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New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

been a suggestion that Germany stands willing to rectify even in small degree some of the wrongs she has perpetrated upon the world at large. There is never a mention of complete restoration of poor little Belgium. There Is no hint of freedom for Po- land. There is no talk of replacing Northern France. None of these things are advanced on the other end of the policy mo annexations and no indemnity" Last week in council with the Emperor, Chancellor Mich aelis had this to say:-"We all know what We want" He failed to add that what Germany wants is not what the rest of the nations want, or what the world wants. Even Senator La Toilette should by this time know that the world wants to be rid of Prussian militarism once and for all. It will never know peace until this monster has been crushed to earth never to rise. That is the sum and substance of the whole thing.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
HOSE WHO WENT AHEAD.

kn years after the death of has Bailey Aldrich his country the result of leaving the gates *arded. It now sees the folly of having stayed those who came |4hese portals of Liberty Ito lo the gifts of Freedom" Be-
 a of this, new national army Hing recruited under the selective
 Fro that the dissipation may be 'eht to a timely end. Millions of S6 American boys will, before an- e year has traced its career, be the battlefields of Europe fight
 h defense of all that this nation faver held dear,-the principles
 Dmocracy.
 fore the new national army is Erecruited and sent away we must Forget the boys who went ahead i the ranks of the regulars and Iu&LiOnd1 $ SudIu, dIlu luc navy. |people of New Britain have al- T done much work to this end. { have helped materially in col hg the names of all those young who enlisted from this city. The however, Is not yet complete. blanks coming in every day it not take long to set down upon books the record of all those who Tered the first call to the colors. $t us not forget our patriots. kr of the draft or the volunteer 'tment. The boys and men who how being enrolled on the army ks of the nation will be easily
 ed after. They are called as part
 his city's quota, it's net quota, and
 names are easily obtainable
 of those who went in the first
 Joined the colors from other
 Ons and their names are not all
 eded here. To keep the record
 8ht, all readers are requested to |n the blanks.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

isn't in just exactly the right mood to read a lot of stuff on hairpins, or other Plainville dope.
 What the average reader needs at the present time Is little informa- ton right off the bat on such intense ly interesting matters as, how to strike the boss for a raise-and get 1t, or how to marry & red-headed girl and still be happy or how to feed family of five on $68.40 per week, or how to live on corn bread and beans and still look pleasant.
 Any of these subjects would be mighty big help to the average man, and would help in many ways to re- duce the high cost of-existing, and would remove the cause of much pro- fan1ty If MT. Boggs or MT. Mitchell would only write some touching ballad, entitled, I didn't raise my beans to be a failure, or, when the green lice homeward fly. It would calm and sooth the feelings of many d1sheartened gardener.
 BEN DAVIS.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
THE SUM AND SUBSTANCE.

Senator LaFollette may not know to what extent he stirs up dissension when he takes up the cause of Ger many in the Senate of the United States. Because of his exalted po- sitiont as Senator from a great state in the Union, his utterances will be heralded all over the world. Further, they will be used by German propa- gandists to show that the United States, although it is in this fight, Is not in sympathy with the cause of the Allies. It will be easy for pro- German editors and writers and lec- turers to distort ideas and feed gullible class upon food destined to disturb the smooth workings of na- tons at war.
 There must have been great rejoic- report of LaFollette's action in the Senate Saturday came over the wire less. The Wisconsin Senator played into the hands of Germany, whether iiS FllSN IL UT IlOl. hdlSSI WAIlClIl himself could not have done better in the interest of Gcrmany's game. Chancellor Michaelis would have been at loss for words more fitting to the occasion than those in the reso- lution of the Wisconsin statesman. Everyt thing that tends to place Ger many in the position of fighting against the wrongs of other nations, whereas other nations are fighting against the wrongs of Germany, makes the contentious of the Junker- tum of Germany sound more feasible.
 Germany in putting out her peace feelers," lays claim to a policy of mo annexation and no indemnity In all the mutterings of peace from Germany, however, there has never
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

