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New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Respect for National Anthem.
 tMeriden Record

The Record is of the opinion that the explanation made by representa- 1 tives of the c. A. R. of the reasons why they did not stand when the few strains of the Star Spangled l Banner" were played at a recent en- l tcrtainment is entirely adequate. The ruling made by the G. A. F.. officials regarding the introduction 1 of the national anthem into a medley 1 of popular songs, as published in the
 columns of The Record is eminently l proper and correct.
 There must he some radical change ! in the policy employed in trotting
 out the national song if it is to be ac- corded the respect 1t so thoroughly deserves.
 Banner is sandviched in with popu- lar. lifting songs, just so long will there he people bobbing up and down ana general misfit effect at public gatherings.
 Our ideas as to what constitutes respect for the flag are hopelessly messy at present. Some day we may deNelop so far as to realize that honor for the Stars and Stripes can not be secured so long as flags are used in such degrading fashion as is so o''en Illustrated when the colOrs are used Tor 'deCorative" purposes
 when 'The Star SpangIed Banner" Is plaNed in the course of a program.
 m such manner as to compel at tent1on and respect 1t is good guesS- lug that me outward evidence of ap-
 prec1atlon will he forthcomng
 The flag has been used too pron1is- cuously in this country to arouse en- thusiasm. We must learn to value it more truly before we can get the rev erence for it which ought to be ac- corded it. There are many people who believe that "The Star Spang1ed
 Banner is not a representative na- tlonal anthem and it has been sug- gested that the Battle Hymn of the
 Republic take the place of the Ger man Fren ch En glish- American air to which we sing "America" A cor respondent Of the New York Evening Post holds that the Star Spangled Banner is ''hlatant, blarinc. mere tricious affair. typical of the eagle at his worst. and also English" a nd she suggests that ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic" a name in itself in spring, written by an AmericaU woman and welded to the air of "Iohn BroWn'' also indigenous. would give us an anthem worthy of our land, and one that is "sim pie digni.- fled, impressive and even ma jestic. when sung by many voces."
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

appearing in Harper's Weekly. the
 sententious jester, stephen Leacock,
 takes fall out of the modern teacher
 of English. Grammar and rhetoric
 are drier than dust. and about as use ful, English literature as presented in college courses is the last stage, open only to minds that have already been debilitated by grammar and rhe- toric." Shakespeare, we learn the un- comfortable truth, did not know enough of what is called English by
 our education departments" to grad
 uate from a kindergarten and could
 not have passed an eXaminatiO in one
 of his own plays set as a college en-
 trance test. We make our pupils
 spend two hours a day for ten years in
 the silly pursuit of what we call Eng
 fish," we are told. We find ourselves
 wondering if, after all, we did really
 throw away all that perfectly good
 time.
 The criticisms noted above may or
 may not be warranted. And yet the
 fact remains that an understanding
 and appreciation of really good litera- ture is confined to a relatively small number of men and women, whether graduates of our institutions of high CT learning or not, anu-WIlaL lS< or greater concern, since it touches upon the everyday business and intercourse of the majority-the Quen's English is constantly being mistreated in writ ing and in speech. Surely we have a right to expect that our college grad uates shall be able to write with req sonable correctSess nd cleaness and in accordnce with the 'esta blished rules of good usage, that they shall spell with accuracy and that they shall tl- naIly be aware Of the existence of tlrat much -maligned subject, rhetoric. But thcv do not. Proofs of such short are too many and too well known to call for discussion here Where shall the blame be placed? How shall we distribute it among those responsible for home training and for instruction in school and col Iege? Presently we shall find the du- sWer tC these troublesome questions found them, We may insist up, 1n a grater degree of respect for the language which we employ every day ,f our lives and which, therefore, de- serves better usage at our hands than indifferent or ignorant employment.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
The Queens English.
(New Haven Journal Courier


 Again the teachers of English are under fire. That is to say, the atten- ton of a public with surplus of in terests has again been directed to the murde erous assault which college bred men and women are consistently making upon the Queens English. In a recently published 1eaflet the New York Institute for Public Service has dwelt upon the subject with pain and solicitude. One teacher is quoted as holding the opinion that failure suc- cessfully to instruct the student in grammatically correct and clear Eng fish is the most glaring defect in our modern system of education. On the one hand, the blame is placed square 1y on the preparatory schools: on the other hand, it is patiently contend ed that students ought not to be aI- lowed to travel tranquily through the work of the college curriculum with d disregard of the requirements of re- spectable English. In a whimsical but not altogether unreasonable criticism of English as She is Taught"
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
DOWN WITH THE TRAITORS.

