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New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
If Roosevelt Were President.

T was president seven and one half years. This nation never fQr one minute permitted any power to VI ong this country or to wr3ng Americans in their persons. or property. Yet during this time not orf9 shot was fired by any man in American uni- form against any foreign foe, and not one man, woman og4hild, was slain by representatives. e4s&ny foreign na- tiOn." Y S%4
 Thus Col. Roosevelt, to the Metho- dists. What sad, sad buncOrlbe!
 The Mexican trouble, and the for eign war had not arrived. They were events In embryo .u
 Time, the process of the suns,The will of Providence have brought to the world and to the United States grave problems that had not arIsEdH, while MT. Roosevelt was execf7tfTe. Had they arrived during his time 1t would have been his eduty to handle them, and the country doubtless would have followed him, even, 5nto Bel gium, and certainly into Mexico. just as they did into Panama. The thing
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
\ NEW SYSTEM.

acre has never been a greater snstration of preparedness than which began in Washington Sat N and ended this morning at 3 fk, and which showed how the faph and telephone facilities of a1ca can be marshalled to help Sn1ted States forces. The officials se great telephone and telegraph aRnies mobthzed their services to how these mediums of commun- @n can help the nation in time Sr. By this demonstration it was q that war ships far at sea, naval #as on the Atlantic and Pacific # and on the Great Lakes, could Flown in instant touch with each 8and with sthe Navy Department M Mshington.. Yesterday, messages exchanged between the Secre- < f the Navy and the command # #battlePships at Honolulu, Hamp- E pads, Nicaragua, and Corinto, M each case it was the spoken @ Never before in the history of 5H rid has such thing happened, I@a man sitting at a desk in a @g in Washington could pick up %hone and talk to a commander #e vessel hundreds of miles from | &And the beauty of it; all is that | #onderful process of communi-
 ais a secret one in the hands of 1 % ans who invented and perfect & science. No other nation in ssrld possesses such a system, @y verbal communication can be @ an instant with any one of it's 8 Commanders. In view of what Sppened in the past to some of MI entions, it Is about time that
 #ng is preserved for home use.
 d such a system because of the @ " of the country and the vast # the coast lines.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
Making an Early Start in Connecticut.
Springfield Republican,

(SprlngHeld Repub1Can.)
 The Connecticut delegation to the republican national convention be. 1 lieves in preparedness. It has al ready chosen the men who will rep 1 resent the state on the convention 1 committees, a task that most delega- | tiOnS perform after reaching Chicago l J. Henry Rora back of North Canaan l has been made chairman of the dele gation, and as such will have the l privilege of announcing Connecti- 1 cuts vote the roll-calls. This place in several previous conven tions was held by Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia, who is not a delegate this year. The committee places havc | been allotted as fOlloWs:- Committee on permanent Organiza- ton, Irving H. Chase of Waterbury. Committee on rules, Schuyler Mer- ritt of Stamford.
 Committee on credentials John T. King of Bridgeport.
 Committee on resolutions, Charles Hopkins Clark of Hartford.
 Honorary vice president Frank E. Weeks of Middletown
 Committee to notify presidential nominee of conventions choice, Fran cis T. Mexwell of Rockville.
 Committee to notify vice presiden- tial nominee, Oliver B. Jennings of Fairfield.
 It will not be an easy job to draw a satisfactory republican platform this year, and Editor Clark of the Hartford Courant is as well fitted to tackle it as anybody in the dele gation.
 The Connecticut men will go by special train by way of this city, leav- ing Saturday afternoon, June 3. They are to be housed in Chicago in the Hotel Congress annex, and $200 each is to be the tax for the trip. With all the usual business attended to with such neatness and dispatch so far n advance Of the convention. what will the delegates find to- interest therl- selves about during the journey west ward this year? There is not even a local candidacy to be {, nursed. Tn former days a Bulkeley boom was al ways a feature of the trip of a Con- necticut delegation to any republi- can national convention, but old timers will look for it in vain when this train arrives in the Windy City. Probably no one will think it worth while to hire a brass band this year.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
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 199-2O1-2O3 MAIN STREET

nave made him a commanding figure. yet those qualities have been neu- trallzed by other qualities that left the public indifferent toward him.
 Somehow he has shown an extrao1.- dlnary talent for being wrong at the right time. When he has voted against the president, it was usuaily- the president who was right and the senator who was wrong. When he has gone against Tammany, it was generally about petty matters of in side politics of no public benefit. On great questions of international law where he might have had a powerful inf1uencee~he has apparently been able to see things only through Fenia n spectacles and Fenian spectacles are a poor equipment for United States senator.
 New York needs the kind of sena- tor that 'OGorman ought to have been, but this state is not very lucky with senators. and it remains to be seen whether either the democratic or republican organization will per- init much of ah improvement in the election next fall.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
A Southern Opinion.
Bridgeport Standard }

Colonel Watterson of the Louisville tions concerning the outcome Of tho European war, and he also has the courage of them and is not afraid to go upon record in predictions which others, less optimistic but holding the same hope would carefully conceal till the certain end justified their ut terance. The colonel believes that the German people have been hypnotiZe1 and humbugged by their rulers and that their awakening, which is surely coming in the collapse of the dynasties will restore them to right living and
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
The War Not Half Over?
(NeW York PreSS.\

Theodore Marburg, one time Min ister to Belgium and recently re- turned from a stay in Europe, had what leading men are thinking away down under the surface of their minds. He talked with King Albert with military leaders, and the trend of his sympathies may be guessed from the fact that he brought home with him a son who has lost a ,ea in the Allies aviation service.
 ''In my opinion," said MT Mar burg, "the Germans are stronger than eyer, and the war isn't half 1ver.'
 When MT. Marburs says that Ger many is in his opinion stronger to- day than ever, he doubtless is talking of her military status. Economically no one of the warning countries, save only Japan, is so strong as at the beginning, though all of them have their resources better in hand, more available for application where needed.
 A war of five years or more is what his prediction would mean; 1t Is now practically two years old.
 Can the nations, can any of them stand the strain for such a time? Can the high pressure sort of war which we have seen for two years be continued two or three years more?
 More likely the war will settle down, after Verdun's issue shall have been decided, to a matching of wind and staying powers. There will be fighting and plenty of it; but if Ger many does not force a favorable issue as result of the Vcrdun campaign it seems probable that her day for spectacular offenses will have passed. She will in effect be on the defensive especially economically,
 If this war shall last two years longer can Atfserica live through that period ard.frat be involved? Look about the World as it stands today and it must be said thaksSf Mere shall be two or three morfsyes3s of this struggle America will have a, poor chance, to escape invo1veme ert.
 Wherefore the greater need to pre- pare, fast Hand effectiFeF. Let the work begin with the enactment of the Senate Army bill.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
"Visibly Obscure"
Bridgeport Farmer. )

The Bridgeport Farmer says the world is filled with phenomena which are "visibly obscure" The sentence is somewhat so to us.-TIartford CouraRt.
 It ought not to be. The sentence Is easy to- understand To illustrate: The editorSof The Courant is d phen- omenon and his editorials are phen- omena. His editorials are always visa Able, but sometimes obscure P Alas, that the labors of the late Prof, bloomsbury should be so prohtIess in Hartford!
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
D'GorTnan. As a Senator.
(NeM York World ]

' Senator OGorman. has heen dis appointment and yet it is difficult to say why he has been a disappoint- ment. It is not by lack of inde- pendence. Nobody can say that he has been servile to Tammany hall, which elected him, or that he has ever gone out of his way to curry fa- vor with the national administration. His vote has been controlled neither hy Murphy nor by the president. He has shown qualities that ought 10
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
The truth will -!lake

