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New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
EUROPEAN WAR.

The Austro- Hungarian governmen if the issue is to be settled between those two countries the trouble will be of short duration, Servia being doomed to speedy annihilation The feeling has been unpleasant between those countries for a long time and the Sarayevo murders have brought on many has declined to act with it on such a mission and the fear is that the latter power and Russia will be drawn into the trouble and should this be the result Europe will be plunged into war, the magnitude of which can only be a matter of conjecture at present.
 The most distressing feature of the whole matter is the evident willing ness with which Austria has taken the step it has because it suggests that it has weighed we'll the meaning of war and proposes to punish Ser via for it's offensive acts. Germany, agreeable to this program, undoubt- edly realizing what it may lead to, suggests great difficulty in carrying out any program which has peace for its object. If the other European powers can be induced to refrain from interference it will be the only step that can be taken now to prevent a big European war All eyes are now turned toward Russia and until that power declares for hostilities there Is some chance of the great struggle being averted.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29

distinguisha ble to those passing in cars. These signs are also of value to drivers of teams, although they were not erected for their benefit.
 The absence of sign posts is evil dently on the roads which wind in and around the small towns and which are not considered main lines, but even there they are of value because the drivers of teams and cars need to know where to go after they reach place and besides there are several roads which are not along the main line and yet are visited by many peo- pie throughout the year. It needed some one to stir up the small towns on this point and the governor was the best one to do it. His notice to. the selectmen has been given wide publicity and guide boards will soon be erected at all the places where they are needed and the motorists will be pleased.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
MAY GO TO WAR.

It is believed that in the event of there being any real demand for men to assist the various interests involved in the present European troubles that this country will lose some of it's citizens. In response to a call for shed almost 2,00O men answered a. call for volunteers in Boston last evening and for two hours they drilled in halls and playgrounds under com mand of regular army officers with a great deal of enthusiasm Later com panies were formed and officers were elected. Manchester, N H., also has battalion and mass meeting is to be held this week to whip the move ment into shape. Money in satisfying amounts has been raised in other places and it is believed that if there is any real desire for recruits that they will be supplied in large numbers i1 this country
 The declaration of Austria to make war on Servia has also stirred up the natives of these countries who are now making their homes in this sec ton of the country and they are showing such a belligerent spirit as to suggest their leaving to engage in war in defense of their own countries There are a large number of Austrians and Hungarians in New England and if they leave for Europe the popula- tion will be much decreased. There are a number of those people right here in New Britain. Some of them the old country.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29

the Tel el Amarna tablets that threw so unexpected a light on the lan- guages used in ancient Egypt. As for the story of Joseph, however, he finds a long gap between that and the per- sonal experience of Moses himself in the same land of the Pharaohs, and evidently believes there was little that is legendary about Moses. He; then takes up the later find in upper Egypt of the papers Qiterally) of Jewish colony at Elephantine in the time of the Persian occupation of Egypt un- der Cambyses and the Darii. These documents, centuries later than the Amarna tablets, are written (not i'm pressed) on papyrus and in the Aramaic language, some 450 years E. C., and they disclose a considerable Jewish population in Egypt. Two and a half centuries later the present form of square Hebrew" was invent ed by the rabbis for their sacred books. The reasoning of Naville IS often rather puzzling, but he puts to the cutters-up of the Hexateuch and the prophets some hard questions; and his scholarship is undoubted.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
GUIDE POSTS.

|Goyernor Baldwin's warning to the 5ectmen to see that guide posts are .ovided in all the towns and cities | the state may strike some as not ling of much importance, but to
 lose who travel. by team or by auto |obile it matters a great deal. The
 h sign posts have become decayed Ia there has been no disposition to |ect new ones. Formerly these posts bod at the -four corners, so called hd drivers who were not sure of the lad never failed to obtain the proper |rection to go. They save much ecessary travel and much time. The hide posts provided by the towns hye become obsolete and one req bn for it is the action of automo- iIe clubs in having guide posts placed long the direct roads from one town , another for the guidance of those 'ho use motors and they are very Tn the first place they are [ good material and the lettering is
 lleln thkt the directions are easily
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in cx- changes that come to Herald office.
Indispensable Aids to Justice. Providence Journal.)

