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New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Wouldn't Do For Plain Folks. Burners Falls Reporter.J

A writer in a Philadelphia paper makes a plea for saner dressing by men during hot weather. He-for Of course 1t is a man who talks about such a revolutionary thing as saner dressing-thinks it would be perfect ly lovely if men wore white duck and fiannels to business during the heated term. A most timely proposition, my lord, but-who's going to wash all those white ducks and linens and f1annels? Nobody but millionaires can afford to wear such an outfit constantly. for the laundry bills for white clothes mount up like the tow CT of Babel. Soiled or mussed linens and hannels are an abomination and intolerable to the sight, and as such white clothes retain their cool and immaculate appearance, only while they are not worn, the average man would spend more than he earned in keeping his garments presentable. Three -fourths of the women of this country do their own work. and most of them do the family washing. Just consider the awful state of affairs that would arise in the average household if the wife and mother were called upon to add to her other duties that of keeping her other half in clean white ducks and linens Mili- tancy would be given a tremendous impetus and there would be rise of temper in the average family in com parison to which a broiler of a dog day would have no terrors. Dress re- form for men is sadly needed, no doubt, but until somebody discovers a way to keep white clothes looking clean for more than a half hour, the men better allow the women and kid1ets to retain their present monop- oly of white. And it is a noticeable fact that the woman who has to wash or pay for washing her white clothes, is not so much addicted to white as she who Is fortunate enough to have somebody else to keep her looking immaculate.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14

good old fashioned, reliable republi can, a believer in the spoils system, a machine man from the word go, 0 tireless worker in the cause of ma- chine direction and stalwart every twenty-four hours of the day. Never has he been known to express the opinion that he had the slightest use for the bull moose. Those who know the staunch republicanism of this old line representative of the G. O. P. can hardly make up their minds that he would ever have any use for the republican who would surrender the party's supremacy, the party's machine domination In Con necticut, in order to attempt to catch the bull moose support. He is not po- litically constructed along such soft back lines, say his admirers.
 There would be no coalition sanc- toned by MT. Blakeslee with the pro- gressives except such as would call for the entire surrender of the ln- dependents to the dictates and the direction of republican machine rule in Connecticut. Those who have made something of a study of MT. Blakes- lees political record since he became a prominent factor in the politics of the state, are firm In the convection that the progressives would have to come to him. He would not go to them. Neither would he be found waving an olive branch beckoning to the bull moose for the purpose of conference. Rather he might be found welding the big stick, deter mined to drive the bull moose back into the republican camp.
 One can have no difficulty in imag- ming the leaders of the progressives in this state crawling and cringfng along the political highways and the byways of Connecticut ready to step over into the republican ranks once they got 8 glimpse of that big stick in the hands of MT. Blakeslee.
 Yet they do say that politics makes strange bed fellows However, 1t would seem to the man up a tree studying parading republicans ana parading progressives that it would have to be a mighty large-sized and thoroughly constructed bedstead in which there would be room enough for a progressive and Lieut.. Gov. Blakeslee.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14

of San Francisco. You see it works very nicely. The exposition increases the demands for conventions and the conventions increase the number of visitors at the exposition.
 Now the economical gentleman who started the society for the promotion of thrift is asking congress for an appro- priation to send his society to the fair. Some of us may be of the mistaken opinion that thrift does not consist in getting somebody else to pay our bills, but that has nothing in particular to do with the case. There is not the slightest doubt that other societies, even less thrifty ones, would like to have congress send them also. Of course, somebody has to go to the fair and somebody has to pay the ex- penses. It is pretty certain that after we get through with our commissions and delegations, those of us who do not belong to the societies will not have an opportunity to go. Of course it would be easy enough for to start societies of our own. It is strange that nobody has ever thought of or ganizing society for the suppression of useless societies. Of course, they could not be suppressed any more than other things can be suppressed by societies, but it is a good name and seems a little more reasonable than the society for the purpose of making working girls eat what they dc not want for lunch,' or the
 society for the prevention of the wooden Indians in front of cigar stores" or the threatened "society for the banishment of the bathtub.''
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14

They call it fair, but at this dis tance it does not seem just the best thing to do They obtain quite d good sized sum of money and they are said to derive considerable fun out of the experiment. The parents of the children always buy, and while. they perhaps are unable to see how the scheme is money making affair they do not seem able to withstand the pleadings of their own children to purchase something for the fund Whether this plan has any disagree able sides to it is not known at this distance, but it can be easily under stood how some fathers and mothers might object to it, notwithstanding the fact that the money is for a laud- able purpose. Children are often very resourceful and in their eager ness to acquire money and unless the maternal eye is upon them they are apt to overstep the bounds of prudence and adopt the sharp prac. tices sometimes practiced by their el- ders.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
COnvicts For Prohibition. Providence Journal.)

