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New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
NICARAGUAN TREATY
 WILL. BE RATIFIED
Opponents Admit Wilson Has Enough Votes to Pass Measure in
 Senate

Washington, Feb. 12.--Debate on the Nicaraguan treaty was resmued in the senate today with indications that it would be referred before arjourn- ment for the day. Opponents of the treaty admitted that President Wilson had won enough votes to command the necessary two thirds for ratifica- ton.
 Under the treaty the United States by payment of $3,OOO,000 would have an option on a Nicaraguan inter- oceanic canal route and would ac- quire a naval base in the Bay of FOn- seca. Costa Rica, San Salvador and Honduras protested that the naval base feature would violate the soVer- eighty of Honduras.
 As drawn in executive session the ratification resolution contains assur- ances to the American countries that their rights will not be violated in the esta blishment of the naval base, and voices an earnest hope for continued friendly relations. Admin istration senators believe the policy outlined will satisfy the protesting na- tiOnS
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

Washington, D. C., Feb. 12-"Nish, the third national capital to be aban- doned before the necessities of war, is one of the ancient nuclei of the Serbian nation,' says a primer on war geography just given out by the National Geographic society. Tt has been the heart of things Serbian in the Balkan peninsula, since the days when this Slav people became t he neighbors of Imperial Byzantium The other capitals which have been aban- doned in the course of the war are those of Brussels, Belgium, and Bel grade, the peace time goVernme ent center of Serbia. One other capital has been nearly menaced, Paris, which was temporarily abandoned by the French government, but successfully defended against all of it's enemy's assaults. Nish has been serving as the Serbian capital practically, since the outbreak of the war
 'This ancient city, once a promi- nent Roman stronghold, lies about 13O miles southeast of Belgrade, in the Morava valley, through which the chief European way to Constan- tinople runs It is only about 40 miles west of the Bulgarian frontier, and is defended on every hand by a com plex of rugged, lesser mountains. It Is Serbla's second city only surpass- ed in strategic and commercial inn portance by Belgrade upon the Dan ube. Owing to its position, it domin- ates the way from Europe to the Orient in war time as a fortress, i'll peace time as merchant city able to exact 8 toll upon strong currents of passing trade. Of it's importance to the Serbians, it might almost be said, that Nish and Belgrade complete town life in this kingdom, and that all the rest is rural.f@ ~ .'A'."
 Many of the principal roads of the Balkans converge here, while the path of the Oriental Express, the ex- press through from Paris. Munich and Vienna to Constantinople. passes through it's gates. Also, a branch rail way goes from here to the thriving
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

adopted a name which society would enjoy. He has married two leading society widows of wealth, legally (the first one ded) and has been right in the swim" until some nosy newspaper men began crossing his trail.
 Now if it had been discovered that Jean Harald" was a thief, that he was a libertine, or that he was a drunkard, or gambler, society would not have given it second thought. Such things are comm on in the best society,"; but to think that our imlta- ton aristocracy was hoodwinked, completely taken in, and bamboozled by a be1lboy, that is too much.
 Jean St. Cy deserves to take ms place in the national gallery reserved for our eminently successful hoax ar lists. Talent must be recognized.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
The Similarity.
est. Louis Globe-Demo ocrat.) )


 Patrick Higgins. who handles 2 Well-knovn line of cigars and ra diates good humor, likes to tell this one on certain St. Louisan. who served one term in congress:
 The new congressman happened into q barber shop and sat down in the chair of a Venerabl negro barber
 "Uncle," said the St. Louisan, "I guess you've shaved good many prominent mon in your time. haven't you?''
 "Tes, sub, I has," came the reply. "I has shaved, senatuhs and cabinet mcmba bahs and congressman who have made history, suh. Why, suh, I has used this very razuh on President Grant, suh.''
 ''I suppose you got to know some of them pretty well?" asked the con- gressman, much impressed.
 es suh. Yes, suh I did suh. [ was jes noticing something about you that's jes like President Grant. suh,"
 ''What is it. uncle? The shape of my head, I suppose" asked the flat tered St. Louisan.
 No, suh. It am your breff."
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

years abed And during all that time the optimism of Mollie Fancher never ed and instead of complaining she Whiled away a pitiful existence by writing letters of hope to downcast brothers and sisters in far off distant lands, and knitting serviceable gar ments for the poor. If there were more invalids who bore their afflic- tions with the grace and resignation of this wonderful soul, hospital work would take. on an added lustre and human nature in general would be greatly improved.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
A PAYING INVESTMENT.

