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New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
The Irish Beat Columbus. Washington POstD

The recent presentation of a paper before a joint meeting of the Amer icanists and the American Historical Society, tending to show that the shores of America were visited by Hi- bernian sailors long before Columbus ventured across, raises most interest ing questions, and if the hypothesis be correct, explains several things which have been hitherto regarded as in the nature of mysteries.
 How did the Indian war whoop originate? A plausible explanation suggested by this new view is that it was initiative in origin, being the re- suit of the deep impression made upon the simple savage mind in listening to the sOnorous shouts of those early landing parties of Celtic sailors. And the war club, the use of which sug- gested to many early pioneers long practice in twirling it on the part of the aborigines--is it not clearly de- rived from the shillelah? The wild gyrations of war clubs above the heads of savages around the camp fire logically carry Us back to the mus terings of Ulster and Connaught in the time of King Conchobar-
 When blue eyes flashed
 And heads were smashed
 Shillelahs never miss fire sir.
 Linguistic investigations tend to the same conclusion that aboriginal life was strongly affected by visita- tions from the Emerald Isle. Pow WOW, though said to be an Indian word, is found in early Gaelic, though in disjointed from pow being a cor ruption of 'poll." the head which was commonly hit, and WOW" expressing the result. Both Irish and Scottish bards have noted this use of the word "wow" in connection with various sorts of surprises. Thus We have in Tam O Shanter:
 And. WOW. Tam saw an unco sight!
 Whether the name of Powhatan was derived from this ancient Gaelic word "pow'' or not, he was at least something of a head-hitter. if we may believe the testimony of Capt. John Smith, whose gratitude to Pocahontas for escaDing the Americanized shiIle- Iah is of record. And here there is still stronger evidence: "Poca" is Gaelic for "a bag" and the celerity with
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Salvini's Success. (Waterbury Republican.)

There are many young people who have ambitions to become great stars of the stage, of the music world, of the art world. To their attention, the following excerpt from an editorial of the New York Evening Post on the death of Salvini, the greatest tra- gedian, is called:
 Artistry-artisansh if you please raised him to his heights. Nature gave him the implements; arduous study, under competent instruction and example, in a long course of stock company drudgery, taught him how to use them. He of course was a genius. That was one reason why he was a patient, industrious and apt scholar. The successful practise of art, of any kind demands labor and instruction, as we'll as capacity. Not every aspiring actor can becom e a Salvini, but, with ordinary intelli- gence, industry, and thorough instruc- tion in the rudiments, no theatrical beginner need despair of ultimate success. Without training schools there can be no great actors. And the only known, tried, and proved good school is the stock company No great actor ever came out of any other
 And as with great actors, so with great painters great sculptors, great m musicians, great engineers. The train ing is really had in the days of that drudgery from which the young seek escape, and against which they com plain so loudly, at times The drud- gerry Is the refining process and if one cannot stand it one cannot hope to become great for one will be unDre- pared. when the test of greatness comes. Patience and perseverance and hard, conscientious work are essential to the success of even those who are born with superior talents.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
TWO OF A KIND.

Where does history present two such parallels as William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt! Surely not in the last two centur1es' although mayhap one mlght raiiip throupb the pages of some old Roman historian and find two such charac- ters: but even then they did not live and carry on at the same time or dur ing the same period. Apparently two onnosites, Bryan and Roosevelt are almost one and the same. The for mer is a Democrat, the latter Re- publican. Bryan is a peace-at-any- price man, Roosevelt a warrior bold always ready for the fray. Yet in the final analysis it it easily seen they are both just what old P. T. Barnum in his palmiest day would have given the world and all for,-circus per- formers of the first magnitude. They are both adopts at playing to the gal lery. With conical stretch of can vass overhead, and three rings in
 
 two artists could give any other play
 ers-outside of themselves s,-cards and spades and win hands down. They are the personification, each in himself, of self-conscious power and all that goes to make men daring on the trapeze. Taken from their proper sphere, the world of entertainment, and affixed to political organizations, they become at once a utility and detriment It is good to have man like Bryan around in any political camp. But just for a little while. He is as essential as a second in a prize fight; but when he gets out and spars for himself then the trouble begins. He cleans the ring of principles, ref cree and rubbers-d down and chases the time keepers from the immediate vicinity. This is evident from the fact that for sixteen years he hung around the Dem mocratic party's neck like a millstone. And his contempora- neous competitor Theodore is prepared to do the same thing to his party. Their usefulness over,. they make everyone with whom they come in contact pay the penalty for past indulgences. Theodore is now coming forth from the plain of Esdraelon to be to the Republican party what William Jen- nings has been all along to the Demo- cratic party,-a hair shirt. He will
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

excellent Your comments on the salary are to the point 1t is an as- stunned fact that some exceptions are made as to salary and two thousand dollars or more may be paid to cer- tain in it's employ who are not college graduates.
 Tn as much as many towns no longer receive average attendance grants the State Board of Education is "in'' some twenty to thirty thousand dollars over it's available moneys of a year ago. Some one might ask why a few dollars of this might not be used to pay a college graduate
 It happens that the state is con- ducting educational courses at Yale and endeavoring to have all it's teachers join and become college graduates. Probably the idea is to have all it's teachers join and become college graduates and not worth over $750 a year. In this case the saving over present salaries would in many cases be very great and the State Board of Education a benefactor to its teachers and to it's taxpayers. This is great educational engineering and should place Connecticut first in the Union in education.
 INTERESTED.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Mir. Birds Demand.
(Newark Evening News.

If the views of Charles Sumner Birl, former leader of the progressive party in Massachusetts, and of Will liam Howard Taft, defeated republi- can candidate for president in 1912, are to be taken as representing the opinions of the progressive and regular wings of the antidemocra- tic strength in the country, there is little hope that the Chicago conven- tion will be able to find a candidate upon whom both wings can unite in support. MT. Bird practically limits the choice of the convention to Hugh eS or Roosevelt. MT. Taft thinks the nomination of Roosevelt is inn possible.
 Now we doubt if either of these two gentlemen speaks for any very considerable body of his fellow coun- trymen. We do not believe that Roosevelt or Hughes are the only men whose candidacy would be re- ceived with favor by former progres- sives nor do we believe that many regular republicans are so irrecon cilable as to invite democratic vic tory by refusing to support a can- d1date tainted with pTogressivism.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Warriors of OLd 1rod
 Through Norapa Valley

reversed the lines of march, and swarmed down the valley to the gates of Vienna, itself; and, since the break ing of the Ottoman power, the Ger man peoples have been looking up the valley to commercial expansion beyond, in the rich, though stagnant, areas of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia.
 The. Morava River Is not only Ser vias largest river; it is one of the most important in the Balkans. The line of the Orient Express, coming from Paris, from Munich and from Vienna, parallels the river, and stops long enough in Belgrade and Nish for one to wonder about the towns Eeyond. A large part of the export from Germany and Austrio- Hungary to the Balkans and to Turkey passes this way in normal times, and the raw materials of Servia find their way down the river to the factories in the north.
 ''The Morava River is formed by the union of the Servian Stolac, and of the southern and western Morava- It is about 240 miles long. and Is naV1gable for more than 50 miles from its mouth Rafts, fat-bottomed boats and shallow-d -draught steamers are operated over this course. An east ern branch of the stream rises close to the Bulgarian boundary while the southern Morava rises near Uskup, It empties into the Danube 30 miles east of Belgrade, at Semendria. Among the more important towns along it's course are Tagodina, Chupria, Parachin, KragejevatZ, Kruchevatz, Gurgusevatz, Lescovatz, and NiSh."
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
HEALTH HINTS

ecause of the intricate complica- IS going to make Up modern city
 it is essential that every well or ized municipality be the possessor a thoroughly practical. and com- ent health department. If not, then
 city isNopen to every malady that les along, to the ihnconveniences sickness ofA all sorts to the dis forts that ge> Ifand lin hand with lemics of any kind. The health artment is not only a safety valve, aer is it the VbarTier that keeps
 seemingly ihnocuous diseases. v Britain should pride itself on be-
 the possessor # a health depart
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Immigration Laws.
(New Haven Union. )

Owing to the awakening in America ever the problem the nation faces with respect to the aliens within our gates it is certain that a most deter mined effort will be made this year to pass legislation further restricting immigration.
 Despite the fact that President Will son and former President Taft each vetoe an immigration act, because they were not satisfied that the liter acy' test provision was advisable, 1t is known that both the house and sen ate are overwhelmingly in favor of legislation which will prevent a flood of undesirable Europeans to the United States at the close of the war. Furth ermore it is expected legisla- tion will be enacted which will tend to increase naturalization in America. Officials, under present world wide conditions, are becoming alarmed over the fact that hundreds of thousands of foreigners in this country, who have lived here many years, and are now property owners, have made no
 move in the direction of becoming citizens
 Legislation which would require foreigner to show cause why he should not be deported if he took no. steps toward becoming a citizen after living here a number of years, will be considered.
 It has been pointed out that ir ome stat foreigners, who have taken out their first papers, are eligible to vote, yet they cannot be called on for jury duty or for military service. This is true in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Indiana and Arkansas.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Church Unity and Peace.
(New Haven Journal Courie

