New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1917, Page 6

daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Building, 67 Church St. @ at the Post Office at New Britain a8 Second Class Mail Matter. ered by carrler to any part of the city for 15 cents a week, 65 cents a month. bacriptions for paper to be sent by mail, i payable in advance, 60 cents a month, 37.00 a year. only profitable advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. Herula will be found on sale at Hota- 's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- Board Walk, At- The Associated Press is exclu- sively entitled to the use for re- publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news Ppublished herein. %o beughty war lords o'er the sa pliant with The tented fleld will be our home, Stérn duty The calls—detain us is not one we quarrel sought. —AUSTIN. FOR A GREATER SUPPLY. Bo far as has been ascertained at writing the Home Garden plan "this city is successful. The city by propriating enough money for the mitivation of land, with the aid of snthusiastic workers, has been able 0 realize a goodly crop of various loodstuffs. The Council at its meet- fg tonight will be asked to carry on the same work next Spring. Unless t can be shown that this {s an ab- lotute. waste of public funds; unless can be shown that the money ned by the city may never be re- furned; unless it can be eonclusively broven that the whole affair is a raste of sood time, we can wee no peason why the wprk should not be rried on. ‘Surély. there are emough embers in the Common: Council Who fire opposed to this plan, They may be expected to present their side of he case. ‘And yet, at this time of the prid’s affairs, it would seem that hing done to promote the raising more vegetables or foodstuffs of @ kind is a step in the right di- tion, the object being, of course, see that the supply always to the demand. is ESS AND AUTOMOBILE: One observer puts it this way: “Not to have an automobile is of wse a terrible misfortine these ly fall days. Yet strangely enough who makes an inspection of the and woods hereabout will meet pumber of persons with expressions hoting a certain degree of happi- jess. They get a somewhat urred view of the turning leaves biian motorists do. And now and then jhoy catch a near glimpse of a mi- prating bird.” A “terrible misfortune” not to have n automobile? Not.when' all things e considered. It is, we grant, a for- tunate thing to be able to sit in an Jautomobile and: go whirring through he country at a glib rate. It 'is ‘a comfort not to.be scorned by mortal. iman.: As to the conveniences afforded by the ownership of a motor car, much can be said. Ye tired traveler 'waiting for:the plebian street car, or the stuffy railroad train, on which to transport his cHrcass, often thus wise:—‘Oh for a limousine, chaufféur to come at my beck and eall. Oh, for a footman to open the door and direct my tired bhody to sumptuous and elegantly upholstered seat. Oh, for the necessary where- withal with which to float such an ex- muses and a a wavagance.” Yet, the parks, the highways and byways, ticed that nature does not smile more graciously geat of a limousine than she does upon the poor stru: on the road: tar She is In the fali of leaves ave turning. coloring of the folinge the tints in cathed the fronded palms wave a sad adleu to the dying Summer, the pedestrian comes into his own. To him there comes wafted over the faint breeze and trees along the we have mno- upon the man in the sling honest son of toil Na- poor. the Good old Dame to the when w0 kindly the vear, when the prysmatic is as varied as windows, when !that can be devised, save the actual less | geting back to the woods and | only the scent of jasmine and incense and all the sweet smelling aromas of the herbs and undergra: There is floated to his nostrils the myrrh of the g0ds, the glorious sensation that comes with the perfume of the shrub. To his ears there are brought the singing of the birds, the rustle of the breeze playing in the treetops, the creak of and his friends of the fleld, the bab- bling of the brook, the lowing of the cattle on the hillside, the pleasant preparing for the sleep af night.” O, fortunate wanderer along the wayside who shall say for him that “Not to have an automobile is a terrible mis- fortune these lovely fall days?”’ Who shall say that, when this mach is con- sideted: While the wanderer along the roadside where lumbers the auto- mobile is taking in all the beauties of nature, the man in limousine is bask- ing in nothing more than cigar smoke and the nauseating smell of gasoline. The observer who saw a number of persons'in the woods and parks and all with expressions denoting_ a cer- tain degree of happiness, even though they were without automobiles, made no new discovery. Happiness is some- thing even a limousine does not al- - ways carry. FALSE RUMORS. Physicians of this city have been called during the past week to the bedside of mothers whose sons have | been sent overseas, the reason being that these women were overcome be- cause of false rumors spread broad- cast, rumors which told of death and disaster to American troops aboard transports. In one instance, called to the atten- tion of this newspaper, a mother was brought to the verge of collapse because some malicious mind manu- | factured the story of her son's death. The story which was handed down by word of mouth was to this effect: Last week an American transport was sunk by enemy craft four hundred miles off the Atlantic seaboard. Almost all hands on board were | drowned. Those who were saved are now in a New York hospital where inevitable death awaits them as a re- sult of their injuries. Just such stories as this are sent forth with the view of discouraging our military operations. The object is easily seen. If the American peo- ple are made dissatisfied and afraid they will not want to send their boys abroad. The result, is far different. Since many of the boys have already gone or are on the high seas the mothers 6f the nation are suffering untold agonies. It 'is time these lies were nailed to the ‘mast. Tracing down one story we ‘found it to work this way: A New Britain man visiting New York met a man there who had heard from an uncle that his wife's sister's son | ‘was brought to a hospital after having been rescued at sea from a sinking transport. The boy was in a hospital in New York, a hospital wherein were sheltered hundreds of other youths who had gone through a like experi- ence. E That was the story. It is pure and simple,—not so pure, so very simple. Yet it does more to break hearts than any other thing | however, rumor, not loss of a transport with the drowning of American soldiers and sailors. One of the greatest news gathering agen- | cles in the world has as yet failed to | find a trace of the hospital in ques- tion, or to report a single death caused by the sinking of a transport. The truth of the matter is, there has | not been one American transport sunk since the war with Germany. The Navy Department has pledged itself to give forth the information as soon | There | as any calamity befalls a ship. H | will be no object in keeping this news back. In fact, it would be to the ad- vantage of the nation to publish just such news. For, with the 'flrst casual- | ty list from Europe will come a feel- ing of hatred toward Germany, a | feeling that is on its way but which | as vet has not struck its topmost point. 2 and fathers and rela- the underbrush stirred by the rabbit | sound of nature making her bed and i He has pulled Lord NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1017. has given his sons, he has given his money. TUnless the men of moderate means step to the front he will have purchased the best part of the liberty bonds. And, as proposition, we must not let him do i this. | FACTS ND FANCIES. 1 | Sometimes it seems as if Russia had been given us as an ally just to test our faith in free institutions.— Ohio State Journal. A monarchy is as rotten as the king and aristocracy, while a de- mocracy is as punk as all the people. —Don Marquis in the New York Evening Sun. It's a mean trick the newspapers play on a man sometimes when they print exactly what he said.—Pater- son News. It is really in Germany, where the twilight of the gods is becoming an imperial fact, that Wagner should be a musician non grata.—New York ‘World. “Jazz music” is now an expression accepted by the best of newspapers. Various definitions have been forth- coming, but thus far the best is any old jumble of peculiar and nolsy sounds without rhythm. or reason from any old sort of instrument.— San Francisco Chronicle. Wilhelm calls Ferdinand of Rou- mania the renegade Hohenzollern. He means, we suppose, that Ferdinand was the white sheep of the family. —New York Sun. More and more as German intrigue against human liberty is revealed, it becomes evident that the world is fighting for peace.