New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1917, Page 6

New Britajx Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. s3ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Bullding, 67 Chureh St. Entered at the Post Omce at as Second Class Mail Matter Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 cents a weelk, 65 cents a month. Subscription for paper to be sent by mall, payable in advance, 60 cents a month, $7.00 a year The only profitable adverts medium in the ‘city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. The Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, At- lantic City, and Hartiord Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS Office s Rooms Business Bditorial Membe: of the Associated Presa. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ‘We Can Fight. So this is the pledge we plight: That wo can fight, who do not hate, And we for freedom’s love fight In the venomed teeth of fate. will Gird, then, our hearts to blaze Once more through battle’s black alarms, God of our fathers! and upraise America-in arms! —PERCY MacKAYE. S e S e BEWARE OF THE RUMOR. T¢ it is true that German influences Bdve succeeded in scarihg forelgn Born residents of the United States into taking their money out of the savings banks in this country, the time has come when depositors must be set aright. The United States government has not come to the straights where it would, even if it could, confiscate | money deposited in these banks. There is no law that we know of un- ‘der which the Government could command depositors to surrender their money. Money in savings banks is as safe as money can be under ordinary cir- umgtances,—and more so. It is safer, than money hidden away in stockings, or bureau drawers, or dug- puts, ‘'or what-not. It is safer than money deposited in home made vaults. Such money as this is always exposed to the dangers of fire, and theft. Money in savings banks may be stolen, if some dishonest person hap- pens to secure entrance to it; but there is always this consolation to the, depositor. The banks. will make good the loss. The bank is forced to do this under the national banking laws. Uncle Sam does not want the money people have placed in savings banks. .When Uncle Sam wanted money from hig people he asked them for it in a legitimate way. He asked them to purchase liberty bonds. And those who made these purchases were, or will be, rewarded with four per cent. Interest. They made Investments. Engraved certificates were returned to, them to gshow that the investments bear the stamp of approval of Uncle Sam, and that they have his backing. It is foolish for people to put any [ beltef in the many rumors going the rounds. When the Germans have nothing else to do they start a rumor. It may have something to do with an American transport sunk at sea, with heavy loss of American lives. It may be a rumor to the effect that there is a shortage of salt, something that cannot run short. Or, it may be the story that Uncle Sam is going to commandeer all the money in savings banks. Beware of the rumor. It bears the ear-marks of German prop- aganda. TP TO THE COMMITTEE. After thorough investigation the lo- cal fuel committee, its figures ap- proved by the Federal Fuel Adminis- tration at Washington, set the price for coal here at $9.65. Before this price went into effect the dealers and the public at large were invited to present their sides of the case. The public went before the committee and submitied its griev- ances. The hearings were all public, 80 far as that end of the case was concerncd. The dealers were there to defend themseclves. When they, in turn, were asked to present their fig- ures, data concerning the coal busi- ness, the dealcrs were closeted with tho committee. That meeting was a private one. It was, as some term it, B ‘star chdmber proceeding. There are those who to this day ask, Why were not the dealers compelled to come out in the open and make their defense, just as the public had to stand in open forum and make the charges? + Waving aside this mere jncident, we believe that the coal committee in this town made a fair and favorable price under which the coal dealers can do busincss. The margin of profit allowed is a war-time shargin, true; but it is | @ margin sufficient unto itself,—with- | out being greedy the coal dealers are forced chase independent coal. The committee having set the price for coal in this city has yet a bigger | and more important work before it. | All responstbility did not end when the prices on coal were fixed. There is vet another phase to the situation. This committee is now charged with the duty of helping the local coal deal- ers to get coal from the mines. They. der the program outlined at Wash- ington, are the men who must help