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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-17

Every puff of 42-centimeter gun dissipates
a whole bale Of cotton into thin air; therefore
we cannot afford 10 waste a shred of cotton
fibre.
Wood is needed in enormous quantities TO
shore up trenches, for temporary buildings,
and 10 replace vessels sunk by submarines.
The better quality Of woollen rags can be
reduced TO their original fbres and used in
combination with new material TO clothe the
troops. Both the British and the Canadian
sswsrsanents have appealed 10 their women
ctnsens 10 save every scrap Of these precious
materials. The American woman will not lag
behind in patriotism.
But let not the saving end with the war!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-17
By MARY DUDDERIDCE.

)USEWIVES, save your rags;
also your waste paper! This
appeal, issued a year ago by
the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, is more
urgent than ever to-day. We
are now at war and both wood
and rays ara war materials.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
Genius,

cunning and curious splendor,
That glorif1es commonest things
Palsy, with clay from the river,
Molds cups for the tables of kings
A marvel Of sweet and wise madness
That passes our skill to define;
1t clothes the poor peasant with
grandeur,
And turns his rude hut to q shrine
Full many a dear little daisy
Had passed from the light of the
sun,
Ere Burns. with his pen and plow-
share,
Upturned and immortaled that one.
And just with. a touch of it's magic
1t gives to the poets rough rhyme
something that makes the world
listen,
And will. to the ending of time.
1t puts great price upon shadows
Holds visions, all rubles above
And shreds of old tapestries pieces
To legends Of glory and love.
The ruin its builds into beauty,
Uplifting the low-lying towers,
Makes green the waste place with
garden,
And shapes the dead dust into
flowers.
It shows US the lovely court ladies,
All shining In lace and brocade;
The knights, for their gloves who did
battle.
In terrible armor arrayed.
1t gives to the gray head glory
And grace to the eyelids that weep,
And makes our last enemy even,
To be as the brother of sleep.
A marvel Of madness celestial.
That causes the weed at our feet
| The thistle that grows at the way
side,
To somehow look strange and be
| sweet.
No heirs hath it, neither ancestry;
| But just as 1t listeth. and when,
| It seals with its own royal signet,
| The foreheads of women and men,
II ALICE CARY
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
Fifty Cents Worth OF Beauty.
Baltimore Sun. }

The new half-dollar is YER! attrac-
t1> e. in appearance, @nd evidently the
+a,lors of the mint have expended
more than usual care IN the artlstic
costuming Of the familiar lady VINO
alorns it, Is is d pleasure to nave
such pretty piece of silver adced 10
our currency and to have our pa
triotism and gratitude stimutasea Wy
the medium which contributes to our
material welfare. Beauty IN GULL
as in a person, however, is only super
fetal.
Nevertheless, we welcome the ne"
renresentation of Liberty, Win ner
sheaf of plenty, her symbolic stars
and her pious exp1 ession OF trust IN
diviner things She will not buy even
q dozen fresh eggs at present prices
but still. though she brings Us OUT
ff+v cents worth of relief, sic Is en-
va1oned with such an atmosphere OF
idealism and optimism that we are
a1od +o count her among our friends
and intimates.
How Charlie Proposed.
(Pittshurgh Chronicle telegraph.
He wac not a very rapid wooer and
she was getting a bit ANXIOUS.
Again he called and they sat to-
gether in the parlor, just those Two.
loud rap came at the front door.
ooh. bother!" she said, who can
be calling?"
"say you're out!" said the gay de-
ceiver.
"Oh, no. That would be untrue,
murmured the ingenious one.
Then say you're engaged, ne
urged.
"Oh. may 7 Charlie!" she cried as
she fell into his arms.
And the man kept on knocking at
the front door.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
Georgia Bought a Slave.
(Atlanta OnstitutiOnl