—Baitimore Ameri- can. Unbridled egotism will get any man into trouble, whether he be an em- peror, a United States senator or a janitor in a flat building.—Chicago News. Hindenburg says that Woodrow Wilson does Germany good. That is his purpose, as the followers of the Kaiser will discover sooner or later. —Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Why do people ask Senator LaFol- lette to make speeches.?—Syracuse Post-Standard. The | Devil’s Ditty. Oh, now that the world with war rife, And a sorry place to dwell, The Devil is having the time of his life To find for the one who kindled the strife The hottest place in Hell! is He has hauled King Herod out of | his pit Where the flames burn blue; He has bidden Caligula pack his kit, And plucked from a gleaming, steam- ' ing spit Nero and Claudius too. red and He has flung from the depths of the flery tomb Wherein he was interred Ezzelino, the man of doom, And shut him up in an icy room Along with Richard Third. Jeffreys down| from his bench In the sizzling, grizzling air: He has tost Duke Alva out of trench, And glven a vigorous, rigorous wrench To the head of Robespierre. i his | Aye, many more of the fiendish lot Who worked their murderous will | He has harried from blazing grove and grot That he may select the choicest spot For the coming of Kaiser Bill! So now that ‘the world with war is rife, And a sorry place to dwell, The Devil is having the time of life To find for the one who kindled the strife The hottest place in Hell! —CLINTON SCOLLARD. Turner Had His Way. The late J. M. W. Turner, one of England’s most famous artists, served for some time on the hanging com- mittee of the Royal academy, and one day when he strode into the picture rooms he was struck by a picture sent in by an unknown provincial artist of the name of Bird. his hands and examined it this wav and that. “A fine work!” he ex- claimed. “It must be hung up and exhibited.” “Impossible,” responded the other members of the committee. ‘“The walls are full, and the arrangements cannot be disturbed.” “A fine work, repeated Turner. “Tt must be hung up and exhibited.” his Let mother: tives of Amer ‘ The Navy Department and the War | | Department the State Depart- | advice of the White | out officially all ! Rumors must be can soldiers know this: and { ment, under the | House, will giv [ lists of casualties. discounted There will be rumors so long as man is habit of hears such a ask from whence the orizinal report And Diogenes with his lantern Any is at liberty to cious Iying:. | rumor ame. | back | | { could find the originator of such a rumor just as readily as he could find | an honest man in old Athens. can be no more fooling ahout loan. The ad.- They way ! There | the second liberty honds | will anothe t “hased | Bither the will purchase or the men of moderate We have, in { must be purchas | pn in or rich one men of the country Imr‘m\s will buy | past, heard the hue and cry the rich man. To date he has done’ more than his share in this war. He gfted with the perni- | one who | _ | be | the | against | obstinate as himself, he hitched down one of his own pictures and hung up Bird’s in its place. But She Liked Tt! Very stréng peppermints are grand- father's favorite confection. One day, says the Christian Herald, he gave one to four-vear-old Marjorie and waited 1y to see what she would do when | she should discover the pungent flavor | of the candy. A few minutes later ae | saw her take the partly eaten:pepper- | mint from her mouth and place it on | a table heside an open window. | “What's the matter " he~ “Don’t you like the candy?” “Oh, yes.” replied Marjorie, “T like but 1 thought T'd let it cool for a [ mm whil Youth's Companion. asked. Chagrin. (Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Dnggun i1, growled the senator. | “What's the matter “Oh, here I've spent my life getting famous, heing a statesman, figuring as lomat and heading billion-dol- cormmissions, and’ the telephona girl just roferred to me as a ‘party.’ " l a good business i consciougly Turner took it into | And, finding his colleagues to be as | DOING HIS BIT 'I FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY ‘ BY LIBUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, 8 N | FRANK PAUL ARATA. It was about six months ago that Frank Paul Arata, son of Mrs. Savina Arata of 25 Seymour street, joined the Naval Reserve forces. He enlisted as a first class seaman and was sent to the South Brooklyn navy vard. Shortly afterward he was transferred to the and promoted to gun captain, the positlon which he now holds. Arata received his education at St. Mary's parochial school. LAND OF THE IDEAL. A New Light Cast on Henri Bergson Who Sees Good In Yankee Traits. (Heari Bergson m Paris Address.) For my part I have never daubted that America would intervene sooner or later in this war, and I was sure, as I kept saying, that it would not be through selfish interests, through material purposes or gain, that she would intervene; it would be by rea- son of some great principle. I have sald here to the Franco- American committee, on returning from a voyage some years ago, America is a country of idealism (applause); it is the land of the ideal” (applause). Because Americans have had to clear & new continent, to strug- gle for theier existeence we have come to believe that they were men with sel- fish interests, occupied before all with material interests. What a mistake! He who has lived in Amer realizes that therc is no country in the world where money means le It is only necessary to see how th spend it, how they glve it. and for what they They earn it and they seek hat they may give proof that they have made every effart pos- sible. Money over there, I said, was a certificate af efficlency. (Cries of “Very good, very good.”) Whoever has lived knows that high ideals, moral religious, have the first place there. Whoever has studied "Ameri- can literature and philasophy knows that the American soul is impregnated with idealism and even with mysti- cism. Whoever has studied American history knows that abstract and gen- eral thoughts of morality and justice have always held f t place. 1% is upon pure ideals and pure that the American nation and it is perhaps the only in the world which w and freely. For elsewhere force of circumstanc by and by a scries of events, constitution of this or that determined. in the history of nation huilt upon siderations purely ideal—that wa da hen the natian was wh was to become the nation and the American nationality. Those who left England to come colonize America Were not drawn over there, as colonists genecrally are, Ly the ‘ultimate thought of material interests; it was not to enrich them- sclves: it was not in order e it was only to find liberty of thought and conscience. So, then, it was upon an ideal of liberty and-jus- tice that the States which were to be- come the United States were founded. This ideal of justice ana of liberty they sum up over “democratic fdeal.” Amorica By America and over in w built, nationality thus built it was by tradition that the nation was Once only world was a the con- < the Shame On Grumblers. Lloyd George in the Teachers’ Review.) (Mr. British There is no greater example of en- durance than that of our men in the trenches. Our iintrepid sailors never | seas. Our brave soldiers cheerfully endure every hardship of war in the lmn&t comfortless surroundings in the trenches. Our mtrepid sailors never hesitate to ga on voyvages, dangers may be lurking in the unseen deep from mine or submarine. greatest hardships and the greatest trials who grumble. Face to with the most grim realities of life and death, they forget minor incon- veniences and smaller restraints, and those of us at home | appreciation of that splendid spirit of | endurance it we give way to grum- things. If it is not our lot to be called on cheerfully to make the supreme sacri- fice of the fleld or on sea, it is more than ever incumbent on us to be cheerful amid the small restrictions cumstances of the war, but trival and insignificant in comparison with what is endured by those who are fighting. Every page of our history is rich with the sacrifice our forefathers !"made to win for us the freedom we now enjoy. Let us, on our part, show ourselves worthy of their great ex- ample, and determined ta pass on to our children and our children’s children this splendid heritage of enriched and enmobled vy our efforts and endurance. houghts | founded | American | to | to find | there in the words | whatever | It is not the people who cndure the | face | show a small | blings and complaints over the smaller | necessarily imposed upon us by the cir- | ‘Smoke Pipes Some battleships have two, some have one. A few have three and four; and the new cruisers will have