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 It is reported that the reading on Tuesday of the Pope's letter plead ing for church unity before the Pro- Long Island, created a deep and ra- ther dramatic impression. There was reason why 1t should. At a moment when many have despaired of Chris tianity as 8 guiding power in a time of unprecedented stress, the plea for church unity comes with positive dramatic force. To head of the Roman church the project of the Protestant convention, that only through the united faith of the Christian church could lasting peace come and remain. made the strong appeal it could have been expected to make. "In the midst of the European conflict" said
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

which Pocahontas bagged the Eng fish Rolfe is almost conclusive evil dence that she had Irish in her blood. a circumstance quite in accord with the strenuosity of John Randolph and others of her descendants.
 The tedium of the historical narra- tive will be in a considerable degree relieved if it is found that American Indian ghost dances are mere vestigial echoes of ancient ceremonies at Donnybrook and Kilkenny and that the powess of Black Hawk, Sitting Bull and Geronimo emanater from the same sort of vibrations that dom- mated the souls of Lavgaire MacNeill, Brain Boroimhe and Dermed Mac murrOugh.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Songs of the Telegraph Editor

(C. L. Edson, in the New York Sum- The telegraph editor waits in his room Like a spider bestriding the web of our doom, While his telegraph wires a-glint in the breeze Run over the land and go under the seas, And are singing all day like the hum ming of bees Tn the droning and clicking of tele-
 graph keys. For I am Clotho to snip at the
 strings That arc spun in the making of pup
 pets and kings, The world is my checkerboard, vernal
 and vast I scan every role in which puppets
 are cast, Under my pencil the millions have And I gather them in with the sex
 ton at last At the birth of g. crown prince I
 laugh in my glee; He is mine, he is mine; he is given
 to me! I shall pick him a bride, and por-
 tray him, a groom, I shall watch while his pride and his
 arrogance loom, Till his frontiers he's thrusting aside
 to make room For an empire to burst out of blood
 into bloom, And the millions are cursed by the
 cannons that boom I shall herald the day of his failure
 and doom, And at last I shall lay him away in
 the tomb. 'J saw the Rough Riders in Cuba,
 afar; Tn the registering ruck there had
 risen a star. It rose for man who was fated to The destiny road where flames trum-
 peters led To the top of the heap. When that's over, I said, T shall rock him to sleep and shall
 put him to bed.' For the heroes climb highland
 then down in defeat, With my hand each pulse till it
 ceases to beat; Be it carter or courier, noble or
 scamp, A king in Dahomey or travelling
 tramp, My telegraph spark shall shine out
 in his camp, And return like the slave of the
 wonderful lamp! TO St. Peter and me do the angels
 confide The key that shall open eternity wide, My key is the telegraph key at my
 call, And it never lets up on a fellow at Till it lays him away with his shroud
 and his pail, And the footsteps fade out in the
 emptying hall"
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
COMMUNICATED
''The Poor, Poor Doctors!' Some Per-
 tinent Comment on the Case.

To the Editor of the Herald.
 Sir:--It was with much interest that I read your editorial in last nights Herald, on '"The High Cost of Living, Dying" So the poor doctors are also feeling the effect of high prices, are they? and wish to ad vance their prices? We'll they don't any of them look it, but all appear to be making a comfortable living at their profession.
 At present, a doctor is considered a necessary evil,' and no one likes to call one into their home unless ab- solutely necessary but if they ad- vance their prices they will become a luxury, and entirely beyond the reach of the working class of people.
 AS usual, the honest have to suffer for the dishonest, and if all people paid their doctors bills as we'll as their other debts, the doctors wouldn't be suffering, as they are doing. Doc tors expect to lose on their patients, and send in their bills accordingly, and gratefully accept what is paid them. From personal experience dur ing the past, l have found such to be the case and you really can't blame people for keeping the doctors waiting when they can charge you exorbitant prices on a case where they are in position to make as many calls as they think best, and where they think people have few dollars in back of them. No fear of the doctors for gettlng' to charge their prices Far from it! AS for their night calls, don't they receive more for a night call? Just send for doctor at about D. m. and see if he doesn't put off the call until 1 0, when the night rates go into effect. The poor, poor doc tOrs
 A READER. New Britain, Conn.
 Jan. T. 1915.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

Washington, D. C., Jan. 8.-''The MoraVa Valley, along which the al- lied German and Austro-Hungarian u oops are pushing forward to a june tion with the Bulgarians, forms the core of old Servia," according to a primer of war geOgra phy just given out by the National Geographic Society, which describes Servia's lar gest river and the Servian link in the historic route between Europe and Asia. The greatest part of Servia's S trade flows through this valley, and here, also is much of the small king dCms richest agricultural land More ever, it is through this narrow strip of lOwland that the mountainous Balkan country has maintained it's e intact with the West, a contact not a1Ways advantageou
 '"The Morava Valley forms one of those famed troughs across European urlands along which armies have Eoured throughout all history, and many a powerful host has passed over the course that the Teutonic soldiers are taking today. When Constanti nople, the golden capital of the Elm. plre of the East, was in the zenith of it's glory, it's generals held back Slav incursions in battles fought beside the MoraVa River. Some of the crusaders marched this way, crossing into Asia Minor at Byzantium, and, while on their way through territories cf Eastern Orthodox Christians, these eEuberant Franks and Teutons often kept the people guessing as to whether the crusade was planned 9 agalnst the Eastern Church or against Mohammedans. The conquering Turks
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

