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New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
A FORMIDABLE MAN.

Politicians who have their cars to the ground and in direct touch with those mysterious subtcrranean poiti- cal conduits can hear the rumblings of gubernatorial possibilities, can feel the throbbing and humping of the approaching state campaign. And in the first soundings there has come to the surface the hint of a strong drive by the Democrats and the selection of a candidate who would make a of George M. Landers, ex-mayor of New Britain. has been linked with the situation. Without venturing one way or another what MT. Landers will do,-he has not yet declared him self,--it is safe to presume that the Democracy could search the entire state, high and low, and find diff ficulty in getting a better man than George M. Landers.. And in this New Britain should feel highly honored. AS the mayor of our city, Mir. Landcrs accomplished many things which stand today to his glory. As an en- thusiastic citizen he has no equal. As q diligent and indefatiga ble worker in the Common council he has all thc attributes, the poise and bearing, of a statesment. If there is any Demo crat in the state who could hope to put his party once again in power it must be this favorite son Of New New Britain and, no doubt, his home
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
Brisbane on Temperance.

Charleston News and Courier.)
 Arthur Brisbane, who as editor of the New York Evening Journal is enc of the best known journalists in the world, told the newspaper people oe Iowa last week that prohibition ,-as bound to be a failure and that the way to keep men from drink ing whiskey was to put them to drinking. beer.
 The question in the World,' said Mir Brisbane, is not what you ought to do but what you can do. Can you keep alcohol away from men :? You cannot. When you are teach ing a baby to walk upstairs you do rot throw it up 25 steps as a starter Tn enacting prohibition you are try ing to throw the people up 25 steps at a time I believe that this coun- try is going on to prohibition and that when we again reach a Whiskey basis. as we will, VIC will have the whole circuit to traverse again.
 The views of Mir, Brisbane are the more interesting for the reason that in his paper for months past he has Eeen conducting q powerful crusade against whiskey. In our judgment his contention is entirely sound The raa2agc of a measure like the From Lcrg bill. for example, allowing the sale of beer and light wines under rigid restrictions would do more to settle the liquor question in South Carolina than all the laws that can ever be devised for the enforcement of statewide prohibition.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
TIME TO AWAKEN.

From the esteemed Milwaukee Sen- tinel comes the assertion that MT Wilson will. we admit, be a hard man
 to beat if he succeeds in honorably
 keeping the country out of this mad
 house of war in Europe. That will
 be his big triumph in 1916"
 Surely it will be a big triumph for Wilson in 1916 or any other President in 1917, or as long as the war lasts. If Wilson fails to keep the country out of war it will be because his own po- litical party has brought about a state of internal chaos, has given the powers abroad to understand that
 what Wilson does is not what the,
 United States would sanction. With
 the disloyalty of some men in the
 national Congress it is no wonder that
 Germany and England look upon the
 United States as house divided
 against itself. And unless Americans
 make up their minds to stand behind their President the house will fall and we will be plunged in war whether honerably or dishonorably.
 Any one with half all eye should 1 he able to discern that these nations abroad that are fighting each other | tooth and nail would be willing to i do anything on earth to draw the l United States in the war With the [ exception of France there is not a l nation among them in sympathy with 1 our form of government. And the
 narrow minded little fools on these
 shores are playing into the hands of
 these European tricksters who all the
 while are laughing up their sleeves.- l laughing at the easy going Americans, 1 some of whom are willing to support any foreign monarch in preference to ] their own President. It is time to i wake up Wilson might not be elect l cd in 1916,-some foreign agent I might get the job.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

about the subject since the day or the Mortimer pirates, that they have several times refused to consider se- riously project for linking Dover with Calais by tubes under the Channel to France, lest an insidous enemy some day march across unexpected into their country under their protecting sea. One company formed for the construction of such a dryland way between Europe and England did manage to get some lengthy reports made to parliament, in which the sug- gestions were advanced that provision must be made, with the construction of any such tubes, for their flooding from Dover in case of an outbreak Of hostilities between Britannia and any European power. The idea, however, was dropped as dangerous one.
 Roman shipping visited Dovers port, and, probably, the Phoenicians before Roman times traded there. The harbor was fortified in the 4th cen tury, and the original defcnses have been kept-to-d ever since. The Battle of Dover was fought off the harbor of the town August 21, l211. EuStace the Monk, adVenturer-plrate and soldier of fortune. in command of a gr~at French flotilla to aid the English barons against their king, was severely beaten in this sea-fig ht by the much smaller Dover fleet. The Battle of Dover ranks as high in the annals British victories on the sea against odds as that engagement in which the Armada was driven off"
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