seven. Stacks, or funnels as lubbers call them, are long, short, thin and fat. There are good reasons for each number, size and disposition. Fuel economy determines the cruising radius of a ship. Give her 3,000 tons of coal and she will do $,000 miles at 14 knots. Cut 12 in- ches off her 60 foot smoke pipe and you cut 500 miles off the distance she can go on the same amount of coal. Why? Combustion is oxidation; or in the case of coal combination of the black carbon with oxygen. For a fur- nace oxygen must come from the air sucked in hy the draft or pumped in | by blowers. As with factory chim- neys, the higher the chimney the stronger the draft, and the greater the efficlency of combustion. Thus if the smoke pipe is shortened, less air Is . | forced out by the hot gases and less is { drawn in. Since 300,000 cubic feet of | air are required per ton of coal there | 1s tremendous loss when draft is low- ered. This is a pipe height. A vary from 20 to battle ranges of guns to be ele reat factor in smoko warship's pipes may 100 teet. Extreme 30.000 yards require atod 15 degrees. It the ship rolls 15 degrees further—not a heavy toll—pointers will be able to see the enemy only half of the time. . All top hamper, cranes, masts, tur- rets, bridges, and particularly the | massive smoke pipes must keep with- {in prescribed limits of welght. An Itallan steamer capsized a few ago because she was top heavy. | high ! ment built four eingle stacked ships merly 12 or 16 boilers were arranged | through one tube. i sailor. : can land turning off his steam heat early |in winter. vears | for the men and saves the government | $10,000 a year. Rupturod or plerced smoke pipes can be even more wasteful and dan- gerous than shortened ones. WAt the battle of the Sea of Japan the ‘‘Alex- ander” had three holes in her after pipe. Enormous volumes of CO2, un- burned coal gas, poured out between decks and asphyxiated four gun crews. Furnaces devoured coal and gave no heat, insufficient air effecting volatilization of combustible gases which escaped with oxidation. Steam went down and Togo sunk half the fleet. After that lesson our Navy Depart- of the “Pennsylvania” type. For- by groups of 4 or 8, one group to a smoke stack. The latest designs lead all groups to a single oulet, a saving of weights which {s applied to armor on the one pipe. Trouble is experi- enced at high speeds when the exhaust heat of 50,000 horse power rushes Paint blisters ana But chances are the trag- shime will not be re- explodes. edy of peated. ‘‘Some sign, ain’t it!” exclaims a He refers to a ten foot high white ‘E’ painted on the side of his ship’s smoke-pipe, where all the Fleet see it. It is the “Engineer- ing ‘E'” and means that out of 100 ships and 1,000,000 tons of coal his ship used the least for a year. To do thig he and 400 other engineers saved coal by ounces, turning out un- necessary lights, taking scanty baths, This competition is fun “Some sign, ain't it!"” TESTING THE DENTIST. Ismail Pasha Didn’t Want to Take Any Painful Chances. To illustrate oriental habits of thought Lord Cromer tells in the Quarterly Review this story of Is- mail Pasha, khedive of HEgypt. It once happened that Ismail was suffer- Ing from toothache. He sent for a European dentist, who told him that he ought to have the tooth out. Is- meil said that he was afraid it would be very painful. He was informed in reply that if he would allow the den- tist to administer laughing gas to | him he would feel nothing. He still doubted, but told the dentist to bring his apparatus to the palace. The dentist complied and explained the process to the khedive. Ismail then summoned an attendant told him to send up the sentry who was at his door. ‘When the man arrived the khedive ordered him to sit down in a chair ! a tooth on either side of his jaw. Is- | mail then asked the man whether he had felt anything, and the man told him that he had not. But Ismail was not yet satisfled. He sald that the sentry was a young, strong man and that he would like to see the ex- periment tried on some one of weak- er physique. Accordingly he summoned®a slave girl and had the dentist extract two of her teeth. Finding that she did not show evidence of cxtreme suffer- ing, he then consented to have his own tosth out. FORMING OF PARTIES, (The Chicago News.) | American political third | have been factors of importance in | the life of the nation chiefiy by in- | direction, since they