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New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
Down Go the Hens.
(Waterbury Republican. )

Just as the women have succeeded in justifying their short skirts on the grounds that they're artistic, con- Een1ent, comfOrta ble, healthful and moral, it is announced by fashion s courtiers that skirts are going to be long again. Most of them it appears, are to be brought down to within six inches of the ground. The extreme styles for house and evening wear will actually drag, in the good old way brushing up any floors or walks that haven't been otherwise properly swept.
 Why this about-face? Goodness knows. Certainly men can't get a glimmering of a solution for the mys- tery. Some vague, unknown power called "Fashion' has issued it's omni- potent and inscrutable decree, and that settles 1t. Skirts will be longer. Then the women will be defending them, Just as they have defended short skirts, on the grounds that they're ar tistic, convenient, comfortable, health ful and moral.
 Men, of course, are always sensible and consistent about their clothes.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
HeaIy'S Chances.
Bridgeport Telegram. )


 The chances of Frank HeaIy, speaker of the House of Representa- tives, to be nominated for governor ty the republicans this fall may be measured wholly by the amount of faith held by the leaders in Connecti- cuts likelihood of forgetting the smirch on Healy's public record
 The bosses in the state like Healy personally. He is just their kind of man. As leader of the House in 1915 he obeyed their dictation and then took his reward at the wind-up by yielding his influence to vote himself into a flat sinecure at the expense of the state. That is the kind of candi- date the bosses want everywhere, tractable, obedient, clever, and willing to take his pay out of the pork bar rel.
 But unfortunately for MT HeaIy, the present leaders did not always dominate the situation.
 Some years ago MT. Healy held Hartford county in the hollow of his hand, politically. A man sought office and went to see Healy about it. He was accompanied by witness. He did not get the office, and Hcaly did not get a sum of money which the witnesses declared he asked for. Charges were passed and a public scandal resulted. Governor Woodruff ordered an investigation, the charges were sustained, and Healy was re- pCved from 8 state office which he held.
 Healy sunk off into obscurity and stayed politically buried for a time. But he is not the kind of politician to "stoy put" He gradually began to pull on the old strings, bit by bit. He worked himself back into the house. He worked himself back into the Ieadcrship-at first in the face of Last year it was his-easily. The toys' were with him that much.
 But for governor-that's quite an- ether matter.
 To make Healy the custodian of the very authority which on another occasion had yanked him by the scruff of his neck and barred him from the employment of the state!
 Will the people stand for it? Some of the politicians, thinking of Connec- ticut's big republican majority which normally maintains, cynicaly say "Yes" Others say "Not by a long shot; remember that the democrats elected Governor Baldwin twice run ming"
 There is good sense connected with that view of the thing. Our own opinion is that if the republicans wish to win in Connecticut this fall they must put their best foot forward, not 1 heiT. worst
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
With 2 Difference.
(BOston POst.)


 German submarine activity against merchantmen of the allies has been renewed with a good deal of vigor. and to bad effect for the allies. Where upon certain of the anti -administra- ton papers are parading the facts editOrially with the inference that the president is being fouted by the German admiralty.
 But what they forgot to m enton Is that in no instance whatever has there been any valid evidence that these merchant ships have been attacked without warning and without giving the crews ample time to escape That's the point and the only point.
 Of course, the United States never asked Germany to stop sinking enemy merchantmen. It only demanded that the sinking should not be without warning, and the chance for escape of the people aboard. Germany acceded to that, and has, so far, at least, kept her promise.
 But imagine the glee of some of our republican papers if some day the news should come that Americans had been murdered by German sub marine.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
UNNECESSARY NOISES.

