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New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
Bulgaria Great Aid
 70 Cause 0f 7euf0nS

! in the expensive essence of her won
 derful rose valleys was bound to fall off greatly.
 Most every Bulgarian is either
 farmer or 8 policeman. As pollt-
 elan, he writes, offices the army, and takes up the various professions Po-
 ltical Bulgaria lives in the little na- tion's one pretentious city, Sofia, while
 everywhere else throughout the coun-
 try stretch the little peasant holdings. About forty per cent. of the country is held as private property and about twentyfour per cent. is parish prop erty. The bulk of the holdings owned outright are held in less than one hundred acre plots. Land mag nates so prominent in the other agri- cultural nations of the world, are rarely met with among the Folk. Thrifty, well-to-do, persistent farmers, decendants of generations of farmers, make up the financial strength and the greater part of the population of Bull garia.
 "The Bulgarian peasants are as fru- gal and as careful in administering their resources as are their German Allies. Little is wasted by the peas
 ant family in display or for festival. Herein, Bulgaria contrasts strongly with her western neighbors, the Ser vians, who are a people imbued with the hedonist's philosophy or doing by ourselves as well ats our means allow The Bulgarian has not enjoyed his freedom as long as the SerVian, and his oppression at the hands of the Turks was, likely, more severe than that experienced by the SerVian, far
 ther removed from the centers of Tur kish domination. Thus, the Bull gaaian has a sterner, more repressed ] outlook upon life than his neigh hbOrs in the Balkans, and less of a demand for comfort and the joys of living. Foundations of a manufacturing industry in Bulgaria, have hardly been laid and such things as are made are largely produced in the homes of the people, who fill a great many of their needs by home manufacture. This h ome industry has lost greatly in i'm portance with an increasing stream of imported products from Austria
 Hungary, Germany and Great Brit
 ain. Where the Bulgarian peasant
 formerly made his cloth, his tools, his
 household utensils, his furniture and
 his clothes, he is now looking more
 and more to the mills and factories of
 western civilization. This has had the
 result of making his exports more and
 more important to him. As the peas
 ants demands upon civilization have
 grown, his interest in supplying his
 neighbors with the produce of his
 farms has developed nightly. There
 fore, as the Teutonic Powers and his
 neiehbor Turkey, were by far his best
 customers, he. probably, had strong
 leaning toward them, over and beyond
 such political 1eanings as may have
 influenced his governments cspousa1
 of their cause"
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
Holding Up the Baby's Bottle.
(New York Sun )

A shortage of. milk bottles, result. ing in delayed deliveries of milk or the temporary relaxation of the health regulations for it's protection, would bring home to this city acutely the SC. riousness of the freight congestion that now menaces the country. Suct a shortage impends, owing to the non. delivery of bottle consigned to the milk dealers weeks ago by the blow. CTS. These containers have beer shipped and are heldup somewhere or the lines, pending the clearing of the terminals, where thousands of cars await discharge.
 Already the industries of the coun. try are seriously hampered by non. delivery of bottles consigned to the capacity of the railroads to remove their finished products. Merchants ir all parts of the country are unable tc get the goods they need. Even tho transportation companies are suffering from lack of equipment that wait: only on their own ability to haul it tc its destination. These facts have beer known for months, but the public suf fering no immediate prIvation, has ignored them.
 But a milk famine? It would Compe drastic remedial action in day.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

Old General Carranza has made ten stroke by conforming to the wishes of this government that the United States army be permitted to use the railroads in Mexico to supply the soldiers on Villas track with necessary provisions Because of the terrible road conditions in that coun- try the army boys are having trouble of their own carting provisions from the base of supplies, El Paso, in heavy auto trucks Now the problem of transportation is solved. It was the toughest knot in General PershinG's list The First Chief could have found no better way to help the Amer ic;n troops. His action tends to show that the old man is ready to help and not hinder the punitive expedition
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions us discussed in ex- changes that come "a the Herald Office.
Joy In The lob.
(Detroit NeMS.l


