New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1918, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918, shind the German tHere arc catching Bker of the light. sturbances Which by the hand lor which s as to prove war. There Blitary party i democrats. wins out iron may ! s Grov- ship- it, ® hangs Nt building wily there are the nless €d to combat of the German sub- fation must go down to @r boys in France must be with the md the only way to get these things 0 them three Asl by necessaries of life, is to send cargoes AT THINGS CONSIDERED. | thousand miles over the ocean. Two Americans killed and nine wounded by a German barrage fire | these cannot <hipped which opened on Pershing’s troops: aerial route the only way in “’hn'hl Saturday at sundown is the news of | '© Perform moment. Tt will cause keen regret, Tt ¢ ‘course: but the sidll casualty lst | eVery - soldier every one to be goods ba a by occan that for France and there will shipping his transporta- the service is | carriers. is estimated now in sent late compared to some | accident .at The slight wreck | @ required four tons in Bristo]l on the same night, at prac- | C3Pacity for B iy the samo time, wollnded more | HoD, and ancther ton for his equip- ; That American gun- | Ment. That is, t responding the German | °3¢h man. army will in blowing up sev- 2,000,000 them will be favorably : home. o merely B five s in all for persons the 3 : 0 As our within { ners in t the vear consist of men on e seen that 10,- 2 | 000,000 tons of shipping must be used equipment operation attack succeeded dugouts and for tonic foreign shores it is eral making practicable use will serve as to get them and their those nerves upset o b on news soothing for i across. Iven when that is rom now of the boys finished the work will not be com- that the | up and t will be more The fact fit to open just pleted. Tood and at front.” the has seen munitions must continu- | ousiy be sent to France, England and it home where tell the folks Russia is out running, supplying her is so much unexpended help; but The en- the States. we will the | Ttaly. of the stationed on troo h front is of more importance i the list of dead and wounded. | ¢ some time the American people in the dark as ifo | submarin gaged in so what is saved by not therein the balancé is struck. B heon | lept . meantime, are busily sinking the of world, and of the { Therefore, Uncle Sam savs. build them faster than they | them. And this nation-wide whereabouts of the men abroz hips United Germans have probably known just what sector pied men formed that this sector is part of the vance. This the “quiet despatches | Starts this week,—to get the men to have mentioned for the past three or ! duild the ships. There will be need- From now on it prom- 386,000 men to | ea during the year lmés ot to-he so quiet. And, inithe | Work in shipyards and' the allied conrse military operations, the American troops may be moved from this place to one even more lively. | The purpose of placing them quiet sector at first was to get them fizhting without suf- of life. good one. was oceu- by our Now wa are In- Ly is the purpose of . fHont js | the campaign which e in sector” the four weeks. in- dustries of of | these men will be taken from New Britain, some will be placed to work right here in our own factories plan- Tking, twelve-month now on ship-building. Some of in a parts for ships. ‘nin: and ms its | Within the The | Way there must be constructed 1,260 Two | as big as the largest ocean America knew before the war. thercfore, “who _has any used to trench ering too much 1 plan has dead and nine toll, proven ships wounded a is not such | liners | considered. | Any man, a heavy all things | knowledge of any trade connected | with the ship-building industry urged to application at the | State Council of Defense, in the State ! Building., Hartford. this ites OUTSIDE. 