What Church street needs is a kim silencer. That part of this
 Fbrated thoroughfare which Setches it's magnificent presence be- ben Main street and Corbin place is E gaining the reputation of being t of order." From the early morn hours to the cool of the evening din and racket is kept up. All zt is needed to complete the car &al of noise is the introduction of popular price music store wherein latest melodies are ground out by yard on a dilapidared piano. With novelty on Church street it could # greater solace in the name "Tin
 Alley.
 Hhe police should do something to #eve the suffering of those who live must spend the day in business Equations on Church street. The NJ lies mostly with those who ze delight in honking automobile #ns that are attached to machines Hding idly by. Of course, there other forms of noise which the kfic officer on duty at the intersec- of Church and Main street must Sw but which he is powerless to because he cannot leave his 4 of duty, The prevailing custom @racing heavy automobile trucks Sugh this street is a cause of an- ARnce to all those who are forced #pend the day there. Complaints H numerous. The guests in hotels, occupants of apartment houses, S private residences, the coterie of Mness men who hold forth from sg morning to late afternoon decry @nst the. terrible noises in vogue. &lere may and there may not be Ny to silence the tintinnabulations #hurch street. If there is way & man, or society, or even the
 R force, that puts it in practice a win the undying esteem and ad- N ton of some five or six hundred &aas who are being slowly #lred to death by the constant
 es, all unnecessary, that prevail @thurch street, the street that be- # ts name. There is this one thing ing on Church street. No one @ hears the soothing tones of a #ch organ; at least. not during Sz days.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
Our Navy As a Trade School. (New York World.)

A phase of American naval develop- ment less obtrusive than battleship tonnage and armament but making for greater efficiency is illustrated in The Sunday World account of the technical schools maintained by the Naval Department for enlisted men.
 A boy enlisting in the navy now en- joys most of the educational advan- tages of a student at a vocational training college. In the electrical schools at the Brooklyn and Mare Island Yards he can learn electrical operation and construction and wire less telegraphy. In the artif1cer school at Norfolk he can learn the painters, blacksmith's or wheelwright's trade In the yeoman schools at Newport and San Francisco he can learn naval bookkeeping and clerical work In the training schools for the hospital corps he can learn emergency surgery, hy- giene, pharmacy and nursing If he prefers to be a cook or a baker or a machinist or a coppersmith or a band musician or an aviator there are schools for him.
 And for all the while he is learning the trade that will fit him for special duties in the service and make him self-supporting when he leaves it. he IS learning it in the company of other youth who constitute what Admiral Dewey calls the finest enlisted men in the wor1d."
 The governments own gain from this treatment is in the improved qual- flea tiOns of the men on whom the fighting efficiency of the navy depends.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
The Visitor.

(From the Detroit Free Press.) A blend of good and bad, and of
 laughter aud of tears, And l reckon when it's over, when
 I've lived my string of years And have been the best I shall@be and
 have known all I shall know And my visit here is ended and it's
 come my time to go. I shall turn, as friends departing, to
 this kindly world and say I am grateful for the gladness that
 was strewn along my way. A blend of loss and gain, and of bit
 ter and of sweet; But I reckon at the finish, when I've
 met all f shall meet, And for me no day is dawning that
 shall bring another friend Or victory or failure, when my visits
 at an end,
 I shall turn as one departing from
 kind and gentle host And thank the world for gladness that
 in life was uppermost. I wonder every morning what new joy
 will come my way, What new friend I shall discover with
 the passing of the day, And what glad surprise is waiting, for
 1t really seems to me That each day is always different than
 I thought twas going to be. And when my stay is over, when my
 share of time I've had l shall thank the world for doing all
 it could to keep me glad. l have wept and I have whimpered
 I have suffered days of pain, But have lived to wake to smiling and
 to view the sun again. I've encountered selfish people, and
 some brutal men I've seen, But the most of them I've lived with !. have been big and kind and clean. Ana the care will be forgotten and
 the wrong will disappear, Ana I'll thank the world at parting for the joys it gave mo here.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office.
Mafnc's Great Daus.
(NeW York Evening Post.)

NNeW 1Ofk EVening Post.)
 The name of Hale as that of a can. dldate for the senate in Maine re. calls the palmy days of Maine's donl- 1nance at Washington. Tn the last congress controlled by the reublicans Senator Hale, father of the present candidate. was chairman of the com mlttee on appropriations, and the states other senator, Frye, was at the head of the committee on commerce, New York had two important chair men in the House, Payne, of the ways ana means committee, and Alexander of rivers and harbors But neither New York nor any other state could compare with Maine at the height of her glory The story cannot be bet ter told than in the words of an 1rate southerner who burst into Reeds off1ce with the indignant demand 'Who's running this government, any Way?' Reeds drawing, "The great and the good, John, of course" was the signal for the following retort:--
 Well, the great and the good must all live In Maine, then. I come up here on business with the secretary of state-Mr. Blaine from Maine. call to pay my respects to the acting
 
