New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1918, Page 6

] ew Britain Herald TRLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. ued dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 B, m. at Herald Buflding. 67 r*hurch St HERALD ¥ at New Brit Matter. Ofce L Mail fivered by cavrler to any part of the gity for 15 nents a wesk. (d cents a month Eacription for paper i be sent, by matl pavable in advance, &0 ceats a month $7.00 o year. tered at the as tecond C profitable advertisine medjum in city Clhiewlation beoks gnd oress always o advertisers s oniv the Hota- Rrond. At e on_sale at link's News Stand, {2nd St. and P way, New York iiy: Board Walk wntls City, and ‘lartford Depot. @ Hurald wii found 1 nese Off ftorint e tisiber of the Associated Press. Aseociateq Press Ix exclusively entitled the use for republication of all news cteditac ta It or not otherwise credited in this paper auvd also the local news nhilched herein. e e *ster, earth’s thrones by a free peo- Proudest of all s his who rules le's choice ANONYMOUS. GERMAN APPETITES. loon after the war broke out, Ger- n restaurants began in various les. the; to serve tuna To use a worn- resorted to * large scale, with tuna chief role. It was veal cutlets, lob- and numerous other dishes. Then public called for something he restaurateurs brought out rah- meat, which lasted several months substituted expression, ca- flage” on a playing chicken, the Fed for for the more fish craze coni- had had was h dishes, just zs tuna .. After n off, the ted to horse meat and then 4o doxg Both zing, according to the taste of the the rabbit German diner-out proved more or less ap- in which the portions elephant meat, Amsterdam comes flesh sold by hers Zwickau, Germany. by a fotic had to ifice a part of his menagerie, ow- to the 20 00 phunds of meat were nbtained and it is said to be gravy Fhen Fe o1 m. canie now from ja that camel is in circus owner, who fodder shortaze. Fram ch animal tAsty. that i e oy e trust d to look to our zoological gar- for our dinner for some time to However, if there should we shall not he com- be arcity of beef, veal and pork, wa e. v where we can procure a lot e things to eat in an emergency. please excuse us from camal RUMOR had SPREADERS. occasion once before to the evil habit of which there is slightest founda- policy and one likely e have jall attention pding rum for times not the It ad le peently bad is the guilty a prominent Boston stories which upon Red Cross She was called lad; ician spread re- d discredit es in France. ™ nt for her utterances, but when onted she admitted with the actual faets in frankly thai circulation an en- o had ziven I different story to which she now is inced was faise. had the the judge fol- defendant e presiding hg to say about jothers in her class: he American people have been s tolerant in these matter I think it 1s greatly t their dit that they have. but the e has certainly ecome when ple who make statements ich they have picked up in the cet, not knowing whether they true or not, either for notor- or for some reason which cannot fathom-—the time has tainly come when those people going to be held responsible Jjuries in our courts of law. 'he injnuries have been tolerant the past because they did not it to believe evil of anyone, undoubtedly statements of kind emanate from some 1ce which is engaged in a de- prate and unfriendly propa- da t is certainly proper for the it here that the people this community and every er community ought to take ning and to remember that en mien in this country arc rificing their lives, when wo 1 are going to the front to act nurses, when mothers are ting with their sons and wives h their ‘husbands,. the . least bple can do who attempt to ak about matters relating to war is to pay some Kind of ntion to the facts and to bw what they are tulking but, and net make statcments eriticisms and spread wild »vs that arve utierly unfound- in a perfectly irresponsible . if they do it in the future b may expect indicuments, they may expect trials and may he prety certain of iction. is enough ought stop of falsc rumors, to say fair put warning to to “ the ! those who still think new, | | strength | aays. persons nto serious | [ of the well-known |ing, | York | from BABY TALKS. Foiud parents will and understand condone (e pardonable pride a hap- father takes in his youn X used talka- Was 4 dinle when we to doltnz mothers and fathers who prattic for hour L a time about the latest the stunts” We or ac- complishinonts [itd Dby used experience considerable difficulty in suppressing 4 yawn when com pelled to bsten For fen minutes mor narration how “the kid" say the to of had just learned to crawl, or ta something which scemed to parcnts butywhich unintellizible to anyone else. cute in reality was Jut it's ali different now. And that's why we give fair warning to as we once Look out for us when you see us coming ‘cause we're apt to un- thought. load onto you, if you're sympathetic and patient enough leading up to fact that vesierd that's to listen, the our yungster said for the first