@When the House of Representa- x es, more lately become known as
 #e house ofiMis-R epresentati tives, yes- Mday voted to table the McLemore
 Solution which would abandon the #s1ts of American citizens the last @stige of respect was saved and a #ietus put on tIbe fear that America M $ no longer the land of liberty By Mis action the House followed the
 M Malmp1e set by the Senate in dispers- x g of the Gore resolution which #ouId withdraw from American citi @ns travelling on the armed ships of
 @lligerents the protection of the Emitted States government. Had either # these two resolutions gone through, & e American people might have #lowr that the men sent to Washing #n to represent them had deserted @e ranks had enlisted under another Banner. had waved farewell to all the Additions of this great republic. As # js there is vast horde of those in #pe legislative chambers who will do #el1 to explain their stand, to wash #aeir hands of what looks like incrIn- M1afing evidence Out of the nations EaDital there are coming stories of an #,sidious lobby conducted by foreign &gents for, the purpose of defeating @he President of the United States ir Nhis his battle to uphold the rights Af American citizens. Every mar @rho voted against the tabling of the Resolution yesterday now has some #hing to explain.
 Even in the moment of defeat the Blouse had to deliberately misrepre' Bent Instead of admitting the error 8Df their way. certain members made Sspeeches which translated. mean tha1 Sihe President tried to put his d1plo Nnatic Responsibilities on the shoulders #of the ConGressInen. No such thing Sls true What really happened wa 8that Congress tried to usurp the con Hstitutional function of the I1XccutiV' Eby taking our foreign relations out o 8his hand This explanation of MT ICampbell stands as the height of IS norance or as a stupdi attempt t Enisrepresent actual facts: Th President has asked Congress to as sume the diplomatic function and de
 clare to the world that it's citizen
 hare the right to travel on an arme
 merchant ship of the beligercnts
 This House is now confronted with tn
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Two DrCanlerS,
{ Boston Hcra1f

A few days ago a captain of indus try, q man of millions. died in New York; His name was John A. Hill. and he was the publisher of the F1n- Gineering News. the Mining Journal. the Coal Age and other trade publiCa- tions. \ quarter of a century ago. or a bit more. he waS engineer of freight train in the Colorado noun tains. One day, while the train wait ed on a siding: both he and his fire man leaned from inc cab and gazed drcami1y. al the distant mountain tops. The fireman spoke first.
 "What arc you dreaming about, John?" he asked.
 "I was dreaming that I'm going to have million dollars some day" answered inc engineer. "What were you dreaming about ?''
 "Oh, I was dream that I'll write book some day. answered the fireman.
 The story is true The fireman told it. His name was CN Warman. and he published his bOOk-ScVeral of them. in faCt--and reached the hearts of millions by his songs Thus the dreams of those young dreamcr& came true. The young workers WEo have followed them have the same dreams and others. And do not laugh at them: most of the things worth while in history have been Ic- complished dreamers. "Tor the dreamer lives forever. but the tOilcr dies in a day" and "of all this broken world; what else endurcs, save only dreams"
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
TAKE 'EM DOWN.

