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New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
A SAD TASK FINISHED.

After more than four months steady effort the salvage corps Of the United States navy has succeeded in raising the hulk of the submarine F-4, which plunged to the bottom of Honolulu harbor March 25 last, carrying with her a crew of twenty two men, Re- ports from the island today are to the effect that no bodies were saved. Had the hulk been lifted within any seasonable time after the disaster there might have been some chance of ;redeeming the remains of those who were caught in the undersea craft. Because of the great holes torn in the sides of the submarine by the terrible undercurrent, admitting sea monsters, there was no hope of recovering the dead, nor is there of finding out just how the F-4 happened to meet such a. fate.
 With all the disappointment attend ant the failure of finding traces of the men who went down with the F-4 there is nothing but praise for those who helped raise the submerged craft. They worked under the greatest diff culties. The F-4 lay on the side of a steep incline and the cables which, after graphing, were fastened to the hulk repeatedly broke away. The boat weighed two hundred and twenty tons Raising the craft little by little. each day she was lowed within shallow CT water gradually getting her away fir om the three hundred feet depth. But it was not until after pontoons had been built at Mare Island and taken to Honolulu that the final suc- cess of the venture was assured.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
Germany's Cavalry. Springfield Republican. )

Surprisingly little has been heard of the immense German cavalry force, supposed to be the largest employed in the present war which took part vinces At the time some armchair critics disposed of that movement as a mere cavalry raid, but in German strategy it is always safe to assume an ulterior object. Other writers dwelt ons the prospect of a cavalry battle on an unprecedented scale, but nothing of the sort has been reported, and indeed singularly little has been said of the Cossack horsemen who were so much overwritten in the early and imaginative days of the war. That there is splendid field for cavalry operations in the gigantic invasion of Russia is obvious, and no doubt the mounted force has been doing good service. But the great function of cavalry in modern war is to cut to pieces and destroy beaten army, and thus far there has been no chance for this role. So long as an army retires in good order, protection each withdrawal with a strong rearguard. cavalry can make no impression on it, but in feeling the ground ahead for a pursuing army it is servicea b1e and if St. Petersburg should be the next objective the Ger man cavalry will have fresh oppor- tunities for operations on the flank
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
When Congress Gets to Work.
(ChicagO Tribune,)

Imm ediately congress is ready for business the leadership of both houses will be called into action on 1egisla- tion that will range from the problem of an adequate national defense to the question of farm credits and rail road strike prevention. A merchrnt marine must be provided, either by government participation, a subsidy. or by a repeal of some of the ship laws. If foreign trade is to be opened up adequately, the necessary freedom must be given to the banks and merchants to combine to reduce selling costs.
 traiff commission will be de- manded to study the entire tariff question with special reference to the conditions that will prevail following the war; some changes will be asked for outright, as in the sugar schedule and a protection of the new infant in- dustries that have sprung up since the German market has been closed. The supervision of railroad securities by the interstate commerce commis- sion will be brought up again: Alaska development has progressed to the point where the old methods must be discarded and an efficient, direct government set up.
 German sympathizers will attempt
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
Will They Dump Goods Here?
Waterbury Republican,


 That America will be great dump Ing ground for European products in- medlately following the declaration of peace' is the opinion of Robert Grim shaW' consulting engineer and lectur- CT Ill New York University. MT. 1rlInshaW, who returned from Ger lilahy d lew months ago, declares that alter the war there will be in Ger hiahy alone at least 2,O00,oOo men Who Will return home and find that they nave no jobs. He believes that tnese men will be put to work at about fifty cents day and that the product of their hands is gong to pc dumped in America. Mr. Grim shaw states that by no means all the industrial population of Germany are engaged in the manufacture or products consumed in war. Moun- tains of manufacturers are being turned out and stored until such time as the seas will be open to German commerce.
 While this pictures a serious dan ger, possibly there are some contrary considerations. There will be some years needed for reconstruction in Europ That which has been des- troyed will have to be rebuilt, wasted and depleted stocks replaced, and the damage of the war repaired. Our help will be needed for that, and be- sides Europe will find use for every soldier who is lucky enough to sur vive provided her liquid capital is not entirely absorbed by the wars expenses.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
Gen. Jackson's Flag Returned.
(BostOn Transcript. )


