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New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Irish Who Can't Enlist.
(Waterbury Republican,

Associated Press correspondents report that there is conSidera ble ir- ritation in Ireland over the action of the government in refusing to the mem bers of the Royal Irish consta bulary facilities to enlist. There are 10,000 of these policemen in Ireland. They are men of splendid physique and enough of them to form two bat ta alions of the Irish guards are keen on entering the army
 Dublin castle, which controls them, offers no objection, Ii Is the trea3- try which stands in the way. The policemen, if they enlisted. would be exchanging twenty-five shillings a week for a shilling day. The treasury, which has met this difficulty in the case of other public servants, and the government which has urged on private employers the duty of setting their men free for the army by guaranteeing them all or part of their wages, will not in the case Of the Irish police follow their own example and precept. There is thus a deadlock.
 John Redmond in the presence of inc lord lieutenant and chief sccre- tarv at public meeting has con demned this action of the treasury. IL is serious hindrance to recruiting in Ireland, since it is difficult tt" persuade people in the country dis tricts of the urgency of the need for men when they see the police kept back though at the present they have very little to do.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Whipping the Egg Trust.
Bridgeport Telegram. )


 The egg trust is not a collection of white Wyandottes nor Rhode Is- land reds. The egg trust is a col lection of unestimable p1ottcrs who meet occasionally in Kansas City and attempt to+ fix the price which the country must pay for it's eggs.
 According to the food commis sioner of New York state,' the trust in question held a recent meeting ill which it was decided to do every thing, possible to bring down the price of best western GEES (which determine the market for the whole country) to s cents per dozen to the producer. . The wholesale price in New York for the best eggs is now 26 cents, and the consumer, at retail should not pay more than 30 cents a dozen for best Western eggs, or 36 cents for native eggs, according to the commissioners estimate.
 The egg trust is thus shown to be 1 at present attempting to put down | the price of egSS to the lowest pos | sible figure. But is this a benevol- | once? Far from it-it has a spec
 fic and rapacious purpose. The trust | controls the cold storage capacity of the country. The season for putting
 eggs into storage is approaching. The 1 trust now wants to shove the price
 of eggs down to the lowest quantities
 at rock bottom prices for the pur-
 pose of putting them into storage and selling them for high prices when 1 cggs are "up' again next autumn ! It's a game that never can hc 1 beaten, probably, so long as the trust l controls the storage facilities, or until some genius invcnts a household r;ethod of keeping eggs fresh for an indefinite period. But the New York food commissioners advice is Buy cggs-use them freely for the next two months.'' It is good advice, it means buying 3 valuable food when the price is low. and at the same time, 'soaking'' the GEE trust.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

noise as the measure of their mum bcrs, and believed that the executive and legislative branches of the Washing ton Government were at Ioggerheads upon the precise issue involved in the controversy between the two countries. Under the circum stances the President found himself humili- atcd and handicapped in his effort to convince the German Ambassador that he represented the common will of Congress and the country in his de- termination to maintain and defend at all hazards the historic position of the Government which Germany has as sailed. Only lineup in Congress upon the question at issue could re- lieve Mir Wilson's cm barra ssment and tory in tho Senate and the victory soon followed in the House should con- vince Germany, if anything can, that, whatever the conflict of opinion anon g Americans may he regarding the issues raised by the European war. tn c American people are overWh clmingly loyal in their allegiance to the Gov ernment of their native or adopted land and unanimous in their desire that the honor of the nation shall not be sacrificed to the safety of it's cit;- zens, nor an historic right surrendered in the face of the Warllkc threat of a foreign Power.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
EXPENSE OF WAR TO
 FRANCE INCREASES
Daily Cost Is S7,OO0.0OO Francs Total National Expenditures to End
 of June Will Be 47,OO0,OOO, 900.

