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New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on ali sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald
 ofI1cc.
German Press on American Note.

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 The American note torSer1nany nei- ther accepts nory endorses the Ger man idea of international law and neutral rights at sea and therefore ac- cording to the German press, possibly inspired, the American note is all wrong. But it will become established after time that American opinion on international matters is not manu- factured either in Berlin or London and there Is not the slightest doubt but what we can successfully maintain our position taken on the ground or law right and humanity. !
 Because we do not accept the Ger man proposition with reference so the destruction of neutral lives and property without warning and in VI olation of all the hitherto established rules of war, we are therefore, in the view of the German press, acting anu arguing in favor of the Allies IT the German government takes that view and urges 1t, there can be very llttie le more said on. our part. We have taken our stand and shall not yield lt to any argument in favor, of the. course here- tofore adopted by Germany on the sea. .i.ts4@. %slss
 Were England or France in the place of Germany the American posi- .tion would be precisely the same.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Slang.
Stamford Advocate. )

A Waterbury paper IS rece1ylng
 complaints about the increasing use
 of slang The complaints are well
 founded The case or acquiring slang
 is one of the wonders or the times,
 while one is impressed every day by
 the fact that too small proportion
 of those who have had the advantage of. a public school traning are able to express their ideas in good English, and to spell common. words. Perhaps tliaa is impressed upon newspaper workers more than upon others, be- cause they have a larger opportunity for observation. And this Is one of the chief reasons for an opinion, often expressed in print. that there must be
 q defect in the school system if a boy
 or girl from thirteen to fifteen years of age cannot write a plain statement
 ot fact in good English, properly
 spelled and punctuated. It would not
 be. fair to charge the slovenliness one sees every day to inefficient teaching, but some of the teachers should be Scompelled to take lessons In penman- sehipSand the use of punctuation marks before they can be regarded as quail fled to instruct.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
The Baggage Law. (Indianapolis News.)

\. It does not appear that the people who are travelling are fayorably inn pressed with the new regulations of the railroads with reference to bag gage. There may be some, who do, not understand that the regulations were made necessary-at least so the rail- roads claim-by the :. Cummins law, which, of course, was designed to pro- tect the interests of the people. Whether there is enough protection to compensate for the inconvenience ,suf- fered by the travelling public is ques- tion of some importance. Senator Cummins, who disclaims responsibility for the amendment that has caused the trouble felt that the railroads ought to, be prohibited from limiting their liability for baggage. As it Is now impossible to limit liability, the railroad very properly insist on know ing the value of every piece of bag gage, that is checked, and for which they will have to pay if lost. Hence the requirement. of statements from the owner. tr
 whether there was any considerable
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Is "Dfsavow" the Word? (New Haven Register.)

Some careful users of English paused and questioned, when in reading the note which our govern ment sent to Germany on. July 2l,
 they came to this sentence: The government of the United States can.
 not believe that the imperial govern ment will longer refrain from disa .
 vowing the wanton act of it's naval
 commanders in sinking the Lusi- tania."
 The old use of .''disavow," in the sense of "deny,Y though now practi- cally obsolete, stfn flavors all the meanings in which the word is used today. By the best authorities, to disavow is to disown; to sdisclai:n knowledge of, responsibility or con- nection with repudiate; deny con- currence in or approval of; refuse tc own or. acknowledge; disclaim.
 Now this may describe what we asked Germany to do in the first place. But two. notes from Germany have made it fairly clear that so far from disavowing the act of the naval commander of the submarine that sunk the Lusitania, Germany ac- cepts that act as it's own, and indeed approves of it. To now yield to- our reversal of position, would be incon- sistent and to, a degree. humiliating,
 Germany has gone too far for dis- avowal, it is to be feared. That would have been the. simple way out of it in the first place. What Germany should do to fully satisfy us would be to cx- press regret and contrition for the &C., tion which it has now substantially made its own, and promise restitution and avoidance of anything like a rep etition of it. What Germany is moro likely to do is neither to disavow 7nol express regret, but to indulge in some more friendly eneralities-and then, as we earnestly hope, to quietly but sedulously avoid another Lusitan- la affair or anything like it. But dis avowal is somewhat moro than ;. We can now reasonably expect.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Useful Men Past Sixty.
 1cnnirfnrN

