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New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
TO ECONOMIZE ON GASOLINE.
Many Ways by Which Driver of Auto mobile May Effect a Saving of Expenses.
(EXchange.

l 1 Don't expect to get a record num- l Der of miles per gallon of gasoline If your brakes are poorly adjusted and dragging (then they are absorb ing and changing into heat power that should be propelling the wheels.) If you are continually seeing how fast you can get over the ground (the wind resistance on a car is appreoia- able, and 1t increases as the square of the speed of the car, and at high speeds even more than that
 If your carburetor is not adjusted right Gan overrich or an overlean mix ture in the cylinder will not have the power a good mixture will.)
 If your valves are pitted and burned and leaking (they will let a large part of the power escape before doing it's share of the work.)
 If your pistons and piston rings are worn and loose Oots of the power will get by them.)
 If you are trying to economize by using a "cheap" oil (the very best you can get receives hard enough us- age, let alone trying to use an oil that will burn and gum and cause carbon deposits.)
 If you do not keep the spark ad- 1ustment set at the best place Gan ex- plosion caused by a spark coming at the wrong time is always weaker than it ought to be.)
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12

1nunicated itself to other peoples and has undoubtedly proved a power in arousing a like spirit in the slow moving English. That it has also helped to stir the courage of her allies is undeniable. To this spirit may be traced the enthusiasm for the French cause that animates the youth of this country and has led so many of our young men to enlist under her colors. In the notice of the death of the gall lant young Victor Chapman the words lighting for France voiced the pride Of his family in the service to which he had dedicated his life. The gal lantry of young Wendell, son of the late Jac Wendell of the New Theatre Company, is a matter of equal pride to his l1insfO1k in this country, for he, too, was fighting for the same cause under the British flag.
 The unity of purpose that marks the present offensive movement of the Allies is largely the fruit of the spirit that has been flttingly likened to that of Joan of Arc and has made an in- delfble impress on the whole civilized world
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
To Those Who Would Write.
(COllieT's Weeklv.)

An industrious young Westerner feelingly writes us: What I need is the road to editorial tolerance. There is a knack in selling stuff I am convinced. There must likewise be a magic short cut somewhere. I am looking for that knack, that short hypnotic road.~ It ifs a trick of the head or the hand or the heart, I want to master it and break into the big league of real writers.'' A Southern correspondent declares: T have heard that your magazine has become so firmly established that you are willing to publish articles and stories upon their own merits without regard to whether the writer be famous or un- known" These friends deserve more than an individual response. It is only fallacy that editors are hostile to the unknown writer and so awed by famous names that they discrim- mate unfairly against the beginner. The discovery of a new writer is an occasion for celebration, and within the last month we have rejected man. uscripts from the pens of some six of the best known writers in England and America. These noted writers never complain at a rejection. "The literary game" said one of them in our office recently, "has an element Of gamble in 1t, and a writer will do well to make up his mind to accept this fact" We should like to have our young contributors know that writers become famous by mastering the in- tricacies of difficult and delicate art There Is no other Way-no "short, hypnotic road"
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
Word Artistry.
(ROchester Post-EXpress. )

Almost incomparable is the presi- dents artistry in the use of words. If rot always important his thoughts are charmingly garbed, as when he told the New York Press club that the power and virtue of a nation as of a tree do not come from the top, but that from the roots in the obscure passages of the earth the power is derived which displays itself in blos- sOms and fruit He had precided over university, he said, but never deceived himself into supposing that by university processes were produced the ruling forces of the world or those ideals which have lifted men slowly, oh, how slowly, up the arduous grades which have resisted progress since the world began. And again. he says that the United States is something bigger and greater and finer than any of us; that it was born in an ideal and that only by pursuing an Ideal in the face of every adverse circumstance will it continue to de- serve the name we love and for which We are ready to die, that name, America.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12

this is her liberation, the Summer girl, to parade the beach. And she shall continue her right so long as there is a cavalier from here to Mexico, from there to Nome, Alaska. The men in this country will arise in their might, if necessary, and exter- minate the critics of the Summer maid The reformers shall not banish dimpled knees from our Summer show places, Let them dimple to their hearts content. The more dimples the merrier This is a sad old world at best. Every little dimple helps to put just so much more sum- shine in it, whether the dimple dimples on chin or knee. So dimple oil, dimpled knees nor let human crus- taceans in the form of refOrmers dim your dimples. If there is to be joy in Cfilead we must have Summer maids and dimplcd knees.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
DO NOT FORGET.

