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New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

The brotherhood of mankind ust no longer be a fair but npty phrase: 1t must be given structure of force and reality. he nations must realize their xmmon life and effect a work ,le partnership to secure that .e against the aggressions of ltocratic and self-pleasing pow z. For these things we can af- I'd to pour out blood and treas ,e. For these are the things e have always professed to de- TO- and unless we pour out ood and treasure now and sdc- ,ed. we may never be able to lite or show conquertng force saan in the great cause of lman liberty. The day has ,ne to conquer or submit. If .e forces of autocracy can di- ide us they will overcome us; if a stand together. victory is cer- in and the liberty which vic- .lv will secure. We can afford, ,en, to be generous. but we car- tt afford. then or now. to be tak or omit any single guaran- ,e of justice and security.
 WOODROW WILSON.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
Nijfnsky Pays the Piper.


 If you ever go to Spain and mako 8 contract to dance before the king, don't fail to keep your contract. Don't try to bluff Alfonso. That young Hapsburg monarch may be an ex-king before he is forty, but the people who put him out will have to show cause" before he doffs his crown. (
 Nijinsky had the wrong idea of Alfonso. But maybe that was na- tural Ntjinsky comes from Russia where kings are away below par. So, when it occurred to the dancer, just before going on in Madrid that his share of the "gate" was too low, he simply sat back and refused to shake leg until the price should be raised.
 The four and twenty blackbirds that all began to sing when Mother Gooses liege lord sat down to devour them didn't annoy that prince a whit more than this sulky Russian an- noyed the king of Spain. In the good old days Nijinsky would have lost everything above his necktie for his insolence. As 1t was he got off with one night in an unsterilized cell during which he agreed to dance fdr the contract price.
 Perhaps he danced badly out of spite, but Alfonso smiled all through the performance, because Niiinsky has already paid the piper1~
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
The Slaughter of Peace. (Philadelphia, Bulletin.)

Railroad and street railway opera ton In the state of Pennsylvania Killed 1885 persons last year. On the street railways alone, 3219 persons, were injured more or less seriously. In this country the annual homicide record runs considerably above 1O,. 900. The alarming statement is made that about 5000 persons lost their lives in fires. The latest mortality compilations for the United States re-
 port that in 1915 there were over 50,000 deaths from accidents of all sorts, g. rate of 76.s per 100,0 of the population.
 By far the larger percentage of these accidents is due to carelessness and although, partly because of the in1 .spiration of humans considerations and partly because of the economic warning of compensation laws, and other tndemnities, g. campaign for "safety first" Is steadily making head way, it will remain true that in the ordinary routine of the day we, as a nation, are careless of life. and we &C., cept the daily register of deaths as a matter Of course, and concern our- selves but little beyond an incidental watchfulness for individual safety.
 These are lives wasted, with few ex- captions, toll for which no service is gained. Good souls who are horror stricken at the thought of war and who protest at the sacrifice of life in- volved in saving the nation from at tack might better turn their attention and thought to tho slaughter Of peace, the tragedies of which are not likely to be less the coming year than those of the battlefield, where the risk is unavoidable and men win glory and serve their country with their lives.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
LESSON NO. Il. PLAYING THE GAME.

