New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1917, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917. Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Issued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Bullding, 67 Church St. i:Batered at the Post OfMce at New Britaln 88 Second Class Mail Matter. 7 Deltverad by carrier to any part of the city & for 15 cents a week, 65 cents & month. Subscriptions for paper to be sont by mall, pavable in advance. 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year. | 'he only profitable advertising medium n the city. Circulation books and press ) room always open to advertisers. 4 The Herald will be found on sale a¢ Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York Cliy; Board Walk At- lantic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONL CALLS. ‘Business Office . Eaitorial Rooms . Member of the Associated Presa. The Assaciated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also ihe local news published herein. | EEEE—————grvan . If we are united, we are too < ¢ powerful for the mightiest nation in. Burope or all Europe com- '\, bined. - —HENRY €LAY. o BIBERTY THEATERS. ‘Those of our young men who went f &WaY at the call of the nation and 'Who are now being trained for mili- #&ry service in the various canton- ‘?enu throughout the nation will | 8oon have a taste of life back home,— | that is, they will'have cntertainment | through the medium of dramatic art. In the sixteen army cantonments Un- ele Sam is erecting what will Dbe known as “Libefty Theaters.” A “cir- fouit” will soon be organized and the |&ctors will be billed in the regular rder that obtains on the professional | Foute. . One.of the many complaints of the Doys ;who have gone away is that there has not been enough entertain- ‘ment meted out to them, entertain- nt such as they were wont to enjoy 8t lhome. The theater in its absence Is a very much bemoaned friend.| I'With the coming of the Liberty The-' s in all the cantonments this one | vance should at once be done .l.y with. The human mind seems erave amusement, as it longs for other joys. Entertaimmént of dra- Imatic nature is always in good order. n the cold winter nights ahead there vill be more joy in the encampments han might otherwise prevail, This week the Y. M. C. A. and the K. of C. are conducting a joint cam- paign for the purpose of raising money with which to provide good and healthy entertainment and amuse- | nent for the soldiers in the regular ind the national armies. The men in’ jthe training camps will come in for . goodly share of this benevolent work. They will be provided with [the Mmany satisfactions for wants that | could not be otherwise experienced. They will have facilities for writing lotters, —stationery and writing ta- —and they will have good books o read. Now' that the Government hes announced its intention to pro- (¥Me the playhouses it is probable that 18 money collected by two great or- nzations will, in part, be distrib- ed so s to provide theatrical talent for the cantonments. If so, those of who enjoy the theater and know hat ‘it means when we are away give =0 those, who are shouldering the military burdens of democracy | may enjoy good clean cntertainment. The Liberty Theatess are an appeal In themselves. .\ RS0 ¢ A . PATRIOPISM UBER ART. Opposition to the appearance in Hartford of Captain violinist, and captain in the Austrian Army, is greeted In philosophical vein [by our esteemed contemporary The Times. In patriotic tone is hailed the tindred opposition to German Mefans and German . music. Put- Mng its finger on “the spot, the Times shows that opposition to Cap- tain Kreisler is voiced not only on account of his natiomality but because he 1s sending out of thiy country the money he obtains here for his con- terts. German music is opposed be- cause it is German. As Edgar Allen mu- Poe might have added, “Simply that and nothing more.” In the situation which confronted Hartford when the Austrian captain- olinist attempted to make lon its patriotism and box-office re- ceipts the Times found German to musicians and brand of music, opposition their particular has this to say: » at their valuation—the best. | there can be such a saving, is it ad- | visable, all things considered. | ties. from home will all the more willingly | o2 Fritz. Kreisler, | inroads “something | Thess grinily humorous.” * Referring to the all the outgrowth of the war, the Times “The Germans made & cult of their music, and we accepted it the best; now, for the same reason, ‘Wwe consider it as far from the best. And so because of the war and not entirely from the cxercise of artistic discrimination, somewhere nearer successful was successful industry, the same reason. wanted premacy in the manufacture of dye- we have the truth. art as she and for Ger- many was in in She stuffs and she obtained it. ed supremacy in