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New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Homes or "Three Deckers."
Philadelphia Evening Ledger.


 Whether Philadelphia shall remain 8 city of homes or a community of three decker flats, depends upon the quick and satisfactory solution of the transit problem. The city is not ed throughout the country for it's modest homes for workingmen. At the meeting of the national housing council in Boston it was held up as a model for other cities
 But the small house requires space to hold it. Population can be packed into a small area if it lives in layers, and the transit problem is then com paratively simple. The whole of Philadelphia could be crowded into the district south of Market street between the two rivers. But Phila- delphians do not wish to live in that way. The city is spreading rapidly, in the outlying regions carries the workingman farther from his job. But fast cars can annihi1ate distance: and when combined with free trans fers, can make every section of the city equally desirable. so far as prox- unity to work and economy of travel are concerned.
 The character of the city. as well as the comfort of it's people, is involved in the transit problem
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
AN UNJUST BILL.

Senator Isbell of New Haven is not content with the criticism following his bill to "amend" the civil service law, and he has introduced one pro viding tuition of $40 a year from all pupils in high, trade or vocational schools, above the grade of grammar schools" Presuma ably he has intro duced this bill to accommodate one George l.. Fox of New Haven, tutor and once head of private high school who will be found in the front rank of its supporters when hearings are held. It would be interesting to hear a debate in any high school of the state on the advisa bility of pass ing such a bill.-Waterbury Republi- can.
 A similar bill was introduced in the legislature once before with the result that should befall this one and which will befall it if the members are really interested in high school education. r. memory is not at fault 1t was Secre- .tary Hine of the state board of edu- cation who introduced the last bill which met with the oposition of prac- tically every person interested in ed ucation in the state. It is not con- pulsory in, a town or city to main tain high school; that rests entirely with the people,; and where there is such a desire the question of it's sup port should be left with that city. If it's people choose to support it and to allow it's children to be taught there free then it is their business. 1t is not the province of the state to interfere with such matters. Educat- ion ought to be free, the state says that 1t shall be free so far as the graded schools are concerned and it makes it obligatory on the part of towns and cities to support them and if New Britain. for instance, wishes to go the state a little better and maintain a high school for it's own pupils then the state has no busi- ness to interfere with it in the form of a law to compel pupils to pay a tuition fee of $40 a year. Such a law might debar some boy or girl from obtaining high school traiinn g and New Britain is not in sympathy with any such movement. The idea in this city is to extend educational facilities not to curtail them.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

and he made three. one in French, one in English and one in Latin, in response to toasts given in those lan- guages. He has preserved his Latin speech, which could only have been given under special inspiration. It contained such able manipulations of language as "Haustum longum, haus- tum fortem, ct haustum OmneS Simul' ca long pull, a strong pull and pull all together), and "Unum tactum naturae totum orbem facit consan- guineum," Gone touch of nature makes the whole world kin.)
 Times have changed since Lord Dufferin's day Manners have soft ened. Recent visitors have seen no such ground and lofty drinking as made up the chief joy of the inha b. itants then. And now Iceland has re- formed altogether; so great is her dis taste for the beverages of joy that she cannot even initiate West Vir- ginias example and give the dealers chance to dispose of their stock. She pitches the Rum Devil off the island, neck and crop. At the rate he is going he will soon have nowhere in this broad world a rest for the sole of his foot.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Organized Charity Defamed.
(New York Times.)

