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New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
BREAKING PAROLE.

As a result of parole breaking on the part of officers connected with the German auxiliary cruisers in termed at Norfolk, Virginia, the State Department at Washington refuses to issue more of these privileges There is no doubt of the facts in the case. The State Department has proven it's claims and the German Ambassador admits that some of the men who violated their words of honor have gone back to their na- tive land. The German Embassy attempts to excuse these deeds by saying that the commanders of the vessels in question failed to sufficiently instruct their officers and crews re- garding the significance of the assur- ances given by them. Secretary Lansing offsets this attempt to ''cover- up" by asking if it can be assumed these officers are not cognizant of the principles of international law.
 When an auxiliary cruiser of any
 
 neutral waters, for any reason what ever under the rules of international law it must again seek the high seas within an allotted period, usually forty-eight hours, or it must undergo inteTnment until the end of the war. The commanders of the ships interned at Norfolk consented to remain in this country, under the protection of it's laws. After this formally the officers and men were granted parole, which meant they could leave their vessels and go ashore, provided they returned to their posts within an allotted period of time. These privileges were granted them on their words of honor as officers and gentlemen" That some of them have seen fit to break their words thus given will react to the disadvantage of other officers who may seek the protection of American ports before the war is Over
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
BOOK REVIEW
''When Mans a Man." by Harold Bell Wright, Book Supply Co.,, $1.35.

"When a Mans a Man." by Harold Bell Wright, Book Supply Co.,, $1.35.
 Contemporary literature has yet to produce an author who can more hap oily delineate a "clean man" than Harold Bell Wright. His characters smile and frown at the command of the penman. They are actually living people, who breathe from the pages and who surround the reader with the atmosphere in which they live.
 Tn 'When a Mans a Man." MT. Wright has given us book that bids fair to enlarge his ever-growing circle of charmed readers. While it may not be as strong as some of his past works it is a wholesome, entertaining glimpse of a real man for whom ad- Versity has no terrOrs.
 The scene is laid on the sweeping prairieS of the west where Honorable Patches," for it was by this title he preferred to be called, chose to emerge from the shell in which a useless so- ciety neither sows nor reaps. Disgust for the time-wasters and their fads and foibles as we'll as pain at the shattering of his hearts dream sent him to the land where a man must be a man to survive where weddings perish. How he lived and became respected among the coWpunchers, despite his eastern dress and cOnver- sation, makes a highly interesting story. No book would not be com plete without the eternal feminine and MT. Wright introduces us to several women whom he weaves into his plot and who play important roles in the anabasis of Honorable Patches It is rather disconcerting that, through force of circumstances, his seed or love is planted on sterile ground ana the story could have 8 happier ending with out weakening its popularity.
 The same vigor and homely honesty that have chara cterized most Of MT. wrtght's pen people are instllled Into the blood of those who step from the covers of When 8 Mans a Man.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
A WISE MOVE

|ostpOn1ng the opening of public Pols in New Britain because of the Pent wave of infantile paralysis bring joy to the hearts of many and girls. Aside from that phase he question the dction Of the Bol authorities, confirmed upon Ference with the health depart t, will meet with the approval of parents who hold dear the lives of zr little ones. Although there is lone reported case of this dread SRse in the city at present, the a1ren who have come in contact inha bttants of neighbOring states #heir vacations may bring back the ns that once spread cannot be ay stopped.
 would seem the part of prudence sthe private schools of this city to aW the lead set by the men and en who have charge of the public sols. The original date for opening Schools had been placed as the day @ Labor Day, September 5. The #n of the school board now fixes @pentng one week later or Tues # September 12. One week taken # the regular scholastic curriculum @not hinder the progress of pupils. Ell safeguard the health of the Hnunity because it gives the health aorities time in which to observe
 who return from infected Ems.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
MY DOC.

