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New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
The Empi1.ic Drinker.
(New York Tribune. )

From time to time the guardians of health undertake at great pains to demonstrate the uselessness of alcO- holic beverages in the human dietary. They bring forward arguments new and old, as if to persuade the thinker that he is labOring under a delusiOn, to show him that as a dy-builder whiskey cannot hold a candle to milk, or to prove that if he would only be reasonable he could not continue to consume beer in the belief that it is as nourishing as porridge, or as cheap.
 A bulletin just published by the de- partment of health is full of these old truths. Dr. Donald B. Armstrong dis covers that the caloric value of a dimes worth of beer as compared with a dimes worth of beefsteak is as 240 to 375, while at the same cost a man can get ten times as much out of oatmeal. His conclusion is that alcohol, if it can be called food at all, is a most expensive food. But, people say it Is a most agreed ble stimulant No, says Dr. Armstrong, as thousands of other doctors have said before him, it is not so; for Ion both the physical and mental sides eiho LII uS IS ct QSpIGSSd1I, q ndTCOJlC which removes inhibitiOns"
 Yet 1t may be doubted whether the average drinking man cares very much about these things. When he longs for a drink he may debate in h1s mind whether whiskey is what he wants, but never for a moment does he think of considering whether oat- meal would not be better Nor does he trouble his head much about calo- r1es, except emotionally, as whether this drink or that would be the more cooling or the more warming. accord ing to his immediate need or inclina- ton.
 The fact is that the ordinary man does not take drink as a medicine or as food, and he cares very little whether the physiologists choose to class it as a stimulant or as a sedative. If they wish to call it "a narcotic which removes inhibitions' his ob- Vlous answer is that he finds his in- h1bitions irksOme. The thinker is not necessarily reasonable When he Is, 1t is needless to ply hem with such arguments; when he Is not, 1t is use- less.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21

| between Mexico and the United States.
 million souls. At least there were that many at the last authorized cen- sus. How many have since joined the singing cherubim on another shore cannot be recorded with any degree of accuracy. Of these fifteen millions of people there are but three million
 who read and wriT their own language. These are <t the educated
 classes. The peons of Mexico are ignorant in the extreme. It Is upon the emotions of these remaining
 twelve millions that the politicians
 and swashbuck1ers of Mexico play Through a series of lies and fa1sehoods
 the peons have been brought to the stage where everything American is verts back to Carranza who in order
 to keep intact his following, must
 make bombastic bluff and seemingly tell the United States government
 
 does this, his action is proclaimed throughout the highlands and the lowlands of Mexico and there is great rejoicing among the people. This is the position he is placed in, whether he wills it or not. To save his face he will probably have to shoot another shaft of insult at his one best friend and target,-Uncle Sam. And, if that is done now, it will be slow music and flowers for Carranza. The proud and punctilious court presided over by the First Chief is due for a complete cleaning out, unless all signs fail.
 And so if it shall come to pass that our entire army is sent over the bord- CT to que1l once and for all the con- tinuous rebellions that have been go- ing on in Mexico for many years the people of this land can take consoIa- ton in the thought that we were driv- en to the duty, that the work is not of our own choosing. Whatever happens in Mexico from now on must be laid at the door of the man who refuses to accept the friendly hand of Uncle Sam. The American army will not go on any mission it might be called to perform as an invading host on conquest bent. Instead, it will approach such task as a bene- factor to Mexico and the Mexicans, and as the protector of the lives and properties of those American citizens who built their homes on the border of tempestuous country.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
Epery Schoolboy Recalls
 Something Ab0nt ]ufland