it in the same manner and she did not fully obtain it. For the German mind is sure that you can obtain any- thing want by mathematical formulac, properly worked out by an nmusle; she went at vou cfficient organization.” Of which we can say, There is much truth indeed. Before this world war started, and our entrance into it, the American people were ready to be- lieve only the good of Germans and the Fatherland. If it came from Ger- many it was all The word Germany was the stamp of approval. “Made in Germany” was the slogan and sign that meant at once and for all time the summum bonum of all earthly goods. The dream has been dispelled. We have awakened in the cold dawn of facts. It German propaganda all the time, and we did it; we did not recognize it. word. for the us that or right. was not know In a we were blind; thought never occurred to so long as three or twenty or forty preparing for this war, and one of the methods of preparation was to tell the world how great was Germany five or ten years Germany was arrived ' | su- She want- | | tender meat, baked apples; cookles or a substitute. g Crisp rolls, hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish, moistened and seasoned; orange, ap- | ple or berries; cake. | 6. Hard boiled eggs; crisp biscuits; | celery or radishes; brown sugar or maple sugar sandwich. 7. Bottle of milk; thin corn bread and butter; dates; apple. 9. Baked bean and lettuce sand- Wwich; apple sauce; sweet chocolate. The school lunch container should permit ventilation and permit thor- ough washing in boiled water. Chil- dren should be warned against let- ting others use their utensils. They should be encouraged to wash their hands before each meal, by providing paper towels. This information is of vast impor- tance at this time, although it has been dispensed with time and again by the Department of Agriculture. Those who are interested further in the subject and who would want the complete data may secure it by writ- ing to the Department and asking for Bulletin 712. It might be a good thing if every parent were to follow this course. Tt can do no harm. It can certainly prove beneficial. There are suggestions within the pages of this leaflet which will prevent such a thing as malnutrition among school children, if the advice is followed. The plan of Herbert Hoover to con- serve foodstuffs is a good one, and will undoubtedly be followed by all sensible housewives. When it comes and everything German. The appearance of any alien musician in Hartford is of interest to New Britain. This for the reason that since there is now no playhouse here we are forced to journey to the capital city for our high-class enter- tainments. That art and patriotism are two separate and distinct things there can be no doubt. Yet no mat- ter how high the art, when it is flung in our faces ag the best thing in the world simply because it was bred in the bone of a nation now our mortal enemy we must refuse to accept it if merely for the sake of patriotism. Good American dollars have no right to fill the purse of any man who sings the glories of an enemy nation, es- pecially when many of these dollars will eventually find their way back to the ememy land. The time has come when sentimentalism for foreign music must come to an end. We have enough musicians of.’our own. Fur-y we have American ‘soldiers to take care of, and our spare dollars should be directed to them. ther, SCHOOIL LUNCHES. So long as a great number of our public school children must carry their lunches to school, they being un- able to dine at home during the mid- day period, just so long must these lunches be a mhatter of concern to parents and guardians. Anent this question, one mother has written to this newspaper for advice, calling at- tention to the fact that the Federal Food is repeatedly calling for a food- stuffe. This any saving can be effected in childrep’s lunches, administration surtailment woman asks of how the matter and if of school Physicians and nurses have con- tended that the growing child must be properly fed, must not be ill- nourished. There then should be no sacrificing in that field, except per- | haps where some children display prb- | pensities of gluttony far bevond the necessi- | be | content even on three meals a day. | There is always $he hankering after ! “more.” The Russell Sage Founda- tion has for”some years past made | special study of this same question, ! the proper nutriment for children, and | requisites of their physical Some children could never | the observations of these experts point i to the fact that ‘at noon-day the| sehool children who live too far from | the school house and who must nece; sarlly carry their lunghes can be fed on a minimum of foodstiiffs with a | maximum of profit, if the good moth- er, or guardian, so disposes. White of the schools instituted eampaigns for thrift and' in the