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THE POWER OF PAROLE

~ HE PAROLE Walker has shocked the state State L torney A1corn voices general feeling when he prison should not have parole authority cases of magnitude It would at least such cases without consultation attorney perhaps with trial judge who sentenc prisonere in office when the parole is sought
 Stafe Attorney not opposed to the parole prn- epe opposed to the parole of Walker except that steadfasy refused to aid the state in of refused to aid justice, himself sewied unrepentant and stubborn n
 Many people will feel Walker in refusing duplicate Ais confederates acts with nobility But
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
EPWoRrH LEAGuERs MEET.

The quarterly meeting of the Ep- worth League Group was held at the Trinity M E. church, Tuesday The song service was led by Rev. M. L. G.. Proper and the devotional by Rev W. E. Chengren, pastor of the Swedish M E. A violin solo was rendered by the group secretary and Rev. L. G. Dorchester of Bristol, Conn, spoke or the subject. Progressive Epworth- ians.'' The Swedish M. E. having the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
BOYS' CLUB PLANS TO ENTERTAIN MANY
 STUDENTS OF YALE

Members of the Hebrew Boys club will entertain many students of Yale University Sunday afternoon at the club rooms, in the Taylor building. Cannon street. Many important re- ports will be read.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10

highest percentage of their members present was awarded the banner rci che coming quarter After the Heel- ing a social time was enjoyed by aI present
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
Pottery Bowls and Vases

large collection of shallow bowls and trays for bulb growing also tall and low mottled ware, matt green and Roma Ivory Bulbs in decorated boxes for gifts
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10

Representative James R, Mann eoI ferred with President wilson at the White House.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
IEe DW Read Go
GssGAkisAd s6U

Illinois has been .~The Sucker State ever since it's admission in ISIS.
 The name of the State and river of Alabama, was derived from the Ali baTnos. a strong and powerful Indian tribe formerly inhabiting that section.
 Maine was so-ca1led as early as 1922, from the description in its charter calling it the ..mayne land"
 Missouri is 3, name of Indian ori- gin, and means muddy water The antness of this characterization is well known by all who have ever gazed upon the waters of the greatest tribu- tary of the ssFather of Waters. .
 ohio's December crop report places the condition of wheat at SC, against ss in November, and e7 in Deeemper of last year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
A Nice Rag Rug 90 cts

Dimensions 50 inches long by 25 wide, s.hit- orniss styles of good clean cotton strips Right bedside dresser or threshold.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
Cbe Dm Read Co
 Established I8@z
Fancy Baskets

 Fancy Waste Paper Baskets
 Work and Sewing Baskets
 Infants and Shopping Baskets Standing Work and Baby Baskets, many different styles of and coors round square and Obong m Reed, Willow and Chinese Grass. A very choice line of Fancy Enameled Baskets in Ivory, White Blue with repousse york; Rose garands Pansies, etc.
 These entirely and the selection includes de- signs for Candy, Flowers, Fruit and Sandwiches Fern Baskets with without handles, also Vases with tin Things for cut flowers.
 From Soc up
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-10
Comfy Shoes for Little and Big

Soft Comfys' for the kiddies in attractive coorins and styles. Some of them come well up the ankle. 'comfys' for girls and women. Slippers and Mules for those who like them. Hand emboideredd Boudoir Slippers of rare dainti- ness.
 Slippers for Men Kid Slippers black, tan chocolate color approved masculine style. sss=s<i& ''Comfys' in dark shades. s#s Ns1. essEf k
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XMAS RoPING AND TyF7FATHs q 3
 LAUREL JOHN RECK & SON.
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Fancy China

Fancy China
 odd Service Plates, Chocolate and After dinner Coffee Sets, Chop, Fish and Game Sets of distinctive designs.
 Asparagus and Celery Sets, Mayonnaise Bowls, Tea Cups and Tea Plates.
 A superb group of A. D. Coffees in unique colorings hand painted, very unusual.
 Odd Pieces and Sets for the boudoir table
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-11

man, of twilight sleep, going to prove
less valuable to the race than her
mother who never heard a whisper
about eugenics and who never dared
to think Of the possibility Of being a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
The Too, Too Funny Shaw.