tme. what it sounded like.) a long important “Da-Da’ ay (At least MOTHER'S DAY. the world is upstde nations araved against one an- and all races cngaged But tomorrow every and et home will comnion thought with his fel- low men, be he friend or enemy. For tomorrow is Mothers' Day. We Am- erfcans and our Eunglish Allies have our “Mother”; the Frenchman has hs “'Mere’; the German, his “Mut- ter”: the Pole, his “Matka”, but they ail mean what any tongue. Ro let's not row. Today down, with other in bloody men of battle. man in the war have a when word we mean. we say the sweetest in forzet Mother tomor- Send her a flower. or a card, or call her by telephone,- if she has departed from this life. little prayer to her. God bless every moth- or, say a er, the best friend of man. German [U-boats summer at Ostend. will spend the We looked of regret in the state press over the in vain for expressions loss of New Haven's alleged raiiroad station. i It speaks well for when she quarter of a west front. Ttaly military send over a to can million troops the ek appre- Tower, and fun- Tabloid drama in four parts. 2. Irish Spy handéd. 4. London eral march. boat. coast. U. §. Destroyers made the trip from San Francisco to New York in nine the howlers say our Navy is in bad { shape. that he We sympathize with Kansas gentleman who thought had sud- denly gone deaf when his mother-in- law stopped talking withont a word of warning. Kaiser Sends Ultimatum to fleadline. ~ That Bolshe- viki,— s a new form If the concede, they'll he camouflage. Bolsheviki forced to do not anyway Guizon Borglum appears put his foot very much into that air- muddle. The Government ims he tried to profit by his friend- ship with the President contracts for a to have plane cl in securing company in which he is interested. The irrcpressible T. R. it again. He now alleges that Postmast- er Burleson against newspapers criticize the Teddy must be paving the way for a new editorship, is at discriminates whicht Gov- ernment’s war policy. or something. The German newspapers wax in- dignant over the lynching of Prager. They that a ates such an act of violence has no say country which toler- bueiness o be aroused over the sink- ing of the Lusitania. But the Ameri- can press did not condone the lynch- the Teutonic tried to absolve their Government from all blame in the Lusitania mur- der. whereas papers H. C. Hollister, a supply sergeant with the American Expeditionary Forces, in a letter to friends says: “T guess the funniest thing I have seen was a Chinese Coolie with hands dug, Yarkee fasiion, in his trouses pock- ets. walking down a houlevard whist- ling ‘ircland Must Be Weaven, ‘Canse My Mother Came From There’. And he couldn't speak : of Tnglish. He ix still haven't word living. 1 told any of our Irish boys about World. Tt's Chinaman's sake. scarcity of hairpins him."™" well New just for John A is reported only This hold-up London, where they o a months’ supply. the flirters, three ought news to make men, sand-baggers and others bold, tected who take advantage of unpro- women Express trains do it in six. And | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1818. PACTS AND FANCIES, “jubilant i York is volubly over peunce.” —2New inn jox nia Worl 1.200 year The sus of weekl last and the journils on every which war-time pension newspipors in the consolidiition of city hand disclosc one feeling the fron prices.—Norwich busin hand of Record. o5 is he era of straw h A nt would S “is mence up. - B ts ahout London as Abe the to com- Day A German has within the hope to learn have besn en for him cure.— Nev s been n T0 war regulations No internment the only possible Journal-Courier. caught allied lines nee. W that ed. © for 1 Hiven Nine weeks affer 2 lynching in Tennessee the zovirnor of the state offered a’rewnard fi the captire of the lynchers. This =overnor cannot be accused doing anything in a sudden fit passion.—Springfield Republican of of Trades $3.017,250 to 76 per cent. This was a of “The New York The Allled Music York contributed Liberty loan, or their quota effective rendering Spangled Banner.”- New the mora very Star Sun. go back humbly to Hosea Rizlow and join him in the adoption of the iuflexiblt rule, “Don't predict. onless ya know.'——Springfield Repub- lican T.et us A lot of folks who Think they're Making the world Better are Only making it noisier -Binghamton Press. Prunes appear at their worst trying to bat for strawberries. do Blade when —Tole- #impshire and Ver- the top tier of New of course went over Proes. Maine, New mont, being on England states, the top first—Portland Now 1s the time to Dbe healthy, wealthy and wise hy rising early to dig and work in one's thrift zarden. Baltimore American. The fact that Charlie Chaplin daes not throw a single pie in his new pla: shows that even a millon-dollar com - edian is beginning to feel the neces: sity of conscrving food.