New Britain herald., 1915-08-23

fiends" They can't hold jobs in Kan sas under the rules laid down by the civil service commission. The army of users of the cigarette keeps on lh- creasing, in spite of everything.-Ne" Haven Register.
 Our ambition at the moment IS 'o be present on that possible occaalo,, When the president of the cii'e" States, having summoned Cha lila'l Walsh of the Industrial ftela 'ioiis Commission before him tells the la''7i in crisp, tart tones, what he thlhh0 oh him.-F'inancial America.
 Germany undoubtedly olsa through years, the most elilcleh' ai'ls of the worlds history, ana u Has made a wonderful record III 1hlll- tary sense. But German olplolilacy has been blundering througnout' ana especially in it's efforts to lnIIuence American pubic opinion.-Water- town Times.
 This Field Marshal von Hindenburg nerson sets all our plans in disorder.
 We fieured on his satisfaction after the fall of Warsaw, and here We find hin, still plugging on in the direction of the Russian capital. We'll, we'll make this guess, that if he ever gets 10 St. Petersburg's outer forts one of those "peace-fOr-al H. or none" con- tracts will be voided.-St. Louis Times.
 New Jerseys vote on the woman suffrage amendment is to be taken on October 19, a fortnight ahead of the test in other states where the suffrage question is an issue of the fall elec- tions. Thus the state climbs to the prominence of the "September states of the days when the politicians used to watch Maine and a few others for indications in advance of presidential lections.-Christian Science Monitor.
 There are not so many tobacco cheWers driving trolley cars nowa- days There was a time when it was common for mOtormen to flavor their comments with the dribble o" tobacco juice, and occasionally eject a lot of it and let the spray drift in the faces of the front seat passengers if any there were. Tobacco chewing motO-- men class up nicely with cigarette smoking jitney drivers-and both are public nuisances.-New London Globe.
 As a definite proof of how the na- tional heroes of Germany rank in the minds of the people, we have only to look through the advertising columns of the Berlin papers for July 20. An advertisement there offering placuues of the heroes Cat bargain) puts Hindenburg at the head of the list in h i,,c type comes the Kaiser, Kaiserin, Bis mark, Franz Josef, the Grown Prince, Spec, Emmich, Mackensen, Gotz and Mueller, etc.-Norwich Record
 Quite possibly, abundant crops in Europe will be to some disa advantage to American producers since they will have tendency to keep export prices down. Howeven there will be the com- pensating advantage to all the people of this country that they will not be compelled to pay excessively high prices for what they need, and there is probably no danger after all, that the farmers of the United States will rot receive prices that will amply compensate them for their labor Albany Journal.
 One of the first fruits of the sea- mems act is the disappearance from the Pacific of an American steamship company which has been in opera ton for sixty years. The Pacific Mall has a record and a reputation com parable to that of the Cunard Line in the Atlan traffic. But Messrs. La Toilette and Furuseth, with the able assistance of congress and the presi- dent have forbidden it to compete with foreign nes.-Phlladelpnia Ledger.