2 the German Austro-Hun- INSIDE OR Unable find chanceltor's or garfian foreign speeches any real approximation the real peace proposals by the United States and terite Allics the Supreme War 11 Versaille: de- cided to the The bfficial announcement, made at Lon- don tast is what had been an- malke in the to Capitol minister’s recent | Patriotic may £ | the United government is not latld dOWR | ,opin it as a part of sacrifice from the Bn-|, vone. On the contrary, high Coun- 5 =oun | wages are to he paid. The entire as service be, which met at L] | money to be used in this great speed- ing up of the ship-building industry is equivalent to the first Liberty Loan .000,000,000. That in itself will idea of the enormity of is forced to work see this thing few monthg the ready for the for, have world | accumulated the materials with which come probably | they will work. Tverything in one of these tWo | rcadiness for the greatest ship-build- Or a TeVO- | ing drive in history. It must not fatl, the Fohen- | i fail. The men will be Hapsburgs of their | forthcoming to build the ships, and fr beginning of For ships go on with war. | I | | night, oz, | give some | the task. ! overtime bring ‘ through. | shipyards, in getting American with jcipated by the people. There henzoller: gocial unrest bout another disposition of the case. his by all ituation: can be no peace the Ho- America In the meantime, the e In the past in Germany may much has come to be believed | 1aborers now being called who have followed the Peace will 4 his vear in either a triumph of arms which and vays, ution will strip Canfiot oller: the yower. | once the ships are the ways” The war council in announcing eyl the at war: | and the peace wili ¢ “on the known that under the task before | ecision to effectively prosecute 5t he Lana r, lets it be win tais <hips carrying Ircu only American soldiers and the materiala fig nations Germany and ' {5 make them first-class fighting men. en allies pn the hnd s is to obtain a peace derick H. in freedom Congressman Gillett, the Representatives, principles of republican 1 of resp for internationa the know law. acting House last Springfield, gave the following illustration how the United spending to defeat tocracy. He said: ‘“The ates, since its entry into the war, h expended about $19,000,000,000— Whether the pressure will he exert. | $%000.000,000 having been appropri- d from the inside must be determifieq | ated to fit our army and na for the by the German people themselves, | Strusgle, $7.000,000,000 loaned to our githout doubt there 1s a change og allies, and the rest appropriated See present rulers of Germany | tional not t night in of international definition of the term | speaking ustice, espect be nor freedom, and have no Mass, for to show much money States law, they ust German United forced to a peace either hy s heir own people or by outside power, | a t has come down to just such a con- flition. i i would other things. Somie idea of the enor- mous amount of money i this is may be | obtained when 1 tell You that if there ! Wwas a machine invented which would turn out a gold dollar every minute | and had been running without inter- | mission since the birth of Christ to the | present hour, dropping its dollar a the treasury, it would | ave coined less than $1,000,000,000.” ! — | I"ACTS AND FANCIES 1 minute h: into Coal but the holid indic ys may be inconvailent, tions are that the: Ger- ! man st ‘e giving their govern- ment e holidays that nre worse.— | Bxchange. | ikes Helpful cold stickir find you are with the oil down cellar wood. T.ook self.—New Hcalth Hint: If you wer around the house and | too numb to monkey‘ stove wick, you can go | and make believe chop | out vou don’t cut your- London Day. A food eoxpert gets off this one: “Don’t stuff your husband; husband | vour stuff.”” = That program sounds very fine, but it may cause hubby to take dinner at the eclub.—Charles (S. C.) News and Courier. A woman watches a crowd of strange people not for the purpose of studying the various types, hut in the hope that she may detect in ane of | them a resemblance to some _onc she knows.—Capper’s Weekly Perhaps a strike is the only wa¥ | many German workers can find to get a day’s rest.—New York Sun The Bolsheviki have hob-nobbed with the Germans so much they are beginning to preach Prussian doo- trine in the matter of force when their opponents do not walk a chal line.—Meriden Record To spell Trotzky's name you begin. with T. R.—Paterson Press-Guardien. Gov. Holecomb’s disposition of the landlords who sact exorbitant reuts be a war-time measure 1f put into practise.—New Haven Register. Merchants are still volubly protest- ing at Washington against Monday closing, but they might as weil shut up.—Springfield Daily News. It might be expected of FEmma Goldman that she would want a re- hearing, but the trouble is thet we have heard too much from Ther al- ready.—Norwich Bulletin. New York reads with dangerous floods in the near west. Why couldn’t they switch some of that wet weather where it would be not a rcnace but a help?