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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

DROP AROUND AND SEE AEE. Real Estate advertisements look alike. can offer the home OF other invest Ment you want. Prices. terms and vaAles right. McAvoy. Security Building. Tel 4980. B 13 eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

WALL PAPER Ss ana 10o the ron OatmealaS varnish tIlea. 10e1 Broad St B 20 stf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

O=sAGE-Furniture, erc.. sxperi- enced, careful men, clean, separate rooms. Telephone 1661. City Stor- age and Trucking Co.. 1895 Main St. c S1 eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

EVERYBODY INTERESTED In lib. eraI and scientific lectures invited 10 join new club now forming with that purpose. Moro than 50 par. cons interested. For particulars axs- dress Dr. J. B. Bluxae. P. o. Ar. eade. 81 P. Q. Arcade. 8 8 aasp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12
Hot Water Heating.

GIFT A BRIDGKPoRr wATEE heater for your kMchen Do1leP foE the forthcoming summer. VsRy convenient and money saver. Gun ninEham O Gohwerdtle. SsO Tafrnold Ave. U10 m$e
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12
Laundry
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WOOD AVENUE LAUNDRY makes a spscia1ty of wet washing. roug5 dried. Work called for and dslav" cred all par<B a9 Ehe c1tys IS k3sDE- haa Ave. TelephonS 193S-A
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

JEROME A6AY-I handle all ktnds oR musical merchandise. at al Dricsa. also repair any kind of Instrument Banjo taught No. S.. Arcade
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12
Male Help Wanted

MALE RMKIP WANTED-salesr in every county for highest grade garden and grass seeds. Permanent situation. good pay. Experience unnecessary. Cobb Co., Franklin. Mass. @ 2s de
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

eNOVTRYzgEY,-11e wan eere@e. Al outside. pleasantly furnished room for gentlemen. Center of CitJ 1Eodorate- R4.aH
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

FOR SALE-weber souars piano. ln good condition. Come in and look 1t over. The M Sonnenbers Plano Co., 105e Main St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

LARGEST AND MOST COAEPEErE LINE in Bridgeport. Wholesale a1-aa retail painters supplies James J. Conlin, 70 ana z4 Elm St., Bridge port. Conn. 1s ale
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-12

sHORE PLOTS a place for your summer houe in the most beautiful shore property in Con- necticut. high and dry, pure air. sewerage system and everything in sanitary condition: all city improve nnents beautiful water frontage and woodland Prices mose reason able aIong the shore and terms as low as SIG down and &6 per uaonta, Address Y.s Farmer Office
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

less enlightened the insane were treated
very much after the manner of criminals,
and it has taken a long time to get rid oil
the prejudice that the old system created
Even to-day insanity is still spoken OF IN
whispers. but something of the old super
stition has been dspelled, and since the
hospitals have been so vastly improved the
relations of the afflicted are more disposed
to make use of them than they were in the
days of the old asylum, which, after all,
was little better than prison.
These circumstances must all be consid-
cred in comparing the numbers now under
treatment with those of former years,
though, indeed, it can hardly be doubted
that the numbers have actually increased.
A very significant circumstance in the last
report is the huge proportion of alien in
sane. For obvious reasons this burden
lies more heavily on New York than on any
other state in the Union. Many efforts
have been made to Tighten it, but it is clear
that we still have more than our just
share.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
State. another neutral, on the mere basis
of British suspicion.

