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New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
TREATED FAIRLY.

There are some things in 8 political mpaign that might as well be left
 hsaid, unxnentioned. One of these Is issue that is brought to the fore in Iartford, but which so far has played part in other cities throughout the
 hte. It is the question of negro em- loves in the government service at darlington. The other night there 1as recited the pttifuI story of William Lewis, prominent negro Bwyer of Boston, who, under the Taft ministration, was one of the numer- \ IS assistants to the Attorney the United States. Lewis who Robably expected an appointment In 8e Wilson cabinet as AttorneyGen- < Aal is somewhat disappointed at Will Sn. One of the Hartford papers mes to his defense, and tells how 6ueily President Wilson and those of NJ administration have treated the @6roes. From this it seems that the resident has put the Jim Crow" E. in Working order at Washington. #here the clerks and messengers were sont to stroll around the offices as Bey pleased, hobnobbing and enjoy Bg social privileges with those of the I |lft administration, the Wilson fol- wers have placed the negroes in separate compartment.
 Aside from the fact that the negroes |1ve prohted as well, if not better, |aer tho Wilson administration as |cy did under the Taft administra-
 on there is hardly any truth in the harges made. Lewis, of course, has
 Ot retained his berth in the Depart lent of Justice and that makes some
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23

difference to him. But the other
 doing business at the same old stands
 they occupied for many years. A
 journey to Washington will prove to
 all doubtful Thomases that this ad- minstration has not been very severe
 on it's colored brethren from the
 South. This speaks volumes in it's praise, too, because there are very few negroes in the Democratic party. The majority of them are Republicans That also Is a well known fact. And when a party keeps in office such a large gathering of other political faith there should be some credit given for that. The whole thing will and should die out in day. Nothing good can come of this attack on the Presi- dent because of supposed racial pre- judice. It is not good taste, to say the least. Particularly when it is known that no one can get into the White House at any public reception without first passing a, giant negro, six feet and over, one of the finest specimens of his race in the country. This door keeper himself would probably take some exceptions to the statements handed out by his friendly newspaper defender in Hartford. The colored men are getting along swimmingly at Washington, otherwise the city would never have been christened "the Negro's Paradise"
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions aS discussed tn ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office
The Society Editor.
Chicago Herald

William MakepeaCe Thackeray was perhaps the most illustrious society editor of his day Vanity Fair" is stlll considered very good piece of imaginative reporting. BuIwer-Lyt- ton was another. The picture he drew of English society in Pelham" continues to attract its readers. George Meredith retains his suprem- acy, as witness Richard Feverel." Disraeli, too, had fame in this now reviled field, but the great states man lacked the immortal cunning of his greater contemporary and so his stories are being forgotten. Albert Smith had a great name in his day. His society reports are sold now only H. secondhand book stores, and there merely because 'Phiz' was his illus trator
 Anthony Trollope once seemed to be Thackerays legitimate successor. His narratives, however, are so faith full to society that they have become the exclusive property of students in college English courses and of curious scholars concerned in the history of manners and customs. Nor has the tradition of the literary society edi- tor perished.
 Arthur Schnitzler in Vienna, Der nard Shaw in his own manner in London, George Meredith, Henry James while he was yet alive, William Dean Howells In America, even the great Ibsen, all these master minds have concerned themselves to de- scribe intimately the behavior, the dress, the fine affairs. the thought, the conversations, sometimes the sordid- ness, of the worlds grandees.
 The business of society reporting thus has Its traditions its technique, its great names. and its permanent achievements The society editor IS limited mainly by her own limitations The same remark naturally applies to the magazine critic of society edi- tors, who incidentally, seems to take her own successful entry into the magazine field rather too seriously.
 Her contempt for society reporting Is akin to the proverbial literary dis 1ike-once expressed effectively by Stevenson-for all daily journalism. The society editor Is the reporter, the observer, the laboratory worker. Her immediate function is too feed a real appetite for information about the pageants of the rich, who are ever the great Her daily routine does not include undertaking, scandal mon- gering character analysis, novel writ ing, playmaking, nor any of the "higher' literary activities.
 But apart from her society col umns she may and often does in duIge in all of these activities. She may attain the excellence of an Edith Wharten or the sociological vision of an Elsie Clews Parsons. She has an unparalleled opportunity. She may be as stupid as a museum grind or as wise as a Fabre or a Darwin. Her material Is boundless. Her achieve nent is her own.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Drinking Water at Meals.
 (News Notes.)