have influenced | the old established parties and the | Bovernments chosen by the latter { only from t periphery of affairs. | Despite the failure of ‘new parties to establish themselves permanently, | with the conspicuous exception of the | republican party, the suggestion is of- fered by a group of persons repre- | senting various elements in confer- | ence in Chicago that one more at- ; tempt be made. The idea is to gath- | ON THE YEW er together the forces behind the farmers’ non-partisan movement, the remnant of the progressive party, the | prohibitionists and the backers of uni- versal suffrage, public ownership of railroads and other radical parties. ? On the basis of past experience it | is easy to predict that the new party, if actually launched. will have only a | short existence. Coming so soon aft- er the breaking 'up of the most for- midable third-party mbvement in vears—the progressive party, once led by Theodere Roosevelt, now returned to the Tepublican fold—many will think that only moderate success at best can be won by the proposed or- ganization. However, in thede ex- traordinary times, predictions based on past experience easily may be mis- leading. The world in many re- is moving in ways inconsis- tent with past tendencies. Unexpect- ed developments may suddenly fur- nish the basis for new activities and | new alignments. The ordina citizen, in existing circumstances, should endeavor to Keep his poise. joining new move- ments that appeal to his intelli- gence after careful consideration, but avoiding those in which froth and hysteria are the predominating char- | acteristics. A Linguist's Blunder. (Birmingham Age-Herald.) “There goes Prof. Diggs. He speaks seven languages fluently.” “Much good that does him!" re- plied the baseball fan, indignantly. “Yester: a prominent citizen said to him, ‘Professor, I want you to meet a famous slab artist,’ and the poor boob wanted to know if he was ‘ad- dressing a sculptor.’ " Fnough Said. (Yonkers Statesman.) and | i | | ‘own and operate several and the touring party from Oklahoma i indicates that and requested the dentist to take out ; ! wonderful parties | “Has the doctor been here today?” asked the wife. | “Yes, he has | husband. | “What, did he say?" “Two dollars.’ replied ‘he gouty HE'S A NEW INDIAN. The Redman of Our Day-a Big Ad- vance on His Ancestors. (Des Moines Register) Oklahoma ranks near the bottom of the list in number of automobiles in proportion to population, so there was special reason for the surprise felt by the people of Nevada, Towa, when a family of Cherokee Indians from Ok- lahoma passed . through that city in a big hand-tailored touring car en route to the Mesquakie Indian pow wow at the Tama reservation. Nevertheless, there are only two possible obstacles in the way of pos- session of an automobile by the ave- rage Indian—disltke of the machine and objection on the part of the | MuM|IIan Store’ “Always Reliable.” Every Liberty Bond Bought Makes Peace Sooner and Surer DO YOUR BIT BUY YOUR BOND TODAY Curtains, Portieres an CouchCovers atMcMillan’s We're doing our bit offering extra values, keeping down the cost of fur= nishing a comfortable home. o SCRIM CURTAINS, Ready to hang; complete with vals ance. BExtra values $1.39 and $1.59 palr. Other attractive values, 98¢, $1.35, $1.50 and $1.75 pair. CURTAINS Of scrims, madras, marquisette and priced from 75c¢ to $5.98 pair. Good assortment of new designs in white, cream and ecru. | net, United States government. A great part of the Indians of the | United States are wealthy enough to machines. the desire for this | means of locomotion Is gaining a hold among the red men. The Indian ought to make a good chauffeur—at any rate, he is not like- ly to drive with the muffler cut-out | But if the red man preserves his real open. the spirit of his ancestors, instrument is the airplane. What a opportunity for scouting and single-handed combat there is for the Indians who possess the fighting instinct, the keenness of vision and Ithe iron nerve of the race from Pow- H‘mtnn to Black Hawk. Upon the sides, K of the airplanes used by members of the Lafayette Es- quadrille—the American aviators in | the French army—is painted the head 1 of an Indian in full war feathers, typi- | fying perfectly the relationship be- tween the most dangerous occupa- tion to be found in modern war and the warrior aspects of the primitive American. The Indian pony is a thing