When my dog looks at yer friendly outer meltin pretty eyes, An he wags his tail an tries ter lick yer hand; Then I don't care wot you look like an I don't care wot yer been, Yer good enough for meyer under stand? Sometimes a human bein' judges by yer fancy coat, An if yer gloves and shoes is new an whole; But a dOg when he looks at yer, doesn't notice little things; A dog-a dog he judges by yer soul! When a dog looks at yer friendly like he wants to see yer smile, An jumps upon yer, lovin', when yer call; I'd like yer if yer was alone without a home r friend, A burglar-tamp or anything at all! Sometimes human bein likes yer surface-p0lshed up Yer talk or table manners plays their part; But a dog, when he looks at yer, goes beneath the top veneer; A dog--a dog he judges by yer
 Christian Herald
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

to Die Hilfe's proposals? Tt shall now be our task to raise militarism to a higher intellectual level. Blind obedience still rules. Orders are still carried out because behind them stands memorable power. The spirit of the drill sergeant is too much with us. Often barraCk room startlingly reveals a bit of medievalism. There must be a way to lead us over too strained physical discipline to that of the will and the mind. Discipline Intellectually transf1gured, must help millions toward inward law and or der. It must be the bridge, the scaf- folding" This is old, old preachment. "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city" But how is it likely to appeal to the
 drill sergeant whose business is pre- pairing cannon fodder?
 To raise militarism to a "higher i intellectual level" to purge, the dross
 from it's pure gold may be a beauti- 1 full ideal, but what would it leave? l Bismarck once cynicaIly explained ! that the reason Russian soldiers could
 not be treated quite like dogs was l because they lacked education; Ger mans had been to school and realized 4 the consequences of resenting ill treatment. The essence of militarism is "blind obedience" to "inexorabIe power" take that away and the whole system is not reformed but de- stroyed. It is precisely by subjecting the will of the many to the will of the few that mihtarism gets its pow CT; a free people in time of danger a lxp bot emergency, but if it does not reclaim individual will when the emergency passes it ceases to be a free people,
 A supermilitarism to achieve higher freedom at the back of be- yond is but a chimera. The more perfect the system, the more help less are the cogs in the memorable machine. "Stato socialism," notes Die Hilfe, "has ceased to be a term of abuse, now that the worth of in dividual existence has sunk to zero" But it Is the ideal of militarism to keep the worth of individual exist ence at zero That perfection may be attainable only In the hysteria of war, but the more fully developed the system, the more it tends to de- press individual will toward the van ishing point. That is the nature of the beast; there can be more of it or less, but it's nature is always the same, in Prussia as in Sparta or Krin- Tartary, and as 1t grows 1t be- comes more formidable:
 we. all know a kitten but come to a
 catamount
 The beast is a stranger when grown
 up to that amount.
 When the camel gets it's nose under the tent, says the Arab proverb the rest of the camel follows. And that, too Is the nature of the beast.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office
Putting the Pig to School.
(COllier's Weekly).

A schooI-teacher in North Caro- nna saw that farm paper was offer
 ing one pure-bred pig as premium for certain number of new subscribers She got the necessary subscriptions among the parents of her sixty pupils, had the children build a mod ern pen on the school and, and gave the porker a large public reception with an illustrated talk on pigs. The school went to work clearing land, planting grain and grass plots for for age, raising cabbage plants to sell for other feed; and the subscription grunter soon became the nucleus of a demonstration farm. More land Is, to be purchased and expert aid will be brought in to make permanent this stimulus to the local agriculture. The house. that-Jack- built was only a pig pen, but the effect will be to make life better for that entire community. And the school teacher did 1t! Some of the local OffiCehOlders down there must be reflecting with horror that when women have the vote it may be- come necessary for Off1ce-hOlders to get busy on just such jobs as this, and then there won't be so much time to loaf around the county courthOus and chew If a pig can go to school, most anybody ought to learn.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
Not a Complete Reform. (Brid Farmer).