Occasionally one hears conflicting assertions in regard to the wholesome ness of drinking water at meal time Somewhat recent physiological studies indicate that while the drinking of water with meals has no apparent effect upon the utilizing of the fats sugars and starches, It's copious use does result in the better digestion and absorption of the digested protein that tissue building constituent which is the most abundant of the solids in lean meat, eggs and cheese, and that constituent which also characterizes certain other foods
 The conclusion Is that the use of water as a beverage, with meals, is a desirable practice. It may be added that drinking generous quantities of water during the course of the day Is an important health measure In the uL keep of the general health of the body.
 An unfortunate eating habit is that of depending upon water as an aid to swallowing food. If one has not learned to thoroughly masticate food it without the aid of a beVerage-then it would seem wise to subscribe to the creed of the "dry eaters''
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Too Big a War for Literature.

Rudyard Kipllng has turned his hand to a description in prose 7 .'. verse of the Jutland sea fight, based on admiralty reports of the acton. No doubt his Is as competent and practicad a hand as there is to essay the task; and what a poet can do to vivify a routine official report and make 1t glow we know from TennY- sons Charge of the Light Brigade,' Cowper's '"Toll for the Brave and a hundred other stirring pocrts. sure ly England's greatest sea battle since Trafalgar was something to inspire even a dull muse
 Yet Kipling's account of it, as re- spects at least the first instalment, IS disappointing. The verses winch lh- troduce it lack distinction and lNe rrOse narrative is COmmonplace. u is conceivable that the war Should De too much for the poets. It is on too vast a scale for them to visualize, ana th cir ina agination is benumOed py events so graphic in themselves thaI the deed itself shamcs the lahc9' 11bo+ con a poet say to heightcn the offect on the human mind Of a de3'h strueg1o of aerOplanes aloft or Ot 6eath-blow to a great passenger 'hlp under water?
 The prose writers have had the better of the poets in this matter, put +nev in turn have had to yield the ,.alm to the reporters, who haNo ,parelv described what they saw without rhetorical embellishments The facts have spoken for themselves and tho highest interest has lain in inc plain unVarnishcl tale of the tax ino- of a trench or of a charge agalnSt q Fortified hill identified only ny Il 7,unber The War has producc" whole libraries of official docu12en's' vbite, blue and yellow books, Nuan- ,i+iee of fiction and masses of printed ,natter of all descriptions bearing "h if But of literature in the accepted sense relating to it and of a quality to o,t1a st 1t, there has been nOnc at all. If has been too big for the human ln- tc11ect to comprehend while it has been in progress, and 1t Will long taN the capacity of the historians after It
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Not the Way They Look.
(Capper's Weckly.)

An Italian who speaks correct English was asked which language his children learned to write more readily, Italian or English.
 "Ita,lian,' said he. s.Your Fmelish words don't sound the way they look"
 To show what this poor man had in mind his questioner will quote some suggestions given to him bv one of the most famous scholars, phi1oso- phers and professional men in America. They show what a cur1,c,,e language English Is:
 If daughter equals dawter and slaughter equals slawter, why does not laughter equal laWtor?
 Put it vice versa, and if laughter s lafter, why is not daughter dafter and slaughter slafter?
 Enough is enuff, but cough is not cuff. However, If cough is cawf shouldn't enough be cnawf?
 Plough is pronounced blow and bough is bow, but cough Is not cow
 Moreover, a little Italian knowing that cough is pronounced cOff, is lia ble to spell the cup of morning leverage coughphee.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Bang" With a Punch in It.
(NeW York Sum-