State. another neutral, on the mere basis
of British suspicion.
Finally. in the case of German Baltic
ports there is no blockade at all. Sweden
and Denmark can trade with Germany as
they please. German supremacy IN the
Baltic is undisputed. 1t is as If In the
Civil War we had operated an effective
blockade on the Atlantic ports, but the
South had been able to dominate the Gulf
of Mexico and the waters to the south,
thus having a free water route to Mexico,
Central America and Venezuela.
Nevertheless Great Britain assumes the
right to interrupt the flow of sea-borne
freight bound for Germany, but travelling
through Scandinavia and thence to the
unblockaded Baltic ports. This is, again, a
long way from the Civil War situation,
when we proclaimed and maintained with
growing effectiveness a strict blockade OF
all the Southern ports, and not merely a
blockade of neutral bases of transship-
ment.
Plainly. then, the British note does not
meet and cannot satisfy American de-
mands. Between American and English
interpretations of international law and
precedent there is a wide gap. Indeed,
in a whole range of questions it is almost
necessary to recognize that law and prece-
dent alike are lacking. AS Admiral Mahan
foresaw long ago, the dominant naval
power is endeavoring to rewrite lnterna-
tional law.
We are not bound to accept this revi-
sion. We certainly shall not accept any
portion of it based upon British "neces-
sity," which in turn grows out of German
acts. On the other hand, we have the fair
record of the Alabama case to follow.
What cannot be settled by agreement be-
tween Great Britain and ourselves can be
settled by arbitration, as in the past, pre-
cisely as long as no question of American
lives is involved.
The British note is friendly in tone, but
not more friendly than the last German
note. 1t does not clear away any obsta-
Giles: it does nothing more than state
British point of view, which will not be
accepted by the United States. But 1t
does open the way to the ultimate settle
ment of differences either directly by diplo-
macy or indirectly by reference to court
cf arbitration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Farm Life Essentials.