—New York World OUR FAMILY JEWELS Nor diadem of king 6r queen Can show such radiant gems, ween, As our family jewels! Snow-bound exasperation of 7 3 Yor ruby mine, nor diamond field Such precious stones can ever vield store, mnor Aladdin’s trove, Nor coraled seas, Nor e'en abova Can boast such priceless gems as these; treasure caves beneath the amonded skies jewels! known, shown, beauty As our family richest heirloom eve The rarest trappings ev. The proudest necklace wears— No one of these at all compares With our family jewels! The| And they well, my dear, Their settings made by love, not art You wear them always hear! Yet how vou wish that they were here, Our own family jewel become you in your Deep in your eves T see a trace Of Master Hubert's rogunish face And dainty Jennie's baby grace— Oh! how those babes must miss you, love, A tear!—then love, For our family jewels! —Bdwin A. Grozier, in the Post. let me Kkiss vou, Boston Newspapers and the War Tt the American people have been hamstrung the Bolsheviki and left stumbling, ing, broken, without organized will or | purpose on the path of destiny and duty, it has been because the press of our great cities has fllumined, edu- | cated, expressed and focalized Ameri- | not | by American lurch- can opinion. The American people were against entering the war In 1914. TEven a man like Theodore Roosevelt, in Sep- tember, 1914, declared that we had ' no national uty in the rape of Bel- gium, 'The great newspapers, taken as a whole, have, with few exceptions, | been In advanmce of government, of | party leaders and of public teachers | in pointing a plain national duty. | No calling discharses a higher or | more important public service in time | of war than the newspaper, and none | suffors greater stress or is today pay- | ing more h v for the costs of war. Palcott Williams, Director of the litzer School of Journalism, Colum- | TTniversity. Mary’s Tambh on Monday (Memphis Commercial Appealy Mary had no little lamb. For Hoover called a stop, And Garfield said, “On Mondays, You can And M “I'm game teo” 2o out and shop.’ acquiesced and said clear through, old | | miilion | ought to be the other way around. of getting tli THINK, sees himself why the moon does not drop THOUGHT MOVES THE WORLD. The Mind As Well As the Body Can Be Trained to Caxry Heavy Loads—Try It (Washington Times) Today again, please excuse the ab- sence of parucraphs about the news and this ques- tion: Why do muscles and so lit There are in the condescenl to discuss s0 much of ougp of our minds? United States you en interested in tha way Ty Cobb at a baseball, and fewer than ten thousand interested in the way Newton did his thinking. It we thir ten 1 hits Two centuries back a vour oo Uil s in the qui pa THINKINC His Lody was quict; all was centered in his brain. Above, the moon shone. him tled the branche: in his father’s orchard. From oneiof the trees an apple fell. man of sat the t his and around ru; of the trees No need to tell you that the young man was Newton: that the fall of the apple started in his READY brain the thought that led to his great discov- ery, giving him/ fame to last until this umble. splendid the achievement born that moment! How fortunate for the world and for the youth New- ton. that at twenty-three his brain had cultivated the HABIT OF THOUGHT! Our muscles we share with thing' that lives —with the clinging to his rock, the whale plowing through cold seas, and our monkey kinsman swinging from his tropical branch. These muscles. useful only to cart us around, help us to do slave work or wound our fellows, cultivate with care. We run, fence. ride, walk hard, weary our poor lungs ' and gather pains in our backs building the mus. cles that we do not need. Along among animals a potentiality of mind unlimited. And for that we care nothing. sitting in Newton's the apple fall, would debated the advisability apple to eat it—just the process of any monkey mind. A Newton, A BRAIN TRAINED TO the apple drop, asks overy- oy ster we we possess development few with exceptions, Most of us, place and seei merely T law of exist- in the also. And he discovers the gravitation which governs the ence of every material atom universe. read this, brains start Taka not ever fact in her appointed and who vour Young NOwW nothing for granted that the moon stay: place or that the poor starve freeze amid plenty. Think of the thinzs which are wrong and of the possibilities of right ing them. Study vouy own weakness- es and imperfections. There is power In vour brain to correct them, if you will develop that power As surely as von can your arm to hold fifty pounds out straight, just go surely can you frain your brain to deal with problems that now would find you a gaping incompetent. You may not be a Newton, But if you can condoescend aim at heing an inferior athlrte, can't you afford to try even harder to be an inferior New. ton. Don't men to use the train a to he a muscular monkey. Be a low-grade philosopher, if you ean’t be hightgrade. and find how 'much true pl ure there is even in inferior brain gymnastics. Take up some problem and study it: There goes a woman, poor and old. She carries a heavy burden because she is too sad and weak to fight against fate. too honest to leave world that treuts her harshly There r and idle. How many of hell earth will it talce to put that worns load on that other hroad, fat, back? Answer that one question, still. TRANSFER THE LOAD vour life will have been struts a younsster on idle centuries batter and 10t wasted. the mil- civilization on zold lace and a mere tool. Tt is THOUGHT tha world. In Napoleon's born the schemes that Jlions and push The mere soldier, with sharp sword, is nothing t mov BRATN murder Tt is the concentrated thought of {he Fnglish people under Puritan in- fluence that makes Great Britain a sham monarchy and a real republic now. : It is tie thought of the men of in- dependent MIND in this country that (hrows English tea and Emglish rule overboard foreve Don’t older. Don’t wait until you are old wait until you are ONF DAY Begin NOW. Or, later, with less mind. vou will unthinking man might as well have been a monkey, with fur instead of trousers, and consequent freedom from mental responsibility or self-re- spect. use- an a dull, fuzzy. realize that Up in De ’Simmon Tree (Arkansaw Thomas Cat) J. I, Cross, while on his way home TODAY'S TABLOID TALE Mogul Wafer's Escape Mogul Wafer, with practical- ly every musecle tense, awaited the order to go over the top. Short, sharp, and crisp, the orders followed each other “Get ready!” Mogul Wafer got ready. “Clean bayonetst Mogul Wafer pulled out Amnt Dewlappe’s muitler and hastily cleaned his bayonet with it. EGols Mogul Wafer went. way across No Man’s Land a German aviator flying directly overhead in a schrapnel fired fifty shots from his automatic taube directly at him. Iach bullet found its ma but, luckily. the hole made in our hero's 1 the first one so I the other forty nine right through with- out inflicting further injury. ‘“The Sally Boche!” id Mo- zgul Waf Pulling out cousin Tibia’s muffler. he made a tourniquet above the wound and sat on an unexploded bomb and resumecd reading ‘“Ten Barrooms in a Night” while he waited for the return the rest of the raiding party. Soon they came, bullets thick about them that they could not see their hands in front of their face: and each carry a wounded comrade, so that not one had an arm free to carry Mogul Wafer. RBut our hero, puling out sister Dimity's muffler ,deftly tied a noose in one end, threw it about Cor- poral Tweed's neck, and was being towed safely back when Corporal Tweed stumbled over a bit of loose camouflage and fe with the two wounded men to the hottom of a thirty foot shell hole Knotting end mufflers sent by Aunt Ammonia cousin Alia, Mr Mrs., Osopeed, Mogul Wafer threw one emd of the impro- vised rope to the mouth of the shell hole and the three of them were soon pulled up and out and into their own nice warm lines. Moral: Send ‘em mufflers, girls, send ’em mufflers. (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) But halt went of to end the Aunt Thrilly, cousin Lesbia, Spritts, and A MOST WONDERFUL INVENTOR. Man From Los Angeles Produccs Per- petual Motion and Inexhaustible Heat, Light and Power; But— (New have York Sun) Mr. 726 1-2 We received from 8726- Janmes M. Cordray of Maple Los letter calling attention to some of his innumerable inventions, all patented, a copy of the copyrighted “Biographical Sketch and Photographs of the Barefooted Boy, James M. Cordr the Inventor,” copy of the copyrighted letter of James Michael Cordray published in the Harrington, Del., Journal of Sep- tember 25, 1914, and a copy of the copyrighted peace song by James Mi- el Cordray entitled “Oh Why Do You Ask Others to Do What You Will Not Do? We regret that in view of the high- protected of these writ- it is impossible to reproduce them here with the fulness and liberality necessary to acquaint our