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New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Lost To the Race. (StamfOrt Advocate.)

After all the greatest of the war losses consists in the slaughter of so many thousands of men in their young manhood or in the prime of active life, a goodly number of whom might have become of unmeasurable but great value to their fellow men. Says the Sun: "The race has lost in Europe during the past year poten- tialties invaluable to it's future to degree far beyond the power of the most expert statstician to estimate. Killed in battle have been the geniuses of the next generation, the poets, musicians, playWrights, scieA- lists, the young men with creative imaginations, destined, had not war supervened, to throw the light of their inspiration upon the darkness that forever menaces civilization. o, the pity of it, Iago!' Were this really an enlightened world, the nations, with out changing their comparative nu- neral strength in war, would send their old men, not their striplings, to the battlefield. Youthful genius, with it's golden tasks undone, perishes in the trenches while gray boards, who have fulfilled their mission on earth remain to muddle the work that it DelOHsed lo lle SlIteu young 1neu o dc. o mourn for Adonis-he is dead!' He who was to sing the songs of tom orrow, to paint it's pictures, to advance it's scientific research, to compose it's music, to write it's books, has been sacrificed to the Moloch who destroys without making distinc- ton, both the prince and the pauper, the hero and the coward and the pauper, the hero and the coward, the genius and the clOd."
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
How Business Expands and How It Is
 Restricted.
Washington Post.

The railway companies of the Unit ed States are beginning to appre- ciate the iron and steel situation and their own urgent needs for immense quantities of rails and other construc- tion materials as well as for more equipment, facing as they are the greatest freight movement that this country has ever had.
 Delay in placing orders now by the railway companies means great en- barrasment and much loss of traffic later on.
 The material and equipment com- panieS are no longer the Suppliants for orders The shoe is on the other foot now, and the railway companies will soon be begging the acceptance of orders, at higher prices and pro- longed deliveries.
 The Louisville and Nashville placed an order this past week fo" 43,OOO tons of steel rails; the Atlantic Coast Line ordered 10000 tons and the Santa Fe 30,000 tons, all for 1916 de- livery. It is stated that the Harri- man roads are in the market for 5O,- 900 to 6O,O00 tons, and that it is very probable the orders for their require ments will be placed this present week.
 The outputs of the auto vehicle manufacturing companies for the past twelve months are said to have reached the value of $5OO,OOO,O0O, most marvellous growth for an in dustry that is not 20 years in exist ence. Immense tOnnages of steel and iron have gone into this indus try, hundreds of thousands of persons find profitable employment in it, and with the prospect of an increase of fully 50 per cent. in the number of vehicles to be manufactured in the next twelve months it will be seen what an important factor, what driving business force, is this modern industry.
 The agricultural reports have never been equalled as to prosper ous showings in those districts. The cotton planters of the South are the only ones suffering badly now, but they, and all other agriculturists, all other mineral producers, many others interested in industries of the United States, now anXiOusly look to the United States government to open to them the foreign markets they are en- titled to.
 What an unparalleled prosperity WOulu De lIldL or our people today If the illegal British blockade was de- clared void by our government, and the infamous British orders in coun- cil were defied by those in official charge of the interests of the people of the United States! Restore to our people the markets they are just ly entitled to as citizens of an inde- pendent nation, and our balance of trade would be increased $500, ,0OO,- 900 in the present fiscal year.
 With weary hearts and patience almost exhausted the people of the United States await vigorous action from our government to restore their national right to freedom of the seas Words, words, words have their use and their places, but it is freedom for our commerce that our people look for and the action necessary to restore it to them.
 The country is enjoying a great prosperity, but that prosperity is linn ited and reduced by unjust orders rules, exactions of the allied nations and that prosperity which our na-
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

tional rights entitle them to our peo- pie desire to possess.
 The business of this country, great as it is, would be 25 per cent. great CT than it is today but for the vio- lation of our rights to freedom of the seas by the allies of Europe.
 Remove these illegal restrictions placed upon our commerce by the al- lies and East, West, North and South will, one and all, have record breaking business transactions through supplying the demands of the neutral countries
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