Paris, March 14, 5:45 a. m.-The credits required for the second quar- ter of 1916 amount to 7,S0O,000,0 ,00o francs, according to the statement prepared by Raoul Peret, reporter of the budget committee of the cham Der of deputies, and presented yester- day in the chamber. This is euuiva- lent to a daily expenditure of S7,00O. 900 francs, The figures showed that the cost of carrying on the war fss steadily increasing, as the total ax- penditure for the year 1915 amounted to twenty-two billion francs. whereas that of the first six months of 1915 amounts to 15,500,000,0O0 francs
 The total national expenditure from the beginning of August, 1914, to the end of June, 1916, will be nearly tiirty-seven billion arc for purely htirty-seven billion are for purely military purposes.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
"The Man Who"
(Kansas City Times.D

Won't it be inspiring in the next republican national convention to hear 'tbe man who" orators? Every nominating speech, as is well known, artfuIly conceals the name of the candidate while the author is doS- cribing his virtues.
 Ohio, for instance, will present its favorite son, a man who is known throughout the length and breadth of this broad land as 8, splendid leader, a wonderful statesman, 8 peerless well, a peerless something or other Oh, my fellow countrymen, I ask you, what does he stand for? He stands. for, he stands for. he stands for forget just what he stands for, except the nomination, gentlemen, Theodore F. Burton.
 Or consider Michigan. That great state, gentlemen of the convention, is proud and happy to present for your favorable consideration a man who would sacrifice himself to serve his country, a man who has taken the lead, taken the lead in offering him self in your suffra agcs-William Alden Smith.
 And then there is Massachusetts. It is a small state, sir but some of US love it. And Massachusetts, the home of the AdamSes, and Webster and Sumner, takes pleasure in pre- Senting a man; a man who has made 3 fine speech to a bankers con Nention; a man who Is a regular cam paign fund all in himself; that noble patriot, that sterling representative of the common people and American manhood-John w. Weeks. What an array of leaders Chair man Ililles and the republican con Nention have in store for an expectant country. Don't they make you throw your hats in the air every time you 1 think of one of them?
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Brunded as B1igands,
 Claim 10 Be Pacifists

Washington, D. C., March 14.-The war in Mesopota amian lands has meant new interest to the many people and tribes living in the great area imme- dlately east of Sucz. Even the Be- doulnS have como to figure in one way or another in the news of the hour. The National Geographic society. of Washington, gives an interesting pie ture of their viewpoint upon. tho qnes- tlon of whether they are brigands and robbers or only d people enforcing laws Which they have alright to make and execute. It says:
 Although the Bedouins claim them- selves to be the descendants of Ish- mael, whom the Angel of the Lord de clared would be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every mans hand will be against him. they declare themselves to be a oeace- full people engaged only in collecting their legitimate dues from those who travel through their lands
 While the hundreds of caravans which have been held up and deprived of their possessions will probably dis sent from their view, that view is giN- en here for what it is worth.
 "The Bcdouins. contend that the desert is his land as much as America belongs to. the Americans or England to the English. He reasons that he has as much right to levy a toll on all who travel his way as a western gov
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Lent.
(NeW ork Sun. )


 If the confident belief of many in telligent persons that the woes of the world must rclindle, in humanity a strong religious sentiment is we'll based. the Lenten season which be- gins today should bring forth evi- dence of that fact of the most inn pressive nature Throughout Christ endom the thoughts of serious men and wom men--aDd who today is frivol- ous?-must turn to the riddle of the future. All that has seemed se- cure in the past is wasting away.
 The confidence the race has built up in it's own achievements has been wiped away. Where materialiStic philosophy was most firmly implant- cd, doubt in it's efficacy has sprung up. The need of man for support for comfort, for sustenance- not to be gathered from the victories of Shis
 finite mind was certainly never greater, perhaps never SO great. as it is in this twentieth century Of the Christian era. -'..
 Already Lent through the opera tion of number of factors, religious and social has attained a significance 1t did not formerly possess. It's ob- servance is not confined to those com munlonS Wh1cn enforce It upon LHelT ! mem bers. It affects thousands and hundreds of thousands, who do not recognize the validity of it's establish ment The effect of example, the inn pact of solemn appeal. are felt out side the walls of the cathedrals and churches in which the prayers are ! uttered. They extend to the market place and to the home, we shall not say of unbelievers. but of the careless and the thoughtless. The devotion of a good man connot be dlsregarded. When the human mind is tortured by doubt, perplexed by fear, confused by the destruction of standards to which it as given passive adherence, the consequences of contact with 8 sin
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Still America First
Boston Evening Transcript.