al- ! leviate all conditions attendant upon the coal situation. The dealers here claim they cannot buy company coal, and that they can- Aot make money by selling independ- ent coal. "It is the duty of the coal com:mittee to sce to it that some steps are taken to get company conl, and independent coal,—for:some dgalers have now reached the stage where they one jota if they have coal to sell, so long as they can score to pur- care not a point. Tn showing that the local ceal deal- ers are not persecuted, it might be well if the local coal committee jour- neved to our neighboring city of Mer- iden, where prices have not yet been fixed by the government, to bring back the facts from there. Coal can be purchased in Meriden for $9.25 a ton, the same kind of coal we get here. The freight rates to Meriden are five cents cheaper than those to New Britain. In other words it costs five cents more to bring a ton of coal to New Britain, than it does to Meri- den. Yet the same coal sells in Mer- iden for forty cents cheaper than it can be bought here. How is that? When statistics are brought to bear on the case it can be shown, with ease, that the coal dealers have no rea- son for/complaint. ? ‘What will Santa Claus say of this? From Alaska it is hinted that this Winter may see the flesh of the rein- deer being the popular meat on the Western coast. Because of the high price of steaks and chops the folk there are already beginning to see the need of importing this meat. 'Some tables in California and Wash- ington have already held portions of this foodstuff. As this meat sells in the nelghborhood of thirty cents a pound it may become popular. ‘Without reindeer, what will Santa Claus do? This is a question that will interest many little boys and girls within the next four weeks.. Even though the cost of living on the west- ern coast is such that it demands low- ering, it cannot be done by sacrificing the reindeer of Santa Claus. What- ever else betide, the children must be taken care of; and they cannot be happy unless the old gentleman from the North Pole is allowed reindeer to draw his sled. Over the house-tops, over the snow, old Santa Claus must come this Christmas as he has come in former years. By all means let us save the rein- deer for Santa Claus. There 1s some merit to the scheme of the Maine cobbler who uses worn automobile tire cases instead of leath- er to repair the soles and heels . of shoes. The rapid rise in the price of leather forced this ingenious shoe- maker into the experiment and as a result he is rapidly gaining a monopo- ly on the, repair business of his com- munity. If leather continues its up- ward climb shoe repairers in other scctions of the country might follow the lead of this Maine cobbler. FACTS AND FANCIES. As they migat say before Combra, the Eritish got all tanked up.—New York World. It appears much easier to get peo- ple to die for democracy than to diet | for it.—Kansas City Star. ‘The person who wants very much to know how many American sol- diers are now in France won't bless Secretary Baker for saying that “we have as many men in France as we expected to have at this time.”— Springfield Republican. “Polly, want a cracker? “No, I am cdnserving food,” replied the intelligent bird. —Louisville Courler-Journal. How appropriate, should the Christ- jan world be given Jerusalem as a Christmas present!—Paterson Press- Guardian. Poor Russia went back on us. But let us remember that she did some- thing for democracy when ‘the fire started.—Berkshire Eagle. When white paper is so expensive why do so many writers speak of “a little Ford truck”?—Springfleld Daily News. Fire insurance rates may have to |20 up in the incendiary area. The war risk bureau has reduced rates in the submarine zone.—New York Sun. Of course if the kaiser should offer a decoration to Senator La Follette, And this even if | congress would hardly approve of his accepting it, appropriate as such an ’Offer might be.—Springfleld Republi- can. Anyvhow few people in the world i‘huvc won so many medals and so i many telegrams of congratulation without getting anywhere as the Ger- man crown prince.—Detroit Free Press. ¢ It's pretty tough to get war and six cent fares and the return of the | bustle all in the same year.—New London Day. May a man who owes something to himself refuses to pay it—New Haven Union. And it is a good Christian, indeed, who includes the coal man in his prayers.—Bridgeport Telegram. “A skin you love to touch.”—Dad’s old leather pocketbook.