From certain press allusions of late there seems reason to believe that a large western community is consid- erably excited over woman judge who "knits on the bench" This pop ular but old-fasnioned feminine pas time seems to be considered inappro- priate in one who represents the dig nifty of the law and is supposed to stand for the impartial administra- tion of justice, and there is some talk about exercising the right of recall and retiring this knitting magistrate to the less conspicuous field of pri- vate practice.
 All of which seems rather unjust to the judge, and illustrates the diff f1culty which society finds in adjust ing it's conventional views to new con- ditions. After all, there is nothing especially reprehensible about knit ting. Many estimable ladies are quite devoted to this harmless and some times useful domestic task. In fact, it seems indisputable that many of the inveterate knitters are uneasy and at a distinct mental disadvantage when deprived of their knitting. The manual occupation apparently acts as a mental stimulus, and the gar rulity always in evidence in a group of busy and interested knitters is sufficient proof of it's psychological value.
 There is something about the workings of this peculiar process that seems an inexplicab1e mystery to the average male, but there is no question as to the fact. If the process is po- tent in the ordinary courses of con- versation, how much more so may it be in matter where serious and con- templative thought is required? Knit ting, for the woman who knits, may reasonably be regarded as of pre- cisely the same value as a mental in- centive as tobacco chewing is to the man who has that habit. It is pow erful aid to reflective thought, study, consideration, and rumination. The judge who knits, like the judge who chews, is likely to be deliberate in pondering case. Knitting, like to- bacco chewing, may be somewhat in- congruous with the dignity of high CT court, but undoubtedly in the ap- preaching days when more and more women will be elevated to the bench the public will have to become accus- toned to the judge who knits.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29

This is the age of unappreciated marvels. For instance, a news item chronicles in a matter of fact way that the other day no less than seven people underwent X-ray examinations at q local hospital for the exact loca- ton of broken bones. Only a few years ago if man declared that he had found a means for producing a ray of light that would penetrate solid substances and enable one to see through the human form. he would be regarded as a gibocring maniac; yet here is just such a ray, in common usage, part of the equipment or every up-to-date hospital. -Bridge- port Telegram.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
Old Testament Language.
(Churchman.) )

A Geneva archeologist, Edward Ma vile. has raised some interesting questions as to the antiquity of the Hebrew language in book entitled, "Was the Old Testament Written in Hebrew?" He replies in the negative and believes that the earliest books of the Bible were written in the Baby Ionian arrowhead script, while the later ones were composed in Arama1c, that is, the language, used by our Lord and his apostles in Syria. He be- lieves literally in Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, even of Deuteron- omy, which has been much doubted by the philologists; but supposes that Genesis existed not As.a book, but in the form of clay tablets, in cuneiform
 writing, never properly edited into a constructive volume, but similar to
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
Longer School Hours.
(Hartford Post.)

The step taken by Superintendent lengthening the hours at the High 1, school, is one which will meet with the approval of many who have giv- en the matter careful thought. It is good thing and might we'll be ap- piled in all cities where two sessions l are not in vogue in the high school. ] The school building is the place to do school work. It can be done more effectively there than in the homes. The short session in vogue in many l high schools compels the pupils to do great deal of their studying at home. They haven't the facilities in their homes that are found in all we'll equipped school buildings. The greater part of the pupils have no libraries or encyclopedias, historical and geogra phical reference books, to say nothing of the stores of the worlds best in literature, that are in the school libraries. The same is true concerning many other features of school life. When the pupils leave the high school building in the early afternoon many of them do not hasten home to begin their study
 
 along the streets visit picture shows, ice cream saloons and other places where they certainly do no school work. Thus valuable time is lost When they finally reach home many of them find that there is work they are required to do, thus taking up more of the time which should be spent in study. The afternoon passes, nd i.- tnr the evening meal the pupil is tired, his brain does not grasp things read fly and oftentimes does not retain them at all. There are the distrac- tions of other interests in the home. Some one is playing the piano, callers drop in for the evening. These and many other things distract the atten- tion of the student and study is we'll nigh impossible and almost always in effective. The school house is built for study as we'll as recitation and demonstration. The entire days school work should be done there under ideal conditions so that the his school life. Often the teachers make plans which call them out of the building as soon as the session
 