of the past. The tepee is gone. Even this pow wow at Tama is merely an il- lustration for the Dbenefit of he ‘oung men of how things were done in the good old days. The automo- bile's seats are too soft, and the speed laws are a hindrance. no speed law in the air. dians want to indulge freely in If the Im- the most exhilarating sport to be found | on earth they should take to the aviation service. | NAMES LIBERTY DAY. President Decides on Oct. 24 As Day of Big Loan Drive. ‘Washington, Oct. 16—The American | people were asked today by Presl-i dent. Wilson to subscribe to the sec- | ond Liberty Loan and thus ‘“strike a mortal blow at autocracy in defense of outraged American rights and the cause of liberty.” By proclamation | the president set Oct. 24 as Liberty Day and expressed the hope that pa- | triotic meetings would be held | throughout the. country. The treasury department announced last night that the amount which had been subscribed was estimated at $650,000,000 to $700,000,000, as ad- vices from New York, Cleveland, Chi- cago and San Francisco districts alone added $180,000,000 to the $399,664,- 900 actually received and tabulated. Other districts, it was sald, probably had collected $100,000,000 not report- ed oflicially. “In other words,” the statement continued, ‘“‘the latest official figures and most careful estimates of unre- ported sales make it appear that not more than 14 per cent. of the max- imum quota has been subscribed. If it is to be attained, $358,000,000 worth of bonds must be sold every day between now and the close of the drive. But there is | | of such a frightful war as now | =% | COUCH COVERS | At prices you can afford to pay. See | our large selection to choose | price $1.98 to $8.50. i —o— PORTIERES from, | $9.00 pair. e gts TABLE COVERS In attractive new tapestry vendure | patterns, priced $1.50 to $5.50 each. | e SPLENDID CHOOSING HERE ON DRAPERY MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS, OURTAIN POLES, BRACKETS, AND FIXTURES A — Let’s Insure. (Boston Post). | Almost everybody agrees that insur- | ance is & good thing to have. Mil- | llons of us in this prosperous land have it. We insure our lives for the | benefit of our families and our limbs and health for the benefit of ourselves. And when the compensation comes in, somebody is glad. Well, isn’t it worth while to think today of a new kind of insurance— an insurance against the recurrence 1 devastating Europe? Shall we not b; wise enough to see to it that in our lifetime, at least, no such colossal out- | pouring of blood and treasure shall be made possible by a terrorist mili- tarism bent on the conquest of tha: world. We can insure a lasting peace if ef- forts. are put forth Lornmenlura.cq with the mighty strength and re. sources of these United States. But if we lag and delay and quibble about furnishing the money needed for such a demonstration, we cannot count on that kind of insurance. The Second Liberty Loan is the best insurance policy against another aw- Buy Your . é} In green and brown, priced $5.98 to - ' Nl ful war that this nation can devise. - Every dollar raised by its means helps pay the premium. And it all comes back, not only in assured safety, but in actual cash. It's like & national endowment that not only protects but pays the one who gets the protection. Consulting the Authority. (Kansas City Independent). “Here, Johnny,” sald the father, “what are you doing in that book- case?” ‘I want to find a history of the United States.” “What for?” “Well, Billy Jenkins says Tim Riley pitched for the Nationals last year, and I want to find out {f he dld.” - A Confused Impression. 1 (Washington Star.) “How do the German soldiers get Iron Crosses?” asked Bronco Bob. “They have to win 'em.” “Win ‘em! I knew they were right plentiful. But I had no idea the boys were usin’ ‘em for poker chips.” The Regular Way. (Buffalo Enquirer.) Why, of course. If the new tax on a 5-cent cigar is o tenth of a cent, by all means add 2 ceuts to the price. A Coming German Problem. (Ohia State Journal.) One serious economic problem that is going to confront Germany pretty soon is what to do wil all the bright young men who have been trained fom spy careers. An Unjust Judge. (London Opinion.) “Yes, I was fined $200 for putting caloring matter in artificial butter,”™ “Well, didn’t you deserve it?" “Perhaps. But what made me max was that the Magistrate who impose the fine had dyed whiskers, o