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New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
The Film Comedian Off Duty.
(Literary Digest. )

(L1terary DlgeSt.) The private life of Charlie Chaplin, l as recently exposed in one or two pub- lications, brings the reader sense of disappointment. To find that the hero of so many knock-down and layout comedies is, in his own homo, an ordinarily sane and intelligent cit izen is disillusionizing Is it, then, possible that a movie-farce hero ever walks down a flight of stairs and re- mains upright all the way If we were to visit one of them unexpected ly, may we believe that we should never find him down in the laundry tum bling about in his own wash tubs? But not all chronicles are so disappointment There is. for instance, Puck's imaginary summary of a moving picture actors ear1y-mornir2 activities, ere stren duty calls him down to face the camera. Films are long and art is f1eeting, which doubt | less accounts for his early start:
 700 o'clock-Wakes and falls out of bed when combination alarm clock and garden-hose goes off.
 7:10 o'clock-Shaves: 1athering himself deftly with charlotte russo.
 7:15 o'clock-Morning exercise; puts on boxing-gloves and knocks down wife; knocks down child: knocks down serving maid. Runs along hall to door and slides down. stairs on piano.
 7:16 o'clock-Returns by way of fire escape, dragging piano
 7:17 to 7:30 o'c1ock-Devoted to dressing and falling down. Puts on trousers and falls down. Puts on shrit and falls down. Puts on collar and tie before md foI1 ward on floor. Rubs off shoes with hair-brush. Fixes hair with shoe brush. Puts on coat and falls down.
 7:31 o'clock-Starts for dining room and meets serving maid with tray of breakfast dishes. Kicks tray: both fall down.
 TSP o'clock-Enters dining-room and kisses wife and child, Kisses serv- 1ng-ma1d, who pushes him through ch1na-closet. Glasses serving-maid around breakfast table Is chased, in turn, by wife. Also by child. Trips on rug and falls down.
 7:35 o'clock-Breakfast. Tears off half loaf of bread. Spears seven buck wheat cakes with fork and abuses them with maple-syrup. Washes face With largest buckwheat cake. Ogles serving maid and eats napkin by mis- take Spills coffee. Upsets table.
 7:36 o'clock-Chased around room by wife, by child, by serving-maid. Climbs on plate-rack. Plate-rack falls. Everybody falls. Climbs on chande- Tier. Chandelier falls. Everybody falls.
 1:37 o'clock-Jumps into dumb walter and starts to lower himself. Wife and serving-maid try to pull him back Rope. breaks. Everybody falls.
 7:39 o'clock-Wife throws over- coat, hat, cane, and a kiss to him down the dunn b-waiter shaft. He proceeds through coal-hole to street. thence to his days work at the SWatagraph Studios.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
TO AN EXPATRIATE.

If King George of England thought for one moment that he was confer ring an honor upon entire America by elevating,-if that is the proper word,-William Waldorf Astor to the peerage he was sadly mistaken; for no friends among the real American people. He severed all ties away back in 1890 when he expatriated himself. So Baron Astor means nothing to this country or any of its people. He is rated as being the first American who ever became a British peer, with the possible exception of Lord Fairfax of Cameron. No one will regret if he holds the honor forever.
 In these days it is better to be an American citizen than anything else in the wide, wide world An Ameri- can citizenship means something. And it will mean more as the years so by. It means that the man who is just struggling for an existence is just as good as the man who never had to work, who lolls at his ease, who dis tains all labor. It means more. It means that every boy in this country who is able and willing to work has a chance to reach the topmost rung of the ladder no matter from where he makes his start. There are no casts in America. There is no peerage, in the English sense We are all peers.
 William Waldorf Astor had no use for this sort of thing,-this democracy we call America He divided the world into classes, upper and lower, casting himself in among the nobility. There being no signs hung on any particular class in America straight way he took himself and some one hundred million dollars, which his great grandfather laid the foundation for to England. That was some six teen years ago, and, after much lowing and kow-towing, Baron Astor has arrived. He may now strut around the Court of St. James like a young peacock feeling his first pin- feathers. If he only knew it, William Jacob Astor was Baron when he left America.-barren of reason.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
If We Must Have Them.
(New Haven Register.)