The weIl-known so-called Osler pro- position that men past sixty years or age are mostly fit only for the sliding board, got another hard jolt fr0m the facts quoted by one of the Associated Press war writers who says that General Joffre did not get his French army into real fighting trim until he fired 12O generals of different varieties, many of them comparatively young, and that he even called back for po- sitions of the very highest order a number of generals who had already gone on the retired list because Of reaching the age limit. Moreover, these old fellows all made good; and one, General Manoury, who had been two years in private life when the war began, proved himself a potential contributor in winning the battle of the Marne.
 pr. Osler has declared that false construction was given to his state ment as to the dead-line of mans usefulness, but the misunderstanding persists, nevertheless, as is often mani fest in many ways in commercial and professional life, to the discredit men, tally and physically of men in the very prime of their qualifications. Any and all information calculated to dis pei this false and cruel impression should be sedulously disseminated.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Curbing the Dynanliter. (Philadelphia Ledger.)

The Du Pont Powder company is doing what the state or the nation ought to have done long ago. 1t is going straight at the root of the bomb outrages that fill the news columns by curbing the sale of explosives to irre- sponsible parties. Hereafter nobody can buy any of the stuff from which tragedies are made unless his identity-and that means of course, his esponsibility--is known to the firm. There are always going to be men. with real or imagined grievances against individuals and against the slate. There are always going to be some of these with so little moral sense or so fickle a sanity that for 8 fatal moment an urging toward assas- sination or vandalism will rule their actions. The only way to curb such men and to check the deliberate criminals who live by terrorism is to make the securing of explosives all but impossible A little social sanity can do it. Du Pont shows the way.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Building Ships.
Waterbury Demucrat.) !

The shipbuilding productivity of the United States has increased enormously since the war began. All our shipyards on both the eastern and western seaboards are running at capacity. Five yards on the Delaware. river are now building 46 merchant men, and the New England yards show just as striking an outbreak of activity. A great ship yard Is being built in Alabama, and others are projected. Many of these new vessels. perhaps most or them, are for foreign nations. European ship yards are so busy now with naVal work that orders for trading vessels naturally come to us. in spite or the higher cost of building them Nnere. The result that the country IS rap idly getting the best equipment lt has ever had for turning out mer- chant craft of all types and sizes. We shall soon have facilities Tor building the great merchant marine That the nation needs and wants. When the war ends, rore1gn ordeEs will fall off and our shipyards Will be free to work for American shi pers and help restore our flag to tn e orders for American ships? That will depend on whether congress re- laxes the severity Of our seamen g law. It is possible now, at war rates TOT transportation, to operate ships under the La Toilette law at a profit in the European tra de routes. When l,rices become normal again, most of our ship owners may follow the example Of the Pacific companies and sell the ships they own-not to mention the improba bility of their buying any new ones-if they are not enabled to compete with the foreign owned lines on more nearly equal terms.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28