Great Britain plans that the out- come or the present war shall be the strengthening of Great Britain's grin upon the mastery of the seas, If we presume to contest that mastery, We may properly, and very wisely indeed. adequately prepare to protect our selves, or subject our country to such restraint and humiliation as Great Britain expects to apply to German shipping, German foreign trade and Germany, if she can.-New York Mail
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
GVANTED.-AN AMENDMENT.

|here has been already one very Id amendment made to the Mann lite Slave Act and from present in btions it is time to make another. uncovering of a system of or
 |ized blackmail in New York has Eed to bring forth discussion on
 subject and while people are not |ne to extend much sympathy to
 Ee ensnared by the diabolical Eous to see the criminal get his
 deserts. And they do not want
 |dits and bullies of this sort placed
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
Importance of Education.
(New York AmericanD

1 1 The very old and very foolish say. 1 ing, "A little knowledge is a danger. ! ous thing" is disproved every day Whenever you hear a man talk about 1 "a little knowledge" ask him what he thinks about the danger of q ! great deal of ignorance Tell hin this: The Schooling of Abraham Lincoln, all told, did not amount tc ! as much one year." l The teaching was elementary. in. ; cluding reading, writing, ciphering and very little of each one. It was picked up at odd times, when he could | De spared from daily labor. Remem. Der that when he was lad his father used to hire him out to work on othe: ] mems farms for very little money. With that little learning he built hlmself up into one of the greatest men Tn history, saved the nation, end- i ed once and for all civilized recogni- tion of slavery.
 A little learning might possibly have been dangerous had he been one of the idiotic kind of men. It might have made him feel dissatisfied with the hard labor for which he was fit. Without stimulating him to better things
 But Lincoln's little learning gave him no rest-it kept him constantly adding more learning to his little SUD- ply.
 Ihe self-pltying young man who thinks he has no chance may be in terested in Lincoln's methods of get ting ahead. He walked about twenty miles through the wilderness to bor- row an English grammar He could get no other books, she read and re- read the statutes of Indiana. He y-ant- ed to each himself to write we'll and think closely. He had never heard Bacon's saying: Writing maketh an exact man." but he felt the truth of the fact for himself, and he was bound to write. He had no paper and could not afford to buy any
 At night when his work was done. he would bend his huge six-foot-four frame close down by the firelight to write and Chlper on the back of a wooden shovel.
 When the back of the shovel WAS covered with writing he would shave a thin layer from it and becln writ ing once more.
 1t is very useful thing for men occasionally to feel ashamed of them
 
 of yourself, if you are complaining and whining, just picture to yourself Abraham Lincoln in his fathers little hut, with no windows and no floor ing. crouching by the fire .lnd devel- opinG his mind by laborious writing on the back of a wooden shovel
 Children of twelve in schools, pre- cOcioCs little girls even of seven ol eight, know much more than Abra- ham Lincoln knew when he was twen- ty-One years old.
 With his little knowledge" ne grew and did the work that was to improve the condition of millions of men.
 Don't be ashamed of your little knowledge"
 But do be ashamed if you do not add to it whenever you can, and es- pecially if you fail to make it use full to your fellow-men.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
\ Continental Army.
(W ashingtOn Post. )

Here and there a note of criticism is heard against the plan for a con- tinental reserve army. Friends of the national guard in various States seem to be afraid that the proposed con- tinental force will supersede the na- tiOnal guard.
 For national purposes it would not be a great misfortune if this fear should become a reality.
 The national guard is as poor a makeshift for a national army as
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

Colonel Roosevelt was coming to Connecticut We learn, to pour oil on the troubled republican waters He might have found this hard nut meg to crack.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

As God is wise and just, I do not believe that Theodore Roosevelt will ever come back. Louisville Courier Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

William Waldorf Astor has been promoted to the peerage with permis- sion to pay himself an extremely large salary to support the dignity.-Chi- cagO Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

The birds that have the courage to stay with us all winter should surely be treated pitably.--Norwich Rec ord
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

So far the Allies have not boasted that they have the Austrian submarine fleet bottled up in the Mediterranean. Boston Record.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

Kissing is said to be one chief cause of the alarming spread of the grip. However, that is no reason why we should regard a man with suspicion because he has the grip.-Providence Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15
FACTS AND RANCHES.

