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New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
A Social Surprise. (AnSopia Sentinel

It is not too much to say that the president took the nation by surprise when he caused announcement to be made of his engagement to Mrs. Nor- man Gait of Washington. Congragula- tions are in order for the White House needs mistress as much as the. president needs a charming wife to make his habitation a home. He has been a lonely man since the death of his first wife and the marriage of his daughters. Solitude has been his portion and there is no one in the country who will not wish him we'll in his new bid for happiness and con- genial ompanionship.
 The future Mrs Wilson is woman of unusual beauty, gifted and endow- ed with natural charm. She has the admiration and love not only of the president but of his daughters and the belief is general that the union will mean a personal happiness for the chief executive, to which he is en- titled and of which death deprived him little more than a year ago. He will be better, stronger and more efficient representative of the people, when he has a companion at his side, who can give to him at all times sympathy, loyalty and love, when the storms beat round him.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

heavy vote. The editor believes that there would have been more voting for individuals and less straight party voting if the old ballots had been used. Furthermore if the old ballot had been in vogue he thinks that more folks would have registered their opinions on the mileage issue.
 It is all nonsense to claim that peo- pie are afraid to split their tickets on the voting machines for they do this at every election in every city. They used voting machines last fall in the state election and although it was a Republican year Sheriff Hugo was retained in office by a handsome majority. Did not that show that the New Haven voters could split their tickets.
 In Waterbury yesterday there was a Democratic sweep just as the Re- publicans swept New Haven and out of all the Republican candidates for office in the Brass city only one was elected. Mayor Scully was reelected by 2,159 votes and yet Robert Palmer was retained as town clerk by 1,1S0 votes. This would indicate that at least 1,600 Waterbury voters knew how to vote a split ticket on a vot- ing machine.
 It is safe to state that the electors will learn how to vote as they please, or as they think they please, no mat ter what the method employed of reg istering the vote. The machine is the best method of taking the ballot yet devised. There are no disfranchised voters, no disputes afterward and no recounts.
 The people of the state have not voted heavily on the mileage ques- tion because they were not sufficient ly interested. That is the only reason why so small a vote was boiled in Meriden, in New Haven and in Wa terbury. The machines had very little if anything to do with it.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Two Democratic Years.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Unio

| Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union.) In his speech at St. Joseph. Mo-, l Speaker Clark made a good showing | for the democratic party. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say,
 as the speaker really says, that the democratic party has made won derful showing for itself and he has
 only told in part of what it has done The old pretense that the democratic party was a party of negation only has been completely exploded for, as the speaker says, the party in two years has enacted more constructive legislation than the republican party placed on the statute books in two decades and as he also says it did 1t With help of considerable num-
 Der Of republicans. Practically all the new laws the democrats enacted were stronger than the party for they passed by majorities larger even than the large majorities by which the democrats control Congress.
 The democrats legislated on subjects on which, in a general way, the re- publicans promised legislation with out keeping their promises. Their promises were never intended to be kept as may be judged by the fact that they were not definite as we'll as by the further fact that they were not kept. The re- publicans had long pretended that they would revise the tariff down. ward but they did not do it. They had long admitted that our cur rency system was the worst ever de- vised and promised to change it, but beyond a little tinkering they made no changes. We doubt whether there is man in the United States who will say that the currency law that the dem ocrats placed on the statue books Is not better than the repub- lican law that it displaced. We have not seen such an assertion. The democratic law has met with very little adverse criticism and so far as we know the republican law has not found one defender
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
Martha Washington's Will.
Stamford Advocate.)

The will of Martha Washington is going back to the custody of the State of Virginia, where it most nat urally belongs. It appears that dur ing the Civil War some soldier took it from the Fairfax Courthouse, and after many shifts and changes, it finally found it's way into the library of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. When its whereabouts became known, Vir- ginia's Governor or Legislature made a demand for it, and in such terms that MT. Morgan decided to let the question of his legal possession of the document go to the courts. Vir- ginia has a suit now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States suit which presumably will now be dropped, inasmuch as MT. Morgan, jr., has had the will delivered into the hands of Justice Keith, president of the Virginia Court of Appeals, to be disposed of by that gentleman at his own discretion, with the sugges- ton that it might very appropriately be included in the Washington relics at Mount Vernon, and offering, in case that place is selected to construct there a fire-proof vault for its safe keeping
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09


 the young men would receive under the guidance of United States army officers would stand them in good stead in the future, as healthy citi- zens of the land The physical ex- ercise derived from such work as artillery drill cannot be overestimated. If other universities see fit to fol- low Yale's lead in this matter, it would not be many years when, if the occasion presented itself, the United States could call upon it's col lege graduates to raise an army that would be capable of repulsing any foe that might dare to tread foot up- on our shores.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
New Clothes, New Thoughts. (Des Moines Ga.) Register an,
 Leader

