New Britain herald., 1915-08-26
FACTS AND RANCHES.

1 FACTS AND RANCHES.
 There's fist in pacifist, Mir. Car
 ranza.-Columbia State.
 Petrograd may turn out to be St. Petersburg after all.--New York l Tribune. .
 1t Is the usual fate of a "propa-
 ganda' to turn up with black eye.-
 Buffalo Courier.
 If some of the Haitians were to dis 1 arm they would feel only par'i"ilS l dressed Star.
 All hands in Europe are waiting 1 anxiously for the first round between l Venizelos and King COnstantlne-Al-
 bany Argus
 1 MT. Rockefeller attended camp 1 meeting of Latter Day Salnts' al
 though Chairman Walsh says he isn't one.-Pittsburgh Gazette-Tlmes. l Georgia says it's nobody business l what she does, and Immediately sets | up a loud cry for everyone to come 1 and help her out of her cotton trou- ] b1es-philadelphia Ledger. The papers make considerable com motion about ten-cent baseball in the metrOpOlitan district and yet they have
 been playing ten-cent ball down there for some time.-NeWburg Journal.
 Cotton has been declared contra
 band because it is the chief ingredient
 in the manufacture of smokeless pow der. But it is possible this may raise considerable smoke in other direc- tions.-Pittsburg Dispatch
 Must be some flaw in that seamans law to permit one American ship to remain on the Pacific, but MT. La Toilette can be expected to remedy that at the next session.-Wall Street Journal.
 Seriously, why discuss the annexa- tion of Belgium? If Germany wins, she must reduce both England and France, and a neutral Belgium would be impossible. If she should lose, the question of Belgian independence will not be discussed in Berlin.-Bingham- ton Press.
 There's wonderful charm in a royal title. Yuan Shi-Kai has his own way as president of China quite as much as he would have it as em- peror. Nevertheless, they say he is considering assuming the title of en- peror.-Buffalo Enquirer.
 The constitution convention on Thursday adopted that portion of the report of the judiciary committee which embodies a plan to lessen the laws delays. This is a very important act and, if it accomplishes the pur- poses intended, it will be of very great benefit particularly to the poorer class of litigants. It will mean that a man who seeks justice in court | must no longer have to face the prob ] ability of having to fight his case through three or four courts and 1 spend in defending it more than it is Express.
 MT. Root is well within the facts i when he declares that the system of 1 legal procedure has been made to conform to the subtle, acute, highly l trained ideas Of la awNcrs,' whereas 1 it ought to be made to conform 'to l the plain mans intclligcnrc and cX~ perience, so that the farmer. the mcr- chant and the laborer can under stad it.' The legal system, in other words, has been built by and for the lawyers. It is to that fact more than to anything else that the laws delays are chargea ble-New York Tribune.
 If some of the gentlemen who are just now giving vent to their feelings n the Frank case in Georgia have much weight with the plastic set in that comm monwcalth the most we can hope for is that mobs of lynchers will 1; not lynch the mobs which may try to mob the lynchers and so on. The lynch process seems to be recoG- nized institution in certain quarters; we trust there will be no further pub lie executions. Perhaps it would be better to say we hope there will pe Louis Times.
 Without impatience, with cOnh- | dence, with loyal sympathy, the Amer ican people are awaiting MT. Wilson's 1 action. But there is one thing that he must remember-the time for dealings with the German criminals is over. Diplomatic relations with Germany are henceforth impossible New eX- periments with Berlin can only end in new assinations; such eNperl- ments would hut delay necessary ac- tion and destroy public confidence. Never again can MT. Wilson hope to speak for a whole nation with as- SuranCe so absolute, with domestic