War is no respector of honeymO Oons. Syracuse POst-Standard
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

After charity has covered a multi tude of sins the sinner ought to let them stay covered.-Memphis Com mercial Appeal.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

Isn't it funny how many women there are who are never suspected of being in society until they get ar rested for something g?-Indianapolis Star
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

They've been fighting on Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa. There are mighty few spots in this world the war hasn't bloodied. You live in one of them.-Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

The first five years will be hard
 est was the reply of a British sol dier to German inquirer during a lull in the fghting.-New Haven Union.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

this eNper1enCe, It may come to yOu in the near future, and then you will f;y with me, let us play fair with the GOctOr.
 A PATIENT WHO BELIEVES
 IN THE GOLDEN RULE.
 FACTS AND RANCHES.
 War is no respector of honeymoon Syracuse Post-Standard.
 As God is wise and just, I do not believe that Theodore Roosevelt will ever come back. Louisville Courier Journal.
 The birds that have the courage to stay with us all winter should surely be treated tably.--Norwich Rec ord.
 William Waldorf Astor has been promoted to the peerage with permis- sion to pay himself an extremely large salary to support the dignity.-Chi- cago Herald.
 So far the Allies have not boasted that they have the Austrian submarine fleet bottled up in the Mediterranean. Boston Record.
 Kissing is said to be one chief cause of the alarming spread of the grip. However, that is no reason why we should regard a man with suspicion because he has the grip.-Providence Journal.
 They've been fighting on Lake in Central Africa. There are mighty few spots in this world the war hasn't bloodied. You live in one of them.-Hartford Times.
 After charity has covered a multi tude' of sins the sinner ought to let them stay covered.-Memphis Com- mercial Appeal.
 Isn't it funny how many women there are who are never suspected of being in society until they get ar rested for omething g?-Indianapolis Star.
 The first five years will be hard est was the reply of a British sol dler to German inquirer during lull in the fighting.-New Haven Union.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

tered at the Post Office at New Brleaip
 as Second Glass Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-15

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
BIRTHDAYSTODAY

John y. Carly. electrical engineer and
inventor who ha> extended the range Of the
telephone across the American continent
and bridged the ocean with the human
voice from Virginia 10 Paris. J. 81 years
old today. When the first wireless tele-
phone message ~panned the continent, II
was Carly who received II nj Mare Island.
California; lie did not claim to he the
inventor Of the device. bat it was an engi-
neering feat directly under hi charge. and
the American public i in the habit Of
crediting the directing brains. II was
Carty's inventions and appliances that
made possible the first cross country wire
conversation last year. Carly j. known n
the foremost telephone engineer in the
world, and he has been honored bv for
cign government, and American societies
Of learning. He was born III Cambridge.
Mass, April IA, 1861, and entered tcle-
phone work Just a Bells great invention
was being turned from a toy into a prac-
teal utility. Carly improved the primi-
tive switchboard. He built and installed
the first multiple switchboard III America,
at Boston, and originated the modern
switchboard. Carly became I'M engineer
for the Bell system, and he extracted the
agony" from the telephone when he re-
moved the annoying disturbances that in
~tertered with speech. Carly planned the
present New York City telephone system.
and installed it piece by piece without
breaking the service. Carly H. self edu-
Gated and i deeply interested in industrial
efficiency OF boys. lie wants every boy to
have z chance. and gives much attention
~ aiding the organizations. that are work
ing for boys. He H. modest and retiring.
and through all his great successes has
kept IN the background. But he d. now
known a. the wizard Of the wires
throughout the scientific world.
Hon. Martin u. B~rumbaugh. governor of
Pennsylvania, ~ years old today.
Prince Alexander OF Tcck. who ~ slated
t. succeed the itkc OF Connaught i'm Cam
ada a the end If the war. l. today.
Hon. Nelson +. Matthews, congressman
from OHIO, 81 years old today.
Henry w. Hodge, famous American
bridge builder. III years old today.
Rt. Rev. Elijah n. IIoS-. bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church. South. Okla
homa. 81 years old today.
Hon. Adam T.. Littlepage. congressman
from West Virginia. 81 years Old today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
Veteran OF Mexican
War Dies AT Laredo

