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New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

Beacon lights of prophecy, by Albert
 cornelius Knudson
 An Interpretation of Amos, Hosea, lsalan, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Deu- tero Isaiah. Cuatious and sober in it's criticisms and yet accepts the essen .ials or the modern viewpoint. Help ful for the untrained student, for whom It is intended. "A. L. A. Book list.
 Bit Q, e, love, play, by John Gals care or the teeth, by c. A. Bracket. Eiectric traction and trans1nission en-
 gineering, by Samuel Sheldon and
 Erich Hausmann.
 Essay on the civilization of India,
 China and Japan. by G. L. Dick
 inson
 An acute analysis of the present temper of each of the three countries =
 sprinifleld Republican.
 
 Fear and conventionality, by Mrs.
 Elsie Worthington (Clews) Par
 sons
 Contains much information, re- garding the sources and significance of familiar habits and customs, which the author has gathered in her ex- tensive researches in apthropology The fundamental reason for all our conventions, she maintains, lies in fear--fear of change, of the unknown, of anything alien or of doubtful out come. LA. l.. A. Booklist. Icknield way, by Edward Thomas
 An account of ten days tramp over one of England's oldest highways through East Anglia and along the Chilterns to the Downs and Wessex. The author has an acute and culti-s vated mind and an attractive style" 
 Plant-breeding. by Liberty Hyde
 Bailey.
 "A revision of this standard work, rewritten and with new material add ed Though the book retains some thing of the point of view of the for mer editions, 1t diverges more than the others from the viewpoint of Dar- win because of the findings of new investigations. IA. l.. A. Booklist Practical book of outdoor rose grow
 ing for the home garden, by
 George Clifford Thomas A very useful book for rose grow CTS and those, starting new rose gar dens Contains full directions for planting and cultivation, pruning and winter protection, and also a long list of roses with their characteristics. Written in plain terms, easily under stood by the amateur."- L. A. Booklist.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
Don't Walk The Tracks
(Indianapolis News

| It is familiar plea which the I Pennsylvania railroad makes in re- 1 cent bulletin on the most needless waste of human life in America"
 The other day father and son were
 walking along one of the tracks lead ing into an Indiana city. The father stepped to one side as train ap- preached, but the boy did not. The
 fatality was classed as an accident" !"
 Fatalities to trespassers the Pehnsyl-
 vania's bulletin remarks, while class
 ed as railroad accidents are acci-
 dents for which the public alone is
 responsible. When you tres
 pass on a railroad you are breaking
 a law made for your own protection"
 The law of trespass should reasonably
 cover railroad rights-of-way But 1t is rarely enforced. The public a-foot feels less hesitation about entering a strip of strack property than it does about entering farm grounds The remoteness of railway authority is perhaps one explanation.
 "It is true" the bulletin continues that more people are killed every year trespassing on railroad tracks in the United States than the total num- Der who lost their lives in the Johns- town flood. the San Francisco, earth quake and fire, the Salem, Baltimore and Jacksonville fires and the sinking of the Titanic and Lusitania." Pos sibly an average of 5000 people meet death every year while trespassing on property. This is a condi- tion which could be corrected What is needed is, first of all, education and this the railroads have undertaken. Using newspapers as a medium they are trying to make it clear to all the people that privacy in railroad prop erty is not the result of autocracy, but Is requisite to public safety.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

American citizens may be inclined to be bitter against one side or another in that gigantic struggle, 1t would De well for all to glance back over the pages of history and note with what loyalty the Germans of old served the land of their adoption. The younger generations can find no better exem- pilncation of character. No matter rom what land we come, if we have taken out our naturalization papeis' we are now Americans and our loyal " must be directed inJthe interest of this country. When shoWdoWn comes, the most loyal of our citizens will be those who left behind them the dust of the Fatherland and sought a new life under the Stars and Stripes of America.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
A Rarc oner.
(New Haven Journal Courier.)

