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New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Tho Russian Ballet.
(New York Sum-


 Now that the men whose gener- osity makes possible the perornfances at the Metropolitan Opera house have decided to bring Russian ballet to this country, they will put within the reach of New York lovers of the theater's art a pleasure which has already been enjoyed by the capitals of Europe. Doubtless this famous troupe will be able to come to this country next year owing to conditions which will prevent it from appearing in the European cities.
 New York has in reality seen little of the genuine Russian ballet. Anna Pavlowa and Mikai Mordkin have danced here along with some other pupils of the ballet school at the Marien theater. But of Russian bal let in the sense that word has come to be understood abroad there has been scarcely trace here. The de- signs of Bakst and his associates the choreographics of Foline and the rest of the school are as much part of the modern Russian ballet move mcnt as the dancing of the principals. l Quite as inseparable from the ballet I as Waslaw Najinski or Thamara karsavina are the designs of the i artists brought into existence by the new movement in the art of the bal 1 let and the musicians who have com l posed the music of newer pallets. So it will be an unmitigated ar- i tistic delight to see the Russian bal l lets performed by the famous dan 1 cers as well as by a competent com pany of trained secondary perform CTS. It cannot be said that the bal 1 let has as yet had a fair chance in 1 this country. There have been one 1 or two brilliant principals, but the l background has never been adequate. | Now every feature of a fine and q l finished ballet is promised.
 Although Najinski is the most fa- | nous man dancer of the day and l karsavina a noted character dancer, there ought to be a place in this l troupe for one who is really the most l famous ballerina of her time. This l is Anna Pavlowa. Of her unique eminence there is no question. She ] is the foremost dancer of her day and in her the art of the ballet in l Russia and for that matter in the l world today has reached it's flower.
 It is she who has on her own re- sponsibility brought the ballet to this country for several years past. Be- 1 hind her efforts to introduce the Rus sian ballet here there stood no sub
 scribers or directors to come to her
 assistance. Naturally the Russian | ballet has not been revealed in this
 way in it's best estate; but there has always been the incomparable art of
 Anna Pavlowa to give distinction to 1 all it's manifesto tions.
 It seems inevitable, therefore, that
 the foremost dancer of Russia should | be. member of any organization | that comes here to represent the art T of it's ballet.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Congressional Badges.
(Toledo (O.) Blade.)


 The police stayed up at night in Maryland community to raid pool room. They gathered in sports Of varying kinds and degree, among certain whisperers who claimed i'm munity upon the ground that they were members of congress. Con- gressman Cary of Wisconsin is con- vinced these visitors were fakers They were impersonating gentlemen too law abiding and too fond of their beds to enter bedrooms. The inci- dent has moved him to introduce a bill calling for the issue of badges. such as those worn by secret-society members, identifying congressman and preventing any such posing or impersonation of them as occurred in the neiEhboring Maryland village
 The idea Is not without merit. Tho badges ought to do more than save congressman from islander and unde- served criticism, Ii is matter well known in lodge circles that harum- scarum young mon have mended their ways and noticeably improved after a badge has been stuck into their lapels. The buttons have given them something to live up to. They havo been sobered and developed into responsible-min citizens. Why should not g conEressional badge do as much for representative or senator?
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

excess ofs$145,50O,OO ,OO0 on the export side, exceeding that shown by any previous month in the countrys his- tory. This, remarks the New York Evening Mail, is the index of the new Prosperity offered to this nation by events beyond it's own control. The sa me paper goes on to say that the foreign demand for our goods is in creasing at a rate which should so stimulate our industries as to enable the nation to throw off quickly the burden of unemployment under which it has been bent
 which the main currents of our for eign trade were reversed, foreign ex- change swung from the highest to the lowest levels ever recorded Thus last August, as the New York Commercial reminds us, it cost seven dollars to re- init pound sterling from New York to London, although the normal value of a pound is s4.S6 5-S. A few weeks ago the exchange value of the pound sterling touched the low record of $4.79. The same condition, differing only in degree, is reflected in exchange rates in Germany France and Italy. As the Boston News Bureau remarks, the problem that was ours in August is Europe's in February, the main diff hair, hot Nyof then, though acute, was bound to be brief, while Europe's is problematical- ly indefinite.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Senator Burton Quits.
(New York Sun.)