(Preceding lessons: 1. Your Post of
 Honor. 2. Making Good as a Sol-
 dier 3. Nine Qualities of a Sol
 dier. 4. Getting Ready for Camp.
 5. First Days in Camp. 6. Cleanli-
 ness in Camp. '. Your Health. 8.
 Marching and Care of Feet. g. Your
 Equipment and Arms. 10. Recrea-
 tion in Camp.)
 There is gripping interest about the soldiers life that makes a strong appeal to vigorous Americans. This Is doubly true in time of war when the soldier has a serious object in view and gives his whole mind to his new duties.
 You will find this interest growing as you advance New scenes and as- sociates will bring you a new point of view. You will be less wrapped up than you have been in many n,,relv personal questions. You will cut loose from many of the petty details which tend to smother mans individuality. You will devote more time to thinking
 The healthy good fellowship of the camp also can not fail to stimulate you. Thousands of men drawn from all walks of life can not be thrown suddenly together without bringing to light many qualities previously un- known. You will probably become bet ter acquainted with yourself than you have ever been before.
 In order to get the most out of this new life you must devote yourself to 1t heart and soul. A good start is half the battle in making your way in the army. Even if you are not now much interested in military affairs-if you are entering the service, not because of personal inclination, but solely be- cause 1t is one of your obligations as cttizen-you are going to- become keenly interested after you once get into the swing and spirit of the Army. This will be true in at least ninety-nine cases out of every hundred. Recog- nize 1t now and play the game hard from the very start.
 Your Monthly Pay.
 While the men ill the National Army are serving at the call of duty and not for money, nevertheless everyone will be paid more than enough to take care of all necessary expenses. These ex- penses are very slight. Clothing, food, and transportation are provided by the Government. In addition, the private receives $30 per month while he Is in the United States and $S3 per month while he is abroad. Following Is a table which shows the pay for some of the higher non- commissioned ranks:
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Stacker! There is not a more bitter word in the English language. A stacker is everything that man is not. He is selfishness personifed He is everything that is mean and low. He is moral leper to be summed by all men who are thankful for this great land of ours, who glory in llv- ing and dying for America. He is coward incarnate. Like a thief in the night he robs Democracy of her just due He is an insult to his wife and children, if he has any, and to the wives and children of all men. He IS a foul thing a hater of justice, love, equality and everything that is pure and holy Be he native born or a guest of this nation. he is deserving of nothing but scorn. He is to be de- spised.
 Within the past few hours New Brit ain has been called upon to deal with several of this ilk. The proper medi- cine has been prescribed, a place in l the National Army, where an effort will be made to teach them patriot ism, love of country and a desire to defend that country. A slacker's a1l- ment is easily diagnosed. The dis ease consists of selff1shness of the heart, lack of regard for the well fare of others, failure to appreciate the favors great land bestows. a
 crawling, cringing nature that would
 not feel outraged seeing child or
 a woman struck by brute.
 The prescription is certain to show
 results. If, during service at the
 front, a stacker stops a bullet he will,
 perhaps, have intervened between
 Death and a Man. If he comes back he will have been cuped of great
 part of his mental and moral sick
 ness. better fitted to live with men.
 In either event, the nation will be so
 much better off.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
THE NEGRO AND THIS WAR.
Men the Seven Seas Over Now Rec- nize Great Problem, and AL
 rica is the Kernel.

(New Haven Journal-Courier).
 Undercurrents in the news bear evidence that slowly dawning upon the consciousness of men the seven seas over Is the fact that one of the great problems the war has raised is the negro problem. To the world 1t is of graver import than the negro problem is to the United States, point ed though that is by mob violence throughout the South. It Is as great as the problem of Poland, of the Balkans, of Turkey. For it is tho problem of & continent. Africa is the continent, whose untold resources are to be regarded as the prize of the present war. And if it Is true, the famous mines of Solomon are located in Central Africa, may Solomon have stored his wisdom there, for wisdom will be needed. Statesmen of the allies already face the significant question which will enter into every proposal of peace: Shall the British. French and Belgians readmtt Ger many as a ruling power into the Af- rican continent?"
 Both Generals Shuts and Sir Har- ry Johnston, great authorities on Af- rican problems. assert it is no secret what Junker Germany intended and still intends to do in tropical Africa. She intends to forge the millions of black men into huge slave state, drill them into unconquorable armies, conquer Egypt, and march them up and down the world. This was once the dream, likewise of the African Arabs If Germany had delayed war twenty-five years. until she had gained the commercial supremacy that seemed inevitable, her African dream would not have been so pre- posterous.
 In the present light that glimmers little f1tfully over frantic world, it does not seem reasonable, surely, that Prussian militarism should be all lowed to organize and drill millions of Africans into slaves and soldiers. This Is not to be thought of as sanctioned by the German people. In a case that runs sufficiently parallel to be start ling, 1t does not seem reasonable that Japanese militarism should be al- lowed to subject and commander the four hundred seventeen million Chi nese. To men of the seven seas the world would not be a pleasant place with a hell at hand where the final cataclysm would be negroes drilled by Nippon boys for supremacy in "a civ ilization of supermen."
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
Monthly pay
In United States.