(New Haven Journal Courier) There are one or two considerations which should not be overlooked in the proposal of the Hon. John Jay Me- Dewitt, of Pennsylvania, to present to The city of New Haven, the statue of himself which his native city has failed to accept This is to say, full con- sideration should be given two phases Of his offer before it is politely de- sclined. F
 The offer of ten thousand dollars does not move us It Is munif1cent and all that sort of thing, but it is uninteresting. In dealing with man of Mr. McDevitt's dignity, the thought of dollars cannot be tolerated. If we move to accept the statue it will be n simple matter to raise money, if needed We are inclined to guarantee that ourselves, so great is our con- tempt for money. But when MT. Me-. Dewitt tells us, through Mayor Rice, that should the city accept his offer he will be present as the dedication of the statue and see that the event is properly carried out with glamor and eclat" we are prepared to open more serious negotiations We have had all sorts of celebrations in New Haven, but We recall none that could be distinctly said to have turned upon 10th glamor and elcat. We already have one memorial upon the Green, but we have never heard man, in his widest moment of ecstacy, associate it with glamor and eclat.
 A further pledge of MT. McDevitt's should not. be treated lightly He writes to Mayor Rice to this effect: II will come to your town on my venture in special train. and will at the time come seeking a wife. There fore, should it happen that I find my ideal, I will hang up my hat and settle in your midst So gracious pledge as this, though somewhat dis turbing, we should say, to the interior regions of the mayor, must be con- sidered as carefully as a note to 5elligerent nation. Snouid there be any doubt as to the future of the statue, having once been placed on the Green, it might safely be left to the discriminating students Of Yale Uni- versty A task like that would appeal to them with tremendous enthusiasm.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
X Sweeping Play.
(Ansonia SentineI.)

It is becoming more and more evil dent as the days pass that the Ger man campaign in Poland aims less at the capture of Warsaw, desirable as that city Is. than at the envelopment of the Russian armies and their final elimination from the campaign for the present year. This cannot be accom- plished by the capture of Warsaw alone. 1t means pursuit of the re- treating armies and breaking of the new line of defense selected by Grand Duke Nicholas along the river Bug
 It is for this purpose that the armies under the command of General Won Mackensen are pressing on toward Brest Livolsk, the Russian fortress guarding the southern flank of this line, while four other armies are fight ing their way to close in on the re- treating Russian armies before they can occupy the new line of defense. It is a stupendous task that was original
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
D. MCMILLAN, fes-2oI-aoa MAIN STREET.

. 4 ly undertaken and it is bit too early yet to predict its outcome But nowhere are the Germanic armfea being checked and it Ifs quite Within the possibilities that they will accom- plish at least part of the purpose and so weaken Russian strength in this campaign as to keep her on a weak defensive for the remainder of the year.
 This will enable the combined Ger man and Austrian armies, except at sufficient force to hold Russia In check to be hurled on the allies in the west and Italy and servia in the south. Than will come the real crisis of the war for. if the allied lines in the west hold against such an aug mented mass of foes, they can never be broken. H
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
"Fakcd, Passports.
(waterbury Demorat. )

Here is bit of testimony from the confession of Robert Rosenthai, the German spy recently arrested and brought to trial in England: II was doubtful about coming to England again, but Captain von Preiger said: If you have any fear about travelling on a passport under your own name can give you another passport He then opened safe in his office and took out bundle of American pass port blanks printed in the proper form on the correct parchment. He showed me forged dies with which the seal of the United States could be reproduced. I can fit you out, he said, with passport that will pass inspection.' If this statement is to be trusted, the alleged forging of passports by the German secret ser vice is fact and has assumed alarm ing proportions. There have been many rumors and some apparently authentic cases, of passport falsifica- tons for the furth erance of the aims of the German espionage system in
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
A TRIBUTE.

