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New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
ARISE AND BE COUNTED.

It is time to arise and be counted, To let the world know where yon
 stand,
 While treason is subtiIIy working While the flames of sedition are
 famed
 By creatures of high and low station, Who from pathways of righteousness
 stray:
 Are you true, are you false to the na- That deserves your allegiance today? No such thing as neutral position, A crisis like this is not fenced, And he who is not counted for us May safely be counted against A fig for your spacious excuses: Are you true are you false at the core? There has been and may be abuses But the country today is at war. That autocracy trails in it's wake, And the sword of democracy gleaminS, Nav bend, but it never will break. Are you for or against? is the ques-
 ton
 That sternly confronts you today, Are you willing to stand and be
 counted
 As a friend or a foe in the fray? For the forces of right and of justice Are fighting oppression and wrong; Stand up now my sister or brother Let the whole world know where you
 belong.
 Are you not or cold sister or brother To this armageddon world wide? You must needs be the one or the
 other Either face us, or stand side by side. No sinuous creeping and crawling, No tracherous stabs in the dark When we wake to the cant of the
 creatures
 We have harbored too long in the ark. As for those who are merely mistaken Self f1ypnotized dreaners of dreams They will learn if they will but awaken Why the sword of Democracy gleams' WILLIAM GILLEN RODGERS.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Twins.
(New York Sun).

tNG" 1OfK Sun).
 Red Tape has rival, Blue Tag in the business of making confusion worse confounded, of wasting money, of sacrificing lives.
 Blue Tag is the imp of priority perched on this commodity and tha supply, on these carloads and thoss manufacturing orders.
 Red Tape and Blue Tag are twins. Neither has @ vice not possessed by the other; not a capacity for evil is latent in Blue Tag; Blue Tag accom- plishes no mischief that Red Tape is incapable of effccting.
 The watch word for Red Tape is "of1icial'' and the countersign of Blue Tag is Important
 Red Tape achieves his great tri- umphs by delay. Blue Tag is more subtle; he triumphs through delay. but accomplishes it by seeming to rush forward and by piling everything in a hopeless jam.
 Official" shrieks Red Tape and his cry is as false as himself. It is not necessary to act slowly, circuitously stupidly to act officially.
 Important" hlcats Blue Tag. A piece of vocal canouhage. Where everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody" Where everything is i'm portant nothing gets moved.
 For Red Tape and Blue Tag the same penaltL ...-.. -
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16

A battleshfp is a floating cellar. And it's twice as hard to ventlate The cellar has windows. A ship has only ports, little holes in her sides which must be kept closed while al sea.
 Other causes make ship ventilation difficult yet very necessary. Despite extraordinary precautions heavy greasy Vapors rise from engine room matches and spread into living spaces. Bunker gratngS permit invisible @ gases to escape along the gun decks. SICK quarters emanate well-known swedish odors men despise. There are smelly food rooms, sculleries, washing compartm ents, and print shops. And at times the fresh paint fumes are suffocating.
 The problem isn't so much com- fort Let thousand gas-grogged blue jackets roll out of their ham, mocks at a. m. and it would take a thousand more to get any work out of them.
 Fresh air makes fresh men.
 Come out on deck. Look up there near the base of the basket mast. See that square screened black hole? Nearly six feet high it is. Draft in front of it would pull your hair out by the roots. It's the Blower Feed. A huge conduit of thin sheet metal leads from it down to a gigantic elec- tric fan. Beyond runs another con- du1t or pipe and branches down and up. The down part divides again on the deck below, and again below that. And so on right down to the inner bottom.
 Each square hole like this one is a mouth. The fan is it's throat And the branching pipes beyond are the bronchial tubes of complete lung system A battleship may have fifty such lungs. And except for her wa ter tight double bottoms no square inch of her vast cellular structure goes unsweetened by sun-pure air.
 Bad air. like bad company, clings. It crouches in dark corners hangs in pockets, and finds melancholy refuge in unsuspected storerooms. The glad some stream of ocean ozone spread
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Local Color.
(Hamlin Garland.)

Local color in a novel means that 1t has such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native.
 1t means a statement of life as in digenous as the plant-groWth. It means that the picturesque shall not be seen by the author-that every tree and bird and mountain shall be dear and companionable and necess- sary not picturesque; the tourist can not write the local novel.
 From this it follows that local color must not be put in for the sake of local color. It must go in, it will go in, because the writer naturally car ries it with him half -unconsciousIy or conscious only of it's significance, it's interest to him.
 He must not stop to think whether it will interest the reader or not. He must be loyal to himself, and put it in because he loves it. If he is an artist, he will make his reader feel it through his own emotion.
 What We should stand for is not universality of theme, but beauty and strength of treatment, leaving the writer to choose his theme because he loves it.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16

Earle Barnes Lewis was one of the first from kcnsinston to receive his call to report with the Naval Reserve. He enlisted on May II, 1917, and re- ceIved his call on June to report at Columbia university He studied wire less telegraphy until August 9, when he was assigned to duty. He is now on board United States warship and, as the picture shows, he is busy at his task.
 Lewis was formerly q draughtsman employed by the Skinner Chuck Co. He experinented with wireless tel cgraphy, making his own apparatus. He was graduated from New Britain High school in 1916. He is a mem- Der of the kensington Methodist church.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Get a Transfer.

If you are on the Gloomy Line, Get a transfer. If you're inclined to fret and pine, Get a transfer. Get off the track of Doubt and Gloom, Get on the Sunshine Train. There's
 room.
 Get a transfer. If you are on the Worry Train, Get a transfer. You must not stay there and com-
 plain
 Get transfer. The Cheerful Cars are passing
 through, And there's lot of room for you. Get a transfer. If you are on the Grouchy Track, Get a transfer. Just take a Happy Special back. Get a transfer, Jump on the train and pull the rope That lands you at the station, Hope, Get a transfer.
 ANONYMOUS.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
AERIAL TAXICAB DRIVING.
Aviators Abroad Read Dime Move
 While Floating Around in Prac-
tice BuSSeS
Manchester Guardian)

| shared a railway carriage, writes R." with young officer in the khaki and the wings" of the Royal Flying Corps on his breast. We talked, and he gave me lessons in new uses of the English language.
 of to France again." he said. and jolly glad of it. I'm fed up with taNicab driving"
 'Taxicab driving?" I queried
 Well, that's what we call it. You see, I've been up at X for three months piloting machines for ths young Huns. That's what we cali taxicab driving"
 "Piloting machines for youns Huns," I exclaimed, more mystified than before. You don't mean to say that"
 "Oh! don't mistake me; they arg not young Huns from Donington Hall; we call cadets who are learning to fly and men who are learning to ob- serve and use guns and cameras in aeroplanes Huns. Frightful slow gan1s taxi driving for Huns, especially when you are the target"
 'When you are the target?" s
 "Yes, that's right. You see, we fly a slow machine which trails a target
 T hope the target has a long tra14 rope"
 Being pottcd at? Not much; ft's behind it, and other machines fly up and pot at the target--at least the Huns do the potting." 1" @
 Wire, it is. Twenty yards Or so They miss the target sometimes and get us; had half a dozen ventilations in the tail of my old bus one day last week." (
 Good heavens, they might have got you!"
 It's all in a days work. but when you've heard Archie barking the pop-pop-pop of a Hun at practice doesn't put the wind up"
 Bit of a strain, isn't it?"
 Being potted at Not much: it's a million to one against your beins biffed even by a nervous Hun. The real strain is the monotony of wait ing for them to come and do their work. Sometimes the c. o. keeps up there with nothing doing just to stuff his old tally of hours of flight. If it were mot for the reading"
 "The what?"
 'The reading. always take novel up with me-"
 ITO read when you are f1ying?"
 We all do that. If it's a clear sky and not too bumpy the old bus nearly manages herself"
 But isn't that very risky"
 Taxi driving risky? Lord, no!s That's why we call it taxi driving"
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Husbands Going Up.
Philadelphia Public Ledge

IF n1laOelphIa Pubic Ledger.)
 War plays havoc with men. Deep thinkers are already discussing the effect of a. shortage upon the insti- tuition of matrimony, and are even suggesting polygamy as a solution of the problem. One aspect of it which just now seems to concern many girls who have sweethearts at the front is whether love demands that they should marry these if they come home crippled, German eff ciency is already engaged in a prac- tcal effort to meet this issue An advertisement in a German news paper. described as "typical.' offers a wife and home to an injured sol dier on easy terms. The advertiser, who is 22, modestlv says that she is mot bad-looking.' She lays greater emphasis on other attractions. She has IA fowls on her farm, a large number in these days of food scar city, to say nothing of a pony, pigs, cows, two hams and some sausages now in process of curing" These attractions should be sufficient; but there are besides piano and a, kete, to make pleasant evenings for music-loving German household. Even life in war time should be agreeable in these circumstances.
 Nor is this all This sensible girl, with all the materials of a success full Hausfrau at hand, does not seek to bind a prospective husband by any hard and fast promise. She has mo objection to a separation if after six months of married life incom- patibility of character should mani fest itself on either side" It would be cynical to suggest that the large number of injured soldiers and the small number of girls who can offer them such advantages gives her the best end of the bargain. She is doubtless moved simply by the gen. crous desire to leave the man a loophole of freedom. "Why don't the men propose, mamma?" The writer of that once familiar song lived in times when the women didn't propose-at least directly. Is not this frank method of asking for what you want really the more ex- cel1ent way? After the war hus- bands are sure to go up like other things.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Home That Jack Built.
Springfield Republican,

When the government went into the shipbuilding business it could not have anticipated that after plac- it would have to find houses for the workmen employed by them to live in. But that is what the shipbuild- ing problem has come to. First the problem was shipyards; then it was worl<men to work in the shipyards; and now it is houses to shelter the Workmen who work in the ship yards. Soon 1t may be necessary for the government to supply the grub for the workmen who live in the houses that were erected for the shipyards where the ships are (sup- posed to be) built.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
TODAY'S TABLOID TALE
The Two Majio%eIS.
By Joe Blast.

Right after their honeymoon they set out on house hunt ing expedition.
 They visited twenty six houses in one day. He was willing to live in any one of them, but she could not make up her mind, because each house seemed just d little more attractive than the one before.
 But Dagmar, he would plead, well never find an- other house like this. Look at this revolving dining room. A perfect aid to digestion! And shower bath right in the par lor! How convenient! How sanitary."
 Let's look at just one more" She would reply, knowing tba t ne could never refuse her any, thing.
 And at the next house he would exclaim with delight Dagmar, we must take this one. Just see. a self-crankinr A'e'NS S' <Nlli iOuF D16C6S Of coal that the last tenant must nave overlooked when he moved out!''
 But always she would hesi- tate and look further, until h- naily with a little shriek of Joy, she cried, "At last, Prus- so. at last! Look.-don't you see that little majigger on each side of the open fire place?"
 Why, they're only ordinary little majiggers,'' he objected. and the plaster's all worn off the walls, and there are splin- lers on the staircase banisters."
 Prusso, don't be footish!" she eHulted. Those little ma- Ilggers are just the exact right shape and just the exact right distance apart! I can drape my skelns of yarn on them beautifully when I knit. Pr1s- sc, we'll take this house!''
 And, in spite of the fact that the roof leaked and there was no bedroom and no place to put chairs and things, he gave Tn to her and they moved in and lived unhappily ever after. Copyright 1918 by George
 Matthew Adams)
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Saving Fuel.
(L. B. Jones in Farm Life

We need a hundred million tons of coal more than in a normal year. Production has been increased fifty million tons. There is, therefore, a fifty million-tons shortage. The peo- pie can save that fifty million tons if they will. All classes of people are being asked to help. A kitchen show eiful of coal per day saved by every householder means an annual saving of twenty-five million tons. More careful firing can bring this about.
 Americans, as rule, have their houses superheated. Sixty eight de- grees is the hea1thful heat. This will be preached. Americans keep their houses too dry. A pan of water on the stove or register, giving off a little moisture, will make for health and comfort at a considerably lower tenn perature than is agreeable in a dry room.
 Unused portions of tho house should be closed off. Storm windows and weather strips should be used more than ever.
 Tn many cases a distinct saving can be made by the use of oil stoves.
 Hundreds of thousands of houses
 
 wood on cold evenings instead of booming up the furnace.
 Tn many localities the farmers es- pecially are in a position to conserve coal by burning more wood-perhaps in the kitchen Where this can be done it makes a double saving: It saves coal and saves the coal that is burned to transport that coal, saves cars and engines that are needed for other work. There are dead trees, dead limbs and old rails that can be burned now to the betterment of the farm
 There are trees that can be selected that should be cut and piled now against next winters shortage. In many parts of the country farmers can accumulate a surplus of such wood for next winters use.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
ADVERTISEMENT THE FIRST
 LAW.

News that the local health depart
 ment is now properly equipped with
 the necessary laboratory apparatus and serTms for the treatment of pneumonia should be welcomed by all
 who know the ravages of this dread
 disease. If it is true, as stated, that
 some physicians are loath to cooper
 ate with the health department and
 public officials someone might prop
 erly rise to ask, Why? The serv- ices of the health department are for
 the people. Unless a physician is so
 expert as to need no outside assist ance he is not warranted in spurn- ing all help of this sort. Especially is this so when pneumonia cases are A under observation. The newspapers of the past week are filled with &C., S counts of deaths resulting from this one sickness. Prominent men the because of such ailment. Since the new superintendent of health here has specialized in tho treatment of pneumonia his advice should ap- proach the stage of being expert. It would seem then that sufferers them selves would be sufficiently interested $ to probe into the working merits of the local health department
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Pronouncing Bolshcviki.
(Sprin ngfield Daily News. }

It's difficult to satisfy everybody when it comes to pronunciation of new words. At first we pronounced s'bolsheviki' with ferocious accen- tuation of "shev'', and were prompt ly called down and told that we must put the loud pedal on Dol" and "vi" if we did not want to betray our ig- norance.
 Then we went around BOL-shev- Viking till we were black in the face, only to have a bespectaclca pest fix us with a stern and uncon1- promising glare and say: 'Young man, the way to pronounce that word is of-SHFfV- -KH''
 So now we avoid the word alto gether and speak of them as them Russian nuts Safety first is our motto
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16

f95ir entrance into the war he was Ill nossession of facts unknown to the mass of American people, AS Pres ident of tue United States he had oe- fore him all the convichng material dug up by the American Secret Ser vice and the special agents of the De- partment of Justice. The revelations of Swedish diplomatic dupl1clfy In Germany's service was new to the people here when the Swedish Charge d Affaires was unearthed as a, spy In Mexico City. To President Wilson all these connivings' were old stuff. So it was with the German plan to unite Mexico and Japan for a prospective raid on the American border whereby three of our sovereign states were to be turned over to Mexico. Knowing all these things President Wilson easily became the high director and advisor of his people. His word IS now anHously awaited by the entire world No man desires to bring about peace more than this same MT. Wilson. No man sees more clearly the folly of negotiating with the rulers constituted. His Judgment is now the judgment of the world. ''rhere can be no peace with the Hohenzol- lerns"
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
Juvenile Work and Mischief.
 (M don Poc0rdA

The National Child Labor commit tee has just made a study of juvenile delinquency in the Borough of Man haitian. New York City The records of 1,792 children who passed through the chiIdren's court in 1916 were studied in the effort to find out wheth CT the tendency to delinquency was greater among working or unemployed children.
 The idea current with most people is that the child who is working is less apt to get into mischief than the unemployed child, but the records showed the opposite to be the case. The child workers who got into trou- bie were four times as many as the other children.
 Investigation was made into the age. amount of schOoling nationality and home conditions of all these chil- dren but Tn every case the conditions were found to be about the same. The working children, says the investi- gator, had as much education, as intelligent parents and as good homes as the non working children. The conclusion seems indubitahle that em- ployment of children contributes to their delinquency.
 The reason does not lie on the sur face. but it is not far to seek Chil- dren whose natural instincts for play and self-expression are repressed for many hours a day by gainful employ- ment must find unnatural outlets for their growing energies of this sort The result is violation of various laws
 Somehow or other, it just does not seem to pay to let children go to work during the years when they ought to be at study and play The mischief is made by individuals, but the con- munity has to pay the damages.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
A Gift for a Soldier,
(New Haven Register.