The State of Georgia was at one
time the owner of slave. Whether
or not any other state ever owned
slave or slaves is not known, but GER
tainly it is higly probable that no
other state ever owned a slave and a
railroad at the same time and worked
them together, as was the case with
the slave owned by Georgia.
The negro's name was Ransom, late
called Ransom Montgomery by rea-
son of the fact that before he was
acquired by the state he was owned
by a man named H. B. Y. Montgom-
cry. He was purchased outright by
the state through an act of the legis-
lature of 1910 for having saved the
Western and Atlantic railroad bridge
over the Chattahoochee river from
destruction by fire, and later was
placed upon a salary under the SUI
pervision of the principal engineer
of the Western and Atlantic railroad.
subsequently, when the civil war
was over, Ransom. now a free man,
was again remembered by the state.
Although the state was practically
bankrupt, an act of the general as
sembly, approved August 3, 1868, au-
thorized the superintendent of the
state road to pay to Ransom from the
treasury of the road the sum of
s562.5O and also to provide him with
a home during the rest of his life.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
FOR HEAHTH'S SAKE.

bunctlman Paonessa recently IN
|uced a resolution in the Common
he'll which had to do with pro-
ing the community from germs
might be tracked around by chill
playing near piles of refuse, or
sr insanitary surroundings. 1t is
bod resolution and should be en-
led to the letter. If the Health
the Police Departments are anX-
to cooperate In securing obedi-
\ to this ordinance they will md
Iod working field in the immediate
h,tv of the railroad station. There,
lot In a direction somewhat west
from the approach to the depot.
will find on any clear morning
bodily gang of young boys playing
md in the slush and mud, when
Il earthly accessories are at hand.
this morning, somewhat akin to
early day in Spring, when the
wing process had turned the snow
a soft liquid that in turn trans
ned spots Of land into veritable
lmires there were any number Of
J fellows romping and playing in
q of this stagnant, dirty water.
Il an innocent enjoyment of child
/ to play in water; but when the
ium of entertainment is of such
aaracter as to be devoid Of any
& approaching purity older heads
Id direct young feet to more
thful and attractive Fairgrounds.
health of the community de-
d. rigid precautton in these
81 as in some others. ..
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

man strain. It means to those who
came from the Highland country that
here in America there Is new state
OF affairs, a new condition, New
World, where all men of all places
are members of the one great fam
lily, where racial traits are discounted
for the common good, where religious
beliefs may flourish untramm eled,
the one great font, where class is un-
known. If America does not mean
that it means nothing. Because OF
that there are no folk anywhere like
the folk In this land. If our motley
gatherings were living side by side
in Europe as they are living here in
America day by day there would be
an endless chain of wars and battles
the same as now going on in Europe.
The thing is: We must cultivate
the idea that there are Mae Folk
Like Dor Ain Folk" but we must not
let it run away with US. Here in
America We have every reason to be-
lieve that there is not another nation
on earth as free as ours. There are
no people under the sun who live in
a more contented manner than we.
There are no skies so fair as ours
no land so devoid of petty chickering's
and distasteful associations We are
many In one. We should be one for
all. Otherwise there will be strife.
Holding too dear the love OF the old
countries we could easily transplant
Europe to this continent and set up
nation of different peoples, all pull
ing each against the other like tribes
men of old, all holding tribal, racial,
religious and class antipathies. If
we are to believe the doctrine, Nae
Folk Like Cor Ain Folk" we must
hold it in the true American sense,
and that only.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
"Scraps Of Paper"
(New York Commercially

Merchants and manufacturers treat
contracts to buy and sell merchandise
as scraps Of paper which may be canS
celled or repudiated at will. A large
importer of raw materials and mates
rails partly finished for use in manu-
featuring has refused to accept orders
from some Of his customers because
he believes they are trying to gamble
at his expense. He thinks that they
will take the goods If the market
shows profit at the time Of delivery
and they will cancel or refuse to ac-
cept II the market goes down. He,
therefore, feels sure that he will be
left with the goods on his hands IT.
prices go down, 10 he has refused to
help them.
For two years most merchants deal
ing in staple merchandise have made
larger profits on a steadily rising mar
ket, so there has not been much
trouble, but this cannot last forever.
Manufacturers and wholesalers are
now refusing to accept orders when
they think they are suspiciously large.
They are trying to check the propen-
sity Of retailers and jobbers to specu-
late and they hold them down to the
actual amount of merchandise they
are likely to sell in the regular way.
From top to bottom, THIS abuse
should be abated, and there is sure,
and easy way to do it. When q sale
is made draw bill of exchange or
draft on the purchaser and insist on
his accepting it. Turn all these con-
tracts into negotiable commercial pa
per eligible for rediscount by a Fed
eral Reserve Bank and fulfill the con-
tracts to the letter. This converts un
settled liabilities into quick assets.
To a considerable extent the scar
city of raw materials for use in manu-
featuring is due to the unwillingness
of importers to take chances. They
have been importing less than their
customers require because Of lack OF
confidence in their business integrity.
The importer has to order months
ahead from foreigners who take no
chances, and he is not asking too
much If he insists on his own custom
ers helping to finance such transac-
tons by accepting bills or signingt
valid contracts that will be specifically
enforced.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

