New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-06-07
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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FACTS AND FASc1Es.
For the moment the worlds gaze
was distracted from the Dardanelles,
but there are being fought battles
which will read like a Lew Wallace
Prince of India when the war is
over. The Notifications of the OAR
danelles, supposed to have been next
to Gibraltar in strength, have for
centuries formed the sharp dividing
line between the decaying civilization
of the east; and the developing civil
lization of the west. The time is not
to be fixed with mathematical pre-
cision when the fleets Of the allies
will lie under the walls Of Constanti-
nople and their flags float from it's
arapets; but as the sentinels of the
Dardanelles vanish, the Star beside the
Crescent turns very dim. The Bat
tie of the Bosphorus will loom large
in history.-Syracuse Journal.
In sinking the Lusitania, an un-
armed merchant vessel on which
American cizitens were travelling, with
out search or visitation, and without
giving the crew and passengers an OPP
portunity to save their lives, Germany
violated every principle Of interna-
tional law. The fact that Americans
lost their lives because of this failure
to obey the laws recognized by all
civilized nations is the sole reason
why the president has called Grmany
to account. He is not concerned in
the least with the outcome Of the Eu-
ropean war or the possible effect that
American intervention might have on
the belligerents on either side
Brooklyn Citizen.
A news dispatch from Baltimore re-
lates that a prominent business man
of that city, who pleaded guilty to
an indictment for manslaughter for
killing woman with his automobile,
has just been sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. 1t would be an
excellent scheme to adopt the Mary
land method of handling automobile
killings here. Karl Bitter's slayer
has not been sent to Jail. So far
as the Tribune knows, not one Of the
drivers concerned in the thirty auto
mobile killings last month has been
indicted, though it seems incredible
that in every case the victim was at
fault.-New York Tribune.
Germany does not want war with
the United States. Germany does not
want a severance of her existing re-
lations with the United States. For
this government to do no more than
to recall it's representa- es from Ger
many and ask Germany to recall hers
from the United States would be a
heavy blow to Berlin at time when
it's circumstances are already desper-
ate. This would thrust Germany
outside the circle of all the great
powers, leaving her solitary and for
|orn. It would make Germany lit
terally as we'll as figuratively the
w orld's outcast.-New York Press
When the census man calls at your
door and puts manifold questions to
you, answer him frankly, because the
law require lit, and you are not an
anarchist: treat him kindly because
he Is only doing his duty and you
are not a btor He will ask moth
ing save what the state compels him
to ask. His interest, like yours, is
to get through the job as quickly as
possible.-Brooklyn Eagle.
m onths' journey on terra firma, leav-
ing 5,5es,72o,ooo,oo0 descendants,
might have been a desirable asset to
a foreign army. Just think what Il
new war terror 1000 of those prolific
pests would retreat at any time in
the face of this horde let loose upon
it-St. Louis Times.
Count Retentlow ought to remen1-
Der the service rendered by the SOL
diers of German birth during our Civil
war. He ought to know that Amer
lean citizens Of German or Austrian
birth consider themselves, and stand
ready to prove themselves, as loyal
and patriotit as any class of men in
the untry-Binghamton Press.
That experts's idea that the Prin-
cess Irene was blown up by the Ger
mans by means Of wireless waves
overlooks THE probability that if the
kaiser had anything of that kind at
his disposal he would not waste it on
small craft, lbut would try it on the
British tPittsburg Dispatch,
The Confederate Veterans had no
end of a gohd time at their twenty
fifth annual reunion in Richmond,
Va More ,than 5000 were present
or accounted for, and they paraded
through the! streets under the Stars
and Stripes to the tune of 1.-THE Star
spangled Banner" Dixie" and other
stirring airs: and INDUCED in cheers
for the old: flag and gave vent to
the rebel vell'' with equal enthu-
siasm All:this was in the old Con-
federate capital. The Civil war is
over-Troy Times