Frederick c. Howe, commissioner of immigration, calls attention to the fact that the motley array of foreign peasant costumes worn by immigrants as they step ashore from incoming steamers totally disappears within "A hours of the time of landing. No immigrant who has been in America for more than single day wears an alien style of clothes.
 What is this but an evidence of the desire to become like others in the adopted land? It is the first step in Americanization and very important one, for outward appear ance has profound effect upon the state of mind. But it is more inn portant because it is a voluntary step in the direction of complete adaptation. Old thoughts are cast aside with old clothes and a new garb ushers in Q general feeling of kim ship with the new world.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
YALE's INNOVATION.

Yale university has now started something which may in time prove the settlement of the question of pre- paredness of the nation. The trustees of this great seat of learning, we are creditably informed, have decided to donate to the students a site of land on which is to be erected an armory wherein a battery of artillery may be drilled. The undergraduates have already become obsessed with the idea. have started the work of recruiting, and friends have begun a subscrip- tion for the fund with which to
 build and maintain the necessary structure It is estimated that fifty
 thousand dollars will be required to further this project. ''. .. Granted that the armory is erected. and that a capable troop of undergrad- uates is enlisted in the cause. and drilled under the tutelage of a regu
 lar army officer, the success of the
 plan must eventually be brought to the attention of the nation. There could be no better possible material for work of this kind than can be se- cured among the undergraduate stu- dents of Yale, or any college or uni- versity of it's kind in America The young students who matriculate each
 year at our colleges and universities represent the highest type of man.
 hood. They are, for the most part,
 the sons of men who have made American soil their home, who have accomplished great things under the
 present form of government, and who are desirious that their sons shall
 have every advantage, advantages
 they themselves oftentimes were de- nied The sons of such fathers must
 necessarily hold an appreciation for country which has been so good to them and their forbears and their first desire would be to defend such a nation, when defense was necessary.
 If the battery of artillery can be maintained at Yale University without taking too much time from the reg
 ular routine academic life of the stu
 dents there is no reason why it should
 not be successful. Aside from the intrinsic value it may have as a mili- tary asset to the nation, the training
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
Shorter Hours On The Farm.
Bridgeport Standard

Shorter hours on the farm" is now the cry. But here there are special difficulties in the way of re- form. Evils of such long standing that they seem to be rooted in the very constitution of things must be grappled with and overcome Why should a rooster for instance, find it needful to wake up the neighborhood at an unearthly hour simply because, having gone to sleep with the com ing on of night, he has no further need of repose? Why should the pigs require feeding at an hour when no reasonable human being has thought of breakfast and why should the COWS insist upon being milked and going to pasture at time when the hired man is getting his sweet est sleep?
 This may be Natures way, but if so, Nature needs reforming and must be interviewed by some walking dele gate with adequate powers to lay down the law and prevail upon her to obey! There is no reason why corn potatoes, peas, beans and other vege- tables should not conform their hours of growth, maturity and final har- vesting to the system that is most convenient for the farmer who is, or should be, the boss in all matters that have to do with their produc- tion. We think it can be done And we are willing to allow someone else to make the effort.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
Not As It Was.
(Cleveland Leader.)

Let not the dead game sport and the Jack London man grieve because the lid is getting bigger in Cleveland, policemen wear white gloves and give lectures in social settlements, and Mildred Chadsey discourages the use of plug tobacco by her sanitary cops
 Even down in Arizona, the erst- while habitat of Alkali Ike, Three Card Slim and Bill the Booze, playing seven-up for nickles is now a felony. One of Alkali Ike's desert pals has just been sent to the penitentiary because two bottles of alcoholic dust remover were found in his possession. Jn rough-and-read Texas a man, even if he does wear an old flannel shirt, a huge moustache and a fierce de- meanor. cant take a drink even out CT his own bottle. Recently a North ern drummer was arrested and fined there for playing penny ante" in his hotel room.
 Sure as fate, the great uplift is getting all of us.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
Clara Morris.
Baltimore Sun. )