Senator Burton of Ohio quits con- gross in the full stature of a states man. He had the intelligence and the persistence to inform himself on the subjects on which he gave counsel When he indulgcd in gcneralities, he was ready and able to support them with specifications. His flibusters have been based on reason and know ledge. His partisanship has not been Of the merely annoying variety. He Lad the courage that man needs who carries ideals of economy, effi- ciency and business administration unimpaircd from stump to legisla- ture, and he was as earnest for good government inside the capitol as out side its walls.
 In one congress, Senator Burton . saved, by his opposition to river and harbor bills, not less than s50,000,00g Of immediate, unnecessary, wasteful ana indefensible appropriations. What the contingent savings would amount to, nobody can pretend to say And these contributions to sane economy merely index Senator Bur ton's service. They do not measure it.
 A good and useful senator, ably. performing the essential labors of a senator: what a discouraging inci- dent of political life it is that he re- tires while so many of the windbars hold their seats.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Readiness of the ROOsevclts.
Louisville Courier-J ournal)

All of us know Colonel Roosevelt
 in America and nobody takes him
 very seriously. But to the European
 Una'cquainted with American con- ditions, he appears a leading Ameri- can, if not the leading American, and
 there are many Europeans who are not versed in American affairs.
 "I and my four sons,'' shouts
 Colonel Roosevelt, full of the idea
 that he resem bles the kaiser not mere
 lv because of his imperial bearing and
 his German extraction, but also be- cause he is ready to sacrifice a numer-
 ous progeny on the red altar of Mars.
 ''I and my four sons will gladly join.
 I very earnestly hope and pray that
 there will be no war; but the best way tc avoid war is to be prepared" and
 so forth, is simply bombastic self-ad- vertisement.
 The people of the United States are
 rot "hoping and praying but conf dent1y and calmly assuming that there will be no war. They have not asked Colonel Roosevelt for his service. ,, They don't want his four brave and
 stalwart sons, his megaphone and his vocabulary, or whatever influence he may have in heaven, to avert war which he seems to regard as lmml- ne mt, though possibly avoidable if the five, Roosevelts can awaken the coun- try to the awfulness of it's peril and beat up a following large enough to throw a scare, into the enemy. They would in a very large majority, be much obliged to all of the Roosevelts l if they would regard the country as 1 being at peace and in no great danger l of war and pursue their various pri- 1 vate activities in silence. a
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Dogs and Dogs.

There are dogs and dogs. Some
 persons love dogs and some dislike the
 animals There are worthless dogs
 and dogs of high degree which win
 prizes at bench shows and command
 fancy prices. It is not uncommon to
 hear of S5,OOO or S10.000 being paid
 for dogs of notable pedigree. And
 speaking of dogs. the Office Window
 Of the New York Mail indulges in
 some reflections; There is said to be
 a new ordinance providing that dogs
 shall not enter butchers bakers,
 delicatessen and bakeshops, but evil
 dently the dogs on the upper West
 Side, and particularly on Amsterdam
 avenue, have not heard of the ordl-
 nance vet, for they continue to visit
 the delicatessen shops assiduously and
 cheerfully The idea, probably, in
 attempting an ordinance like this is
 to keep the dogs away from the food
 of humans, but in some sections there
 is rather more food, spread out in racks and boxes, on the sidewalks than there is in the stores and shops.
 The next thing, doubtless, will be an ordinance forbidding dogs from ap-
 bearing on the sidewalk. When that day comes the owner of the dog will nave JO lCeau l1lS IiluZHlcu by leash in the middl eof the road, o1 else keep the poor animal indoors all day an dall night, as many cats are kept now It will soon be up to 1 the dog lover to abandon the city ] altogether and live in country place. The Office Window man has known of l several cases where people have
 moved from houses which otherwise l they liked perfectly we'll, in order to l be in better place for their dogs. l This looks ridiculous to people who i do not like dogs, but it may be a very l sensible proceeding, since the better ] a place is for q good dog, the better 1 1t is, generally speaking, for human 1 things. If you're living in a flat, in 1 8, crowded section, and you move tc /! the country, or at least to a city pla ce l with a yard. on account of your dog 1 you will probably never regret it."
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Two Veterans Met.

Semi-centennial anniversaries of the great events of the Civil war have been numerous for the last year or two and more are at hand including those of Lincoln's second inaugural address, the surrender of Lee and
 saddest of all, assa ssination of the great emancipator. All these can be observed without sectional feelinE or the least bitterness of spirit. By way of illustrating the new and better un- derstanding that has followed ;he bloody strife of fifty years ago the Of flee Window man of the New York Mail relates that in the year 1913, .)n the occasion of the celebration of the semi-centennial of Gettysburg he met on the field of that great battle man who interested him greatly. The Office Window man, wandering alone at sun set along the top of Cemetery Hill, where the solid lines of Hancock held back the advancing hosts of Pickett
 fell into conversation with a tall man. evidently a southerner, who had come up and was gazing down into the plac- i'd valley. There was talk of the battle: and the Office Window man told how his two brothers had stood up there with the Vermonters fifty years be- fore. Yes" said the Southerner, "I am Virginian, and my older brothers sell here on the other side. And now 1t is long gone and past, and it is just glorious history; and you and I sit here in peace and friendship, and look down in content on this rich and hap py valley, where war will never come again. The two men walked away together, and met others-some Union veterans who were viewing the scene
 The Virginan talked freely, grandly. with them all. The Yankee veterans touched their caps and seemed to feel a kind of spell as the tall South erner spoke so sweetly and gently
 When he walked away he left an air
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
Baseball Prospects.
(New York Press. )