 graceful act of courtesy to a chlvalrous foe is that of the Illionois Legislature in returning to New Or leans the historic flag of Gen. Andrew Jackson, 8 faded relic more than a hundred years old, which has Smell ed powder" on the battlefields of three wars. Carried by Jackson's men when they won their victory over the British at New Orleans, later the emblem of 8 Louisiana regiment in the Mexican war, when the trying days of '61 came the venerable bit Of bunting, a little tattered from the scars of its honorable service, was still intact and was carried into many 9 fight. In Tennessee it was its fate to be taken by the Sth Illionois cav airy, and since the close of the war it has reposed in the Illinois mem orial hall, in the state-house at Springfield.
 Three generations have come upon the stage since it's capture, and now the grandsons of the men who bore it back beyond the Ohio will return it to the at-great-grandsons of those who fought first beneath it's folds. II is significant that the bill providing for it's return to New Orleans was introduced in the Illinois Legislature by veteran who lost 6 leg at Vicks- turg and took part in the very battle in which the flag fell. Soldiers are ever the first to forgive their enemies perhaps because they can appreciate better than can the stay-at- homes, their valor and their heroism.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
"He Kept Us Out Of War"
(BOStOn Herald.)

Is is easy to foresee the slogan of next years Wilson campaign. It will be the words in quotation marks ovr this article-assuming that they are still true. And that assum mption acquires increasing strength in the latest news from Berlin. If the European war ends, as it seemingly must before our ballots fall in 1916, and we have kept out of it., and if joint action of the American repub- lies results in some sort of a stay of anarchistic proceedings in Mexico and we have kept out of there, too, Presi- dent Wilson will go before the coun- try as a man who, though badgered and berided by Roosevelt and the whole military crowd, has kept the greatest republic in the world and the dominant force in this hemisphere out of hostilities into which nearly everybody else had fallen. This is evidently what he is working for. It is no unworthy ambition. Its realiza- tion will afford him no small place in history.
 Any one who thinks The kept us out of war" would be a weak and unat- tractive campaign cry makes very low estimate of the mind and heart of the American people. We can think of few greater accomplishments. One of these, perhaps, would be to bring the world war to a close, and in the mediatorial office the presidents turn may yet come. With war no such chance would have been possible. Since there are times when loyalty to country, with every right-minded citizen, should greatly outweigh any l concern over party welfare, there should be no faint response in any quarter to the tribute which all Amer jeans owe to president who. in these troublous times kept us out of war"
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

to align the American government with the fatherland by laying an em mbargo on the export of munitions of war. Action might be necessary on the Mexican situation. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has already announced that the administration will insist upon adopting a budget system and a general overhauling of government finances. Other agencies demand that the government settle the question of extending aid to the farmers by a system of farm credits
 There was never a better oppor- tunity for geninue and patroitic lead- ership.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
TO HONOR WAR DEAD.

Budapest. Hungary, Aug. 31.-The Hungarian minister of justice has de- termined upon a little evolution in legal phraseology or the sake of hon. bring men who have lost their lives in the war. He has ordered that in all legal proceedings and in documents respecting the estates of such persons they arc to be referred to not as the deceased or "the departed as hith- erto, but that the following words must be odded instead: ''Who died hero's death for the Fatherland.'
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
D. MCMILLAN Ias-2OI -2O3 MAIN STREET

city of forfeiture of food supplied tor them by the commission. I was within a short automobile ride from the city of Liege, the capital of the province, and never was able to verify any such stories. On the contrary, the Ger mans, I have every reason to be posi- tive, have never interferred with the Commissions distribution of food, and have never taken away, or threatened to take away, any tbat has been dis tributed to the civil population.
 Well Treated by Germans.
 Attaches of the Commission are most considerably treated by the German soldiery. There are few re- strictions and the most important is that we are not permitted. under any circumstances, to cross the border line of Belgium without a special pass port, which is limited in time and provides for our return to Belgium within that time. It was often essen tial that I should go to Maastricht, which is just across the Holland border, as often our foodstuffs came hv way of that city. While the strict est accountings for such absences from Belgium were demanded, there was never any difficulty, as the Land summers, on guard along the border, showed us every courtesy and seemed to have entire confidence in us. The swift glance at our passports, how cver did not indicate any perfunctory examination, for their experienced eyes at once indicated that our pass ports to leave and return were official.
 When I left Belgium the people seemed to be optimistic and were lock ing forward to an end of hostilities at no distant date. However, if the needs of the Belgians continue to re- quire the service of the Commissions men in the distribution of food there I shall return about the end of the year"
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
PIETE SATISFACTION" i"

Int Wilson's pen bears all the s of being mightier than the kfter many days of patient and waiting and with the filled with the portents of words of Woodrow Wilson last struck their mark and tthe maze of misunderstand- bitterness is breaking the
 Germany has decided upon Be in regard to the Arabic l the action of the German
 will be in line with the the law laid down by Presi- lon, according to Berlin dis Without bloodshed, without Without sacrifice of honor or President Wilson seems to teeded in bringing the diplo- Germany to their senses. submarine warfare will be
 in accordance with recog- |nciples of international law, more nor less than the ates has contended for all
 ., t
 of a break with Germany put of the Arabic case the
 Chancellor. Dr. von Beth tweg, reading between the President Wilson's last note,
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New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
Virginia Dare's Monument.
 (Troy TimcS.)