Gray-haired and middle-aged thea tergoers will learn with pleasure of the good fortune that has come to Mrs. Frederick c. Harriott, whom they knew and admired years ago as Clara Morris. She has just come into a legacy of some $2,000 a year under the will of her brother-in-law, ond her remaining years will be free from the anxieties and pecuniary troubles which have been her lot since she passed from the stage. Failing eye sight, illness and misfortune have made her realize many of the woes and emotions which she depicted with such rare power in the theater, and those whom she delighted in the day of her health and youth will rejoice that she has been rescued from fur ther bitter experiences.
 Every generation of playgoers is disposed to regard it's own favorites as superior to those of the past, to consider the vaunted merits of the actors of a preceding era as eXagger- ated by the prejudices and the fond ness of those who recall them-as old wives tales and old mems tales of things and people of long ago. The evanescent character of stage DOT trayal and stage fame makes it inn possible to reinforce with evidence the images which live only in the memory. But we think we could still call a host of witnesses to testify to the genius and singular dramatic magnetism of Clara Morris Those who once witnessed her New Mag
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

sdalene.' for instance, carry with them forever the recollection of an representation which was the highest expression of art because it seemed to be no art at all, and which swept all the chords of human feeling without the help of ordinary stage trick or artifice, by its supreme simplicity and fidelity to nature. -t -s
 Dramatic genius marked Clara Morris for its own, and said to her at her wash tub-we believe she came cut of a wash tub, as Venus came out of the sea-follow me. Beauty helped her not at all, for she was ill-favored, and even the press agent could not invent many of those fascinating stories about her.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
Kansas New Burden. (New York Sum-

Kansas, that once bled, groans now under a new burden. A dispatch from Topeka says that the banks of the state are actually overfowing with money."- William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette tells the sit uation as a poet should:
 Tt is great symphony of pros perity that Old Lady Nature is direct ing out on the Kansas farms"
 Think back on the time when John Brown fought in hunger and poverty at Osawatomie, when William Alfred Peffer and Jerry Simpson smote the octopus of Wall street and all Kan sas lay crushed and bleeding, pow erless in the grasp of the money lords of the East. Now, Kansas banks bulge with coin, having reached, says the modest Topeka dis patch, a point where they could re- lating the law" We read again while the Emporia poet rhapsodizes:
 "Out of the big moment comes the lowing of fattening cattle at feeding time. Then a yip-yip of horsemen, a great believing and batter of hoofs, as the fattened steers go over the hill to the railroad. The small noises again, and then without warning the deafening buzz and roar that comes when father shifts gears and throws the new Packford into low gear as he hears the farmyard gate, on his way home from the stockyards."
 And was it to bear this burden that Kansas turned to raising corn from the joy of raising hades?
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
ERL UsHERs IN CHURCHES.

E but one Sunday has passed into aGreat Beyond asince the Methodist Tor in Brfdgeport inaugurated the |em of girl ushers in his church impossible to know just what in |nce and weight this innovation
 had in lur9ag .xeun gsfmen to divine Eices. sSThASh there will be an -how me tpmorrow night, or Ether thS pdys will take night
 rsna4tFg t he seen. The pas
 hdwee ass hest the fond hope E the yopfA 1ten who might other E absent de psseIges from services
 attend scaNse eof girl .ushers. Lnting thls De true, will the ng men. once having attended ser ,s on this account be imbued with
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
More NIilIionaires.
(Boston Post.

The tax commissioners figures of assessment on personal property in the city of New York show a total approximating $4,000, 100000. This is in some sort a surprise, as the con |. tributions last year from this source fell short of a billion. And when the swearing off, process for 1914 was concluded, the millionaires es- caped with payment of tax upon some $350, 0,000,0O0-a very considerable re- duction from their assessed liabilities.
 A substantial protest is made against the enforcement of the esti- mate of taxable personality; this is question for adjustment locally; but in the fact that the number and the possessions of the millionaires have been so largely increased by official tabulation, there is matter of wide interest. It discloses a good many millionaires outside the accepted list
 According to the books, there are more than 500 persons in the city of New York each of whom owns per sonal property-real estate not counted-to the value of $1,000, 900 and over. Now it remains to be seen how much they will pay under tax assessment. Billions of unknown wealth have been discovered, 1t seems.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

While we have no special grievance against drugs in the abstract, we are bound to remark that, although the war is said to have caused many drugs to disappear from the American market, we have noticed no marked increase of mortality on that ac- count; and we are moved to recall the laconic statement of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes that, eff all the physic were cast into the sea, it would be better for mankind and worse for the fishes.-Manches ester, (N. H.) Union
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09
WAR AND ITS EFFECT
 ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Purchase of Maps Brings Up Sub-
 feet Before School Board