had at least some acquaintance with
practical government in Amertcai
his thorough studies as scholar and
jurist gave him a knowledge of ad'
ministrative politics in other apheres.
As secretary of foreign affairs in
1888 he did more than any one in
the home government in shaping it,
foreign policy. But the system he
indicated was *++ not the militia
system of unsophisticated impulse,
but that which the law Of nations had
at the time sanctioned as the best
mode of conducting international
affairs. His course as secretary was
based on the law of nations as thus
understood by him."-Gaillard Hunt
in Harper's Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
THE BILL TO BE PAID.

Business men will no doubt rail at
tax on their profits of more than
eight per cent. on amounts exceeding
five thousand dollars a year The
amount Of the proposed assessment Is
also eight per cent. This tax if it is
made legal will be in addition to the
corporation income tax already in
vogue. In addition to this, the Con-
gress, in order to raise more money to
carry out the preparedness program
recently adopted may increase the
present inheritance tax by fifty per
cent
The new Revenue Bill is one of
the most gigantic measures Of it's kind
ever presented to the national Con-
gress. 1t is but the aftermath of
popular sentiment which having
spread throughout the country de-
manded unprecedented expenditures
on the army, the navy, and land for
tif1cations. The expenditures au-
thorized for this year alone were
somewhere in the neighborhood of
$500, 100000. The sliding scale
method of expenditures adopted will
eventually bring the annual bill for
war precautions up to $1,000, 900, 900 a
year. ~
Talking about the national defense.
advocating gigantic schemes of i'm
provement and protection, and paying
for the national defense are two sep
arate and distinct processes The
people demanded a complete
overhauling of the army and
the navy. Their dread of what
might happen to the nation in the
face of what occurred in the war
zone of Europe, where nations were
unprepared' started stampede. Now
they are called upon to pay the bill.
1t Is the unpleasant feature of the
performance
since money can be collected only
in the realms where money flourishes
the national Congress has the right
idea in passing by those who are least
| fitted to bear the brunt of the burden
But it is doubtful If the idea of tax
| ing business concerns showing a prof
it Of eight per cent. on amounts ex.
ceeding five thousand dollars a yea,
will work out just as easy as the sys.
| tenn sounds. The men who do bust.
ness dangerously near that mark will
| chance In the world of evading a gov
eminent tax. Those who work on {
| gigantic scale will probably have tt
| pay the bills for the little fellows
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
OUR DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Its Father and First Secretary Was
Robert r.. Livingston.

Our first secretary for foreign
affairs was Robert r. Livingston of
New York. statesman and jurist
who ranked high among giants who
ruled the Continental congress and
carried the country through the
Revolution. He created the depart
ment in the face Of difficulties which
would have driven a less courageous
man away from his work, for in the
congress there was a general fear
Of government and a general disin-
clination to depute any governmental
powers. So the executive departments
which were created were kept in
leading strings and were not allowed
to go beyond reaching distance of
congress, their mother and master.
The department Of foreign affairs
was created in 1871, and Livingston
was put at the head of it, He resigned
in June, 1888, and the department
was suspended until John Jay was
made the secretary in Sept 1884.
Since then 1t has had continuous
existence, having been expanded into
the department of state in 1889.
Livingston had charge under con-
gress of the conduct of the country's
foreign affairs; he gave advice and
information to congress; he was the
medium for instructing our ministers
abroad and of communicating with
the French minister in this country;
he had an office with assistants and
clerks and a Systematically organized
executive department.
Let the editor of the Diplomatic
Correspondence of the American
Revolution. DR.. Francis Wharton
describe the father of the state de-
partment:
livingston" he says Though A.
much younger man than Franklin.
possessed in his Representatives,
and his many sidedness not a few of
Franklin's characteristics. From his
prior administrative experience as
royalist recorder of New York ha
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
In Loving Memory.
(The Milwaukee Journal. }