Out of 1478 prisoners in the East ern penitentiary at Philadelphia 1903 have signed a petition in favor of state wide prohibition of the liquor traffic. This petition, which was drawn up without suggestion from the warden, will, be presented. to the legislature of Pennsylvania at its next session.
 Of the moral weight of such a doc- ument there can be no doubt. It bears the signatures of over 1000 unrortu- mates who know from sad experience the evils of immoderate drinking. Seventy per cent. of the men in the Philadelphia prison are said to owe their Imprisonment to intoxicants If the legislature desires evidence" says the editor of the Empire, the prison paper, himself a prisoner, we are ready to supply witnesses. Think of it: seventy per cent of the men hero assert that rum caused their down. fall. Think of the wrecked homes. broken-hearted mothers, wives and sisters"
 It is quite possible that If these prisoners were once again outside the walls of the penitentiary they would feel differently about prohibition. But be that as 1t may, nobody will dispute the statement that very large pro- portion of all the crimes committed in the United States are directly or indirectly due to strong drink. No student of penology can afford to ignore this fact; no intelligent citizen should close his eyes to it. That state- wide prohibition in Pennsylvania would be a farce under existing con- ditions is highly probable. But it is impossible to escape the force of the showing made by these prisoners as to the evils incident to our pres midday treatment of serious nation al problem.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Starting Societies. Indianapolis NeWs.)

It is very unimaginative person that cannot start a society these days. And the fact that there are already several hundred too many societies seems to make 1t easier to think up new ones and more unneces- sary ones. A name, maybe a contri- button or two and convention and we have full-fledged society If by any chance the stock of things which have not been prompted or suppressed becomes low, the promotion of the things we have suppressed and the suppression of the things we have promoted give us, endless possibilities for organization.
 Societies in themselves are usually harmless, but when there is an ex- position in sight they become trouble some. As the Panama exposition ap- breaches new societies are formed with reckless disregard of reason or means t is of course, one way to get to the fair, and if every society suc- ceeds in sending a delegation the at tendance at the fair will be sufficient to satisfy the pride-thirsty inhabitants
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Every Mans Finances.
(New York World.)

If it be said that the secretary of the treasury's view of business con- ditions is optimistic, 1t will have, to be admitted that he has reasons for his confidence.
 Two great problems, long sources of disquiet, the tariff and banking and currency, have been wisely settled. Legislation supplemental to the trust laws is far advanced. Although there has been some depression, 1t is con- fined chiefly to industries dependent upon the railroads and Is disappear ing. There have been heavy gold ex- ports, but the supply of that metal in the treasury and in the country is larger than it was a year ago. Our foreign commerce is active and healthy and will be greatly augment ed by the abundant crops now in sight. The revenues of the nation show a surplus, and there is every in- dication that with fair taxation and the wider opportunity afforded by just laws. reinforced by the bounty of the fields, great prosperity is at hand.
 Although MT. McAdoo expects the new banking system to be in opera tion in time to be of service in mov-
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Blakeslec and Progressives.
(New Haven Union.)


 He is in the custody or the hands of his friends, according to published statements that former Lieut.. Gov. Blakeslee has come into the republi- can gubernatorial contest for this fall.
 There had been an impression that Hartford was this year to carry off this honor. If 1t should. come to the city of Old Films and New Ideas there isn't any doubt that the capital city republican leaders would do all in their power to aid in the election of a New Haven republican, so anxious are they at all times to push along the political fortunes of dis tinguished New Haven republicans
 This Is not the first time that the gentleman named has aspired to be the standard bearer of republicans, and that he has a good many friends in this section of Connecticut who would like to see him get the nomi- nation there isn't any doubt.
 It is an off year and will be re- garded by those who have a political interest in the New Havener as a favorable time to test his superiority as vote getter.
 But take a slant at the probable attitude 0f the Connecticut progress sives at the likelihood of the repub- lican nomination going to Mr. Blakes- lee. There never has been time that he has been otherwise than a
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Kiss Withheld Twenty-Five Years.
(New York Sum-


 Miss Ethel F1axam, a public school teacher, got her first kiss from her mother on Sunday when she became the bride of Michael Solomon, a teacher at the De Witt Clinton High school; There were SIX other chill dren in the family and they got all the kisses they wanted, but Ethel. who could kiss her mother. never was kissed in return, and she never knew why until she was married.
 Her mother told why yesterday at the family home, 1927 Bristow street, the Bronx. She said that shortly after she and her husband came to this country Tom Austria twenty-five years ago tHey lost their fourth child. All had died of measles. While they were grieving a candle seller asked their trouble, and when told she bade them go to the synagogue and there to take an oath never to kiss their next child until that child was mar ried. She said if they took this VOW and kept it they would be the par ents of seven children and would live happily ever after
 The VOW was taken and Kept and the family prospered and was happy except for the sorrow of Ethel, who couldn't understand. Now she under stands, too, and everybody Is happy.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
OROKER COMING BACK.

