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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-05
Chinneys Will Go

Here is where the factor figure-40 watts
puts in an appearance. The total area thus ar
rived at is multiplied by 40. This figure is now
divided by 1000 giving the maximum number
of kilowatt hours for which five cents must be
paid before the recent rate is effective.
To illustrate and simplify the rate, Rhodes
furnishes dimensions of typical five-room bun
galow. The working space area is 486 square
feet and the idle space $50 feet. One half the
idle space, 100 feet, added to 486, gives 666.
Multiplied by the factor figure of 49, this gives
26,640 watt-hours, which, divided by 1000,
equals 266 kilowatt- hours.
Thus the occupant would pay five cents for
the first q kilowatts used in month"; or ST.. 50,
and one cent for all above that He could use
twice his present normal consumption of cleo
tricity, and his months bill would be just q
cents higher than at present.
Preliminary experiments have proved that
Tacoma housewives can cook by electricity un-
der the new rate for one half what it costs for
gas, according to Rhodes.
1T will not be many MONTHS" declared
Rhodes, before city light will be formidable
competitor of the gas company and the fuel
dealers
GAS soon as the public realizes the practical
economy and cleanliness of electric fuel you will
see chimneys disappear from Tacoma homes"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-05

We have an idea that if Louis
Bean took long rides on his own
street cars to and from work that
they would be better heated. Louis,
you know, rides in au auto. If you
want the heat anyway, phone him.
Main 1855 when he's at work;
Main 6760 when he's at home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-01-05

year!
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

Perhaps the best single course book for a course in elementary agri- culture. "A. l.. A. Bookllst. The Apple, by A. F. Wilkinson.
 "An excellent treatise covering fully the whole matter of the latest modern practices of apple culture. "A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Farm structures by K. J. T. Ekblaw. Mushroom growing, by B. M. Dugear. My growing garden, by J. H. McFar-
 land.
 "A chatty, familiar, attractively il- lustrated record of the authors suc- cess in transforming rundown house and two acres of abandoned vineyard, in five years time, into a charming garden home. "A. l.. A. BookIiSt.
 Sweet corn, by A. E. Wilkinson.
 Discusses planting, cultivation, harvesting, varieties, insects and dis eases, and other topics."-A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Fiction. Battle months of George Daurella, by
 B. M. Dix.
 Carfrae's comedy, by Gladys Parrish
 '"The authors first book, unexpect- ed1y novel, which was we'll received in England and which exhibits better workmanship that most initial per- fcrmances "A. l.. A. Booklist. Come out of the kitchen! by Mrs.
 Alice D. Miller.
 "An entertaining tale of how a most eligible young man rented beauti- full southern house for the hunting season, stipulating that he must have four servants who belonged to it. A. l.. A.. Boollist. Gibby of Clamshell Alley, by J. S.
 Van Dresser.
 Heir of Duncaron, by Amy McLaren. Only Anne, by Isabel c. Clarke. This way out. by A. M. ShoH.
 Mild mystery stories, in which a woman detective figures. "A. L. A. Booklist. When Carey came to town, by E. B. Delano.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
America's Most Original Club.

writer ir ''The American Maga- zine'' says:
 There exists in one of our great Western cities a unique secret club, called by the members the Get Out and Get-On Club. It was organized seventeen years ago by ten ambitious men who looked upon themselves as not yet having won success. Mem pershlp for twelve years has been limited to fifty. The rules are what makes this club different. No mem- per may call himself a success until the club votes him one, and when the clup votes any member a success he IS expelled and his place is filled by another. But before success is eX- pelled dinner is given in his honor ana to welcome the new member. At thls dinner the success must read paper explaining to his fellows how and why he won. These papers are preserved
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01

shines on They are met on this soil
 under one flag, as citizens ot na-
 tion strange to all those of the Old
 World, or, if they have not become cit
 izens they are preparing to do so. And
 on an occasion of this kind, when the
 people of a free country undertake
 to voice their opinion on a big ques- tion, a principle that means the fu- but right and just that every one who believes in the safety of the land go forth and voice approval of the one big idea prevalent today,-prepared- ness. The men who have come here from other countries are just as anx- ious,' and, more so, in many cases, those who were born and raised on American soil. It sometimes happens that those showered with blessings from the very" beginning grow forget full of their benefits. Newcomers are more likely to appreciate advantages. That is why preparedness meets with such great approval. So, while we de- plore the fact that our own Common Council or our Chamber of Commerce, or whoever it might be that takes care of such things, did not have the initia- tive to hold preparedness parade in New Britain, we console ourselves with the thought that this city will be well represented in the Hartford parade. Either a goodly representa- tion or nothing at all The next time, however, no matter what the occa- sion, New Britain should speak for it. self and not be used as an appendage to glorify any neighboring community.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
The Quiet Country Life.
(New York Tribune