(The Milwaukee Journal.)
A little old man came into the Office
of the Chicago charities and laid
down $3.50, ito help out some needy
families" Then he told them a story:
Years ago. when all of my folks
were living, I couldn't afford to give
presents Things are different now,
but MOST of my folks have gone. r
went shopping, just as If my folks
were alive. I picked out a shawl for
an aunt of mine. She's dead and so
I didn't buy 1t, but I put down the
amount of money I would have spent
Then 1 went and got some things for
my dead brother and for my father
and mother and for few old friends
of mine. I didn't really get them,
you know, but I priced the things 1
thought they would like When I
added up all the money I would have
spent 1t came to almost $3.50, so
added little to it, and here it is"
Has any one heard of a finer, more
beautiful way of showing mans
love for his dead The things he had
wanted to do it was too late to do
now. He might, it is true, have spent
money on stone to make more arti-
fetal and melancholy the quiet hill
side where ''his folks" rest. He found
a better way to spend his affection,
to remember in fancy those he could
no longer reach and then to see that
his loving memory of them went to
make others happier. He made his
love for his dead a power to gladden.
the living. He laid tribute on grief
and made 1t q blessing. 1t is not
sad story; we need not pity him. But
we cannot help loving him.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
Miracles of Steel.
Miracles OF Steel. =
C'Waldemar Kaempffert in Harper's
Mapazine1

CWaldemar Kaempffert in Harper's
Magazine).
Writers of historical fiction per-
the old armorer has perished. And
yet In cars sold for only B. few hun
dred dollars axles and crankshafts
are to be found infinitely superior IN
texture to the weapons Of famous
swordsmiths. The tales of supple yet
tough blades that could be bent into
circles without swapping are collapsed
in the less artfully phrased reports of
tests conducted with crankshaft steel
in the metallurgical laboratory OF eny
large automobile factory. Could the
old swords be twisted through six
complete turns before they broke?
An axle-shaft can be so twisted. What
was the tensile strength of the mace
that Godfrey of Bouillon or Richard
the Lion Heart welded? How far, On
other words. could it have been
stretched lengthwise before it parted?
No one knows. But the automob
metallurgist Is sure that 1t was not
the equal In that respect of modern
valve-stem--a slim little member that
can be extended half its length In a
testing machine before it snaps in
two.
AS soon as the metallurgist dis
covered that the properties Of steel
could be subtly changed by the addi-
ton of very small quantities Of such
elements as chromium, carbon, man
ganese, nickel tungsten, or vanadium
AS soon, in other words, as the
problem of making the automo bile
durable and safe had been solved by
research-the designed ventured to
consider the economies of motoring.
Heavy automobiles endure, but they
consume much fuel and they wear
out expensive tires very rapidly.
Light automobiles are more cheaply
maintained. And so new demands
were made on the laboratory in the
effort to save weight without sacri-
hcing strength or safety. Is a gear
required with teeth on the outside as
hard as tool-steel and yet with a core
that shall be soft and tough, a gear
that shall not weigh more than a given
number of ounces? The metallurgist
is asked not only to discover the for
mula for a steel out Of which a part
can be made and which must be ex-
amined with the microscope to detect
the wear to which 1t has been sub
jected after having run ten thousand
miles, but also to indicate the meth
DDS that must be followed by the fur
nace-men in heat-treating the metal.
Without the laboratory the designer
would be helpless. There would be
little progress from year to year.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
President Wilson in applying TT

President Wilson in applying the
veto to the Immigration Bill did ex-
actly what the nation expected him
to do. He is the third President of
the United States to uphold the idea
Of Democracy in this way. He has
refused to close the gates on those
deserving citizens Of the old land who
are ambitious to start life anew on
a soil free from the handicaps i'm
posed by Europe. The literacy test
attached to this bill is what fore
doomed it to the White House veto.
Because a man cannot read or write
is. no sign he is an unworthy candi-
date for admission to this nation
Some of the heaviest blows struck
against the nation have come from
men who knew how to read and
write far too much for the country's
good.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
- FOLK LIKE DOR AIN FOLK"