 The best pickpocket in New York was taken to Sing Sing for 10~year term. He was handcuffeG 70 2 deputy who discovered the prisoner attempt" ing to lift a wallet from h!s rocket. At the end of the journey Robert Man. ming, the artistic thief, handed over to the conductor his watch.
 Here's your watch, old pal. 1 don't need It," he said.
 He was stealing on that sombre rdo into exile because ho found pleasure in the exercise of highly skill. He was stealing in the same spirit that good architect designs T beautiful building or a musician plays 8 beloved instrument or successful blacksmith shoes a horse. Manning Is called the cleverest in his profes- sion because he takes intense pride in the predatory talent by which he gained a living.
 In Manning's zeal is the pathos Of sound impulse gone wrong. His sensitive fingers and quick mind might have been trained to delicate Dlechan- ical tasks; he might have created in- stead of flched wealth For some reason, in him or outside of him, the artistic instinct, which is inherent in everyone became perverted. The moral of his spectacular "job" performed with one hand confined is for honest persons who lack joy in the job, pride in the days duty. Tc the extent that industrialism prevents the expression of that joy and pride, il needs reconstruction.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

Washington, D. C., March 30.-"Al- army which she brings to aid the cause of the Teutonic Powers is the agri- culture wealth that Bulgaria throws into the balance as an aid toward the solution of their provisioning prob lem," begins a statement given out to- day by the National Geogra phic So- ciety
 Bulgaria is essentially a farmer na- tlon; it's exports consists of it's agri- culture surpluses, and in good years these surpluses amount to very re- spectab]e quantities.
 Nearly forty per cent. of the coun- try's area is cultivated, of which three fourths is devoted to cereals, wheat Welding the largest crop and Indian corn and barley coming second and third in importance. Ten per cent. of the land is devoted to grazing, but Bulgaria has little importance in the commerce of live stock Meat prod ucts take almost no part in Bulgaria's foreign trade. although large num- bers of cattle and sheep have heen ralsed during recent years and con- siderable attention given to the inn proVement of the native breeds
 'Wheat and Indian corn are the two principal items on Rulgaria's export list. They constitute about one-haIf II of her total foreign sales. Oats, rye and barley are also raised upon the little kingdoms S farms for foreign con- sum mption. These exports of cereals, together with cGcs. altar of roses, sheeps and lambs wool. and silk worm COCOOnS make up more than seventy five per cent. of the total eX- ports. The raising of tobacco has come to be an important source of the Bulga rian farmers revenue, while, rom Austria Hungary. the sugar beet mas round it's way into the central Bal Kan kingdom, and the manufacture of beet sugar has increased rapidly
 Almost the whole of Bulgaria s foreign trade during normal times has been with those countries with whom shc is now fighting as an Ally-with Austria Hungary, Turkey and Ger many. For some strange reason. Bel gium was among Bulgaria's best GUS toners. With the exception of this last-named nation, the choice of allies made by the Bulgarians is a choice coinciding with the interest of her foreign trade in the years before the war. Bulgarian corn. tobacco. hides, forest products and cocoons found thelr best markets among the Ger man and Turkish buyers in days be- fore the war. Of course, Bulgaria $ famed product, altar of roses. was largely taken by the French, and en- loved it's own market among the bry- CTS of all the nations of the West Just such luxury product. however, would he the first to suffer by reason Of the world war. and Bulgaria's $ trade
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

House in good taste, by Elise D,
 Wolfe.
 Handbook of hospitality for towl
 and country by r. H. Hall. How to live; edited by Irving Fisher
 and E. l.. Fisk.
 Scientific, but simply presented having positive aims--to preserve health to improve the physical con ditiOn of the individual. and to in- crease his vitality."- "A. l.. A. Book list.
 Inside the house of good taste, by
 R. l.. Wright.
 Seven brief articles by different writer's"
 Manual of Medicine for nurses and
 house-mothers by G. H !Ioxie
 and P. l.. Laptad Mother and child, by F. p. Davis. Mothercraft, by Sarah Comstock. "Sound up-to- date talks, based on authorities, and written in a very popular. enthusiastic style. .''-Wis- consin Library Bulletin Nervous system and it's conservation
 by F. c. Stiles.
 "An interesting, informing book for the educated public, which gives an account of the nervous system and the principles which should govern our efforts at maintaining it's ef1icien- cy.'-A. l.. A. Booklist
 < Y New nerves for old: "Behold I make
 all things new by A. A. Carey.  Small house for a moderate income,
 by Elkin Wallick.
 Modest exteriors, simple floor plans, and we'll arranged and fur nished interiors mark the houses de- scribed and ed.'-Wisconsin Library Bulletin. Wanted, a young woman to do house.
 work, by C. Fl. Barker
 Presents an interesting solution of the servant problem by applying bus mess principles to house. work "A l.. A. Booklist. Winston cook book, planned for
 family of four, by Helen Cramp.
 Fiction. Blind mans eyes, by William Mac
 Harl and Edwin Balmer. "A clever mystery story hinged on the assault Of blind lawyer who is noted for his uncanny powers of perception. .'-Pubishers note. Bloom of youth, by D. T. Gilman "A first story by a recent graduate
 of Radcliffe. Cathedral singer, by James Lane AL 'This story is not a love story. Yet there is love of a deeply moving and q noble type in il. It has no happy
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
NON-BLOCK SYSTEM.