NA>C" iol K IIlDoI16.J
 Those carping neighbors in Mont clair whose souls are rasped by the noise of a few peacocks give them selves away. No hardened commuters these, but tenderfeet from great city accustomed to the cloistered quiet of elevated trains and f1at-wheeled street cars and rattly milk wagons. By\life thus softened, they moved into the rural districts with the pathetic
 faith of darkest ignorance. They act ! ually expected that such minor up- roar as had enveloped them would
 now vanish into nothingness. a sooth- ing, suburban vacuum, with only an
 alarm clock set for 7:l6 separating
 them from Nirvana.
 How sadly wide of the mark such
 faith is any commuter (once con-
 vinced that you are not possible
 purchaser of his house, garage, lot
 and garden) can explain. Any ex-
 perienced week -ender will do almost
 as we'll There is more steady. re-
 liable uproar in Manhattan; outstand- ing soul-s sta bbing, intermittent noise is the suburban speciality. You have a full orchestra playing in concert by your New York pillow. In Montclair, or any other choice rural retreat, you have the same instruments but blar- ing at intervals, one by one. First, an Erie locomotive bassoon. Then a little solo by your left-hand neigh bors White Orpington rooster-a ca denza on a scrappy cello. The soothing flute of an owl almost puts you to sleep when the guests of the right-hand neighbor go home for the night, cranking their fivver with d roar of kettle drums and clashing cymbals beside which a Strauss sym phony and forty-three peacocks are as the silent moon and stars.
 No. The gentle suburb reeks with health; 1t is a marvellous creche and the one friendly and human method of ensconcing yourself within working distance of a great city. But it is not quiet. Tuck yourself securely in your Harlem flat if truly rural calm Is the goal above all else before you.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01

tempt will be made by certain or ganlzations calling themselves ''ali- ances" to discredit these candidates on the grounds that these men have voiced sentiments or committed acts that are derogatory to nations lying across the sea. These are the real hyphenates of whom the United States will have none. They are wholly un- American Hard as it may seem to say, they are traitors. They are not trying to elect an American president but a man who measures up to standards set up in some other coun- try foreign from this. The American people should see to it that these un- patriotic men and their principles have no place in the coming elections, no place but utter defeat. Colonel Roosevelt has said, and said truly, and it can be applied not only to one set of hypenates but to all, that Il want to serve notice on these men that our purpose next Fall is to elect an Ameri- can President and not @ Viceroy of the German Kaiser" He might just as well have said an under-secretary to the King of England, or a membef of the cabinet of the President, of France, or a Prefect of the Czar of all the Russias. The American people are going to elect an American Presi- dent for Americans. We are neither Greeks nor Trojans. We are Ameri- cans.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
FOR WIFE OFFICE
Innocent Sufferer Anxious That the
 Press Aid His Cause.

Will you please" asks secret suf- ferer, "write something about wives who make unexpected calls at their husbands offices? I am not guilty of anything, but I think that even the most innocent of men suffer acutelv when his wife visits him at his office There is no way for me to make my wife understand this, unless I appear bOorish and brutal. Can't you say something about it? Many wives, read your column
 Yes, friend, says The Cleveland Plain Dealer" We will put it in the form of general propositions hoping thereby Ostep on no individual toes We hold these facts to be proved:
 That no husband ever wants his wife to call on him at his offie during business hours, except upon his in vitation.
 That no wife can know how she up- sets his routine, disorders the mental processes that go on during those hours, and subjects herself to the gos- sip of his office mates.
 That there is no easy way to make a wife see this.
 We proceed from these truisms to a few observations
 A lovely creature breezes into her husbands office, just because she hap pens to be passing. She says:
 Now don't let me disturb you a minute I know your busy Dearie, what good does that desk light do you at tat angle? Don't you know you will ruin your eyes? What a mess your desk is in! Look at MT. Office mate's-how neat it is! Well, just let me stick this package in your lower drawer and you bring it home with you when you come.
 "Oo-ooh, dearie! I just opened that drawer to slip this package in it, and I couldn't help seeing that bill from Smiths-and you told me it was paid! Tell me about that tonight.
 Well, I must run along, for you're busy. Come out to the elevator with me- dear, I want to speak to you Who is that disreputable looking man who is waiting in the outer office to see you? Why, it's a perfect disgrace to have such callers I told the girl to tell him you were out of town.
 You have an appointment with him? How can you make an appoint ment with such a creature? Well goodby, dear. Get your shoes shined before you come home-you look awfully sloppy"
 And if husband protests against that call her eyes fill with innocent tears and she says:
 why, I wasn't there five minutes and you weren't working at anything when I came in! And your men call on you and stay half an hour! Of course I'll never come again. Are you ashamed of your wife?
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
Many In One.

