New Britain herald., 1915-08-03
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

- Toh, wananaker proposes that the 8 I-nited States become receiver of
 eonouered goods.-Buffalo Enquirer.
 With every Hull along the fighting : line the German invader slaps another
 fine on some suffering Belglan city, s; New York Herald.
 Why. it's easy And let the first name on MT. Wanamaker's subscrip- xticn list be Billy Sunday for $53 1000.
 Philadelphia Ledger,
 t.f Henry James has the same right to l,ecome a subject of Great Britain that
 ar Englishman has to become citizen 1 If the United States.-Buffalo Ex- i9press.
 The Russians who are said to have ! found a way to make poisonous gases < harmless, have rather the laugh on { German scientists, who have refused i to credit them with being even half i civilized.-Rochest Democrat and Chronicle.
 America has never waxed enthus- iastic over MT. James. Perhaps it has never understood him. It has been proud of him in vague sort of way, never thinking of him as representa- tive of itself. It is sorry to lose him in his old age, but the impression pre- yails among the keenes, thinkers that he always belonged to England rather than to the republic within whose boundaries he was born.-Brooklyn Eagle
 The principal mischief of the propa- ganda in behalf of commission gov ernment has come from its exagger- ated promise of better conditions re- pardless of the men tes whom the pub ! lie business was intrusted. A con- { siderable body of electors has been ;, convinced that under 1t eternal vigil i aLce is not the price Of decent govern ! 1nent If Nashvilles experience re- i leases them from this delusion, that ] city's receivership will not nave been ! without subst an4ial benefit beyond the 1 bounds of the town.-New York Sun.
 We are only asking Germany and I Great Britain, too, for that matter, to I conduct their naval warfare according
 to lagreed-upon international law and l agreed-upon rules Of war. Germany | has taken the lives of the innocent in ] Her submarine warfare. We tell her lH | Americans are killed, will be con- \ side after the notice given, as "de- I8liberately unfriendly.'' It rests with Germany and not with this country to 1 bring about consequences by creating t auses.--Watertown Times.
 1 One judge overrules another in the F matter Of the receivership for the city l of Nashville, and so the municipality, 1 as a result of inefficient and corrupt I commission government begins the 1 round of the courts. Various substl- l tutes for self government have been ! proposed from time to time, but the ] people who are depending upon the l Judiciary for improvement and pro- 1 gross are almost certain to be disap- :. nointed The court in politics like the court in business, is que of its ele- si lnent It is only when politics and business become bankrupt that they fall into the hands of the courts 1 New York World.
 If Huerta, recognized as president
 by all the other important nations, had been recognized by ours too, he
 would long ago have buried or expa- triated his enemies and have estab- \ lished order, the same kind of order { that old Diaz maintained namely H keep still or be shot, Mexican order 4 If we ever do go into Mexico to set i things right. we first of all will find all ] factions against us, and, second, we'll l find all the American republics against
 us worrying over our schemes of ex-. tension, unless we have the sense to
 invite them to a conference first and
 to jcin LIS in the pacfhcat1on. South
 of the Rio Grande we are not loved
 overmuch and we cannot afford to in-
 crease the strain.-Hartford Courant.
 It is certain that in several of the l states which have direct primaries on {. presidential nominations Mr. Roose-
 yelt's name will be put on the ballots
 by local republican admirers; and it
 is quite possible that the republican l convention may contain more dele-
 gates instructed for MT. Roosevelt
 than for any other man. All this will
 be true regardless or what the pro-
 gressive party may. do There are a
 fair number of folks in the United I States who don't like Mr Roosevelt
 But those Roosevelt haters who expect ! the year 1916 to pass into history l without MT. Roosevelt cutting figure I n proportion to his size are merely i letting their prejudices overcome their 1 Judgment Golfers.
 Many Englishmen have said and feel
 that America should lend every aid to i England because she is fighting Amer l lca's battle. This is the view of not I a few Americans, but it is not the
 American point sof view. The Anneri- can point of view is that so far as the l United States is able it. should resist -F x3 41A5