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New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
REFORMATION.

Fifty years ago today New Brit ain was happy and so was every northern city and state, General Lee having surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox court house in Vir- ginia, and the great war which hd been in progress since the middle of 1861 came to an end. It had been known for some time previous that the Confederate cause was beaten, that the prolonging of hostilities would simply mean further loss of life, and when Grant wrote Lee to that effect the latter inquired upon what terms he could surrender. That was the beginning of the end, and the great southern commander was treated to no more humiliation than the occasion absolutely required The men in both armies were glad when they got word that they were to be allowed to return to their homes to resume their duties as citizens in times of peace. There were a large number, however, of those who enlist ed who never came back, and their re- mains rest in various places, having been gathered up on battlefields as unknown, and in Arlington cemetery
 just outside of Washington, there is a monument marking the resting place of several hundred soldiers. There are also hundreds of graves of other unknown dead there and there are probably many more in other cemeteries In the north and south.
 The implements of warfare were not as destructible then as they are now, but thousands upon thousands of men were killed in battle in the Civil war, and New Britain contrib uted it's share. The anniversary of the surrender at .Appomattox reminds us all that there is no north or no south at present, that question hav- ing been settled long ago never again to come up in America. That is the great reason for happiness and re- minds us that we should never forget the men who made this possible and who gave up their lives that the rest of us should enjoy good government in an undivided country.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

glected the best efforts of, the whole human race !n "swatting" are about as potent as an attempt to sweep back the rising tide with broom. The general cleaning-up should begin early in thespring, before the first flies of the season have chance to establish their multiplying families.
 Surgeon General Blue of the United States Public Health Service de- oIares that the fly is responsible for an annual expenditure of fifty million dollars for the handling of tubercu- icsis cases attributable to that source of germ spreading. and that seventy million dollars more may be set down ass the annual cost of typhoid fever cases originating in the same way. Altogether. the annual cost of sup porting the fly population of the United States. according to the esti- mate of the public health service, amounts to not less than one hundred and ffty-seNen million dollars to say nothing of the great loss in human lives On this authority there can be no doubt that tho fly is a very real and tremendously potent enemy Of society.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
{ The Shame Of Terrc Haute. (Suringfield Republican,

Tie conviction at Terre Haute, Ind, of Mayor Donn NJ. Roberts and twenty-slX other defendants exhibits gang rule at it's worst, but it also shows that in all such cases there comes n day of reckoning. Thcso democratic offenders have been brought to book in q federal court under the federal statutes by District Attorney Daley, who is a democrat. There has been no such revelation of barcfaced and wholesale political crookedness since the famous expo sures in Adams county in Ohio. The wondeS in such cases is the lack of local Courage which permits condi- tions like these to continue And fcster. No doubt good citizens in Tcrre Haute were so busy Saving the country" that they failed to find time to at tend to their own backyard. Eternal watchfulness is the price of good gov ernment, and it begins at home.
 How many more such gangs are being permitted to control the des- tinies of municipalities of seeming good repute? Not many, it is to be believed. by comparison with other days when the people were less alert in the protection of the purity of their government. The open man ner in which the ring in the Indiana city did its shameless work and. in
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
War Shutters Grammar. (London Globe.)


 Language, like almost everything else Is unable to escape from being conditioned and modified by war. Half our best metaphors are taken from war as 1t used to be, and we still talk of nations taking the sword" though that Is just what they never do, when moving the howitzer'' would be vastly more appropriate. Modern ar tillery has forced us to make verb out of noun and to permit our gunners to "shell'' a place in defiance of all conceivable rules of grammar. We have forced offensive" and ob- jective" to do duty as nouns in spite of the fact that they are plain and indubitable adjectives, and We freely Lombard" though 1t would be quite as reasonable for a pillow fighter to say he ''pillowed."
 Perhaps the most curious thing in have been driven back upon the old verb "f1ee." Before the era of the Zep- pelin and the aeroplane we should certainly have said "the German fleet flies before the British" now we say 1t "flees," because flying, seems to conote motion above 'the surface of the earth. There are a hundred sub tie differences of this sort to which war has impelled us. and from which the most pedantic purist is totally un- able to escape.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

occupation. Undoubtedly any test of lie success of themselves and others would prove that they had fared bet ter ,han their rivals who had used foreign material.
 So from the fact that their foreign supplies are cut off need not disturb the American impgessarios. There arc authors in this country capable of supplying the thcu.crs with material better suited to the taste of the people than any other land could possibly produce. Tt Pays to Advertise" has probably made more money than any farce that has come out of the Palals l oval in years.
 It will thus be an advantage to American managers to be compelled to produce plays dealing with our life and written by our dramatists.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
Homo Made Drama.
(New York Press )