—Springficld Daily News. DON'T TAKE IT HOME. AR Other people choose what they will or will not do. not care am through my big chair in the yard, where I can see And I can h the gleo all the kids out to play: the roung brooding them. A day don’t sccm hurry of it's an watch laugh and 1 do What I want when I 1s all the laughter and of in the bloc turned And mothers sort of 50 hard when the done where run the children ir 1 Take up your s as come to them and do Ach one @ way some of you Has been put in it. That right and strong! Drive in each rivet o' song Round every 1 you that will show that is—~make it with a little lilt corner with the thought you've done it vight Then put it by, when blows al night, Hang up vour blousc ot away Where all the kids of block run and play. the whistle and your apron, your home If some or all of thc day has wab- bled wrong can go home with vour soul tuned to song And when the tads come to meet you down the sireet, can be glad for their feet Don’t take it home bunch of woe! Home is the place where the trellised roscs grow; Home is the place sweet and true. Don't take a thing but home with yvou —JUDD M. LEWIS, in the Houston Post You at- the patter of You if vou've met a where all things lite's goodnesy COMMUNICATED. APPROVES OF" MRR. BATTY. Col. Jarvis Believes Farm Bureau Has Selected Right Man. The Farm Bureau of Hartford county has made what seems to us a very important step in the right direc- tion by the appointment of a practieal farmer and market gardener who will have charge of assisting the employes of large manufacturing establishments throughout the county in their garden work. The Farm Bureau has appoint- cd H. P. Batty, of New Britain, who is well-known farmer and market gar- A dener in this vicinity, and who will de- vote his entire time and attention to the manufacturers’ gardens--1s hold- ing himself entirely at the disposal of the employes of our factories in ad- vising, directing and assisting in any way possible the home garden work. Mr. Ratty is not appointed to inter- fere in way with home garden supervisors emploved by some of the citles throughout the county, but stm- ply to assist. Mr. Batty can be com- municated with the office of The Hartford County League and IFarm Burcau. 308 Church street, Hartford, by telephone or letter. and arrange- ments made to assist In any way pose sible. It seems to any at us as though this was a very important move in a very im- portant direction, and certainly the thanks of the community due for this very practical illustration of the work which iz being accomplished by the rm Bureau in this county Very truly vours, CHARLES M. JARVIS, President. | Town Topics! | Aithough | has never | brought people of New Britain 1l heavy suits the result of being injured on defective slippery walks, and the counsel and com- zenerally succeeded in making some very favorable settle- ments out of court in such cases as have been brought, nevertheless thére is always present the danger that there will be. Therefore the special JJegislative act which governs these { conditions in New Haven should be ot | csnecial interest here | ihe city had any r against it falling and as or corporation have claims mitte New Haven had been taxed severe- heavy damage suils arising from sidewalk accidents and at the last ses- sion of tho legislature a special act for that city was passed which prohibits any individual from suing the city for such accidents. Thus. the city is not liable, bhut the individual property owner is. the result being that people owning houses are much more care- ful about the gondition of their walks. It is understood that when the leg- islature convenes again a -similar measure will be introduced to save this city from further mebarrassment because of such accidents. (W. 8. 8) Without in the least taking sides on the question. it might be reported that there seems to be a steadily growing feeling of doubt among some of the council members regarding the water board’s plan of expending a vast sum of money at this time to develop the Burlington water supply. While all members agree that this must be done leventually, many take the opinion that the time is inopportune for spending so much money unlese it is absolutely necessary and they are not fully convinced that it is absolutely necessary yet. The whole question resolves itself into this: If we are to experience the same variety of weather of the past few years, in reference to rain, etc., then the work of improving the water supply can well wait until some other time. If, on the 'other hand. a long drought should occur, the city would certainly “be up against it”. Although there is nine months supply of water available a protracted dry spell might prove embarrassing. Thus. it would appear that the entire controversy is a com- bination of gamble and a matter of Judgment. (W. Twenty-five years ago these items were published in the Herald: April 28: Thomas E. Murphy, the famous temperance advocate. arrived here vesterday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Rogers. W. A. Bailey, Bamuel Knight, Eugene J. Porter and C. M. Burgess were among the Masons who had the Scottish Rite degree con- ferred on them in Norwich today. April 29: The fire department test- ed the water pressure in