proportionment of we firmly helieve that any some have economy foodstufts, saving in this line should be the work of the older folk, where it is possible, | and that the children should be al- lowed to have all the food absolutely ! necessary for their physical develop- ment t ing of the Sound Mind this end { sample menus which have been pre- pared by those who studied dietetics for the Department of Agriculture. bills-of-fare which can varied to suit the occasion are guar- A To time-worn principle, in a Sound Bods auired life-giving at the same time nourishment, and recommended as being comparatively cheap in the matter of preparation. Foliowing are are Be- {4 was German we eonsidered a few of the lunches suggested: 1. Sandwich or bread and sliced | “Women { Charlestown News and Courler, It is merely the logical follow- | we present herewith a few | be anteed by the doctors to carry the re- © to neglecting the childrén, however, even by such a thing as cutting down on the school lunches, that is another question. Before any inroads are made on the school lunch basket, it were better to find such substitutes as can reasonably take the places of those articles needed by our soldiers. From Washington comes the glad tidings that the corn crop is expected to be the greatest ever harvested in this country. Experts place the num- ber of bushels at 3,191,083,000. More acreage was used for the plnntlng'of corn this year than any other. This in ftself will go a long way towards insuring the production of the largest crop on record. FACTS AND FANCIES. \ Judging by the Increased earnings of the telephone companies, talic jsn't one of the subjects of war economy. New York Evening Sun. The German fleet is a game rooster in the Baltic and a dominicker in the North sea.—Charleston News and Courier. Governor Capper puts thought into these words: is waging war against war. lo Courier. Kansas ““America —Buffa- Anybody who has doubted the value of a public school system should ob- serve Russia’s disadvantage in a large percentage of population un- skilled in the “3 Rs.”-—Washington Star. Wonder how those Americans who gave farewell bouquets to Ambassa- dor Bernstorff are feeling about it now!—Lowell Courier-Citizen. It is a good thing for $he country that the President doesn’t adjourn; and sometimes a good thing that Con- gress does.—Savannah News. In Quebec the idea seems to prevail that the Military Service act was passed id order that the male popula- tion might be largely exempted from military service.—Toronto Mail and Empire. 1s there any one else with a mi'iton tons of coal cached for personal emer- gencies?>—Boston Herald. Philadelphia has evolved a war loaf that is worth five cents.: Houston has evolved some war loafers who ire not worth five cents a thousand.—Houston Post. L.a Tollette should not he confused with the copperheads. La Follette gives warning before he strikes.— New York Sun. No country now at war is free from strikes. As the war strain grows more intense, they may be even more in evidence.—Springfield Republican. 3 — In Maly, as in Serbla and Belglum, doubtles the German cry will be i and children first."— If the average man walted -until he had something to say for himself before he said it, the world’s pub- lisity output would be reduced 87 per cent.—Boston Transeript, Keep cool says Lloyd George. The coal operators will see that we do.— Bridgeport Post, The natural comment on this last | French offensive, resulting in 8,000 German prisoners, is that 1t was an awful punch from a nation that is | “bled white.”—Springfleld Republi- can. Many a dollar that would other- wise have pursued a vagrant career will travel the straight and narrow ! road to where instalments on Liberty bonds are received.—Albany Journal. Coming and Going. { (Life.) The people who are coming to the i front these days aren’t nearly so im- i portant as those who are going to ‘the front.” * THE AWAKENING OF BVE. ety (“Paradise Lost,” Book IV.) That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself re- posed Under a shade on flowers, much won- dering where ‘And what I was, whence brought and how. Not distant far from thence a mur- muring sound Of waters issued from a cave and spread Into & liquid plain, moved, Pure, as the expanse of thither went ‘With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lpke, that to me seemed an- other sky. As T bent down to look, just oppo- site A shape within the watery +gleam ap- i peared, Bending to look on me. back, It started bac! returned Pleased it returned, as soon with an- swering looks Of sympathy and love. fixed Mine eyes till now, vain desire. Had not a voice thus warned me, “What thou seest. What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself: With thee it came and goes; but fol- low me, ! And I will bring thee where no shad- ow stays Thy coming and thy soft embraces; he Whose image