A man may allot such portions of
 his pay as he desires for the support
 of his family or relatives. He may de-
 pos1t his savings with any quartermas-
 ter in sums of not less than $5 The
 quartermaster will furnish to each de-
 pos1tor book giving record of his de-
 posits. On the discharge of a soldier
 (but not before) the total amount of
 his deposits will be entered on his f1-
 nal statement and will be paid to him
 on presentation of his deposit book.
 Tn rate of interest allowance Is
 per cent. This is one convenient meth
 cd Of saving money which many sol
 diers will desire to use. It is easier
 to save in the Army than 1t is in civil life.
 Saving money Is not only good in it. self but is sign that you are concen- trating your time and energy on your military duties; that you are really playing the game.
 The majority of the old men who join the National Army are old enough and have sufficient good sense and self-control to conduct themselves properly, both on duty and off duty, | without special advice or supervision. However, some suggestions may prove helpful.
 A man in uniform is always regard ed, whether he wishes it or not, as a, representative of the army to which he belongs. See to it that you conduct yourself in such way to add your bit not only to your own reputation, but to the reputation of the Army and of the country.
 Making Use of Spare Time. The use that man makes of his time off duty is a good test of his char acter and of his capacity for growth. The good soldier is self-restrained. Don't spend your time repeating inde- cent stories. They add nothing what ever to your standing, either with the 1 men to whom you tell them or with your officers Avoid boisterousness, vulgarity, and profanity.
 This doesn't mean at all that you l should keep yourself in the back ground or that you should fail to be a good mixer. Let your personality 1 stand out. Broaden your influence by every proper method. But use your personality and your influence to help l the men in your own squad and com- 1 pany carry on their work and prepare l as quickly as possible for the big task ahead of you.
 Save some of your spare time for study The manuals and drill regu- 1 lations will grow more and more in- teresting to you as you become more familiar with your new duties. Mem orize some of the important passages. | Make yourself an authority on every thing that pertains to company drill. These are simple rules that will help any man, whether in or out of the army to make himself liked and re- spectad.- They are easy rules to ob-
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

When the call came for volunteers Leland H. Hoar responded. He en- listed with the naval reserves at New Haven and some time later was called out and reported for active service.
 Hoar is the son of Henry Hoar of 5S7 Arch street and is one of the popular young men of the city. He is a graduate of the Grammar school and of the local High school. He is a member of the Wentworth club and the Y. M. c. A. At the time of en- listment he held responsible posi- tion with the American Hosiery com pany, being their advertising manager. He bears the distinction of being the only second class cook graduated from New York cooking school.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
SrJCH A DTTTDE THING.