Estimates approved by the school board, and recommended to the board bf finance and taxation, for adoption Bet forth items approximating more silan three hundred thousand dollars Ho be used during the scholastic year Sotal marks an increase of nearly forty Thousand dollars over the last annual outlay. The cause of this additional need IS directly attributed to the growth of New Britain as a city, with 5 he added burdens on the school sys- lem, the necessarily large addition so the teaching force, and the increase Rf salaries due to the sliding scale kysten. Again, the school plant has 8een enlarged to permit of smaller &iasses, cutting down the number of 3upils from fifty to thirty-five in one 8oom, thus assuring better individual; #ttention to the pupils, and doing away AEith overcrowding and it's attendant Evils. -..~
 I What money is expended in the &chool system of New Britain, or any Ether city, cannot be looked upon as Benefited by learning. Education is @he light of the world. When young Sainds are trained and directed along &roper channels the future is some-  Save gone all along hand in hand. It
 %, therefore, a good investment for @ny city to see to it that the youth are Educated, provided with the proper in &entive for study, given the best coun
 zpl and advice, shown why it is neces- 1 &ary to take advantage of every offer Eng in the educational field, and then l Flowed to pursue the best methods l Snder ideal conditions. This the | S,hools of New Britain are striving to l M. That they are succeeding is evi- 1 Educators rank our schools with 1 Hose of the large cities and declare 1
 bat in some departments the work 1 Ere is par excellence. The taxpayers i M New Britain will never begrudoe 1 &le additional forty thousand dollars 1 #eeded this year to carry on the work | is an investment that will reap a @undred- fold as time goes on, an in %estment whose dividends will be ,7e- #ared when the boys and girls of to- By step forth to the estate of grown # en and women.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
Humanity Forgotten!
(NeW York World.)


 The Bishop of London is beyond pounds in excusing the refusal of & traWllng skipper to rescue the crew or the wrecked Zeppelin L-19. No rescue satisfies religion or morality.
 Only the pleas of Military Necessity as read by the Imperial German Gov ernment. fits the case. A submarine commander, we are told, must sink an enemy merchantmen with her non- combatant crew even with passengers, even with women and children. if he fears that she may ram or fire upon his craft. Thus fear is officially in stalled as the motive of Schrechlich- kelt. The same fear made a British seaman resist the finest instincts of his calling tugging at his heart He could not trust foes armed and more numerous
 The Germans have skilled chival- rN, laments the revered Bishop. Slain it surely is among the com hatants. The religion of mercy is swallowed up in this conflict. Hu- manity is forgotten.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
Milwaukee A TeutOnic City.
Providence Journal.)


 Milwaukee, where extra precautions were taken to insure President Will sons safety when he made his speech there the other day, has a larger pro- portion of German inha abitants than any other large American city. :. Of it's 373;s57 inhabitants in 1910, 111,529 were born in foreign countries, and of the latter, 64,S16-considera more than one-half were born in Ger many. Of the remainder, IT, ,124 were natives of Austria-Hungary. This makes nearly three-fourths of the city's foreign born population natives of the countries of the Teutonic Al lies.
 The preponderance of the German element in Milwaukees population is more apparent, however, in the par entage statistics. Only 79,871-but little more than one-ffth-of the city's people in 1910 were of native parentage, while 199,922 were of Ger man orlgin--natives of Germany and the children born here whose parents were born in Germany Adding the 24,57O of Austro- Hungarian parent age, it is found that PA, 4,492 of Mil Waukee's 373,S57 inhabitants are natives or the children of natives of the two Central Powers, while the na- uNe element and those Of foreign origin, other than from Germany and Austria, number altogether only 149365
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

