New Britain herald., 1915-06-11

~AA0 PSA SAotCiSy as IA9 pI4SlQSnL aa6 In framing his answer to the German note. doubtless they will be compost uons of merit.-Westerly Sun
 A Colorado girl was married one day and applied for divorce the next. When mental processes are as rapid as that 1t seems too bad that tn second thought cannot come just before the first.-Providence Journal.
 With the revelations showing the need of more attention to the coun- try's navy, it is right in line with his other troubles that Secretary Daniels should be confronted with a Teak" in the naval academy.-Norwich Bulle- tin.
 It's sorry year for baseball. What chance for fame have the heroes of the diam ond, with Won Hin denburg, Mackensen, Joffre, French and Kitchener, not to mention the embattled monarchs, always grabbing the limelight ?-Hartford Times.
 The customs authorities in New York, have decided that paints, inn ported for children's use. cannot come ir to this country under the duty pre- sCribed for "artists' colors." There is apparently no such thing as child artist-Hartford Courant.
 The first woman student in the for estry course at Cornell and the first one to ever get a diploma in that de- partment has made a good start by marrying a class mate. Others talk ing that course might do we'll to fol- low their xample.-Bridgeport Post.
 A German band of eight pieces, after playing "The Star-Spangied Banner" marched into the Federal building in Brooklyn and took out naturalization papers, from clarinet to tuba" They are the kind of citi- zens Uncle Sam likes. Therell be no hyphens on their scores.--New York Tribune. -
 A Harvard doctor says that women are as fit for soldiers as are men. He realizes, of course, that they lack practice. What the Women's Volun- teer Reserves movement in England proposes is to give. them practice. Nobody claims that anything impos- sible is being attempted.-New Haven Register. Ft ~ ,...&,. ,
 Many millions of dollars will be ex- pended in this country this year that are usually expended abroad. While all kinds of business in Europe will feel this, and some of it will be a long time recovering, it ought to be good thing for pretty much all A Arr,, l~I1- pended here is just so much to help our own people.-Norwich Record.
 One-third of the so-called wise guys in the country think they can teat lawyer expounding the laws. One-half think they can beat the doctor in healing the sick two-thirds of them think they can put the minis. ter in the hole expounding the gospel, and all of them think they can beat the editor running paper. And may be they can.-Rockville Leader. '> -
 The champion lazy man of the country has been discovered in Ohio. He has agreed to help along the fly killing campaign in his town by wear, ing 8 thin coating of molasses on his bald head for two weeks. It is too much work to swat" but he is will ing to donate his unused natural re- sources to the good of the community. Journal.
 Switzerland is in sore distress and imminent peril. No mile of her bor- der touches neutral country: no load to the sea is open to her; no pound of food can reach her from abroad z except through belligerents who are conserving their own food supplies. Yet on the outside world she largely depends for food and the raw materials used in her manufac- tures.-Rochester Post Express.
 The president has delayed his re- ply to Germany's last note from sheer anxiety to make it in style and form adequate to an occasion of such po- tential moment All accounts from Washington agree that the delay in- dicates no weakening or departure from the claims and principles laid down in the first note sent couple of weeks ago. For various obvious reasons it's substance will be looked for with intensest interest on both sides of the ocean. The issue Is not whether the Lusitania was armed" or any such rottenly supported claim, but whether the government of Ger many intends to adhere to the hither- to accepted principles of international law on maritime warfare.-Stamford 
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 Herman Riders son hastens, in the absence of the father, to brand as rank forgeries'' letters purporting to be signed by the editor of the Staats- Zeitung calling upon Americans of German blood to. declare their will