When Mr. Hughes was governor ot New York he replaced the usual num- Der of deserving democrats, by de- serving republicans. Now he seems to put the displacement of republi- cans by deserving democrats as among the chief issues of the cam paign.
 Let us not blame him for the past. MT Hughes may not have become convert to the idea that it is wicked to fire one man and hire another, un- til recently.
 But he ought to make a complete reform if he Is going to make any. If MT. Hughes thinks it wrong to dis place indifferent administrators with peter ones, when the duties are com Daratively unimpOrtant, he ought to have the strongest possible objection to the displa cemon of an experienced president of the nation, in q time of crisis by man substantially with out cxprrience, and one who is not fla rniliar with the conditions which have created the really vexing national problems
 If it was wrong to disp1ace Am bas- sa dor Herricl1, whose duties were merely nominal, how very stupid it will be 10 displace d president whose duties are deHcate and difficult beyond description.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17

his life and letters, by W. c. Der
 wick Savers
 The Farm. Farm economy; a cyclopedia of agri-
 culture for the practical farmer
 and his family.
 "A concise treatise and compilation of the most important facts In the various fields included."-A. L. A. Booklist.
 Marketing of farm products, by L.
 D. H. Weld.
 "A simple, untechnical exposition of the whole field by an expert, prob ably the best book on the subject. Covers direct, marketing, cooperative marketing, the problem of the mid dleman, retailing, transportation, costs, etc."-A. l.. A.. Booklist
 ** Poultry culture. sanitation and hy-.. giene, by Kaupp. Poultry husbandry, by Edward "scholarly yet popular treatment, carefully prepared by an English ex- pert, who has had wide experience in breeding and studying all branches of poultry and is cOnvcrsant with conditions here.'-A. L. A. Booklist, Fiction. Old Glory, by M. R. s. Andrews. Blow the man down, by Holman Day
 
 Sailor, by J. c. Snaith. Biggest and finest novel he has yet written. .'-Pall Mall Gazette Some Irish yesterdays, by A. OF, Somerville and Martin Ross. Thirteenth commandment, by Rupert Hughes. Zeppelin nights, London entertain ment, by Violet Hunt and F. M. Hueffer. Though the scheme is as old as | the 'Decameron,' the work is strik- | ingly original, ingeniously conceived I and well written. While vivid with l ina agination, it is primarily for the 1 thoughtful reader."-Springfield Reu l publican.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
Getting Discipline
(Philadclphia Public Ledge,

(Phlladclphla Public Ledgerl
 Young men valiantly servine tboir country on the border or learnioo +1,a rigorous simpliCities of militarv 1ifo o+ training camps have discoyerez +hat many of the things they thOugh+ trov needed most of all were suporAui+ios They know by this time that "11ni- fornl' applies to custom as well as costume in the army. They realize Inc transforming power of the clothes for they have seen that after the change from multi to khaki there is not much to choose between the aristocrat who was the arbiter of elegance and the son of honest toll who kept his office hours in his Overalls
 It has been an awakening experi- CnCe to many to obey a command without gainsay or lack talk upon the instant Their camp life has been an education in the value of prompt ness and in human interdependenc \ company or a. regiment, like a coral island. is made of a number of incon- splcuous but fundamental constituents. Each must play his part and the withdrawal or the ineff1ciency Of one Weakens the mass. The whole ten dency of the training the recruits have received is to diminish the bump of cOncelt There may be some who after only a month Of drill and discipline feel that they know enough to bo made n0n-commissioned officers But the majority should be sufficiently sen sible to realize that they are nothing m0ro at present than promising raw 1aterial from which officers may In Jime be made. No man fs fitted to command who cannot rufo himself--- his temper. bis tongue, his rebellious will, his disobedient body,
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
VETERANS IN CONGRESS,
The DwindIinG Number of the Blue
 and the Gray.
Philadelphia Press)