serving in the army fails to rally to
 the flag. he is sent a letter written
 in the dainty style of a, maiden shy, ], i and ' in this missive, there is placed a i white feather. He is branded as a
 coward. And he gets letters contain ing white feathers until he shakes of
 his cowardices and goes to the esnealrsest recruiting offfce and enlists in the army. Then when he has served his full allotment of drill duty and his regiment is ordered to England the young ladies who sent him the white feathers are down to the station or the wharf, to see him off. And for his reward he gets roses ands someElInles' l'
 kisses. The effect has been wonder
 full, so we are told. And what man
 would not prefer roses and kisses to
 white feathers? It wplad take more than a coward to forego4the roses and
 kisses, even if they were the last ever
 to be conferred. - ] ss And many of the won1ens of c0aiil-
 tries now at war have gone further
 than the sending of white feathers.
 They have actually enlisted and gone
 to the front. partaking in many bat
 tles And, we learn from the. cor respondents. the women are as heroic as the men.
 Many are the stories told of women who have stood shoulder to shoulder with the men in the trenches in the midst of heavy fire They have gone through some of the severest cam paigns. In order to serve in the armies the women have had to de- ceive the enlistment officers, but they have succeeded in doing this to such an extent that at the present time ] there are known to be more than one { thousand women in the armies now fighting
 Americans can recall with great pride the name of Moll Pitcher, also that other valiant woman, Molly Stark. These are instances of where women have borne hardships equal to those suffered by men. And what about that wonderful French heroine, Joan of Arc? Who knows but what the war in Europe will develop M woman her equal who will lead the troops to one mighty victory and over throw the whole system of fighting As the Maid of orleans went out with those valiant warriors under her com mand so there may be some woman fighting in the ranks of one of the armies today who might go forth in her armament and overthrow one of the powers, thus bringing cruel war to timely close
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
A Maine Cattle Ranch.
tRoston Advertiser, .

A tract of land comprising about 3s,0c0 acres in Washington county. Maine, is Co be used for the develop ment of a large grazing ranch, and those interested in the enterprise plan to put about 5000 head of west ern cattle upon it, as soon as tho plans can be worked out. Soil ex- perts declare the soil as good aG that of the bluegrass region i'd Kentucky. and it will be sown with that seed. and the cattle will be put oh, after the tract has been made ready for its proposed use.
 If the experiment. proves c success. it is reasonably certain that otslct's will take it up. Properly cultivated, large area of New England soil offers ,he, best grazing area in this country. At present New England imports. al- most it's entire meat supply Yet thin should not be SO. Land is fairly cheap in many sections where graz ing land can be developed easily, she original investment would not bs large, considering the possibilities. While it is true that the number ot cattle in New England has steadily decreased in the past ten years. pr more, the fact remains that there has been no such decrease in the value of the cattle. It does not pay to breed scrub cattle any longer. But 1t dcps pay to breed the right sort of cattle.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Firing of the Colonel.
tNew York Evening Post

tNew York Evening Post.)
 Wednesday was Roosevelt day at san Francisco, and the colonel cer- tainly made a day of it. But can he pc sure that, the American people are not getting just bit tired of hearing nim prove. for the tooth time, that ne IS the only president who never made mistake, and that everybody is entirely wrong who does not agree With him in Nexery respect? The Athenians banished Aristides because they were wearied of hearing him called the just. Would they have waited as long as they did if Aristides had gone up and down vociferating that he was the only just man in Greece? And Americans, just at this time, have special reason for irrita- ,tion at a public man who shouts about the fearful mismanagement of affairs at Washington. We are facing a crisis in our foreign relations. The rest of us are trying to keep still. and by restraint and patience to help the president discharge his delicate and difficult task. Nobody can take it out of his hands by railing at him; and the country as a whole, mindful of this fact, is showing strong desire to uphold President Wilson. And this is the juncture which the colonel a master of fouts and jeers, seizes to endeavor to, kick up.a rumpus We arc much mistaken if in the process he hurts anybody but himself.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Educational Progress.