The first night had not been much Of success. And the next morning brought a cold douche in the shape of several unfavorable reviews. One critic said that the new play "Bang!' was a tiresOme rehasing of an old theme. Since time began Che wrote) we have been treated to these dramas in which poor deserving clerk is made use of by a rich and Scoundrelly superior. The thefts are always dis covered and the clerk is always con- Victed of their commissiOn; his wife always sets out to aVenge herself by becoming stenographer to the real criminal. Always she gets the proofs of his guilt and confronts him in a thrilling scene. When she has threat ened to scream for help and he has smashed the metal waste hasket. or dented it badly. he gives in Always by the time you reach the lobby to ask to have your money refunded the box office is closed.
 Reading this bitter comment, which combined the severity of a diatribe with a perfect freedom of expression seldom found outside sOliloquies, the producer was slightly downcast But when he showed the crtiquc to the autnOr or the play BanS! that 1n- diVidual merely said:
 "Oh, he doesn't understand the piece. I have taken two columns in the Afternoon Observer"
 He exhibited a printers proof. In heavy black letters the press agent read the name of the drama. There were several paragraphs in large type, as follows:
 The readers of the Afternoon Ob- server are business men, interested in vital problems "Bang!" deals In a forCeful way with most of the prob lcmS of modern ess-cotton fu- lures, the perils of pyramiding on an insufficient margin, speculation in dye stuffs, gambling if you will have 1t so; the menace of submarine activity to the structure of international law, prison reform. the ethics of life in surance loans, etc.
 But "Bang!'' Is not a problem play. It is a gripping, wholesome drama for those who can still thrill to the elemental. It Is not a thin attenuated refinement of rarity, but a red blood ed call to men and women in whom the call of romance still sounds like a bugle announcing the approach of the 90 horsepower motor of Life. whose throbbing explosion Is "Bang''
 The producer of Bang" said nothing For five nights the audiences were scant Then the drama began to play to crowded houses Eventually seats had to be placed on sale eight weeks ahead. "Bang!" was the suc- cess of the New York season. One day the producer said to the author:
 "By the way, that advertisement of yours in the Afternoon Observer must have been the start of all this.'
 ''Eh?' replied the author, absent mindedly Then rousing himself:
 NO, not the first one. That fell flat. You remember we were all the first week getting crowd After @
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
HeckIcrS.
(HartfOrd Times. )

It is an old trick for political speaker conscious of his own inability to hold an audience. to endeaVOr to awaken new interest and perhaps gain the pathy of his hearers, to plant a disturber in the meeting. one who will ask {. carefully rehearsed ques- ton, for which the speaker has pre- pared a carefully considered answer, the spontaneity of which will inspire enthusiasm.
 Such Q strategist should avoid the itfall that the speaker encountered, when, having properly disposed of his questioner, and with the plaudits of the crowd still sounding sweetly in his ears, he stepped forward to the front of the platform. and look ing in the direction of his supposedly crushed accomplice in the rear of the hall, said:
 Have you any more questions to ask of me?"
 Mo- came the answer promptly, "that is the only one you told me to ask"
 Of course this little tale should not he applied to any happenings on the speech-making tour of the republican nominee.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
HURRAH FOR THE COLONEL.