—Paterson Call. e “PASSED BY THE CENSOR.” Xy We've just had a letter from Billie, from somewhere out there in France; Our boy who is helping his country and glad that he has the chance; The very first word that has reached us—an answer to all our pray- ers; And I give you my word, from what we've just heard, 1t's a mighty proud heart that he wears. He says, “Oh, vou love of a mater! T hope you're not weeping for me; For we are all happy together, and believe me, this is ‘la vie. Just keep on plying the needles, for if you could only know How the boys in the trenches, Sammies and Frenches, Need woolens, from tip-top to toe. the “And, if you could know how we sol- diers think of home as a heav- en to come, When the night shades sink deep o’er the open and the unbridled wind leaves us numb; There’s something right in us, a God- gift, a feeling we have for our land, It's a bet that the Kaiser will be sad- der and wiser, When the Khaki boys show him their sand. “Dear old Dad, do your bit at this wgr-game! Buy a generous Liberty Bond! The deeper you dig in your pocket, the sooner we cross back the pond. My lovesto you both, and God keep you! My country and you hold my heart! 'Til we've conquered the Hun your game little son ‘Will valiantly do his part!"” —MARY GARRIGAN BARRY England is Doing Her Share. . (World’s Work.) mans and anti-English Irish among us on Great Britain since the begin- ning of the war have also been di- rected toward making France, Cana- da, the United States and every one else possible dissatisfled with Great Britain’s share in the war. The fasts do not substantiate charge. Great Britain has 45,000,000 popu- lation, in contrast with 39,000,000 for France, 36,000,000 for TItaly, 175,- 000,000 for Russia and somewhat more *han 100,000,000 for us. The 45,000,000 has furnished a far larger proportion of the naval strength and shipping than any other nation, and has done this from the beginning of the war. This has also necessitated bearing most of the odium attached to the hlockade which was for the general benelit of all the Allies as well as England. From the beginr'ng also they have furnished more money than any other nation. In the first two vears of the war they did not furnish as many men as either France or Russia, but at pres- ent the British army in France 13 about as large- as the French. The British have besides an army in Egypt, another at Salonica ((as have also thc French) and another in Mesopotarala, Moreover the British Isles have furnished as many men in proportion and suffered as great losses as any of their colonies, be- sides putting forth an extraordinary industrial effort. COMMUNICATED A PLEA FOR MRS. GILLIGAN. this Woman Protests Against Capital Pun- ishment, and Asks Governor to Stay Executioner’s Hand. To the Editor of the Herald: When Almighty God the breath of life into an and inanimate matter and it man, He did not intend that this life should be taken until He recalled it. God there united a body and soul, and made man. Christ said, “What God has joined together let no man put asunder.” If we are to ob- serve this in any manner at all, such as in marriage, why not in the mat- ter of separating soul and body? This was God's greatest masterpiece, His greatest work. And putting the soul into the body and making it one was the finishing touch to this master- piece. Yet men rend it asunder. some- times at the end of a rope, sometimes in the electric chair, legally, with the sanction of thirty-six of our states and of our federal government. twelve of the states have come to see that there is no place in civilized states or communities for capital pun- ishment. The report has appeared in newspa- pers all over the Country that Gov. Marcus H. Holcomb would grant a reprieve to Mrs. Amy Gilligan who was under sentence of death, to give her attorney time to appeal her case to the Supreme Court. Had the Con- necticut Governor for any reason re- fused to grant this reprieve the wo- man would have been executed with- out the benefit of the last doubt or of having her case reviewed by the breathed inert called Happily | bigher court. This comment is made simply to show the power of life and death vested in one man—it was so in the days of Nero. Happily the Governor saw fit to give Mrs. Gilligan the benefit of every doubt and a hearing before the Su- preme court. This is well. The peo- ple of the state and nation are glad of this reprieve, because. not only of the chance to appeal, but because there is no place in God’s plan or in modern civilization or Christianity for the tak- ing of human life deliberately, legally, in expiation of crime or for anything else. We do not question the findings of the jury in this case or any other; they proceeded according to law; it is not their fault that for certain crimes law provides the death penalty. In some cases the Judge has an option of either giving the death sentence or imprisonment. However, when the death sentence is given, only the Gov- ernor, Pardon Board (if any) or the President can stay an execution. Think of the power this means! In God’s plan