Liberty Loan bonds just announced shall bear a higher rate of interest than the last and be subject to Federal income tax raises an extremely inter- esting and, at the same time, technical question in bond values. It will be recalled that the first Liberty Loan was issued at 3 1-2 per cent. and was free of tax. The belief has become quite general among financial authori- tles that such a principle of issue affords for the future toa great an op- portunity for those who wish by legi- timate means to avoid the high income taxes of the present day, and hence the suggestion of a change in policy. Soeme experts would subject the new issue to the so-called super-taxes only, while leaving it free of normal taxes. Others would make the new bonds and their income taxable in the same way as other wealth. In either event there would be a sharp breach with past practice. The new plan, if adopted, will throw light on the question how much gov- ernment credit is actually worth as compared with private. The really decisive element in the prahlem is found in the question how many men with incomes continuously subject to the higher rates of the super-normal income tax there really are, and how far these men will be disposed to seek a non-taxable security. If the number with very large incomes who annually reinvest a considerable praportion of their incomes continues on its present level throughout the war, there may be a very substantial demand from that source for the old bonds or for any non-taxable secu s, provided the owners of such incames feel it hecessary to resort to non-taxable in- vestments in order to keep their tax payments down. On the other hand it is to be bornme in mind that com- mercial rates are rising, and that prob- ably only those with very large in- comes will find a genuine and appre- ciable profit in purchasing bonds that bear a premium, because of their non- taxable character. Only experience, therefore, will show the actual effect of the proposed plan upon the relative values of the new and old securitie: In this, as in many other like cases, forecasts may prove erroneous. An element of special uncertainty grows out of the doubt that must and will always exist regarding the duration of high income tax levies. If this dura- tion is believed likely to be short, the value of freedom from the super- taxes on large incomes will be cor- respondingly diminished. The whole situation offers a complex and puzzling proplem in hond vaiues and public finance. No doubt the wise course of action is to issue government securi- ties at rates correspanding to their commercial value and to tax them in the same as other issues. The problems that grow out of that course must be met as they develop. There is no safe and sure precedent for opera- tions of a size than are themselves unprecedented. The decision reached by congress will be of great interest. The Slave. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) They say there are no slaves today. That man is free to come and go, To choose the part that we shall play In what concerns him here below. That this I cannot s: false 1 plainly see; y what I shall do, my plans agree With those of my dear little Sue. She wants to romp when T would read, S0 on the floor T must get down. | Perforce become her docile steed And carry her in haste to town. Sometimes a game of ball she wants, Again a round of hide and seek Appeals to her in hidden haunts And brings the roses to her cheek. But best of all che likes to hear” The tales of giant, elf and gnome, Who, when her bedtime hovers near, Lurk In dark corners of our home. Yes, a helpless slave am T, And yet what lavish wages mine: Love that beams from brightest eve, Lips that caress and arms that twine. —PAUL GOODING. The Drama. Maud—Do vou think ought to see that play? Dorothy—Why not? srandra He wouldn't | understana the worst parts. ! the { honor RAINIER OR TACOMA? Call the Famous Mount What You Will But Be Careful Where You Are. (New York Times.) Bentivoglio wrote of Switzerland: “Their Alps are created for the Swiss and the Swiss for the Alps.” One may have doubts as to the literal truthfulness of this statement, but the Swiss have proved themselves worthy of the Alps, and the fitness of the com- bination was always admitted, even in the time of Caesar. Unhappily, moun- tains and those who dwell on them or near them are not always so well mated as the Swiss and their Alps. As regards, for instance, the mountain that rears its white crest near Tacoma and Seattle, it is as worthy as the Alps or Fujiama ot undivided and harmo- nious praise, but unfortunately it is, instead, a bone, or rather a mount, of contention to the two citles it over= looks, and there seem to be no special harmony and adaptation between the cities and itself. The twin cities af Puget Sound have a number of causes of disagreement, but the chief of them all is their re- spective claims to the great mountain which each desires, or at least seems inclined, to add as an annex to its own glory. They cannot even agree as ta the name to be applied to the moun- tain. Seattie, to do it justice, was con- tent that the great peak should bear pame Rainier in honor of its dis- r, but Seattle’s rival, Tacoma, s own