readers with their unusual qualities. But we cannot forego the temptation to refer briefly to some of Mr. Cordray’s de- vices for making the world a different place in which to live. Mr Codray himself is of the opin- ion that his mechanisms for insuring perpetual motion and for estracting static electricity from the atmosphere are the most important of his achieve- ments, the second especially, as the eclectricity thus gathered may reason- ably be expected to furnish light and heat for all the worid and power to operate all earth's industries. We zather that he intends to take steps to bring this probability to the atten- tion of Dr. Garfield. The discovery is not without its drawbacks. While, on the other hand, it means an end of coalless days and workless days, the formal announcament can hardly fail to cause a decline of two points in the bonds of the hundreds of public util- ity corporations whose plants must now be scrapped. Mr. Codray’s rain maker was a natural concomiiant of his process by which crops cum be grown in just half the time it has always taken to raise them, and the two together mean a period of relaxation for Mr. Hoover. The noiseless railway coach is a contrivance of more interest to Mr. McAdoo, We suppose, than to any one else, but Mr. Codary’s prepara- tion to grow new skin on persons se- verely burned is something which Na- ture, with her imprefect curative skill, should be the first to recognize a physiological triumph. Tt might be supposed that these in- ventions, re-enforced by his literary efforts, are sufficient to ert for Mr. Cordray an indefeasible right and claim to the title of the world’s most wonderful inventor. Perpetual mo- tion and inexhaustible heat, Iight, power! Marvellous as they are, we cannot feel that they constitute Mr, avenue, Angeles, a a character S from a potato-roasting late the other | night, was pursued for some distance | along Coon Holler by some strange | animal, and took refuge in a persim- | mon tree, where he stayed wntil dav- | break. After climbing the tree the | excitement throwed him into a chill and when he got through shakinz there wasn't a persimmon lcft on the tree A Record Piece of Tuck in the Ozarks Lake Correspondence Bivthe- ville Courier) Celia May happened zood Jast week. She captured five which have been gone for five years. (Gras: ¢ Tuek to ueck hogs Cordray's greatest claim to distine- tion and honor among his fellows. For, after all, perpetual motion and unfailing energy have been more or less expected. Tt has been the habit {o jeer about them, but the scoffers, cven, have felt afll along that these discoveries were on their way. their arrival is by consequence almost an anti-climax. No. the thing that makes geleno magnificent and hood illimitably famous he has not invented. James Michael Cordray of 3726-3 1-2 Maple ave- nue is the only inventor in the United States who has not perfected a device to end the submarine warfare. our An in all likel is the thing ) | Guns are tested | lots, FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY | BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. 8. Proving “Show me" is the slogan of Naval Oranance. The showing is done at the U. S. Naval Proving Ground at Indian Head, Md. Here on the Potomac, 25 miles below Washington, is a 1,000 acre farm on which the Government §OWs a strange crop the year around. Frojectiles are the seeds. The Har- vest is a vast mass of data which does not reduce the high cost of liv- ing, but has a great deal to do with a battleship’s cost and upkeep. Big steel companies and powder mills also have their proving grounds. immediately their completion. Five rounds are fired in them with charges of varying sizes. In 12 and 1l4-inch guns the working pressures range from 12 to 20 tons per square inch. The first and low pressure charge gives the metal a chance to set. The last which is 25 per cent. normal, demon- strates the gun's ability to stand pun- ishment. Powder is manufactured say 100.000 Ibs, at a time. Several charges from cach lot are tested in two wavs, first by the pres- sure generated, and secondly by the velocity given the projectile. Small copper discs in the breech indicate the amount of pressure by the flat- tening they receive when the gun is fired. Velocity of shell in mystery for a long time. Then came the chranograph invented by a Frenchman. Two wire screens 30 yards apart are pierced by the projectile in flight, each time breaking an electric circuit. Cutting