 In Senator Tillman's recent speech in the senate leading up to the an- nouncement that he had come slowly in the conclusion that "it was best for all concerned that the south was defeated In the Civil war; the South Carolina senator observed, half cen- tury since AppomattOx there is a man in this chamber still who wore the Confederate gray and one who wore the blue.'
 For considerable period after the war the military element, men with a record of serNco in the civil war; were a dominant force in congress The managing politicians always preferred a candidate for president with an hon. orab1e Civil war record. Mckinley was the last to meet this requirement. and since his time our presidents and presidential candidates have been of a generation too young for participa- ton in the civil war. After recon struction had proceeded so far as to return southern demOcratst to congress- both branches were flooded with southern brigadiers," as they were called, or men who had held a com mission in the Confederate army That indicated nearly all the public men rom the south and the announcement that only one is left in the senate marks the passage of time and the dis appearance from public life of that large body of able, forcefu1. public spirited men who had a part in the civil war.
 The north did not choose her public men so exclusively from the military caste as did the south, but when the Confederate brigadiers assembled in Washington they found in congress 8 good many men who formerly were arrayed against them on the field of military action They met there Gar field, Logan, Blair, Schurz, Banks, Butler, Cox, Keller, Farnsworth, Me- Kinley. Bayne, Shanl1s, Dodge, Hayes, Schenck, Slocum, Neglev, Hawley and others who had served with credit and distinction as officers in the Union army in the war between the states.
 The lone Confederate whom Senator Tillman secs in the senate of the United States "mOre than fifty years after the war; is John H. Bankhead of Alabama, who served four years in the Confederate army, as his bio- graphical sketch tells us. The "man who wore the blue' referred to is not so certainly traced. Knute Nelson of Minnesota, born in Norway, served in our Civil war as private and nOnCOm- missioned officer in a Wisconsin regi- n1ent. Nathan Golf of West Virginia served in the Union army in the Civil war as private. lieutenant ard major in a Virginia regiment. Warren of Wyoming served in a Massachusetts regiment in the Civil war. The war record of Senator Henry AlgerOn du- POnt as a Union soldier and officer oc- cupies nearly a page in the congress sional directory. Most of the men now in the United States senate were born too late for Civil war service.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
Lunch and Meals.
(Meriden JOurnal).

The interested passengers travelling up and down the Connecticut River railroad have often noticed as the trains stopped at HolYoke, a sign on a building near the track. This sign, advertising an eating house of some sort, merely says "Lunch and Meals'' and no doubt it has been the cause of much conjecture on the part of other travellers, as it has worried us, to know just how these Paper city purists diffcrentiate between a meal and a lunch.
 We wonder if it is a question of price purely, or whether 1t is the or der of service, or if it depends upon where the patron sits when he par takes of his food. For instance the proprietor might decide that if the guest paid twenty-five cents or more he was entitled to state that he had a meal. Or again the lunch patrons of the establishment might be com pelled to sit upon stools before the counter, while the moro aristOcratic mea1ers would be given tables.
 However we are inclined to think that the meal in Massachusetts is a stated function and that the manager has certain hours for breakfast, for dinner (not lunCheOn) and for sup per and those patrons who came in at other hours would have to take lunches. It is comfortable to think that this wise restauranteur decides that the guest of the house who takes soup, roast, salad, entrec and dessert has a meal, while the chap who or dered some ice cream and followed it by an order of roast beef was merely lunching.
 We should like much to know just where this man draws the line and how he explains his sign.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
The Mechanical Minister.
(B. G., in the Christian Register

(B. G., in the Christian RegiSter).
 We have heard many causes set forth for the non attendance of peo- pie at church; sometimes defiantly and again apologetically. But now we get hints of reasons for the non-at- tendance at church of the minister himself; reasons, indeed, for his non- existence. We are told that at Cal vary cemetery, in New York, funeral music by phOnOgraph is being fur nished for poor people who have heretofore been unable to afford fu- neral music at the burial of rela tives." The paragraph, quoted literally, reads further, People hereafter will be ac- commodated by specially selected hymns and appropriate orchestral music played on the talking machine"
 There are odd little suggestions in this news-item of both comedy and tragedy. Those of Us who have had experience with the sorts and condi- tions of people who cannot really "af- ford funeral music know that often they do have the music, and the flowers, and all the funeral deckings, whether they can afford them or not This is done partly from pride, as being deairous of making good
 