The New York newspapers have 1t today that Richard Croker is com ing back in September to help oust Charles F. Murphy from the leader ship of Tammany Hall. It is said that he has lot of confessions of men who know the inside operations of the hall and that he proposes to make them public. They should make interesting reading. MT. Croker has said number of times that he was out of politics but about once in so often he Is reported to be ready to make another start only to hear in the next breath that the story was untrue.
 1t does not seem probable that MT. Croker will attempt any reformatory plans this year. He has been out of New York for so long time that even the men who were active in his day are either dead or have retired. He can hardly be in touch with the present situation and skillful a poli- tician as he has been he could not be expected to perform any wonders in the city in which he was once a great power. Mayor Mitchell is not without his troubles but he Is believed to be making some progress and neither he nor his administration will be an issue for some time to come, so that if MT. Croker does come back and enters politics it will be in state affairs and. Tammany was never strong for anything outside of the city. This was especially true of the time when MT. Croker was in the sad de.
 the alleged treachery of Tam many to state candidates that days in New York, the city contest no longer taking place on the same day as the state election, so that there cannot be any immediate swapping of candidates. It will be just as we'll to walt until MT. Croker does come back ana, hear from him. self what he has to say before mak- ing predictions as to what he may do. He Is an old man now and he may sit down and rest after he arrives.
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New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Quaint Character Passes. (Hartford POst.o

The death of Thomas Latham of Gales Ferry, probably the dean of all the school teachers in the state, re- moves a figure notable in a quiet, modest way, in eastern Copnecticut. MT. Latham was typical old fashioned country school teacher. Of tall and angular figure, his face smooth shaven except for a small beard upon his chin, he might have stepped out bodily from between the covers of an old New England TO- nance. Tn his conversation and mannerisms was the attitude of the school master further revealed.
 MT. Latham was teacher in the district schools of eastern Connecti- cut for upwards of fifty years He taught the grandfathers and grand mothers of many of his most recent pupils and his quaint ways were we'll known. He was bit of historian, bit, of an antiquarian and a bit of a poet He had delved deep in east err Connecticut lore and had ready fund of enjoyable anecdote.
 Generations of Yale and Harvard oarsmen became acquainted with him on their training trips to Gales Ferry and found him an enjoyable and delightful character.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
Get After the Fire Balloon.

Louisville Courier-J ournaL)
 A $10,000 fire in a Louisville lum- beryard is believed to have been caused by the falling of burning pa per balloon sent up in celebration of the Fourth of July. Perhaps it was so caused, perhaps it was not. Pre- sumption of guilt is often easier than proof. Nevertheless paper balloons starred the sky upon the evening of the Glorious Fourth at time when two months of drouth had reduced the fields and forests to finder and left the county, beyond the zone of fire protection, at the mercy of chance.
 Very probably 1t would be possible to get Judgment for damages against the person who sent up the paper balloon if it could be proved that the balloon in descending burned up a lumber yard, and if 1t could in addition be proved that the defendant released the balloon. But it is obvious that such a case is hypo- thetica1. 1t would riever be possible to establish the connection between burned paper balloon and a neigh bor-maybe a neighbor at the other side of the city or the county-who amused n1InSel1 Dy SeTOlHS up iheo the air a floating firebrand.
 The Fourth of July has become far less bloody than it formerly was. but it is still not altogether sane. Here in the south fireworks were formerly enjoyed at Christmas rather than in celebration of Independence day. There is far less danger at Christmas. The shingle roof, which may be combustible in July, is water soaked from the winter rains. Lum- Der piles are not dried by the sun and ready to go up in smoke from the smallest spark. In July every city housetop that is of wood may easily be set on fire. In the country wheat is in the shock, stubble will burn al- most as readily as powder. Buildings are exposed, as well as field crops, to the danger of field or forest fires. And there is nothing to prevent anyone from setting on fire the property Of anyone else by sending up a paper balloon which may catch fire before it has risen high enough to insure its burning completely before falling to the earth.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
FRESH AIR FUNDS.