the fi Jeases a magnet-held rod which drops. Cutting the second releases a spring- held knife that leaps out sideways and nicks the falling rod. The higher the shell's velocity the less the dis- tance the rod will fall and the nearer its end will be the nick. Despite the simplicity of this ap- paratus velocities up to 5.000 feet a second 2re easily measured, or about 3,500 miles an hour. Tt can indicate time intervals as small as one twenty- five thousandths of a second. above in large fight was a after | screen re- | These | Ground , facts are less astonishing i remembers that the velocity | has been accurately fixed at miles a second. Speed of the gun's recoil found. To the eve, perhaps a little stunned by the awful blast, reepil seems extremely rapid. On the con- trary a 14-inch gun sending out a 3,100 ft-second projecti recoils only about 20 feet or 12 knots an hour. This backward movement of the gun aborbed in recoil ~cvlinders containing heavy springs and a pistin working in glycerine filled cylinderst Here again data is taken. In the largest guns, which recoil 30 to 35 inches, pressures of recoil are found to be about 3,000 pounds per square inch When armor is forged for a battle- ship several sample plates are sent to the Proving Ground. Shell tests are carried out simultancously, pitting one against the other. Plates are mever attacked by shell from the same com- pany. No insult implled—but Yan- kee manufacturers are the cleverest in the world. At present no armor under 15 inches thick, that is, fit for a ship's side, is impenetrable to the | big guns. Test therefore is the de- | gree of damage after firing. | Tragmentation experiments are | made with explosive shell and shrap- nel. Ome is set off in a heavily dr- mored chamber and the pieces counted. Sometimes over a billion | fragments may be gathered. But numt- ber is not always an asset. The pieces must be big enough at least to i kill a man. A vicious business! By nature of its work the Proving | Ground is a perilous place. When a | gun is to be fired sirens arc blown and alarms are sounded. FEveryone from the Chief Gunner to the Com- mandant’s cook runs to cover, bomb | proof or cellar, whichever happens to | be handiest. This running away i§'a | constant annoyance. But warning i | necessary. Chaffee was killed with & { whole crew ot long ago. and last spring Lieutenant Welsh and Bromson were blown to pieces in a bomb test. Such a lovely fertile spot it is t60% when ofie of light 185,000 is also a second, is NO CONVICTIONS. Toe Much Money, Fase, Rest, Mild and War Literature Have Played Havoc With America. (Memphis Commercial Appeal). “Before we entered this war we did not have convictions. That was the trouble. We had a sort of sub-con- scious going on which was the evolu- tion of three natural normal cheers that we give ourselves occasionally. Job B. TTedges in an address delivered last September before the American Bar assoclation. Mr. Hedges truly says that we do not have any convictions. Lack of convictions is one of the weaknesses of the American people. Typewriters, stenographers, adding machines, telephones, case law and printed cooking recipes have brought about a zsndition which makes us lazy in using nental processes that will enable us to reach a conclusion. We are content to stop short of a con- victien, We are willing to stand upon a first impulse or a prejudice. We accept a wave of enthusiasm as a fixed principle and use it as a plat- form, and are willing to stand upon it without investigating its soundness. We expect genius to invent a ma- chine that will do our thinking for us after we have stated the problem. At the outset of the war winning it at the expense of blood did not appeal to us. We were waiting for an invention by Mr. Edison or by voung Mr. Hammond that would enable Mr. ‘Wilson to sit in hig office in Washing- ton and blow the whole German and the kaiser out of the trenches and into hell. And not vet will we sit down and soberly think of the cost of winning this war. We don't like to think on unpleasant things. AN of our picture shows have nice endings, and the circulation of the weekly short storv papers grows be- cause at the close of the story the boy is always a millionaire and the girl marries the man of her choice. The capitalists, the managers and the laborers are taking half to an hour every day to discuss the pros- pect of peace following the speech of Mr. Wilson. ‘We have not a conviction vet that if we don’t win this