 longer sessions. This should have no weight with school authorities. The teachers time belongs to the town or city by whom they are employed for as much of the day, (within req sonable limits, of course) as the school officials may decide shall be spent in school work. Most high school teachers are fairly we'll paid. Their hours are shorter than those of the average professional person. They can stand couple of hours extra each day. Adding two hours to the regular sessions of the high schools of the state and having the pupils spend this extra time in study will prove of great benefit. Superin- tendent Gibbs has set an example that may profitably be followed by the heads of school departments in other cities.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
[LLING TO PAY AND IS'IN JAIL.

There's a man working out fine costs which will keep him in the chfield jail for about a month be- hse he failed to pay his personal
 bill to the Torrington collector.
 court he offered the judge the ount of the tax and promised to the rest as soon as he got a job,
 the court had no choice other hn to send the man to jail. The Fsonal tax law is one of the few vs which Connecticut has that per ts no one to escape, once he is ar ted. Waterbury, Republican.
 That's funny. Is it not possible 1t the delinquent offered the mon
 to the wrong person? The judge a court is not authorized to collect personal tax and the Torrington htleman had no business to offer m the amount of the bill. There we been any number of cases ought into court for non-payment the personal tax in various places d in practically all of the instances amount was paid in the court om and the criminal part of the oceedings ceased. Just why that Is not done in Torrington is diff Tit to say It is certainly peculiar 3at there should be a man in the tchfield county jail with money in |s pocket ready and willing to pay s personal tax and there is no one take it from him and give him his kerty
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
Labor Day Without Its Parade.
(New York Sun. l

(NeW I OrK sum-
 The dropping of the Labor day parade this year is to be regretted. II was usually a picturesque display. If was invariably dignified and orderly and it gave the working men of New York an opportunity to show them selves in their true coIors as law low ing citizens with proper civic pride and an honorable respect for their arts and crafts by which they not only make their own livelihood but contribute so incidentally to the greatness and prosperity of the city, the state and the nation.
 A fine manly show-womanly, too, indeed, for the women workers took a characteristic share in it--it gave vast pleasure to tens of thousands of people. The participants were moral ly exalted by it and the spectators, whether personally concerned or not, gained useful lessons and experienced beneficial emotions. Perhaps, indeed, the best effect was on the outsiders those who were neither handicrafts- men nor their near relations. For to these the force, the organization, the spirit of ingenuity, the purpose.
 
 pregnancy in all good and advan- tageous ways of labor were brought home in most impressive manner by the marching hosts, the illustrative floats, the banners, the bands, the companies and their captains, all ar rayed for the glorification of the great idea that work is life in the hlgheSt sense.
 Sorrow for the loss of this annual pageant will assuredly not be lesseneu by the cause of it's abandonment. It appears that this is due to the lack of employment among manual work CTS and the need that has fallen upon many of them through failure of q chance to earn their daily bread. Perhaps it would be ironic to cele- brate the glory of the work that is not. Perhaps it is better-urgent, indeed, to spend the money in helping those who have superfiuous days of rest these psychologist times. No doubt in this matter the labor leaders know what they are aoout and need no outside guidance. But the
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
Women and the Voting Age. Providence Journal.

The susceptibilities, real or affect ed, of the women of Kansas have produced constitutional interpreta- tion of some value and of widespread application. The Kansas suffra gists are reported to have ''thronged the registration booths upon being as- sured that they would not have to disclose their ages, except by declar- ing that they are "twenty-one and upward" The attorney-general of the state is responsible for the con- soling opinion that the age qualifica- tion for voting mentioned in the con- stitution does not mean that anything more definite than that shall be in- sisted upon by the registration off, cia1s.
 The apparent necessity that a wom- an shall tell how old she is, before exercising the privilege she has won, has been a cause of discomfort in many suffrage states, though probably the reports of this dissatisfaction are exaggerated. But whether or not the supposed constitutional requirement. has materially moderated the eager ness of women over thirty. say, to use the ballot and so has reduced the
 