Indian name so well that it desires to share it with the moun- tain, and hence has named it Mount Tacoma. Any one in that region may be known as a loval citizen of Seattle if he calls the mountain Rainier just as a loyal Tacomaite may he known by his calling it Tacoma. The different names have become, respectively, the shibboieths of the two cities, and the wayfarer from either regions will find it {o his advantage during a temporary residence in either of the cities to do as the romans do and call the moun- tain by the name of Tacoma or Rainier as his. location may demand. As for the mountain itself, it is big enough and glorious enough to ba the pride of both cities, as it is in all except its name. TIn defense of apply- ing the name Tacoma or Takomah to the mountain the Tacomans very propferly say such was the appellation by which it was known to the In- dians. In his new volume, ‘“Mount Rainfer,” Professor-Hdward S. Meany of the University of Washington quotes this speech of the Indian guide Shiskin, (translated from the Chi- nook:) Your plan climb Takomah is all foolishness. No one can do it and live. A mighty chief dwells upon the summit in a lake of fire. He brooks no intruders. But, on the other hand, as has been fully shown by writers on the subject, the name Takomah was used by the Indians for any snowy, lofty moun- tain or range of mountains, and hence there is no more propriety in applying it to this particular mountain than to a dozen other famous peaks which are now known by good Fnglish names. Happily for Seattle, almost universal usage has confirmed the name Mount Rainler as the proper designation. This, moreover, is its official name as confirmed by the decision of the [/nited States Geo- graphic Board. This decision, how- ever, Tacoma at once and indignantly appealed from. But Dr. C. Hart Mer- riam of the geographic board, review- ing the controversy, leaves Tacoma not a leg, or rather not a mountain, to stand on. He shows with logic, convincing to all except Seattle, that the name Rainier given to the moun- tain by Vancowen should stand. As a matter of fact, the mountain does not belong to either of the cities but to the TUnited States government, which has made of it a‘park officially known as Mount Rainier National Park. That seems to be the logical and sensible conclusion to the controversy, but it probably will not be accepted by Tacoma. But gazetteers, encyclo- pedias, atlases, officlal documents, and works of reference generally will hereafter, as most of them do even now, designate the mountain as Rainier. to Smoking on the Judge. (Bench and Bar). Judge Jackson has had under ad- visement for the past three days a protest presented to him by the mem- bers of the bar of the Cristobal Divi- sion at the last session of court in that division relative to a privilege in- dulged in by the members of that bar at the expense of the judge. The pro- test, as signed by the attorneys, ex- plains itself, and reads as follows: “To His Honor William H. Jackson, Judge of the District Court: “May it please your ho: “We, the undersigned’ practicing members of the bar of th¢ Canal Zone practicing before the Cristobal Divi- sion of said court, do hereby respect- fully protest unto your honor against your honor's action in discontinuing to leave a box of Three Castle Cig- arettes upon your honor's desk while engaged in holding court at Cristobal “We wish to represent unto your honor that the said brand of clg- arettes Is greatly appreciated by your petitioners, who are all poor persons and unable to obtain such luxuries for themselves. and we have had no other { recourse in the past when In need of the sald cigarettes than to serve our- selves from the box formerly left by your honor upon the sald desk. “Reposing confidence in your honor's sense of equity and Jjustice, we therefore pray that this our hum- ble protest be considered by sour and that in the future, while holding court in the division afore- said. vour honor wtll ever leave upon the aforesaid desk a full package of the aforesald Three Castle clgarettew ind vour petitioners will ever pray, ete., ete. Yesterday at a session of court In Ancon Judge Jackson handed down an oral opinion. stating in substance that he had carefully considered the protest. Jound the complaint of the attorneys to be justified. and therefore granted their petition as contained in the last paragraph of the protest. MISSION OF THE NEWSPAPER. A Part of the Government, Just as Is Any Particular Department in ‘Washi) (Publishers’ Auxfllmry) Bver since men began to print things that other people did not like there has been more or less contro- versy concerning the function of the newspaper. The grafter has always declared that the newspaper is a public nuisance, the tyrant has contended that it is arrayed against the best in- terests of the state and the man with half-baked /theories of life has can- tended that the press is the agent of the devil in overthrowing the morals of the community. Despite opposition, however, the press has won its way %o freedom. Today it occupies an unique position. A very profound observer, in speaking of newspapers, said: “What do we have the newspapers for? Why are they granted liberties under