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New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
Our Export War Supplies.
(New York Press.J


 Ten months ended with April showed the United States selling abroad more than $500, ,OOo, GOO morell than it imported, while in the sane period of the previous year the ex. cess was not a great deal more than half that sum. Everything points to a billion -dollar excess for the first year of the war, probably considers ably more. War supplies-and large- ly foodstuffs at that-have been scor-4 ing our heavy sales abroad and huge foreign trade balance. r If it had not been for foodstuffs and war materials our exports would have been less than for a normal year. To every grand division of 2 the world we sold less than in a nor-1 mai year, except only Europe, and of normal things we sold Europe muchJ less than in normal times.
 Despite the extraordinary needs. of countries that have been cut off from their ordinary arrangements for get ting goods from Europe, the united1 States sold those countries much less than in normal times. To South Am rica we sold s33,O00, 900 less tha1ij normal; to North America, outside7 our own territory, $55,000, 900 less to Asia, $S,5O0,00 less, and so on.
 Buying power in this market b., , foreigners has been sustained sikcei last fall by stress of the most ex traordinary measures in the warI 1 emergency, by sacrificing capital, by1 exporting dear-bought gold stoclxsl That foreign buying power has been largely devoting itself to feeding thaI maw Of war Some day the wanN will end and then we shall need tot readjust ourselves again to the nor-I mai conditions Meanwhile American con1mercel while coining money out of war bus-1 mess, needs to learn, right now, tIel 1 lesson which has been dinned intel American agriculture so long-diveffJ sification. Better build a business ! that will continue, and even grow, afZ ter the war is over, than one thatl will collapse on the instant of war sl end. Better use our credits to b9i-I ! ster up the buying capacity of coun- tries that will buy from us both now and later than to foster in excess thoe industries that will vanish into airl with the return Of peace.
 There is time to attend to these things, and there should be imme-{ .diate direction of effort towprd1 them.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
PRIDE OF NEW BRITAIN.

New Britain's hope is in its boys . New Britain Boys club which today is endeavoring to raise funds for fur tnering work destined to prove of vast benefit to our city
 Furthermore, New Britain is proud of it's boys. No bystander could have gaZed on that passing pageant of young America which graced the city's streets this morning without feeling tinge of joy thrill his heart, The work of the Boys club was made manifest to the most skeptical as these bright and manly little fellowe bearing American flags proudly par aded under the summer sun and loy- ally cheered the city officials. The boys of today are the men of to- morrow. If nurtured properly they will grow to be citizens worthy of the name. New Britain today should pour forth it's heart to the boys, they are ours.
 Some of the older boys of the city and comm onwealth took as much pleasure as the young hopefuls in the parade and smilingly expressed their 1 pleasure at being able to ride in state at the head of the citizenry of the fu- 1 ture. The parade was a glorious ex- l position of what may be done with + lt- I. every municipality. Numerous young ladies took pains ! to express their interest in the work 1 of a community by cheerfully offer l ing their services as distributors of ] tags. The job at it's best is a thank I less one but there were no shirkers 1 among the girls who had volunteered l to help the Boys club gather in the countless nickels dimes and pennies ! which will be added to the exchequer They, too, worked all day in the hot l sun. to take advantage of the favor
 able impression created by the boys
 Finally, although it cannot yet be I said positively, the general public o1 I New Britain showed their apprecia 1 tion and willingness to help by con tributing their small coins to these
 young ladies. It is safe to say that z
 substantial sum was raised as oul
 citizens are not slow to realize wha-
 help even nickel may be and ar.
 willing to act generously when ono,
 convinced.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

their patience on expounders of null hilarious doctrines pertaining to the strife. The latest offender to feel the lash of public opinion is the we'll known Pr. Bernhard Dernburg who sails this afternoon for Copenhagen with all the God-speed Americans can bestoW. With the loss of pr. Dern- cial spokesman in this country. Does MT. Bryan also wants to hoist the blue Peter and sail the briny deep right track. .. ......
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
Mir. Bryan's Attack.
(Boston Post.)