# Tor some time our Main street has the resemblance of the Midway #aisance where Little Egypt" held Eth, or of the outside of a sideshow @ circus, what with the numerous
 @ cards and advertisements that Eve been pasted over store windows @ other places of prominence As @ days go on, as the first harbineers Spring wing their way across the #swens we may expect numerous \ ar signs hung. plastered pasted, #'ted. stuck, strewn, or scattered 8ng the main thoroughfare of New &tsin., It is in the air, this advertis- #, will grow. Why not then make &ne stringent rules pertaining to the A cling oflthese commercial placards? 4ere is no gainsa ying the fact, Main Feet is being defaced by outdoor ad- @-tise nnents. No sooner than a store
 #eomes vacant someone runs for Este pot and posters and liberally sters the windows with amuse- snt signs or some other equally &sthetic works of art
 are all right and &.fectIy proper in their way; but @yAshould not besallowed to hold the Zip hand over everything else. zcus posters and banners of other @cription should not be promiscu- Sly displayed over the entire bust #5 area, nor on private property. R sizes of outdoor advertisements 3ced on vacant buildings, trees, or q lces. This should be done in the i mediate present or the near future, ] Hess this idea is allowed to run wild i, @7 override all the interests of the 1 Nj. New Britain at best is not the l bst beautiful city in the world, but | looks will never be improved upon 1 Bile such conspicuous conSlomera- l Ins of paper and canvas are allowed 1 dazzle and bewilder it's beauty To ! the least they are displeasng to 1
 h eye Anothersthing, they make a |d impression on the visitor to the | |y. This in itself should be enough | consisn them to municipal reguIa- In.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Henry Ford and tho Newspapers.
 (Brid-eport TelegramD

Will thC1o suspicious persons who
 ina zinc that a newspaper never cX-
 presses an opinion that is not bought
 and paid for. or that large adNertis-
 ing carries with if editorial support please give their attention to the case
 of Fl cnry Ford. who is himself under going an awakening process just at present .?
 Mr. Ford in his campaign against l "nrcparcdness." is now taking large advert iSing space in the neWspa pers to give vent to his views. Mr. Ford,
 with others, has shared the expressed belief that many newspapers advocate preparedness because they are pal to advocate it. Such is the easy aud natural explanation inevitably adopted hy those who, thinking passionately on any subject, conclude that who- ever differs from them must he crazy. or ycnaI or both.
 Be it noted. however, that prac-
 ticaIly every newspaper in which Mir. | Ford has advertised to date has taken | pains to "kick the stufing' out of what he ndVCrtiscS. The claims that | Mr. Ford has advanced in his pur- 1 chased space have bccn ripped to 1 pieces in the editorial columns. This 1 is d painful shock to the "bought and l paid for theory of newspaper opin- 1 ions. Mir. Ford has discovered that 1 money cannot buy newspaper opin- 1 ions, whether the brbe is offered in l directly in the form of advertising or | more directly in the form of subsidy. l Allowing, however, that Mr. Ford l is honest in his advertising campaign. 1 and that he merely seeks 10 get his 1 views before the public. and not to
 brbe the neWspa pers. then he is fool l ish. Practically Every reputa ble
 neWspa per would give publicity to his l views withou pay. Such publicity 1 would be labeled, of course as Mir. l Ford's views, and not the views of the 1 papers in which it appeared The 1 same distinction is painstakinely l brought forward when MT. Ford ad. ! vertiSes. as he must have discovered 1 by this time.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Everybody Else Crazy.
Waterbury American.

Ono symptom of certain forms of insanity is the delusion that all the rest of the world is insane. The Rev. Jen11in Lloyd Jones. prominent survivor Of the Ford pence catastl 0 : plc arc wrong. crHzy." he cries Hr declares that the expedition was a success but the newspaper men spoiled it all." That's just like them, the scoundrcIs. always letting in light and laughter where only Obsculitv Y and gloom should be,
 The Rev. Jenkin. bcarcd like Car ranza or Dowic or Skoudouljs. or the three com bined. has "come home to fight. From now on it is War--war on preparednes On the list of uSc less forms of warfare we should place the "war on preparedness" worry near the ton. The ono thing on earth for which no one need ever fight is the privilege of being smearcd by some one else II is merely necessary to cXpress a willingness to he smeared
 1T am for preparation but not for Drcparodness." says tho Rev JenlIin-- whatever he may mean by that. We want an international police force to keep one country from striking at anOther" An international police force was exactly what we had in Rclcium but one cop went crazy and ran amuck and now the whole force even the Rev. Jcnl1fn. eirsd with the millions of Henry Ford. has thus | far been unable to stop.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