Tomorrow is the day set for the |pment of New Britains consign- mt of tobacco to the boys at the mt. At noon the packages will be Ppped, sealed, addressed and ready delivery to the mails. The two stons, one for each company, will Istarted on their way shortly after noon hour. All those who have contributed and who wish to do sare urged to bring or send their Btment to the Herald office in the Ny morning hours, sometime before | n.
 @n next Monday morning, if every hg goes alright, the boys who left
 N Britain last month will receive Nn their friends at home enough &king tobacco to put a little joy life on the Mexican border. The S packages are scheduled to arrive @ogales Ariz., before noon on Mon In the cool of that evening, sn the boys have finished work for day, and when they while the Frs away around the old tents, they S be enabled to enjoy cool smoke a think of the friends at home. Ns will the joy of giving assert it. M To know we are not forgotten M Ter a comforting thought. By re- M Mlbering the boys at the front in s fashion they will never forget the # at home. So do not forget the @cco fund.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12

Washington, July 12.-"OnO of the greatest problems facing the officers of our National Guard now on the Mexican border is how to keep their men and horses supplied with water" says today's War geography bulletin issued t Washington by the National Geogra phic society.
 ''While the water question is a seri- Ous one throughout a wide zone on both banks of the HOO mile Rio Grande boundary, it is vastly more important along the 700 mile line ex- tending from El Paso to the Pacific. Throughout the latter section the av- craze rainfall does not exceed eight inches a year, while in some parts of the Yuma desert there have been droughts when the aggregate rainfall for twelve months has been less than three-fourths of an inch.
 Throughout this region there are two so-called rainy seasons, the more important being that which extends from the first of July to the middle of September.
 For the next two months our bor- der soldiers will witness a remarka ble growth of vegetation, the moisture and the intense heat combining to cause grass, grain, fruits and flowers to spring to life and maturity as if quickened by some magic of the wiz ards wand. All growing things of the soil will experience spring, summer and autumn in the space of three months. Then leaves and grass shrubs and vines will shrivel as the clouds disappear and 8 brazen sky once more canopies a region of 'si- lence, solitude and sunshine.'
 'BetWeen the Rio Grande and the Pacific coast the international boun- dary line crosses only five running streams, the first of these in the west ward journey being in the San Ber- nardino valley, 192 miles from E1 Paso, where thousands of cattle find excellent pasturage. Just south of the line, along the Berna rdino creek, a tributary of the Yaqui river. are the ruins of an adobe fort, a relic of an extensive settlement in the days of Spanish dominion in the new world.
 Even where running water is found along this frontier it is not a1- ways conveniently available for irri- gation purposes. For example the San Pedro river, which crosses the boundary midway between Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, has cut so deep ly into the soil that the bed of the stream is now far below the surrounding land, making gravity irrigation impOssibI.
 "Beyond the Santa Cruz the boun- diary line crosses a desert region where the intelligent, peaceloving Papagos Indians lead a strange existence, con- centrating all their agricultural activi- ties in the three or four rainy-sea months when land becomes an inten- sive- culture garden of great fertility. With the first clouds of June the na- tives rush to their 'temporales,' small
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
Training a War Lord.
(New York WOrld.)

Much sympathy should be the share of the little Hohenzollern Prince who on his tenth birthday was en- rolled in the army as a lieutenant of guard regiment. As the grandson of the Kaiser, as the son of the Crown Prince he is the victim of a system He is in line for the throne, and be- fore he is old enough to realize what it m cans he has entered upon his training as War Lord.
 This is militarism, naked and un- disguised. It is the perfect Prussian ideal, which, as Moltke said, makes war the national industry It is the first theory in which the dynasty that holds the destiny of the German Empire in it's hands breeds and edu- cates the future rulers of the German people. Before they are out of leading-strings they must be conse- crated to the holy cause of war and shaped for the career of a War Lord tC whom millions of Germans owe their obedience.
 It may be that the ten-year-old Prince William, upon whom the title of lieutenant has been thrust at time when his country is in the midst of grandfather forty years hence by leading Germany through a similar bloody experience. Or, it may be, by that tlmethe German people will have taken control of their own affairs and Dispensed with the glorious services of their Hohenzollerns
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
Merely Human
(New York Sun.)