It takes Colonel Roosevelt to deal with hecklers If Charles Evans Hughes would adopt the same remedy that tho Colonel uses there would probably not be so much trouble ehead of the candidate. It was at endeavored to elicit some information from the Colonel. This man wanted to know something about what caused the panic In 1907 when Roosevelt was president. Immediately the Colonel let loose Battery B. You are "a fool and a coward" he shouted, and then, the man, the Colonel threw in this beautiful sentence: Go home and sober up.'
 Later in his speech the Colonel told the rest of the workingmen in Gallup why they were working He put 1t in this fashion, in the form of a now we'll known platitude: "Yes, and the reason you're working Is that the war offset the effects of the Democratic tariff" Whereupon a lusty lunged worker shouted:
 But we was not working in 1907 and 1908, when you were in''
 Did that question dismay the Colonel7 No. He was quite ready for the emergency, and he did not have to win this verbal tilt by the use Of 1nvective. He did not call this questioner vile names, he did not tell him to Ego home and sober up." On the contrary he called the man friend, Addressing the heckler the Colonel said: Friend, I never in my life asked you to vote for me on the ground that I would keep your belly full. I have no claim on the man who puts his belly before his soul.'
 Good for the Colonel. He has struck 8 new tangent and one that should meet with the approval of Penrose, Crane and Go. The wireless should get in working order now and promptly inform MT. Hughes that he must not devote so much attention to temporary prosperity, or any pros perity that comes before the welfare of the soul. The campaign, from this moment, should be run on high moral grounds. The hecklers and kickers should be easily downed. Colonel Roosevelt deals with them in two ways. First, by telling them to go home and sober up, and then by ap- pealing to their spiritual side. The Colonel indeed knows the value of handling the situations as they arise.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
D. MCMILLAN 1so-9O1-7OS MAIN STREET.
Better Books.
Waterbury Republican,


 According to the Publishers Week. ly, the autumn output of books for 1916 Is forty per cent. less than that for 1913. With this decrease in mum Der comes 8 corresponding incease in quality.
 That seems to be one good work due to high prices. The publisher to- day scans d new manuscript longer and more carefully than usual be- cause it costs him more to publish 8 book and he doesn't want to go through the expensive process for one that isn't worth while. It is said to bes working the same way with short stories. They are fewer and better This is cheering news for the masa- zine reader. Perhaps the reader him self has had something to do with this improvement in quality of the literature that Is being put before him, for he too has improved.
 From the bookshops and libraries come reports to the effect that more people are reading good and thought full books than in years past. More people are buying books, a few at a time Or whole sets A fair share of the nations prosperity seems to> be furnishing public and private n- brartes. Altogether, it promises to be a good season for good literature.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Domestic Virtues in the Army.
Waterbury American).

(Waterbury American).
 The Indianapolis News tells or a young wife who went to visit her National Guard husband at camp. She had expected to find him march ing or shooting. Instead, she found him peeling potatoes and stirring meat stew, with a lot of dishes piled up to wash.
 This made a Init" with the wife. She remembere with keen interest that her husband had an insuperable aversion to washing dishes, that he could never under any circumstances be persuaded to peel potatoes In his own kitchen, and that he not only hated to do any form of cooking but had absolutely refused to learn throughout their married life. And here he was, installed as cook for his company, and getting away with the job fairly we'll, considering his natural hmitatons-and more marvellous still, doing 1t cheerfully! She laughed and laughed at the embarrassed cook, and yet was proud of him.
 The incident suggests that there arc excellent things other than fighting that a man learns In military or gan1zat1on. There might be less op position on the part of women to their men-folks embarking on mill tary careers if they realized that tho men would probably learn something about housekeeping during their term of service. Every man ought to be able to cook simple dishes anyhow; the lack of such ability Is a serious defect in practical education. The man who admits, or even boasts, that he can't cook meal, or wash dishes, or to do the marketing, or make 8 bed Is In the same class as the woman who never reads the papers and hasn't the slightest understanding of her husbands business
 Order Is another thing that 8 soldier or guardsman learns Most women will readily agree that it will make amends for good deal of feminine sacrifice to have 8 husband or son acquire the habit of keeping his own things in order and refrain ing from messing up other peoples things. Army life may be crude and primitive in some ways; but In these respects, at least, it's a civil1zer.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
Rcnaming the United States.
Christian Science Monitor).