the Constitution? It is hecause they are needed as a part of the gov- trnment. They are a part of the gow- ernment; unrestrained, but valuable and useful for that very reason. “A newspaper can print anything, even to erroneous statements. It can print anything except malicious lies. Its function in the government is to investigatet, to pry into the business of every department of the govern- ment, and to criticize wherever it sees t. ‘It sometimes makes me out of pa- tience with newspapers that all do not realize their function, that they are virtually a part of the government. It is their duty to find out evils wherever they exist and bring them ta the at- tention of the responsible authorities. ‘They are the great safeguard against corruption in public office. “And how much better they can do this work than any grand jury: They have their men going about where, nosing into everything. there is anything wrong they will be sure to find it out. Some ane will drop a hint. Then the facts are printed and they go immediately bhefcre thc ad- ministrative officer who is responsible. “If he does not act the rcriedy is still in the newspapers. They can bring the matter of the negligence of the public official to the attention of the persons to whom that official is responsible, and lastly they place all the facts before the: people, who at any time can regulate anything under our form of government. “No, I am not one who believes that the function of the grand jury has passed away. I have the greatest faith in the value of a good grand jury to investigate and criticise purely ad- ministrative matters. It will have all it can do to consider cases of crime brought before it."” The man who does not agree with these sentiments will very likely say at once: “Who said that? Some editor very likely.” But the man would be mistaken. It was not an editor who declared that newspapers are a part of the government. It was a lawyer, and more than that, a lawyer who occupied a seat on the bench. The sentiment quoted is part of an opinion delivered fr~- the bench by Judge Mayer Sul- »f Philadel- phia. So far as we now zberger was the first judge to g Judicial standing to the newspaper as a part of the government. The Philadelphia jurist simply discovered a fact that has been conceded by the general public in this country for many years, People who are inclined to disagree with the opinion that the newspapers are a part of the government should try to conjure up a vision of a repub- lic in which there are no newspapers. If good government is impossible without newspapers, then newspapers are a part of good government. Stripping a Man for War. (New York World.) The national army men at Yaphank and many other camps was sum- moned by his government to make a tour of France, perhaps of Europe. In most cases he was without military experience. If he had ever been a member even of a camping party any- where, he was one of many less fa- vored. When he laft home, possibly a place where all or many of the lux- uries of life were at his command, he was under orders to take nothing for his long journey but a few toilet articles and a change of undercloth- ing, easily to be carried in a small bag, which he would soon be com- pelled to throw away. If he wore a good suit of civilian clothing he could send it home by express. If the rai- ment which had distinguished him in civil life was worn and shabby, a ben- evolent government had provided at the camp dealers in second-hand wear who . would relieve him of articles to him useless after he had donned the uniform. The national army man en route to Burope thus experiences the most radical change in habits of life that can come to an American. He drops a wardrobe for khaki, foregoes dinners for mess. takes leave of trunks and suit-cases as he packs his small belongings in a military kit and stands ready for service in a new fleld which opens to him a new career. But in his hands he finds a weapon and in place of the individuality that he has lost he gains a sense of com- radeship. He goes forth stripped of practically everything with which he was acquainted in peace. Let us hope that he will return clothed “with everything desirable in peace. Conditions of Communion. (Tennvson: “In Memoriam") How pure in heart and sound head, “Vith what divine affections bold ~hould be the man whose *hought would hold An hour’s communjon with the dead. in In vain shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden hay, Hxcept, llke them, ‘hou too canst say, My pirit is at peace with all. Théy haunt the silence of the breast, Imaginations calm and fair, The memory like a cloudless air, The conscience s a sea at rest. But vhen he heart is full of sin, And doubt beside the porta]l waits, They can but listen at the gates And hear the household jar within. jas among the least practical, Bringing up the Guns. (Major Royland Hill in the Montreal Herald.) Building a military railway is not like constructing a transcontinental. You don’t quite know what the route will be and your right-of-wap has to be purchased with blood and shells. But you have to make a road bed and string rails just as swiftly, perhaps more so, for the penaity clause in the contract is defeat. I