The Connecticut youth who bit into a golf ball displayed a thoroughly human curiosity. He wished to prove for himself whether what he had heard about the deadliness of the core was true. From the time manufac- turers began making the present style of ball they have warned people against it's danger.
 A boy begins his experiments when against the dmOnitions of his par ents he burns his fingers on hot plate. He continues them when he takes his first watch to pieces to see how the wheels go around. A Cali fOrnian who declared that snake venom could not possibly be fatal to man, recently permitted himself to be bitten by a newly discovered ser pent scientists declared was deadly. He succeeded in proving that the snake expert was right Many folks have always mistrusted sea stories about the man eating prOclivities of the shark Before another year has passed there will be those who will in sist on more proof than has just been furnished on the Jersey coast.
 The motto of Missouri is the motto not of state but of humanity. All want to he shown. Men undertake adventures in political. social and business life. risk their lives in scien- tifc experiments big game hunts and explorations in unknown, dangerous lands because they believe that they can succeed where others have failed. Ii they did otherwise they would not he human.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
The SaleSman's Gospel,
(NeW York Worldly

On Sunday, the day preceding the formal opening of the Worlds Sales manship Congress in Detroit, many of the local pastors turned their pull pits over to delegates as lay preac chers, with results that appear to have been Cminently satisfa ctOry. Sales man. agers, advertising representatives and efficiency experts discussed our busi- ness ethics and made a favorable inn lression both for the ality of their sermons and the manner of their delivery. Perhaps there is no occasion for surprise that a good salesman should make a fair pulpit orator; but certainly the sermons contain an excellent creed not only for salesman ship but for the every day relations of life
 Among the precepts for success were these That harmony and service pay better dividends than enmity and con- tentlOn; that reliability is the key stone fthe ethics of salesmanship; that courtesy. loyalty and co-Opera- ton are essential; that misleading advertising and deceit and fraud have no place in the world of industry.
 This is the very Golden Rule of u ade, defined as clearly as a clergyman could define 1t. The salesmen-preachers may be congratu- lated on their prentice work in the pulpit. Only respecting one statement is a word of editorial cNcgesis needed. This was to the ef- feet that many people harbor the idea that every salesman is a crook and that he has called for the sole purpose of unscropulously taking money" That delusOn no doubt persists, but most rational people now recognize that salesmen for the most part are more inclined to underrate than to overestimate the merits of the goods they have to sell
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
To Defeat Wilson. (NeW York Times }

The Progressive Boston Journal halls and hymns it:
 Tn the minds of the republican leaders the paramo cunt issue is the de- feat of MT. Wilson-wherein we heartily agree with them.'
 In the chaster phrase of the Hon. Webster Flanagan of F1anagans Mills: What are we here for?" The paramount issue Is to put MT. Wilson out and put the republicans in Simple, intelligible, sympathetic to people who have been out in the cold for three years and more.
 As to this supreme issue of "beating Wilson," a quotation from MT. Hughes acceptance is decisive: Tn every de- partment of government the highest efficiency must be insisted on." Hay ing an efficient executive, the country is asked to substitute a green hand
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
Spring, Summe1 and Fall
 In Three W0nfhs 0n Border

tracts of land in the vicinity of nat ural or artificial water holes, where shallow irrigation ditches are dug and where quickly maturing beans pump kins, melons and Indian corn are planted. One of the chief articles of food in this region is the fruit of a giant cactus, which ripens in June and July. It is eaten fresh, is dried for winter, boiled and preserved, and made into syrup, while a consider able portion of the annual yield is converted into a much prized intoxi- eating beverage. After the summer harvest the Papagos migrate to the mountains where they gather acorns for food. In lean years they subsist largely on mesquite beans and certain varieties of grass seed.
 These Indians are constantly. sus- tained in their hard battle for exist ence by the belief that their Messiah, whom they call 'Mocte- zuma,' will come some day to correct all abuses and make the desert his garden of paradise. The entrance to their adobe huts face the east so that the great benefactor will find all doors open when he comes with the rising sun.
 The heat In the desert regions during the summer months is over towering. Government surveying parties have had to endure 11S de- grees, Fahrenheit, in the shade, while the gradations of the ordinary ther- n1ometer are not sufficiently high to record the terrific heat in the sun, which has been known to reach 15O degrees.
 "On the eastern slope of the Sierra de Tinajas Atlas, three miles north of the boundary line, there is an exten- s1ve semi-circular ampitheater in the midst of which is a series of curious reservoirs. Here seven great natural tanks have been carved from the rocks in the course of centuries by water tum bling down a narrow gorge dur ing the rainy season. These tanks have a capacity of from ,00O to 20,- 900 gallons and the water which they catch each summer is protected from evaporation by overhanging cliffs
 Some of these tanks can be reach ed only after a difficult climb, and the imaginative traveller can readily pie ture the many Tantalus tragedies which occurred here during the great gold rushes of the tf1fties and the sixties Numerous crosses of stone in the vicinity mark the graves of those perishing prospectors who reached the great reservoirs but who had not sufficient reserve strength to scale the rocks and place their parched lips to the rim of these giant beakers of life-giving water.
 'The heat and dryness of the at mosphere in this desert land induce such profuse precipitation that both men and horses require an abnormal quantity of water, the average for men being seven quarts a day and for mules and horses twenty gallons"
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
THE NEW RFVENJF RJJT.