It is most lamentable that at just this time, when the city is in such need as it has not often been before for the services which can be ren- dered by. and only by, what has come to be known as "organized" charity, the great agencies which deal with poverty successfully because scientifi- ca1ly should be subjected to ar attack
 which, in truth, should probably be
 called merely ignorant, though the
 temptation to call it vicious is almost
 irresistible.
 Nobody who has given to the prob lems of "relief'' even a little of intel ligent study can still believe in the
 utility of the giving that considers
 destitution a thing to be met with
 doles. of bread or coal or clothing 1 draws a hard and fast line between the "deserving' and the "undeserv- ing and has for it's one more than
 momentary effect that of. producing
 in the unenlightened giYer the sense of merit acqured-by himself. "Or- ganized" charity also recognizes the i necessity to. distribute aims in certain
 cases, but it's ultimate objects are l ing their capacity for self-support and
 the gradual removal of the conditions that produce helplessness and depen- dence,
 For this it is called "cold,'' and i the expenditures made in the per ] formance of the higher and more inn
 portant work are criticized IS a divtr- | sion of funds from their proper and | intended purpose. investigation
 would convince these critics that of | the money spent by the organized
 charities, the part devoted to the | much-denounced nstration" ac- | cOmplisheS most for the pOor,' and i that the remainder goes merely as
 a concession to an existing situation 1 which, in time, it is hoped. will be ! abolished
 It is easy to ridicule or denounce | the keeping of records and the pay 1 ment of salaries to society officials l and visitors. It is not easy-it is l impossible-to prove the records are
 useless that the salaries are not as a i rule well earned by hard, efficient ! work. or that tho trained subOr1i- mates in the field' are not really lc-
 storing to social efficiency great mum 1 bers of those who mere giving would
 but 'tide over into next weeks mis- l ery"--or next days.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
If Billy Sunday Comes.
(New York World )

To Billy Sunday New York is the btttomless pit. To New York the slangwhanginE, boisterous revivalst who has been stirring. up Philadelphia i; an object of more or less mild curiosity. If he comes here to re claim us from eternal perdition he should find plenty to do. and on the other hand, this city would have the opportunity to try a new form of en- tertainment. He is not conducting what is generally known a refined meeting but, he has the reputation of drawing packed houses wherever he goes. There are a good many people not fastidious even in matters of re- ligion.
 This is a big town, and Billy Sun day would have to face the compe- tition of no end of popular attractions. DCwie, who had also been magnifi- gently advertised, undertook to con- vert New York in hurry, but the public soon had heard enough of him. He fell flat The ex-ba allplaSer is a more sensational campaigner when he tries than the Zion City prophet was, and he is also a much shreWder and more engaging person. There is no denying that he has manifested eX- traordinary powers in SWaylng the emotions of large crowds. But the hiCkleneSs of New York is proVerbial.
 A revival that will interest 5000, 900 people, Or even considerable proportion of them, is an ambitious scheme of salvation. Still. if the ministers who have indorsed the pro iect feel the need of Billy Sundays help. it may prove worth while. At any rate, nobody ever heard of one of Sundays revivaIs doing any harm.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Dragging Bulldog.

ApropOs of the recent dog show and Office Window of the New York Mall details an incident in which figured a bulldog and an impudent mongrel puppy. The bulldog had been in charge of some boy guardian who had become negligent and the animal strolled along the street rope which was attached to his collar trailing be- hind. The puppy, of the age when everything lying about has to be picked up, seized the bulldogs rope in his teeth. The Office Window tells what followed: Naturally the bulldog felt himself pulled. He looked to see what was doing the pulling and dis covered the puppy. Now 1t is one of the settled principles of conduct of a well-bred and d-natured bulldog not to interfere with the amusements of puppies, and this big fellow conse- quently found himself under the nec- essty of being pulled around wherev- CT the puppy chose to go. The puppy ran this way and that. always holding hard to the rope, and dragging the DulluOS WlCn nm. l1S dragged the bulldog up and down the street. He dragged him into a court and out again. He dragged him all over vacant lot, to the great amuse- ment of the boys who were playing there. When last seen the bulldog was seated backed up against & wall, look ing rather foolish and helpless, but still refusing to grab the puppy by the neck and shake him and consequently still in the little animals power A whole hour had gone by. and the pup py had never once let go the rope. Now if this does not illustrate the dog psychology, the Office Window does not know what could. The big bull dog might have killed the little dog with one shake. That was precisely the reason why we wouldn't touch him. The bulldog, unlike the nations of men, is a good sport. He fights only with dogs of his own size. It is possible, too, that he rather liked to be dragged around that way by the pup"
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
MIR. ROGERS OF LITCHF'IELD.

LitcIlIleld has at last a representa-. tlVe in the lower branch of the lerisla .ure Who has the true spirit of reform lie Is also humorist and man who despite his propensity for fun knows now to get at the foundation of a iticians. Heretofore the great prob lem has been how to deal with the lobbyist and 1t will be remem bered that some years ago it was suggested that he should have special garb so as to distinguish him from the rest of those who go about the capitol seek Ing whom they may devour. On one occasion red coat was suggested as suitable outer garment for him. MT. Rogers of Litchfield would elimi- nate all this sartorial distinction, cut him down and in the language of the sporting circle cast him into the dis card.
 It is MT. Rogers opinion that can didate for public office should be ex- amined as to his mental, moral and physical condition by a civil service commission. and when this measure was introduced by him in the house yesterday some of the members gave vent to tn cir feelings by a broad grin, while those who were undoubtedly more deeply affected by the details of the phraseology laughed loudly, thus showing their contempt for such leg islation and a desire to gently chide the new reformer from Litchfield. Politics with some people Is a disease, which, heretofore has been considered only curable by an adverse verdict at the polls but there have been a num- Der of cases where relapses have been reported and it Is these MT. Rogers would attempt to remedy. An exami- nation might suggest what is best to be done with them. It might be a good idea instead of imposing a fine to es- tablish a colony where they could be sent as state charges until the state farm is provided. That would be the place for them with MT. Rogers as the caretaker.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
$2OO,OOO,O00 ANNUAL
 NAVAL APPROPRIATION 
Experts Claim Sum Will Be Necessary if Congress Decides to Add Bat
 tie Cruisers'' to Navy.

Washington, Jan. 2s.--NavaI e, pc; .t4. l figure that 1t will requir an annual | naval appropriation of s2oO, 1000. o0O-in-s l stead of the present average of S140,- 1 900, 900, if congress deciGas to add Ia the present type of American naval vessels a suitable proportion Of bat | tie cruisers" such us have played sc prominent a part in the recent naval engagements in European and South i American waters. This estimate is based on the theory that there will be'
 no interruption in the permanent plan of naval increase, which contemplated
 the addition of two dreadnoughts each year.
 If the naval experts were required to choose between building dread thoughts or battle cruisers, they would
 unhestatingly turn 10 the drcadnought type. and 1t is stated by prominent officials that nothing yet has occurred in the naval battles of the present
 war to change their original belief
 regarding the superiority of the dread
 nought type. They are quite will
 ing to accept a proper proportion of
 battle cruisers, but insist that the first
 requisite is the completion of the
 plan whereby the navy is tu possess
 forty eight drea adnoughts
 Admitting the advantage of high speed possessed by the battle cruisers in certain cases the naval experts feel that they would stand no show what ever, against a corresponding number Of dreadnoughts because of the heavy armor and tremendous defensive quail ities of the latter type. No Euro peant fleet could successfully attempt to land troops or reduce the fortin- cations of the Atlantic seaboard so iong as the United States has even the twenty-one hattleships which now make up the Atlantic fleet.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

but clear sketc.l of geographical and ethnographical history, another on. government and administration, and on the Russian church. "A. L.. A. Booklist.
 Seven years on the Pacific slope, by Mrs. Hugh and H. c. Fraser
 Mrs. Fraser and her youngest son give an account of their sojourn in the extreme northwestern corner of Washington state, a district generally little known. The book is one of per sonal anecdote, telling of experiences | encountered and stories of the region. on."-Publisher's note
 The author is a sister of the late Marion Crawford Spell of Japan, by Mrs. l. w. P. An derson.
 "The lighter side of Japanese life, diplomatic and social, amusements and festivals, motoring and cruising trips about the islands, are pleasant ly and enthusiastically described by the wife of the American ambassa- dor. "A. L. A. Booklist.
 Things seen in Sweden, by w. B.
 
 
 Understanding the French, by R. L.
 Hartt. Entertaining, often amusing, often really keen portrayal of the French character Fair and sympathetic without being unmixed eulogy."-A. l.. A. Booklist. Darkness and dawn, by c. A. England. Allen Stern, engineer, and his stenogra pher, wake up in his office in the Metropolitan tower to find that the city Is a crumbling ruin; that wild animals and a strange race of savages, only half human, overrun Manhattan island: that they two are the only surviving members of their kind"
 "Underneath it's always entertain ing pages runs a serious idea which can hardly fail to impress even the frivolous reader. If the reader but take the reins off his imagination, 1t IN. Y. Times. Takers, by S. G. Blythe. Keynote, translated from the French of Alphonse de Chateaubriant. The story Is written with such ex- Quisite art and sucl perfect finish that the reading of it Is pleasure in spite of the undercurrent of gentle melan choly."-N. Y. Times. Miss Beauty, by H. S. Woodruff.
 Much negro humor of the uncon- scious sort enllvens the pages of this simple little southern story. IN. Y. Times.
 MT. Grex of Monte Carlo, by E. Phil
 lips Oppenheim.
 Prisca of Patmos, a tale of the days
 of St. John, by H. C. McCook. Shifting sands, by Mrs. Romilly Fed
 den.
 Simon Brandin, by F. P. Newman.
 Story of a Russian Jew. Trawler by J. B. Connerly.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

Newspapermen the country over are interested Sn e supreme court decision in the cases of two employ ees of the New York Tribune whd were sentenced for contempt of court because they refused to state before the grand jury the source of certain information which they used in stor- ies about smuggling frauds in New York It is the first tenet of the news papermen's creed that sources of con- fidential information must be held sacred. Every newspaper in the land observes this as religiously as the Mohammedan does his creed. It would be impossible to conduct a newspaper on any other basis-Hart- ford Post.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
~DEAR T00DLES"M MAY
 COST HIM HIS COIN
Mansfield Never Heard SayIng:
 "Te|tphsne, lo,'t WrIte."

Boston, Jan. 2s.-"Dear Toodles' was invariably the way Harry K. Mansfield, proprietor of the Ferncroft Inn, began his letters to Miss Bessie Ryan. according to letters produced in court yesterday in her s50,000 suit for breach of promise. And he usual lv ended them With love from Harry"
 The plaintiff used these letters to show that Mansfield did love her and to support her contention that he in tended to marry her Mansfield dis t:rguished between the kind of love chap sends by letter and the kind a fellow tells d girl about to her face. The former he considered as the usual way to conclude a letter but which does not necessarily mean that he stays awake nights dreaming of her or forgets when meal time rols around. "So you meant with love from Harry did you, if you wrote that in let ter?"
 1T did"
 "so you now say you once told her you loved her?" Do you mean verbally or in writ 'ing?"
 Did you ever convey to her the knowledge that you loved herr"
 II never did"
 Do you distinguish between saving to lady to her face that you love her and in writing to her."
 "I do."
 Did you say you had ever written tC her that you loved herr"
 ''l didn't intend the jury to arrive al any decision as to what I had writ ten to her"
 One from "Grandpa''
 Another letter from Mansfield to Miss Ryan was signed "Grandpa." It follows:
 The Bellevue Stratford,
 "Phila elpha, Tuesday, P. m. Dear Bess:
 Had visit at Anna S for one hour. Sheis getting ready for number nine in the family. so her husband took me here to dinner Went into Wana- makers and found Nancy out to lunch. Mary sick last two days and Jack un-
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
Going Back to the old Home Town.

"oiiiS bdCk to tue olu HoHbC ho""'
 In the February American Masa- zine, George Fitch, the famous Illinois comic writer, contributes a splendid and amusing small town sketch en- titled "Homeburg Worst Enemy" in which he shows how the boys and girls of small towns go away to the cities. He says that Old Man Op- portunity stands outside every small town and beckons the boys and girls 10 the cities. In the following extract from his article MT. Fitch makes some references to visiting the old home town:
 Taking it all around you cant blame us for feeling a little bit hostile to the big grabby towns that reach out like tax collectors every year and take tithe of our boy and girl crop. But of course we're enormously proud of our Homeburg people who go out and help run the world, and we watch their careers like hawks. When Ches- ter Arnett was running for a state of lice out west, I'll bet twenty Home burg families subscribed for a Denver paper to read about him.
 Were happy over their success as If they were our children-but it oiWoS . TOT n little While when Homeburg man who has made good comes back to visit in the old town. We're aching to rush up and wiring his arm off, but we want to know how he feels about it first One or two experiences have made us gun-shy. We can't forget Lyla En- bright, who moved away with her family years ago and married a na- honal bank or something of the kind in the east. She didn't come home for ten years, but finally the father died and Lyla came back to sell off some property. A lot of us had made mud pies with Lyla, and while she hadn't shown any great genius in that or anything else she was jolly and we liked her, so we tried to rush up and greet her rapturously.
 T was one of the rushers Lyla waited until my outstretched hand was within reaching distance. and then she pulled a lorgnette on me If my turn ever comes to face a Cat ling gun I nope to march right up to it like little man-but lorgnettes '? No! Any hostile army can lick Home burg by aiming lorgnettes at it."
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

It is feared that cattle infected with the foot and mouth disease have passed through the Chicago stock yards and the place has been ordered disinfected This will not lower the price of beef. Government reports show that 1O1,17 animals have been ease up to January 1, and that up to that time the government has had to pay out $1,S4O, 329 for losses and it is supposed that the owners of an imals have suffered loss of an equal amount, the government only paying one-half of the damages. :
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

1 Travel. l Appearances: notes of travel east and | west, by G. l.. Dickinson.
 "Gives a philosopnic and unflatter- l ing estimate of the American char | acter.'
 1 Austria Hungary, by G. E. Milton. 1 Illustrated in color.
 Brazil and the Brazilians, by G. J.
 The account of the authors tour through Brazil and a record of>the country and it's inhabitants a the 1 present time. me.'-Publisher's note. | Charm of Ireland, by B. E. Steven 1 This is an intimate and veracious account of a devious journey through 1 Ireland made by the author and his 1 ife'-Publishers note. The author brings to his task sym 1 pathy and knowledge. ."-American Charm of Scandinavia, by F. E. Clark. Tn the form of a series of letters the authors describe Sweden and Fin land, Norway and Denmark "A. L.. A. Booklist
 End of the trail, the far west from New Mexico to British Colum- bia, by E. A. Powell.
 
 England, by Frank Fox. Illustrated in color. France. by Gordon Home. Illustrated in color. From the log of the Velsa, by Arnold Bennett. Pleasantly informal chapters, de- cribing several unconnected cruises in the authors yacht through the canals of Holland and among the ports of the Baltic, the French and Flemish coasts, and the East Anglian estuaries. Lively accounts of the yachts adventures and varied impress sions of people and scenes. "A. L. A. Booklist.
 In the heart of the Arctics, by Nich-
 olas Senn.
 Italy, by Frank Fox.
 Illustrated in color. Peru, a land of contrasts. by Millicent
 Todd
 "A book of impressions. vivid and full of color, as far as possible re- moved from the systematic travel ac- count; and yet written with the con- fident touch of one who knows the mountains and jungles, the historic places, and the people that she de- scribes, both through intimate obser- vation and through wide study of Peruvian history, exploration, and natural history. "A. l.. A. Booklst Porto Rico. past and present, and
 San Domingo of today, by A. H.
 Verrill
 "A comprehensive guide-book for the American tourist, with a brief re- sume of the history of these coun- tries. note. Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur,
 and Picking, by Karl Baedeker.
 Published for the first time in English. Besides the usual informa- tion for travelling, it includes a brief
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28

Paterson is making silk suits for men. anticipating a demand for such garments the coming summer. These suits are not unknown to the fastidi- ous dressers of Waterbury and it is doubtful if even those who have pre- tended to be perfectly happy in the familiar linen suits when the thermo- meters have registered ninety in the shade will attempt to dodge the silk fad if it comes boldly to the front Waterbury Republican.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-28
DIs,ppRovE INCREASED RATES

Washington, Jan. 2S.-Proposed in- creases in rates on clay in carloads from Georgia and South Carolina to New York, Boston and interior east ern points over the Southern Railway and Connections were disapproved to- day by the interstate commerce com mission.