In round numbers there were 22,- 100000 persons enrolled in education al institutions in the United States in 1914, taccordinga to the annual report of the commissioner of education just issued. .s Of these over, 1 g, ,000, ,00O were in elementary schools; 1374OO0 in secondary schools, both public and private; and ,216,000 in colleges and universities. Close to another hurl- dred thousand were in normal schools preparing to be teachers, 67,00O were in professional schools and the re- mainder were scattered through other types of institutions. The teachers for this, educational army numbered 700, 0,00O of whom 566, 900 were in pub lie schools. In point of rapid growth the public high school still presents the most impressive figures the enrolment for 1914 is greater by over S4,000 than for the year before.
 The cost of education for the year, as estimated by the bureau, was $750, 0,OOO,000. This three-quarters of a billion is relatively small amount when compared with other items in the public expense" declares the re- port Ut is less by $500, ,000,000 than the cost of running the federal gov- ernment; 1t is less than one-tn1rd the nations expenditure for alcoholic H. quors it is only little over three times the estimated cost of admissions to moving picture theaters in the United States for the same year. Measured in terms of products of the soil, the United States spent somewhat more for education in 1914 than the value of it's cotton crop. somewhat less than the value of its wheat. crop. and less than half the value of the annual harvest of corn; while the na- tions bill for education was less by nearly a hundred million than the value of the exports from the harbor of New York in the calendar year just past"
 Very little increase is yet to be noted in the ge term for public schools. Between 1910 and 1913 ths increase was from 1875 days a year to 15S.1-a growth of only six-tenths of 8 day in three years. Attendance has | improved. however. The average | number of days attended by each per- son enrolled increased from 113 in | 1910 to 115.6 in 1913.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
BADGES AND UNIFORMS.

Drivers of motor vehicles in the immediate vicinity of New Britain have been frequently held up and ar rested by men purporting to be off cers of the law but who have dis played no, badge of auth hority and. in. some cases, wore no uniforms.
 The question has naturally arisen. When is an officer not an officer? And the answer suggested is, When he does not wear his uniform or dis, play his official badge
 As set forthsin the Connecticut law governing motor vehicles, q Police officer, or officer, Z shall include any constable or other official authorized to make arrests or to serve process, provided he is in uniform or displays his badge of office on the front of his outside garment in a conspicu- ous place. .
 That is a good ruling. Unless an official wears uniform or displays badge of some kind there is no telling whether he is what he repre- sents himself to be or whether he is some fanatic holding up people on the road for the mere sake of giving annoyance. This has been known to happen in other localities and the same thing might be done on Connec- ticut roads.
 If the law is to be upheld the law must command respect That is one of the reasons why uniforms are SUD- posed to be worn by officers of the law. It is the dignity of the uniform that commands respect. It is the thought that the state is back of that uniform which guarantees obedience to aorders- received from a uniformed policeman. But when an officer rushes out on the road in his shirt sleeves and attempts to make an ar- rest he has cast aside the most sa . cred badge of his profession. uni form.
 Officers of the State who wish the law upheld. who wish. to be obeyed, will do we'll to remember that the peo- pie of this day and generation have not yet mastered the art of mind reading and until officers learn to wear uniforms and display their badges of authority, there will always be misunderstanding
 s8s
 The. great navies sof, Britain and Germany refuse to fight. They ap pear toS be afraid of each other. If the British maintained astrue block ade of Germany, they would be com pelled to support itwith all Of their sdreadnoughfss in the Baltic as. we'll as in the North sea and the Achannel. If the. Gernans maintained or even atten pted a true blockade .of Great Britaing their navy. now hidden in the Kfel canal uou1d have to take the risk sof battle Caution or cowardfce is subjecting the whole gworld .sto saw sagery and injustice. Declining thus far real test of naval supremacy. both of these bslligerents by irresu- lar methods,s are sinAictirg A1n1ost ae much injury upon neutral lss as they are upon each other.-New Yotk World. = ~ sas.-
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Aristocracy.
1, ,(New Haven Union.o

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 England is the most autocratic of nations but the war has levelled the classes extensively. making quite a decent citizen out of the titled gentry. The list of titled men who have laid down their lives in the theater of war quite as the Tommy Atkins of tradi- ton does, is imposing. A baronet and at least one peer, the Earl of Gran ford, have enlisted as privates France and. Flanders. Africa and the Darda- helles have levied an extremely heavy toll on the peers and the heirs of peers. It was only a little over "a year ago that Lloyd George was be- rating them for their impoteney and the futility of their idle existence,
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Murphy, the Witness for Becker.
Waterbury American.