Central Fark yesterday, the water coming through the hose at the rate of 1800 gallons a minute and going 115 feet in the air, while another stream was thrown against the Center church steeple 127 feet. April 30: Sunday. May 1: New Britain has not a sin- gle illuminated clock in the city by which the time can be told at night and this makes an excellent oppor- tunity for some public spirited person to do some good. May 2: FPersons about green worms their drinking water through the faucets. | May 3: Supt. Dinsmore has made | some new rvules for his horse car driv- ers which provide that they must | keep themselves clean, must report at the stables early every morning, must | not jump their cars over the switches but must turn the switch by hand, must not fail to collect fares as has heen noticed, must come to a full stop before crossing the railroad tracks and must leave on time instead of from .5 to 10 minutes late as at pres- ent SIS are complainlhg being found in as it comes (W. 8 Kour or five the pledge at last night but they went away and probably never return. Thomas E. Mur- hould spend a dav or so in Ber- lin as drinking in that town is on the increase. May Miss Gertrude Paugoud, adepted daughter of General Pau- #oud, formerly of this city, eloped fiom Stony Creek with Anthony Nu- 1apil yesterday, much to the dis- pleasure of the general. May 6: Over 3,000 have signed the pleage under T. E. Murphy's guid- ance. May 7: Sunday May §: If Murphy continu the saloon men will have to out of hilslness as there are now 4,000 who have taken the pledge. There is con- siacrable agltation in police circles recause of the extent that policy is i ved here. May 9: The législature has amend- cd the city charter so that a part of the town can be annexed. 8. H. Wood will he marshal of the Memorial day rarade. The Cleveland Plain Dealer that Tom Lynch is one of the hest umpires that cver stood on a diamond May 10 roseible s May + to sign ehurch in so will phy wanted the Center could not get men g0 Bert Jahn made 70 out of at the special shoot of the German Rifle club yesterday. Buell B. Bassette will graduate soon from West Point Military academy With the class of '93. 11: Oliver N. Judd -and Miss \elma Gerard, daughter of Mr. and AMrs. John Gerard, were married yes terday. George H. Dvson and F. Porter have formed a jewelry store vartnership ——W. § Enciveling Central YOung trees, ago and so a 5 May Park is row set out several years nged that in years to come, when the old trees fringing the curb are no more, the center of the city will yet have an attractive ap- pearance. Since these trees were first set out four or five have died and have not been replaced. Tnless trees are put in their places soon other trees will have such an ad- in growth that the will be made a new the vanee pearance tve general less attrace ape The epirit of spring has arrived. Tt | came thig week, and made known its | jresence in the time honored method of “pomes.”” Spring this year is evi- dently embodied in some fair fem- ne form for the “pome” submitted written in what the -office Don Quixote firmly avows was ‘“a wom- | hand.” "Far be it from Town Topics to discourage any embryonic “ennyson qr quell {he ldtent powers of a second Ella Wheeler Wilcox. All we can say is that she must think a mightly lot of “the nice young fel- who calls at my house.” Sorr fi1r one but space prohibits our pub- Isning stid wa n's ow “‘pome."" i . 8. 8. There aré two symbois seen very requently that are more binding in spirit of American fellowship than £y fraternal pin vet devised. They @re the Liberty Loan button and the Service Flag. A wearer of the Liberty ioan button walking along the | si-eets sees thousands of others wear- ‘e the same button, men, women ond children from all walks of Jife, «nd no matter from what sociax sphere the wearer comes he inatine- dvely knows that the wearer of the other button is his brother in the association of American citizenship and loyalty. Then there is the Service Flag, even more significant. Who is there that | travels about the country, or about oUT city, that-does not unconscious- | Iy feel 4 tingle of pride and some- times a little hard lump in the throat when they see a Service Flag in some home and reaiize that from 1hig housge a loved one has gone forth the war? The Service Flag a symibol of =sacrifice, the greatest cuvalizer in the world. Fathers, sons, ivcthers and hushands are equally dear to the rich and poor alike. A mullionaire riding through the slums seeing a Service Flag suspended from the most humble dwelling can- rot but feel a tingle of mingled pride and fellowship when he - considers tiat in front of his own elaborate Tome is a similar flag. Likewise, the street laborer, doing his daily work in front of the millionaire’s house and veeing his Service Flag, cannot but stvaighten his shoulders and feel the same tingle of pride and fellowship. Tor in the final analysis the rich and the poor alike are sacrificing in the war and it falls the Jot of the sons war and it falls to the lot of the poor to fight shoulder to