here il a very pretty bit OF senti-
N prevalent among the Scottish
bic which Is founded on tho
ase, Mae Folk Like Dor Ain
ri" It means just what 1t says:
Are are no folk like our own. 1t
1robab1e, too. that every nationality
the face of the globe has an ex-
kcion along similar lines, clothed
in different language. In Ger
4. this self same idea has taken
re,sion in the ringing challenge,
eltmacht oder Neidergang.' A
nber of thoughts in the same chan
are familiar to the English ana
/ French, and the Irish, and the
fans and the Russians, and the
sndinavfan peoples, and now with
Japanese, who are building up
national sentiment which means
lpan Over ALL"
Rational, racial, religious, and class
he are few of the traits that
highly developed in the human
le. no matter where the race
bunds. Going back to June 20,
IA when a Bosnian peasant assas-
ated two Royal personages in the
lie town of Sarajevo we find a sen
lent, which. clothed In the Amer
Ia vernacular meant, No prole-
Ian can klI3a member of the arts
Tracy and get away With IT. That
L well enough; but when the pun
.ment overstepped the frail carcass
The peasant youth and rode rough
al over the continent the sacred
hfiment Of class love had gone a
II steps too far. It ended in the
Eossal war now infesting almost en-
E Europe, and which at one time
.eatened to stretch its ghastly head
en- across the Atlantic ocean and
to the shores sof America.
It Is Ia tr,1ism that: love. Of sell
"a etimes goes so far as to breed ha-
ia Of others. If. any people, nc
hitter how great, think they are the
Nv ones who inhabit the globe, thu
tde that cometh before the fall i
hand. The time for the oppres
IN and the under-trodden has come
story is respondent with examples
.ere are manifestations of thes
ings every day in Europe, wher
ton after nation Is imbued wit
. idea. grown to more than mag
ficent proportions, that there ar
,ae Folk Like Dor Ain Folk"
America, the Melting Pot, the lam
at holds all the folk of the entir
nth. must soon learn the lesson o
lae Folk Like Dor Ain Folk" an
bply it in a different way that nov
eing demonstrated in Europe.
a beautiful sentiment when nc
arried to the extreme, when exer
Eed in the same magnanimous strai
listing among those men and WON
i of Scottish blood who have brough
(e idea to these shores. To them
|Eae Folk Lake Cor Ain Folk" doe
= meAn that there IL but one rae
-, t1sess who bear the celsdo
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
Allied Scorn of the Turks.
(Scranton Republican,.


Not since Gladstone uttered his ia
nous condemnation Of "the unspeak-
able Turk" has there been more
trenchant or accurate description of
the sanquinary spirit Of Ottoman cru
city than the phrase In the answer
of the Allies to President Wilson's
peace note describing "the bloody
tyranny Of the Turks"
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
American Cities.
cleveland Plain Dealer)

1CIeVeIand Plain DeaIer).
''They were named" says the Louis
Vile CONFECTIONERY, New York,
Chicago, St. Louis. New Orleans. They
are called N Yawk, or NJ Yarrick,
Chicargo, Stint Louee, Newer Leans"
And-er-migh one mention Looah-
yl2
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

A New Jersey man lost his mind
attempting to invent a sanitary top
for milk bottles. How about consti-
tutional prohibition of milk ?-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

When Theodore Roosevelt quotes
Scripture Billy Sunday coins another
slang phrase.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

Kaiser Wilhelm has decorated
Crown Prince Ruprecht "for winning
the battle of the Somme." Now that
the battle has been won what are
they sticking around there for?.-New
Haven Union.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

Clock watching is as bad a habit
for nation as for an office boy. The
fear lest somebody work longer than
he ought to has grown into an OBJ
session with a great part Of this ma
tion.-N. Y. Evening Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
When Stocks Fell.

NEW 7 DIX sun J.
Every time the millennium hobs up
stocks go down. ....-..-..-
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Chicago has the apathy Of cow.
1t has emotions, but it has no effec-
tive motions.-Chicago Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

When a man with only a few dol
lars to his name can read unmoved
of the hundreds of millions in gold
imports of the billions In national
bank resources, of the unprecedented
railway earnings, he is true philoso-
pher=Baltimore News.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-30

Maximilian Harden, the spoiled
child of German journalism, Is per-
mitted to praise President wilson
course in turning toward "a new flu
ture." Junkerdom may hpd one free
voice useful in testing what the coun-
try really thinks.