only He could give or take life, and every other life which may be He has retained, that of giving life; but man has delegated to himself the power of taking life away, irrespective of God's wishes. The Governor has the power of saving life TEMPOR%R- ILY, by granting a stay of execution, a reprieve for a limited time, ‘tis true; yet this short reprieve may be the means of a new lease of life. Al- though the Governor may not have ‘it in his power to commute a death sen- tence to life imprisonment, he FAS tho power of suggesting this course to the board of pardons, and the knowledge that the suggestion coming from him won!d go further than from any other source. Will not you, Governor Holcomb, do everything in your power to save this life, nad every other life which may be in your keeping temporarily? ~Will not the Honorable Pardon Board con- sider very gravely the responsibility the public assumes when it delegates to any man God's prerogative of tak- ing away a human life? And will they not save some brother man the haunting curse of knowing that he, with his own hands, snuffed out the life that Almighty God placed infthe body of this woman, , Mrs. Gilligan, and all others in like circumstances? Gentlemen! do you think killing, de- liberately and in cold blood, human beings—people, like you and me, is right? Do you think the law provid- ing it is right, and that it makes for better, Higher Humanity? What is law for, to punish alone, or to im- prove human relations and conditions, to make this world better and clean- er—is not this the very foundation of law? Does killing folks, like rabid dogs, tend to make the world better and cleaner? The people of this state and nation, Gentlemen, want you to commute this and every other death sentence to life imprisonment until such time as the law shall have been repealed which provides capital punishment; want you, Gentlemen, to commute them for the sake of Hu- manity, Almighty God’s masterpiece. ‘Will you not do it? When your Hon- orable Board meets down near Hart- ford next month (just before Christ- mas) will you not remember this? LOUISE EITEL, Torrington, Conn. THE LATEST NEWS. (Waterbury Republican) Announcement that changes railroad schedules will force New York City newspapers to send their first editions out of that city earlier than they have ever done should be of interest to those who have been buyving papers from that city on the theory that they were getting the news. In these days of tremendous world events the latest accounts are eagerly sought. Your home paper gets the Associated Press news up until the latest hour in the morning that a newspaper can hold the press and still print in time to reach its readers before breakfast. The New York papers that reach New England are made early, before the latest news reports have come in, and can- not be complete. The most convine- ing proof of this was when congresy passed its vote sustaining Wilsan in recognizing a state of war as exist- ing between the United States and Germany. The New TYork papers Teaching this city on the morning of this action did not have the report, while The Republican carried it. The late editions of the New York papers sold on the streets of New York, of course, had all the news, but not the papers sold here. The final wire Te- ports can ‘be had only in the paper of your home city. CLEMENCEAU, THE PREMIER OF FRANCE in Georges Clemenceau, one of the most famous of living Frenchmen, has been made premier of France, a post he held some years ago. Despite his sev- enty years he is still vigorous and ex- hibits many of the characteristics that earned him the soubriquet of ‘“The Tiger.” | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. N. Elisha Kane. No other naval officer living or dead has greater claim on fame—if only for the things that didn’t kill him. No sallorman ever sziled so far, in vari- ety or in miles. None has fought, loved, dreamed, written and suffered to a greater degrece than did this in- domitable invalid. And he holds the long-distance pill Tecord of our Navy. Do you wonder how an invalid could be a naval officer? Wait. In 1836 he was a student at the University of Virginia. Rheumatic fever laid him flat. Doctors said it was all off With the lad. But the father was an iron man—even to the extent of being & hardware dealer. “Bear up, boy,” said the brave old fellow, “and die with yaur boots on.” His words gave Kane oourage éo survive years of adversity that would have killed the average mule. He took up medicine and mastered it. At 23 he entered the Navy ana went to China by way af South America. The Brazilian wilderness was his first taste of real adventure. Thenceforth exploration became his Among the first young men in New | ruling .passion. One of his ship- Britain to enlist in the