thou art, shalt enjoy Inseparably thine; to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself and thence be cailed Moth of human race.” do But follow straight invisibly thus led? Till T espied thee, fair indeed and tall, Under a platan; yet methought less fair, Less winning soft, less amiably mild, Than that smooth watery image. Back I Yurned; Thou following criedst aloud, turn, fair Eve; ‘Whom fly’st thou?' COMMUNICATED. REFERRED TO P. J. EGAN. Lively Dispute Concerning Packing Cases On Main Street Sidewalk. Nov. 12th, 1917. hither then stood un- heaven I J started but pleased I soon There I had and pined with him thou What could I “Re- Editor Herald:— Can you settle the following argu- ment: “A’ states that in the vear of 1888 he first set foot in New Britain. He claims that at that time there were two or three large empty packing cases displayed on the sidewalk in front of a Main street dry goods store, and that now, in the year of 1917 they still remain—practically in the same position as when he first saw them when a small boy twelve years old. “B’” claims that he is mistaken. He insists that the cases now decorating the front of the aforementioned store, are a new set—or at least placed there some time after July 3, 1895. He states positively that on the night of the above date when he was a little boy, he helped to remove the original cases which were used as fuel for 2 bon-fire, in the good old days when New Britain used to “whoop 'er up’” on the night before the Fourth. In other words “B’s” contention is that the cases now on exhibition have only been there twenty-two years. Can you set us right? Lets get “down to cases’ and settle this argument right away. Anxiously yours, s BISH K. IBBLE. PEACE AGITATORS TRATTORS Joseph G. Mann Declares America Cannot in Justice Treat With Autocracy. Christ Jesus, thé standard of whose example was the divinity which can- not be Improved upon by any human being said:—'Blessed are the peace- makers,—’ not peace agitators. ‘Woman suffrage, prohibition, and every reform based upon Principle, ves, the Christian religion itself,-—iy jeopardized by the abortive personal agitators who cry peace, peace, before the time. Instead of by avery loyal and prac- tical co-operation strengthening the cause for which our nation is today fighting. these many-hued peace advo- cates and agitators become the worst enemy of a stable government in that their puerile prattlings tend to con- fuse the world-issue and to encourage the enemy. In my judgment, one might as well plead for peace with a murderous and wholly unprincipled highwayman, as to think, that our nation. founded by the fighting blood of the pilgrim fore- fathers and foremothers, could do less than join hands with our outraged European allies, who had so cour- ageously undertaken the world-task of arresting and sentencing the guilty perpetrators of the ~worst crime against civilization known in history or made possible by the wicked and misguided advocates of Prussian- made “Kultur.” The least that pusil- animous beings who are too selfish or fearful to fight for a true peace could do, would be not to take ad- vantage of Uncle Sam’s unselfish oc- cupation at doing his duty; and If they are too weak to help him do it, at least not to be so craven as to en- joy the protection of the flag made possible by real Christian fighters, while they disseminate personal vag- aries to the advantage of the enemy of mankind. Indeed one is himself nothing less than an enemy of mankind, if one harbors even a thought tending to- ward acompromise with the miser- able autocratic head of the autocracy. which, after trampling under foot all international law, now absolutely knows no law but the malicious hu- man will of might regardless of right, or righteousness. Democracy can never afford to sue for peace with autocracy; and =» DOING HIS BIT FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. EDWARD J. HICKEY. Edward J. Hickey is another of Uncle Sam’s fighting nephews who is doing his bit. Hickey, who is but 19 vears of age, enlisted in‘the navy & an apprentice seaman July 19, 1917 He is the son of John W.\Hickey of 451 West Main street and before en- listment was employed in this eity as an electrician.” Fraternally he is a member of the T. A. B. society. Grant, would fight it out on thesc lines, in spite of the malice afore- thought of a German mesmerically world-filled intrigue and peace pro- paganda, if it takes, not only ‘“all summer” but to the end ¢f time. Gnd glve us men and women; who, behind the firing lines, at least raise potstoes to help to support our patriots in the trenches while they fight~to keep un- sullied the flags of the earth now wav- ing together for salvation from a bay- onet-enforced “Kultur” which has proved itself to be lower than the morality of the unspeakable Turk witl. which it has allied itself. The great