Women who figure in American history are getting recognition in &C., cordance with their deserts Mem- orials to distinguished members of the sex are becoming numerous. One Of the latest indications of a purpose thus to honor American womanhood is the successful effort to erect a statue 10 Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parents on this side of the Atlantic Virginia's par ents were members of the colony es- tablished by Sir Walter Raleigh on Roanoke Island, now part of North for when after long absence the Brit ish Governor, who had sailed for Eng land, returned the settlers, including the little Virginia Dare, had disap- peared. The Host colony" is one of the mysteries of those early days, though there was at one time wide belief that those of the settlers who escaped death at the hands of the savages lived among and intermar- ried with the Indians. The actual fate of Virginia Dare IS not known. although there is tradition that she became an Indian princess and that members of some prominent Southern families were here descen- dants. At all events she is suff- ciently interesting and romantic char aCter to deserve the statue to be erected at her birthplace and which is the work of an American sculD- tor.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
Justices Related Stroke.
(Ansonia Sentinel )

The mills of the gods grind slow but thy grind exceedingly fine. The night riders of Kentucky, who not so long since hourished and made hash of law and order at their own sweet will esteemed that they had strangle hold on justice and that their
 midnight foggings, burnings and as- sassinations wre never to be disclosed or brought to judgment. But all honor to the sober, second thought of decent Kentucky, their eXultatlon was premature Justice was not dead in the Blue Grass She was not even sleeping, although the temporary inn munity of the criminals made this justifiable assumption. Quietly, un-. ostentatiiously, without any brass band, the forces that represent law and order in that state were at work. They picked up the clues one by one that led to the men responsible for the crimes that shocked the nations months ago. And at last, when the net of evidence was fully woven, they struck Fifty-three of the members of the gangs which disgraced Ken lucky in the eyes of the United States are under arrest and will stand trial. Two have already pleaded guilty to cowardly outrages against helpless men and women. They are on their way to the penitentiary. Others. who have decided to fight their cases are in jail. They will have fair chance to prove their innocence but the officials of the state do not seem to fear the result. It is a cleanup long overdue, but an encouraging omen. Perhaps the same apparently sleeping justice that has finally grip ped these men will lay it's hands some day on the men, who outraged the nations sense of justice in the name of Georgia, and bring them to book. The death of Frank, a trav- esty on law, may not go unavenged, even if Georgia thinks that it will in its heydey of mob violence.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
TO CARE FOR WAR ORPHANS

Solothurn, Switzerland, Aug. 31.- A woman, who thus far is known only as Frau Gertrud," is interest ing her Swiss sisters in a proposition to take over for the balance of the war, orphans from the neighboring countries The Swiss authorities in this canton already have been able to approach the governments of two or three countries at war and have been told by the German authorities that Frau Gertrud's plan is thor oughly acceptable to them. A num- Der of orphans probably will be sent here from the southern German states
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
IDLENESS GREATEST
 BANE OF BELGIANS
Present Enforced Conditions De- pressing, Says American Worker

New York, Aug. 31.-Tracy Barrett Kittredge, of Berkeley, California, who at the outbreak of the European war was a student at Oxford, and who on hearing of the need of American workers among the destitute people in Belgium, went to that country and entered the service of the commission for relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York, recently arrived in New York after nearly nine months work in the Province of Limburg, en route for a visit to his relatives on the Pacific coast.
 "I did not leave Belgium merely for q vacation, said MT. Kittredge yes- terday, but business affairs made it necessary for me to get home. Inci- dentally, of course, it will be a vaca- ton and I anticipate much pleasure in visiting the Panama Exposition, in addition to seeing my relatives after an absence of over a year. After a visit at home, if I am still needed in Belgium, I shall return there and re- sume my work.
 Acted as IT. s. Delegate.
 From the start I acted as an American delegate for the commission l I E, headquarters at Hasselt The commits sion's offices are at 35 avenue des Etas Unis-or United States avenue-and from Hasselt all the food for the province is distributed. Conditions in the province are much the same as elsewhere in Belgium, and the greatest bane of the people of Belgium today is iGleness Perhaps the greatest num- Der of idle people in the kingdom is il. the Valley of the Mouse, especially in Liege, where hundreds of thousands are in enforced idleness because of the closing down of the great iron, steel and kindred industries of that section, clear from Maastricht, on the Holland border, to France on the south.
 "In Liege, some of the ia ctories are operated on part time by the German authorities. I do not take any stock in the stories sent to this country to the effect that the German military au- thorities have at any time forced the Belgians to work for them under pen
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