If the liquor traffic Is to be eradicated the aid of the Federal Government must be invoked. The partnership between the liquor traffic and the Federal Government is one of the most frightful heritages of the Civil War"
 To a man of Senator Morris Shep- pard's stunted intellectual growth and limited mental vision the yamp of the temperance lecturer. like the cackle of the little barnyard hamlet where he lives when at home, seems the noise of all the world Men of his caliber mean nothing. But men of his environment-the two-state wilds of Texarkana, where a gentle man who gets drunk in Arkansas may sober up in Texas, and vice versa. es caping the sheriff of each vicinage the while-could profit by nothing he might read in the doubtful event that he ever read at all. Such a person in the senate of the United States re- calls nothing we can think of except Mrs. Poyser's cock that thought the sun rose just to hear him crow. Ob- vlously MT. Sheppard is the original son-of of-a-gun from Bitter Creek, high up and north side!
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
-.f
 I'd Give 8 Good Deal.

I'd Give a Good Deal. I'd give a good deal to tread over
 again The miles that are stretching be-
 hind. To know all the smiles of the good
 folks of then, And the speech that was never un-
 kind; To dream all the dreams and to
 scheme all the schemes That the head of a small boy can
 do, To start splendid ships upon won
 derful> trips And patiently wait for them, too. I'd give a good deal could I only go
 back
 To the boy that I was over there, When life stretched ahead in won-
 derful track, And I knew not the station of Care. When I knew not the bad. the sor-
 did and sad, When vice hadn't entered the
 scene. And life was a joy to a barefooted And never thought was unclean I'd give good deal could I only re-
 turn
 To the marvellous things that
 planned And yearn as a small: boy of old used
 to yearn The plaudits of all to command. To stretch out and gaze with wide
 eyes at the blaze Of the wood at the hearth and to
 see My plume shining bright in the thick
 of the fight That some day was going to be- I'd give good deal to tread over The miles that are stretching be-
 hind, To go back to the wonderful coun-
 try of then When never heart was unkind, To start out anew as the boy that
 knew
 With his visions of splendor still
 bright, With his courage untamed. and the
 body unmaimed, And the plume in his helmet still
 white. EDGAR A. GUEST.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
CAUGHT IN DRAFT.
Boggs Unfortunate in Selection of His
 Poslt1on-Refuses to Give Age.

Boggs Unfortunate in Selection of His
 Pos'tion-Refuses to Give Age.
 To the Editor of the Herald:
 Gee! They fell on me like a thousand of brick in last Saturdays paper Your man, whoever he is, who writes the Town Talk, or Town Topics, or whatever you call 1t. wants to know why l. styled by him as a lf-confessed globe-trotter, have not expressed my views on the draft He says: Possibly MT. Boggs is one of those drafted and being a modest young man keeps his views to him., self.' To begin with, let me take up the globe-trotting proclivities that are supposed to be mine. I have never professed to belong to that class of gentry who try to keep up with the whirl of the world and trace their meanderlng way about the globe Nor have I confessed to such activities. did say something about the Barbary Coast in one of my letters; but the Barbary Coast is far from being the world. AS to my being in the draft, if I answer that insinuation one way OF the other I would be placed in the barrassing position of giving away my age. This, however, will not pre- vent me from touching on a subject which seems to be so near and dear to the hearts of young men,-and young ladies,-at this time. I will write something about the draft just so soon as I get over a very severe cold I am now suffering as the result of sitting in a draft Saturday night.
 L. K. BOGGS.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
THE WAY THEY GO.