Some time before the twentieth century
dawned Artemus Ward, on observing the
farmers of the West indolently guiding
the work of their labor-saving machinery,
remarked that agriculture had become a
sedentary occupation. But as Theodore
Roosevelt has said so succinctly, "Agri-
culture is not the whole of country life"
Equally essential with mowers and reap
ers and binders are those other labor
saving devices which improve the home
life of the farmers family.
It was obviously with this in mind that
the farmers wife in Oklahoma wrote to
the Secretary of the Treasury asking for
81 900 of the $4,000 lately contributed
by an anonymous donor to the conscience
fund" of the Treasury Department. "lf
YOU will send me $1,000" the letter ran,
81 can purchase two cows, an automobile
and a set of false teeth-all of which
articles are essential to farm life"
We pass over the two cows. Their in
clusion in the inventory was evidently a
mere padding to make up the round sum.
Condensed milk has long fulfilled all the
requirements of farm life, as summer
boarders can readily testify. Cows are
no more essential to farm life than a
vegetable garden, when canned vegetables
may be had for such little money and
trouble. But the case of the automobile
lis different. This is, indeed, a necessity,
Isupplementing admirably the rural free
delivery, the interurban trolley line and
the party telephone in the promotion of
sociablity. The time is fast approaching
when a farmers family, failing to possess
motor, will be socially ostraczed by its
Ineighbors.
And false teeth-truly a labor-saving
device if ever there was one, but also an
aid to digestion and pulchritude. The
order of the inventory should have been
reversed to permit the set of false teeth
to lead the list 1t is at the very founda-
ton of rural happiness and ambition, the
sine qua non of bucolic responsibility.
Secretary McAdoo might at least spare
enough from the conscience fund" to sup
ply the good lady of Oklahoma with this
essential.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
No Incubator Girls.
tor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Roosevelt did not quote quite cor
rectly the title of the song that he gave as
the companion piece to 81 Did Not Raise My
Boy To Be Soldier" 1t is not 81 Did Not
Raise Ny Girl To Be Mother" as he gave
it. but Il Did Not Raise My Girl To Be an
Incubator"
Motherhood and fatherhood, too, for that
natter among the more highly civilized is
more than the physical act of bringing Off
spring into the world. 1t consists partly of
mental attitude reverence for life and a
belief that the creation and the conservation
of life are the highest and hottest of human
endoavors. This conception of parenthood is,
Ct course, fur damentally opposed to the
Rooseveltian doctrine that human beings
should be brought into the world in shoals,
as careessly and casually as rabbits, rats
or guinea pigs, and as carelessly and casually
hustled out of the world again, also in shoals
There is something naive and Peter Pam
nisb about Mr.. Roosevelt's point of view
something of the boys desire TO have "a lot
doing" regardless of consequences that
would incline one to look upon it leniently,
were 1t not that so many people take him
seriously And yet, stated in plain English,
Mr.. Roosevelts teachings are rather hor-
nb!e Let US increase and multiply blindy
until the country is overrun with a half
noIrished. ignorant population, and then joy
ouSly take the slightest excuse TO turn some
OF our surplus citizens into cannons meat.
OF course, it would all be covered up and
srioothed over with fine, ringing phrases, but
are not these the facts?
II is well for the future Of civilization that
an ever-increasing number OF men and
women are raising their boys not to be SOL
diers. and their girls to be mothers in the
truest sense, by teaching them that human
life is sacred thing
NJ. H. WAGENHALS.
New York, July 30, 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Homemakers Wanted.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your paper of July "a two young
ladies replied to remarks made by Mr. Thurs
ton. | am very glad to see that there are
some young ladies that would prefer a home
rather than a business life.
How many young ladies of to-day are able
to make home for a man? The average girl
brought up in the city to-day cannot cook
meal if she tried. and some can hardly sew
on button. But that is not their fault. II
is the fault of their mothers. They are not
taught 10 do it.
When they do get home Of their own the
man has to suffer the consequences. The re-
suits are sometimes a separation. II the av-
erage young lady of to-day had as much
training in keeping a home as she has in
studying the dead languages we would have
better homes. What the world wants to-day
is woman that can make home. We need
mothers to teach their girls how to make
home.
A persons health depends largely on what
he puts in his stomach. II the person in
charge does not know how to supply the body
with proper food the body cannot be properly
nourshed and in time sickness sets in. Why
does not the average mother of to-day teach
her children what the proper requirements
for health are? Why does the average mother
keep her children away from the kitchen?
Brooklyn. July rs. 1915. +. HOWARD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
Lynchings.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: This nation is still revelling in its
Infamous pastime of lynching. With the
year but half gone, already up to this period
thirty-four lynchngs have occurred in the
South, which is twelve more than happened
up to this time last year. This information
comes from Tuskegee, from Professor Mon
roe Work, who for a few years has been
keeping tab on the number of lynchings in
this country. These lynchngs have occurred
for the most trivial causes-not for the
usual crime" of a few years back, but for
sass refusing to get off the sidewalks and
for not using the prefix "Mr." in addressing
white men.
That such brutal lynchings should occur
in any section of the country is blot on
this nation, and holds this nation up to the
grossest sidcule The alarming feature of it
all is that it is on the increase, and only
God knows just where it is to end
Lynching has long been the national dis
grace of America, and has done more to re-
tard its asthetical growth than any other
evil. On Saturday afternoon the evening
newspapers called attention to the lynching
of negro in the public square of Temple,
Tex, at which men, women and children
gathered. The event was made the occasion
for Roman holiday and town celebration.
Booker T. Washington said on one occasion
that Il the whites of the South did not cease
lynching negroes they would eventually be-
gin to lynch each other. His prophecy was
borne out when an infuriated mob made an
attempt to lynch the Governor of a South
ern state recently. AS an admirer of The
Tribune, which has always taken pro-
nounced stand against injustice, | should
like to have your opinion on this national
evil. CLEVELAND G. ALLEN.
New York, July 81, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

able to import more goods and so spare more
men for the field, instead Of employing them
to make good the deficiencies in supplies
created by the blockade. BY bringing eco.
nomic pressure to bear on Germany and
thereby shortening the war hundreds or
thousands of lives of German and allied SOL
diers will be saved. In that way blockade
of Germany is in the spirit of international
law, for its main object is the limiting OF
the rigors of warfare
The reason there has been so much discus
sion about the British blockade is that there
has been an insidious pro-German campaign
in some Of the newspapers directed against
the "tie-up" of Germany in order to embar-
rass your President in his dealings with Ger
man submarine lawlessness. Probably this
campaign has served to keep the United
States out of the war, for any other country
as powerful would certainly have declared
war on Germany without the exchange of
notes.
Thanking you for inserting this, express
a hope that the controversy will be settled
satisfactorily. w. H. STEWART.
Toronto, July 90 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
The States Insane.

