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New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

four months issues of the Atlantic or Contemporary Review. At 10 o'clock, so strong is the force of habit, he starts homeward, to enter a dark house, search through every closet and shelf for clothes, stumble over every chair and bang into every table in the place. and finally get to bed.
 In the morning he rushes to work without breakfast, and without max ing the bed, and during the day gets some or his former associates 10 keep him company at dinner That means too much smoking and listening to lot of conversation which dosent in- tcrest hlm, as it doesn't have to do with the household buGget or knit sweaters. He goes home after mid night to wake in the morning with headache and wonder at his foolish ness in staying out so late.
 He tries the shore, but finds all his friends in parties he doesn't want to brcak into. and so sits like a lonely old crow on the veranda of the club house talking with pCopic he scarcely knows, and with whom he mas abso- lutely nothing in common.
 The careful habits UT the eleven months before are disregarded com pletely, and the enforced bachelor finds that the freedom he has so counted on but ashes. BN Saturday of the first week every bureau drawer in the house has had it's contents thrown on tho floor in a search for tic or d shirt, every he'd in the house is stripped bare of it's covers, the kitchen is drCary waste of unwashed dishes hoapcd high on the draining board. Flies appear where never a fly dared show it's head, and the house is a desolation.
 Let bachelors, who think they know, talk of freedom. The married man whose wife's away dosen't want any freedom He wants to have somebody around who knows where in the deuce everything is, somebody who can find tic, mako bed, cook a meal, and boss his around.
 August is the worst month in the year for the married man.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
The Stranger in our sIidst.
(EOIlicr'S WCcNGyD

It is a bad omen that tho German papers published in this country con- tlnuc to view the whole controversy from the standpoint of Berlin. They are anxious about Gcrmunys inter- csts in conducting the war; they are ot anxious about the rights of the United States. Their editorials find satisfa ctiOn and conviction in what ever emanatcs from the Wilh"lms- strasse maGnatcs, while tncy intimate very broadly that Our government is prcjudircd, hNpOcrital, unneutral sulscrvicnt to England, indifferent to fact, and so on, ad nauSeam. Our freedom of the press enables them td malign the administration at Wash ington, but does not enable them even to exercise fairly the rulers at Berlin. It is perfectly plain that in case of a break with Germany many of the so-call@d American Germans will be unable either 70 curb their zeal for the old country or to shake off their habit of implicit and instinc- tive obedience of it's orders We have had many examples of this lately in the endless small "acci- dents' to war property of the United States in the bombs found on vessels loading for England ana France, and Tn the foolish frantic activities of all these alleged peace truth and neu- trality leagues. These things may be only coincidences, pur there are altogether too many sucn coinci- dences It is high time that our cit izcns of Germanic origin and German ic @sympathies pull themselves to- Eether and show that they care about the United States. The next few months are going to be a very critical season for those whose hearts own a foreign and an antago1istic allegi- ance.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
Whithcr Germany is Heading.
(Springtield Republican.)

Important paSSa geS were evidently omitted in the condensed reports cab- led to this country of the address last Thursday of Chancellor Won Beth mann ollweg to the reassembled Reichstag. In commenting upon it the Tageblatt of Leipsic says: The world now knows how we became
 involved in this war, and we have learned for the first time whither we are heading." If the writer means that the world has learned from the chanccllOr's speech that England and not Germany was responsible for the war, the absurdity hardly calls for comment: this part of the speech was a tisue of sophistrics and misleading statements which may pass muster in Germany but which cannot for a mo- ment stand analysis in a country where the facts have been put be- fore the public as in the United States
 It is otherwise with those passages in the speech which convey hints as to the designs of the German govern ment, and when the full text is avail able it will merit the most minute scrutiny. A sedulcus effort has been made to represent pr. Won Beth mann H Ollwcg as the opponent of war and of aggression It must be con- fessed that his character is as vet a good deal of an enigma. In Eng land before the war he managed as Paul Rohrbach noted with satisfac- tion, to comand a confidence which had not been felt toward his i'm mediate predecessors. But events have raised some doubts as to Whoth- CT this confidence was justified. whether he was not as matter of fact trying BiGmarkian tactics on England, with no real friendlincss but
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
Gum and ValOr.
Washington Post.