an "automat." Some are using big brother for bodyguard, at a slight distance away, hoping to obtain prompt justice for some 'fresh' youth who has attempted to force his at' tentions on them.
 This obnoxious practice is not com fined to the so-called lower strata, 10 foreigners nor to apparent degener- ates. Many of the offenders are well dressed, are employed daily and ap' pear to be gentlemen. They do not con1ne their remarks to giddy girls, whose attire and actions would lead men to believe they are careless in their acquaintanceships Women Of more mature years, quietly dressed and going about their business, have been insulted. One or two of Anna zonian proportions and quick temper have resented attempts at familiarity with their strong right arm," much to the chagrin and pain of the would be masher. Others of gentle birth and retiring disposition have been humiliated that anyone should think so 1owly of them.
 Wherever possible these insulters of women should be brought up with a short turn False delicacy should
 
 not prevent women from appearing in court against those who have offered them indignity. Judges should not deal too harshly with men who have resented such actions by administer ing swift and sufficient corporal pun ishment. Bridgeport must be made safe for woman at all hours. New. corners must be made to understand that not all women are of the class with which they have been accus- toned to associate.
 Has the suppression of the red light district any bearing on this prob lem? Frankly, we think not. Yet 1t Is being urged as an excuse by those who disagree with the action of the administratio It should be possi- ble to suppress vice, and at the same time suppress those whose lack of self control Is their boast rather than their shame.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
Charge of tho 'Limb" Brigade.
(Ellis Burnett. in the Montgomery
 A As1yertjser l

Ellis Burnett. in the Montgomef
 Advertiser.) Half an inch, half an inch, Half an inch shorter Whether the skirts are for Mother or daughter. Briefer the dresses grow, Fuller the ripple now, While Whisking glimpses show, More than they 'oughter. Forward the dress parade. Is there a man dismayed No-from the sight displayed None could be sundered. There's not to make remark, clergyman, clubman. clerk, Gaping from noon till dark At the Four Hundred. short skirts to right of them-- Shorter to left of them. Shortest in front of them. Haunted and f1irted- In hose of stripe and plaid, Hued most exceeding glad. Sporting in spats run mad, Come the short -skirted. Flashed all their ankles there, Flashed as they turned in air What will not women dare? (Though the exhibits show Some of them blunderedl All sorts and shapes of pegs, Broomsticl1s, piano legs, 
 Here and there fairy shapes; Just built to walk on cggs. Come by the hundred When can their glory fade O-the wild show they made, All the world wondered, Grande dame and demoiscllc, Shop girl and BoWcry Belle Four ltundred-Il' m--oh, well, Any old hundred.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
D0per is the Business
 End 0f B1ltish Empire

Washington, D. C., Feb. 26.-"Dover where German seaplanes have lately been shoWering high explosives, might be called the business end of the Brit- iSh empire toward the continent; for when England wars in Europe her troops set out from Dovers harbor whence they have gone to Germany, france,t Holland, Italy, Spain, and Belgium in centuries past, and whence they are leaving today in an undimin- 1Shlng stream for scores of battle feldS distributed clean across the continent from the open ocean to the Black sea- begins primer on war geography ujst issued by the National geography just issued by the National
 Ihe city occupies a narrow break in the famous channel chalk cliffs, and it's harbor is formed by a grand enclosure of the waters of the Straits of Dover by more than a mile of piers. The chalk cliffs are honey-combed with military works, hidden guns and batteries and galleries through the rock. The fertilization of this point where England and continental Flu rope approach nearest to one another has been done as thoroughly as mili tary ingenuity can devise. Besides the works built into the cliffs, the har- bor is guarded by a modern redoubt, Fort Burgoyne, and other fortifica- tion- circuits. It has always been a fla Vorite worry with Englishmen to dream of invasion via the straits and Dover.
 So keenIy have Englishmen felt
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
Pensions in Civil Life.

Ti1is country being first of all a land
 of opportunity, the Am erican habit has been to change employment and em- ployer from time to time as seemed advantageous. We developed and boonled life insurance of all sorts to make some future provision for these transient workers, but pensions were regarded as military political sub iect, and so neglected by the insurance experts. The growth of large corpora tions, especially railroads, has how ever. created permanent occupations with lifelong employment for certain individuals. It has been felt that cnl- ployees of long service ought to be taken care of by the company, that it was good business to take care of them and so railroads and others began to enter the pension field. The idea back of it all is that if the workers are to stand by the company instead of merely Judging through to get their pay, then the company must stand by them. As the public utilities come un- der regulation, pensions are recognized as proper element in the inevitable costs which rates must be fixed to GOV CT. The difficulty everywhere is that shortsighted planning may bring the pension scheme on the rocks just as has happened with various fraternal hfe-insurance schemes. This was ll- lustrated recently by New York city's unhappy experience with pensions for policemen and teachers.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
New England Stock.