When Androcles and his lion first mounted a
stage in London G. Is. S. issued declaration
scodng the British playgoers for laughing at
his show At the time we took the utterance to
he another item of Shavian impudence, with an
incidental glance toward the box Office. Why
write the funniest show of years if you don't
want people 10 laugh at it?
Witnessing the farce changes ones mind. The
New York playgoer roars at the comic incidents
quite as the Britisher did-and thereby kills just
about one-half of the show and the better half
at that. The little play is packed with delicious
satire expressed in the wittiest of lines, very
large part of which are simply drowned out of
hearing by the laughter greeting the antics of
broader farce
Who is to blame? Not altogether the audi
ences of to-day, we are bound TO feel Modern
playgoers are not habituated to farce that con-
tans real ideas and discusses life Plain alb
surdity and cheering nonsense are all that we
associate with comic doings. II was not 80 in the
DAYS of Aristophanes. The Athenians could en-
Joy and appreciate a play that combined the
broadest farce with the wittiest satire and used
the slapstick as a keen, intellectual weapon. Mr..
Shaw has written Athenian and he has
only himself TO blame for the failure Of his audi
ences TO get all the fine points Of his farce.
Let us hope for the future, however. One can
not help feeling that in Androcles Shaw has found
his true medium. It's understanding will require
q readiustment Of our attitude toward farce and
a new ouickness of thought and feeling. But the
feat of listening will be worth learning. If in
any respect Americans can be compared to
Athenians, it would be exactly in our boosted
agility of mind. And what is agility worth If it
will not aid us TO sit through strange and Won
derful farce without bursting of buttons and
without extingushing the real humor Of the show?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
Wanted-A Public Service Com
mission to Serve the Public.

II * becoming evident from the work or the
legislative committee investigating the Fuohc
Service Commission that there is nothing IN par
ticuIar the matter with that body save ITS mem
bers. The law is good. The machine built up
under that law has operated well enough; com
plants on the average have received adequate
investigation, and where justified remedial orders
have been issued. That much was largely routine
procedure But where the commissioners should
have taken hold in the public interest the pohcy
Of state regulation Of public utilities has broken
down. careful study Of the testimony OF
Messrs. Mccall and Wood indicates the reason
They did not know what the commission was
doing. They did not keep track Of the orders
issued against the PETERBOROUGH, 10 take specific
case. and they did not have any idea of the per-
sistent fouting Of the commissions orders and
authority by that company. Moreover, they have
indicated a predispostion TO accept any excuses
tho Jnterborough offered, or even TO make excuses
for Il. Mr.. Mccall has said he thought the COM
pany. was doing about all that could be ex-
pected." Mr. Wood trusted Hedley," with whom
he had been more or less friendly for hfteen
years.
When Governor Dix abandoned Governor
Hughes's standards for appointment TO the Pub
lie Service commissions ana UOOk LHeSo 91O'VOO
a year places as political spoils he started the
deterioration which has ended in Mccall and
Wood That was a lamentable thing for the
public. Fortunately it can be changed easily,
There is slight restriction on the power Of the
Governor to remove a Public Service commits
sioner. A state Of affairs like that disclosed by
the legislative committees investigation surely
warrants removal Of some commissioners. Since
Governor Roosevelt signed the special franchise
tax law. the Public Service commissions law Of
Governor Hughes is the biggest advance in the
relations Of public toward corporations in this
state The policy of corporation regulation is
too good TO be discredted or broken down by
maladministration. The public has too much at
stake 70 rest content while the law is permitted
TO fail Of its purpose because Of administrators
who neglect or refuse TO take advantage of its
provisions.
The present Public Service Commission has
not served the public as the public should and
could be served. 1t is time to have in Office a
commission which can and will enforce the law,
even 20 the point Of setting in motion criminal
actions against violators Of its orders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
THE PEOPLES COLUMN
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