Naval Reserve | Mates wrote that the vessel was too and who was almost immediately [ “Tap. €0 ROl him. B called into service, s Martin H. Hor- | Several of the oflicefs v;,::de 0:‘2:13;; witz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hor- to the Interior for a look at the Poo- Witz of 1082 Stanley street. “Marty” | nah caves and to Karll. Of course, enlisted in the Naval Reserve at New | we are all famillar with those places, Haven on July 1, 1917, and went{ but Kane wasn't. He spent so much through an extensive training at thc [ money in cave candles that he ‘had Yale Naval station. He is'at present | to Porrow to get back to the ship. stationed at Brooklyn, The natives thought he was in league Hoewils 1s ‘6o 6 he bast known | With the IoceliGod. Perhops he wase and popular young Jewish men of the [ _ After India came Luzon. Yes, a city. e attended Syracuss Usiver. | Phillppine Island/ The one on which sity for one year, taking a course In |18 the volcano Tael (pronounced the Agricultural college. While at|TY-Ylle). Here Kane added to s the New York state Institute he ex- | [oPutation by insisting that the natives celled In athletics, playing on . th | 1oWer him 200 foet into the steaming Freshman . football and basketbel | CTeter: It Is rocorded that one of his teams. He is also well known in loca1 | S8, Was burned off, and the fumes athletic clrcles, having taken an ac- | laid R out several hours. (Which tive interest in Y. M. C. A. sports, | (2EeB7) Horwitz was the organizer and Soout | per L Proyed so attractive that our : 5 hero got relieved fram duty and set ;‘::1‘:;" hz :;::Dl;fl;d :i"? Scouts. | y, g medical practice in Macao. (Get e ol as :5 0!;{6 l:f the atlas.) Six months later he fell e Ly e peotty. He ls|ill with rice fever. This discouraged o la.ge.l ms rother, Jack | him into starting home by way of the b al :othr:! ’;egle;’;c%or;ie ;: souml Sea Islands. With characteristic Rorthicthen PAllon vt and impartial enthusiasm he made friends with head-hunters, cannibals, poisoned dartsmen and other comic opera characters. His wasted frame and fever-throbbing head proved no allurement to his blood-thirsty com- panions. To uphold my own reputation, I de- sire to say that there is documentary evidence in the Navy Department that * Kane's next naval service took him to Africa and the Nile, where he suffered from coast fever and bubonic plague, respectively — or inversely — for it shouid make Ilittle diiference. Un- officially he also had a bail about this time which proved most troublésemo of the three. Plague and fever ars child’s play alongside of a good ripe boil. Then the Mexican War broke out. Warship duty becoming dull and local germs inactive, the restless Kang demanded transfer to the Army, A little later he led a small scouting party across the weather side of Mexico City and capturcd 44 persois, one of wham struck him in the stor ach with a lance. Such wes his gocd humor (Kane's) that he went to tho hospital without a murmur and w able to enjoy a serious of typhot fever before he escaped. Positively I'm ashamed to say it,* but on the U. . S. Supply, bound for the Mediterranean, Kane contracted tetanus and lingered so long at Death's door that the Grimi Reaper must have mistaken him for a book agent or tho £gas man. Somehow he got back to Moblilg Bay and was just on deck again when he secured orders to the Grinnel Arc- ~ tic Expedition in search of Sir John.. Franklin. Two years on salt horse and walrus only whetted his appetite for the North. On his return he or- ganized his own expedition and sailed from New York May 30, 1853. ~ His ship Advance was wrecked. His men dled from exhaustion, scur- vy, starvation and freezing. All these troubles had their whack at Kane. He survived. Not until February 16, 1857, aid a stroke of paralysis finally overcome the dogged persistence of his courage. And some people have the nerve to criticise his Arctic volumes on the ground that he exaggerates. He couldn’t exaggerate! _—nmnpmm—mm Cleveland’s Three-Cent Fare. ASKING AND GIVING. (New York Evening Sun.) Y - Higher costs are apparently about [ War Has So Enlarged This Field That to force the Cleveland street railway a New Need for Regulation system to raise its fare above three Has Ariace cents. Cleveland has been a partic- A ularly favored city in respect to trans- (New York Evening Sun.) The uncomfortable discovery that portation. A decade ago it enjoyed the services of Tom' L. Johngon. His | charity covers a multitude of sins in more senses than one has given the daring wrecked the operating com- rany, but_his ability as a traction |Public a very sick feeling in the last . !few days. There is no suspicion that organizer Jaid the basis of a cheap system of transportation. A Federal | the mass of benevolences growing