The war in Europe was brought board of education when a lengthy discussion followed a proposal to buy sixty stamps at a cost of $S each for the Grammar and Prevocational schools. L. Hoyt Pease, chairman of the committee on finance, reported request for the maps from the school authorities.
 Dr. J. E. Martin expressed the 1 opinion that it might be advisable to wait until conditions in Europe be- come more settled before political maps are bought. pr. J. l.. Kelly could not agree with him on this as he believed such a delay would be harmful because of the possibility that the war would last three years or more. The maps in the Cram mar school are worn and it is neces- sary that they be replaced. Dr. Martin replied that even now the names of cities have been changed and boundary lines modified.
 Superintendent Holmes stated that only about sixteen maps desired are of a political nature. It was decided to authorize the committee on finance to purchase the maps and use their own discretion.
 Educational Conference.
 Miss Anna G. Rockwell and Miss Mary Wells, representing the Con- sumers' League of Connecticut were given a hearing on a proposed edu- cational conference to be held in this city. Miss Wells is secretary of the League. They explained that conferences are held in Hartford, Waterbury and New Haven and this year the League plans to hold one in New Britain. It is proposed to devote the local conference to a study of vocational topics. President B. F. Gaffney, Secretary W. L. Hatch and Superintendent S. H. Holmes were appointed a committee to CO., operate with the League.
 Deposits of School Bank.
 Requests for the deposits of the school bank to be opened at the Grammar school were reported by E. c. Goodwin from the Savings Bank of New Britain and the Burritt Saw ings bank. No action was taken as the school bank will not be opened until next month and the granting of either request would be considered premature.
 Dr. Kelly made an effort to secure a half holiday for the school chil- dren on Columbus day but without success He said the country owes as much respect for the name of Co., lumbus as it does for Washington. It was decided not to close the schools
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

the proper spirit of religion. the necessary fervor and devotion, or will they, as might prove their natural bent, spend the moments in church admiring charms of fenininity, watching the gazelle-like movements of the girlies as they gracefully glide
 worshippers to pews? That is the
 question which must be conscientious
 ly considered and answered before
 the failure or success of the Bridge
 port plan can be fully passed upon.
 Methods of present day religionists
 differ somewhat from those which
 were in vogue many years ago. In the
 olden days, church going on Sunday
 was part of regular routine life. Now
 1t is looked upon as somewhat aside
 from the functions of ordinary man
 kind. It is probably due to this feel
 ing of apathy held by the laity toward
 sacred things that the preachers and
 doctrinaires have resorted to all sorts
 of methods to get people within the
 portals of any edifice wherein divine
 services are held. In some measure
 they must recoup their losses in at
 tendance or the structure will fall.
 Nevertheless. it is to be deplored that
 such things must come to pass, that
 placards and circus bills must be post
 ed outside the holy of holies, that
 women must be planted in the center
 aisles. of churches to entice the men.
 It may be moderately business
 methods; but it Is so far different from the old time religion that it
 sort of grates on the nerves of those
 who have held these things as some what higher than the sordid plane of common existence. Not that any, one objects to seeing women in the | the women are the ones who are | supremely interested in the welfare l of the churches. The old timers will l tell you that if it had not been for | the influence of good women the | churches would have had sorry l struggle; that women have always | been the best church-goers; that their | wonderful influence over the male of l the species has always been exerted 1 in this one direction, to make him a l better animal. But it is not as ushers | that they shine. No! They are at their
 best when by their good example they
 work on his sub-consciousness and | lead him, though he knows it not, to
 the place of divine service Once | they don a badge which flagrantly | go to church, their subtleness has l gone by the boards, their influence | has waned, their power destroyed. l That is why we believe the Rev. ! Everett A. Burns of the Washington !! Park Methodist Episcopal church in l Bridgeport will find his efforts nothing l more than a novelty that will wear off much in the same fashion as the | transient styles of the day. His girl l ushers would do better if they began l in the home circle, not at the main | door of his church. There is much "ushering" to, be done; but 1t must be undertaken by mothers, wives and sweethearts, and should be started in the family circle.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

In an editorial approving the expert tarlH-board proposition, the Chicago Tribune asserts that "an untrained body of 500 men cannot 10 this work" :" This may be true, but the last con- gress whipped into line by a free trade President, has supplied all the proof necessary to c1inch the argu- ment that a big body dominated by Democracy is capable of doing whole lot of harm to the industrial interests of the country.-Gloversvill Leader Republican.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-09

but to have proper exercises held in each.
 Tho Clinton Printing company was awarded the contract to print 5000 abbreviated copies of the report made at the last meeting by Superintendent Holmes. The report will be aixteen pages in length and will cost s2L9s,
 A request from Miss Mary J. Tor may for permission to hold a picture exhibit in the Smith school was granted. The purpose of the ex- hibit is to raise a fund for pictures for the school.
 On recommendation from Super intendent L. P. Slade of the High school. it was decided to have tse, graduation exercises ot that school on June Is so as not to intcrfcre with the college examination of tho graduating class