In the list of articles which must next year h" of necessity American made" there is none more inevitably destined to be native in origin than our drama. An American manager accustomed to indulge in the cffete habit of importing most of his plays from France recently read twcntN-two from the men who are just now com ing into notice as among the first of the native play writers. NOnly two of these plays were available. The writers from whom promising work might have been expected arc at the front.
 The situation in England and Ger many is the same. There are to he no new dramas from those usual sources of supply. American play NriGhts will now have the field almost exclusively to themselves. Wise man aEerS have for some years past made the production of plays American in theme and authorship their principal
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

there is some criticism of the political
 leaders who allowed the measure to pass. The question is now up to the governor. The tendency has been to shorten the hours of labor of wom- en and children and to prevent the employment of children altogether Wherever it can be done An effort was made to kill this bill in New york and the comment reads today as if some of the votes cast in it's favor were due as much to opposition to being dictated to as to anything else, while in some other cases sen- ators said that they would resign sooner than vote for such a measure.
 The matter of child labor in the canneries was investigated in New York a few years ago, when it was found that in some of the places peo- pie worked over ninety hours a week, and in some others they worked over a hundred hours a week. That isn't giving the children a fair opportun- AtSb IlS1I llLlI6 DOul6S dTc HUI SANOA d chance to properly develop and they are also denied all the pleasures that belong to childhood, making them old before, their time and not infrequently shortening their lives. There have been some manufacturers, who, of their own accord have decided not to employ children under a. certain re because of belief that 1t should not be done as matter of protection to the little ones and also because of the fact that it is not profitable, older people doing more work and doing it better, and though they are paid higher wages they make up for it both in the quantity and quality of the labor they perform.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
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Springtime and Flies.
(ProNidence Journal.D


 The most astute of the Scriptural interpreters of moral and physical law told his people that there is "a tome for every purpose under the hcaven," and we are reminded that in spite of belated blizzard the time far ''swatting the Ily'' is nearly at hand. The importance of an carly beginning of this bencficent activity is not gen eraHy recognized. The first flies to show signs of life are usually regarded with friendly interest as welcome symptoms of spring. They form the struggling vanguard of the subsequent midsummer pest, but they are so few in number that the full significance of their potential menace is commonly ignored.
 The time to fight flies arrives with the appearance of the first solitary individual of the tribe that cmerges from it's winter coma and laZilr stretches it's wings in the warm sun. As an individual it may seem of slight importance but when it is realized thrt the solitary April fly is the probable progenitor of many millions of August flies the matter has a different aspect. As a check on the fly population one swat" carly in the season may easily count for more than week of swat ting" in midsummer
 But more important hy far than tho "sWatting' is the need of clcanli- ness in houses, yards and streets and the elimination of the filth that affords cifectuai breeding places for the pest. If this phase of the matter is ne-
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
Justice For a Little Girl.
(New York World.)

Modern machinery for the official punishment of juvenile offenders has been perfected to such degree that a little girl is now in the custody of the New York children's court under the accusation of showing disrespect to her teachers. The awful indict- ment lodged against her Is that she, with others. had fallen into the bad habit of addressing these important personages in, public with slangy or too familiar salutations. Her re- marks were on the "Oh you!" order which for smartness seems to appeal as strongly to vulgar adult minds as to the ebullient fancy of youth.
 If we must have a children's court for the solemn consideration of such crimes as this, it is a fortunate thing that the presiding judge is both wise and humane. There is actually great CT need of d court for certain school principals who. unable to command respect, are more delinquent than the little girl whom they have arraisned
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

the language of the day. "got away with it." is cause for astonishment But there always comes day of reckoning. be the time long or short, and when that day approaches aad resolute effort is made to end the olI order of things, some of those who have shared in the transgrcssions get scared and seek cover from the storm. Men who commit crimes against de- cent government are towards when the pinch comes, and go it was in this Indiana instance. The leaders brazened it out, but their tools be- trayed them.
 It is not a reassurinE phase of this case that among the giity men arc to be found tho local mayor. who ns- pired to his party nomination fur gov ernor, the controller of tho city. tho sheriff of the county, the preaideat and n member Of the board Of public works, a city judge. street commis- sioner. and various minor officials Of city and county. Tagged at the end of this list of officials were gamblers and saloonkeepers. and thcso last were not mere supcrnumerarics in the criminal play. The triumph Of jus tiCc at Tcrrc Haute will everywhtr rs he welcomed. bug tho exhibit of rotten citizenship is disheBrtening. Thsa shame of a city will never be for gotten when Its name Is read or spoken. These are the days of pub- liclty, but the less VIC can have of that kind of advertising the better.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
Rural Life of Kentucky.
(Louisville Courier-Journal.)