tt in Chicago a drafted youth
 aside the veil that hid his Bhts and let his street-corner |panions have a peep into the in- host recesses of his soul. It was 't the war. of course. Seemingly |boy had been upbraided by his |er for not having enlisted pre- p to the operation of the selective
 Anent that episode, the boy Hated in this fashion: "He says to
 sWhy do you talk like that? Why ] you be patriotic? So when r came up, says to him, If eo'.'
 (mmenting on this, the Chicago |nne says: That was typical. A many young Americans feel the F. If they go, they go, and a Psopher looking on would call it
 ism, which it is. A magnificent ism, however. There was fatal among European conscripts when
 1rst mobilization summoned them
 he colors. but what did they
 of war and what did they know fenches and what expectation was
 D then that the struggle would
 indefinitely Our drafted boys
 rstahd. If they go, they go, eyes minds informed. yet without eper."
 bot is a point that must be em- tized. The European conscripts into the war when the war was uncertainty, when there was no that the war would be the great |of all wars, when the mind of could not imagine what such d would come to, what it would |n. They knew nothing of war.
 knew nothing of trench warfare, all its notifications. They knew neither did they dream of such outcome as this,-a war not end- even after the third year. So
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
FISHERMAN'S LUCK.
Shades of Izaax Walton, You Cannot ;, Expect to Catch Sturgeon in
 Hart's Pond,

To the Editor of the Herald:
 Fish stories of late don't seem to be very plentiful, however here is one right off the reel, that I am going to give to the readers of the Herald verbatum literature. A certain young man holding a responsible position in one of our largest factories (don't ask his name please) claims he is an ex- pert in angling, and will bet "cards and spades" that he can land more of the f1ny tribe than any other man that ever shouldered a fishing rod, and does not even except Izaak Walton. One day last week he decided to take a day off, and go angling for the fny tribe. after laying in a supply of food stuff for the day, together with a plentiful supply of the fluid that gives good cheer to all, he hied himself to Hart's pond, that Is famous for the vast quantities of fish that has always been landed there, he cast his hook into the stream and seated himself on the bank, to await results. He waited and he waited but still no bite. or even a nibble responded to his we'll baited hook, and mind you, "Old Sol' all this time was pushing up the mer- cury until it had reached the 90 de- gree mark, and still the we'll baited hook had undergone no change. As the coming darkness began to cast her shadows over the water. patience ceased to be virtue with this unfor- tunate one, and he gathered up his implements, and started for home using language that would not look we'll in print, and swore an eternal VOW, that this was the, end of his angling for this season at the least.
 Any time you want to get this young fellows temper up to blood heat, just say: Hello (B) how is the fishing at Hart's pond?
 G. H. GRIMES.
 S65 Stanley St
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
\ SOn-Of-a- Gun From Bitter Creek.
Louisville Courier-JournaD.

(LOulSNlll0
 It is matter of common ob- servation that the debates in con- gress are not very enlightening. But when the average congressional spouter gets on to religious text, or a moral topic, he fairly emulates the Dutchman, who every spring bored holes in his cellar door, as he said, ito let the darkness out.' The latest example of this is Senator Nor ris Sheppard of Texas, who believes in pumping virtue into the people by legislative process.
 He is as pious as Satan when re- Barebones himself. His theme is temperance, his method intem,perate. The constant activity of the liquor in- terests is a peril to free institutions, according to the Chinese statesman ship which would burn the house to roast the pig, while alcoholic liquor is a menace to the nations health mor- als and efficiency. Organized labor, cried the gentleman from Texarkana, has been asked to oppose prohibition because bartenders and brewery and distillery employees are members of unions. And then he blathered thus:
 Labor Is asked to emperil it's very existence, to take food from the mouths and clothes from the backs of men, women and children to sus- tain traffic meaning hunger, disease, insanity and death for the masses while liquor barons thrive in luxury.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
COST-PIUS SYSTEM REJECTED,

Washington, Aug. 13.-Straight pur- chase -and-sale contracts for war ma terial, instead of the cost plus profit plan, are recommended by the inter- departmental cost conference in a re- port. made public to-day after two months investigation. It says the cost-plus system should be used only where production involves difficult and complicated manufacturing effort or conditions which cannot be clearly foreseeu.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
OBJECT TO SPEED EMBARGO,

Tokio, Aug. 13.-Leading members of the Kokuminto party com posed of national liberals and number of prominent ship builders held meetings and adopted resolutions urging the government to negotiate with tha United States in an endeavor to pro-I cure a modification of the embargo onj steel exportation on the ground that 1t will prove a serious menace to Ja- pans industries
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
much for the contrast. So much for the European conscript

the European cOnscript.
 Now we have the American boys called to the colors. They are called after the nations in Europe have been battling against each other for To these three strenuous years. They in detail of all the horrors that take place in the trenches, on the open fields, and in the villages back of the battlefields. They know something of gained only through the printed page They are vastly more enlightened than the European conscripts who were called at the beginning of the war. Yet they as did the Chicago boy, offer their services in the same daredevil spirit that has always been characteristic of America, murmur- ing only to the extent that ''If go I go"
 There can be no better fighting spirit than this which says, eff go, l go,' for it is0the pent-up philosophy or three years standing-by as wit nesses of the war. For almost three years this nation was looking on as neutral nation. During that time there were many who advocated our taking a hand in the struggle. There such thing. And our boys got the benefits of all arguments pro and con. On top of that they got dislike for warfare which can only come to those who have patiently read and read and read their papers in the hope that the end would come soon and who then see no hope for an end :. As this nation was reluctant about entering the struggle, as it held aloof from the war for those two and more years of terrible abuse and calumny, so the American youth of today may be pardoned if he does not rush in pell mell where even angels would fear to tread. The war was forced upon America. And just in the same way the fighting of the war has been forced upon the American boy of to- day. In the midst of happiness he is asked to go forth to a battlefield,- to a field of death that has long been made familiar to him through numer- ous newspaper articles and stories de- picting the frightfulness of it all. Naturally, he hesitates before he &C., cepts. Yet he accepts the challenge. He hears the call to the colors And he says, "Well, someone has to go. Someone has to fight so that the world may be rid of this accursed monster,-autocracy. And if I go, I go. What of it?'
 There may be a difference between the glory which comes to the volun- teer and that which is known to the drafted man; but we fail to see it. ing asked, true. The conscript hesi- tates and then answers the call. Be- cause he has remained behind and pondered over the questions at hand
 
 coward. On the contrary, it is a sign he has weighed full well the impor- tance of the task in hand. And then, having donned the uniform and gone his place in the ranks with the heroes of the hour, the boys who are de- termined to win the world free for democracy, to make the old earth fit of autocracy. It is a hard task There can be nothing said to the contrary. Yet it will be accom- plished by those who after long de- liberation and debate make up their minds to say, "If l go, I go." And
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
COMMUNICATED
WANTED: A BALLAD.
One of Common, or Garden Variety
 as 1T Didn't Raise My Beans

to Be a Failure.
 To the Editor of the Herald:
 Just a word or two of advice to these two new writers, Messrs Boggs and Mitchell, and particularly to MT. Mitchell. For the land sakes, please write on some vital subject. The average man after he has ate his supper, fed the chickens, moved the lawn, weeded the beets, watered the garden, dug a quart of potatos-from Is hills, hoed the cabbage, emptted the ice pan, washed his feet, shaved, changed his clothes. returned the lawn mower, hasn't the time, nor
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
ITALIAN CARVED TO DEATH
Sebastian Ranno Held by Domenio Tomfnelh While Latters Son Hacks
 k Him with Knife. ..

Middletown, Aug. 12.-One of the most cold -blooded murders in the state, since that of Father Zebris inI New Britain, was committed here Sat-, urday night when Sebastian Ranno oE A Court street was stabbed to death in front of his home by Domenic and Giuseppe Tominelli, father and son, of Elm street. The father is said to have deliberately held the victim in his arms, while his son carved him in, merciless fashion.
 The entire police force assisted by a large number of Italian residenta secured the city for the assailants and succeeded in capturing the son late last night. The father later gave him., self up to the authorities Ranno wasy s3 years old ana married. The mur- der is said to be the result of a Quarreh of unknown origin.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
U. S. Ambulance Units for Italy

Milan, Aug. 12.-Arrangements are being made for the sending to the Italian front of several American am- bulance units similar to those which have been in operation in France since the war began. The first unit is ex pected in October.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
Unguarded Gates.