To this end they would be guided by his doctrines would shape their lives to live as Americans should live, as Abra ham Lincoln wanted them to live, as he saw they must live if the nation would survive.
 That America became united ma ton is directly attributed to the won derful influence of Abraham Lincoln. Because of his precepts, where once was all division today friends and foes stand forth as staunch supporters. In the South, where the name of Lincoln was the embodiment of all that stood for baseness and meanness, he is looked upon after fifty years as the savior and redeemer of the Union, brave enough to follow the dictates of clear vision that saw down the path of the future, and saw in no un mistakable terms. That is the Lin coin that America looks up to now; the man who died with no words of praise ringing in his ears, but with misses and stinging rebukes from his countrymen
 With all the words of praise poured out in memory of our martyr Presi- dent on this the anniversary of his birth, with all the wonderful ad- dresses in his memory, it is difficult to. realize he received in the flesh naught but cynical criticism. Every true American should spend part of this day in meditation upon the life and career of Abraham Lincoln. Therein may be derived doctrines of purity, prudence, patience and patriot ism. Every man born on a foreign and who has come to this country to escape oppression, should make it his duty to follow the footsteps of Abra- ham Lincoln, the poor boy born in a log cabin. The very mention of Lin coln's name should bring forth lively thoughts on the wonderful pOssbili- ties that await the struggler in Amer ica if he but hew straight to the Inc And, best of all,. may be recalled the great kindliness and sympathy which marked Lincolns nature. Especially at this time when men are in fever heat over questions which should not be allowed to occupy so much atten- tion, when the interests of foreign nations are sometimes placed above the duties of American citizenship when the brotherhood of man is rapid y undergoing disintegration, when race hatred is being stirred up it is we'll to recall how Lincoln wedged his way, With malice toward none; with charity for all"
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
College Courses.
(Waterbury DemOcrat.)

dI.)
 Colleges are coming out of their shells. They are trying to last to bring higher education to the people. Instead of standing aioof in academic eXclusiveness they are recognizing g their duty to their communities They care less about turning out a few scholars and more about raising the general level of intelligence. Harvard is good example of the new ten dency. President Lowell announces that the university will hereafter give any college course that is desired by any thirty persons living within the Boston metropolitan district. It doesn't matter what the social or edu cational status of the applicants may be. If thirty people Agree that they want Harvard to teach them mineral ogy or Assyriology or geometry or Spanish or Victorian poetry or sh ort story writing or business law. Har- ward will get on the job. And liar yard won't lose anything by it, except perhaps a little academic dignity that's better lost anyway.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
WOMAN AND HER STYLES.

It is presumed, upon the absence of reliable authority that even in the days of Mother Eve some attention was paid by Father Adam to the par ticular mode in which she attired her self And so the custom of men scrutinizing Women's dress has cCme down to the present day until it found climax in a bill introduced in the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia which sought to prohibit lovely woman from making her ap pearance in public wearing skirt higher than four inches from the ground and a bodice exposing moro than three inches of chest or back. Further, these garments were to be absolutely opaque. No transparent translucent, or diaph onous gowns al defeated, as defeated it should be. Who are these men of Virginia that they should decree what should be 1 worn by woman and how she should 1 adorn herself? Gallant gentlemen
 
 l though they are they have gone out of l their province when they resort to l tape measure and rule as applied to l the length of skirt to be worn by the ! female of the species or how much
 neck, collar-bone, chest or under | pinning she may expose
 The styles of women are as change l able as the winds of Heaven. But as | we have watched them evolve from i the old time dresses of long ago to the pert and dapper little draperies that
 milady wears today, we have no fault l to find Surely the woman of 1916 | is a more finished specimen of stylish and modish attire than her sister of, 1 say, twenty years ago. In those old ! days of the lego mutton sleeves and
 long flowing skirts, with high necked
 woman was not onc-half as lovely as
 she is today. Shoes, skirts, waists ] hats, all, everything, are just what l they should be. They make the mod l ! ness-likc woman; yet none the less a
 real parcel of femininity. And if she
 has charms why not let her displa y
 them? Surely 8 curve cunningly be-
 disaster upon the human race, as
 many suppose. Let her expose hel
 neck with it's velvety and plush like
 softness. Let her exhibit an ankle l encased in silk. Have a heart ye 1 Legislators who would rob the faireSt
 of the fair of their daintiest charms
 and make them as nuns in the
 c1oistert Without women and theil
 stiles there would be no merriness ] in this merry o-round of life.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE
 WITH CHARITY FOR ALL"