ent time in the Metropolitan Museum
and one in the Brooklyn Institute Mu-
scum to assist the pupils of the public
schools in studying the museum collec-
tons. The services of these instruc-
tors have been generously offered at
all times to teachers both in the ele-
mentary and high schools, and many
hundreds have taken advantage OF this
opportunity TO secure expert advice
and guidance.
The museums through their cordial
cooperation not only have made pos
sibe the helpful work of the School
Art League but have advanced this
work along lines which the league has
not attempted to develop. When the
vast number Of teachers and children
in the schools is considered it will be
realized that there offers for this wise
" devised scheme field so large that
the museums and the School Art
League together can reach only lin
tied number of all those to be aided.
1t is to be hoped, therefore, that this
decent service will be extended so that
it may be possible for thousands to re-
ceive the aid which now can be given
only to hundreds.
GUSTAVE STRAUBENMUELLER,
Associate City Superintendent OF
Schools.
New York, Feb. s, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
The Divine Problem.

Once upon a time when every nationality had
It's. own particular deity or deities, to call upon
them for victory could cause no confusion in the
empyrean. Each god had but one side 10 take in
a battle, on whose outcome his own existence often
depended But in these days, when all of Christen-
dom worships the same God, His choice of sides
in war is subject to as many interpretations as
there are beigerents involved.
Each nation at war in Europe has asseyerated
its faith in the possession Of divine favor. So
far their reasoning in some cases rather bewilder
ing, has followed IN rough way, though with
out public avowal for obvious reasons certain
ecclesiastical cleavage. The priests of France
have called for the blood Of the German heretics.
Catholic Austria would have God annihilate the
Sav minions of the Greek Church Protestant
Prussia has offered up prayers for the defeat Of
the ignorant, british followers of Greek priests
and for the humiliation of decadent Catholic
France. And Cardinal MERCER has expressed con-
fidence that God would punish the Prussian
despoilers Of Catholic Belgium.
But now comes a German cardinal, Archbishop
Won Hartmann, Of Cologne, with the announcement
that God will not permit atheistic France and
orthodox Russia 20 crush the fourishing religious
life in the Fatherland" The decision in the
matter must therefore involve rather more
complicated psychological process even than we
had at first feared
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
The Value of the Night Courts.

The committee on criminal courts of the New
York County Lawyers Association has adopted a
resolution for an investigation of the value OF
the night courts, with a preamble indicating
minds already made up. This preamble recites
that the courts arc costly, keep many patrolmen
from duty and handle only mendcancy cases.
1t is true that it is more expensive to run night
courts than not TO run them--by the same line of
reasoning it would relieve the taxpayers Of a
burden if there were no courts. 1t is true that
il takes a policeman off the street when ne has
to take a prisoner TO court. Should policemen
therefore neglect to arrest lawbreakers and
present evidence against them? If the night
courts handle only mendcancy cases, the commit
tees assertion Of it is the first time that informa-
ton has come into general circulation.
The night courts have been the object Of fire.
quent attacks, usually inspired by the straw
bondsmen, crooked police and other underworld
elements which profted by the opportunities for
graft existing when there was no place for prompt
arrangement of a prisoner arrested after the day
courts were closed An investigation of the SER
vice of the night courts to the public conducted
by any impartial reputable body should be wei
coined. No such investigation, though, should be
approached with bias of any sort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11