(From Songs and Sonnets). To the red and the white and the blue
 here a health! To the old and the young and the
 man that's to be, Not fame will I wish them or too
 much of wealth, Nor peace without honor, nor quiet
 that's not free. To the, North, to the South, to the
 East, to the West. To the blue and the gray, they're
 all one color now, To the poor men that work and tho
 rich men that rest; To the men of the pen and the Den
 of the plough! Here's 0 health to them all, from wherever they come! May they learn one short lesson by head and by heart. That the figures are weak till they make up a sum, & That the whole is a whole and a part is part. The red and the white and the blue are but one, And the flags of all nations were dipped in the sea When their children set face to the westering sun, No Teuton, no, no Celt, all Amer cans we.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
X Uniform Bill of Lading.
Providence JournaD.


 Congress will have the thanks of the business and banking interests if the Pomerene bill of Iading measure be- coms a law, as is now the prospect. The Senate has passed 1t, and the4 hTe Senate has passed it, and the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce is expected to make a favorable report on it at an early date.
 The standardization of bills of lad ing has been discussed for many years by the state commissioners on uni- formity of laws. Their experts long ago prepared a model statute for ef-s fecting the reform, and fifteen or six teen states including Rhode Island, have enacted the provisions substan- tially as recommended. But that Is still long way from national uni formity. Action by congress will make this useful legislation . effective throughout the country.
 In the operations of trade, transpor- tation and finance the bill of lading has become an important instrument of credit-no longer merely a 'con- tract of affreightment." Since loans by bankers and payments by con- signees are made upon this piece of paper, instead of on the goods in transit themselves, it is manifestly necessary that the bill should be of such form and description, and sur rounded by such legal safeguards, as to insure those who handle it against loss by mistakes or deliberate fraud.
 Billions of dollars are advanced, at home and in foreign countries, on American freight documents, in the annual movement of the great grain crops, cotton, raw materials and man. ufactured products. Yet, outside the leading commercial states, which have adopted the model law, it is possible to negotiate fraudulent bills without mourning any criminal penalty.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
ltcnOminatc Gov. HOlCOmb.
Rockville Leader).

Without the slightest deslre to throw stones at any of the other aandi- dates for the republican nOminatjo ion for governor in September, 1t is de- voutly to be hoped that the republi- cans will have the sense and the sand to renominate Gov. Marcus H. HOl- comb. He's the party's one best as set in the state, he accepted a draft against his own personal inclination, and he has served the state faithfully and we'll. Uncle Marcus," as he is affectionately known, ought not to be obliged to go hunting for delegates. The rank and file of the republican party, no matter where the leaders stand, should make it their business to see that Gov. Holcomb gets the delegates. The sentiment of the state of Connecticut unless we are greatly mistaken, is overwhelmingly for him. Let this sentiment. be con- Verted into votes in the caucuses, votes that will be for men who will stand by Gov. Holcomb, who has stood by the state and done his level best for it.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01

Behind the scenes at the front. by
 George Adam.
 By Paris correspondent of the London Times. A book occupied chief ly with facts, cheerful, despite it's tales of devastation. in that 1t gives new idea of continually improving organization among the trench forces. "A. L. A. Booklist
 *%* G. K. Chesterton: a critical study, by
 Julius West Germany vs. civilization, by w. R.
 Thayer
 With intense passion for the finer fruits of democracy, the author traces /, the stages by which the ancient pa- gan ideals revived in Prussia, and how Prussia has diffused them through Germany'-A l.. A. Book list.
 My fourteen months at the front,
 an American boys baptism of
 fire, by w. J. Robinson
  My harvest, by Richard whiteins.
 "Reminiscences of the English Journalists seventy-flve busy years.
  teresting personality, broad minded, modest, full of joy of living, but his pen-portraits of the . . arkable personalities he has met and his masterly condensed sketches of the social and political movements of the time throw real and illuminating side-lights on the general history of the last half century. y."-Bookman
 