These are the days for the fresh Air excursions and when the money
 h,ust be raised to meet the expenses. 'rhis is sometimes done by some cor l.oration or philanthropically in- .lined person. but more often by public subscription. The excursion : [dea is a good one, because it has Tor it's object the taking of children ito the couEtry or perhaps for kail on the water when but for it the little ones would be compelled to re- main at home during the hot sum- hner months and not have an oppor- tunity to get breath of air except such as may be obtained from the kepement window or perhaps an ill., wentilated alley.
 Tn Baltimore the children sell war; icus things at the street corners. the proceeds going to tho fresh air fund.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
MERIDEN EXCITED.

There are some gentlemen in Meri- den wllo are busily engaged these days in denying all responsibility for the appearance of the state police in that city last Sunday when they raid ed several picnics, arrested a num- Der of persods and confiscated a large quantity of intoxicants. The prosecutor says that the picnics were disgraceful, that boys and girls have gone home staggering drunk from them and that it was up to the city to put stop to it. The prosecutor added that those who have been hold ing the picnics, at which drinks were sold, did so because they had as- surance from somebody" that they would not be molested and there is much speculation as to who the somebody is The mayor says he has confidence in the. police and re- gards the advent of the state officers as an insult to the local constabulary. That is the same old story.
 4ue SIdCe POl1Cc nave been QlSllkeQ because of liquor raids and were it not for the fact that they perform other services the opposition would be stronger. Still the feelings of the mayor should not have been so rudely shocked for the reason that the .regu- larly constituted department of the city has been relieved of a duty which in the face of the statement of the prosecutor would have been painful to someone if they brought in the picnickers. It has always been con- tended that it is extremely difficult for city police to make liquor raids because the officers are so we'll known and they find it hard to gain an en- trance to the places where the liquor Is sold. There does not seem to be any good reason why there should be so much woe in Meriden over the raids if the conditions were as the prosecutor said in his remarks to the court, but there should be a thor, ough inquiry for the somebody who gave the managers of the picnics as- surance that they would not be mo- tested. He ought to be made known for the good of Meriden.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
A Fish Story.
(Kansas City Journal.)

(hdnSdS Clly JOuIHdl')
 The Webb City Register takes off its 'lid' to Bill Swegard of Johns- town, who lured two friends to the fishing grounds by telling them the following true story of a recent catch he made:
 1T was sitting here on the bank and had just baited my hook when all at once a great big fish just took that bait, hook, line, pole and all right out of my hand and swam down the stream with it. I rushed back to that farmhouse and we got a rope and a big iron hook and the farmer and I went down there to the dam, and when we finally baited the hook with a young rabbit, and got that fish good and fast on that hook, we had to take the farmers team of mules to pull tt out of the river. 1t was the biggest eat I ever saw and when We got that thing out on the bank it just hawled like a young calf"
 Of course, we are mot making any remarks about Carterville having re- gently gone wet, adds the Register, but we didn't know the "red-eye" they-were selling over there had such magnifying spowers.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
D. MCMILLAN
ls9-20l-z03 MAIN STREET.

ing the crops, he is preparing to de-
 posit public moneys as he did last year, not in Wall street but through out the country in places where they will be available to legitimate enter- prise. In the belief that financial se- curity and stability have been estab- lished, it is his opinion that the eco- homie situation of the United States Is sounder today than that of any other nation
 So far as the calamity chorus is concerned, MT. McAdoo's theory is that it has been politically organized and helped along by interests long cratic laws and policies no hope for monopoly or privilege. In acquitting business men at large of any .respon- sibility for this assault upon the ad- mnistration, he logically sustains the main point of his statement, which is that the people generally are al- ready prosperous and contented and are going to be more so.
 For the first time in many years secretary of the treasury in discuss ing American business affairs has not been content to fix his attention wholly upon the financial district vf New York. Mir. McAdoo's survey Is national and international. He does not measure the activities of select ed groups and interests in picked lo~ calities, but the hopes and prospects of every man in every section, from coast to coast. If there were nothing else to support his conclusions, this fact alone would make his remarks encouraging as well as memorable.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14

Most people have noticed that the kind of weather which this part of the country has been having during the past month has been very favorable to the little winged pests of all kinds which make the existence of man and beast less tolerable in hot weather. Flies, fleas, mosquitoes, gnats and in- numerable other creatures have been multiplying rapidly and making their increasing numerical strength known about the habitats of mankind until even well-screened dwellings and bus mess houses are occupied by the fil- thy marauders which clean human beings feel they must slay on sight for the protection of themselves and their associates.-Waterb Repub- lican
New Britain herald., 1914-07-14
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Whether it be Tilson or filling as the republican choice for the con- gressional nomination in the second district the republicans will find no fault. They would be we'll pleased with either as the stadard bearer in the coming campaign. They measure up we'll in ability and knowledge of conditions in industry in Connecticut. -Ansonia Sentinel.