New Britain herald., 1915-05-29
FACTS AND RANCHES.

FACTS AND RANCHES. Sometimes the spirit of self-preser- vation is called, yellow streak Bridgeport Telegram.
 War, apparently, is more likely than the automobile to bring about the horseleSs age.-Buffalo Enquirer. Germany complains of our defective neutrality, but finds our harbors neu- tral enough to intern it.--New York Evening Post. <. Hereafter, thanks to the general as- sembly, no man can hreak into the drug business without using jimmy. -Ansonia Sentinel.
 Marconi claims to have discovered a means for seeing through walls. This, many persons will contend, is carryng inventive genius a little too far Pittsburg Dispatch.
 l Z 5r j. [ ' ' v e j ] t The Roosevelt jury stayed out all night. We may may be pardoned for remarking that this is not the first time the Colonel has kept folks awake
 -Buffalo News.
 Heat prostrations in Boston, a bliz- gard in Nebraska, volcano eruptions in California, starvation in Mexico, and a bread line in New York. See America first New Haven Union.
 It remains to be seen whether Kitchener is going to be written down as one of the failures of the great war. And, at this distance, it is diff cult to see where England, if she should let him go, would turn to find better -Binghamton Press.
 The less government meddles with the practical management of business, outside of it's necessary functions for X promoting the common defense alld general warfare, the better it will be for business and all depndent upon 1t for their livelihood and welI- being. New York Journal of Commerce. t It is crime for this country to dare assert it's plain rights as a neu- tra1, even when those rights conflict with the purposes of Great Britain Must the United States grovel in order to have it's splendid and unparalleled work in behalf of all the sufferers by war duly appreciated by our British Mathematician Journal.
 As the case stands, Becker is now headed straight for the electric chair that took the lives of four of his ac- rcomplices, and he has no title to m ercy that they did not have. He has rather less claim by reason of his former position in the New York police force and the power he was able to exert over the gunmen who did the actual killing.-New York World.
 The fact that Theodore the Great was lost to sight though to fond memory dear when this suit was called for trial. He had been thrown into the discard and was buried so deeply that it is doubtful that he could have been brought to light for many a day had not William Barnes come along and fairly lugged him into the limelight. An, that limelfght! HOW dear it is to the heart of the Colonel!- star.
 The Constitution builders at Albany are receiving a mass of suggestions for the new fundamental law of the state. Nearly everybody has 8 rad of fancy to incorporate into the new charter of state government. The constitution of the United States is of course, the best type of a. written constlrurion. Brevity simplicity and clearness mark the great American charter. The conven- ton at Albany will not go far astray If it regards this ancient landmark IF Newburg Journal.
 If the sale of liquor is to be pro- hibited in the federal constitution, to what other proposterous ends may not that Fundamental law be amended We cannot safely deprive the states of 1 their police powers. Five million may, 1 as MT. Hobson says, be wearing the I shackles, of the demon rum but if state 1 prohibition and local option have fail- l e6 to regulate the manufacture sale l and consum ption of intoxicants an I amendment to the Constitution would l elso fail.-New York Times.
 l In the Federal Reserve act powers of supervision and regulation were vastly extended, and in the Federal Reserve Board, which is charged with l the administration of the act, the