 right to refuse to tell their ages they should enforce it, as they appear to have done in Kansas.
 The clause in the state constitu- tions usually reads: "Every citizen of the age of twenty-one," or, as in Kan sas, "twenty-one and upward.". Ac- cording to the dictuni of the. attor- ney-general of Kansas, which has fn6 hJJC cY1o >ex the women voters custom alone is responsible for the rule of asking the exact age-there is no warrant for it in the Fundamental law. Kan sas men being submissive creatures have never objected to telling The issue is yet to have a judicial. deter mination, to be sure. But it is un- likely that the opinion of the states legal adviser will be appealed from If it should be, the courts will prob ably agree that the phrase twenty one years and upward" means just what it says; and that there is no sense in reading into it a requirem ent that the applicant for the voting priv ilege shall declare that he or she, is twenty-two or fifty, or any other age
 The registration officers must be
 
 is not younger than twenty-one. And, since this is so, it might become a very pretty question in some states perhaps in most of them--if the con- stitutional requirement could be full filled without a disclosure of the ap- plicants age, after all. In Kansas the practice seems to be to ask the age. But in Rhode Island, the ques- tion takes this form When were you born?' Now if the date of birth is set down, the age can be quickly cal culated by anybody that chooses to do the trifling sum in subtraction How can sensitive voters get around that? And how do the registration officers in Kansas ascertain that voter is at least twenty-one unless the year of birth is divulgad? fDo they take the voters word fur it?
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
Sponging on the Doctor. (Chicago Tribune.)

The earnings of a large proportion of doctors in the United States are less than that of organized labor, as- serts Dr. Charles J. Whalen in the July issue of the Illinois Medical Journal. Competent authorities, he says, place the average annual income of physicians at $7OO a year In the struggle for bread, the writer further asserts, the. physician is often com pelled to throw medical ethics to the wind, for ethics and an empty stom- ach. or an unpaid rent bill do not go hand in hand.
 The writer does not indulge in idle speculation as to what the cause of the low income of physicians is. He has nothing to say about the subject of too many doctors-a subject which is debatab ble. Instead, he points out some of the abuses from which phy- sicians suffer. And all of the abuses can be summarized under the head of "sponging.' The physician is being sponged upon not alone by the patient who is careless about paying his doc tor bills, but also by the community, by the state.
 Thes trend of civilization, pr. Whalen thinks, is in the direction of making the healing of the sick a pub lie duty rather than a family affair. The work of the physician is more and more becoming a function of the state. It is here that the abuse of the doctor begins. It lies in the amount of charity work physicians are doing. Doctors, thousands of them in Chicago alone, are giving from two to four hours d day on two or three days of the week to free clinics, hospitals and dispensaries. They not only cure the city's poor sick, they educate the ignorant masses of the community in matters pertain ing to health, and thereby render in valuable services in the field of disease prevention. This medical altruism saves thousands of dollars to the continuity and untold misery to the poor, but it drives many doctors
New Britain herald., 1914-07-29
MME. CAIELAUX FREE.

he. Caillaux has been declared
 guilty of the murder of Gaston
 hette. editor of the Figaro in
 and so has ended the greatest
 of a murder trial that has ever
 known. The verdict sets a
 Ian free who walked into a pri-
 office and deliberately shot
 dead because of attacks on her
 and and because of a belief that kas going to publish some letters Eh would reflect on her honor. The
 said she was not guilty and the buncement of the verdict was re- ed with tears by the defendant, rs shouted murderess, the law
 engaged in fist fight and dur the melee the woman in the case ped through rear door, This been a fair sample of the con- that has marked the progress he trial from the beginning, and D result there has been talk of Is and Paris has been having a |ation that has pleased it's peo- There has never been another like it. One of the American ers published a cartoon calculated give an idea of the. character of proceedings. The court officer pictured as trying to quiet the |ult and was madesto say: "Order |e court or I will throw ze court great deal of extraneous matter introduced in the case and much made of statements that seemed have no bearing on the murder at
 It was freely predicted that the nan would not be convicted, not the fact that her crime a premeditated one and commit In cold blood. There have been [e peculiar verdicts rendered in
 own country, but none as farci- las that. The Frenchs people have n given to understand that it isn't . to seriously annoy women, for h acts may be followed with the Ing of human life Whichtthe French Tt is apt to look upon as justifi- 3.