It Is difficult to discuss adequately ex-Sccretary Bryans attack upon President Wilson's last note to Ger many until the note itself has been published. Without inpropriety MT. Bryan might have waited until this notez-the stated cause of his resig- nation-had reached Germany and the American people. But he is so anxious to get into fight for'peace, that he springs Into the arena without an instant's delay or the slightest courtesy to- his late chief, for whom he has such honeyed words in his let ter of resignation.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
Nobody To R,Hme.
(Watcrbury American. )

Three times of news in yesterday s paper supplied arguments for more centralized government, q city man. ager form, for example. One was the discussion about delinquent tax payers Officials seemed to be srieved because so many did not pay and in doubt as to what should be done. What would be done in pri- -,ate business with a debtor who would not pay? There is no reason why in public business there should be any difference. A single author ity, who had to account to the people for the collection and expenditure of their money, would not hesitate long Tn a case like this.
 Another item was the answer of the superintendent of streets to the inquiry about oil for sprinkling. He was out of oil; the supplies had been delayed in coming; he would write and see about it. Meanwhile, the rublic must wait. while oily dust, much worse than dry Gust blows around. There is lack of a sense of businesslike responsibility, which would not be the case or there were some central head, free from political obligations, toarequire accounting. .
 The third was very much like this, the condition of things on Thomaston avenue Here is an important thoroughfare blocked to travel for days and weeks, incorvenIencing hun- dreds every day. Investigation shows that little is being done on the work and nobody seems to know why. Somebody has written to find out and an answer comes that an effort will be made to find the contractor and get him to go to work.
 The patient community is helpless to do anything but scold It can't put it's finger on the party who is to blame. He is too numerous. It is easy to shift the blame from one to another. A single authoritative head with full power and full responsibility could be reached with spur, and perha ps with a hook if necessary.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

federal authority the greater will be the weakening of the states in dignity self-control and progress.
 Connecticut does not want her so- cial habits determined by any other state in the Union. She has her own life to live ad knows how she wants to live it. This may not be agreesbl to Alabama or Oregon or Maine, but it is everlastingly agreeable to Com necticut. Let the women continue their fight here, and not lose sgdnt, through self-interest, or the Iarger things of our political life. &
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
.. have arrayed themselves against

tca have arrayed themselves against tn United States government
 No liberal-minded man can counte- nance such acts of treason. stahl has committed an offense against justice. With him were five others who swore cut affidavits. Some of these, how ever, gave only hearsay evidence. and cannot be reached. Standing out against these men is the lone testa- tor. Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of New York. MT. Malone has sworn the Lusitania did not carry guns He has stood his ground. The other affidavit makers choose to run. That Dudley Field Malone was right. was proven by President Wilson's istest note to Germany. The presl- dent pledged the integrity of the nation on the word of Malone, as evil dence the following passage from the note to Germany:
 r.. %"Of the facts alleged In our
 Excellency's note, IF true, the F. Government of the United States
 would have been bound to take
 official cognizance in performing
 it's recognized duty as neutrai
 power and in enforcing it's na- : tional laws. @ It was It's duty to see to it that the Lusitania was
 not armed for offensive actionS
 that she was not serving as
 transport; that she did not carry
 cargo prohibited by the sta-
 tutes of the United States and
 that, if in fact she was naval
 vessel of Great Britain, she would
 not receive clearance as a mer
 chantman; and it performed that
 duty and enforced its statutes
 with scrupulous vigilance through
 it's regularly constituted officials.
 It, is able. therefore, to assure \ the Imperial German Govern
 ment that it has been misin
 formed. If the Imperial German
 Government should deem itself to
 be in possession of convincing
 evidence that the officials of the
 Government of the United States
 did not perform these duties with, thoroughness the Government of
 the United States sincerely hopes
 that it will submit that evidence
 for consideration
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
BRYANyS JENNINGS.