difference, to my mind, between a peace-maker and - peace- agitator is that a peace-maker is one who demonstrates the Depth of Prin- ciple in his daily life which makes his words and acts consistent and real- ly beneficial to mankind. A peace-agitator is a self-conceited citizen of a country, or of the world, who thinks that all the really mighty men of the world, who, today, are fighting to stem the tide of demonia- cal fury, and who are willing to die, if they must, for the maintenance of universal justice and right, are fools: or, at least, that the heads of the al- lies are in office by chance or by mis- take: and. that Uncle Sam, because he dares to speak up like a man, and, with long accusing finger says, ““thou art the man,” needs a conservator. JOSEPH G. MANN. Darwin’s Influence on Germans. (Boston Transcript). Darwin now shares with Nietzsche the doubtful honor of inspiring Prussianism in its assault on the liberties of the world—Darwin with his hypothesis of the survival (as Germany puts it) of the strongest, and the supposed suggestion in his doctrine that the breeding of fierce soldiers is the key to national pre- eminence In the world’s affairs. But just as both partes in the world war can, if they like. claim that Nietzsche is on their side— hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, vet author of the “superman’” theory—so the Darwinians may point out that, ac- cording to Darwin, it is the fittest, .and not necessarily the strongest physically or materially, that sur- vives, and fitness may reside as much in patience, in industry, and in moral purpose as in physical strength and In military efficiency. Darwin was certainly not a preach- er of militarism, either directly or inferentially. ‘We cannot put the blame for this war either upon Darwin or Nietzsche. When a man is intent upon evil purposes he can quote scripture to his purpose. The men of cold science may indeed have “inspired” the German ag- gressors, but it must be noted that the Prussian mind was capable of perverting everv utterance and every principle to its purpose. The Pride of Hartford, Connecticut is the only New Eng- land state to oversubscribe its max- imum allotment. Connecticut's subscription was upwards of $64,- 000,000 and it is highly interesting to note that Hartford's share of that was more than $23,000,000 or considerably more than a third of the Connecticut total. And Hart- ford doesn't maintain that a third of all the people in the state live here!—Hartford Post. Neither does Hartford remember that a large part of them pay, their insurance premiums to Hartford and thus enable the city to plume sub- seription figures which become wholly fallacious when they.are taken to ex- press relative patriotism. The fifteen millions subscribed by “Waterbury to the two Liberty loans are as creditable a performance as Hartford's achieve- ment. Any city engaged in the in- surance business, oollecting premiums from all over the United States, has millions not of its own to Invest con- stantly and so far from Hartford be- ing entitled to plume herself over subscribing one-third of the Connecti- cut total, it would be highly dlscredit- able to her if she had chipped in any less. Indeed, the percentage is small enough to raise a suspicion that the per capita subscription of Hartford, aside from the trust funds which it handles, must be very small. WI1l1 the Post or any other Hartford newspaper tell us how many bonds were subscribed for In Hartford, aside | from those taken by the insurance | companies 2—Waterbury Republican, Coast Sub It may be difficult to imagine, but Just suppose you were s real Robber Baron. Your prey travel a highway ten miles distant over the hills from your stronghold. Kach day you send men out there to watch and to rob. They must bé strong fleet men to go that distance and back so often. And they must be resourceful dependable men to operate so far from their Chief. How vastly different would be your tactics were you but a peaceful Squire past whose well-stocked home meandered the County Pike. High- waymen come occasionally of course. But there are always your guards, great sturdy fellows who sit smoking contentfully at either end of your iront. Well-armed they can repel al- most any force; and so close are they that a call for help could be answered in the same minute. Yet people are tearing their hair and wringing their hands because we don’t build submarines like the Kei- ser’'s. He, Fellow Americans, is the world-famous Robber Baron; and he hunts on a highway a thousand miles from his den. Swift must his hench- inen be—-the creeping Uboats, and strongrand resourceful, and beyond all else, long-winded that they may get out and with their booty get back. We have been and, let us hope, in vears to come will be the [ thrifty iriendly Squire of this part of the world. We dwell peacably betwecn two great highways of