 bors and partly from beautiful ideal izing grief and the wish to lay a last offering before the shrine of one be- loved and departed
 But when we pass to the prosaic subject of funeral economies, we find that monograph music usually can be furnished at a much lower expendi- ture than can organ and vocal music. And, very likely, the suggestion of comedy, of humOr, which strikes us as we learn of this modern method arises largely from it's novelty, and not from anything essentially humor- ous in the method itself But as we read this neWs-item, our conjecture runs on a step father. and we ask: eff music can be furnished by a phonOgraph and be found satisfactory. then why not the minister's part in the funeral service? What about the Scripture selections? Could not they be 'ren- dcred' by a talking machine? And the prayers? Yes and the remarks, which so often are desired 2" Ccrtain- Iy, in these days. clereymen could be found who would read the Bible into a talking machine, or make remarks into 1t. or even pray into it. We have a type of minister-rather rare happtIy-vho will marry connie in a store shOW-windOw, or going 1n In balloon; such a man would s11ra1v furnish all the distinctly clerical e1n- ment in the usual marriage service. These features, when once stamped on the records together with the mus ical features already mentioned. could he used over and over again; and the personal corporeal presence of tho clergyman could be dispensed with, like that of the Organist or choir.
 The subject is a serious one al. though running closely parallel to comedy: and We incline to think that it will force itself, for good or il1 more and more on public attention
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
AN ADEQUATE NAVY.

It will not be long now before the United States secures a navy second, if not actually first, among the powers of the world Three years at the most will witness this evolution. The Senate's naval program which means great ship building activity and a campaign for more men accepted by the national House means that for once in the history of this country an adequate navy will be provided. The administration must get full credit for this work since the little navy men of both parties Wased such a war in Congress against the plan. Forum ately they were not in the majority.
 The Secretary of the Navy has taken enthu2ia stically to rhe idea of building up a greater naval force. He has promised there will be no delay. Officers and designers of ships are ready to see to it that everything is carried out in record time. Soon the designs for the contemplated battle cruisers, the greatest ships of all time, will be ready and then the work of building will commence. The Ecels of many vessels authorized for the cur rent year will be laid before the warm | months are over, a record in itself. i The significant part of the entire pro- ceedings in Congress which finally ended in this new navy bill is that the vote was non partisan. Men of both parties were in favor of it and thcro were enough of them to offset the evil influence of the little navy men.
 Every man in the nation, with the exception of that small coterie that has always proclaimed against the 1 United States possessing a heavy sea power, will rejoice that the way is paved for a greater navy. Our geo. era phcal position makes it impera tive that we should have navy equa1
 to that of any other nation on earth
 Our two great lengths of coast-line
 are ever at the mercy of a foe, unless
 there is an adequate sea force eyer
 prepared to stay the hand of in
 yasiOn. Our navy has been long
 neglected. Away back in Roosevelt's
 administration it fell from it's position of second place. Since then little
 has been done to keep it abreast ot
 the times until now, after long con-
 test in the Congress the navy seems or
 a fair way to redemption. When the present program is finished the United States Navy should again be where ii
 belongs, second in the list of navies o1
 the world. One supreme effort migh1 put it in the front rank. In either event, it will be what the people ot the country Want,-an adequate navy
New Britain herald., 1916-08-17
A Matter of Degree.
(New York Evening Post )

tNoW I |
 Somebody with nothing better to do has been looking I'D the college de- grees. bestowed upon the two candi- dates for the presidency. From this point of view the contest is by no rleans one-sided MT. Wilson has gathered only one Ph. D.. one Lit. D., but has nine IL. D's. Tn the mean time MT. Hughes who was never pres ident of anything in particular, has quietly collected II LID. S. Their running mates are almost neck and mock At present writing. MT. Mar shall is a note ahead, with five LL DIS: MT. Fairbanks has only four, but may get another any day. Com- ;ne down to the mana gers, MT. Will ccx has one I4L D., while MT. McCor- mick had to be content with per functorv M. A. Six men with 3oo ll1 D's between them. All of which proves what many independents nave maintained from the frst-the dlffer- ences between parties this year are a matter of degree. --.---