Looking back over the great ex- bnse of years that separates us from De time of the Great Emancipator, |mericans are prone to forget that be martyr Lincoln was not then pie bred in the same frame he is today. lis was a life filled with trials and On all sides he received Rbuse and calumny His every deed las attributed to some sinister mo- I've; his every act criticised. Yet he Sraved the storm, sacrificed his life kcause of his principles, and lived Ss doctrine with malice toward none 5ad charity for all.
 Today the name of Abraham lincoln is carved deep in every Amer an heart, typifying the spirit of 4nerica, 8 government of the people, z, the people, and for the people. Ind on this particular anniversary of zs birth there exists in the nation zuch the same condition of division #aL I1ldIhGu HIS SIct III ''S W ii'I anuse at a time when the country, brth and south, was as a house divid S against itself The difference is Rat where more than half a Antury ago men of America were in Ever heat over internal conditions, $pw they allow outside influences to &Nay them; a Veritable civil war is #aged because of a foreign struggle. & ere Lincoln alive today and in the # hite House he would be face to # ce with much the same problems
 at surrounded him there in the be- = inning of the sixty's. He would
 Eactice and preach the same doc
 ines. And they would apply today
 st as well as they did in his time
 en would hear and heed them as re # ctantly, would pick flaws in every Ford he uttered, cast slurs and heaI & &dignation upon him, and might ever
 Be up and assassinate him, as was &,ne before Then, after lapse o1
 bother fifty years. when the heat o1
 @ument had cooled and the natior
 titled down to peace and content mer #ould remember and recall the prin #pIes of Lincoln and hail him as the
 -eatest American who ever lived
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
Each His Own Ice Man.
(NeW York Tribune.)

Without buying ice in winter the refrigerator may be kept chilled by this scheme. Set a pail of water out side to freeze. It is not necessary to have it freeze solid. When the ice has formed put the pail in the ice com partment of the refrigerator. To pre- vent a pail from bursting in case the water should freeze solidly, place 8 small stick in it. The ice will crack and rise up around the stick instead of bursting the vessel.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
Joseph H. Edward St. Cyr.
(New Haven Union)

Jean Harald Edward St Cyr is said to be none other than Jack" Thomp- son the bellhop, newsboy. chorus man and former soda fountain mixer from Waco, TeXas.H
 Society is mortified at tht exposure fin it's midst but the exposure puts the laugh on society and not on "Jack." Any mans name is what he calls himself and Jack" simply de- cided to marry money and mingle with the elite. To make the plunge he
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
HARMONY NOW FOR
 DEFENSE PROBLEMS
Garrison's Resignation Brings House Committee Closer Together