Boston INGn1nS SfipL'j
 If Germany is looking for war OIL this side of the Atlantic, the Senate of the United States has pointed the wax. By a vote of 6S to ii, the Gore resolution was defeated in that body, and the punN proposal to abandon an historic American right in the face of Germany's threat to slaughter every American who cXer- csed it was thereby dealt a knock out blow The same fate awaited the McI.emore resolution to the same ef- feet in the House. although the major ity at the other end of the capitol was not so large As a result the attempt in Congress to usurp the power of initiative in foreign affairs, placed by the Constitution in the hands of the President failed so ignominiousy that the world in gen era1 and it is to be hoped Germany in particular, no longer doubts that the office of international ncgotia- tion is in the White House and not on Ca pitol Hill, and that the President and not the Kaiser is in control. The surest wav in which war with Ger many can be avoided is by proving to the people and Government of Ger
 
 of the United States are one in their dcterm ina ton to defend the honor of the nation by diplomacy, if possible. and by war. if necessary. tsx. A long step in that direction has been taken by < Cengress% in its action. Tht, vote exposes the. smallness of tIIc minority of it's members who would ! have the President purchase peace with Germany by surrendering the | right or discouraging the exercise of the right which Am mericans have en- joyed from the foundation of the government to take passage and ship cargo upon belligerent m erchantmen armed for defense without thereby forfeiting their neutral privileges.
 For a fortnight the 'cowardice and the chaos of the Congress wholly beled the courage and the calmness of the country. Led by the chair | man of the committee on foreign re- lations of the Senate. a small but noisy minority in both houses were guilty of playing desperate game of politics with critical ques- ton of foreign affairs. The result of their recklessness could have been dangerous to the peace of the nation The Berlin Government mistook their
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
Minnesota at It Too.

St Paul, Minp., March 14-Minn- esota voters today arc electing dele gates to the republican, democratic and prohibition national conventions and expressing their choice of can ddatcs for president i'll the first pres idcntial preference primary ever held in Minnesota. The progressive del- egate candidates arc unopposed.
 Woodrow Wilson is unopposed for the democratic presidential nomina- ton. The candidaes on the repuh- lican ballot are Albert B. Cummins, United States senator from Iowa; Henry D. Estabrook of New York and William Grant Webster of Chi cago. Prohibition candidates are Eugene N. Toss, former governor of Massachusetts, and William Sulze1s former governor of New York;.
 The .progre essiyes. .haNe no candi.- date on their ticket
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
RED CROSS SUPPLY
 SHIPMENT BURNED
Woman in Charge at Halifax Pier
 Thought to Have Lost Her @ Life in S200.0OO Fire.

Halifax. N. S, March 14.-A large quantity of the Red Cross supplies was burned in q fire which destroyed the No. ? pier of the steamship ter minals hero today. The loss is esti- mated at $200,000. Mrs. Casey, in charge of the supplies, who was in the building when the fire started was missing later and it was feared that she had lost her life.
 The pier was built of wood 300 feee long. Besides the freight sheds it contained the United States immfgra- tionS offices. The fircmen had a two hours fight to prevent the flames {. from spreading to the other piers, be- ing obliged to chop away the wooden chutes and supports which connected all the buildings. The cause Of the fire is not known.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
PRESIDENT FOR A DAY.

Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, provided he is alive and does not re- sign before March 1, 1917. will be. on that day and date. President of the United States; but only for twenty four hours provided, again, he is not elected to succeed Woodrow Wilson. But even if he is not chosen to suc- ceed Wilson, Secretary Lansing will be President for one day Henry M. Rose. assistant secretary of the United States Senate, has it all figured out. According to the calendar, the fourth of March next falls on Sunday. The session of Congress and the Preslden- tial and Vice Presidential terms ter minate on that day. The next presi- dent will be inaugurated on March 3, if precedents are followed. Under a provision of law enacted thirty years ago. when there is no President in of fee the Secretary of State is designat
 ed to act until the office is legally filled. During the period from March 4 until noon of the next day, when the President-elect takes the oath of of fice Secretary Lansing will be Pres ident of the United States. Mir. Rose says that no Secretary of State has ever held the executive office under such circumstances.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS.
 PRIMARY VOTE TODAY
Five Candidates Want to Represent Republicans at Chicago Convention
 other Parties Harmonious.

Concord, N. H., March 14.--In the annual town meetings and in special elections in the cities tho voters of New Hampshire today had their first opportunity to choose by direct pri- nlArics, delegates to the national po- Iitical party conventions. There were five candidates for the four places on the republican ticket for delegates at large, four desiring to go to the con- vention unplcdSed and the fifth Frank II. Challis of Manchester, announcing himself Hs pledged to vote for the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for president.
 On the democratic and progressive tickets there were no contests. The progressive candidates for delegate at-large were specified on the ballot as unpledgcd.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
]. LOUIS vs. CHICAGO.

er how many delegates at St Louis ! Hohenzollern will have on the first --Boston Transcript
 there are two delegates at-lsrge lew York that he might get in a New York Herald
 ng from the recent test vote In the House of Representatives, however,
 majority of the Republicans-1o2 to lcit-voted for the Kaiser as against ssldent of the United States, there
 good many more IIoh enzoIlern as at the Chicago convention than .ouis.-Boston Post.
 ter-ie-e-es for today's g-a-m-e, ny,--Hapsburg and Hohen- v America.-Wilson and Lan-
 Play Ball! Batter Up!
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

crnment has to levy tariff or to col lect an excise tax.
 He contends that every caravan entering Bedouin territory can, by the paymont of a proper fee, secure from the nearest Bedou1n shciJ1 a. passport which will cntitlc it to safe passage through their territory. Failing to secure such a passport ands to pay such a toll for the privilege of passing through the desert, the Bedouin as- serts that the traveller puts himself in the same category with the smuggler the boot1egger and the moOnshiner in our country and that his goods are as justly liable to confiscation as those Of the smuggler and moonshiner in Am erica.
 The Bedouins declare that the caf- aVan owner not aonly can sccule the right to pass through their territpry, unm olested, but that he can even go further, and secure from them, for a proper fee, an escort which will pro tect hlm and his property while in the desert.
 Whether or not the viewpoint of the Bedouin in this matter is right is one of political theory and not of geo. graphical fact. But whether right or wrong, the BedOuin, in his reasoning, in his history, and in his geographic situation, is only of the most interest ing of all those whose lives have been affected by the great war"
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
HURRY THE NAVY BILL.
Wilson Urges Haste and Padgett Gives
 ScaSsuring Statement.

Washin gton, March 14.-Prcsident Wilson urged Chairman Padgett of the house naval committee today to hurry the navy bill. MT. Padgett told the president that the hearings prob ably would be ended in two weeks.
 Rep. Padgctt assured the Presi- dent that working majority of his committee favored substantial strengthening of the navy and that he expected no trouble in getting through the house a naval program to meet with the approval of the administration.
 Thomas A. Edison will be heard by the naval committee tomorrow.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

cere trust>in those forces that come from God and are not from man may be epochal.
 Thus the season on which the world enters today assumes an as- pect of unusual interest, and takes on the Chara cter of a, wonderful Op- pCrtunity for the agencies that labor to impress on the needless the mes sage of the Christian faith The ground has been prepared, and 1t remains for the husbandmen to SOW the seed and reap the harvest.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
LOOK OUT.

Granting Carranza permission to send his troops across the border in pursuit of bandits, just as we have sent our troopers, or intend to send them, across the border in pursuit of Villa and his outlaw followers, is a piece of reciprocity similar to giving a baby a stick of candy to paclty II while a serious operation is per formed Carranza was crying be-
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
ROOSEVELT COMING HOME.

