New Britain herald., 1916-07-27
ALL EYES ON MAINE
 AS CAMP PAIGN WEARS
Cummings to Assign Speakers to
 Pine Tree State
Especial to the Herald.) )

l Washington, July 27.-Maine is the
 subject of close attention from Con- ] Decticut members of both the great
 political parties.
 Homer s. Cummings of Stamford,
 member of the democratic national l committee for Connecticut, as chair | man of the speakers bureau of the l democratic campaign committee, is l hard at work on schedule of
 speakers and dates for the democratic l campaign in Maine. Chairman Me- Cormack of the democratic committee l recently talked the matter over with President Wilson. MT. Cummins, it is
 understood, will send into Maine
 several members of the cabinet,
 numerous senators and representatives and various other big democratic orators outside of official 1ife Senator Brandegee of Connecticut is also much interested in the Maine situation, which will culminate in a
 September election that may forecast
 how the national election in Novem-
 Der is going.
 Maine ought to give 15,0O0 plu-
 rality for the republican ticket,' said l
 MT. Brandegee today. "Of course
 Maine is not as surely republican as it
 was a quarter of a century ago, when ] It was d TOCk-I1DDeO TepuDllCan state, 1
 but believe it is safely republican in l ordinary times and under ordinary 1 conditions. This year, I believe, l Maine will go republican beyond a l doubt. The whole of New England, I think, can be safely counted in the republican column, and I have no doubt that MT. Hughes will be elected"
 Senator Brandegee is the only sena- tor on the republican side of the chamber who is known to be against ! the child labor bill. He says he does rot believe it is constitutional and will vote against it, although he does not object to it coming up at this session.
 The president has sent to the senate the nomination of W. H. Wall to be postmaster at East Hampton, Conn.,, to succeed G. K. White, whose con- mission expires July 29.
 The senate has confirmed the non1t- nation of Willis Hodge to be post master at South Glastonbury
 Tn connection with the enactm ent of the rural credits law, a table has been prepared showing the amount of farm mortgage loans of life insurance com panies on December 31 1914 The 1 able shows that the amount was S75, O50 only in Connecticut, at an average rate of interest of 526 per -ent.
 Vocational Education.
 Senator Page of Vermont, who is pushing the bill for federal assistance n prom oting vocational education in he several states, says that under the ,erms of the vocational educa ton | federal aid bill recomme ended by the rational commission that studied the ;ubject if S2,5O0,O00 is apportioned or the purpose, upon the basis of ural population, Connecticut would eceive $1,150 in the year 1915-16 7hich would increase annually to maximum of $6,900 in 1923-24, for diaries of teachers on agricultural ubjects, s11, ,75O this year and s7O,5O n 1923-24, for salaries of teachers of rade and industrial subjects, and 6,050 this year ranging up to s12,100 n 1e18-19 and annually thereafter or the training of teachers to carry ut the purposes of the act. If minimum allotment to the state of 5000 in the first year and $10, 1000 in he last year named is to be made, s has been proposed, special allot- 1ents of $3,850 this year and 4,250 . n 192223, would have to be made or teachers of agricultural subjects. '