.,np,a slice of bread seems an
 important thing. In many house.
 ds one or more slices Of bread
 1v are thrown away and not used
 human food. Sometimes stale
 .rter-or half-loaves are thrown rst one good-sized slice Of bread .n .. a child likes to .cut-we1shs o,,rce. It contains almost three .~+ars of an ounce of flour.
 r every one of the country's zo'- noo homes wastes on the average |. one such slice of bread a day. !, country Is throwing away daily 100000 ounces of flour-over [s ooo hounds, or enough flour for h,r a million 1-pound loaves 8 day. full year at this rate there E,,,d he a. waste of over 319,0Oo,ooo
 ,,nds of flour, 100000 barrels Of enourh to make 365, 5,00O,oo0 rves. AS it takes four and one-haif oush- ! of- wheat to make barrel or or (,ary flour, this waste would repre- ,t the flour from over 7,ooo'ooo E.shels of wheat.
 kFourteen and nine-tenths bushelS E wheat on the average are ralsee |ar acre. It would take the fruit O. me 47o,0OO acres just to provide .sinsle slice of bread to be wasted
 ily in every home.
 To produce this much flour call
 an army of farmers, railway men
 ,ur mill people. To get the flou
 the consumer calls for man,
 .earht cars and the use of many ton coal. But, some one says, a full slice O cad is not wasted in every home |ery we1l-make it a daily slice fo kyery four or every ten or ever, hirty homes-make it a weekly O konthly slice in every home-o lake the wasted slice thinner Tn aste of flour involved is still ap |alling-altogether too great to b. liberated when wheat is scarce. Ant kheat Is scarce this year, by som |oo. 100000 bushels.
 Any waste of bread is inexcusabl then there are so many ways of us tag stale bread to cook deliciou
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS. It Took That Long to Persuade Con- press to Make National Park
of Beautiful Crater Lak

of Beautiful Crater Lake.
 Judge Will G. Steel of Oregon, who Is known locally as the Father of the Crater Lake National Park" told this story at the recent National Parks Conference in Washington:
 Forty six years ago I was farm- CTS boy in southern Kansas and at- tended school five miles distant My lunch was carried in newspaper. One warm day in May or June I sat in the schoolroom eating the contents Of that paper. When through scanned the columns, reading the short articles, among which was a descriptive of a sunken lake that had been discovered in Oregon. It was said to be 5000 feet below the sur- face of the surrounding country, with vertical walls, so that no human body could reach the water. In its center was an island 1900 feet high, with an extinct crater in the top. In all my life I never read an article that took the intense hold on me that that one did and I then and there determined to go to Oregon and to visit that lake and to go down to the water.
 ."I had two brothers in Portland at the time. Two years thereafter I went to Oregon with my parents and we were met at the steamer landing by my brothers. Before getting over the dock I asked them where that sunken lake was, and found that they had never heard of 1t.
 Tt was seven years before I was able to find anyone who had ever heard of 1t. Then I was told that there was something of that sort in southern Oregon, but my informer was not sure. Nine years later I found a man who had actually seen it, and gave me good description of it. that greatly increased my desire to See it. However, I was not able to get there until the summer of 1885, when we made> the trip in. company with three friends, arriving there in July.
 Crater Lake was discovered by a party of twenty-two prospectors led
 by John w. Hillman, then of Jack sonville, Oregon, June 12, 1853, and
 named Deep Blue Lake,. Mr. Hill
 man was the last survivor of this ] party and died in Hope Villa, Louisi- ana, March 19, 1915, in the eighty third year of his age.
 While standing on the rim of the lake in 1885 with Professor Joseph LeConte, the thought occurred to me that no point around this wonderful cauldron had the hand of man vet desecrated with peanut stands or oth- CT marks of desolation, and that omething should be done to save it forever for the people of this great country.
 How to accomplish this was the question, so I turned to the professor for counsel. We discussed it at length and finally decided the only way was to have a national park cre- ated. Ways and means were dis cussed and the work of preparation commenced then and there. A peti- tion to the president was prepared, asking for the withdrawal from the market of ten townships, which peti- tion was granted the following Janu- ary, when President Cleveland issued an executive order to that effect
 'The actual work of interesting congress commenced immediately and continued for seventeen years, when a, bill was passed and signed by the president May 22, 1902, the anniver sary of the maEtage of my parents ''
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Seven thousand workmen of the League Island Navy Yard, Ph1ladel- phia have signed a petition pledging their loyalty to the United States gov ernment at this time. The document, presented to Secretary Daniels by a committee pledging the men "to do our full share toward the victory which ultimately will be ours is one that should commend itself to all loyal Americans. The officers of the Grand Army of the Republic recently renewed their pledges of loyalty to the nation. It would not hurt if many more sons of the Repub- lie followed suit.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
FerOcious Bulgaria.
Providence Journal)