New York, March 14.-Word was received here today that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will leave Port or Spain, Trinidad, on Wednesday to re- turn to this city from his West ln~ dian tour, and that he will arrive here Saturday, March 25
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
ROYAL AUTHORIZES DEAD.

Berlin, March A. (By wireless to c).-The death is announced at Vienna Of Baroness Marie Non- -Ehen- Eschenbach, author, She was SC .ycarsf old, and was the author of manyl novels, as well as poems and -aphorisms.-
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
CONGESTION.

< FREIGHT CONGESTION.
 Ellt congestion on the railroads N|onIe to pretty pass. Nearly #e trouble centers around a lack S&iipment, scarcity of locomo- |hnd freight cars. Shippers and Ssers of freight are prone to place M0f the blame on the shoulders x railroad officials, while the rail- #nen themselves are struggling to saome an unprecedented condition st the same time are asking that Shent be suspended. One rail- @president states that after tele- Hing to the executives of all the
 Iads in the United States east of Mississippi in quest of additional 8es he was able to secure only He has now turned to the #lian railroads as a source of Tn the short, pithy terms of Iica, the railroads are up against That they are entitled to some Iteration is the opinion of the York Journal of Commerce. b-has -the-following to say:
 here is little to be gained by lay tress upon the inadequacy of the $ of transportation and of ter warehouse and transfer facil-
 The situation, as everybody $, Is not only exceptional, but utely unprecedented. The rail- companies could not be expected
 prepared for it, for the necessity
 not be. foreseen.
 he emergency having come and ing upon them in 8 manner to b attention. 1t was not possible Iy hurried manner to supply the encies. The means for supply what was necessary were made he lines coming from the interior le eastern coast have not only
 overloaded by the pushing for
 of freight, so as to be unable to le it expeditious1y on arrival and he tracks clear for the return of y cars with promptness, but they
 encountered a situation at the orts over which they could exer- no control. There was not ship
 enough to take away the export pes without delay, or warehouse enough to have them stored.
 there were some shipments Ii were for one reason or another led to preference, on account of al contracts or the perisha ble acter of the goods. Much of the xade on tracks and at terminals been absolutely unavoidable.
 he railroads are bound to do part as effectively as possible Sacinta4ing and expediting move in all its lines to meet such 8 ,tfon as has been forced upon U, On the other hand, shippers Ia do their part, in duly classi- ' and distributing shipments, tc I mixing and clogging the way
 hinderfng deliveries, and con eess should cooperate so far as ticable by avoiding unnecessary age and delays and the detention sling stock which should be kept ing as continuously as possible re is no doubt good deal of fault
 of human regard for self-interes
 disregard of the interests ot ITS on both sides. That canno helped without a regeneration O. ldu 1lRIui put lAAIe A' o '''''' n many lessons are taught of th' ortance of subordinating indi al claims to the general well g. This is conspicuously illus ed in the present situation in thu sportation and shipping business re are national interests at stalk yell as individual, local. industria
 commercial interests. Ther' i'd be an honest endeavor to i'm -e conditions by mutual conces
 and equitable cooperation fo general benefit
 CIV Britain is as much interested
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

Of course, we're ready to do our part toward making dogfish popular as an article of food, but until further notice we prefer to do it by preccpt rather than by example-Biddeford Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

Inasmuch as MT. Ford has Sald nothing about that second peace eXpe- dition for -alm ost fortnight, perhaps 1t Is a safe conjecture that the mount ing price of gasoline is engaging all his anxious attenton-PrOVide Journal,
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

The president showed to good ad- vantage at the Gridiron club dinner; but few men have had more expert ence on the grid than he.--BoSton Herald
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

Freedom of the seas can only be es- tablished and maintained by freedom from war. Without that it is an il- fusion, and it is fortunate that a power as civilized and as peaceably disposed as Great Britain has so much control of 1t at this moment.--NeW York Journal of Commerce.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-14

Let Mir. Wilson now forget congress and it's alleged ambition to interfere in the conduct of foreign relations. The only issue before him is to stand firm on his own responsibility as defend CT of American rights. He will have the country with him overwhelmingly if he does that.-NeW York Tribune.