There is ground for hopes; also Tor fears. Mrs. Flanagan forelock neatly pasted down and a white apron enshrouding her comedy form should 20 forward heightening the illusion. But will she listen to the jokes of James with the same keen air of ap- ITecia ton as the barkeep at the corner and take his steenth order as coming from q, man who always knows when he has enough?
 1t is exceedingly doubtful. She probably has heard his jokes before and between the barkeeps idea of when one has had enough and that of the most indulgent wife there is a sad but wide divergence.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
How the Pork Barrel Work

Not in 37 years has the senate com mittee on transportation to the sea board held a meeting, according to information furnishes by Lynn Haines, secretary of National Voters league. Yet the committee has rooms maintained for it, has stationary and committee, employs three clerks, and Senator McCumber. it's chairman re- gently introduced a resolution calling for the appointment of fourth clerk.
 Needless to say. the only object of this committee is to divide up among it's mem bers the right to appoint clerks. It accomplishes no other purpose than this wilful misuse and waste of the public's money. One would think that a congressman With any sense of honor, responsibility, or duty to the nation. would scorn to profit by such an arrangement and vet here we find the pork barrel ben eficiaries not only walloping in 1t, but crying for more.
 It is no exaggeration to say that congress is honeycombed with ram ifications of the famous old pork barrel" such as this. A madman with a barrel of gold would be a conser- Nativc figure alongside the average congressman supervising the expendi- ture of the pulic's money. Not. how ever, until the people have spoken very sharply and made the pork barrel" real issue in congress. will this misuse and mulcting of the pub lies funds he stopped. And in the meantime, every dcpartm ent of the national activity is weakened by 1t, and the public is burdened to make up the wastage.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
THE, RAG DOLL OF EUROPEAN
 GRIEVANCES.

There has been a lot of resentment against President Wilson for his re marks anent disloyal citizens of this 1 nation. Naturally, men of foreign birth resented any insinuation against 1 them. They knew they were person l ally loyal to the land of their adoption l and could scarcely believe anyone else 1 could be disoyaI. But the President was right. nevertheless, when he ac- | cused certain citizens of betraying the nation. That he was right has been proven time and time again by eN- posures made by our own Department of Justice, through it's bureau of in vestigation, and by some of the lead ing newspapers of the country. Now the New York World comes out again with documentary evidence showing that there has been a lobby conducted in Congress by an organization of nation-W activity. the National German-Amercan Alliance. This is the most astonishing of all the charges made against partisans in the European war. It is absolutely proven that a secret campaign has been car ried on for some time past to prevent legislation from passing through Con gross which would be detrimental to the military policy of Germany The Gore resolution was favored, backed and promoted by this organization The McLemore resolution was also a favorite.
 The man who was placed at the ! head of this lobby visited and inter- 1 viewed Senators and Representatives ! in an attempt to get them to take stand against the President of the 1 United States. His comment upon ; his success. or defeat, was published yesterday. It was planned to take away from the Executive the Consti- ! tutionaI function which vests in him the duty to negotiate with all foreign powers in matters of diplomacy and | to place this function in the hands of Congress. To do this the old method of coming out boldly for Ger many was abandoned In it's 3tead q was set up a propa ganda having for it's purpose the engenderins of hate against England. Knowing every American's dislike for things English, because of the way this country was treated by England some one hundred or more years ago, the promoters of this new campaign acted very wisely. The first blunder made took place a wear ago when the United States was accused of being pro-British. If never was pro-British. is not now rro-
 British, and never can be pro-Brltlsh
 Whatever preference is shown in re gard to the bellgerents of Europe by
 the men. women and children Of this
 nation, not by the government must
 be traced to the propa ganda started
 by German agents at the outset of the
 war The nation merely became dis
 gusted with some of the things done
 that is all. The campaign that is n""
 being conducted, while in it&''f not i the most honorable. still is much more
 to be desired than the old method o'
 blowing up buildings and destroying
 Am erican property. By 'discardin2 1 dynamite and taking up politics these
 campaigners bring their methods or
 plane where they can be dealt Vitf z by the American people, who arc faS
 growing tired of having their country
 being made the rag doll of Europear , grievances.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Fahrenheit and Ccntigradc.
Providence JOurnal.D