Liberty, white goddess! Is 1t
 well 5 leave the gates unguarded
 On thy breast bid Sorrows children, sooth the hurts of Fate, 1t the odden, but with hand of steel ny those who to thy sacred portals come D waste the gifts of Freedom. krHOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

New London's idea of a rube Is: Any one who lives north of Montville. Norwich Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

All the rest of his life the Good Brother who stayed at home kept thinking of the corking time the Prodigal Son must have had.-Don Marquis in New York Evening Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

I've generly noticed that tn feller that's alters aslxin' bout tn other fel- ler's wife is tn Teller to watch.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

I s'pose if a bizzybody he'd to be changed into some other kind ov an animal, he'd choose tn elephant, b'cuz it's got a big nose.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

And by the wax who remembers when there were bashful young girls! Bridgeport Telegram.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

My dorg wouldn't eat a franfooter tn other day. Whats that about comin' events cast 'ere shadows afOre?
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

Tha's alters sunthin pertickler nice bout ridin' on tn trolley cars special ly if nice young gals standin' on VT corn.
 HENRY WILLIS MITCHELL.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
HOME READING COURSE FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS

tona Army practical help in getting started the right No
  ing informal in These lessons issued which reserves right
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

IF God loves me ez I love my dorg I bet I'll see both n Heaven.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The German crown prince is the most repulsed young man in Europe. New York Evening World.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

On Aug. .incomparable Izaak Wal ton was born. But that was SPA years ago, in the good old days when the world was at peace.-Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

Some pocketbooks is like spring,-a long time opening up.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13
LINES O. TYPE.

The sun, so we're told, is 9.50.00O miles away. Soze a lot O. other sons from their fond mammas.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

It alters seemed t. me that there was lot O religion in bathtub.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

So far the most ingenious excuse offered to escape military service is that of a man who pleaded for ex- emption on the ground that his earn ings were necessary to make up the losses incurred by millinery shop his wife ran for recreation. And yet a heartless government turns a deaf ear to his appeal.-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

The New German cabinet is SC much like the old one that they won. der even in Germany what the change was for.-Hartford Times.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

LVon Hindenberg, who tells the Ger mans that the allies want s4,0OO,000 a year indemnity for 100 years, knows Germany's degree of guilt and can imagine a reasonable bill of dam ages.-Louisville Courier Journal.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-13

This country has not yet fully walk ened up to the fact that 1t is at war and the enemy is doing everything possible to keep it asleep.-Norwtch Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-04
entente can learn them from tina
source"
"WiJ, ReV Communicated,

The version of the Budapest dis
patch received by the Reuter- Telegram
Company via Amsterdam quotes Count
Andrassy as saying the peace condl-
tions of the central powers will be
communicated to President Wilson, the
quotation being as follows:
IF the entente reject our peace Of
fer only because they maintain that
our offer Is not honestly meant, but is
merely a maneuver and that they can
not enter into negotiations before
knowing our conditions, they can learn
these from President Wilson to whom
they will be communicated"
A Central News dispatch from AM
sterdam says it is reported in Berlin
that Germany will shortly send an ex-
planatory note to neutral powers In
connection with certain statements In
the entente reply.
Commenting on Washington dis
patches to the effect, that President
Wilson is determined to press his ef-
forts to bring about peace. the West
minister Gazette says:
For good or evil, we have to real
ize the presidents position of great
power and If he has the American
people behind him we are bound tu
treat him as very serious factor at
this stage Of the war. II, as sug-
gested, he is taking steps to get his
action ratified by a resolution of the
senate, we should have to take that
as definite int;mation that he means
to go on in spite of our reply"