has succeeded ,s in winning at,4victory warfare, Admiral von Tirpitz, and has
 brought about a recognition of Presi- dent Wilson's demands. There is to
 be no war with Germany, because Germany. does not want war with the
 United States any more than the United States wants war Wlth Ger-
 many. The stiff note of wilson
 brought Germany to realization ot
 what might happen.
 From an American viewpoint the whole situation is clearing up in grand fashion. On top of the news [ that
 Germany has decided to yield to American demands comes the assur- ances from the British Ambassador that Great Britain has also seen the error of her ways. has been impressed with the grievances expressed :; by American merchants over her holding up their goods. and has decided to let through all purchases bought in Germany even though they were not paid for before March. 1. These con- sessions in the enforcement of the Orders in Council are what we have been contending for all the time. Until details are given out later in a memorandum from the Foreign Office in London it will not be definitely known just what quantity of Amer ican goods will be allowed to pass the blockade; but. it is assured, their value will run in the millions. Amer ican importers will rejoice at this de- cision, because it will relieve them of a burden they have been bearing ever since the British Order in Council establishing the blockade went into effect
 It would seem from the present status of affairs that two birds are being killed with one stone. Of course, the final assurances from Ger many and Great Britain have not yet been presented in formal form. But we have the words of the two Am bassadors that everything is getting along in ship shape and it will not be long before the real diplomatic as- surances are given. The friendship of the United States after all is the great prize which the nations of Eu- rope are striving for and nothing is going to be done to court an open break with Uncle Sam, especially aft CT President Wilson has laid down the law in the situation. Knowing that the nation stands back of the man in the White House has some what opened the eyes of foreign diplo- mats after their long period of slum- Der.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
)LDEN OPPORTUNITY,

day of the European war Tn the manufacturers and ex- |pf the United States that a. Int trade must be established #this country and the twenty |bIics of South America. This |1e Preparations should be set lay to bring about this con- The saIesmen of England and
 are not travelling in Brazil Le and Argentina this year. B, for the most part, telling mmers' stories in the trench while the commerce of these hy countries is being crippled not any perceptible move foot in America for young
 salesmen to go to the land fouth and carry with them pf American goods. There is
 Opportunity in this field of
 for young American men Ee a working Knowledge of
 The men in the countries to D would welcome American hinent banker from Brazil re- sited this country and told onderful opportunities that ling the trade of America in
 This man is an American t to South America some and has built up a won-
 hiking business. He men, W of the demands that would
 upon American business
 oing business with South and names as the salient re- a longer and more liberal hn the South Americans are ing. Also, he would have
 salesmen realize the fact South Americans want what t when they want it. In rds they do not want sub- pr just as good" articles. been one of the great draw American salesmenship in
 Our salesmen, in many ves attempted to convince e purchasers that the. lat
 do not know what their that they should try new articles which the salesmen commend. The result, has pss of, faith in the methods eah salesnanship. Eican boys grasp their oppor-
 study the Spanish language
 pare moments, if American men extend to their Latin
 brethren a long time credit a short time credit there
 feasibility of Am erican goods permanent foothold in South
 and z supplanting the fast German and English houses
 done. business there so long. fish and Germans have al- in the South American mer- inces all the credit they
 There is money in it too, reasonable Interest can al- gotten and the South Amer
 good payers. Up to now,
 ys has been the limit of yen by Americans to the nericans and in some in- hey do not want to give that
 tn a reversal of policy our
 trade: may have a greater
 r door opened to it.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

Count that day lost whose low de- scending sun does not see three or four new strikes in Bridgeport begun. Springfield Union.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

AS time goes on the claim by Rus s1a originally that she was not pre- pared for, war, will be taken serlously' -Middletown Press.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Look for developments in the Ko- dak case.-Boston Herald.

Konsider the postage stamp, mi son. It's usefulness konists in its ability to stick until it gets thare- Josh Billings.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

It is gratifying to see Germany Ill the matter of the Arabic showing q decent respect to the opinions or mankind.-Boston Globe
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

The very worst effect of Germany's reported climb down is the increased prestige "elocution' may enjoy com pared with faction. ."--Springfield Re- publican.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

And to think that some of us used to call them nickelodeons and wonder what people could see in them that was entertaining. Now, if you please, they are the picture dramas, and who is exem pt ?-Utica Observer.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-31

This country now holds something more than $2,000,o00,000 in real gold. No wonder that an increasing num- Der of citizens think it is only pru- dent for Uncle Sam to invest in a reliable gun, which to protect him. self while walking around with all this treasure in his inside pocket Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern.