New Britain herald., 1915-06-26

dearly beloved dime novels of other days are being performed at last in the theater of war.--Boston Journal.
 Thaw, it is said. is already plan ming trip to the Panama exposition, So confident is he regarding the out come of his trial He might also be classed as an exhibit.--Westerly Sun.
 At least it may be well to remind everybody that when MT. Bryan was colonel he was about the most peaceful colonel that the world ever saw.-Providencc Journal.
 The president and I are seeking the same end by different means" says Mir. Bryan. What end is that? The next lease of the White House? Brooklyn Standard Union. A fear hast arisen in the minds of some persons that the war will not be finished this year. Each nation, it appears, feels that there arc so many young men on the opposing sides who ought to be killed.-Nor- wich Record
 
 system in vogue in many penal in- stitutions, but officials of such places should give the outside domestic, eager to earn an honest living, chance first.-Philadelphia Penny Press.
 The tragedy in the surf at Atlantic City on Sunday showed again that despite all this talk about the human race degenerating they were there with the goods when the pinch came. The men who rushed into the water to save life, to save strangers, were as heroic as any war heroes.-Hud- son Republican.
 John l.. Sullivan, the ex-pugilist, has enlisted in the anti-saloon cru sade and will begin campaign at Atlantic City next month With such combination against it as Wil- liam J. Bryan, Billy" Sunday and John l. Sullivan it looks as though the demon rum is in for some hard hits, if not for a knockout blow Troy Times.
 What maniac Count von Revent- low has become is seen in his first utterance after his muzzle was re- moved. It is news in this country that President Wilson has closed the Panama canal to shipping trade, in order that transportation of ammuni- ] tion and other war materials from eastern l1arbors of the United States to Vladivostok, for increasing Rus sian fighting strength, shall not suf- fer interruption" The count has extraordinary sources of information Springfield Republican.
 The white man will rule this land. The only question left by the supreme courts decision is how he will rule it. Probably in most states he will do as he has done already in a num- ber-exclude illiterates without re- gard to color from the polls There are alternatives. One is to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment thing aI- most impossible. The other is to ait until things become as intolerable as they did in North Carolina. The remedy then invokes itself, with con- sequences dreadful to contemplate. The evil that theorists may do lives after them; their best intentions may become curse to the country.-New York Times.
 American ship yards are working. Lo full capacity, not because of the open ing of the Panama Canal, which was expected to do much for ship building and has doubtless done something, but because of the unprecedented demand for ships in the foreign trade. Not all of these ships are to fly the Amer ican flag. Perhaps few of them will when the i'll advised seamen's act goes into effect. The ship yards are busy largely on foreign orders. Pres ident Wilson and his party must be held responsible. The president criticised the seamen's bill and inti- mated that he might veto it, but didn't have the courage to do it, Poughkeepsie Eagle-News.
 The agitation inspired in numerous professional bosoms by the refusal of the Pennsylvania Universitys trustees to re-engage a member of one of it's school faculties merely because he was affiliated by verbosity untempered with tact and ungoverned by wisdom is cas- fly understandable Their argument is simple. A brother has lost his job merely because talked too much !. and foolishly. If this action is al- lowed to go unchallenged, who is not | endangered in the blown ranks of col- | lege dons devoted to violent conver- l sation, i'll considered theories, redom- i cntade, wild proposals, economic mad ness and political absurdities? The | great principle of speech linnitigated ] by thought must be maintained. and 1 it's beneficiaries do well and wisely to l defend their luckless colleagtle New