The fond admirers of Theodore President Wilson; they allege that he has stolen the policies of their idolized hero, and is adopting them for his own. How much truth there may be in the charge one can hardly say The characteristics of the two men are so diametrically opposite that a wild Roosevelt vagary when smoothed and trimmed and fitted to it's place in the systematic method of President Wilson, might be so unrecognizable that it's own father would have great difficulty in proving his property.
 But if we must have Roosevelt rad realism, by all means let's have it through the medium of such a man as MT. Wilson. It would be desirable, judging from the past three years, that such a man be found in the re- publican party and elected by that party. For with all his virtues, Mr. Wilson is a Poor Tray in the company of designing democrats, who don't demonstrate great capacity in good government. But as the prospect is poor of the republican party rising triumphant above the malign control of the man who will have his way or welt policies, let's have them through Wilson. Only it is doubtful if there is any justice in trying to identify them as Roosevelt policies after they have passed through that process.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

those United States senators who wanted to take the foreign policy out of President Wilson's hands and en- trust it to their own care became bet erstwhile spirit of contentment The people in the New World are becom- ing wary of folk in the Old World They double-cross too readily.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
UNDER MILITARY CONTROL.

Rome, Jan. 2, S:3O p. m.-By gov ernmental decree all ports and dock Ia aborers have been placed under mili- tary control. This action has been taken for the purpose of preventing strikes for higher wages during the effort to disencumber the ports of large quantities of merchandise and war materials.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

There are, of course, ill-mannered drivers who are an unmitigated nui- sance. But a majority of motorists use the utmost care to avoid pedestrians. Pedestrians should do their part by keeping out of the road unless they have particular business there, and when in the road they should keep their eyes and ears open.-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

ty-one years, and in all that time I because my wife made me-" Having paid little attention to the science of government in the past MT. Ford evil dently made up for a lot of lost time by studying foreign methods of gov- ernment g
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

There must be some mistake about the statement that ali the saloons in Portland, Me-, have been suddenly closed by order of the chief of police Maine, according to prohibition testi- mony, is a state where the saloon cannot possibly exist-Philadelphia ia Ledger.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

With Redmond and Carson agree ing, even if it is in condemning the government, it needn't surprise any one to see T. R. dropping in at the White House for luncheon some of these days.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Now if Carranza can get the mo oney but then, that's what we're all say ing at this time of year.-Boston Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

Henry Ford is still paying the bills of his peace busters, but it is a good wager that he will shake hands ef- fusively with every Detroit policeman he meets.-New York Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

Uncle Sam's matured bonds to the value of more than $1,500,00O have never been presented for redemption, but Uncle Sam is not complaining about it.--Buffalo Courier.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-03

Why should the republican party consider the nominating of regenade when its ranks are full of able, hon. est and capable men ?-St. Louis Times.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

suing for the favor of the prettiess
girl at the ball. Daddy is as nimble
of foot now as he was then, he as
lsnres himself. He was the idol of
all the lassies when he used to tread
the measures OF the stately minuet,
or II he was in a gayer mood, cavort
through the merry Highland fling. or
the money musk.
The new-fangled dances bother him
a little but he does not intend that
they shall down him. The pleasantest
recollections of his life are connected
with the joys of the dance. It was at
a ball he first beheld the girl he was
to love and wed. He cut out a rival
at that selfsame ball, but was miser-
able all the long hours of the night
that followed because he must submit
to that rival seeing her home.
II was to invite her to another ball
that he first called upon her. At that
dance, with his arm folded more close
ly about her waist than the require
ments of the steps demanded, he
whispered his love for her in her ear
A dance followed their wedding feast
and they went to balls until their
growing family provided another
way for them to spend their evenings.
II daddy is bit clumsy at tangoing
and can get any Of the girls who are
good natured enough to forego the
pleasure of waltzing with a spruce
young fellow whose handclasp brings
the warm blood to both heart and
cheek and dance with him, who should
have the heart to say him nay?
The man who enjoys dancing never
grows old. He could give old Ponce
de Leon tips on finding the fountain
of youth and clinging tenaciously to
youth and it's joys.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09
The Discharge.