There are, doubtless, exceptions to the rule, but as a rule the conditions of farm life in Kentucky have been for 100 years about as comfortable as the farmers degree of prosperity has permitted. This is due in no small measure to the fact that in Kentucky farming has always at tracted a class capable of appreciat- ing the comforts and conveniences of what city folk call "civilization.' . Much of the most attractive social life in Kentucky always has been country life. The greater part of it has owed it's existence to a social fabric made up of families dependent for income upon the productivity of the soil.
 The well-to-do Kentucky farmer has always been upon the average the social equal of the business or pro- fessional man in town. It follows that he has taken advantage of his opportunities to educate his children and to make his home as com fortable as his purse has allowed. His ideas always have been those of CHS plduJSt, dS l1lc Clbi SOliilAoilS was, of antebellum days who was, if not always famous business man, almost invariably an advocate, and of life, one of the implications of which is the proper housing and treatment of his wife and children.
 The familiar quotation of a Ken lucky farmer, real or fictional, who said that a gentleman should at any cost educate his daughter, his horses and his dogs, even if there should be left no money to spend on education of his sons, reflects by a trifling ex- aggeration, a view of life rather com monly held in rural Kentucky. In many instances this philosophy has been acted upon literally, at least, with regard to the horses, the boys and the girls--tne education of the dogs usually does not entail financial outlay-and it bespeaks a chivalric consideration and appreciation of women which is racy of the soil of the state. +'". .. ''
 Not every Kentucky farmer was a slave-owner, a rich man and an aristocrat before abolition, but few were slave-drivers, who believed that a woman's lot should be all drudgery and no leisure.
 The example of the well-ordered farm home-its women folk objects of first consideration, the rooftree a shelter for the representative social life of the state-always has been an inspiration. Upon few Kentucky farms have the cattle and the barn been put ahead of the residence and the family.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
'TYLE NEXT SUNDAY.

h disposition in the large N some of the small ones Raalke next Sunday the oc-
 saf-torial exhibition of #ch was denied at Easter The snow storm. It is said ggestion has come directly lie City where the fashion Hlnday suffered because of Ind yet there were thou bple on the board walk. It
 great exhibition of fine would have taken place Ather been what 1t is now @s hoped for on next Sun
 are others who say that 2on for next Sundays dis- Bed with the great mould #Dn in New York who, by
 Ike a living out of 1t and s the benefit of the adver-
 ch usually comes to them 1ume on every pleasant
 ay and every other day 8n dons its finest raiment # parade. s..- Y there would not be any #on given the Sunday after
 year than at any other
 not for the fact that glad ted for last Sundays show ept hung up and in their bss fashionable and per- lopworn gowns had to be
 retirement and forced to z l the weather cleared up ks were cleaned of snow E There is no objection to tanned for next Sunday,
 no good reason why any
 a new gown and a new
 hould not make her ap- her finery and enjoy a
 open where the crowd Is
 ad the comment the loud-
 rtorial exhibition of the
 q not be delayed any
 will require the ladies to
 ep out into the sunshine.
 th a high har should by bin in the parade. He
 be expected to hide his bushel when he has the
 the disposition to shine lblage.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
He Qualified.
(Tid-Isits.l

"Tommy Atkins" pleaded cNcmp- tion from church parade on the ground that he was nn agnostic. The sergeant major assumed an eNprcs- sion of innocent interest.
 Don't you believe in the Ten Com mandments?' he mildly asked the bold freethinker.
 Mot one. sir was the reply.
 What! Not the rule about keep- ing the Sabbath"
 No, sir"
 ''Ah, we'll, you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the ran teen."
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
OVER WHITE VEST.

of neutrality is not as hshington as 1t should be: 'ss inclination to resort lon for the settlement and it is being re- those who should be esort to physical force 5ng times as these, are in |rst to jump over the bars |tches today tell us that han John Wesley Gaines was in court at the na- D yesterday on the charge E a haberdasher with Ia a personal dispute over '. MT. Gaines is a man what fine clothes are when m, is also very careful .ng a. decision as to style, he Washington dealer in
 sought to question MT.
 pledge of fancy waistcoats
 a moment of forget e him with his hand, not lose of chastlsement Or to beriority over him, but to n that he should be care b manner of talking to a
 especially on a subject
 he is so we'll posted. It 8te question, but possibly \ Statesman was preparing D in the parade of fashion
 next Sunday on Pennsyl-
 and did not care to have raiment brought into dis ar the time when he was
 bear. MT. Gaines will de-
 against the accusation of sher and with true pro-
 ocratic spirit will insist
 by jury. The time it is I set for next week.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