disenbarking from the ship |te. William Jennings Bryan, late
 Wilson, cabinet, has been hav-
 merry time driving his quill. Is him is simply one statement another.
 |ensib1y. the exuberant explana- of his position are for the pur- of setting himself right with |peepu1,n as he called them
 his. silver tongue was at it's best. here may be a more sinister mo- ehind the scheme of setting up Ian press bureau in Washington.
 we are gleaning may be but Ice notices of future chattering E Chatauqua.
 |tainiy we are tasting copious $hts of grape-juice propaganda. e gather it, our summer fiction ely to be chiefly these encyclical ings from the pen of the Prince eace. This. in spite of the fact MT. Bryan warns us his state
 Issued today to the German icans will be the last of the se-
 Bryan is known of old. He is e man, ; well meaning man, a Int man: but at this particular he should stay his ever ready He decries the warrior editors, . D terms them, when there is nc
 animal No editor but believes ben rnightier than the sword. He &rful lest we be pitched headfore
 into war with Germany, wher pnly strife at present is being amed up by his pussilanimous ings. With all his explanation. hard to understand just why ht Inc wilson cabinet, if he took thu Ind note to Germany as his onl, Sc That rejoiner could have beer |ailder, unless it sacrificed all tn, Is Of American citizenship.
 IS to ae hoped MT. Bryan can b. n at lis word, and we will SC. Inst of his statements. Inc Amer
 people, since the beginning 0 |il.tics ahroud. have exhauste'
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
TELEPHONE CALLS.
REGENERATION DAY"

me liberty, or give be death" "
 P atrick Henry, in that old
 court house, away back in ftered the. famous line that punded down the years, his
 Fled out for what the people
 on American soil are enjoy
 amneled in 1915,-Liberty.
 Lion under the sun enjoys $fty as known in Amerlca.
 \ \ land of the free. And yet
 certain classes and cliques
 y their freedom.
 Is weeks we will celebrate ln-
 hcc day. The suggestion of the
 ,. . Claxton, federal commis-
 education, to make the ap- 6Sr Jily 4. "Americanizatio
 worthy one. Just now, Ing of the sort is needed. It
 Ia good thing for the manor
 well as those whose heredita- |vere handed them in another TIE will equally stimulate pa in the breast of the oldest ' youngest citizen.
 f |E1axton intends that all the Ein the United States, regard class, creed, or race, shall s the fountain -head of Liberty Ink tlrerefrom copious potions 'iotism. An ablution so to speak m wash hyphens and such oth- ks.away from the term Amer July 4, then, shall be the day ronfng. It will be the occasion America to unite in true ,f intelligent democracy. Those we no sacred regard for the sy- aus terms ns,America and de- y should be welcomed out of lntry. There is still room for ighters abroad.
 Ire many people united in one. 5 are brothers, all. Under the ing embrace of the Stars and no man need fear for. his he Red of Old Glory, designat- rich blood of patriots; by the symbolic of truth and hope; Blue, emblematic of staunch- ct us heed this patriotic call. :ans borntand foreign born alike, q young, rich and poor, let us p5 the one flag that today floats
 and rnajestically from it's sad, injuring no man under the of laeaven, 1.-The Stars and ! of America. ii.i#lIs'HHs
 <Fel -H
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
Mir. Daniels Place, Too. Needed"
 (New York Herald.)


 To have one branch of the nationaIl defence in time of national tran 4 quillity in the hands of man notor.. iousiy trifling and cquivocal would, be bad enough, but to have it atsthal present moment in the hands of auJ official who, in addition to being' trifling and equivocal, is notoriously square peg in a round hole is nat urally causing great concern. M
 Bryan, according to the unanimollTl verdict, did very good thing in. rel tiring from the cabinet He has haM strong follower in that cabinet inI the person of MT. Daniels.
 MT. Daniels has been all things toi all men. He is for peace or for vafI or for amy old thing as the popu ' lar chord sounds. He was opposed to a large aeroplane appropriationH for the navy and later took credit forf a large aeroplane appropriatonX which was obtained despite his oppo sition. He declared the submarines o11 the navy most efficient and then sud denly discovered that they were inf flcient when he learned that the tf-ua state of affairs was in the hands ofj Representative Gardner.
 Undoubtedly Mir. John wanamak ' CT when he says in an interview in to-j days Herald that 'if there is mnvI other man in the cabinet streakedI with Bryanism the sooner he leave the better" has in mind MT. Daniels. Will MT. Daniels be patriotic enough to create another vacancy in the cab- inet?
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
ON Lookorr FOR RoBBERs