shoulder. All »cial barriers are swept asldé and the only standard is the standard of manhood. No wonder that the little red, white and blue Service Flag rieans so much to all who have the right to fly one. —W. 8 The real significance of the Service Tlag, as it is used in this city, is overlooked in several cases that have heen brought to attention. The Serv- ice Flag should be displayed only from those homes wheére some mem- Ler has gone into the uniformed service of the army, navy or marine corps and should be displayed in only fhose homes where the person thus Tonored actually reslded. Despite this, aftention has heen ¢alled to sev- cral instances where the spirit of this honor not heing ohserved. Ome | ase is' cited where a Sérvice Flag has been displayed for a male mem- ler of the family who s serving in | the civil Service department. Atten- ion has been previously called to a house where the only male member recognized was a member of the jlome Guard. There are.also several, instances reported where Service Flags have been displayed from homes where the soldier or sailor | heing honored did not even reside, the only claim the household has for the flag being there that one of their 1elatives—on a different street or cien in a different city is in the service. In fustice to the homes from vhich men have gone out this cus- fomary observance ought to be ad- hiered to more strictly. -W. 8 S.— officer from one of the army Here on a visit, tells of the method used in the objections of a con- scientious objector. The story, as re- fated by the officer is When the squads are formed and the sergeant gives his sigmal in the morning for company drill you will find one of the men sitting over on the edge of his hunk You will go cver and say: “What the deuce are vou doing here. didn't you hear the sergeant blow his whistle for drill?” hen you will see that the objector reading a Bible. He will blush sav: “Yes sir, but 1 don’t drill. religion forbids fighting or kill- 10 is S— | An cantonments, Ilumorously svercoming 18 nd Ny i %‘flh, I see, vou object to killing?* “Yes sir, but I'm willing to work for the government. I'm willing to work or do anvthing but kill.” “Oh. but you say vou are willing to | work. You are sure that vou are willing to work?" “Yes sir.” Things go along until Friday when the liat of those seeking week-end passes are posted and invariably Mr. Objector is et the top of the list, On Saturday when the men assemble in line to see if they are lo get a pass or not, Mr. Objector is well toward the front of the line. “Well, what do you want?" queries the officer. | tion | Germany not only !t plan ! branch of the Government in its con- My pass. “Oh yes, your pass’' and objector visions ~ of earned pass the officer continues “ What ir vour name?” The private | tells him, whereupon the officer goes further and says. “Oh yes, you are tha conscientious objector whose religion forbids him to kill but are willing to work. Are vou still willing to work 2™ “Yey air." “Did you work 2" “No sir “Well that cleaning pnns, we have a who wants to drill and he wants to fight He also wants a week-end pass. You go out there and | tell him to come in and get his pass that vou will do his work.” Out goes Mr. C. O. The same per- formance is repeated for a few weeks | and then. influenced by his environ- | ments and moral suasion he appears | s { as tha | sees an easily | ever do kitchen polica work. rn the is doing the dirty ete., and man in such as tell you, kitchen | victory i ers of and at drill one day and in the end makes | a good soldier. ——W. 8. 8. How well we remember the early | daye of last summer when practically | every house in the eity displayed a flas. Not only did the private homes display | the colors, but almost every automo- bile seen on the streets also showed the American or tne American and Allied colors. The car that did not show a flag was the exception rather | than the rule. Now, after a year, it | seems that the car which displavs a | flag is the exception rather than the | rule. Of course this signifies ahso- ing responsible positions in and Germany’s Infamies. (Todmoren, Yorkshire, Advertiser) The following manifesto has drawn up by private individuals hold- others. in this country who I ar been sondon | Views of a very large prportion of the pubiic re. not identifled with active propaganda, fis View, that is, of the great silent ma« Jori i | ara ty: n 1914, Ge tion, fell rmany, upon Europe. after long prep- Pos- lutely nothing, but a generous display | S¢ssed With the evil spirit of domina. of the colors is sight. always an inspiring —W. S. 8. Attention is once more called to the health department rule which provides that garbage shall be collected in covered vehicles, which shail also be | lined with somo metal in order to! prevent the filthy liguids from drip- | ping in the street. And attention is also called to the fact that last Satur- | day at least, automobile licensed under | the number C4614 was collecting | garbage. It was simply a covered car with curtains up on the end and one side. It also served