1 " The old New England stock is I. abnormal children and other types i ol mental dcfectives approximately : than any one of the races that have 1 come to our shores"
 That may not be welcQnlc news,
 CT opinion, but it is either a fact or
 is based on what appears to be facts
 to Dr. Walter M. Fernald, superin-
 tcndent of the Massachusetts School
 for the Feeble Minded art Waverley. l Headers may incline to the opinion
 that the superintendent is so much surrounded by the feeble-minded
 that he draws wrong conclusions. That is probable, but not necessarily
 valuable as conclusion It IS rather to be thought that the doctor would lay the blame on the imported people 1 because he would have the care of
 more of their offspring at his insti- , tuition, the foreigners being less able own weddings
 Dr. Fernald excuses the old New England stock somewhat by admit ting that the best of it went West sCme years ago and later the best then remaining here eloped to the NorthWest, and eloped Is r1ght, TOT the superintendent says the pest fe-
 males followed the brawny men. But perhaps the worst thinning out or the rest stock, as the doctor eHplalps, is the moving of stronger to cltless leaving the country districts to- the second and third best and the worst of descendants of the old stock. City reople make take comfort In that, but 1t is at the expense of the rural districts. Massachusetts reports ana lectures have taken so much ac- count of the increasing numbers of feeble eminded that the outside readers may come to the conclusion that the old Commonwealth has gone 10 the bad entirely, is going rapidly or will be saved only by the infusion of foreign blood the latter being now delayed or handicapped by the European war
 But Massachusetts Is not sinking down into lower level. It has Corraled it's feeble minded and other 1ncompetents so generally that they are too easily counted and used for deductions. But that Is no evidence that 1t has been lost. It still has the people to supply dozen new states CT sections with hardy stock for pioneers. It is also making new con- ditions here which keep the old com monwealth still ahead of the new states, however much they grow and crow. That Is of more importance than the enumeration of distress about the feeble or incapable people. More activity is the cure for the slowness of life in which the feeble minded are developed. That is why the foreigners seem to have smarter children. They are workers from necessity. They dig. Nobody ever digs without turning up something. Later on they will not dig so much and they will count more feeble minded among them. Those who have gone away from here have dug harder, and therefore raised better children. That is the cure for the weaknesses of race which seem so apparent.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
American Passports Still Good.

' w dCclDuIy INSpubllCdll)
 Those who think that Uncle Sam is putting all his strength in the leg with which he kicks the Teutonic alliance over it's ways of warning are reminded that the news reports car rjed the announcement yesterday that Great Britain had been forced to back down in it's attitude towards American passports. This comes about by the release of H. J. Baclxer of New Orleans who had been held for two months by the British authorities became of some unex- plained desire on their part.
 The United States represented that Packer must not be held because he had a valid passport and negotiations were well under way, with some prospect of Backer's release, when it was found that he had been re- moved from Gibraltar where he was 'tl ken to London. Then the question had to be reopened, which explains the length of the controversy. As a result however, the British authori- ties have agreed to recognize valid American passport as sufficient proof Of American citizenship and not to insist on the presentation by natura Ized Americans of citizenship papers. It is an important point on which the British have yielded and it Is i hardly possible that there will be further incidents similar to the BaCller caSes
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
Insulting of Women.
(Brid gepOrt Post.

Bridgeport is suffering from an epi
 demic of rOWdyism that the police, eX
 cept in isolated cases cannot be eX- Dected to prevent. The recent in crease in the number of insults offered will result in physical harm, possi- bly of d serious nature if the practice of men accOSting uneScOrted WO- men on the street does not cease. Already some of the more intrepid women are considering pistol practice and the carrying of
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
\ GcntIcrncn'S Clothes.
(NVatcrbury DcmOCrat)


 No man who assumes to be q gen. tlcman should think of having less than fourteen suits of clothes and ten overcoats This information comes straight from the highest sartOrial au- thoritN in the United States. the Ma tional Association of M erchant Tailors of America in convention at St. Louis Gentlemen readers will therefore gov ern themselves accordingly. This minimum wardrobe involves an cx- pendit1lrc of $2.060. No ''gentlcmen' will think of spending a cent less than that for his outfit Here are some of the essentials: A light pearl gray Tux edo for warm weather a blanket coat to be thrown over the shoulders of the gentleman gOlfer-Which is an absurd phrase, for all golfers are gentlemen which only costs $65: a morning riding suit and an afternoon riding frock. and top coat lined with Per sian lamb or mink skin costing $500. The estimate allows for only three lounge suits, q number that mayor may not-Strille most citizens as ridic- ulOusly insufficient This budget makes no allowance for shoes and haberdash- cry. It is assumed, of course, that a gentlemen will wear collars, hats, shirts, suspenders. socks, etc. Pre- cisely how many hundred dollars are needed for such items may be revealed when the hahcrdashCrs hold their con- vcntion. We hope they'll be easier on us, however. than the tailors have been. For the average Americans in- come is only about $500 a year, and we'd hate to have to admit that the average American isn't a gentleman.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
The Middle Age.
(COllier's Weekly. )