Bishop Anderson. of the Protestant Episcopal church, in opening the convention, ''the world asks, Has Christianity failed?' It is a fair quer- tion as to whether Q united church might not have preserved the peace of the world" When the question here propounded has been answered, the question will be asked, Can Christianity yet succeed?" It is an interesting fact that just before the outbreak of the war in 1914 a depu- tation. from the body which has been meeting on Long Island was to have conferred with the Pope and the Eu- ropean churches on the question of church unity. The thought had then come to men that a united faith in the churches of Christ alone corld preserve Christian ideals and make them strong to do their indispensable work. What deeper sense of that spiritual need may not the present conflict produce? With the new fix ing of eternal values which the wars outcome is bound to bring, mavs come the perfect work of united church.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08
Ambassador Won Bernstorff left at

Ambassador Won Bernstorff left at the State Department yesterday a concerning German submarine opera tions in the Mediterranean which em- bodies all the principles of interna- tional law and humanity and which leaves nothing to the imagination. Germany is willing to do her part in making reparation for any mistakes committed. Nothing more could be asked. The communication is com- prehensive and explicit and, if lived Up to, will tend to weld closer together the friendship of the two countries.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

have all his old friends rubbing and twitching before he gets through. If he, does not get what he wants this time, presto He will rub his magi- cal hands and To there will be a repe- tition of the fiasco of 1912,-the old Taft trick, the disappearing act. It is rule or ruin with Teddy much as it is with Willum And, unless the rejuvenated republicans rise in their might and squash the wielder of the Big Stick he will still be doing the main tricks at the Big Show when most of the ticket takers have pas sed to their last reward. It took six teen years to even attempt to put a muzzle on the Boy Orator of the Platte and yet the muzzle is not securely fastened. It is going to take some real manipulating at the ap- preaching Republican convention to put the quietus on Teddy, but 1t will have to be done if the Republicans hope to offer any competition against the man in the White House. Bryan shelf for once and all. They are ob- structionists and the public is growing tired of their shows They were good while the novelty lasted; but now they are passe'. Bring on some new blood.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

ment that is zealously looking after
 the interests of the community bv providing icacious, prophylactic measures. It is doing as good work,
 if not better, than many of it's kin dred organizations in other cities At it's head there is superintendent who is quietly devoting himself to the best interests of the citizens Dr. Reeks has now established a bulletin ser- vice through which he means to warn the citizens of New Britain against the ravages of impending sick ness, and how to avoid being stricken. These bulletins should be studied 5y each and every man and woman in the city in an assiduous manner. It is through this advice given out to the public that health can be pre- served
 In the December report of the health department there are a few salient bits of guidance offered which, while simple in themselves, contain a world of wisdom. It were well that they be carried out to the letter, human organism is so susceptible to every attack. They are put in tho form of "Don'ts,' as follows:
 Don't forget to air out your living rooms at least three times a day. Fresh air heats more quickly than stale air
 Don't sleep in a, room without haV- ing the windows open top and bottom at least four inches. It will assure you of more restful sleep and is good preventative against colds and sore throats.
 Don't sneeze or cough in the pres ence of others unless you protect them by holding a handkerchief before your nose and mouth. It is not only objectionable to those present but It spreads disease.
 Don't fail to kill the winter ny. One fly killed now means preventing the existance of a million flies next summer.
 Because there is so much truth Ill the first two "don'ts' in the a1ore- mentioned bulletin they are haroly worth commenting upon. Any man or woman who ever tried this ex- pertinent will vouchsafe for the Won- derful aftermath. Fresh air is the cleanser of many ills, the preventor of almost all. As to the third don't" no gentleman or lady need ever be reminded of that, yet it is a good piece of. advice at this time and one that should be adhered to strictly. The foregoing, however, but gives an idea of what the health department has started out to do in the way of publicly warning the people and lending a hand that they may better travel the road of life. The other multifarious duties of the department must be done necessarily outside the 1 pale of public gaze. It is to be hoped l that the bulletin service of the health | department will be continued and car l ried on with diligence: and that the 1 little "health hints are given out at freouent intervals-on all occasions when the public conscience should be nuickened Tn this matter. It is pre- vention rather than cure that makes life worth living.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-08

There is one rule for municipal ef- ficiency which it is well for all citi- zens and all board members to re- call at this time. It is that capa- bility and knowledge joined are a much more valuable factor in the management of city affairs than the reputation of being "one of the boyss or "good fellow in the purely po- litical sense.-Ansonia Sentinel.