 wish to consult the leader of the United States Senate-Mr. Hale from Maine. I would talk over a tariff matter with the chairman of the ways and means committee-Mr. Dingley from Maine. There is a naval bill in the House in which I am greatly in- terested-Chairman Boutelle from Maine. I wish an addition to the public building in Richmond-Chair- man Milliken from Maine. And here l am in the august presence Of the great speaker of the greatest parlia- mentary body in the world-Mr. Reed from Maine"
 The story goes on to say that the southerner went out laughing to | lunch with the chief justice-Mr. Full 1 Ter, from Maine," but that is drawing l the bow rather long. Fuller was | born in Maine, but Cleveland took 1 him from Illinois, The record shows | one way, nevertheless. by which a state so small and so certain that it's 1 electoral vote is not the object of i hard fighting may obtain a tremend- ous influence in the government
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

"Some idea of the abundance of menhaden and the magnitude Of the fishery may be gathered from the fact that in 1913 more than one billion fish were caught and converted into over six and a half million gallons of oil and nearly ninety thousand tons of fertilizer, valued at three and half million dollars. These fish, if placed end to end, would have extended in an unbrOken line six times around the earth at the equator, and their weight exceeded that of all inhabitants Of Greater New York.
 Among the fishery products in which America is pre-eminent, the most conspicuous is the oyster. This our most important aquatic resource is not only more valuable than in any other country, but more valuable than in all other countries com blned. The American oyster has the further dis tinctiOn of being a staple food of comparatively low price, while in practically every other country having a well-developed oyster industry the oyster is a high priced luxury. Its commanding position is shown in the 1 facts that it is a commercial com l modity in every coastwise state except two (Maine and New Hampshire) ; that it is the leading fishery product in fifteen states, and that it is the most extensively cultivated of all our 1 aquatic animals. The annual oyster | crop of the United States is about ] 35,0O0,O00 bushels.
 | ''The salmon resources of the Pa cific states are among the natural | wonders of the western hemisphere, i but they now take rank after those | of Alaska, whose fisheries as whole 1 have experienced their remarkable de- velopment and attained their present surpassing importance chiefly because i of the salmons. Since Alaska became
 a part of the national domain, the to-
 tai value of the products taken from the waters of the territory up to the
 present year has been nearly $300,- 1 000,O the fishery reached it's climax in 1915, with a value of $21, ,000, 900
 which is three times the purchase 1 price of Alaska.
 "The ample experience of private
 fish culturists in all parts of the i country confirms the opinion often ex- 1 pressed by national and state fishery 1 officials, that under given conditions
 aquiculture may be more profitable ! than agriculture; that an acre of the | best water may yield larger returns
 than an acre of the best land, and thai food supplies of untold volume ant
 value may be expected from what are now unused waters"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
A Serious Situation.

Manufacturers Record, Baltimore.) )
 The price of paper, which has ad- vanced from 100 to 200 per cent, or ago seriously threatens the life of a large number of publications throughout the country and great ly lessens the profit of others.
 It is doubtful if any other large industry in the United States has had to face so serious situation, because when prices of raw ma terials have advanced the manu- facturers of the finished products have advanced their prices and thus thrown the burden on the ultimate consumer. In the newspaper busi- ness this has not yet been done. The newspapers, from the largest dailies to the smallest Weeklies have been bearing the burden which to many publications will mean conn., plete destruction and to many others the wiping out of all profit
 The day labOrer, the mechanic, the farmer and nearly all business interests, manufa curing and mer- cantile, under the activity of the times are showing larger earnings than for years. But the newspapers as a whole, are meeting a more per- l'leXing problem in the doubling, and in some cases the trebling of price of paper, and in the absolute inability to contract in advance for supplies, than they have ever had to face before. The statements which have recently appeared in the daily papers on the subject do not at all eIaggerate the seriousness of the problem.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
HOSOEVER SHAIL OFFEND,