t# (Waterbury A1ner1can.)
 Murphy the Sing Sing life convict. who now. claims to have heard Jack Rose. Vallon and Webber conspiring
 together to put the guilt on Becker
 was brought up to Albany and cross
 examined by Governor Whitman. He couldn't explain why he had kept this
 secret all these years. He was tripped
 by the skillful and relentless cross
 eNa miner into admitting that he had lad an interview with Becker
 the day before he made his statement in Becker's interest.
 He admitted that he had got into the death house, where Becker
 is confined, by ruse, pretend ing to be one of the members of the Mutual Welfare league, which is allowed to entertain the prisoners in the death house by singing.
 Of course this brought about anew the critical attitude toward Warden Gsborne's reform, and the governor immediately called up MT. Osborne by telephone and told him what had happened as a result of his lenient rules. The warden couldn't under sand it and there will be an exami- nation.
 Y 1t might as well be admitted in the first place that criminaIs like those in Sing Sing cannot be trusted far with out having some betrayals and lapses of discipline. The thing that remains to be proved is whether these can be made fewer and fewer as men are made more trustworthy by being trusted, and whether the advantages of the modified discipline are sufficient to compensate. for the disadvantages. Evidently this life convict was allowed in the death house, not py the new lnles, but, by violaticn of them and. q betrayal of the confidence placed in the men belonging to the Mutual Well fare League. an organization, among the prisoners for self government.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
). MCMILLAN
Ias.2oI .aoa MAIN srHEFT

calling them the most unproductive and unprofitable class in the nation. 1t is safe to say there was consider able truth in his charge but today war has brought a change. We Am- orleans still think England would be better off without it's flunkyisrn, her. editary lines and it's medieval ariz- tocarcy However candor forces us to admit that the peers have proved. as have the French, that talk about degeneracy on impotency is idle. But that does not commend to Americans, British notions of aristocracy
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
Trying Pension Problem.
.(Louisville courier-Journal.)

F e5'l3= tILOulSVllle #COur1er-J OuTndl.)
 Bullets at the front and shells and shrapnel and grewsomc gaseous bonn bs gre less terrible to contemplate than the pension applications which are to he. filed by Senegalese widows whose husbands have perished upon the French firing line.
 The Senega1ese are Mohammedans, who are allowed by the Koran to have as many wives as they like, and who in many instances, like many wives The happy warrior whom all should wish to be- among the Senegalese is like the hero of the Anglo-Indian jingle:
 Wives e took, some three Or four,
 Which was few, so e took more,
 And, jealous of the rajah,
 Whose seraglio was larger, y.
 E 'elped 'imself to other wives
 galore.
 The tenderness of the American congress to the widows of soldiers is historic. No member of congress will stand idly by and see the widow of an American soldier neglected Every member of the body stands ready to 'see and raise any colleague who proposes financial bettermcnt for any class of dependents of soldiers, but especially widows. But no American soldier leaves more than one widow. The situation of tho members of the French lawmaking body, composed of gentlemen habitually gallant, Is most embarrassing. They can hardly con- sider without tears the spectacle of a multitude of Senegal women, sur rounded by a subsidiary multitude of children, weeping for single brave. They must admit that twenty widows, cannot subsist upon what would suffice for five. It may require special bond issue to solve the problem. that has resulted from drawing upon African possessions for cannon fodder.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-28
YALE cARErAKER DEAD.

New Haven, July 2s.--willian H. Pickett, whose funeral will be held to- MOTION was for many years the care taker of Butteil chapel, Yale univer- sity and. served in like capacity for some years at the rooms of Scroll and Keys, senior society. He was well, known among older Yale alumni