The newly published census of the state
hospitals and private sanatoriums shows,
as usual, a considerable increase in the
number of the insane under institutional
care. This is particularly remarkable in
the case of the criminal insane, of whom
1860 are now in custody, as against 903
ten years ago. The increase in all classes
easily exceeds the increase in the total pop
ulation, for, accepting the estimate of TO-
100000, the population of the state has
grown in the last ten years only 2705 per
cent, while the population of the hospitals
has risen 1913 per cent. 1t is calculated,
moreover, that, excluding the criminal
group, the proportion of the insane to the
general population has risen in the last
quarter of century from 249 per 100000
to 1907 per 100000.
This is disquieting enough, but not really
so alarming as it appears. 1t may only
mean that larger proportion of the men,
tally unsound are now properly cared for,
and this is undoubtedly due in some meas
ure to better diagnosis of mental disorders.
1t must be remembered, too, that not only
is it more generally recognized that the
unsound are, as a rule, better off
under institutional care than in their own
homes, but that the popular prejudice
against "asylums" has declined to some ex-
tent.
The old notion that there is something
disgraceful in mental ailments is less prev
alent than it used to be, and the hospitals
provided for such cases are looked upon
with less distrust and suspicion. In days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
DO WOMEN WANT TO HELP?
A Query by One Who Thinks They
Can and Should.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
ST.: A bitter strain is at last creeping into
the question of women's voting, and it is time
that we face it squarely and begin to think
out just what we individually do believe.
| am an everyday woman, and ! write this
to everyday men and wome,. When ] ap-
preached my brother to question him az to
his true views on the subject, this was DIS
reply: "Do women really want the yote'
Do trey want to take an active interest in
Lelping men TO straighten out the tangled
web of rights and laws of our people? "om-
en- can help us if they will, but aren't you
afraid that it is just an agitation Of restless
women who will not care for 10 seriously
when they are granted the ballot"
Our men have educated us and allowed US
business opportunities and have prepared the
way to fit US for the responsibility OF voting
mot that they had this end in view for U.s.
but the developing of ones mind and aoi'F
ties naturally and necessarily demands tha'
they assume more responsibility
THE Mother of Four Boys" who expressed
her opinion in this mornings Tribune hssn'
the faintest idea what the women are reais
trying to accomplish. It is for no one sex
70 make or change laws-it IS Tor AL men
and women to face each issue fairly anu
n axe or remake the laws in equal iaiihe"
fer the betterment Of both sexes truly ~
think that most men try TO consider women
to the best of their ability. And II the wow
en- have not been considered more 1t is 'ne"
own fault for it really is their duty 70 nep
work out fair and just solutions to 'he''
nary trying problems of humanity Of "n'''
they are third-even two-thirds' "hen v.
consider that the greater responsloNlW
the children's welfare rests with them
Think. men and women. Face this problem
ia rly. Women, are you willing TO fea.r
helm? And men, are you fully aware Of hOs
much that help is necessary to maze a .i,
wcrld of ours better, saner, more pe'Ie'''
rounded whole? or,nrp
ADAILY TRIBUNE READER
New York, July 30, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The following are matters on which |
should like your opinion:
~ Do you not think that Austria deliber-
ately picked a war with little Serbia for her
own reasons? Yes.
(2) Do you not regard the action of Ger
many toward Luxembourg and Belgium wholly
without justification Yes.
go Did not Germany deliberately plan TO
intimidate Belgium by the measures she sub
sequently used? Yes.
(4) Do you attach any significance TO the
fact that the Kaiser started plans for the
present German navy Immediately after Eng
land had thwarted him from making war on
this county in 9s? No.
80 Does not Germany owe her very indie
pendence and liberty to England's help in the
past? No.
(6) Has not Germany tried to find an ex-
cuse for another war with France on at least
several occasions since 10! Yes.
81 Is not Germanys present war zone plan
an act of deliberate piracy? No.
~ Are not the German people very un-
friendly toward this country and have they
not repeatedly insulted us? This question
cannot be answered. Germany is at wur,
and in war all people see things in the
light Of their O1Cn knoWledge and expert
ence. II might be fair to sag the German
people "Jeel unfriendly to,card" as nOiO,
but not that they did before the iOGr al
fected all Judgments.
90 Do you not think that Germany has
violated practically every one of the so-called
laws and also the Hague and
ether agreements? She has Violated great
mann S. W. S.
Hartford, Conn. Aug. 2, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
The Still Czech.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune. j,
Sir: was glad to read, IN your issue !,
July 26. the able and spirited defence "
the Czech language by "Bohemicus." qu'v.
agree with most of his statements. thinA
If he will read my article he will ind noun.
ing in il TO arouse his ire. have no"n.''
in the article COR elsewhere) stated tnat '''
Czech language was dead or dying. 0h''
read a fine Bohemian romance in Terms.
tran slation), given to me by my if."s'
Count Thun, of Prague. | simply trie' '
mako the point that there was no fessVS
why any language should be SPOKEN III =,
patriotic motives; that children snOus
learn TO express themselves huently IN sun.
language of wide currency, which the OIss'
is not. Il,
At the centenary of the UnNersV
Christiania, in 1911, most OF the io'H-.
addresses by the Norwegian professors "''.
IN German, French or English; this was ~.
particularly patriotic" but it was n'sa.
appreciated by the delegates. Ana ~.
greatest enthusiasm aroused among the w
wegians in the audience was caused "
charming and scholarly Czech PROFESS.
from Prague, who delivered his address
Norwegian! WM' LlON
Huron City, Mich, July %, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
share.