Under the blazing sun of an Oriental
July day the workmen we're building
the now famous tower of Cable.
Leapold Boroo, the eminent master
builder, hurrying thither and yon mop
ping his forehead with large planta-
ton leaf came on two workmen seated
on a pile Of masonry matching
shekels.
Whats this?" yelled Boroo. Don't
you know we're three days behind in
the work as it is? You're f1red, both
Of you. Here, take your pay and go!'
And he gave them each q weeks
wages and kicked them on the ma
sonry and the premises. Then he
hunted up Maxim Cork, the foreman,
to give him piece Of his mind.
But" said Cork, these men were
only looking for job"
Mr.. Boroos further remarks have
been judiciously deleted by the con-
sor, who has thus demonstrated that
q censor occasionally has some sense
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09
MATERIALS FOR FARM ROADS
Should Be Located With Reference to
Efficiency of Farm Plant
Good Drainage Needed.

The private roads on the farm differ
In general from the public roads only
in the amount and kind of traffic which
they carry. The fundamental princi-
pies involved in their construction and
maintenance are the same. But, as
the farm road is called on to bear far
less traffic, the ordinary methods Of
construction and maintenance are so
modified and the use of materials so
adapted as to meet the special re-
quirements and reduce the cost. To
build the farm roads in the same man
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

northernmost of the two branches is
garded as the real source of the river.
1t lies to the north of Erzerum, while
the longer branch passes it to the
south. The two branches are divided
by the wild mountain district of Der
sim. After uniting they form the
Euphrates proper, which boldly breaks
it's way through the mountains by a
zigzag course that carries it now to
the right and now to the left. Now 1t
flows for 80 miles at right angles to its
general course, then 60 miles parallel
to it and then 100 miles at right angles
again, as though it were headed for
the Mediterranean sea- Then it winds
to the south for 80 miles.
Here it takes up it's general trend
to the southeast and with innumer-
able sharp windings and bends, but
with only few broad curves it heads
its way to the sea. The air line dis.
lance of the remotest spring of the
Euphrates from the sea is only 500
miles and yet it's waters must travel
1900 miles before they reach the sea.
In the last 1900 miles of its course the
Euphrates is slow and sluggish, wan
dering all over the land when it has
opportunity, making that which it
touches a marsh and that which it
cannot reach a desert.
Its fall during the last 1900 miles
is only ten inches to the mile and it
broadens out SO much that while it
contains enough water to float the
greatest battleship, it is SO shallow
that at places swimmer cannot float
In it."
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

ner as public thoroughfares, which
carry much greater traffic, in general
would be useless waste of money.
The first consideration is the loca-
ton Of the roads and paths about the
farm. The roads and paths are q
part OF the permanent farm plant.
Consequently they should be so To-
Gated as to best serve the purpose for
which they are intended, should fit in
with the general scheme of the farm,
and at the same time should avoid as
much as possible places which would
require difficult and expensive con-
struction or maintenance. The main
consideration, however, must be to
secure the highest degree of efficiency
from the farm plant as whole.
The earth road is the most common
type of farm road and will probably so
remain. When properly crowned,
drained and maintained with the split
log drag or other similar device, the
earth road, on all but a few excep-
tional soils or in few places imme-
dately around the farm lots and build
ings, can be made to answer the re-
quirements fairly well. A little grad
ing will in general give the earth road
a crown sloping from the center to-
ward the side bitches at rate Of
about one inch to the foot, and side
bitches of sufficient size to carry away
the storm water can usually be con-
structed without difficulty. II the
ground is springy the side bitches may
be made deeper, or the ground water
may be carried away by tile drains.
The fundamental requirement Of an
earth road is always good drainage.
This involves, first, the removal of the
water which reaches the surface Of
the road from precipitation or other
wise; and second, in certain places the
removal of any ground water which
reaches the road from underground
seepage. Surface drainage is accom-
plished by securing a reasonably firm
crowned roadway and providing
bitches of sufficient size and with am
pie grade and frequent outlets. Sub
drainage to remove the water from
beneath the road surface or to pre-
vent its passage into the roadbed is
usually accomplished most effectively
by so-called blind drains or by means
of properly located tile drains.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09
REPAIR BAD SPOTS IN ROADS
MudhoIes Should Be First Drained and
Soft Dirt Removed-Dont Be
Afraid of Dragging.