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 The glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was Rome, has now been translated, The glory that Is Germany and the grandeur that is America 'l by the principle speaker at the German Day. celebration in San Francisco. Dr.. c. J. Hexamcr at the Pam American Exposition, today paid a beautiful tribute to those citizens of the United States who are of German extraction. "
 There is no gainsaying the fact that our men and women who have forsak- en the Fatherland and taken up their residence in these United States are among the noblest in the land. Since the foundation of the Union the influ- fly felt. They have fought with us for, freedom, political freedom, and religious freedom, they have helped to plant inAour land the seed of edu- cation, culture and good citizenship. The character of these people is un- impeachable. They are of the stur- dy type the methodic pluggers, who, by dint of perseverance and will pow CT. accomplish what they set out to do without the flourish of trumpet or the sounding of cymbals.
 We have only to look to Pennsyl- vania to see what German influence means. Some of the greatest cities in our land have been built up by the Germans. They have brought with them the highest type of manhood Their Integrity is their one greatest asset. their powers of saving and homebuilding have set the way for others to follow.
 It has often been said that the best type of American children are the off spring from marriage of German and Irish people. Students have pointed out the complete balance obtained by such a union The German, steady, systematic, disciplined, saving and in clined to favor one locality with his endeavor; the Irish, impetuous, ner- vous, extravagant, and, in many cases, light-hearted and care free. rover of the land. When these two oppo- sites attract, as they often do. the re- suit is perfect blendingy a harmony that is wonderful.
 We join pr. Hexamer in his tribute to the people of our land in whose veins German blood flows. America has adopted them as it's citizens and they have proven themselves worthy. There are monuments in many cities of this country which stand in, silent grandeur and pay tribute to the work done by pioneer Germans who came to this country when there were but thirteen states in the Union. At this time when mems souls are being torn by what is going on abroad. and when
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
A Weakening Grip.
(Norwich Bulletin )

This war has done more to intensity and spread democratic ideas than anything that has happened in the history of the nations.
 The autocratic jealousies and sei- fish interests of the few have with in- adequate cause set 2s,o0o,ooo war; raors at each other, presenting to the of the world a tragedy so imense and horros SO shocking that the 500. 000- 900 people they represent have been awakened to thoughts of larger It. berty and less autocratic dominion.
 What end has been served by tho millions slain and rnained. and tho rendering of over 5O.0oo Belgian chlI- dren motherless and fatherless, the doubling of national debts and t.ae -i.- creasing of the burdens upon tho pco- pie for a century to come.
 All wars are cruel, but few wara are like this one. really indefcnsibie.
 This war, is not only changing tho map of Europe if is changing the thoughts of the people and is likely to change the character of future governments How common men as heroes are looming above Kings Men in all nations must get nearer togctl1- CT; they must everywhere stand more courageously for right and justice
 Tyranny is losing it's grip and democracy is coming to its own place.
 After this war there will be hew and better era--humanity is likely to find itself in a new world worthy of if
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come 70 Herald off1Cn,
What History Has Taught.
(San Francisco Chronicle. )

kSdn fTanclScO CnTOulcle.D Judicial calm was not to be expect
 ed of the colonel when addressing
 nimself to the subject of war. On
 sucn topic it is the soldier who
 speaks and it is natural that he should empioy the belligerent eloquence of tne recruiting officer. Believing that tnere IS national danger in our be- Ing less prepared than the strongest possible foe, he is compelled to ap- peai as much to the emotions as to
 the intellect of the hearers, and if passion was more conspicuous than ioeic in his oration the defect was m the cause rather than in the ad- vocate.
 whatever else history may have taught the speaker it has not taught him the simple lesson that every war IS confession of the failure of the superstition that military preparation makes for peace The nations of the earth have been trying out that the- ory for many thousands of years and today the world is witnessing the pioodiest of all strife among powers better prepared than were ever the peoples of any previous period.
 If all that makes America the mag net of the enterprising spirits of the world, her social, political and civic liberties, her freedom, political op- pressive war debts and debts for war preparation. her absence of compul- sorry military service, her greater wealth poducing due to having so many men in factories and so few soldiers in uniforms, if all these things are to be sacrificed on the altar of European militarism, then let it be done honestly as part of world power policy and not under the hypo- critical pretense of merely preparing in order to promote peace.
 ', 1t is with nations as it is with individuals, the weapons of defense become to readily the weapons of of- fense. There is a~deadly parallel be- tween the ready revolver in the pock- ct of the citizen and the ready army and navy under the control of the na- tional leaders.
 America is the land of the ready revolver and accordingly it is the land with the highest percentage of horni- cides.' Citizens of Europe, when not on military duty do not carry weap- ons to the same extent as in this country, and individual life is conse- quently safer.
 Europe is the land of the ready army and navy and accordingly 1t is the land where history is written in blood. America has not such armies and navies and it lives in comparn- tive peace. Our history Is written more in new political and social in- stitutions more in commercial manu-. featuring and financial progress than in warfare.
 The ready revolver means retail bloodshed, the ready army means bloodshed on the wholesale or Euro pean plan.
 America is rich enough to have the best army and if we had them 1t would not be the same America. It would not be the sweet land of lib- erty, but the land of compulsory mili- tary service and of a load of debt pro- portionately and absolutely the heavi- est in the world.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