Agitation for the adoption of the mometer proba bIy will not be more successful than the mOveme ent for tho general use of the metric system ir the United States. Tho habits of generations cannot he changed at once by legislative enactment Pas sage Of q bill by vOngrcSs making the centigradc the standard in this coun- try will not make the Fahrenheit obSOlctc---at least not for q long tcr1l of years. About everyone recognizes thirty-tWO degrees as the freezing point and changing 10 the zero of the centigradc requires too much thinking on the part of people who get along very conforta bly with tho Fahrenheit markings of heat and cold
 The experts demonstrated years ago that the metric system is super for to one based upon the inch. But the people have not discarded the old tWo-foot rule--thcir measurements arc made in inches and feet as if the moro scientific metric system never had developed For certain purposes the metre is the better standard. and ii is used by many expert workers. But it does not appeal 10 the popu- lar imagination-prOb nine tcnthS of the people do not know the meaning of such words as millmetcr or centimeter. And centigrade will be rejected until the public sees some thing to he gained by learning 70 forget the Fahrenheit scale.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Laymen will not settle this uues- ton Of national defense; but if the solution was left to them they would hardly picker as much al bout the kind of q fleet to be built as the men are doing who hold the government honor and safety in their charge Syracuse Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

Evidence that the commander 1 the submarine that sank the Arablc went down with his boat and thus never made tha statement attr1buteu to him, that he thought the liner was going to ram him, should not be un- welcome even 10 German naval meh' It would relieve them of a hunil1at- ing imputatiOn upon their seaman ship which they have again and again shown they do not deserve Philadelphia Ledger
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

British Admiralty instructions to armed merchantmen, now given to the public, mako it perfectly clear that such vessels are armed for dc fense only. They must not attack q submarine, they must neither attack nor interfere with merchant vessels, fishing boats or any craft whatsoever under any circumstances. This par" ticu1ar paragraph seems to establish beyond question the good faith of the British Admiralty in it's denial Of the German contention that British merchantmen are armed for the pur- pose of deliberate attack upon sub marineS-NeW York Press.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

The 1IaNtian treaty as ratified by the United States senate makes HaNti a virtual prOtCrtorate of the united States, having much he same status as Santo Domingo. The HaNtianS W1ll continue to govern themselves, but they will have to stop the revolution Came.- Buftal To Express.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

All the influence of 3 mobilized pro-German propaganda has been swung against the president. We do not care what excuses or apologies or explanations, congressman may make for the aid and comfort that they give this enemy propaganda. We do not care whether they arc idealistS who believe in peace at any price. or whether they are Bryan or Hearst factionists who desire to pull down the President or Republicans and ROOSeveltttes who would gladly shame and discredit the United States for the sake of scoring partisan advantage over the president. or pro Germans who are seeking to promote the military advantage of Germany at the expense Of American rights and American honor, they arc all en- gagged in the same infamous business.
 New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

This Lenten season, in view of the utter hopelessness of humanity. as evidenced by the madhouse of Europe, bids fair to be a real seasOn' of peni- tence. Have you put on your sack cloth and ashes?
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
Poor Fellow.
(.Jack O'-L.anteTn. ]

(Jack -LanteTn.) Poor fellow he's an orphan Are his grandparents alive "Oh. ro.' "POor fellow.' "WOrSe than that. What else? ?' His great grandparents arc dead too" "Pooe @~'--
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

In this Self-Starting age the man with d broken arm caused by crank ing an automobile has a hard timc to keep up his social standing
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

only profitable advertising medium in the city. Circulation hooks and press
 room always open to advertisers
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08

red at the Post Office at New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
EW BRITAIN HERALD

q ds lly N Sulfyii,y eSeeptedo at 4:t5 D. m
 at Herald Building, e Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-08
S3.sS COLORED SILK UMBRELLAS
 Special S3.48 Each.

Colors: Cardinal, Green, Navy, Purple and Garnet With the ad. vanced costs of silks and umbrella hardware you are bound to pay more later on, while this lot lasts is the time to buy at the old prices. .