Not only is 1t the little things in life that count, but it takes them to overthrow many preconceived ideas of what they would be under condi- tiOns that have not yet been tested.
 Thus it has been the custom to re- gard the relation between the fight ing instincts and the tastes suited thereto as signifying the more deadly sort of Viands and comestibles in de- mand by the fighters. Mighty pot tOssers of old have been cited in proof of the assertion, when Bismarck drank a quart of brandy neat without rem owing his lips from the flask fol- lowing the battle of Sedan. And Peter the Great-to preserve the due impa quaffing the same sized quart regular ly in times of peace, removing the vapidness of the beverage by whole some additions of red pepper.
 Today, however we have it that not fiery liquors, such as the perfervid ina gination of Miss Jane Addams would have us believe, but plain old fashioned American chewing gum is the prime incentive to heroic charges and drives for glory. Not the anemic cigarette itself, despite millions are smoked daily in the trenches. serves to arouse the berserkcr lust for battle as does the 0uid of Chiclc sugared to a turn and favored with the par ticular extract affected by the particu-
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
P1ucky Norway.

It has been a. frequent subject of comment that Norwegian ships have seemed to be special targets of Ger man submarine attack among the ships of neutral nations. The reason Is disclosed in an interesting article on Norway written for the Providence Journal by H. Trolle of Copenhagen.
 At the outbreak Of the war, Mir. Trolle says, Norway had 3,293 vessels with a total tonnage of 1,767,0s4, while now Norway has 35S0 vessels with 2,10S,000 tons. Norway quickly saw the chance to do a carrying trade ot a profit because of the big rise in freights, as German shipping was driven off the ocean. Hence, ship building was pushed in Norway and besides Norwegians bought at low prices a great many German ships captured by the English, thus making considerable money. Norway took up the freight routes, especially to South America and West Africa, which the Germans formerly dominated.
 For this reason, and because the country is English in it's sympathies, Germany has felt specially provoked at Norway. Says MT. Trolle:
 Norwegian passenger steamers. as
 
 Newcastle route, have been attacked several times by German submarines. as well when going eastward as vest ward. 1t happened that Amundsen was on board the Venus on a trip to England when a torpedo nearly struck the propeller. Captain Amundsen, who was expelled from schleswig when he was featuring in Danish on his experiences at the South Pole, has certainly a reason to ask the question why the German government gives a Swedish explorer, Hedin, fair treat ment, while a Norwegian is denied it."
 The pluck of Norway under these circumstances is indeed worthy of ad- miration. She alone of the smaller powers has not been afraid to protest to Germany when her neutral rights are invaded. Sho is the weakest of the three Scandinavian countries, but |. her manhood is virile.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