# all accounts, the terrible rail-
 eck which. took place at Am lshio, yesterday, resulting in the # more than thirty lives, was #in character to the appalling % that occurred only recently at N Three trains figured in each M wrecks. The block system # human equasion are again on
 E. At Amherst, two eastbound Naore trains collided and the l@avas thrown on the westbound 8 The Twentieth Century Limit < of the, fastest trains in the & smashed head-on into the S Passengers on the first sec Ethat ill-fated train affirm that 93nd section plowed into the
 bn before that section had been 6 to a full stop. By all the # the block system the second should have waited until the bared the block. It did not he thing happened at, Milford. latter place the dead engineer second, section was blamed. In 1nherst disaster the living en- |of the second section will have Ito explain as experts who eX- the safety system claim ito ound the red light, the block, ect working order. An investi-
 will probably bring out the real of this wreck, or it might be
 known. Some attribute the to the towerman, who was suf- from loss of sleep. It is a toss ether the block system or the equation is to blame. What 1e cause, there can be little ex- pr a rear-end collision. It was
 and almost impossible to see. tt event the block system was ;. If the engineer saw the sig i'd ignored it, he is to blame.
 towerman failed to give the
 he is to blame. Rather unsat- ry, the whole affair. There was ance of signaling the onrush- yentieth Century. From what is
 of this wreck, and others of 2 nature, it would look as if the
 system must be provided with
 and more efficient lights during
 nights. Something has got to 1e. The ingenuity of man has t reached its limit. If it has, e better to stop all trains from lg during periods of heavy fogs ht, and not depend on the block
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
Careless Record Keeping.
(New York Press.)

Take the records Of fires in public buildings a the national capital and you have the best argument for q hall where valuable Government records may be kept. Also investi- gate the old records in the War Department, cluttered in dark and dusty rooms; or those of the Treas ury Department. sizzling under the metal roof. in unapproachabIc scclu- sion.
 This neglect is typical of America. We are so new that past perform anCes do not appeal to us, and so busy that we have not time to thinl: of them. But if the records of the Patent Office or of the Pension OfIice should ever be lost, and if we had to face the litigation that would follow, we might awake to the need of keep ing safely records that are pretty nearly invaluable.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
EFw RULE OF EVIDENCE.

hctice and procedure in the trial #iminal cases have been long NIished by custom and ruling; but Smains for Federal Judge Car Ar of Chicago to put new light Jules of evidence in white slave He has ruled that when a is brought into court charged violation of the Mann White Act evidence as to the char of the woman in the case may ldmitted. this evidence to cover past performances. The case that |ght about such a ruling was the ecution of a millionaire under the
 e slave law brought about by a ian who had gone with him from
 state to another. When counsel
 the defense contended that the lan. was an adventures who Int to extort money from the mil aire by this means, Judge Car ter made the ruling in question.
 nee the first day the Mann White
 e Law was written on the statute ks of this country, blackmailers 3 used it for their own selfish and
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