tn'a small degree to sprinkle the street—wlith garbage | drippings. S The Army. “Boston Evening Transcript) The preposterous proposal that the Congress delezate to the President | all its powers with respect to the | raising of an army to win the war, has encountered opposition in both houses- and in the press outside the confines of cuckoodom. Our objec- tions to this sinister scheme are in substance endorsed today by so loyal a supporter of the Administration as | the New York Times, which predicts | that the unconstitutional authoriza- requested by the Secretary of in the name of the President “hardly find favor with Congress,” | and adds: | War The whole subject will be threshed out by Congress, the sooner the bet- ter. It would be well to err on the side of large numbers, but they should be definite. The effect on Ger- many of the action by Congress to | call men to the colors until five mil- | lions are under arms for service in France, with no delays in equipment and training to be tolerated, would be far more impressive than a direction in blank form to the president to ratse as large an army as he deems neces- sary to insure victory. More impressive in its effect on but what is more to the point, more immediate in its effect upon the raising of an, army. “Figures imply limits"” was the ten- der objection offered by Secretary Baker, when he was asked why he had not specified in his estimates the size of the army he hoped to raise. They also imply study, intelligence and sincerity. They can be used to fix not only the maximum but the minimum, to supply a spur as well as a brake, and of course no one real- izes all this better than Mr. Baker. Witness the espousal today of his pro- posal by his faithful defender, the Springfield Republican, which says: That there is a strong case for this cannot be. denied, especially in the light of the fact that the War Department might be embarrased and even impeded in the swiftness and smoothness of its administrative work, if a law placed upon it the duty | of expanding the army in an exces- | sively brief time up to such a tre mendous figure as five million or any precise flgure of great magnitude. This “lets the cat out of the bug. and re-enforces the constitutional ar- guments against the ahdication of Congress, which the approval of the Baker plan would involve. The warning of *‘a wasted year” is all against turning the Congress into the Reichstag and turning over to the President the power, lodged with Congress, to decide upon the recom- mendation of the pacifist who is his Secretary of War and his closest ad- viser the size of the army to be raised to wn the war. Blanket authority was ziven Secretary Baker to bulld as many airplanes as possible, and the scandal and failure that have been the chief reward of that grant to date strengthen the argument against the repetition of that blunder in reapect of calling men to the colors. Power was given the President, on April 6, 1917, to mobilize the Regular Army and the National Guard, .but upon the recommendation of his Secretary of War. the National Guard was not called out until midsummer and snow flew before the mobilization of the Regular Army began. Not lack of power, but lack of will- ingness or capacity to exercise the power already . delegated to it, has been the weakness of the executive i | | duct of the war. Many simple-mind- ed. honest folk believed when the pro- posal was first advanced that Secre- tary Baker was afraid the Congress would not be disposed to suthorime as large an army as he wished to raise. A poll of Congress will show, we he- lieve, that Congress is willlng to au- thorize the calling out of double the number of troops that Secratary Bak- or will be willing to specify. He has even been unwilling to authorize the training of an adequate number of officers. and for the delays in the ar- rangements for the fourth series of officers’ training camps his reluctance to sanction well-considered plans is | solely responsible. It will not hasten ry to obliterate Coungreas In this impose upon the should- Baker a responaibility | Ludendorff carvies to- not Ludendorff, the Ires ident is not the German Wmperor, tha | Congress is not the Reichstag, the United States is not Germany Let us look these facts in act in their light. Let authorize at once the raising army of five million men, authori the money and authorize appropria tions adequate to cover the cost, and let the President and the Secretary of War do their best to raise, train, arm, equip and transport to Irance that army as soon as possible. They can count upon the support of Congress, and Congress can count upon the sup- port of the country. Any additional waste of time musl not condoned by Congress or tiie country. matter and Sec. only He is which a day. the froe Congress of an be tion and filled with envy, o led conquest and power. wel and fraud e, headed her peop! 1 laid by es toward her n her Emperor, the of s0 nilitary had goals of Her plans wer Nothing lacked Her armies were never sa strong, her material never force abund- ant, ber will to