out bankruptey court furnished the form |0° the wartare not genuine and dis- of organization under which the trac- | interested. Some of the greater ones tion company has been able to oper- |2re well known to the public and many of the others are in the hands ate upon a charge of three cents a fare and one cent for transfers up |of persons whosp names are sufficient,, to the present time. * |guarantee, at least’ when they them- Not all towns are so favorably con- | selves are active in the management stituted for cheap traction as Cleve- |and do not merely lend their credit to land. The city's shape, compact and promoters. regular, lends itself to an economical | But it has become quite plain that | plan of routes and service. MARTIN H. HORWITZ. - LOOK AT FAOTS CALMLY. \ Stories of Food Storage Which Hinted Scarcity Have Different Hue When Analyzed. (Waterbury Republican) Food problems are fairly pressing for consideration. In days when we cannot buy sugar at any price, the memory of sugar at 22 pounds for $1 is an exasperation. But just because the situation is perplexing, we should insist upon ex- actitude of statement about it. The | other day the stocks of food in stor- age in and about New York city were inventoried and announced to aggre- gate a total value of $79,000,000. The New York newspapers promptly dis- covered a great food hoarding con- spiracy, with great probabilities thdt ;.here were Germans at the bottom of t. A little inquiry as to the conditions that caused this accumulation might have proved interesting. For in- stance, $400,000 worth of oil cake, a cattle food, was tound- One man who is in the export business said when he read.this: “Why, I sold half of that for export to Holland several months ago and it has been held in storage on account, of the lack of ships and the embargo. Our farm- ers will not feed it to their cattle be- cause it is dearer than other cattle feeds. The Dutch are our principal customers for it.” A total of $12,000,000 worth of | grain and flour was discovered in stor- age, truly an enormous amount. Tt equals $2 worth for each of the 6,000,- 000 people in New York, or at pres- ent prices, less than one-fifth of a bar- rel of flour, say 40 pounds per capita. Four mlillion- dollars worth of eggs were found, say 12,000,000 dozen. If these were all ultimately destined for the New York market they would sup- | ply two dozen eggs per capita, or enough to last the city until the hens start laying in January. It ought to occur to those who froth over the seemingly limitless quantities of eggs in storage that it is necessary to have quite a few eggs lying around in order that any resident of New York may be able to have an egg when he wants it, and that the best place to keep them is in storage. | Mr. Hoover when he read the stor- fes emanating from New York dis- sected the flgures and speedily re- duced the quantity of food stored by 50 per cent. and pointed cut that the $39,000,000 actually found Included food held up by embargo and that purchased for the account of neutral nations as well as the necessary stocks held for the consuming publ A lit- tle common sense merely but it threw cold water upon the storage scare. An Afr Raid. (Manchester Guardian.) “A simple child that lightly draws its breath,” what should she know of frightfulness? Marjorie, aged 4, was at Blackpool the other day during a rather more than characteristic brecze. Marjorie was blown over, and Marjorie naturally cried. “Never mind, darling,” said her mother, “the wind won't blow you away.” “I know dat, mummie,” Marjorie said betweer | Latin American customers is in ef- her sobs. “Then what are you erying | fect to produce munitions and sup- for, dear And the child, expressing | plies for ourselves and our. allies. It her subconscious impressions of | is to produce them more economically rhr: heard so often, replied, “I[at less labor cost, than they could fought it was an air raid.”” be produced otherwise. We can ap- CERfe N Wat Sen ply some of our productive power to 3 . N raising more cattle or we can apply N e T I O e (Pittsburgh Dispatch.) woolens to be exchanged in Argen- Edith—Dick, dear, your office i} in | latter method we shall get more meat State street, isn’t it? lattet method we shall get more meat Dickey—Yes, why? and hides per unit of productive pow- Edith—That's what T told papa. He | er. How absurd it would be, then, made sucll a funny mistake about |to neglect exportation to Argentina on vou yesterday. He said he’d been |the ground that our productive power looking you up in Bradstreet. ix mortgaged to the war. The haul ' there is some profiteering in this fer- is likely to be short, the question of ' tile field and a few frauds and hum- traffic delay relatively simple. Thanks bugs are liable to take