battle-ground adventures, edited by
 Clifton Johnson.
 Eye-witnesscs' stories of John Browns raid and a dozen of the most notable battles of the Civil war, set down so far as possible just as the writer heard them from the lips of aged farmers, ex-s1aVeS, and others, regardless of station or edU- cation. who had some memory of these battles. "A. l.. A. Boolllist. Future of South America, by k. G.
 Babson.
 Tor business men. bankers, and others likewise interested, an inform ing, useful book. The reader gets an authoritative and not over glowing picture of actual conditions and opportunities "A T.. A. Book list.
 Introducing the American spirit, by B. A. Steiner. "A readable. often amusing, dc l Ecription of the writer's experiences in conducting skcptical German friends, through representative sec tions of America from New York to California. "A. l.. A. Book1ist. Invasion Of America, a fact based 3n
 the inexorablc mathematics of
 war by J. w. Muller. Law and the poor, by E. A. Parry
 "A book by an English judge de- signed to awaken his public to those abuses in English law which bear most hard on the poor Because F,,J humor, and readable, the work of one who has the imagination to look beyond "cases'' it will have use in American libraries L. X. BOOkliSt.
 Making the movics by F.. A. Dench "Reveals some of the inner work ings of motion picture making in the studio and out. . briskly told i in the vernacular addressed to the movie fan.'-A. l.. A. Booklist. New citizenship. by Percy MacKayc.
 'Dcsigned as an initiation cerc- mOny for newly naturalized citizens, but adapted to a much wider use in schools and communities. "A. l.. A. BOOklist.
 Home and Health Baby's first two years. by It. NJ.
 Smith.
 "Writtcn by an instructor of liar ward Medical school. "A. l.. A. BOOklist.
 Chemistry of food and nutrition, by
 H. C. Sherman.
 
 Food industries, text book on the
 production and manufacture of
 staple foods, by H. T. Vulte and
 $. B. Vanderbilt.
 
 Furnishing of a modest home, by F.
 II. Daniels
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
Wild Life in Texas.
Philadelphia Led ger. )

Philadelphia Ledger.)
 For some time we have been hearing 1 how. nttorly effete the west in get
 ting in comparison with the wild and l Woollv cast, where bears groWl ana 1 lambs arc shorn within sound of Holy ! Trinitv's bells It IS encouraging to know that even the babies in Texas
 are now flourishing six-shooters and their spurs jingle as they kick and l Curgle in the nurses lap. Ihey wear 1 boots instead of socks; they escheW 1 the down pillow for the leather sad l dle; they cry for pulQuc to be their 1 breakfast drink, and, instead of the l beribboned baby cap, the som brero l darkens their scoWling countcnances. Who said tht.t Bret Harte and + )ar- ing Camp are ancient history, and that
 in Wolfvilc Alfred Henry Lewis stalk ed out too large a claim on the ima- gination? The ghosts of heroes van quisRcd are dropping back in flesh and blood to take their places in the lean and silent, sun-tanncd regiments. With the 92 Texas Rangers whose motto Is Get them when you go for them kindred spirits are assembling, come to life from the pictures of Reming- ton, the pages of Wister out Of the red dust of ObliViOn-thc same vague hinterland from which many of the Rough Riders were recruited when there was need of them. It seems there are still men who are wise even to the way the chaparral cock takes as he darts through the thickets of mesquite and prickly pear and cat claw, where the soil cracks open in the sun. The breed of the old-tinle cow puncher is not extinct. Just let us get at them,' they plead, "and we will put down the ravages of saVageS' as fast as a Ranger after parching day can Gulp the waters of the Texas Crazy Spring.
 There is more in the Lone Star state than the author of that old-timc bal lad Hell in Texas" found:
 The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion
 stings,
 The mosquito delight you with bug
 zing wings; The sand burrs prevail and so do the
 ants. And those who sit down need half- !
 soles on their pants. they are no mavericks. The branding iron of border foray has burned it's way into their very souls, and they are bound that the greaSer from over the line shall nevermore come whoop- | ing and reeling down the main street pumping lead at all he sees
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
Wisconsin Pro
(NeU York Times