right thinking. The truth will -.lake 1 them free.
 Historical analogies are not difficult
 to point out since human nature is
 essentially the same yesterday, today 1 and tomorrow, but Colonel Watterson ! finds a strong one between the fight 1 Waged in this country in the Civil war ! and that now going on in Europe. l After tracing the parallelism in many ] respects between the two wars he winds up with the following impress
 sive apitulatfQn
 Tt is the glory of the South that we l were able to hold our own against such odds during four years It would be the glory of Germany that she has held something moro than her own so long except that her arms have been tarnished by the dastard and useless murders of the airship and the submarine. At the outset the South won the great battles. Thus far victory has crowned the Imperial Imperial eagles. Yet ali the while the Confederacy was doomed as now full surely the German empire is doomed. It Is only a question of time when Ap- pomattox which made short shrift to the one will bring the other to with a round turn. Wilhelm, like Napoleon finding his Waterloo on Belgic plains; the Hohenzollerns, with the Bona partes, presently but a horrid, historic memory.
 "The South is better off in the Union. Germany would be better off without the autocracy. Cotton was not king. No more is the Kaiser the Lords anointed. The end Which~is nigh at hand will reveal the will of God and restore their own to the peo pie"
 This is interesting in. more ways than one. It's application to exist ing conditions is no more. significant than it's admission of the facts in cur own history settled by the surrender at Appomattox. We believe that therein the colonel speaks from a profound knowledge and conviction of the unquestionablet truth.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
POLICE THE BORDER.

Bwhen everything seems on the If being pleasant, when the re- between the United States and are in good shape, some few len, bandits, murderers, break 3ad spoil it all. This has hap hgain in the second raid on sln territory, the killing of American soldiers and three at Glen Springs, in the Big aountry, the No Mans Land of Ind tho Southwest. From what reports that have come out sforsaken land, where railroad 8eGraph communications have been established, it would seem seventy-five bandits who took 4 he raid were former mem bers Harranzista forces, soldiers who A the first chief of the de facto @lent and went over with Villa q followers. Whoever they are,
 E r they are, they have succeed @utting the Mexican situation # a sorry basis, in causing the Mn of a second punitive eXpe- Mlto an already overburdened, S len, pestilent land. And this @e American citizens and the 8 8w11o troop over the border in the outragers mean business. M exican band in the Northwest @wiIl be routed and killed off, 8le. The patience of these peo- N Hive along the border is rapid
 8 exha usted.
 Big Bend country, where the M exican atrocity was commit
 @ vast expanse of range coun- Ere great hOrdeS or cattle are @to roam. The railroad facili- E nil. All journeying in this A st. be necessarily made in &d wagons or on horseback. # villages scattered along the #nde river are mere settle Mat LID as trading posts some Eth as few as six or seven S This is the country where #ieans sometimes outnumber Nricans ten to one, where the Aiges of the celebrated "bad sbld forth where every one H9 revolver. Presidio, opposite the principal town of the Big Mi this is one of the few places particular stretch of border fn Brewster and Presid1o equipped with telephone
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
\ Kansas Student of Astronomy.

(From the Coffeyville JournaiD
 Peter Took was out on Main street in Parsons early Saturday ,1nFning holding some kind of lors gglass j instrument between his face and the sky. A policeman investigated and foFnd that Peter wasn't studying as- tronomy and he was taken to police court and fined for drinking in a public place.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Now that it is known the Kaiser wrote the note, his services may be in great demand by the magazines. Should he ever fail at the war lord" business he could easily get a job writing worldwide politics.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
FACTS AND RANCHES.

It sometimes appears that those who point with pride are not very choosy in regard to what they are proud of-Indianapolis News.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
OVER DRAPERTFS

Cretonnes, 1212c to 45c yard.
 Colored Madras, 25c, soc, 5ec ward Plain and Mercerized Drapery ma terials, 36 to 50 inches wide, 39c and 79c yard.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
DRAPERLES

Scrims, Marquisettes and Voiles. See our large showing in white, cream and biege, priced 1Oc, f5c, 19c, 22c to 39c yard.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

What is need is constitutional amendment providing that the right of the United States to defend itself shall not be denied or abridged by congressional darnfoolery. .'-Chicago Herald
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

The unexplained and unexDlain- able defect in the British "blocl1ade" is the open Baltic. So long as Brit ish warships do not invest German Baltic ports like Lubeck and Settin, and so long as Sweden and Norway ship unhindered to those parts, just so long is it a flaming discrimination against our commerce to stop our ex- ports destined to those ports, whether moving direct or via Sweden.,-New York Mail
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

We don't know how he's to get the credentials, but we'll wager Ben Davis apple that w. J. Bryan will not only be in the Democratic conven- tion but that he will make a speech or speeches Post-Standard
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

|ed daily Sunday excepted) at 4:15 D. nl., |at Herald Building. 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Distilleries are helping England do her part in the war; not by making whisky but by turning out gun-cot- ton, which works more quickly and is not so dangerous to handle.--Paterson Press Guardian.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
READY TO HANG CURTAINS

Complete with valance in white and blue. Special 9SC and $f19 yard
 Curtain Rods, Brass Rods, Poles, Fixtures and Brackets of all kinds.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
FIGURED MADRAS.

in pretty new designs, some with mink blue and yellow effects.
 Priced 19c, 25c. 29c and 25c ward
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

We can imagine that the bosom of the Hon. James Marks Sullivan is ris ing and falling with pride at the thought of being under arrest in LOn- don. The ambition of his life may now be said to have been gratified.-New Haven Journal-COurier. s-
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

pred at the Post Office at New Britain
 Mas Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

The deer slaughter at Shelter Island seems not to have come off. For one reason there wasn't room on the is- land for those who didn't care to be hot to get out of rifle-range. For an other, it proposed such rank butchery that it turned everybody's stomach.- New Haven Register
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
The Prepared Family.

"a Just in case of trouble
 Brother joined the Guarf: Chevy Chase has sister
 Working 1lislatg hard. At some first aid nfrsins Mother takes a. bout, Joining, in the fever s Babys7ls asseota
 ssvs .ss-sss Is 2 Meanwhile, as the family si Diligently drills Pa is aln the s@fffch
 Preparin ~dor the birfs (McLandburgh Wilson in the
 York Sum- s
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Rep1en1sh your home with new 1 Ora peries and Floor Coverings make your selection from our extensive showing of the seasons newest in Rugs, Linoleums, Oil Cloths, Ready l Made Curtains, Window Shades and Drapery Materials. Prices reason able.
 Rugs in the desirable sizes. Wool and Fibre, Grass, Tapestry, Velvet, Administer and Body Brussels. ROOM SIZE RUGS Tapestries, sizes 8x10-6, sto5O to s12.9s each. Size 9x12, s1s.5o to s15 each.
 velvets, size 9x12, s1s.5o to s25.0o each.
 Administers, size ex12, s1e.es to s25.OO each. DELTOX AND CREX GRASS Rt7Gs.
 Priced 69c to $9.OO each.
 Rugs of the smaller kinds, size 27x54-inch:
 Velvets, $1.25 to $2.5O each.
 Administers, $1.9s to s2.5O each
 Wilton Velvets, our special S3,9s ea.
 CONGOLEUN RUGS
 The newest thing in Floor Covering these much wanted Rugs are made in several sizes:
 1xA yds 90c-1 1ax1 F yds S1.35. 1x2 yds $1.2O-2x3 yds S3.60.
 CONGOLEUM ART RUGS Made in one piece 3x3 F yards, $500 each. 3x4 yards, 5000 each. 1 OIL CLOTHS, FELTON,, and LTNO- 1 LEUNIS.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08
" BRITAIN HERALD

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY,
 ProprIetors
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Psychology has been a chief de- fense of Verdun, says a high French officer, who explains that constant re- petition of the, expression, '"Tney shall not pass Gls ne passeront pas) excluded any idea except that of re- sistance to the uttermost to enter the heads of French soldiers Still psy chology has probably been )n the side of the strongest battalions and the best strategists.-Sp Re- publican.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Kansas doesn't mean to encourage textbook campaigns in her. school sys- tenn; she has made that plain by issu- ing a primer from the state printing office. Even if the primer never has a sequel it will probably start some discussion, for it is costing the state fourteen cents a, copy instead of the twenty-five cents charged by publish ing houses.-Springfield Republican
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

DUR COUNTRY: IN HER IN RECOURSE WITH FOREIGN RTIONS MAY SHE ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT; BUT OUR sUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG.
 STEPHEN DECATUR.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

only profitable advertising medium In Mhe city Circulation books and press
 Room always open to advertisers
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