advantage of to the combination of circumstances, the public generosity, and unfortu- Cleveland has been able to beat cities nately it appears that the size or con- of equal size, and naturally those of spicuousness of any given effort af- greater size, in her traction money’s fords no assurance either of the san- worth. { ity of its management or the complete ¢ The need for an increased fare in |altruism of its workers. this model traction city at the present | But in addition to the larger risks time is no reflection on the three-cent of misuse of charitable contributions, fare's record. In Cleveland as else- there is a wholesale process of petty where the traction systems are hit by collecting going on which if not alto- high coal and wage demands and gother irresponsible, is certainly un- rivst charge more or stand the loss. |vouched for in any proper way. _—_— | Streets and public places are infested | with women and girls, even young/ | men sometimes, who flourish mite face of wayfarers and =th of a badge or a rii- First On the Honor Roll. (Waterbury Republican.) | Among the first homes in the boxes in tI country to which come the grief and ©on the st the highest honor of sacrifice for bon solicit alms for all sorts of ob- liberty is one in Waterbury. It is a scure ncc s, the war sufferers of simple one from which George Mesopotaiaia, the orphans of the Car- Franklin Wheeler, Jr., went out in- natic Alps. or the uncmployed bead to the navy of our country, and the stringers of Basuioland, not to speal parents who gave him are plain peo-of various horn ple, but of such as they is the[and holidays alleviation: 3 strength of this great nation built.| Now we should bc y to thin® Their's is a patriotism that is bear- | that the grcatcr numher of thesa ing up nobly in this hour of trial. | causes were wot authesic and tho Wheeler went out as a volunteer, ' solicitors honest. Wc think it lxely convinced that his country was call- | that in a large majority of cases-—iho ing him to fight in a righteous|vast majority perhaps—the “rakeoff” cause, for the protection of that| for “expenses” and cowmissions is democracy that is best appreciated | reasonable and moderate. Still there |ir such a home as he came from.|is some ground for fear thai a large He was willing to go out at the first |amount of charity collecting is dono call to fight for the ideals that his|on a “fifty-fifty” basis and that even country had taught him to respect.|then the charity and notf the collector He was brave enough to meet death |shoulders the expenses. Further, tho doing his duty without flinching. | collection habit has become so preva- This is the spirit with which the rest|lent and promiscuous, especially tho of us must carry on the strypggle for| street phase of it, that the public are which he gave his life with that|exposed to serious abuses; those, whn courage of: are approached must either shut their One who never turned his back but|eyes and give on trust or else button marched breast forward, up their pockots against all appeals. Never doubted clouds would break,| The fact is the war has so expanded Never dreamed, though right were |the field of asking and giving that a worsted, wrong would triumph, { new need for regulation has arisen. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to | There should be stringent rules as {o fight better, the proportion of any sums raised Sleep to wake that may be paid to promoters, manz- gers, calporteurs or collectors; thero should be Tigld examination as to the purposes for which funds are ralsed, as to the accountability of those rais ing them amd as to their bona fide ap- | plication to the relief of distress, Tho city authorities ana some of the lead ing charitable saofetles should take the matter up in concert. frame rules, insist upon licenzes issued upen | proper guarantee, and finally audit | the accounts of all except regularly chartered organizalions. This is due to the sufferers in whoso behalf so much money is being raise. [ Tt i due to the givers. It is rendercd | necessary to safeguard public morals {ana public confidence. Otherwise, it is to be feared, a oynical attitude may ! develap injuricus to deserving caus»s iand worthy people and spiritnally { hurtful to evervbedy. Supplies for Latin America. (The New Republic.) Our productive resources are mort- roged to the war, it may be sald. We Tave enough to do to produce muni- tions and supplics for ourselves and our allles. We have no surplus pro- ductive power with which to supply | Latin American customers. But that i to ignore the fact that to supply 1t is time for Hindenburg to amend ¢ his previous proclamation about ‘“‘the submarine doing its work aad cshoit the Gor army to hold while the | British tank “does its damnedest.”"— New York World.