bth sides in the great railroad sroversy that threatens the nation disaster have presented their ss, arguments and artifces, and lease has at last simmered down he main point. The eight hour is the pivot around which all Ter action must take place. The sherhoods are holding out for this Bae contention that it is practicable zailroa ding just as it has worked liner lines of endeavor. The rail- executives hold that the amount
 honey necessary to finance such a Sect would necessitate a change in E rate schedule which cannot take Rk without the sanction of the In late Commerce Commission. fident Wilson has put the de- n fairly and squarely up to both
 B speaking not as President of NUnited States but as one American Nbn talking to his brothers. achever side turns down his pro- Hl that the strike be held off pend a try-out of the scheme con- Fred. that side shall be held moral Responsible in the eyes of the Arican people.
 N all these negotiations the Sherhoods and the railroad owners S not been perfectly frank with M other, or with the great Ameri- N people upon whom they depend @ living. In turn the American
 le are dependent upon the rail
 for their very existence and in E event of a nationwide strike the
 Try and loss Of life would be in # nable. Therefore, it is for the # on both sides of the fence tc a into consideration the great
 ht of their deeds. Today the rail @ presidents will issue a statement # may throw light on their future 8sons. The brotherhoods are now Biting the decision of their su-
 ors, after the President has wor
 sive concessions from both sides
 EouId seem that the settlement o1
 H Hstrike. is within easy reach.
 8ith all the publicity attendan' @n the negotiations now taking @ on this momentous question the Mlic is very much in ignorance o- |at it means other than that a crisis
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
A TcIephOne Kiss.
GA. J. Lafayette in Pittsburgh Dis


 Have you ever observed the tele- phone kiss? It is mostly noticeable in railroad stations. There you will fre- Quent1y see men who telephone their wives before taking the train throwing kisses at the telephone when they hang up the receiver. The other even ing a dozen or more men rushed in the phone room at the Grand Central. dropped their handbags alongside the switchboard, called for familiar num- bers and disappeared in booths, talked an average of three minutes and. emerging waved kisses in the direc- tion of the transmitters. One man pressed his kerchief to his lips and another rubbed the back of his hand across his mouth, just as If they were Illustrating a kiss. Of course, these men were quite oblivious to their sur roundings and, of course. the kisses were spontaneous manifestations of affection for wives on the other end of the wire.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
Back to the Farm Page.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

ILOUlSV1IIe COur1er-J OurnaI.)
 Hughes started his campaign on the first page. Now his calamity howl has dr1fted over to the page on which the chief item of interest to the American farmer Is that hogs are above $10 and corn is worth nearly 90 cents
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

The Bulgarian army has occupied Kastoria, Greece. And of course all the little Greek children are crying for it.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Skirts will be longer next season. If they were any shorter they wouldn't be skirts, they'd be kilts.-Syracuse Post Standard.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

The Turks in Constantinople are learning to play football. Evidently to harden them for warfare-San Francisco Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Have primaries eliminated the wick ed bosses or are the wicked bosses eliminating the prima ries ?-NeW York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

MT. Hughes has not yet betrayed the slightest symptom of homeslck- ness for the dear old supreme bench. Star.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Boston has one city employe for every eight voters. How long before it is fifty fifty ?--BuffalO Enquirer.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
Beyond the Alps,

(F'rom the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.)
 This Is the way the Italian school boy says 1t nowadays: Beyond the Alps lies Austria"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Vered by carried to any part Of the cfcy Tor 15 Gents a Week, G5 Cents n Month. scrlpttons for paper to De sent by man. payable in advance. 50 Cents a Month.
 S7.o0 Year
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

One of the most prominent shadows at Shadow Lawn is that of a tall man with hiskers.-Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22
FACTS AND E'ANCIES.

Turks take Mush," which is what the Germans have been feeding them. Wall Street Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

ztereo at the Post Ofice Few Britain S Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

ued daily Sunday excepted> at 4:16 D. ra-.
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New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

A letter from Los Angeles, Cal, to Stuttgart, Germany, has just been de- ivered minus an enclosure of $225. The British censor should at least 1s- sue l. o. us, payab at the close of the War.-Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

only prof1tablA advertising mcIrum in Che city. Circulation books and preSs room always open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Charleston News and Courier says Hughes is balancing on the fence. When Taft climbs up a breakdown will be inevita able.-Atlanta Constitu- tiop.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-22

Herald will os found on sale at Hora- hng's New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad way. New York City; Board Walk. At Iantic City. and Hartford Depox-
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