Nations, the Atlantic.and the Pacific. But men ‘ire only men, so we must have guards, well-armed, efficient, stay-at-home de- nders. Not the Marathon Runners of the Robber but the active co-oper- marines that they can be swung up into «wc- tion the moment the boat emerges. But remember, Kiel is a long long way from the Lusitania’s grave when reached around the north ends of Scotland and Ireland. And it's a long long way back home again when the hold-ups have been bloodily brought to a successful close. - We, the States, front the Countv Pike. And it is an inviting front that® we present. Piratical burglars of tie sea may look With covetous eyes up- on our rich gateways, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah. But the natural security of them is tremendus—and it is defense we care for, not offense.. At these ports must of necessity stand our guards. scouts and torpedo craft. Defenders, mark you, not offenders. For the purpose three 500 ton sub- marines are three times as valuable as one 1500 ton submarine, can fire three times as many torpedoes, can resist attack three times as effective- ly. And each can speed back within a few minutes as quickly as could the swifter but more ponderous boat. Our last Naval appropriatidn calif® for 27 small coast defense submarines and 3 800-ton fleet submarines. The latter are a new problem in naval warfare. We and other powers are endeavoring to perfect them, so far without success. To be another tool in the hands of the Fleet Commander the submarine must have speed equal to that of the first-line ships. Other- wise it can be only a hindrance. This means- 25 knots speed. - But as on officer put it “we cannot get a qual into a pint pot” We have found it impossible to get enough engines into, ative watchmen of the Squire. If we do, the saving in inoney alone will be $25,000,000 a year! Why? For the same reason that a farmer is a fool who uses a racehorse on his plow or a limousine on cor- douroy roads. Which doesn’t mean that a plowhorse or a Ford are other than high-class mechanisms. The point is they fit the farmer’'s work. The Teuton Uboat warfare requires racehorses and limousines. Germany has roughly 350 of them. Of these at least 150 are of the new lorgz range submarine type from 800 to 1200 tons displacement and cruising 4000 miles at a surface speed of 1R knots. Besides torpedo tubes they have 2 and 3 and even 5-inch high- power guns mounted in such a way a 1500 ton sub to give her the speed of the Fleet. Remember then that our subrmar- ines are designed mostly to form & defensive cordon along - our coasty Remember- that our Navy from to to bottom is designed with a definite and studied purpose in view. If its integral parts seem too large, or too small, or lopsided in any way, be sur4 before you kick that you know what you are kicking about and against. Don’t be like the inventor who pes: tered Peary with an idea to reach the Pole' fn a submarine under the ice. “The Pole,” was the great ex- ‘= plorer's reply, “is but a point. What lies between I have given my life tg find out. And here you would blin me at the outset!” . ENGLISH INN SIGNS. Invaviably Derived from Some His- ical Event—They Are Famous in Song and Story. (Springfield Republican.) There are thousands of inmns scat- tered throughout the British Isles— inns which have existed for centuries past as the places of call for the stage coach, which have marked the way along well-known Toutes, and have been welcomed as houses of rest along the less frequented ones. | These old-time hotels have come down to posterity, altered perhaps in char- acter and appearance, but still relics of the past, with their quaint names and still quainter signs. In London alone there are records of countless inns or taverns, numbers of which are now extinct or rebuilt to meet the needs of the hour. The old mail coaches journeying along the Great North road used unfailing- ly, for the benefit of their passengers, to call at the Angel and the Peacock inns at Islington, with their low, old- fashioned, wainscotted parlors, while not far away, on Pentonville Hill, was the Belvedere Tavern, famous for many years on account of its debating society, at which many \ prominent politicians enjoyed their first orator- ical triumphs. One of the most ancient inns in the metropolis is the Bricklayers’ Arms Inn, at the corner of Tower Bridge Toad. This was recently rebmilt, but its name dates back some 600 years. At Tudgats Circus is the Belle Sauv- age Inn, supposed to have been so named in honor of the Indian prin- cess Pacahontas, who rescued Capt. John Smith, one-time governor of Virginia. An inn of historical im- portance, the premises of which have now been converted into a railway booking office, was the George and ! Blue Boar, which used to stand at High FHolborn, and was the last' ““house of call’” for criminals on their way to