Forty members of the min Ority joined with the Democratic majority in passing the omnibus revenue bill through the House of Representative This emphatic vote, prcsagcs a worthy reception of the bill in the Senate fcations, adopted since the original draft by the ways and means com nittee will also recommend. it highly.
 Of all the many features of this bill to provide revenue for the gov ornment, there is perhaps none so prominent as the Tariff Commission which it would create. Five members are to compose this commission, not more than three tG be of any one political party. The Investigating powers of this comGissiOn have been made extremely wide, and, if it works according to plan. the tariff once and for all will be removed from the realm of politics. An ping' provision in the bill will protect petition sprnging up after the Euro pean war. All in all this revenue bill, while it has some defects, is one Of the most representative measures ever framed in the House. It lacks the stigma of partisanship. It has the approval of the majority of the peoples representative in the lower branch of Congress. By this token it may, with some amendments, favor ably impress the Senate.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
Big Cities Best.
(BoSton Post. ]

The Fourth of July reports are about in and they bring a message of good cheer. Compared with the statistics of even 10 years ago, the figures of fatalities and accidents to- day are marvelously improved And nobody arises to suggest that the day has been spoiled. Other attractions than mere noise have proven that they have a right to exist. Civilization is gaining all along the line
 One curious fact is noticeable. and that is that the larger the cities the safer and saner the Fourth. New York, for instance, was this year al- most entirely free from the bang of big explosives. Other large places make the same reports. It is in the small cities and towns that license to terrorize and full swing to distract by elsewhere illegal-and sometimes there, as welI-noises. The small city does not enforce its own ordi- nances The police are too well ac- quainted with the citizens and wink at violations. The old crazy uproar is illuminated against in the local na.- pers but never stopped as it easily could be.
 But even in those towns, reason ia gradually coming to her own. She does not demand a cessation of good healthy and sensible noise But she frowns upon outrageous and danger ous manifestations. Some day the latter will all go by the board.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12
COLLEGE MEN ON THE FARM.

1 Farming is coming into it's own 1 This because of the European war ' which has created such great de- l mand for American fOodstuffs and which has also showed up the prices on commestibles Not long ago the tiller of the soil was placed in either of two classes. He was a gentleman farmer or a plebian who had to work at the sweat of his brow. Now it is somewhat different. Farming is rap- idly becoming a recognized business. In New Y Yorl1 state a number of capi- taIists recently got together and put forming the first big investment farm known in the eastern country. The men placed in charge of this enter prise were mostly graduates of col leges. This led to an investigation by a committee interested Tn the work and at sessions held at the College of report was read which went to show that a college education is not a bar to successful farming.
 Statistics gathered by this commit tee give encoura cement to the men who have cone through prescribed courses of study, It is shown that his acres pay twice as we'll as the man who never went beyond grammar school, while the college man makes three times as much" This is in complete contradiction of the old time view of the case that man must be born of the soil, that he must have a successful job of handling one. The committee was not explicit in stating just what is meant by the term "col- Iege man." whether this means a grad uate of an agricultural college or an academic institution. Tn the case of the high school graduates, however, it is known that these, while pursuing their regular courses of study, are not in troduced to subjects pertaining to the tiIling of the soil. So from the inves- tigation conducted by this committee there is to be gathered encourage ment for all those students who are contemplating life on the farm, either as directing managers or as or dinary farmers. A new road has been opened to the college graduate. And there is no reason why his book learn ing should hinder his success.
New Britain herald., 1916-07-12

Whitman portrayed it in his Demo
 cratic Vistas" years ago. He fore saw new literature, @ new archi-
 ture, new music upspringing from the people-not the luxury of a fa- vored class but the necessity of all
 It was Whitman's greatest achieve
 ment that he himself, in his own
 work, personif1ed this ideal Yet hn- cal descendants have been scarce enough, and democratic art in Amer ica has little to boast of. Perhaps it was a sense of this elusive quality which made the Spoon River An thology'' stir us as deeply as 1t lid.
 Now the question arises whether by way of music the democracy of art may not find fresh beginnings. Not simply by reiterating This to be the End of a Perfect Day, we concede But music, much music, is at any rate in every home. Simulated taste as a thing of special culture. learned by rOte from a fortunate few cannot be gained in this way. But may not real taste as the product of individual ear, learned by much listening, Te- peated blundering and many compari- sons, lie exactly on this road? AL ready the returns from the sales counter give a favorable answer. And we are inclined to think that indi- Tdual observation supports this view. It is one joy of true art that you do not tire of it; whereas every Perfect Day has its inevitable End when you feel impelled to hurl it's accursed disk out the window. We have seen this happen. Enough such artistic decisions driven home, and taste is surely around the corner.