Bulgaria has her war aims, and she does not intend that they shall be overlooked either by her allies or her enemies "Our enemies must pay in demnity to extinguish all our debts and wherewithal to reward our so1- diers'', so a leading Sofia newspaper declares with appropriate heat. The acquisition of Greek, Serbian and Rou- manian soil is, of course, cardinal to the list of claims. Not until they are all satisfied to let the world have peace. "Our watchword is peace with annexations and indemnities", accord ing to the Sofia manifesto.
 The world will tremble. It may yet have to implore the Imperial German Chancellor to call off Bulgaria.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
If We Had Followed Bad Advice.
Duluth Herald)


 Do you remember how, only little while ago, lot of people were de- claring that the only way to solve the Mexican problem was for the United States to sail in and take charge? Do you remember that these people reproached the government severely for taking advantage of the plight of distracted Mexico to wade in and take her over for her own good-and in- cidentally also for ours, or rather for the good of those whose eyes were fixed on the mines, oil wells, timber and other rich resources of Mexico :?
 We didn't do it, thanks to the Presi- dent.
 How about 1t now?
 You haven't heard a word from Villa for months.
 Even the struggling bands that plundered in his name a little while ago seem to have subsidcd.
 Mexico is quieting down steadily.
 The Carranza government seems to be making good. It has full control of most of Mexico, and there seems to be no difficulty in the way of getting early control of the rest of it.
 A pro-German sentiment is rapidly growing in Mexico.
 Prominent Mexicans and Mexican newspapers, despite the eager and lib- orally financed German propaganda in that country are urging Mexican par ticipation in the war on the side of the Upitad States.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
Partnership of Infamy.
(Troy Record)

Caesar Borgias military record re- vealed a liking for frightfulness. His reputation as a poisoner was the sub ject of discussion for many years. The Kaiser is an advocate of frightfulness in time of war. The noxious gases his armies are using shows that he is a friend of poison for the purpose of achieving his aims. Borgia and Ho- henzollern are names that will be per- net.,ated in a partnership of infamy.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

At last the time is here when a man may plead patriotism as defense in a breach of promise case.-New IIa- ven Union.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

serve. Follow them, and you will add greatly to your enjoyment of Army life and to your chances for promotion
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Among the other accounts which Germany may as well strike off it's ledger is the unpaid balance of the Boxer indemnity which China still owes it.-Kansas City Times.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

FACTS AND RANCHES.

AS the map is now being rectif1ed g peace "by the map" is daily becoming more possible.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Someone has suggested that the President put sheep to graze on the front lawn of the White House. In view of what has taken place there recently anent the fragettes We should say that field mice would be more appropriate.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24
HOME READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS

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New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Today Is the day you were worrying about yesterday, and it's pretty good dsX efter au.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Count Bernstorff's appointment a. em bassador to Turkey is no more thar fair recognition of what he did tc us.-Springfleld Republican.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

The frank admission of the coa ,barrons that they are getting all the! can. corrects an erroneous impression they are human beings, after all.- Bostos Transcript
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

The several hundred .paragraphers who hailed Liberia's entrance as making things look darker for Ger many'' can't seem to think of any thing as clever with which to hall Chinas belligerency.-Cle Plain Dealer
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Some people think that the congress should sit continuously during the war to assist the president. The north west, looking over some of it's con- gressmen, is not so osure.-Minneapo11 Journal.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

Bishop J. J. Milan of Hartford says there are worse dangers than shrap- nel. Does the bishop have in mind some of the congressman at Washing ton.-Waterbury Republican.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-24

A college professor has become g factory worker. He suggested thai the experience will gain him some practical knowledge. We hope so.- New Haven Journa1-Courier.