Principles of judicial proof as giver by logic, psychology and genera experience and illustrated in ju- dicial trials, compiled by J. H
 Wigmore." Valencia and Murcia, glance al
 African Spain, by A. F Calvert. Full of interesting bits of history IN. Y. Times.
 How genuinely illustrative the pic. lures and how really descriptive the text. Outlook. Who built the Panama Canal? by w
 l.. Pepperman.
 "Another book on the canal but from quite new angle. Written by one we'll informed, the chief of office of administration of the Second Isth- mians Commission, and, or course. partisan. "A. L. A. Booklist. Wild bird guests, by E. H. Baynes.
 Fiction. Mountain blood, by Joseph Herges-
 heimer.
 "A remarkable book, too great to be a best seller, too true to be popular" Living Age.
 Shorty McCabe on the job. by sewell
 Ford
 Several stories about shorty's ex- periences as an administrator of strange bequests Slangy repartee and wholesome philosophy are the dfetinc- tive traits of shorty's monologs"
  p,-aA
 "A war novel. The heroine is an American art student in Paris
 "A very tender, wise and beautifully written story. Dial. Tanning of zenas Henry, by s. W. Bas-
 sett
 A Cape Cod story
 Tt is like breathing the breath of the open sea to read this wholly de- lightful story.'-Boston Transcript. The book is treat-breezy and humorous with the kindness that laughs with but never at, folk."--In- dependent
 Tess Harcourt, by Rosamond Napier "A musical novel for which the hibelungen ring serves -as back ground. The authors style is good and the dialogue crisp and vivid."--N. Y. Times.
 They who question. Anonymous. How to account for the presence of evil in the world is the question the book tries to answer. It is a superb and relentless story. Boston Tran script.
 Tt is the work of a seasoned mind and a practiced ."-Review of Reviews.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

hostile countries, and even attaches of the German embassy at Washing ton have been involved in the charges But there has been nothing so definite as this. For the sake of -Germany's honor and the ebbing friendship of the two countries, 1t is to be hoped that such accusations may be disaproved. It is a serious thing to forge passports, especially when their use compromises the good faith of neutral nation and places under suspicion all genuine pass ports carried by it's own citizens.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