where s0,o0O troops were slain. This terrible reverse sent 8 tremor of ter TOT through the lawmakers on the Capiteline Hill, and the constitution was set aside norder that Marius, fresh from his triumphs on African battle1elds, might be invested with consular powers for five years. He was deemed the man of the hour and the only general who could turn back the tide of barbarians that had de- bouched from Cimbr Chersonese, the name given to Jutland. While this tribe poured over the Alps driving the forces of Catullus before 1t across the Adige and the Pc, Marfus adminis- tered a crushing defeat at Aquae Sex tiae in Gaul to the Cimbris' compan- ions in arms, the Teutones. The con- sul then rushed back across the Alps and at Campi Raudii, near Vercelli, where century earlier Hannibal had won his first victory on Italian soil, the invaders were utterly annihilated, all the men being killed or captured while the women slew themselves and their children in preference to being borne to Rome in slavery
 "Jutland's agricultural poverty dates from the beginning of the six teenth century, by which time the peninsula had been almost complete ly denuded of its forests. It was not until 1866, two years after Denmark had been forced to relinquish Schles- wig-Holstein to Prussia and Austria, that the Danish people began an ap- praisal of the latent agricultural pos- Sj Sjht1ftine nf ei ai nj ojy, +o see if by cultivation they could com- pensate for their territorial losses. Col. E. Dalgas, an engineer officer of the Danish army, was the leading spirit in the organization of the Danish Heath society which began to plant trees throughout the peninsula, @ movement which is still going forward and which has proved to be the sal vation of the land. Mountain frs were first planted and these were succeed ed by red spruce from America. These trees serve as living barrier against the fierce nddriving gales from the North sea. The interior of the pen tnsula is fast losing its barren aspect. more than 2,6O0 square miles of heeth having been redeemed by affor- estatton. Oats. barley. beetroots and rye are now grown profltably, cattle and sheep find good pasturage, and the forests teem with deer and wood pigeons. Typical of the growth of towns in this rejuvenated area Is Hern- ing, 6 settlement of forty souls in 18s6 and now a thriving community with population of 5000.
 "Jutland has a familiar ring in the ear of every school boy for he re- members that the Angles and the Jutes were among the first Germanic peoples to emigrate from the shores of the Baltic and settle in Britain"
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
TURKS COMMANDERS
 AMERICAN MISSIONS
Inform Occupants United States and Germany Are At War and Build
 tngs Are Needed.
ingS Are Needed.

New York, June 21.-Schools and hospitals owned and conducted by the American Board of Foreign Missions at Marsovan and Sivas, Turkey, val ued at more than half a million dol lars, have been commandeered by the Turks for military purposes and tho missionaries in charge compelled to abandon their work there, according to members of g. party of Americans who arrived here today from the Orient.
 The property was taken over, they said in May when the diplomatic sit uation between the United States and Germany was tense over the negotia-- tions growing out of the U-boat con- tronVersy.
 The missionaries who arrived in Con- stantinople prior to the departure of the Americans who reached here to- day said that the Turks first informed them that the United States and Ger many were at war. This they after wards denied, but excused their com mandeering of the properties by say ing that they were required for mili- tary purposes.
 The missionaries in charge, it was added, were given only a short time to leave.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21

conpiracies against the American gov- ernment
 No one in America is willing to be- lieve that any of these grand old char acters of the German race, the old timers who paved the way to this country, could be in sympathy with the very few who have aligned them selves against the President of the German Emperor. They are not that type of men. They would have no sympathy with any campaign that has for it's end the introduction of for eign machinadons into the political workshop of America. They would not do these things because they are Americans to the core, Americans just as true as those who were born and bred here. Those who are associated with the shameful Outbursts against this nations best traditions are con- and tranquility of these noble old souls. It would seem proper then that some of the newcomers, who have not yet absorbed the full mean ing of America and it's ideals, should take the example from these whole-hearted patriots. It is time the few throw aside the perverted senti- ments they possess and follow the thought of Bartholdt: "In this crisis there are no German-Americans We are all Americans"
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
HUGHES GUEST 0F
 HONOR AT BROWN
Marches With Class Of '81 at
 Commencement Exercises

Providence, R. l., June 21.- Charles E. Hughes, republican nomi- nee for president, motored to Provi- dence today from the home of his friend, Benjamin Barker, at Tiverton, whose guest he had been since his arrival here Monday night, for a day of activity in college affairs.
 Me- Hughes marched with his class, that of '81 in the Brown University comm encement exercises, was seated with the board of trustees of the in- stitution at the historic First Baptist Meeting House not far from a place reserved for Franklin K. Lane, sec retary of the interior, who was tn- vited some time ago to deliver an ad- dress, and later was the guest of President Faunce of Brown at a re- ception
 The days program also included a. reception at the headquarters of the Young Mems Republican club and a, dinner tonight at the home of Cover nor R. Livingston Beeckman. It was announced there would be no discus sion of political affairs. MT. Hughes expects to leave here at midnight for New York, where he will remain until Saturday afternoon.
 The American spirit is against war not because Americans are afraid to fight but because they are too busy with other enterprises more impor- tant than war, Franklin K. Lane, sec- retary of the interior, declared in a commencement address. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on the secretary.
 ''The spirit of America is against war not because we have grown cow ardly and fear death.'' said Mr. Lane, "nor because we have grown fabby and love softness nor even because we have become conscious converts to the prince of peace. But we in Ameri- ca hay esomething learger to do. We are discovering our country We have no time fo war. We are doing some thing so much more important. We are at work. That is greatest of all adventures. When war comes to a democracy it comes because we are not allowed peacefully to work.
 What would we fight for? For what Roger Williams fought for-to be let alone, to have the opportunity to show what man can do for man."
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21