Former Postmaster Frank A. flag arty developedl considerable partisan warmth in his speech at New Brit ain last evening, considering his eight years absence from the active field of politics. It must have been ter ribly wracking to the former post masters nerve system to have served for two years at a good salary under a president and democratic congress so wholly impotent, and misguided, as he portrayed them to the ward diners in Phil Bardecks hall, Arch street
 And his own city electing eight demo- crats out of a total of ten aldermen at one swoop!-Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
HOURS FOR WOMEN RD CHILDREN.


 York legislature has taken Jew of legislation pertain n and children than other s a result considerable i'll pen engendered by reason
 Ee of the bill which per- and children to work
 hours H week in can. presumably opens up the |permittinig them to work |ces as well. The bill has
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

farmers and others who depend upon the products of the soil arc being urged to raise in greater quantity Norwich, Bulletin
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

Bristol as the boy city of the state, so to speak, seems to be wearing mans clothes, to say the least from the fact that all electric wires under ground have been ordered. This should be a pointer to many older places permitting public service cor porations to do as they please and as long as they please.-Middletow Penny Press.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

Hartford has elected an alderma nic board with .a majority of democrats It is not to be wondered at in view of the attitude of the republican leg islature and the city's republican paper towards civil service. The elec- torate is not strong on technicalties, perhaps. but it is swift to judge inten> tions and always puts its best bet on the evidence at hand.-Waterbury Republican,
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The most pathetic figure in the world, almost, is the widow who bends over washtub and nuns popular song, II Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier. .'-Norwich Record.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09

All are not of the same mind at Hartford as to what should be done with the deer. The senate says let things continue as they are, protect the deer, let them multiply. do all the damage that they can to the crops, but do not take the life of one for what another might have done unless i: Is actually caught red handed. In the house an entirely different view of the amount of protection that should be given is taken. There it is felt that the deer are numerous enough and before there is a larger number there should be a smaller herd at liberty to feed upon and de-
New Britain herald., 1915-04-09
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Americus times-recorder., 1915-03-06
CHESTERFIELD TO GIVE
DINNER TO BRADLEY HOGG

Tonight at the club house on Col
lege street the Chesterfield club will
give a dinner party in honor of Brad
ley Hogg, one of the members, who
will be married on next Wednesday to
Miss Agnes Brown, of Hawkinsville.
In addition to the members of the
Chesterfield club, several out-of-tewa
friends of Mr.. Hogg have been invited
to be on hand and help make things
merry for the nigh-benedict.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-03-06
TOWNSVILLE FANS
READY FOR SEASON
(By Associated PIess.1

THOMASVILLE, Ga, March a.
Thomasville baseball fans have organ
lied for the coming Georgia State lea
que season. Yesterday a subscription
list was circulated and 1,5O0 in cash
raised to finance the team. A mama
ger is to be secured shortly and play
ers for the Hornet team rounded up.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-03-06
THE WORK OF MODERN
WOMEN.

At the exposition in one of the wings
of the beautiful California building, to
be known as the California Host
Building, the women of the state will
dispense the hospitality of California
There will be sustained the generous
hospitality for which the people have
been famous since the lavish pioneer
days. This building is almost entirely
the work of California women. Its
furnishings and decorations reflect i'm
every detail the genius, skill and ex-
quisite taste of the women who are
to be hostess to all tie world this year.
Florence Lundbory, a Calofirnia wo-
man who has made herself famous in
Europe as decorator, made all the
mural decorations. The hand-carved
mahogany furniture was done by Miss
Millward Holden, of San Francisco. A
gorgeous rug, designed especially for
the great reception room, was pre-
sented by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, hon.
orary president of the Woman's Board
and mother of william Randolph
Hearst The rooms of the building
will contain paintings and sculpture
by California women.
Americus times-recorder., 1915-03-06
Angler B. Duke.

Society in New York, Philadelphia
and Pittsburg was interested in the
die, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J..
Drexel Biddle, of Philadelphia, has
selected Wednesday, April %, as the
date of her wedding to Angler B.
Duke, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin N.
Duke, of New York.
The ceremony will be performed in
Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia,