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New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
4. On S3 s Month. fSan Francisco Bulletin. )

A recent writer puts the average s income of ninety per cent. of ths@ family heads of China at three dollarss month. We might double this8 figure to compensate for the differ ence between dollar-power in China and dollar-power in the United States, but life is doleful for family man. even at six dollars month. People living on such a scale are al- ways a little hungry. China is Ven- erable and worn out, her forests are gone, her mountain slopes denuded of arabic soil, her people blue anda discouraged. Like India, she is one of the countries in which no wise man or woman would willingly be born. But the ghastly truth is that more of the human race live on, or : near, the Chinese scale than live on or near the American scale.
 The great task of civilization for generations to come will be to lift these lc... ing standards to higher levels. great battles of the futurc e.e silent struggles be- twce, ards of living. This Is the ation problem in nutE she'll The higher standard peoples must not let their standards be cut by cheaper living races, but must try to pull the others up to their econom-~ ic level. There is no danger what5e ever of the Orient running anuck in 8 military way because 1t hasn't 2 the necessary industrial background but there is danger enough that the cheapness of life in the Orient will if it is not altered for the better, cheapen life everywhere. This dam ger Is part of the price we pay for having made the world so small.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
Women ill Homes and Factories.
 (Springfild Republican,

Sound business economy, money returns in the shape of productive lives prolonged, is the argument most relied on for the health insurance bills offered to the legislatures of Massachusetts and New York. on that ground a good case could be made out for inclusion of illness at the birth of children among those covered by the policies. The bills 60 provide medical care for those wage earning mothers, but not the cash benefits paid in other kinds of sick ness. This omission has been defend ed on the ground that to smooth the way too much for the wage-earning mother would put an obstacle in the path of efforts to keep married wom- er1 out of factories The inference lS that the women are~better off doing the work of the home, and if the choice is between heavy mill work and moderate hIusework in whole some surroundings there can be no doubt about it.
 Usually the. choice is not so one sided as that. Keeping women out of factories is not a cure-all, ac- cording to a detailed study of infant mortality that was part of the gov ernment's report on woman and child labor. This study showed that in a carefully chosen field the deaths at birth and in the first week, month and year of life occurred in as large proportions. among babies whose mothers worked for wages.
 /. The interesting part of these fig ures Is not so much the few tables in which the mill mothers seemed to be slightly better off. as the fact that not one showed any great difference between the two groups either way. A wide study to the same report told the same story; a high rate of infant mortality always occurred Wherever there was high female iiliteracy and a high birth rate. but it's connection with the proportion of mothers work ing for wages was variable. Labor laws have shortened the sun to sum- work day, but they have not eased the work hat lis never done' When family incomes are insuficient that work. becomes very heavy, and the protection of the home cannot live up to it's reputation while there are many homes that cannot protect their members from poverty and ignorance.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

the leading cotton markets Of the world largely in the control of the English. the exclusion Of Germany from the enjoyment of this most inn portant product was well night com plete Thus, the drive through the Balkans toward Anatolio, Syria and Egypt may we'll have had cotton writ ten in capital letters as the goal to be achieved.
 "While the cotton production of Anatolio, Syria and Mosopotamia is unimportant in the worlds commerce of this article, it nevertheless. of sufficient bulk to prove 8 great re- lief for the war necessities of the Central Powers. Turkish cotton IS not of such good quality as that grown in the United States, Egypt and India. For war purposes how ever, it is satisfactory, Beyond Syria in the Milo Delta and 8 part of mid dle Egypt there is a more important supply of cotton of high quality, while to the southeast over Persia lie the large cotton producing areas CT India. From both of those sources though cut off by war. the Central Powers, may now be able to secure certain importations."
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
Bantam BClGium'S Grit.

When William grasped the sword, and
 said A . To Belgium, Let us pass,' The little nation by the sea Defed the German mass; She did not cringe before the host, Outnum bered ten to. one, She gamely stood her ground, and In check the raging Hun. For France and England were her
 friends, Respectful of her right; z Nor held they as the Teutons hold, That right must yield to might; And Belgium did not play them false When wars dark hour had struck; She made fight that made her name A synonym for pluck. For precious days, she held the foe Before her Boundary gate; Until the Allies mustered mon To aid their fighting mate She kept the Germans from he coast And chipped the Ring of Iron, Before the Teuton horde's dead
 weight Surged OCT her fighting line. Though crushed beneath the victor's
 heel, She still fights on to keep Her one remaining stretch of soil, That borders on the deep; Where Britain's warships ride, and
 smash Each German drive to gain, And Belgium's gallant army helps To keep them from the main. With cities wrecked and desolate, And brutal harshness rife, No heavy handed conuueror Can wholly crush her life. Her courage never knows defeat Dead game and fighting fit, No nations ever fully whipped With Bantam Belgiums s Grit.
 SHERMAN LINDSAY.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Fiction. s Fifth wheel, by. 0. H. Prouty.
 By the author Bobbie, General Manager" The heroine is "Bobbie's younger sister, and other characters from the earlier book are intro duced. .s-Publisher' note. Gods puppets, by William Allen Heart of Thunder Mountain, by F.
 A. Bingham
 The publishers say that this is a strong, wholesome, emotional western story that will appeal to men and women alike"
 Her Husbands purse, by H. R. Mar
 tin.
 Story of life among the Pennsyl- vania. Dutch, abounding in funny situations. By the author of ''Tille, Mennonite Maid. .'-Publisher's note. =. Mrs. Balfame, by Gertrude Atherton.
 Mrs. Atherton's first venture in the field of mystery stories is clever and rather out of the ordinary - Publishers note.
 Warwickshire lad, by c. M. Martin.
 The lad is Shakespeare, and this charming little story of his youth is especially timely in view of the Shakespeare, tercentenary to be observed in April of this year. By the author of Emmy Lou.'-A. l.. A. BOoklst.
 Library Notes.
 The Bookman's latest list of best selling books is as follows:
 Fiction:-Life and Gabriella, by Glasgow; Real adventure, by Web ster; Clipped wings, by Hughes.
 -fiction:-Pentecost of calami- ty, by Mister; ordeal by battle, by Oliver: Collected poems of Rupert Brooke; Hilltop on the Marne, by Adrich; Eat and grow thin, by Thompson: Fear God and take your anthology: Life of John Hay, by year of the Great War, by Palmer; When a man comes to himself, by Wilson; "Spea king of operations, y by Cobb.
 The publishers Weekly list of best selling fiction included all those in the above list and the following ad- ditonal:
 Side of the Angels, by King; Michael 'Halloran, by Porter; Felix O'Day, by Smith; Mrs. Balfame, by Atherton; Mr. Marks secret, by Op- pcnheim; Prudence Of the Parsonage. by Hueston; Pollyanna grows up, by Porter; Heart of the Sunset, by Beach; Bent twig, by Garfield; Story cf Julia Page, by Norris, Promise, by Sidgwick; Persuasive Peggy, by Thompson; TX" by Rhinehart Des- tiny, by Buck.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Accusing the Wilson administration of having Brought us business de-
 pression at home is like describing Well-fed diners as Starving to death Yet the Indiana state republican con- vcnton took it upon itself to do this in it's platform adopted at the convention today. With all the extra dividends being declared by the great business corporations throughout the country it takes a mighty good pair of eyes to see just where there is any "business
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
AMERICANS OF THEM,

Ire is any city In the nation
 bws what it means to make
 nerican citizens out of imn1i-
 lew Britain is that city. There
 CTS in this country where men
 omen from foreign nations
 n large number, but there is
 ther one built on the same
 New Britain. In those other
 Eople of one race usually hold
 n overwhelming degree; but
 en and women from the four
 of the globe rub elbows.
 his is the Congress of Nations. Fist any movement which has &nd the Americanization of inn Is have added significance here. Eho have come to America fol- law of society by f1ocking to Blaces where the niaj jority of lace have set up homes. If RH is somewhat neglected in Rnoving to New Britain it is he less borne out from the. ! ct that after arrival. here the Eparate and go into the colonies |the antecedents of their peo- in force. In this way the peoples of. the earth have clus- Iround the center of the city Ee are made up of every na- Nv that can possibly live in this As yet we have no Esquimaux. being the condition, it is to Bt interest of all the people in britain to join heartily in the movement that is going broad yer the land, the patriotic at sto make good American citi- us of the immigrants who have and those who will come to our
 It is problem, to be sure; must be worked out. The first 10 start thesball a-roling would Q be in the factories where tKq
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New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
John D. and the Girls.
(Waterbury Republican, )

John l.. Sullivan the veteran pugi- list, has given out a statement in Boston in which he makes it ploin. that there is absolutely no desire on his part to welcome the fair sex among the patrons at the ringside.. According to the New York TribUne's correspondent, John L. says;
 Now. look here, would you want vour wife to go to prize fight? Would you even want her to want to go? Of course you wouldn't if you admire those things in woman that are so much better Shan what we men have in us
 "I wouldn't want my wife to ses a fight. Why? Well. I don't ex- actly know why; but I'm mighty well sure I wouldn't want her theret And it goes against my grain to see other women there. But I want you +o understand that I don't think that any woman is bad just because she does attend a fight Boxing has al-s ways been considered a mans sport. and think it always will be-
 Any man who has ever attended T nrizefght knows that John L.. has the right ideas. or if he doesn't know it. he himself has a mighty low re- gard for decency. John L. knows what is said and what is done and what K felt by the prizefight crowds. He knows that the average man may be able to stand fight now and then bnt that as a steady diet, the society of the fl fehting ring is not the kind of society that improve anyone. It ;en,t the fight much as the com ,,any one keeps when attending one. 7-1,e old champion has said what n,,,ess decent men think.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
Ten to One it Comes From Michigan

Ten to One it Comes From Michigan. In the April American Magazine A.
 P. Johnson has an interesting ar ticle on Michigan in which he says: You arise in the morning from a bed made in Michigan. You pull up a window shade that came from Michigan. Your breakfast chair and table are Michigan handiwork. Your breakfast fruit was picked in Michi- gan and your cereal manufa cured there. If, perchance, your eggs did not come from our great poultry producing state, and the bacon from a Michigan hog that was raised on our nutritious corn, you can be as surcd your salt was mined in Mich igan
 If you ride to your work in a motor car. ten to one it was made in Michigan. The copper wire for your
 street cars came from Michigan
 mines, and
 Your office
 Begin all over again.
 1 "Your office furniture, fixtures, fil- ] ing cabinets. everything from a type- writing machine to sticky fiy-paper l and the janitor's carpet sweeper bears the stamp of Michigan. That is, #
 YOU buy the best. We make noth- ing cheap in Michigan. Your letters are written on paper from the inl.- mense paper mills of Michigan as are | those you receive. fou cant get
 away from Michigan coming or going. l You cant do without it. Your every ! surrounding. from the steel girders l that knit together your slyscrapers
 to the delicate wall tints made from l Michigan gypsum, testifies to the 1 productiv of our state.'
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

foreigners work out their existence. There are many full fedged Amerl- can citizens working side by side With the men from other countries, and a little word of encourag cement now, kindly bit of advice, an extended haHd of help, all tend to bring about the desired effect It is true that very little can be done, until the foreigners attain to some degree a grasp of the American language. After that they will need an explanation of the GUS toms and practices that prevail in this country, so different from those of the land they abandoned. If the politicians would, they could also help in this matter by talking to the men, not on subjects of votes which are sometimes misunderstood but on what American citizenship means. Every man with the ambition to be a councilman, or alderman, or mayor, of this city should have enough pa triotsm wrapped in his breast to bring up the subject of America every liver discourse. Even if the sub
 ject is merely touched on it means much to. these citizens who are stand
 ing around open -mouthed waiting for someone to tell them what it all means, this land of democracy.
 The next place to spread the doc
 Urine of Americanism, and. the best place, is in the schooI-room. It is there that the second generation of these people has gathered and it is there that the task is so much easier. The child mind is ,impressionable, capable of taking, and holding inn prints much in the same fashion as WAX. The teachers in the public schools of this city, then, have an added duty thrust upon them, the planting of American ideals in minds that otherwise will become confused with doctrines of hes.. old world preached by men who are living in the new. The elders it is true, are willing and eager to grasp the doc Urine of Americanism, but they are sometimes too old to learn, are suf- fering under the handicap of having seen too muah of king rule to appre- ciate the freedom of this country and what it means. It remains, in the long run, for the boys and girls of foreign parents who are now in school to go home and teach the oldssfolks what America is. Therefore it is wise to center the main strength of this movement on the schools. There is entirely too much neglect of the little ones It was only yesterday that a stranger on Main street was accosted by a newsboy who tried to sell a lnews- paper and yet did not know the name of the paper. The boy spoke only one language, that of his parents. Yet he knew enough to get out and sell papers, mumbling as best he could. There is great work to be done and it is for Americans to do it. otherwise the so-called "melting pot" will lose it's power of melting.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
JUDY IN CONTRASTS.

he democratic party in con-
 Esembled chose as it's stan
 er in the mayoralty cam
 Ernest W. Pelton, there was
 happy selection of a man
 es with him the dignity and
 necessarily make for a good
 M Without going into the
 y of MT. Pelton's election, it ! m that the people of Kew
 o matter to what political
 belong, would welcome him 4feld of contenders for the
 onor their city can bestow. but to read his speech of in order to get an insight Character of the man, repre- |bf the highest type of Amer |enship. There is no bom-
 is utterances, no vindictive- 3aambOyancy, no false doc rue to his scientific training ineer he makes no promises
 fulfill. With such a man h the campaign for mayor
 be nothing but good, for he loses or wins he will have bis fellow citizens with bet Pf the fitness of things.
 : he factional and petty po- fhts of the bygone week hto the dark and dank cav
 bitter past, and with the
 of the two big political 'puring onto the last lap of [hign, New Britain has before k of meditation The two are pitted against each other lee for mayor have qualifica- characteristic that are as the night and the day. They rent types of men. And it |e of this that deep thought Bpeht on the selection, wheth- puigley or Pelton. They are |extremes, the like of which tain or any other city has |een. Mayor Quigley, be it bis credit, is an astute po1i- [e who knows how to play on athies of a mob as 8 musician
 instrument. Pelton is the htithesis, the student, the never resorting to the fervid of men, nor injecting subter- lis assertions, He is not the nal politician; the man who was ordained by divine pre- to nourish at the public ban le. Rather is he the type Ies in the role of servant, to people, not to master them. impse into the performances two candidates, Quig1ey and serves to prove conclusively a study in contrasts. There 'e no difficulty in selecting ch extremes are offered and ton, of course, should be for interests of the city.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
FACTS AND RANCHES

I'here is moro optimism on the farm this spring than ever was man lfested betore, says a city newspaper and it is optimism that counts" It requires a hoe. though, to dig, the weeds out of the potato patch.-Ro. chester Democrat and Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
GOOD ARRAY OF. NEW BOOKS NAMED
 ~- IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

Character and temperament, by Joseph Jastrowt An interpretation of Ihe psycho- ! logical source of human diversities 1 and human traits, considering those qualities which are the result of na.
 tive endowment, and those which
 have. been acquired in mans adap-
 tation td cjrcumstance.' "A L. A, Field notes from the Russian front, l by Stanley Washburn. 1 Fifty years of American idealism, 1 compiled and edited by Gustav l Pollak.
 "A collection of significant edi-
 torials chosen from the Nation for
 the last fifty years.'
 In vacation America, by H., G. 1 Rhodes. =, 1 the delights of our summer and 1 Meaning of the war, by H. l.. Berg son.
 Shall the splendid material pro- 1 gress which has marked the scienti- 1 fic achievement of the last century l ly the forging of sword to destroy the freedom which life has won with 1 1t from matter? The author at l tempts to answer this question in a ] brief but eloquent address"-A l.. ! A. Booklist
 n,vny ~JI "In Paris the French trenches,
 Rheims, the British lines, and Ypres, the author observed with his usual keenness, reports with skill the scars l and traces of war as he, viewed them in the lives of the people and on the face of the land.'-A. l.. A. Booklist
 Tolstoy, by Romain Roland.  Women at the Hague, by Jane Ad- dams and others. "A sober, reserved account of the purpose of the Congress and it's re- suits. "A. l.. A. Booklist Fine Arts 1 Architecture of colonial America, by 1 H. B. Eberlein. %.s'A brief history and analysis which Will interest the architect and l tfress essEHHlnan as well. "A. L. A. Book l ChatsAbn Japanese prints, by A. D. 1 Ficke
 'Delightfully written and useful"
 A. L. A. Bool1list 1 Flowers and plants for designers
 and schools, by E. F. Strange. 1 Furniture cole tor, by F. w. Greg Ory.
 1 GiVes in readable, mprehensible l form the characteristics of the Eng | fish styles of the seventeenth and
 eighteenth centuries and good sug-
 gestions as to the authenticity of old
 furniture for collectors. "A. L. A. 1 BoOlllist.
 1 History of American painting, by
 Samuel Isham New edition, revised 1 Honest house: presenting example of the usual problems which face the hOme-buildcr together with an eN- 1 position of the simple architectural
 principles which underlie them by R. R. Goodnow and Rayne | Addams.
 Human figure, by J. H. Vanderpoel i Michelangelo, by Romain Holland "A study of the artists life,
 character, and work as whole l scholarly yet imaginative, and en- l thusiastic. "A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Pictorial landscape photography, by l P. l.. Anderson.
 This essay says the author has
 been written more with a view to
 roint out a method of approaching | the cultivation of artistic vision ! when with the idea of furnishing a
 technical reference book''
 1 New tendency in art: post impress
 sionism cubism futurism, by H. R. ! Poore
 1 Perspective, by E. J. Lubschcz
 'The principal change in the first
 edition is the addition of three cha pt-
 CTS. ''Oblique and inclined lines
 and planes" "The perspective of
 shadows by sunlight and by arti- l ticiaI light. "A. l.. A, Booklist.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

The Dutchman is slow to anger, and a hard man to handle when aroused. And Germany knows it, New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

great many administrations are painfully at fault. but no loafer has a right to criticize any administra- tion--Meriden Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Presumably. the German "pira . y took the name of Schiller because he was fresh from q reading Of - he Robbers''-New York Evening Post.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06
WHAT OTHERS SAY

Views on all sides Of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that. come to the Herald Office.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

The Newfoundland budget calls for an increase of nearly $100. 900 to pay interest on war loans. Newfourd- land has hard time making both ends meet, but is doing it's bit" to preserve the British empire--Spring- field Republican.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Incidentally whether 1916 is to be ! year of peace and happiness for the United States. one quarter of it has already gone by. Tempus fugit. Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

the Post Oftice at New Britain nd Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Sunday eNcepted) at 4A1S p. n Id Building 67f4Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

German newspapers that rejoice over what they call President Will sons war" in Mexico are taking the Villa expedition too seriously. The American people are concerned about it, but that concern does not diStra ct their attention from submarine mur- der and violated German pledges New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Brown had come home very late one night after a convivial evening at a smoking-concert, and had con stunned more cigars and refreshment than was good for him. It was mi1- night when Brown reached home, but he did not know it. "Ah"! he muttered, eff the church clock would only strike, Ishould know the time. It's too dark to see" But hark! Just he spoke the clock began to strike. Breathlessly Brown counted, "One, two, three, four. five, six, seven, eight nine, ten eleven, twelve.' But at that moment another clock began. "Thir- teen" counted Brown, Fourteen. ri ftcen-great Scot.-siXteen, seventeen gracious-nineteen twenty f!D, tWenty-one, twenty-five GID :. Wentythree-mercy on ust-twenty- four (.!,' Hopping his :. steaming brow, he exclaimed, My word, I've never been out so late in my life"'- Rochester Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-06

Perspective, by E. J. Lubschcz,
 ''The principal change in the first edition is the addition of three chapt- CTS, "Oblique and inclined lines and planes" "The perspective of shadows by sunlight, and by arti- ficial 1ight."--A. L. A. Booklist.