conquer never 80 ve« hement. of sa She had placed spies, sub- orned the venal, bought a press, tablished the machinery o8- botage in every country of Burope and beyond the only seas. in tral. The crowning infamy of When she struck organs of publicity the vietims of attaclk, | vake riot and disaffection, informers to betrayv—and enemy all was—and remains— her Belgium. she treaty she broke, nee wrought ssity, and the she threw honor, these things, countries, but i she had to represent her ay agents to pro- not n neu- Germany treatment of Publicly avowing the reach pleaded justice wropg of the her and mercy to the winds, and fell upon this little | was resisted in the sight of God or man— | dered, rapea, ed, and enslaved her victims. she helpless did; e of full poor, nation Becau, se she by every right, whether h e mure tortured, robbed, staryv- estored. restitution . indeed, a with the for resol I ATl this all this, while vou read thesa words, she still does today. gium s not : sion loss (so Bel. provi- material ution!) the world will perish, for the world will sicken der ed rape, And if the men who or« superintend massacra, chemed plunder and organized ob- scenity as a cold-blooded, method of terrorism, and judgment, the cal escape moral mankind will he shrivelled. But it is not only Belgium that has | bled. plundered; complicity A of rmenia, Germany by the has thinned out as a sheepfold by ers: France, that brave, that sense culated Justice ot Serbia has been murdered and bloody been buteh« noble, land, has been ravished. Her women and children, her old men and maid, ens have been wronged, despoiled, chr« rfed into exile by night, secretly places unknown, dimly red uced to for guessed. Her corpse-str purposes churches been burned, her towns and will ewn ta but have i rubb¥sh heaps, her mines plundered, and the very trees in chards scored Of our wrong it is less proper ta speak. cold blood, and a daybreak, But we shall her littl: e villa into death. shall n be ot forget, | captain of a merchant vessel shot in * nurse murdered at remembered and ge or- A avenged. Our great-hearted merchant seamen. drowned upon the high séas, sha by from avenged. 11 be bombs fro the sea avenged. And Our the by m air night if any object, let him people and shall kiltea shelled be ask himself if these things should ge unpunished, immune. unhappy jeered wat of existence, bitten by don lay a at and er, reviled ed dving? These nd if struck and den denied murder And have we forgotten our men imprisoned in Germahy as they | in trucks to camps where they wers to be starved, is led the de: whe are to be passed food and cenciey dogs and aban- by German dactors things n thewv, an in- famy, and thelr stain is indelible. The war is nearing the completion of the fourth hateful course. all There are some pro was peo us would cou tice, sured would hav mise on ri dishoner will glad e ple 1d find have year of its bloody and Men sicken of it, and e it end who ght and lies, and none Iy ans that welcome How ? would com- wrong. the of it. That British It represents, we believe, All of % peace if wa satisfied jus-~ . reasserted public right, and as- the fre edom of small and the just claims of nations No! nob sea We le, brave, and land must and in continue the confiict. But let us remind ourselves of oum " duties—we stay-at-homes. be united, an d judge struggle still. enduring warriors, the air, one a We nations oun must must nother Justly and even kindly. The merchant _ the workman, the shopkeper, the doe= tor, the mini. ster, the peasant, hasg each his work to do., and the work off oach is as honored and necessary as his And we must duty. brother's. Do we recall remember dafly a nother and gift our immense debt to our men at arms? fin trench suMctently murmur the little that an the and bi often: shall llet? Do w go well above frequent all, with hours write them them Do we send them books to long and difficult 34 do wa prayer it God whils. and that they shall be vic. tors? And have we determined that our debt to them fis lifelong, and that we mean to honor it to the full? Many of us have lost our dear boys —we mean th died in vain ones at the front, to be dishonored. determined them have Ger: she would be beggared and die and for many stands hat they Most of that, all the r should d shall us have brave we shall no not Al rather hateful efeat u t have allow of uw than things s, wa And in that faith we balleve our countrymen live and conti nue. “The Swamp Angel” (New Bedford Mercury.) A writer in the Manchester Guara- | tan call attention to the fact that the German long-Tange gun had a proto- type during the Civil War in the once fam the ton quarter was ous Union over a dis mile for that “Swamp Angel” troops bombarded tance of fi in 1863. time, at Ie with g ve and This cast in whick harless three. range actual warfare, a record, though the “Angel’ herself w Parott She elev pou the rifle was, how atlon and nds of pov service gun of a ever loaded vder (four charge). given an u with in exc Aftep s an eight-inch, 200-pounder » common type nusuaj twenty in prayer ~