Christian Science Monitor).
 'ITnistatia" is a name now proposed for the nation at present called the United States of North America, in order that it may comport with Can ada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and other national divisions of the west ern continents. It has two recom- mendations, at least: First, it is a. very good condensation of the longer term, and, second, it is euphonious. "I am a Unistation," would be an i'm provement on 'I am an American," in so far as it would indicate more clearly what part of America the speaker claimed as his country. Of course, there are obstacles In the way of the adoption of the designation. as there would be to any change but they are not insuperable. As to any difficulty In getting to the new name, 1t is only necessary to point to the ease with which the world accepted, Petrograd for St. Petersburg.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23
False Philosophy.
(New Haven Journal-Courier

(New Haven Journal-Courter.)
 Nothing could be more ridiculous
 than to advance the argument that a
 man should not be elected to high
 political office because he has an elastic mind and permits 1t to do it's work. Equally absurd is 1t to contend that self-centered man Is the sort of political Moses the people need to lead them out of the wilderness
 The truth Is that a nation needs a man as it's leader who is not afraid to think, to constantly re-examine his conclusions and to correct false esti- mates. MT. Edison was right when he said of MT Wilson that he has blun- dered, but that he keeps laundering in the right direction. One would think from the consideration of this false conception of an individuals metal operations that the able men in con- tl ol of the major affairs of life are men who never make mistakes of judg- ment and therefore never have occa- sion to correct them, or that men of large wealth always make wise invest
 r ents and therefore never suffer from consequent losses. The man who never makes a blunder is a man with out imagination, without initiative end without instinct. He Is proto- plasm. Ones attention is constantly called to men who blundered from following the wrong course in action only to recover by the abandonment of that course and the substitution of another. Progress Is secured by ex- pertinent and in its wake are to be found blunders of huge proportions The secret history of the late MT Morgan would show that his blunders probably equalled his successes In number, and that it was not until he had parked his shins in various quarters that the straight course re- yealed itself.
 Every responsible business man knows this to be true. The only difference between the business blum | derer and the political blunderer Is that the former blunders in private | tho latter In public. The important | thing to know about either Is whether | he is blundering in the right direction | and in the final analysis whether the | balance Is in the right side of the | ledger. The philosophy of the rock ing chair leaders adds immensely to | the gaiety of life, but it leads no- where The critic Is useful; the per- former essential. It Is we'll to keep these things in mind when estimating the usefulness of other people.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23

Roosevelt Then-and Taft Now might be the title Of perfectly honest Republican campaign bro- chure-but it is not likely that it will be. At present, the Republicans are busy circulating copies of Colonel Rooseve1ts speech at Lewiston, Me- in support of Hughes Four years ego, the same Republicans were just as busy distributing copies of Mrs Annie Riley's book, Bull Moose Trai1s,' which revealed the Colonel in the light of "The Great Imposter. ," Charles D. Hilles, the Republican Ma tional Chairman, told Mrs. Hale the morning after the election of 1912 that her book "helped to kill the Bull Moose and defeat the (Rooscvelt) three-term government, but it was our misfortune that, when they got pulled away from Roosevelt, they went to Wilson, instead of Taft"
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23

few days I figured out what was wrong and changed the advertise ment. I had left out the most i'm portant thing"
 l didn't notice the change. What was ft?" asked the producer.
 Why, just a line.' the author told him, T had forgotten to say that Bang! was a play with a punch in it."
New Britain herald., 1916-10-23

If the bakers of the United States who are taking advantage of every excuse to increase the price of bread can persuade 8 considerable element of the population that an embargo on wheat and flour is necessary, 1t will not be long before we shall have a demand for similar restrictions upon the exportation of other commodities. There is more than one way to de- feat neutrality, and the influence now at work upon the baking industry is full of resource.-New York World.