The first robin may coyly delay his annual appearance and the ther- mometer may display it's usual March Nagaries, but when the old familiar rounding into form comes up from the big league training camps in the south there can no longer be any doubt about it-spring, although frozen stiff, is here.
 With relief the bored newspaper reader turns from the recital of epoch-making events in Europe and from crime and pickering here at home of the friendly reaches of the sporting page, where base hits are ringing and pitchers good arms are slowly limbering for action. No worry here! Sunshine and warm earth and the thud of swiftly moving feet-the baseball-hungry reader can almost conjure the scene before him as he huddles up to the radiator.
 Already there seems to be a re- vival of interest this year in base ball. The good old games had a rocky time of it last year, with the foreign war and it's own internal dissensions. Tn the off season there has been hardly a let up in baseball wrangling; but even this may prove to be good thing, since it may in- duce reaction toward baseball playing rather than baseball politics and sharpen the appetite of the fans to see a real game again.
 May it be so, With so many gloomy things to think about, let us all hope that one never failing dis traction will redouble it's attraction for us this summer.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

One need not go to Utah to find polygamy practised on an extensive scale Here in the East the devotees of plural marriage are only too num- e.ous. New York was deeply inter- eSted in the disclosures of the double menage of one of it's prominent bar 1isters little while ago. Connecticut now learns that a prominent New Ha- ven manufacturer who figures in the circumstance connected with the sui eide of a young woman has been lead ing a double life, assuming one name in New York and another in New Haven and acquiring a wife and family under each cog nomen. Ministers in the pulpit are pleading for easier divorce laws, while in frequent cases of public note, mar riages, divorces and re-marriages have been so frequent as to amount to poly gan1y in fact, though not in name.- Bridgeport Telegram. f t...
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

The city of Bridgeport, knowing that under the new law regulating the sale of drugs, especially cocaine and other forms of Ding the victims of the drug habit cannot get their SUD- plies, has made arrangements to pro- vide free medical treatment for them at Lakeview home, the city alms- house.-Hartfdrd Post.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
D. MCMILLAN
 189-201 -2O3 Main Street 34

of grandeur behind him. And yet he was just plain Virginia business man, of whom not one of us had ever. heard before. When he was quite gone, one felt that they are still pro- ducing great men in Virginia, though not all of them are famous
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
FACTS AND RANCHES,

Moreover, we learn that the girls of Europe cannot have their regular sup ply of bonbons now that the candy eN- ports from the United States have been cut down. We reiterate the ques tion: Where is the romance in the modern game of war ?-New Haven Journal-Courrier
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

Presentation by Warden Osborne of Sing Sing of an appeal by three pris- orers, now executed, for the abolition of the death penalty, is in itself hardly a convincing argument. Few men who face the chair think capital pun- ishment is anything but "a stain of sin upon the state" as the warden calls it.-Waterbury American
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
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 1npaign next Eeetfng in Chi
 lcinnati and gday they had
 ork at which .retary Rev ness men were result of the ecret, although he close that b business re- h is installed in t makes a de- Frs and if the y depends up-
 event it will f another year congress that anything.
 folly to be pry because in ltry will proba- high tariff law lad up to the Ill was passed.
 much opposed ats. It was on ms had their which the pro-
 it's birth. The 1ich nominated nply an out that had it's tion over the Roosevelt been Taft by the Eers would un- "a for a modi- ties, so that
 believe that 1nand made by ter high tariff a business re- scheduled by may not be so bare a tariff re can be any etain ed. The will have an
 usefulness if fexhe national
 year and if.
 time the out Wilson will be
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06
: AMERICAN

lollar at a pre-
 exchanges and
 howing an un-
 the side of the
 observers, says
 re congratulat-
 the financial
 b it by seven
 nrfare. A few,
 heads appre-
 ascendency is Bs of uncertain lied by an ex- brtain branches her than by an commerce as a
 they fear, to Rn securities by bring these mis- ht, the Digest rald declaring een waiting for pry for one side e, a great vic won in Amer t1rows back the Industrial and Tn other words, has so success Lorn that we
 time at least,
 debtor nation.
 the world, re- Westward course fyen a tremen- ection within a Ee New York
 for Americans alicies of trade At this financia } great war has were heavily ir be whole worlC n. This change btor to that o1 of an abnorma modities on the ring nations. St hat. to quote th' our departmen six months sine thly trade bal m an excess 0 nport side to al
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