for the sake of squaring Britain till other designs were accomplished.
 In America feeling has rather leaned toward the chancellor because he has been credited with opposing the murderous Tirpitz submarine cam palgn. At the outset of the war he was likewise credited with working sincerely for peace. Of late he has been credited with opposing the de- mana of extremists for anneXing Bel gum and other occupied territories hatever justice there may be in the ascrlption to him of these good intcn- tloHs, 1t has become glarngly ap- parent that at every point he has lalled to accomplish anything or even lo demonstrate the sincerity of his intentions. Wherever we can sec his mana at work it is promoting a war of aSsression-whether as a mere tool or as an originating force may be still Tn doubt,
 but whatever the true character of the chancellor may be, he is unques- uonably the voice of the government when he tells Germany "whither it is heading" and it is plain that the Ger hlan press no longer doubts that Ger many Is heading toward conquest and expansion. The chancellor words Courland freed" says the Leirsic laseolatt, will be greeted joNfUlly.'
 A certain goal" says the Berlin Iaeeplatt, " is clearly to be seen in the chancellors words; a new Europe, a new order of things, must result It involves "the extension and strength enlng of the German empire; in this purpose all Germans will agree" The German press takes it for granted that liberating Poland from the Rus san yoke means putting it under German control, and in this the chan cellor was supported in the RcichstaG by leaders of the conservative and liberal parties and the center. There is no longer room for doubt as to the purpose of the government to take all it can get or as to the helpless ness of the scattered minorities which are opposed to a war of agresiOn. Do German stand for that? All neutral countries know, says the able and patriotic German author or that damning book. "J'Accuse:"
 That the plans and the preparations for this war have long been made by Germany and Austria not only from a military but from a political point of view.
 That for long it had been resolved to represent this offensive war to the German people as war of liberation, because it was known that only thus could the necessary popular enthusi- asm be secured.
 That the object of this war is an at tempt to establish a hegemony on the continent, and as a later sequel, the acquisition of England's position of power in the world.
 This has been strenuously denied, though every scrap of evidence point cd to Germanys guilt. Now the clov en hoof is shown unabashed. The people have suffered much they are approximately tempted by the gilt tering hopes of wealth and empire held out by their rulers. Those who would have held back from a war of conquest feel that tho sacrifice of blood and treasure merits a reward. That is what inc world has to face, and these new revelations will cOnsOli- date neutral opinion still more strong ly against German agressOn It must likewise nerve the allies to hold out to the last ditch against this mOnStrOuS inSOlcncc of conquest.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
WHAT OTHERS SAY
views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- oRCe.
Landing an Army on Our Coast.
| W aterblr>- Pcp,1bIican

1 N"aterbury Republican,
 inc people of the middle west get hlo"leose every day of the fact that 'iic" are not safe from the evils of war IL thls country happens to get in'o It and a string power is able to i''i'''' Agalnst our present military oiulplhent strong army would make little or marching from the coast far eioush inland to make life unpleas-
 'hc iol those who think they are safe. Col' Edwin F. Glenn, chief of the st"ll or the eastern department of 'iic army, with headquarters on Gov ellior Island, talked to the business men regiment at Plattsburg about 'hls on Tuesday night. He said that a nation powerful enough to control tue sea, with a navy like England s perhaps, could take possession of our coast from Portland to the capes of virginia and land an army of 1000 men on the eastern scaboard. Against 'hls our army would offer little re- slstance and the enemy could estab- llsh a line as far west as Erie and flttsburg extending down to Balti-
 more and Washington. Within this llmlt would be included most of the l"ctorles and munitiOn plants of great importance. Without these fac tories the 60,0O0,OOO people to the west of the enemy's battle line would De very poorly provided with the means for arming themselves. This IS assuming that they are in their present helpless, unarmed, unpre- pared condition when the enemy lands With these plants the enemy could easily supply himself with all Of the equipment and supplies needed. fe would be self-supporting as an army and in fact would be practically indifferent to the conditions of the sea.
 This is only a new form of teach ing the lesson of the need of being ready to defend ourselves Col. Glenn laid special stress on the desira bilty of having our young men trained for military service. We have bOaSted that We were free from this necessity It has been one of the conditions here which has tempted so many foreign CTS to come here to escape military SC rVice at home. But if the rest of the world is to keep in condition we have got to. Military service can, Gfter all, be made pleasant and have its advantage as a means of healthful exercise and valua ble moral and men, tai discipline.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
Fight Hour and Corset
Bridgeport Farmer.)


 The adjustment with the Warner Bros. corset workers appears to be completely satisfactory to them, which is a guarantee that it will be satisfa ctory, in a long run, to the Warner Bros. Co. The good will of tine people who are the working force Of a manufacturing establishment is an asset of value. This is why a frank meeting, and a satisractory ad- just, are so much more profitable to everybody.
 DeVer H. Warner is correct, when he says that the other corset manu- facturers will follow his example. The sooner the better. The competi- ton of an eight hour day, is irresis- tible, when it exists in the same in- dustry, in plants situated in the same neighborhood.
 The ten hour day cannot be suc- cessfully maintained in Bridgeport, while the Warner Bros Go. is on eight hours. The ten hour day can not be long maintained Tn the corset industry in New Haven. To try to maintain it would mean q steady flow Of the best workers to Bridgeport Moreover it is doubtful if large or Ganization can keep it's market in competition with corsets made under fair conditions.
 The Farmer predicts an era of in- creased prosperity for the corset in- dustry in Bridgeport.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
HAT TT MEANS.

German version of the la battle is given out there if ascertaining the absolute low the superdreadnaught
 destruction,-if indeed he down. No one will let whe ether the giant ship Ed by a British submarine lie, at the exit to the Gulf
 or whether she had gone E narrows of Moon Sound |struck a mine. The dis tl1e next two days should he truth. But, in the long haner of sinking the MoIt- Nv the three cruisers and do boats were destroyed &cidentals. That they were
 bottom is the main fact. pIe reverses at the hands hans the Russians have
 t last accomplished some-
 worth the while, for the
 will go down in history he greatest naval conflicts knt. world war, if Petrograd
 are borne out. Silence han war office would seem |sent to the Russian claim
 the truth of accounts of httle they but demonstrate
 n sea power is over-rated. fleet is not as formidable
 I'd be led to believe. From
 rations of the German s,lb- b would naturally suppose et of Germany is the equal Inc world. But on second gnt, and taking all things
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
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mt, each having it's favor

lar regiment, each having its favor it's
 And if the tale from the trenches were not enough, the fact is cited that martial sentiments thrilling the pulse of China's yellow hordes have been aroused simultaneously with an increasing demand for chewing gum. Four hundred million hearts that beat in unison, 800, 1000, 900 jaws that close as one! Yet there should be no surprise Lewis Carroll has a few words on the subject of jaw movement and its relation to a spirit of un- yielding determination. If the habit ual paper cigar between the clenched teeth of the william intensity the black frown on. his brow. why should not the fragrant cud develope the fight ing faculty, long recognized as char acteristic of the pronathous species? And if China's patriots be melted to run amuck after this new fashion, their fate will be less patheic than that which befell Tom Hoods salty hero, of whom it is recorded that his
 Head was turned, and so he chewed
 His pigtail till he died.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

into consideration, this fleet seems to be at its best when operating against merchantmen, and not battleships or kindred craft. No one can doubt the bravery of the attempt to force an entrance to the Gulf of Riga by the Germans. It was a daring schemc' and it took more nerve than anything done yet. Transports laden Wlta sage at the entrance to the gult TOT the purpose of depositing thelr car goes on the mainland. Knowing that the Russians must have planted mines
 there and that at best there were put
 eight miles spread of water between
 the capes guarding the entrance the
 German commander of that fleet, even if he had superior numbers, must have looked for a stubborn attack from shore batteries. This much must be granted him,-in the face of every difficulty, he forced a passage. It was a daring exploit and one which goes to prove that the Germans when they start out on the offensive will stop at nothing. Yet Withal it might prove costly bit of work for Ger many, for the Russian spirits have been revived, the Allies have re- gained somewhat of their lost confi- dence, and they may now go out and turn the tide of affairs in the eastern theater of war The famous English fleet, which someone has accused ot having been kept in the British mu- scum, seems at last to have done something in the line of battle, tor' we are told, British submarines aloeo
 the Russians in the battle of the Iuil of Riga. This may mean that hhs- land has decided to really get m the war and take some of the burden off the shoulders of her allies who have suffered the brunt of nearly all the fighting.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

There is no law, it may be there is no irrefutable reason, against nomin- ating the chief justice or an associate justice of the supreme court TOT presl- dent. There is, we think, general if undefined objection. Justice Hughes apparently shares, and his example should do much to strengthen, that objection.-New York Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