Mr.. Barnes and The Tribune are in
entire agreement on his statement that
the Constitutional Convention should
decide the questions of abolishing direct
primaries and statutory regulation of
political parties raised by certain dele
gates. Further than that the agreement
extends not
The proposal to abolish direct pri-
maries for state officers through this con-
vention's action is reactionary and en-
tirely contrary to the mandate of public
sentiment which caused a statewide
primary nominating system to be .estab-
lished. Statutory regulation of party
affairs developed as the most practical
and effectual way of checking blackjack
and Doodle tactics in non-supervised, non
regulated party methods. 1t affords the
protection for the individual and the
minority in politics which Mr.. Barnes so
often eloquently demands. His reason
for desiring it to be wiped out, therefore,
seems obscure.
The old party column ballot was bad,
but it cannot be made to bear the faults
of politics which Mr.. Barnes is now try
ing to put on it. Party conventions and
unregulated party methods went out of
existence in New York because the pub
lie found them bad and said so firmly
enough to make its lawmakers understand
the message. The old party column ballot
was disposed of for the same reason.
There is no reason for going back to the
old conditions on any of these lines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05
moderate Drinkers"

1t is disquieting to learn from the
weekly bulletin of the Department of
Health that the sort Of folk we used to
call moderate drinkers have a death rate
for exceeding the teetotalers'. Forty-three
of the leading life insurance companies,
we are told, conspired six years ago to dis
cover the truth about alcohol in its rela-
ton to the prospect of long life, and col
lected the facts concerning two groups,
to wit: (a) men who drank two glasses
of beer, or a glass of whiskey, or their
equivalent, a day; (b) men who drank
more, but were not considered by the COM
panies to drink to excess. The mortality
of the second group was quite so per cent
above that Of the first.
This distressing discovery suggests sew
eral queries. First, will the beer drinkers
admit that two beers equal one whiskey?
Second, is beer or a whiskey a known
quantity? Third, if an allowance above
this wretched pittance is not considered
excessive by the insurance companies,
where does excess in their judgment be-
gin? Fourth, if drinking to a degree
that increases mortality by so per cent is
not excessive in the opinion of the insur-
ance companies, what is the opinion of the
insurance companies worth? Finally, if
the moderate drinkers of yesterday killed
themselves at this rate, how did the real
drinkers of the day before exist at all?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-05

It's an i'll storm that does no good some
where. Seabright, the victim of several pre-
vious ones, had its stolen beach nicely re-
stored and strengthened by this latest storm.
Most persons go to Long Beach to gambol
but apparently there are some who do so
merely to gamble.
"Villista losses were placed at 1000 dead
wounded and captured" Is there no re-
dundancy here?
What is Seabright's food is Fries poison