couldn’'t find the colonel of the Canadian railway battalion I visited. He was somewhere out in front among the fleld ambulances where disgruntled German shells were still bursting, locating the grade for his next seotion, through the quagmire of a much-fought-over No Man'y Land. But the adjutant was there in a battered estaminet which had been, until yesterday, an advanced dressing station. His painter—thoy carry painters and divers, too—had changed the Red Cross symboi into the sign that means Canadian Rail- way Construction Corps, and which has a Canadian Brigadier whose name 18 a textbook in railway coustruction at its head. The adjutant he wag asking how his trains of materlal ‘were coming along. When you at home read that “tha Buns were being brought up satis- factorily,”” and that there “have been heavy rains all day,” you plctura struggling teams of horses draggingz batteries into advarnced positions. There are some of the old pictur: of war left, but they are few and far between. Sometimes tho gun and am- munifton have (o take the muddy streeks, but If luck is the least with Us now they go over _ well planked roands where hauling i§ fairly lght, and by the time thc roads are get- ting wearily worn of the traffic the railway {s there. We learned the value of lumber ard railways at th\ Somma. - On a huge stand, such as you might soe al the draughtsman's office at railliead on construction at home, there was a large scale map of what was yesterday “Germany in Flan- ders.” There are blue and red lines which begin behind our old trenches and end nowhere—perhaps on the Rhine. There are the standard gaugo® and the light raillways, and they are wanted quickly. “I'll want 200 twelve-inch shells at Ottawa dump tomorrow night,’ ‘said the gunner captain. Mind you, the line isn’t built yet, and the gun s somewhere back at Vancouver, which is an old, before-the-push station. “All serene,” answered the Cana- dian adjutant. “I can pick them upy at Halifax dump and - bring them with \the train taking the eight-inch to Oshawa.” (Dominion geography 1s a bit mixed up here.) It is swift travelling for a newly constructed line, but then when the combination of railway and artillery experts gets going, things do travel with celerity. If Hindenburg wants to keep away from the big guns he, will have to fall back more than 5,000 yards in two days. Thanks to sacrifices by Bl‘lflflh and Canadigy ¥pilways, we have plenty of material, and we have the blended brains and labor. too, in these men of modern war, who pave the way for the huge guns and clear the way for the fighting men who “go over.” And when the guns are satlated, ~ along the same lines will come any- thing from tin huts to house those men in the line, to tin hats to shelter them from shrapnel and tinned bully beef to feed them. There's never any want for traffic on the military rail- way. Our Ninth Industry. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) This is a time of food and drink substitutes. Man's ingenuity is put to the test to provide something just as good, and nature’s resources are mobilized behind him. Some of these substitutes seem decidedly novel. There was a gathering at Atlantip City last week of men interested in the confectionery, business, and be- ¢ cause of present food conditions the proceedings assumed a special inter- est. It was stated that the candy business now ranks ninth among the industries of America, and that it is rapidly gaining. The fact was brought out that dry territories are a par- ticularly rich field for confectionery sellers, because the average man nat- urally turns to candy when he stops drinking liquor, the stimulating qual- ities in sugar making a special ap- peal to his arrested appetite. Sales of confectionery in dry districts show & large Increase. The great government contracts, both foreign and domestic, also help to boost the trade. Many tons of candy and chewing gum are being sent to the men in the trenches.% Early in the war the English com- missary departments found that the men at the front strongly demanded sweets. They were furnished candy and marmalade in enormous quanti- ties. More recently American chew- ing gum was added to the trench menu. This may seem a peculiar pabulum for fighting men. Yet there is noth- ing to indicate that it weakens their courage. Gumdrops and marmalade appear to quicken the fighting spirit quite as well as rare beef and strong brews. The modern Cassius might say of the modern hero, “Upon what sweet doth this our Ceasar feed?"” All this is suggested by the coun- cil of the candy men. An industry that perhaps has been looked wupon now appears to have been lifted to a new dignity and an unexpected impor- tance. Gentle Sarcasm. (Washington Star). “Do you regard the price of coal. as high?” asked the dealer. “No,” replied the patient citizen. “You seem to regard the stuff as so precious I am surprised that you let g0 of it at any pric Tseless Precaution. {Chicago Journal) “This seems to be a very dangerous precipice,” remarked the tourist. “T wonder that they have not put up 2 warning board.” ‘“Yes,” answered the guide, “it is dangerous. They kopt a warning board up for two years, but no one fell over, 8o it was taken down.”