Trust Waterbury to select g. shit able present for a young man going to the war. One Of the teachers i,, the high school was called for ser wee, and the rest of the faculty and the members of the senior class as- sembled. Probably the young man had his speech of acceptance for the gift all made up Probably he was prepared to thank them for the mag nltlcent wrist watch, the complete service kit, the knitted scarfs and sweaters and the khaki hand kerchiefs. But he was disappointed for somebody with a lot of brain matter was on the committee and when the present was given the package was unwrapt and there was "a leather coat.
 There seems more forethought and appreciation of the actual needs of the young soldier in the gift than in any one of the hundreds already chronicled. The recipient was called for the medical corps, where his work may take him into the field at all hours of the night and in all conditions of weather. Some one realized that, and the young man gave a sigh of thankfulness when he saw it.
 wrist watch is a, convenience, and a handy thing to have-but it doesn't keep out the winter chill A service kit is fine. too, but shaw ing soap and toothbrushes are small protection from the biting winds of winter in cantonments or field hos pitais. The leather coat will be a constant reminder of the thoughtful ness and foresight of those left be- hind to the young man wearing it on the ambulance.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
An AlI-College Rally.
(BoStOn Herald)

The college banquet season is at hand, but there will be such lack of college alumni banquets during the next few months as no winter has known since that festive occasion wa invented. The absence of d multitude of the younger men on sterner busi- ness, the food situation and, in gen. eral, the exigencies of war time. are Influencing virtually all of the alumni associations here in Boston either tn abandon altogether or to modify greatly their annual gatherings. But as a substitute. Boston is to witness a gathering on a scale and of a sig nificance that are alike unique and inspiring. I will be nothing less than a great intercollegiate patriotic rally with thousands of men in attendance, representing half hundred colleges and pledging themselves to the great duty of the hour. It will be a transla~ tion of the typical college spirit into terms of patriotic service.
New Britain herald., 1918-01-16
WORDS WITH \ MEANING.

Up to this time all discussion anent .the end of the war has simmered Hdown to this phrase, There can be #no peace with the Hohenzolierns." The people of the world outside
 Termany have come to realization zDf the diabolical power exercised by 3he Hohenzollerns. They have come zto an understanding of what has gone S Son within the German Empire for the past forty odd years, or since the time of Bismarck. Since the reigning Khouse of the dual-monarchy is work &ng hand and glove with the Kaiser's zco31orts, the world elaborates upon sts single phrase and says There can be no peace with the Hapsburgs or #.he HohenzolIer11s."
 There can be no further pulling of Nwool over the eyes of those outside N1ermany. They know that if the Hpresent rulers of Germany should be
 Successful in effecting a peace to the Miking of the Hohenzollerns, which 8vould keep the Kaiser in control. the #chemfng of Prussianism would 20 on orever. The people of free nations Slave grown wise to the diabolical Nl octrine of pan -Germanism. Because Af this wisdom, which was slow in Muanifesting itself, but which is all the Snore acute because of this process, Mhe House of Hohenzollern stands N1iscredited in all places save those NBominated by it's own savants, those N ersed in the pernicious science of
 <uItur.
 x These facts which are now appar- 8 mt to all who will stop and ponder 8 n the trend of events are made CO., M rent by President Wilson whose words az zn g message to Congress we recall as
 K Particularly appropriate at this time:
 Peace, peace, pcace,' has "a been the talk of Germany's for M eign office for a year or more; @ not peace upon her own initia- 4# tive, but upon the initiative of 8 the nations over which she now M deems herself to hold the advan- 8 tage. little of the talk has 8 been made public, but most of & it has been made private, &@ through all sorts of channels. If # has come to me in all sorts of IN SutseS, but never with the terms