The profits of ocean carving are greater now than at any time in the past, even with the risks to both bel ligerent and neutral ships of seizures on the high seas. This fact empha- sizes the intolerable folly of the La Toilette seamen's law virtually deny ing to American shipowners any part in these profits But the sentim ental effect of lowering the American flag on vessels that have to be sold be- fore November 4, when this ridicu- lous statute goes into effect. is cal culated to hit Americans even more strongly than any economic consider ations.--Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

It is all very well to say that the in vasion of England by a hostile force is chimera. The German army in the field has failed in only one of it's mplishments--the invasion of Paris itself and to say that the British fleet must be destroyed before Eng land can be invided is to overlook the great field guns of the Germans, that can hurl a ton of metal a distance of twenty-siX miles.-Ansonia Sentinel
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

George Ade has renounced writing slang for good and all. MT. Ade, who worked himself into a collapse cover- ing the republican and progressive na- tlonal conventions of 1912, has since devoted most of his time to the golf links on his farm near Chicago. lie says Billy Sunday may take his place as chief coiner of vernacular to the hoi polloi-Springfeld Republican.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
BRITAIN'S LIGHTS.

h criticism of the local frvice has not infrequently p and severe and at times pt without some basis, there laying the fact that New a well lighted city. A re- etion by the board of pub- falled attention to this con- lit is borne out by compar- other places. For many Icity was dependent for hination in the central DOT the old fashioned carbon knd in the outlying sections service was given with htsewhich required individ- billy attention.
 recent years, the system fevolutionized. High pow hg arcs have superseded hrcs and the mantle lamps service in the surburban i've given way to the bril- nation of the modern i'm
 No city in the state can tskirts better lighted than Few Britain. With the ad- e mazda light the service Freatly extended so today
 and country roads and
 in former times knew no hination than the farmers the phosphorescent glint of e dazzling aglow with the ival the sun. Winter and Ltters not; the illumination hether it reflects to guide | f the wayfarer past fields | born, meath OCT hanging
 heavy with summer foli-
 Illuminate his journey frigid air of virgin drifts Good street lighting is a
 a community. It means he welfare of it's citizens. erially in development and
 As an advancer of civil anks with the trolley, the
 and the telephone. No rtisement could be offered
 or traveller than an up- hting service. At night, INVENT lldS liltlS GlSC tc
 Judgement of the import
 lace than the illumination
 people.
 of course, some parts of wn district which might Ehted. Near the corner of Main streets there is k spot that casts a gloom hediate vicinity and which EalIy obliterated by the in a medium sized light. hite Way is not as gay and rne would have 1t; but for t is about everything that
 Id, When the board of ks makes up it's mind to 1t out it might drift casu- the Rialto and mark the
 for the purpose of recom-
 provement.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24
Much Hangs on '"The Trousers But
 ton"
(New Haven Register.)

(New Haven Register)
 England gets whole suit of clothes for 2 trouacr-button,' was tho way in which Henry M. Stah- lev chara cterized the trading of IicligoIand for what is now Brit iah East Africa, when he returned in 1S90' from exploring the territory in Africa. Such was the view when the trade was made, but ever since the war began the transaction has been bitterly denounced in Eng land.
 The "trouser- button" has come to be the most strongly fortified citadel in the world, and had Ger many not Heligoland in this war, she would lack her base for sub marine operations against the Brit ish shipping in the North sea and Zeppelin station of greatest inn portance.
 A hundred million dollars has been spent in fortifying that rock only about 70 acres in extent and no one but the German War office knows the extent of the fortifica- tions or the strength of the guns on it.
 situation, and should it fall not only the Kiel Canal, but Bremen. Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg would be open to the British fleet. What the Dardanelles are to Tur- key, Heligoland is to Germany to- day.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

The fact that so far half a million iron crosses have been conferred by the German government indicates that there is no scarcity of that metal. When the crosses are turned over for the making of shrapnel there will be some evidence of a decline in re- sources-Wilkesba Record.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-24

Turkey is taking her poets to the front to inspire them to write songs, which in turn will inspire the Turk ish trops. Possibly putting the poets on the front line to recite their poems to the foe would cause a hasty retire. ment on the part of the allies.- Water-town Times.