All our misgivings about the advisabity OF taking
the Grand Tour have vanished We must see Cali
fornia. Read what j. A. Meadows writing to thu
Peansburg, ". Va, Virginian has to say:
left West Virginia on Dec. 18th for the state OF
California, having re-arranged 10 receive your
paper while sojournng in this. the land OF sun
shine, flowers and forests. I beg to inform you.
receive tho Virginian each week. as spicy letter
from tho county OF my boyhood days, which is
much enjoyed by one, so far from his friends In
the old county OF Giles.
! have far made this city, San Bernardinc.
my headquarters. the place to which | return
after touring different sections OF the state The
city OF San Bernardino. nestles in the center Of
tho most beautiful valley OF the west. Its thou
sand acres OF orange groves and large gardens
are guarded by towering mountain range that
rises sheer into the heavens, until its snow capped
peaks reaches upward two miles above the ocean
that lies in the distance. There about
eighteen thousand people in the city proper, and
in its suburbs within a radius OF few miles are
ten thousand more. who live tho life OF happiness
beneath the azure skies and In the midst OF flowers
and fruits.
We expect, before returning 10 West Virginia TO
travel over much OF the state OF California,
visiting the Panama California Exposition. at San
Diego. which opened in a blaze OF glory on New
Year day and the Panama Pacific International
EXPOSITION at San Francisco
Space in your paper forbids US TO elaborate
the beauties and grandness that greet one on all
sides in Southern California II land OF sunshine
and flowers. To be appreciated IT must be seen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
ENGLAND AND THE OPPRESSED
Gases Where Her Help Has Been
Freely Given.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As an old and sdmiring reader
of your valued paper | would ike
permission to reply to a letter pub
lished in your issue OF January ~,
signed "F. Vaudeville"
He wrote: people are waking up to
the realization that 1t was the militar-
ISM of Germany that preserved the
peace Of Europe for forty-four years"
Your correspondents sweeping state
ment would be more convincing II he
had informed us where and by whom
such a belief Is held. Certainly there
is no neutral country on earth where
people are waking up to such would
be pleasing realization, and least OF all
in these United States.
England would never protect an
other country at the least disadvantage
to herself" Emphatically that is I'M
true. In the days of Marlborough,
Frederick and in those of Napoleon,
when English soldiers fought in Prus-
sin, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and else
where on the side of the allies, she
England had absolutely nothing to
gain. Earlier the Spanish armada had
failed, as even the great Napoleon
failed, in its respective attempts
to invade and conquer Englsnd-in
other words, England had proved her
self unconquerable, and she was under
no obligation TO engage in the wars of
other nations, but then and now she
was and is always on the side of the
oppressed, of liberty and freedom.
"Shc England could never accom-
plish il alone, so she chooses the time
when Germany is opposed to almost
all the world" II England wished to
crush Germany she would have had
six million men under arms long be-
fore August, 1914. A nation that Is
anxious to crush another nation does
not wait until war is declared and then
call for volunteersl
Why has Germany been at peace for
forty-four years? Because she was not
ready until July, 1914, when the Kiel
Canal was completed.
British markets were open TO Ger
many, untaXed, while British manufact-
ures paid 20 per cent in Germany.
Certainly this shows no jealousy by
England of Germany's commercial prog
ress. Even with her free ports the for
eign trade of England in 1918 showed
an excess Of 81 500, 900 900 over that Of
any other country.
Bernhard says: Even English at
tempts at 8 rapprochement must not
blind US TO the real situation. We may
at most use them TO delay the neces-
sary and inevitable war until we NAV
fairly imagine We have some prospect
Of success"
The genial Treitschke said: "Our
last and greatest reckoning is to be
with Great Britain"
Certain it is that the disciples Of
Bernhard and Treitschke will have q
terrible awakening before the fall Of
1915, T. ATHERT0N.
New York, Feb. /, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
Why Doesn't Mr.. Burleson Have Mr.
Daniels Fined?

The educational institution by which Mr. Jo-
sephus Daniels uplifts Raleigh, n. Co. "Ine News
and Observer" shows no sign Of mending us
morals. 1t goes right on printing advertisements
Of ouack remedies. And it goes right on pruning
these advertisements as reading matter, IN type
artfully contrved to deceive the readers eye and
without any designation as advertisement
The sin of printing fake medicine advertise
ments is between Mr. Daniels and his Maker
Perhaps we hoped too much in thinking that the
Secretary of the Navy would be interested IN
uplifting his own newspaper at his own expense
But the printing Of these advertisements as read
ing matter is a more public matter 1t is a
breach of the Post Office appropriation act OF
August "a, 1912, and renders the editor or pub
Usher liable to fine Of not less than 500 nor
more than $500.
We hate 70 think how many $500 fines Mr.
BurIeson could collect from Mr.. Daniels for each
of these deceits. One would probably be enough,
at that. Even between fellow Cabinet officers
law is something. When is Mr.. Burleson going
TO have Mr. Daniels fined?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
Mr.. Taffs Latest Service to His Country.