Don't try to fill mudhole without
first draining out the water and re-
moving the soft mud. Don't try to fill
it with large stones, because If this is
done there will soon be two mudholes
instead of one. Don't try to fill a
mudhole with sods or similar material
which absorb water readily.
On an earth or gravel road ruts are
best treated with the drag. Don't be
afraid of dragging tso often during
a rainy SPELL II thin coat Of sand
or gravel be spread over the road sur
face when it has been softened by
rain and then worked in by traffic
and liberal use of the drag, poor
earth road can be much improved and
made to carry surprisingly heavy
traffic for short time.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09
.EUPHRATEs A MIGHTY RIVER
Flows Through the Cradle Of Civlllza-
tion Where Empires Have Risen
and Fallen.

The Euphrates Is the largest river in
western Asia and civilization is re-
puted to have come into being upon
its banks For six thousand years at
least empires have risen and fallen on
its plain, conquering armies have
marched to battle and hundred cities
have come up out of the earth and
fallen into obliterate ruin again.
Describing this great river as 1t runs
its seaward course today, the National
Geographic society, whose headquar-
tiers are in Washington, says in a
statement given to the press:
THE Euphrates lays strong claim
to the honor of being the most his
toric river on earth and certain it is
shat in the region it drains. along with
It's twin sister, the Tigris. man first
emerged from behind that impene-
trable curtain which divides the known
from the unknown past.
From then henceforth civilizations
have raised their proud heads above
come and gone. cities Of rare beauty
have risen their proud heads above
the plain only to pass on into obliter.
ate ruin.
THE Euphrates rises in two arms,
flowing parallel to one another on the
north side of Taurus mountain,
through narrow valleys into which
pour innumerable small streams from
the high Armenian plateau. The
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

ropean wars of the eighteenth cen.
fury. The temporary occupation of the
island by the British during several
periods of the Napoleonic wars added
further to the importance of the chief
port, Charlotte Amalie, where mer-
chant vessels rode at anchor in the
magnificent land-lccked harbor while
waiting for conveys to protect them on
the voyage across the Atlantic.
This town of Charlotte Amalie, with
population of less than ten thou
sand, mainly negroes, is still an i'm
portant coaling station for steamers
in the West Indian trade. With a
depth of from 27 to SO feet of water.
the roadstead can accommodate the
largest merchant ships which sail
these seas. The export and import
trade has become negligible since the
rapid decline of the sugar industry
which the Danish government has tried
in vain to revive by granting annual
subsidies.
st. John 10 the Smallest.
st. John, least important OF the
islands, lying four miles to the east of
st. Thomas, has an area of TWEEN
ty-one square miles. II is scarce
ly more than a ten-mile noun
tain ridge with but one distinguishing
feature, Coral bay, the best harbor Of
refuge in the Antilles. Cruxbay, a vii
lage Of 1000 inhabitants on the north
ern shore, is the center of population.
While Danish is the official language
of the islands, English is quite gen.
orally spoken. The monotony of ex-
istence is not infrequently broken by
earthquakes and hurricanes.
If Denmark decides to part with
these islands there will remain to her
only two colonial possessions--Green
land and Iceland, which have an aggre-
gate area more than FIVE times as large
as the mother country, but with only
one-twenty-seventht the population. The
1873 square miles of Denmark's West
Indian territory sustain nearly three
times as many people as the 46,740
square miles of Greenland.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