midnight tonight. That he was guilty of a free part in the terrible crime is no longer questioned. Although the evidence was mainly circumstantial and Montvid strove hard to have his partner in crime, Peter Krakas, shoul- der the full responsibility and thus
 save his own neck, 1t was apparent to
 all familiar with the details of tne
 crime that it was imp possible for one
 man to have successfully perpetrateo
 the double murder and escape. faeh- ser zebris and his housekeeper, MISS
 Eva Gilmanaitis, we're strong anu
 able bodied and had they had a
 chance were capable of sturdily dc-
 lending their lives. That they did ie-
 sist and were pverpowered after q violent struggle was apparent When
 their bodies were discovered the iol-
 lowing morning.
 As will be recalled, the crime
 proved baffling and for a month tire
 police and state authorities dispairod
 of its solution; but in the end the
 criminals by further excesses, as is
 commonly the case exposed them selves to arrest and conviction. They turned up in Wilmington, Delaware, whither they had gone to dispose of watches and other stolen articles, and the police of that city arrested both after chase which resulted in the killing of one policeman and ' the wounding of several others. Krakas. the more desperate of the pair, was convicted and hanged in the New castle county workhouse for the ] murder of offlcer Tierney and Mont vid was extrndited for the double murder in this city. Before his exe- 1 cution, Krakas confessed to many 1 crimes, but refused to divulge much concerning the murder of the priest, and his housekeeper. He apparently strove to save his younger accom- plice Montvid also sought to save l ais neck by thrusting the blame p.l | Krakas. He pointed to his youth. tae | fact that he was victim of bad cons oanions and the use of morphine ts prove that lie had been led astray md forced into crime for an occupa~ ion His appearances was somewhat | n his favor and those who saw him Afterwards in court would never haves egarded him as desperate criminal lnder other circumstances. But from whatever cause criminal he was and onvicted murderer he is. The penal y the. state claims is severe and must e exacted. Montvid must meet cath by the hangman and most pso- lie will feel that in this instance at east the law will do but justice.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

ontvid, convicted as arl D the double murder at of St. Andrews Lithuan- n this city last February, late on the automatic gall etlaersfield shortly after
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
ITAIN AND GERMANY.

e United States. rights helt rnational law. propert. Treaty. rights. In explaining sach of these powers ha. to Justify itself by drag. ttries perpetrated agaiasl rights by it's enemy. Ir we they undertaken te pther the buffer. Explana-
 sort are not satisfactory ed States. Germany has
 told this. The same be taken with Great Brit s now to thrash out these affairs and readjust tile CT of things. There must rtiality in dealing with in or Germany. Tn the from Great Britain, made krday. Sir Edward Grey o our own civil war and es and court decisions k United States. He also 6 moth-eaten argument .ay has done as much. if han Great Britain in in neutral rights,
 aiready told Germany that Britain does is a matter
 country and Great Brit ame thing is true in the nany's enemy. The mere oth of these nations Se-
 arguments only goes [, otn are guilty of fragrant
 our rights. They con- Ives. Ihe attempt to jus ln the ground that it was in retnMation of an act enemy is in Itself conn ce that the act is illegal. ainst Germany is conn ase against Great Britain pnap pIete. There is, how e instances, a great dit. ne crimes. Tn several nle of wilful murder en- 6 argument. There is Similarity between de- l Ps laden with contraband. ng innocent men, women defends her submarine 1 offering the excuse thar ecessary because of cons sed by modern warfare. to adjust itself to a rev war game, certain prin> Functional law, former d by all nations, must
 We contend that the e is the case, wh henevsr are intrenches on inalien- modern warfare must De meet the demands of ain now comes with prac- Rme argument in defend- tant seizure of our ships innocent cargo, to nett
 Her blockade of Ger hing more nor less than a n of the old form, we Ire ef to meet the peculiar rising from present day war From their very hree notes of Great Brit Bt such an answer as was aany.
 our neutrality we must severely with Great Brit ! have with Germany. We ed with either of them, rested in their quarrel extent of protecting our en either of them sees these rights they. must to task. It must be ad-- the three notes from n have made a n1asterly place the burden of proof
 
 lders of Uncle Sam, 1na all the legal powers of State Lansing combined erary skill of President ow England where she IS
 England is wrong, just E wrong It is compara- b prove the right. Truth n. and eventually both Ia Great Britain will be heir senses, and zee the f ways. rFxrvr 8A
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
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New Britain herald., 1915-08-05

This being president is no cincl. They are shooting them freely in Haiti, and when one escapes from Mexico he is not allowed to go back, and if he were there is no telling what might happen. In either case it is a good deal better to be right--and alive
 than be president. Rochester Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-05
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