Washin gton, D. C., June 21.-Jut- | land, the low-lying, sandy peninsula whose name historians probably will employ to designate the great naval battle recently fought off it's shores, IS the subject of today's war geegra phy bulletin from the Washington head 1 quarters of the National Geographic society, which says:
 More appropriate than ever before seems the name Jammerbugt (Bay of Wool which the Danes have given to the waters that wash the sand dunes of the northwestern coast of Jutland, for with the black ribs of many an cient wrecks on this dangerous coast there is now mingled the flotsam from what were once two of the proudest battle fleets that ever sailed the seas.
 "Jutland, the continental portion of Denmark, comprises nearly two thirds the area of the kingdom (ex- with considerably less than half the total population. It compares with Vermont in size, but has a. density of population three times as great. It's most striking physical characteristics
  seaboard particularly on the west coast. Of these the largest. Limfjord, is today a mtsnomer for since 1922 1t has been sound joining the wa- ters of the North sea with the Kat tegat and making an island of the ex- treme northern portion of the penin- sula which terminates in a cape called the skaw Owing to the character of the soil on both banks, the rapidity of the current and the violent impact of the floating ice in the spring, only a pontoon bridge spanned this sound at Aalborg until recently
 ''The highest point of land in Jut- land, which Is also the highest in the kingdom, is a 564 foot 'eminence' in 0 line of low hills near the center of the peninsula.
 "Jutland was the ancient home of the Warltke Cimbri, a tribe which for twelve years kept Rome in a state of panic, and which was the first Ger manic host to make it's war across the barrier of the Alps into northern Italy, anticipating the descent of the Visigoths by five centuries. The Cirn- bri came within the purview of re- corded history in 113 B. O., when, aft- CT having been driven from their northern homo, supposedly by North sea inundations, and having made their way southward through the German forests, they inflicted a. sig nal defeat upon a Roman army under Consul Papirius Carbo, at Noreia. h. stead of following up their success into Italy, the victors pushed west ward into the Rhine valley Four vaa rs later, however, they practically an- initiated the Romans under Marius
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
Truth and Values.
(COllier's Weekly }

The cynic, so an Irish wit declares, 1s he who knows the price of every th1ng and the value of nOthing Those few words suggest, better than any other one phrase we know, the fact that there is no essential con- nection between knowledge and iG Geals. To know is one thing; to ap- praise, to act, something quite differ ent. But youth is so easily dazzled hy catch phrases: Life as it is," 'The facts of life," "The beauty of realism" and so on. Youth in all it's vigor, and stirred by that restless curiosity which is one token of alive ness, so often imagines that Truth is an all-powerful justification. Yet the gospel that Truth is Beauty never meant Truth and nothing else There is more literal truth in the sight of a swamp itself than in Corot paint ing; but who shall say that on that account the picture is less worthy of admiration than the swamp? A good corset advertisement may be drawn from many photographs, all truthful; but there is only one Venus of Milo Zola, was more like a mirror than Dickens or Thackeray, but already he is being forgotten. Something more than mere knowledge of facts is needed to furnish the soul. Sir Galahad's Strength was as the strength of ten," not because his brain was encyclopedia, but because ms heart was pure. Perhaps the real test to apply to most things in life is not Is it true?'' but "Is it worth WhiIa2e
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
GOSH ALL HENfLOCK.
Windham County Farmers Find Them Windflam County Farmers Find Them-
 selves in Predicament.

Pomfret, June 21.-The farmers of Windham county find themselves in a predicament at the present time due to a combination of weather and short age of labor. The wet weather has damaged the corn seed which had been planted, and hundreds of acres should be replanted, but there is not farm help enough to do 1t. The dampness has brought up the greatest crop of grass and clover recalled in many years, and stretches of land will prob- ably be untouched as there is no help to harvest the hay. To the scarcity of farm labor is added that brought about by the call of President Will son for mobilization of the militia.
 In many of the industrial sections of the county the call for labor is greater than ever before It has been estimated that 1O,00O men could easily find employment in Windham county at the present time.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
Water1ess Baths Now Possible. (Harrisburg (Pa.l Stall.