Mr.. Taft, in letter to Professor Edmund
Won Mach, Of Harvard, has exposed the essential
treachery underlying the proposal that the
United States forbid the export Of arms and
ammunition to begerents. Professor Won Mach
under the impression that ex-Presdent Taft
would succumb to the false pacfcism in his plea,
had asked him to write a letter favorng the
passage of Senator Hitchcock's bill, letter to
be read at neutrality meeting" Mr.. Taft
wrote:
think that 10 interdct the supply Of ammun-
ton and arms from this country to the belGerents
in the war would be TO adopt policy that would
seriously interfere with own welfare, should
we ever be drawn into war against our Will oy
the unjust invasion of power which was fully
prepared and who would always find us unprepared.
Such policy that you indicate would mean that
the power which is armed cap a-pie would always
have at disadvantage those countries that are not
in such state of preparation.
Could anything more deity disclose the anti
American nature Of a campaign to range peace
lovers on the side Of mitarsm? It is needless
to say the neutrality meeting did not hear
his letter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE CRISIS
A Newspaper Of To-day VS.. NewsPs-
per of a Century Ago.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have been too busy to even
think of writing letters for months
past, but | just can't help expressing
my appreciation Of your splendid edl-
torial in to-day's Tribune under the
heading "The Woman Suffrage Crisis
in The Tines" Never has the diff
ference between an up-to date news
paper and an "oldtimer' been shown
up SO clearly as was done in those two
editorials on woman Suffrage ap-
bearing in "The Times" and The Irlb-
une within the last week, that in "Ihe
Times" showing how people thought
one hundred years ago and that IN Inc
Tribune showing how people think to-
day. Evidently THE Times" has stood
still these many years. while Inc
Tribune has been forging ahead, keep
ing up with the present and looking
forward with hope and encouragement
toward the future. .,
WHY, if had been an anti and read
that ieremiad in last weeks Tor, more
properly, last century's) Times" |
would have gone to bed with q "fit OF
the vapors" II think that is the cor
rect word when speaking in the times
Of "The Times"). But. being happy
suffragist instead. | actually laughed
heartily over the "turrible" things that
are going to happen, according to that
editorial, when am allowed to vote.
NORA CANTWELL.
New York. Feb. Q, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
MIR. La Folleue's Peace Congress.

Senator La Follette's resolution proposing a
peace congress of neutral nations is something
in the nature of counsel Of perfection. The
neutral nations have suffered good deal from
the interruption Of commerce and the restriction
of exchange and credit facilities which have re-
suited from the war The rights Of neutrals are
being threatened in many ways, and there would
be much merit in a proposal TO bring neutral
governments into a conference with the aim Of
making united protest against practices which
are unheard Of in international law and which
must work greatly 20 the disadvantage Of non
belligerents.
But when Mr. La Toilette suggests as tasks
for such conference the adoption Of plans for
for the naturalization Of the man
ufacture and sale Of munitions of war, the pro-
bbitjon Of the sale Of such munitions by one
country TO another and the establishment Of a
worlds peace tribunal with real authority, he not
only far outruns the limits Of what is practicable
but he strengthens distrust Of the intentions Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-11
THE FLAGS OF A SHIP
What She Carries at Stem and Stern,
and Why.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you please answer . con-
slant reader Of your paper in order TO
settle a dispute? A claims that the
flag Of the nation a ship belongs to is
carried on the flagstaff Of the stern of
the ship. thinks not. Which is
right? NJ. MCCARTHY.
New York, Feb. z, 1918.
Here is the complete story OF .
ships flags, where they are flown and
what they signify:
On the staff in the bow-The jack Of
nation to which vessel belongs.
On the foremast-Flsg OF foreign
ration vessel is going to. II going to
own national port, she carries flag Of
nation she is leaving, if that nation
happens to be foreign.
On the mainmast-The house flag,
always.
On the aftermath Of she has one)-
Flag bearing vessels name.
On the mizzen-Nothing.
On the staff at the stern-The ma
tional ensign of the nation to which
the vessel belongs.