There comes clear day when one realizes that clothes are to keep the weather off you, that food is to give you health that home is sheler and inspiration; that, aside from being clean and inoffensive, ones personal appearance does not signify very much; that the main thing in life is to be going along toward the goal of your ideals. That isn't getting old, it's getting sense. From then on Time is not master, but friend.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
The Dear Things.
(Gargoyle.)

This is the kind of stuff you hear on the front porch:
 Why. George, how dare you? Now you can just go right home, and don't you ever, ever speak to me again." George gocs--as far as the steps.
 Let me come back, please. rn be good; honest I will"
 If you're going to be good. there isn't any reason for coming back"
 "Oh, you little angeli"
 George, dear, I can't breathA"
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

'Wisconsin is making 365 train loads of cheese every year," says the Louisville Courier Journal but still Is more widely known as the producer of La Toilette" Some cheese! But vho shall say that Battle Bob" is got a whole train load in himself?
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

They can destroy the parllamenI buildings in Canada, but they call close up the recruiting stauonS.- Philadelphia North American.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Poor little Peru. Because of the war it is now too poor to maintain a Minister at Washington. Still it is better to be poor and proud than rich and arrogant
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Brandeis will appreciate his frleho all the more after the attack upon ll'ii by his enemes.-F1tCn nburg Sentlnel'
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

|ivered by carrier 10 any part of the city pr 15 Cents Week. 65 Cents a Month. 'scrfpttons for paper to be sent by mail
 payable in advance. 50 Cents
 Month $7.o0 : year.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

realizes that there are worse things even than being called a Byzantine LogOthete.--BoSton Advertiser
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
PAPERS HIS SIDEWALK REID.
Arrested, Merchant Explains H6 Wanted to Prevent Slipping on Ice.
(Racine (Wis.) Dispatch Philadelphia
 Record.)

(Racine (Wis.) Dispatch Philadelphia
 Record.)
 Albert Fl. Borden, when the streets became slippery, amazed the town by getting out with his paste and paper from his wallpaper store and plaster ing the sidewalk near his store with bright red wallpaper. He was prorYp- ly under suspicion that he had become insane.
 In court, however, he said that he could think of no better way of pre- venting accidents by slipping on his. walk than by pasting some antiquated styles of paper until the weather mod erated. He said that the paper acted better than sand in preventing acci- dents, and agreed to take off tha paper us soon ;ts the weather became warm enough for him to remove tho ica.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
EW BRYAN HERALD
HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
 Proprietors.

bed daily Sunday excepted) at 4:15 D. m.
 at Herald Building, e Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Only two kinds of people in the world, the man whose troubles are bigger than he and the man who is bigger than his troublcs.-Minneap Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Posted in Russia are signs that speaking German is strictly forbid den. And in Germany speaking Rus sian is mpossible-Baltimor Ameri- can.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

town would help see that he got the place, George Landers has big pos sibiliticS.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

MT. Bryan's prOtracted sllellce causes one to wonder what, he's up to noW.-Albany Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

One reason why the Colonel IS So bitterly opposed to the use of hNpheHS is that he ObejCtS to being referred to as an cX-president.-Min Minneap polls Trl- bune.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

only profitable advertising medium in 1ne city. Circulation books and press
 room always open to advertisers.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Iered at the Post Office at New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

The assertion that the republicans have no issue but the tariff recalls Ben Kings poem complaining that there $ nothing to wear but clothes and noth- ing to eat but food. ."-Milwaukee Eve ming Wisconsin.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26
FACTS AND RANCHES

Mexico for the MCXicans. Serves them right.-ChattanoOg News.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

} Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand. 42nd St and Broad-
 way, New York City; Board Walk,
 Atlantic City, and Hartford depot.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Germany feels flattered at the de- mand for preparedness in this country
 But we can assure her it is not meant as a ompliment.-New York Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

The barbers are offering five hair cuts for one dollar, as a mark of re- spect for Dollar day. But who on earth wants five haircuts all at once Syracuse PoSt-Standard.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

The republican state convention has come and gone and the air is reeking with harmony. Each faction is Tor peace and the eXtermination of the other actions.-NeW York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

Colonel Roosevelt popularized the term 'muckraker'' and is now failing to popularize the. role of muckslinG er.-Louisvil1e Courier-Journal.
 Since Roots srecch, MT. Wilson
New Britain herald., 1916-02-26

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