Tyburn. Tt is also related that | during the great rebelllon a messen- ger was found there carrying a let-| ter from Charles I., in which the king expressed his intention of having Cromwell and Ireton executed, and the discovery of this information decided his would-be victims to have the sen- tence visited on Charles himself. One of the most famous of the ancient London inns is the Mother Red Cap Inn at Camden town, the signboard of which used to consist of the portrait of an old woman with a scarlet capulet or hood covering her. head and shoulders. The Old Bell Inn and Oxford Arms used to be in War- wick Lane. One of the most re- nowned old coaching houses was the White Horse Inn in Fetter Lane. Many inns have been written of in literature. Readers of Dickens, the| world over, know that Sam Weller! was originally “Boots” at the White Hart Inn in the borough, and Chau- cer rates that the Tabard Inn at Southwark of which little more than the name now remains was the meet- ing place of his Canterbury Pilgrims on their road to the shrine of Thomas a Becket. Among the quaintest of inn signs are those of “The Angel and Steel- yards,” symbolizing Justice holding her scales; “The Bull and Bedpost,” indicating a bull fastened to a stake to be baited: and “The Black Sack,” showing an old leathern drinking cup, Various other signs are: The Cut- lers' company, ‘The Elephant and Castle”; the Glovers' company, “The Ram’s Head”; the Bakers’ company, “The Wheat Sheaf”; the Stationers’ company, “The Angel and Trumpet,” and so on for many more, while other signs are of interesting origin, such as: “The Goatd’ which represents | | such an open insuit Wales; “The Crossed Keys,” standing for the keys of St. Peter and the ’ badge of the Pope; the ‘‘Fesithers,” descending from the Black Pring “The Crown and ‘Anchor”” has to da with the royal navy; “The White Horse” "upholds the Hanoverian dy- nesty; “The Royal Oak” calls to mind the refuge of Charles II. from his pur- suers, and ‘“The Saracen’s Head" dates from the Crusades; in fact, tha . cognomen of practically .every Bng- Hsh inn will, after a certain amount.’ of research, reveal an interesting, a.n(‘ more often than not, historica “raison d’etre.” THE REAL HOPES OF IRELAND. Autonomy Prevatling In Canada and Other Provinces Should Come to Emerald Isle If— - (Ansonia Sentinel) One may be allowed to wonder what the representatives of the Sinn Fein in the United States, who have been protesting their staunch Amer- icanism, think of the actions of their brother Sinn Feiners in Cork, Ire- land, who recently made a hostile demonstration against American sail- ors on leave of absence in that port and stoned them with cries of “Up with Huns.” If the Sinn Fein movement, as this shameful riot indicates, is merely an adjunct of Teutonic propaganda and those involved in it have no better tdea of how to win sympathy for Ire- land than to make its autonomy a tall to the German kite and to insult and decry the Awmerican ropublic we would suggest that the American members of it either resign or elsc emigrate. As voluble friends of this | country’s enemy they have no logival place here. Only on the supposition that the Sinn Fein movement Is engineered largely by idots can one understand to the United States. The Sinn Feln movement hus labeled itself entirely to the satisfac- tion of the loyal Irishmen' in tho United States, the great body of that race here. It has demonstrated that its hatred of England has overrun its sanity and that it is not merely will- Ing but eager to give Ireland over to oivil war if it can vent its spleen. The United States is not in the least troubled because the Sinn Feiners wish to cut off their own noses to spite their faces. It has naturally put the ban on Cork as long as Cork al- lows those unrepresentative Irishmen to stage anti-American riot in its streets. The loss is not the United States’ but Ireland’s. In any event there is no dlsposi- tion here to abate in any measure the keen desire we feel to see Ireland hon- estly and freely governed by its own people as an integral and important part of the British empire. There is every reason to believe that the auton.. omy that prevails in Canada, ¥n Aus- tralla and in the South African re- publics can be secured for Ireland, if the people of Ireland will unite in working for it. The Irish republic of the Sinn Feiners is an impossibility as long as the British empire exists in its present form. It would be, more- over, a colossal joke if Germany should overrun the British Isles for the Teuton would make short work of the aspirationy of any part of the British dominfon for freedom If it had the chande to put it under foot. The real hope of Ireland is in the great mass of its sane and sensible people. not in its extremists and while the latter make the more nofse the des | cieion will be reached by those who think before they act.