Somebody with very original ideas has invented waterless baths. In or der to take one of these baths. a per- son puts on a certain kind of wired robe and then sends an electric cur rent through it until he perspires profusely. It has not been stated just how long a bather can continue this process and Hve>
 The electric bath may be satisfac- tory in it's way, yet there is room for strong suspicion that it will not soon come into general use. It has live wires connected with it too promin- ently for comforta ble contemplation. It is likely to be regarded as rather a shocking sort of bath. This would tend to bring 1t into public disfavor. Fathers, as a rule, like to splash around in the water to well to for sake that pleasure for the privilege of wrapping electric wires about them.
 The invention of the electric bath does not appear to have followed the usual rule of recent inventions, that the new process has been made nec- essary because of wartime scarcity of the materials by which the old process has been carried on. The war has not noticeably diminished .he worlds supply of water or of soap. Water is indeed, more easily available than electricity There are several oceans full of the former, not to mention our own Susquehanna river.
 In all likelihood, the bathing pub lie will continue for many years of cleanliness The bath tub manufac- turers may as we'll continue, for the present, to breathe freely.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
AMERICANS ALL.

"In this crisis there are no German Americans. We are all Americans" That is the way former Congressman Richard Bartholdt of St. Louis puts it. Coming from 6 man of Barthold's type this sentiment means some thing. The former Missourian con-
 gressman was born in Germany away
 back in 1855 and came to this coun-
 try poor boy. After serving his
 period as a printers devil he branched
 out into the editorial end of the news
 paper game and later served twenty
 years in the national congress, repre-
 senting the tenth district of Missouri,
 made up of people born in a foreign
 land. All during his career in the
 national house MT. Bartholdt was
 rated as a pro-German, especially in
 later years. But now, when his adopt ed country calls him, when he is asked
 to stand up and be counted either on
 the side of the Kaiser or the side of the President the former congressman leads the way for his people. He ac- knowledges this to be his country, he sweeps aside the land of his birth, the land that he loves just as much as any man who ever came from there. And in doing so he is not a traitor. Instead
 he is patriot for choosing one way, for showing that the traveller can- not go two roads at once.
 Former Congressman Bartholdt is
 not the only man who halls originally 1 from Germany who is now first, last and all the time an American. There are millions like him. All that vast | horde of immigrants who came here before the war between the states be- | long to the Bartholdt type. They are | the men who left Germany because l under the newly set up Hohenzollerns 1 there was not the freedom of old. And having put foot on this land, bring 1 ing with them their families, they l possessed a deeper appreciation of | freedom than most people, It was but | a few years later when they were I | of their adoption and, in the interest 1 of freedom, they went out under the 1 Stars and Stripes and fought that this l union might be preserved. Those were l the men of '61, the stalWart immi- ] grants from the Fatherland who, once 1 having landed and set up homes, be- 1 lieved in proving loyal to the new or
 der of things. Many of these old patriots have now gone to their last 1 reward; but they have left behind 1 them sons and daughters who hold a 1 priceless heritage,-love for America, 1 love that having been sent through l the burning fires of war comes down 1 for safe keeping to the young. All the bitter shafts of criticism that have 1 been leveled of late at those who are l branded as hyphenates cannot touch 1 these people, nor those who came to { this country in the same spirit What 1 ever of rancor and hate that splurged
 over the hyphen was meant for those | who associated themselves in the
 bomb plots, the dynamiting and the
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
NO BLAME HERE

hen Victoriano Carranza thor |1y dfgests the note from the srican government laid before him rday and casts aside the charac- aic Mexican pomp and braVadO, if |an, he will see that every word 3 in written came from a friendly mewhat stern pen. Secretary Eng crowded into some six thou words all the firmness that was #ed in the circumstances and yet Akled his utterances with a kind I'm of grace and goodwill. It
 E ms now to be seen whether the
 Cnef of the de facto govern N reads his letters through smoked Hes or a clear vision. The chances 8Carranza will not read this note Me same manner it has been read Americans, or, if he does. he will s a different interpretation mon NThe Mexican character is a some @ difficult thing to analyze. NnytIing, it is the exact anti Ns of the American. Therein lies E Ndamental cause of all the troubles
New Britain herald., 1916-06-21
During the month of

During the month of May just passed more wage increases took place throughout the nation than ever seen in any full year of Ameri- can history. Hitting the American workingman thuswise in the pocket book will have no crippling effect on Democracy at the coming elections. Prosperity talks.