yF THE United States and Denmark
strike a bargain and the three
islands which comprise the Danish
i West Indies are transferred to the
former, the sale will mark the culmi-
nation of bit of bartering which be-
gan nearly fifty years ago, when the
American government offered $780,
600 for the 1873 square miles of terri
tory in the Antilles, a sum exceeding
by 100000 the price paid to Russia in
the same year (1S67) for the vast, rich
territory of Alaska, comprising an area
more than four thousand times as
large. The sale was not consummated
because the United States senate failed
to ratify the treaty, says bulletin of
the National Geographic society. Four
teen years ago negotiations were re-
newed and a price of 100000 was
agreed upon, but this time the Danish
parliament refused to sanction the
sale, although the islands had been
governed at a loss to the mother coun-
try for many years, in fact ever since
slavery was abolished in 1s4S, thereby
putting I'LL cuu " Tie piOhtdpi~ OpCt a
ton of the sugar plantations.
These three islands of the Virgin
group-St. Croix, st. Thomas and ST.
John, in the order of their size and
population-were discovered by Column
bus In 1893. Spanish, British, French,
Dutch and Danish flags have fioated
over one or all of the islands at vari-
Gus times.
ST. Croix, lying 65 miles southeast of
Porto Rico, has an area of 81 square
miles, and is the most prosperous Of
the group, with its two towns of Chris
tianstad and Frederikstad. 1t was held
at one time by the Knights Of Malta,
having been given to that famous or
der by Louis XIV of France. !.
ST. Thomas Has Fine Harbor.
ST. Thomas, which lies only 40 miles
east of Porto Rico, was at one time
the chief distributing center of West
Indian trade, its importance being d.
rectly attributable to the fact that the
mother country, Denmark, maintained
its neutrality during the numerous Eu-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-06-09

does not earn enough to more than
Keep himself decently, but for all that,
If she consent, they rush for a mar
riage license and are speedily made
one.
The youthful bride, fully as foolish
as the youth she has welded, has not
even asked where the bread and butter
are to come from, and they face the
world, a most pitiable example of a
reckless marriage. How they manage
to exist for ever so short while upon
his earnings can better be imagined
than described. It's q case of living
from hand to mouth. Meanwhile they
grow poorer and poorer The girl has
been brought up sinking work, find
ing her chief amusement in flirting and
attending movies. That she is expect
ed to work after marriage-cook, wash,
iron, sew and scrub-appalls her. II
a little. one comes into their home
she is more upset than ever. She
knows nothing whatever of how it
should be cared for. She could not
cut out a garment for it or herself and
put it together If her life depended
on it.
Both wake up to the conclusion that
welded life is not the rosy dream they
thought it was going to be. With hard
ships, romance and admiration take
fight. II in the close bond which
holds them love develops, they can and
will face the future bravely. Baby
gives an added stimulus to their ambi-
ton. If fascination has worn itself out
they cling together only for the sake
OF the child who has tied the heart
strings of both together in an un-
breakable knot.
Years alone can bring wisdom. If
the wife is brought to the realization
that she, after all, is the homemaker,
total wreck can be avoided by her
turning over a new leaf studying
economy and practicing it.
Every girl who aspires to the re-
sponsibility of becoming wife should,
be trained from girlhood up to be fit
ted for it, She should know the great
value Of doing her own marketing,
buying nutritious foods wisely, and the
all-important science of cooking and
utilizing the left-overs She should
know how to make her own clothes.
She who has bent over them, patient
ly putting in every stitch, will be apt
to take care of them.
Many young married couple that
have entered the welded state with
scarcely thimbleful of sense in Ell
Their brain have developed into a
thrifty pair, exemplifying the old saw
that "A poor beginning often turns out
the best in the long run"
Youths and maidens in their early
days will tread the path they are en-
couraged to enter. Young men should
be warned of the gravity. of taking a
wife before they are able to support
one comfortably. Young girls should
not be allowed to wed until they are
competent to take full charge of a
home of their own. But what's the
use of advising? Young men and WON
en- lose their heads completely when
they fall in love. So there you are.