 Romanticism of St. Francis, and oth-
 CT studies in the genius of the
 Franciscans, by Father Cuthbert -Four distinct studies, in each of which "an attempt has beeE made to present the inner thought of some aspect of the Franciscan life," by a Catholic scholar who "sees in the origin and development of the Fran ciscans a religious consecration of the romantic spirit of all time" Tn formed with a fine idealism "A. l.. A. BookliSt.
 World decision, by Robert Herrick. Interpretations and impressions poignant some of them-of events in Rome while Italy was hesitating on the verge of war, and in France, wounded yet taking up her life again with new courage. The final pages deal with America. "A. l.. A. Book list.
 Farm and Garden.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
COLLECTORS WHO FAILED.
When the Time For Selling Came.
 (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The fad of collecting curios seems to be hard hit by the utilitarianism of the age. It is the utilitarianism test that proves this. Several collections have been unloaded on the public re- cently and the prices received were not at all satisfa ctory to the sellers. An exception might be filed in the case of books and manuscripts. Early edi- tiOns and original literary drafts are pretty sure to rouse up bidders But the curiosity shop collection, the odds and ends of early ages and early arts, seem to have little drawing power.
 A collection of considerable note made by a Brooklyn man, the fruit of time and travel and expense, was offered for sale the other day. The authenticity of the articles was well attested, and they represented a great variety of interesting subjecs rang ing from an unusually perfect sepul- chral vase of the time of the Ptolem- ies. down to a piece of metal from the first Brooklyn city hall bell. The vase brought S15 and the fragment ot bell twenty-five cents. Then the auct1oneer bv way of contrast introduced thirty cannon balls picked up on pattle- folds of the Revolutionary ana CIVIL wars and somebUdy-a friend ot preparedness, no doubt-bid them in for $26.
 As for the gold coins and the Greek and Roman silver coins and the un- Tsual array of ancient medals, they brought but little more than their value at the mint
 Tn short the appeal made by these +,oosured reminders of the past, was unexpectedly weak. It shows that the collector who collects for any reward save his own qualification, is doomed +o disappointment Tn an age that is ebort in poetry and romance and sen- tin7ent, curios are largely regarded as
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
The Japanese Situation.
(The June Worlds Work

(The June Worlds Work.)
 There is no good end to be served by calling attention to the Japanese policies and practices except as they affect the United States. But it is of great importance for us to keep cer- tain fundamental facts clearly in mind.
 Japan believes that any war or any kind of diplomacy is justified if it helps Japan toward her destiny.
 Japan believes that this destiny is the overlordship of the east, which in- cludes domination of China and the end of the American policy of the Open Door.
 Japan's possessions reach south al- most to the Philippines now.
 Japan holds deep grievance against the United States on account of race discrimination.
 In these circumstances it is plain that peace and friendship with Japan are sure only so long as international conditions or our own state of nation al defense makes demands or aggres- sion by Japan seem likely to be inef- fectiVe.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01

runs, and the hint is sufficient to sup ply the inevitable opening: Cigar cites and cheap novels led to the downfall of two messenger boys" and so forth. Post hoe, ergo propter hoc a handy moral and another argument against smoking!
 A great many bad boys, and some tolerably good ones, have smoked cigarettes. A few of them manage to escape the penitentiary, but let one be caught in mischief, and the first question is, Does he smoke? If he does there are students of man. ners who at once accept the circum- stance as a sufficient explanation of his delinquency It never occurs to them that the case may be otherwise; that the boy who indulges in robbery may be so corrupt as to make no scruple of indulging in cigarettes. The opposite process is always recognized as obvious and inevitable But why?
 Do boys who eat candies never go wrong? Has a robbery ever been plotted over box of chocolates? How is 1t that we so seldom hear of pep permints leading to the downfall of youth? Is it possible that the orim inoIogists are too credulous? Would it not be worth while to consider the possibilities of chewing gum as dn cti- ological factor in a crime?
New Britain herald., 1916-06-01
T. K. in Connecticut. Waterbury American ]

It is probably known only to a few that great efforts were made at least here in Connecticut, to secure the in- dorsement of a representative body of republicans for the so-called Roosevelt Republican movement. headed by ex-Secretary George Von L. Meyer. A very persuasive agent" visited many prominent republicans here in Waterbury to urge them to join this movement and we all know the result so far as Waterbury is concerned. If Waterbury was asked. doubtless the rest of the state was. What was the outcome of this cam paign? But two men, as we recall 1t, were secured lr Connecticut, John r. Elton of Waterbury and Prof. Htrafl' Bingham of Yale. the Peruvian ex- pIorer.
 If this is all that can be accom- plished by hard work in launching movement of this kind. if these two men really represent the strength or the Roosevelt movement among re- publicans of high standing here in Connecticut, then certainly the oppo-S nents of MT. Roosevelt need entertain no great fear as to where Connecticut will stand at the Chicago convention. II, as Is probable, similar e1ortS were made in other states. the result Of this preliminary Roosevelt work is not encouraging for. the Roosevelt people. This is no spontaneous move ment called forth by what undoubted- ly has been MT. Roosevelt's strong stand in favor of true Americanism, but is a labored creation. one that does not have behind it the vitality -l,;o ofoY
 It would be unfair, of course. to judge the rest of the country by Con- necticut. But while undoubtedly MT. Roosevelt has great strength. this latest movement does not as yet show that that strength lies where 1t would count in convention, that Is, it has not appreciably affeced those who wtH' have the final say in that convention.
 MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.