Washington. Feb. 12.-A new note of harmony and cooperation on na- tional defense problems was struck i'll the House military committees yesterday as q direct result of the resignation of Secretary Garrison of the war department. It found eX- preSsion in the adoption of resolu- tion declaring the committees ap- preciation of the confidence President Wilson reposed in it and in the Sen ate committee, as disclosed in his. correspondence with MT. Garrison. The non partisan character of the feeling was emphasized by the fact that tho resolution was offered by Representative Kahn of California, ranking republican member of the committee.
 Members of both the congressional committee declared that the war secs retary's withdrawal had brought out sharply the Presidents desire that Congress should work out it's army problems in the light of its own best Judgment, despite his personal pre- ference for the continental army scheme advocated by MT. Garrison and the army war college. The net result. they agreed, was a clarifica- lion of the congressional atmosphere and the assurance of support for the bills that will be drafted from elez ments of both the democratic and republican sides that had heretofore been counted against the measures.
 Substitute For Continental Army.
 In substance, it is believed, the bills will represent an effort to. make ef- fective virtually all of the plans of the war department with the ex- ception that Liberalization of the national guard will be sought as a substitute for the continental army plan.
 Final steps toward beginning the drafting of the measures were taken yesterday by both House and Senate committees. Both will take up the work Monday and it is planned to held au-day sessions whenever the business of the two houses will per- init.
 Public Hearings End,
 The House committee brought to a close yesterday public hearings on army plans and ordered an elaborate index on the voluminous testimony prepared, so there would be as little delay as possible either in commit tee consideration or the coming struggle on the floor. Similar steps were taken by the Senate committee.
 Present indications are that the House bill will lay its stress upon provisions designed to federalize the national guard, while the Senate committees main effort will go into the regular army angles of prepared ness plans. The final measures sent to the President for his signature will be a compromise, it is thought. each house being willing to accept the Judgment of the other to large extent In its own particular field.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
The Loyal Foreign Language Press
(New York World

careful study made by the World
 and printed yesterday should forever set at rest. the charge that in the present world crisis the foreign lan- guage press is the agent of disloyalty to American ideals, policies or institu- tions. It is quite the opposite; it is
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12
FACTS AND RANCHES.

In a Connecticut town high school for girls a washer-Woman class mas been introduced. To make the lnno- Vation complete, fire building ana Wood-Chopping course should pc Hl- trOduCad in the boys school.--Bdltl- more American.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

There was recorded in the press of yesterday the death in New York of Miss Mollie Fancher, a helpless in valid who had spent more than city
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

spends more on autOmoblles anu chewing gum than on its navy. Ina maye be true but perhaps the Onl'eu States gets more out of the autohlo bile and the chewing gum than It does out of it's navy. The automobile is quite useful for defense and the advantage of chewing gum over the submarine is that you can't stick the submarine under the edge of the chair when you are not using it, WatcrtoWn Times
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

led daily Sunday eXccpted) at 4;15 D. m
 at Herald Building, 61 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

All these elaborate and costly ar engagements for a hand-picked pro- gressvc party convention at Chicago next June are simply to preserve all organizat tion that will not anna lgamate, because amalganation would mean the end of trading, and trading Wlth republicanism is what Bull MoOselsm must subsist upon now that it has lost it's votes All of which goes to show it is not the republican party which should worry over the sltua- tion.-Brooklyn Standard-U Union.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

All true subjects of the government of the United States. including those of foreign birth. and especially those of German birth who have chosen to live under that government and en- joy the privileges of freedom and equality, ought to desire to defeat of that imperial power which has made a Prussian aUtOcTacy of the govern ment of the German people. Real American pathics can only be on the side of the Allies in this conflict, not from any feeling of hostility or antipathy or of dislike toward Ger mans or nation of Germans as such, but bccau use the government which they have endured for forty years is the very antithesis of that which Americans believe in, and is a peril to all free government and to the future peace of the nations of the world. The triumph of the Allies is the only means of putting a stop to that and promoting SOvernme ent by the people, for the people. That is as much to be desired for the sak of Germany as for France or Great
 Britain or Russia, and it would mean a triumph for the institutions of the United StatcS-NeW York Journal of Commerce.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

In letter published in The Tribune Colonel Roosevelt, does tardy jus tice to New England and Princeton worthy. He admits that there wasn't a particle of the mOllycOddlc about" Jonathan Edwards. Possibly this truth has been dimly suspected by others, but it's authoritative dis cOvery and proclamation were re- served for the SagamoTe Hill savant. There wasn't a particle of the molly Coddlc about q great Presbyterian m eta physicians theology; and yet the colonel "doesn't agree With' it. But the man is more than his writings, and it is a notable posthumous honor to have won the appreciation of our most renowned eclectic scholar and politician-NeW York Times
New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

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New Britain herald., 1916-02-12

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