New Haven. June 12.-Upon re- quest of the Derby police early today officers boarded the early inbound trolley cars from that city at Y1e field and scrutinizcd passengers in afl effort to identify two men who ard said to have committed a burglary E11 Derby.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Robbers held up a train between San Francisco and Los Angeles Got $565. The train was coming away from the exposition. Foolish robbers why didn't they get at the passen- gers before they had been in San Francisco?
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The weather is fine, almost too hot, but @ welcome change The German note is not indicative of active war fare, very soon at any rate. To- morrow is a holiday and we should assume an expression of absolute nonchalance. <#t :s
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Where are you going my pretty maid?
 Going tagging, sir, she said.
 Why do you do it, my pretty maid :? After which she pinned a piece of paper on me and said fifty cents please" ...e
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The honorary commissioners of China are in Boston and so are the delegates to the recent -Ameci- can financial congress. Boston has it's hands full we venture to suggest.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Roosevelt has declared that he is with Wilson" in the Bryan cor1tro- versy At least he has said some thing with which the American public will heartily agree.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The new baggage law is not very popular with the country It seemI like q lot of work just 10 give sosne1 insurance company good thing d the expense of the travelling public Westerly. F. I,,. Sun.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Herman Carey Bumpus inaugural short of it, president and college
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The Yale crews at Gales Ferry had better taboo fish Gncluding crabs) quite apparently they don't agree.- New Haven Journal lCourier.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Also today was pay-day but the girls got all of it for couple Q, tags.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Maybe the landlady will believe it if we have the tags to show
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The ghost walked, into the hands of the tag day committed
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Maybe the promoters of the expo sition staged the whole affair
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Those cannon on the Lusitapia were presumably placed there either by the same Englishman who began the war, or by the Frenchmen wi1o in-i vaded Belgium. .--Torrington Regis ter.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The days of the wooly west are coming back. See America first.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
WHAT OTHERS SAY

Views on ali sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come 10 Herald offscS.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Don't let the Bryan episode inter- fere with giving the Putnam phalanx a royal welcome.---New London Tele- graph.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

A railroad company has just con- tracted for 155,5O0 tons of steel rails.
 Former orders by the same corpora
 ton bring the total thus far this year
 to 167.50O tons That is the kind of
 business the country likes to see. Or
 ders for steel rails are better than
 orders for war material-Troy Times. The governments crop report was
 better than expected. The total in-
 dicated wheat yield is some 100000
 bushels above the general run of op- timistic estimates. The spring wheat figures, however, fell short of some of the prophecies. But the
 shortage is more than offset by the indicated yield of 676,o00.0 900 bushels
 of winter grain-Financial America. The effects of war are visible in one particular which will make this spring different from all others in the world of art. It is usually at this time that the great auction sales of art are in course both in Paris and | London. For several years past at this season the art interest of the | world has been centered in these cities But the best that Paris can | do now is it's so-called War Salon" New York Sun While German policy is disapproved | In America the German Ambassador l on the contrary, appears to be rising | in public estimation. At least, more | good words have been said of him in 1 the last few weeks than in the whole l of his former service since the war l began. Washington correspondents
 are crediting his errors noc to his own
 mistakes but to mistaken orders that l he received from Berlin-where | America is not ndersrood.-Buffalo l Express.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The kind of sympathy Belgium wants is the kind the United States has already extended in the shape of $60,000,o00. - Middletown Penny Press.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Great Britain, which started by sending 70,00O men to the continent ill August reports 25s,uoo casualties to date. sherman said 1t.-Ansonia Sentinel.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Nathan Straus, after serving 1,- 135,731 one-cent meals in his pas teurized milk depots In New York since last December, has discontinu- eG the meals because they're no longer needed. Just another sign of good dtimes.-Waterbury Democrat.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