(NeW York TimeS.)
 It was Professor Leon Stern of Wis. consin, a patriot of the German Ali ance. who insisting on "pro- Amer. ican" Republican candidate for Presi- dent, gave a concrete illustration oj the pro Am ericanism' necessary by demanding that a certain part of tho Wisconsin delegation to Chicago should be composed of "approved German n-Americans." Two of Wis. Consin's candidates for delegate to the Republican National Convention ad. tise their pledge "to help nominate for President of the United States no' a pro -Englishman nor a pro-German, but a pro- American from head to foot, one who will stand for absolute neu- trality, and onc who will treat all na- :ions with the purest justice"
 The implication CT innucndo in these words is brought out directly:
 We also stand for mctllodl that will nationalize our people, anj therefore resent the utteranccg Of the President which tend to separate us into radical groups
 Mr. Wilson nas maGc no such Iitter- ances: as President he has stood fo, "absolute ncutr2Iity;" but our inter. est in these misrepresentation and Notifications Is the lieht they throw on pro o-Ancricanism" of the Stern va- ricty. Here is a direct appeal to tho kaiSerist enemies of M-. Wilson. We pity any Republican candidate whose credentials are based on his approved Germanism. The more opposition, the more votes he will get from Amer jeans whose only allegiance is to \ rnerica.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
The Hymns of Long Ago.
tCapper's Weekly.) )

tCapper's Weekly) There lots of music in them, the
 hymns of long ago. An when some gray haired brother sings the ones I used to know, sorter want to take hand--l think O days gone by, con Jordans stormy banks l stand and cast wistful eye" There's lots O music in em-those dear. sweet hymns of old. With visions bright of lands of light and shining streets of gold; And I hear em ringinG-singing, where Mem'ry dreaming stands, "From Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strands They seem to sing forever of hol1er' sweeter days,
 When the lilies of the love of God
 bloomed white in all the ways; And | want to hear their music from
 the old-time meetins rise, Till "I can read my title clear to
 mansions in the skies" We never needed singing books in
 them old days; we knew The words-the tunes of every one
 the dear old hymn book through:
 We didn't have no trouble then nor organs built for show; We only sang to praise the Lord
 from whom all blessings flow. An so I love the old hymns and
 when my tune shall come Before the light has left me and my
 singing lips are dumb If l can only hear 'em then, I'll pass
 without a sigh
 "To Canaan's fair and happy laud
 where my possessions lie.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

In a tactical sense the battle of Vcrduu is not yet finished. It may drag along for several weeks more. But it is clear that the positive dcci- sion at which the German high con- mand aimed cannot now be obtained. Even were Verdun to be abandoned eventually by the French, the extreme cruelty eXhausting effort needed to take it would mark the passing ot German capacity to resume another great offensive on the west front, or on any other front for months to come.--New York Tribune,
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
TORE VOTING.

hs Gsmocrats have gone
 wing. game there can De
 M the campaign is on in
 ith Mayor Quigley and
 urtis trailing each other
 sands, with noon-day front of the big factory
 itl1 a tinge of May in the
 nd the primaries less than there is a hot time in the
 It is we'll that this is so, sHa ters. may spend some time aAd solemn thought as to the #ns of the men seeking the @I1or the city can confer, the The coming election prom the one important election gd in the history of New SsVe are on the eve of a great eQr history and the man who reins of office during the years will have no child's link we'll before the votes are
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

Colonel Roosevelts private sccre
 tary John w. McGrath, who was sen- fenced yesterday to serve thirty days in the workhOuse for assault, evil dertIy does not believe there is such a thing as being too proud to fight"
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

Richard Folsom Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland has been elected president of the freshman class at Princeton. Following in his fathers footsteps.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

The history of the telephone. oo- serves the Pittsburgh Gazette-IlmcS' "reads like a story from the Ara Ian Nights" The reporter who wrote that must have been listening on a party wire.-Washing Post.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30
FACTS AND RANCHES.

"Wbat will the United States do-' asks the London Telegraph apropos Of the Sussex case. Would it not De quite appropriate to ask, "What Will tho British navy do ?''-NcW Fork World.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

The plan to win military glory for the Crown Prince at Verdun is an- parently ganging agley.-PhiladcI- phia Ledger.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

The head man in China appears to ba on occonn,odatine sOul. If the people do not want him to be emperor he is perfectly willing to serve Ihelll as president. He has no paruculd' pride of title. Ions as nc IS ielI to boss the iOb.-Fall River Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

Over in Germany they are claiming that the women are using too much cloth for gowns and yet it was only a short time ago there was a great hue and cry because skimpy skirts were causing mills to shut down Norwich Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1916-03-30

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 Elass Mail Matter.