LAREDO. Texas. April l+.-John Ne
Mahon- 40 year~ old. a native 81 New
York. but who had lived in this section NJ
Texas ~lnce o year of age. veteran Of the
Mexican and civil war. and noted from
tier~man. died ~ vi, home here WedneS-
day A. d boy vi II years during the
Mevican war he Joined the noted "imu--
tang gray~" IT HAYS regiment and fought
throughout that campaign. Daring the
civil war he wa with the Confederacv In
several big battles. IT. spent many year~
III Corpus Christi and VT late years had
been w the rauchlng h~u~inc-. along the
Rio Grlude border between herr and
Brownsville Daring the past two wears
Ee bad made hiS home III Laredo and buriaI
viii be made here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
II a Woman Can, a Man Can.

\ few days since We heard a man loudly
eSpou~Ing the idea that n man can not
purcha-e a home nowadays and pay for
II. Perhaps not, but n woman can. In
Comanche county there lives q widow
whose husband dying a few wears ago.
left her facing q debt Of 500 on 4 small
farm, and her children too small to help.
She also faced a heavy doctors bill and
funeral expenses. That woman has lived
and asked favors of none. Schooled.
clothed and fed her family during the re-
cent hard times. She has paid every cent
she owed when IL came due and last week
paid her last land note. She IL Just Il
PLAIN. good woman, with plenty OF grit.
energy and good sense. If she can do this
there = no reason justitiable beneath the
deep blue dome OF heaven why n man can
not mean that We are being ''done" in oil.
weaker sex i. the -tronger.-Comanchc
Chief.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
The Right Kind of Citizen.

IN The Times of Yesterday there an
peared on the front page the gi~t of an
address by Charles II. Flato .Jr. of Kings
VILE ia the Lumbermen'> Association If
Texas, IN convention al Dallas. The ar
ticle was received from the Associated
Press. 81 which The Times j. a.mrmbcr.
u wasn't 2 talk upon lumber that Mr..
flato gave 10 hi auditors: il wasn't a dis
cu>>icn ot freight rates. prices. etc. but
" was a talk about my town. and when
Nj. flato was telling Of Kingsville he
didnt ~tuttcr for n oment. II wa, 4
resident Of king>ville that was speakipp.
me kr1d OF a man who makes cities grow
from the desert prairie Of The va: State
90 texas. II wa n town and citv builder
that told that a~~rmbIaer from Am over
ne late hal he was from Kinc~yille. and
that hIngsville, while not ~ large n. DIAL
Ia nor Houston. nor Fort Worth and
many other cities. was the center 81 the
earth, % To speak. That's the Kind IF
man ~ nave IN q community and kingsviIle
= - be congratulated upon having r. on.
81 IL citizens Charles III. FIato .Jr-
Corpus Christi Times.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14

When Your wife asks YOU for 10 cents,
make such a fuss about 1t that she will
think YOU are the injured party and will
beg Your forgiveness with tears in her
eyes. Then put on Your hat and 20 down
town and buy yourself four or five III
cent drinks. asking the bartender to have
one with You every time, and smoke sew
eral expensive cigars.
When yon buy an automobile get q ~
one and then spend 500 a week on it for
repairs at the garage.
Always buy - cent shirts, two or three
of them every week, wear them once and
throw them away.
Rent a house on the outskirts Of the city.
because 1t l. cheap. and then spend the Diff
ference and some more IN ear fare foT
yourself and family.
Go without ovcr>h0cs and save 81 and
then have pneumonia and spend SOS IN
doctors bills.
Buy your good, of Il mail order house
and then buy them over again ut home.
Hire Il - man to fill a $40 job and then
spend your time correcting the mistake
Brooklyn Eagle.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
Judd Lewis Executed"

