New Britain herald., 1915-06-30

Agents of the Department of Jus
tice are reported, here and there, in
vestigating the high price of spelter.
Have they given up trying to find out
about the high cost of eating p
Providence Journal.
1t is not likely that many other
American colleges will feel painfully
jealous, even If the report sent out
from Cambridge that a Harvard SEN
Tor is the most beautiful man in the
world should be actual truth Bridge
port Standard
Not considering the question wheth-.
er Mr.. Bryan has sufficient knowledge
of political economy to instruct stu
dents, has the Indiana faculty which
offers him a chair with a large salary
given any thought to the difficulty of
keeping Mr.. Bryan in the lecture room
long enough to earn his salary New
York Sun
Just to prove that the submarine
can be made effective in British
hands as we'll as in German hands, it
is only necessary to cite the destruc-
tive record of the British submarine
crews operating in and about the
Dardanelles against Turkish supply
ships and transports.-Waterb Re-
publican.
The feeling is sometimes expressed.
when educated girls go to work, that
they take employment away from
men, SO that nothing is added to the
worlds work. Yet no man worth
anything loses by competition. IF he
loses his job as salesman or book
keeper, let him quit trying to earn
his living at. clean handed jobs. and
go out and dig in the fields If he
puts his brains as well as his muscle
into it, one more efficient food pro-
Queer is added to the world, as the
result of the woman's entering BUSH
ness life.-Norwich Record.
a correspondents writing of AUS.
TRAN fortifications on the ssouthernss
Tyrol front, says that the Austrians
s'laave blasted galleries in the interior
of the mountain SUBMITS. which end
In chambers for artillery" and that
infantry positions are similarly blast
ed into the face of the cliffs. The Of
fetal statement from Rome speaks of
the existence at several points of
strongly intrenched lines protected by
steel plates and sometimes concreted.'
Apparently it costs almost as much to
defend a city as it would cost to build
Hartford Courant.
Though the recent increasing ac-
tivity Of German submarines in Brit
ish waters must be disconcerting to
those who predicted an early collapse
of the pretended blockade, there are
certain circumstances from which
they may draw consolation. There
are from twelve to sixteen hundred
arrivals and sailings from ports of the
United Kingdom every week. and in
three months of the blockade so
called, the losses amounted to about
one-sixth of one per cent. The mani
fest failure of the threat against mer-
chantmen accounts for the assaults
which the unfortunate fishermen have
lately had to bear.-New York
Tribune.
The work of Jefferson, of Lincoln,
of Sumner and of all the glorious
brotherhood of great statesmen who
did not consider compilations when
judging men is unfinished. The old
argument that some classes must be
Kept under still survives. The negroes
who feel the bitter injustice of a sys-
tenn which denies to them an equal
chance to grow and who await with
exemplary patience the coming of the
day when. under the providence of
God, emancipation will be complete
are in many respects better Cauca-
slams than those who labor to restrict
liberty. The black man through hard
experience has been educated into
real belief in the Caucasian principle
Of equal chances for all the sons of
men.-New York Globe.
In the history of our governm ent
six secretaries Of state have after
ward been elected to the presidency
Thomas Jefferson. aJmes Madison,
James Monroe. John Quincy Adams,
Martin Van Buren and James Bucn-
anan. The position of head of the
cabinet has been held by John Marsh
all perhaps the greatest of American
judges; by Edward Everett, New
England's foremost scholar and ora
tor; by William E Evarts, conceded
leader at the bar; by joan Hay, poet
and literary genius, and by such DOM
1ndnI party lGduGTS as henry clay, 4
Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun,
Lewis Cass, William H. Seward,
James c. Elaine, Thomas F. Bayard
and Elihu Root. Robert Lansing,
lawyer and diplomatist, aged fifty
one, has been chosen by President
Wilson to be secretary of state. He
will not measure himself against Will
liam Jennings Bryan He will measure
himself against the giants of the
past. His poise, his skill his tenn
per have already been proven. But,