For the first time since the Civil war not ship will leave an American port for England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales for an entire week, the req son being that strike is in progress at English ports and besides some of the big liners are being used for trans ports and auxiliary cruisers by the countries at war with each other. ever since the sinking of the Titanic, but it had begun to recover somewhat from that disaster when the war came on, while now it is hardly safe for a person to go to Europe at all owing to the dangers of sea travel Those who were there last year when the war broke out had such a thrill ling experience in coming back t4lat they will not want to go back for some time. Now another big liner is reported as being on fire at sea, which will add to the terrors of the ocean and will furnish a new reason for people lodging trip to Europe for another spell even if war was at an end
 Several countries will lose consid- erable from the loss of American tourists this year even should the war cease. There are large number of
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

The employees of the local post office are very much interested in a. bill now before congress, it having boen introduced almost two years a go
 which provides for pension for those who serve in the classified ser vice for from twenty to thirty years. those serving the latter number of
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

The city hall commission has held up the offer of some land space on Washington Place to the board of public works because it has been sug- gested that the property may yet be used for a site for police station. This matter has been agitated before and the almost general sentiment Ut the time was that the location was un- favorable. The chief complaint of the present location, aside from the made quacy of the property, is that 1t IS too noisy, it being necessary sometimes es to halt proceedings in the court room while a train was passing or there was some other disturbance on the street. Washington Place would be even worse because it is closer to the railroad, but even were this objection eliminated the place would be unsuit- able for the reason that there is no proper approach to it, taking prison CTS into it or out of it would be too public and the office would have to be in the rear which would not be just the place to locate the office of one of the principal departmenes of the city. The office of the depart ment should open on to a street, a side street if possible, but sufficient ly central so that calls could be an- swered from all sections as promptly as possible. When the police head quarters are removed it ought to be to place where there can be every accommodation for the departm ent in- cludlng a morgue to which dead bod les can be taken until claimed by friends. The court feature of the de- partment should be provided for in a quiet place and this is especially desir- able now that it is proposed to estab- fish city court which will cause the room to be more generally occupied
 There may be Some people who can recall when court was held on some street other than Commercial street but 1t must have been many years ago. The noise has always been an objec- ton and if a new location is to be made it certainly should be free from the troubles so long complained of. The present headquarters are made quate, the fire department needs more room and the only way to provide it on Comercial street is to take it from the police and they have none to spare. As a matter of fact they have not enough for themselves.
New Britain herald., 1915-03-06

so would some other departments.
 Money has been the stumbling block Tn the way of many improvements.
 Now that Governor Holcomb is showing an inclination to transfer some of the state expense back to the towns why would it not be a good plan to turn over some of the revenue? Why would it not be a good idea to allow the towns and cities for instance to retain all the money received from liquor licenses instead of ninety per cent. as att present There is ten per cent. of it which goes to the county which might just as we'll go to the communities where the li- censes are issued. The amount is not very large, but if there is a de- sire to relieve the state of certain ex- pense and place it on the towns then in all fairness the revenue ought to go with it. There hasn't been much said about this matter of late, but the legislature may take it up any time and make law out of it before the cities have had time to think it over. Should such a thing happen the cry would go up that an advantage had been taken of them and that the state had acted unfairly about it. The question ought to be discussed so that the people would understand just what was wanted and what the state pro- posed to do. It is we'll known that the disposition is to reduce the state expenses, but If they are saddled on the towns and cities there will be no saving to the individual. The uues- tion of taxation has become such a burden in every community that it Is becoming quite problem. New Britain is not overburdened with tax ation, but it can be made heavier and will be if some of the plans of the state are carried out. If they are carried out the city ought to have whatever revenue should go with the change. The estimated expense of running this city for the coming fiscal year is very large, but there is no likelihood that all that has been asked
 for will be allowed; it never has been, and so far as known the board of finance and taxation has not exper-
 fenced any change of heart. The
 board is at work on the job now; it will probably finish up in another week and it has not given any indi-
 cation that it proposes to depart from
 the old custom of cutting off every dOllar that IS HOl dDSOluIely neCeS- sary. There is no other way to do because if it was not done the ap-
 propriations would be very large and the tax rate would also show an in crease. This does not mean that the departments are eXtraNagant. They
 want to have certain work done and if there was only one department to be provided for the request could be granted, but where all departments are seeking increases it needs no partic- ular sagacity to see that all cannot be accomm odated and that the only safe course to pursue is to cut to the last dollar This is being done and the l question of revenue is also given the 1 same serious consideration because it 1 counts just as advantageously as does the pruning of the expenses.