We are beng exccutcd-lIere, Here ,
Restrain Your wild enthusiastically we
were about to say when You in~tcrruptcd
". we are bcng executed IN oil. That doe,
not mean FIAT We ar being done IN oil.
not m tll> neck of the woods where every
one one meets has enough oil stock to
paper the Mammoth Cave with. What j.,
happening "a uS i that our-as the Chart
ably inclined might call them-fcatures
are being lImned upon canvas ~ a fanou,
artist to be gazed NJ and wondered at. and
IL 20 Sinking down the corridors of time
10 the eternal discontinue of Mona Lisa.
When II comes 10 ba~hfuIne~> and back
wardnc~S W. have cot the well known
shrinking violet backed into \ corner and
stepped upon. hut We hope we may he per
united 10 call attention to the fact that
two other so-called fuccS sputtcr abont
"n The Page occasionally. but onlv one
p,~~c~>cd the pulchritudino~itv. ~ one
Iught say. To attract the attention III thi,
great artl-t.-Judd Lewis in Houston Post.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
HUSBAND AND WIFE BOTH
SAVED FROM SUFFERING

wish to tell Nuu the good result my
self and husband received from Dr. XII
mer'~ SWamp-Rout About eleven wears
ago had y severe attack ~ IA grippe and
was confined w nv bed about eight week.
under the doctor care. lIc pronounced
my cast kidney trouble and rheumatism
and not receiving the results from the
doctor treatment ] should have received.
! decided to try Swamp Root. After tax
ing several BOTTLES ot Swamp-Ruot I was
able 10 gct up and attend tp my work.
About Y wear later mv husband was ar-
iccicd with 2 severe attack uf kidney truu-
bic and docturcd for some tune with the
doctor and received wv benefit. Knowing
NJ the good had received. wv decided WY
try swamp Root. lii condition wa- such
that hc was confined tu hi- bed and word
can not tell how hc suffered. but after
taking Swamp-R Root hc was relieved ~o hc
could ~ w with hi~ work without PAIN.
! wish ~ heartily recommend swamp Root
to all persons afflicted with kidney and
bladder truuhle- and Won may publish this
letter M YOU wish. Your truly.
MRS. g. T.. BRIGGS.
Eldrcd. r..
Sworn ANA subscribed WV before wv.
this twenty fifth day of Man, 1912.
IRA MCCARTHY. Notary Public.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-04-14
Patriotism.

None II the many stories that como 60
mind out If this war appeals 10 me more
than that of Capt. Francis Grcnfcll. lie
guns ut Mons.
We were walking one day on ground
overlooking the valley of the Thames.
and he stretched his hand ont toward
The sweep II green fields and the hedges
and Woodland cut by the silver thread
81 the river. and said:
That i what we are fighting for.
Think of what England has lone for me.
| ought IL do all ! can for her"
tile was recovering from a wound nj
the time. and h. remarked that prob
ably he would get it, when h. returned
IN the front. and h. did We went into
the library of the house where he was
STAYING. and he showed me n diary that
he had written ON the retreat froIa Mons
and through the fighting on the Aisne
and again at Yprcs. However tired every
night he had a.; down a few lines Of the
days happenings. AMI more. than once
drurrctl the passage: iii am glad to ~
this fer England. o~ imply For En-
gland" 81
There was something eloquent in the
pages Of that little book. The man was
fine because of the absolute submission
If self to I'm obicct-hiS country'>. He
was finer because this was written ST.
creflv in his diary. His patriotism was
not for parade. 1t was in his blood. Real
preparedness includes such patriotism
II cannot exist with \ hyphen ~ II.
America must h. able 10 say: For
America" We must think ii. whether
marching. drilling fighting. or voting
If We wish f. make the NEST If oar caun-
Try. Saving For America" does net mean
That you are going 10 win.-Frc,lcrick
Palmer in Golfers Weekly.