After having looked upon Ty Cobb in the act of knocking home run and having paid a visit to Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of West Orange, N. J., the Imperial Chinese Commer- cial Commissioners can now say they rave really seen ,America.-Bridge- port Standard.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The races on the Indiana polls, speed way proved nothing more than that there are times when the foolkiller is away on another job--Rochester Her- ald. ...-.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
FACTS AND RANCHES.

 The Yale crews at Gales Ferry had better taboo fish (including crabs.) quite apparently they don't agree- New Haven Journal-Courier. Don't let the Bryan episode inter-. fere with giving the Putnam phalanx a royal welcome.--New London Tele- graph. The kind of sympathy Belgium wants is the kind the United States has already extended in the shape of $60,OO0,oOO. Middletovn Penny Press.
 Great Britain which started by sending 70,000 men to the continent ill August, reports 25s,Uoo casualties to date. sherman said ft.-Ansonia Sentinel
 The races on the Indianapolis, speed way proved nothing more than that there are times when the foolkiller is away on another job--Rochester Her. ald. ...
 d tree in California, and no doubt some trees planted this year will blossom in 1916.-Brooklyn Standard Union
 The season has arrived when the fisherman must realize that the ordin- ary fish story measurements cannot govern without selling lobsters.- Norwich Bulletin. .-.'
 Every aspiring candidate for dicta- torship 11onors in Mexico hopes he is 'it,'' when Uncle Sam looks over the possible material for a presidential peacemaker in that~onetime republic. Burlington Free Press.
 The International Harvester com- panys sales in foreign countries dropped off twelve per cent last year. Another kind of reaper is in use in most of them now.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
 When an able-bodied individual tries to stop you in the street to tell you a hard luck story tell him that the west will soon want harvest hands. Albany Journal
 Japan is said to be a nation of fish ermen. Every Japanese, man or woman, girl or boy, knows how to fish That, also, is true of Ameri cans But how few of us know now, when and where to catch 'em.- Utica Observer.
 Nathan Straus, after serving r. 135,731 one-cent meals in his pas teurized milk depots in New York since last December, has discontinu- eG the meals because they're no longer needed. Just another sign of good times.-Waterbury Democrat
 After having looked upon Ty Cobb in the act of knocking a home run and having paid visit to Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of West Orange, N. J., the Imperial Chinese Commer- cial Commissioners can now say they rave really seen iAmerIca.-Bridge port Standard.
 has just
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Japan is said to be a nation of fish ermen. Every Japanese, man or woman, girl or boy, knows how to fish That, also, is true of Ameri- cans But how few of us know now, when and where to catch 'em.- Utica Observer.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

When an able-bodied individua tries to stop you in the street to tel you hard luck story, tell him that the west will soon want harvest hands Albany Journal
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12
HER RAID

pfltnblc advertising medium tn
 Circulation books and press |&Jways open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Governor Whitman has planted a tree in California, and no doubt some trees planted this year will blossom in 1916.-Brooklyn Standard Union.
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The season has arrived when the fisherman must realize that the ordin- Gry fish story measurements cannot govern without selling lobsters.-- Norwich Bulletin. -.'
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

Every aspiring candidate for dicta- torship honors in Mexico hopes he is "it,'' when Uncle Sam looks over the possible material for a presidential peacemaker in thatrone-time republic Burlington Free Press
New Britain herald., 1915-06-12

The International Harvester com- pany's sales in foreign countries dropped off twelve per cent last year Another kind of reaper is in use in most of them now.-St. Louis Globe Democrat