war we are go- ing to be enslaved, humiliated and ridiculed, Too much money, too much ease, too much rest, too much milk and water literature, too much mollycod- dle preaching, too much mollycoddle teaching have all but broken down that stern fiber in our make-up which characterized the men and women of both sides In the struggle fifty vears ago. No, we have ne convictions There 13 yet too much fat in our brain cells to permit hard, keen think- ing TEN'SHUN., TLADIES—BARGAIN3! (Denton Record-Chroniele). Remember this: A five-dollar war stamp is better than a five-dollar gold pieee, and will make a more appropriate present. This month they sell at $4.12. Ask your post- master or banker.—Clarksville Times, In January you ecan buy it for $4.12, ladies, but it will never be sold again at the same price. Positively the last appearance of the war sav- ings bond at $4.12. During Febru- ary it will be $4.13; mext, $4.14. Buy it while vou can get it cheap. Massifying *Em. (Sarcoxie (Mo.) Record) An ordinary man is content to seek office once or twice in a lifetime, Oth- ers spend a lifetime running for office without getting it. Still others spend a lifetime in office, Gompers’ Manifesto. ¢ (Brooklyn Eagle) More than two million copied of Samuel Gompers manifesto againet. the prohibition amendmemnt to the United States Constitution are said fo have been sent out, one to each memi- ber of the organized labor represént- ed in the American Federation. In this manifesto, the prohibitionids are described as ‘“neither wise, pa~ triotic nor practical, but eczotistical and fantastical.” and the opportunify i seized for a severe attack on Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, whom Mr. Gompers clearly regards as the pro- tagonist, the typical protagonist, oft the prohibition movement. Friends of the President of American Federation of Labor will regret some intemperateness in hise language, noting as they must that the purpose, and aim of the prohibi- tionists, as of Mr. Gompers, are'-tsd strengthen America, and that tiel labor leader, differing with thef® views, should respect their motivesy Also, such friends will regret tHat} Mr. Bryan is made a special targef.! He might well have been ignored. But the plea of Mr. Gompers thati great controversial questions as-to dow: mestic policy should be laid overt while war is going on is one thati will command attention everywhere, and ought to command attention. FHe( says: “Not one of our Allles has st tempted either during the war o proposed thereafter to prohfbit man— ufacture or sale of liquors. Indee the regulations provide as part the rations to the fighting men som portion of beers or light wimes, and., in some Instances, a limited quar~ tity of spirituous liquors.” It need hardly be satd that Mry Gompers is an advocate of temperd ance among workingmen. He hates;; however. the idea of chilling the en-i thusiasm of vast masses of our popu-{ lation by interference with hereditaryi customs and habits. And that is view of the question now at tssue uad every state that deserves intellgent! and reasoming consideration. e SAYS BLONDES RULE WORLI, (Philadelphia Record.) The blondes rule the worid; brunettes trail alons behind. tically all the European kings light-headed—that is, their hair i Hght, or has a tendency toward) lightness. The same holds true ori presidents in this comntry. Lincoln, was the last distinctively brumette tod occupy the presidential chair. Fromy the day of the Great Emancipatort down to the pressnt time the headsi of the nation’s presidents have beemy orowned with a tuft showing a strongft inclination toward the lighter ocolors( —red or blonde. That, I substance, was the Mne off argument advanced in the Y. M. (. A. auditorium by Dr. Katherine M. H. Bilackford, character analyst, and| | confessed bronco-buster and globe— irotter. Dr. Blackford is from New | York, and ims to teach the world] a new science—a science that willl cnable every man to figure out for himself whether he had best be a" banker or a bake: a. blacksmith or a musician, an army general or aJ pacifist or: they Prac aref Telegraph, Telephone, Tell a Woman (From the Smith County (N. Y. Pioneer) Talk @bout your old men and wom-« en gossips, but give us a sweet sixteen— | Year-old girl every time for news. Sha | { knows everything that has happened, M everything that and can forecast | pretty accurately. iis willing, is going to happen, the distant futura Added to that, sha even anxious, to tell it el