"Why," asks Miss Alkaline W. Ster- ling of the Daughters of the American Revolution "shOuld the married wo- man be listed on her tombstone as Jane, wife of John Smith ?' Our im- pressiOn is that John Smith would have no objection to the inclusion of Jane's original name; but it must be admitted that if she had been mar ried several times an awkward ques- ton would arise.-NeW York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Boys all wool Norfolk Suits in large assortment of neat patterns. Nicely tailored Suits and good fitting. The sale priceswe have put on these Suits does not even cover original cost of the cloth alone. The trousers are cut full and some are lined through out. Nearly all sizes, to 16 years. Choice $2.OO,
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Boys all wool Norfolk Suits in fancy mixtures and blue ,serges. Some ot the Suit in this lot retail as high as s1O, none worth less than s7. The blue Serges are exceptionally nice quality and well tailored. Nothing better for confirmation Suits. Nearly all sizes, to IS years. Unrestricted choice at $4.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Boys Norfolk and double breasted Suits of Worted, cheviot and cassimere, many of them strictly all wool, some of the double breasted suits originally sold at $500. Not a Suit in the entire lot worth less than $2. Nearly all sizes to IT years. Your unrestricted choice at S1.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-08

Boys strictly all wool Norfolk Suit including a number of all worsted bl1 Serges that are retailing today in 2 stores at SC. The mixture are pret and there are plenty of them to choo from. Handsomely tailored. Near all sizes, 8 to IT years. All on sa at $500.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
MAURICE CONNERY.

The funeral of Maurice Connery as largely attended at 9:30 o'clock lis morning from the home of his iughter, Mrs. John Dwyer, 130 Wal at street. and a half hour later from tered Heart church wher a solemn qufem mass was sung by Rev. homas J. Mooney, assisted by Dr. ichard F. Moore as deacon, and ev. William l.. Blake of Fairfield as ib-deacon. The music of the mass as sung by Miss Mae Casserly, Miss aeresa O'Brien, William Chew and rof. Nicholas Herman. At the offer ny, Miss O'Brien sang Pie Jesu,'' Id after the mass Some Sweet Day." the body was being borne from the iurch Miss O'BriZ1 and Miss Casserly ng Thy Will Be Done" The bear s: Maurice and James Dwyer, aurice, Thomas, James and John onnery. Burial was in St. MichaePs rmetery where Father Mooney read e committal service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Rename Miller For
 Judge of Probate

Judge Paul L. Miller was renominat- ed judge of probate by the Repubh- cans at the probate convention held today at Republican headquarters in Fairfield avenue. Twenty-four deie- gates representing Bridgeport, t>aston, Monroe and Trumbull unanimously renominated him. O. B. Burton of Trumbull called the delegates together at 12:15. Dr. H. I. Wales of Monroe was made permanent chairman How ard F. Smith of Bridgeport was chos en temporary secretary, and was succeed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
HARRIET MINOR BISHOP.

Harriet E. Minor. widow of Edward Bishop and mother of Henry E. ishop, the undertaken, died this orning at Colebrook. Conn.,, where be had been spending the sum- Ter. Death followed an illness of bout two weeks. Mrs. Bishop was ern in Woodbury, Conn, Nov [, 44. She was the daughter of Dea- m Truman Minor and Harriet Curtis inor. She lived in this city many lars where her husband formerly as a prominent undertaken. Since Is death she has resided with her m, atX 20S9 North avenue. Mrs. ishop was a member of the South congregational church and was great
 beloved by all who knew her. She td hundreds of friends in the city ho will be sincerely grieved to learn
 her death. She is survived by sr son., two grandchildren and a other, Truman 2. Minor of Minor WI. The funeral will be held, Fri iy, from the residence of her son.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
PROBE BRIDGE DISASTER. /

Quebec, Sept. 19-A coroner's jury today began investigation of the Que- bee bridge disaster of Sept. 12, when thirteen waorkmen were killed with the fall of the central span. The inquest will be followed tomorrow by a broad- CT investigation conducted by the jury for the provincial attorney general The river has thus far given up the bodies of six of the victims
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
PERSONAL MENTION

A 10-pound son arrived this morn ing at the Bridgeport hospital to Mrs. Reese E. Davis of 139 Parallel street. pr. DeRyter Rowland of Stratford at tended Mrs. Davis. Mother and son are doing well. News of the birth of the boy will greatly please MT. and Mrs. Davis numerous friends who
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-19
Blakeslee Urges Closing Bank St.
 For Use of City

last evening had the common council appoint Q, committee with a view tQ purchasing the block bounded by Main, John, Bank and Broad streets. will call to the attention of the alder men plan for the purchase of the Franklin building and all the proper ty east of the present city hall on the part of the block bounded by Main, Bank and State streets.