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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-22
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Caulif1oWer and other yegeta bles
can be made savory fried in olive oil
and sprinkled with grated cheese.
Nuts may sometimes take the
place of meat, but should be very
carefully cheWcd.
Loose chamOis gloves are excel
lent to wear when gardening or doing
any dirty work.
In making bread pudding, the
readcrunlbs should be beaten smooth
with the custard
Nowadays it is polite to return
any sugar YOU do not mean to use 20
the sugar bowl.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-22
SIDE TALKS
Ell Ru1M 0AkETaoA
A Right to the Lirnelight.
Ell RUI1a CAMERON

basis of equal rights) OF the CONVEX
sation, as it is to blame a pretty girl
for knowing she is pretty
Like Blaming Pretty Girl for Know
ing She Is Pretty.
Of course the pretty girl knows she
is pretty, if she has not been reared
in home without mirrors. (And even
then I fancy she would find enough
mirrors in the eyes of men to make
her suspect the terrible truth.)
And Of course a clever amusing
person (if he is clever enough to be
clever) must know he or she is clever
and amusing.
For myself, I am always ready to
grant such a person double her share
of the conversations
Nobody Loves a Monoioguist,
or course it isn't nice of such folks
to abuse the privileges granted them
by monopolizing the conversation.
Nobody loves monologuist.
But even at that. I would rather
have brilliant monologue from
someone who had som ething to say.
than a general conversation among
half a dozen bores who hadn't real
Thought among them.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-22

basis of equal rights) OF the CONVEX
sation, as it is to blame a pretty girl
for knowing she is pretty.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-22
Menu for Tomorrow

Fruit
Scalloped Potatoes
Risen Biscuits
Coffee
lunch
Fried Sweet Potatoes
Picked Eggs
Stewed Prunes
Cocoa
Dinner
Sage Soup
Boiled Corn Beef
Riced Potatoes
Cabbage
Beet and Onion Salad
Chocolate Meringue Custard
Coffee
Beet and Onion Sala d-Boil a Iares
Spanish onion drain, and leave till
cold; then cut it into thin slices, also
slice a, large cooked beet. Mix onion
and beat together, add a teaspoonful
finely chopped tarragon and parsley
salt and pepper to taste. two table,
spoonfuls olive oil and one table
spoonful vinegar. Mix thoroughly.
Chocolate Meringue Custard--A
boiled custard favored with vanilla
and chocolate can be finished with
meringue which is dropped by spoon
fuls into a painful of boiling water,
covered and cooked for a couple OF
minutes until set, then transferred
with q skinner to a custard in q
serving dish.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-22
FADS AND FASHIONS

A small buckle here and there is
sufficient trimming for a tailored
dress.
Cotton foulards are among The
four corner stones incotton dress
eopds
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
Falling Fire
By Wilbur Forrest

w ITTH THE AMERICAN FORCES
w COMPRISING A PORTION OF
THE FRENCH ARMY CORPS IN
PlCARDY.-French aviators furnished
exhibition of air fighting for the first Amer
lean troops to move into this part Of the
line which will not be forgotten by Ameri
can officers and men.
The advance guard Of an American regi-
ment relieving a sorely tried French unit,
had been in the line but few moments
when men forgot dangerous artillery fire to
watch an air fight between two French
planes and German almost directly over
the Franco-Amercan line. High at first, the
three planes we're seen manouvring for po-
siton. The German aviator found target
in French machine slightly below and
fired drum Of bullets. He missed only by
virtue of the Frenchman's acrobatics. Now
came the turn Of the second French aviator,
lowering above to watch the outcome of the
first brush. He swooped down on the
enemy's tail, a twisting swoop like hawk
after sparrow. The enemy saw him and
tried to escape. He swooped also in vain
effort to evade the line of fire. But the
Frenchmar followed him down and turned
loose his machine gun. Men in the trench
forgot their surroundings and strained eyes
to watch, through a rapidly approaching
dusk, the effect of the Frenchmans fire on
the German. For a moment the latter con-
tinued to volplane, coming nearer the earth
at terrific speed. Then it was evident that
he was hit. Smoke began to trail from the
centre of the machine. 1t rapidly turned to
flame, and instantly a reddish shadow began
to illuminate the ground below The spec
tators saw the flames creep to the tip ends
Of the wings, eating up the black Maltese
crosses, and continue until the German
plane was mass of falling fire. Within
five hundred feet of the earth the pilot, un-
doubtedly already terribly burned, hurtled
out from the fiery mass and fell free, with
outstretched arms and legs. For a second
only the observers could see a smoky mass
of man falling to death. He struck the
ground with sodden sound just behind the
Allied trench. Another second later and the
machine struck the disturbed flames bright
ening up No Mans Land and the trench like
sunshine
American soldiers who had not seen such
incidents before were silent, but French
pollus who remained and saw gave cheer
Ohat the enemy across the way responded
to with everything at his command, machine
guns and cannon included. Then the sound
of aeroplane motors drew all attention sky
ward again. 1t was the French pilots COM
ing back to observe the damage. Seeing it,
they swooped down, one after the other, and
Joyously looped the loop at low attitudes.
1T was both Americans and Frenchmcn who
cheered this time, and loud enough to let
the airmen know that the little incident
which is all in the days work for an airman,
had been thoroughly appreciated.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04

under fourteen were employed or in
which children over fourteen but under
sixteen worked more than eight hours
a day or more than six days week.
The government conceded that it's real
purpose was not to regulate interstate
commerce, but to regulate industrial con-
ditions within the states, and this the
Supreme Court has held Congress may
not do.
To intelligent manufacturers in those
states enlightened enough to have good
child labor statutes, to farseeing labor
leaders like Mr.. Gompers and to the
economists who for years have been fight
ing the evils Of child labor this decision
will be severe disappointment. Un-
questionably, however, they will take it
as merely a setback, not defeat, and
will renew the campaign for legislation
which will stick on the statute books, for
now more than ever law is needed
which will protect the children Of the
nation.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
A Good Soldier-None Better

There are none better in any army in
the world" said General Wood of his
soldiers of the seth Division-his no
longer-as they marched in review for
the last time before him. We can say
the same of their leader. General Wood
took his heart-breaking recall like the
good soldier that he is-there is none
better in any army in the world No
suggestion Of complaint was in his fare
we'll. "The only thing to do is to do the
best we can-all of us-to win the war;"
were his final words.
Throughout General Wood has borne
himself like the true leader of men that
he is. Indignation in his behalf was
rife in the 89th Division. A lesser man
could not have helped, in some degree,
tanning the blaze. To the contrary, Cen
eral Wood turned the episode into the
largest moral illustration of a soldiers
duty-vitalizing his sermon by his own
act. We all know that General Wood
will go back to Kansas and repeat his
extraordinarily successful labors of
training green recruits into real soldiers
with undiminished enthusiasm.
The one colossal loser from the cpl
sode is not the S9th Division, nor General
Wood, but the United States of America.
1T is valuable work that General Wood
is graciously permitted to continue at
Camp Funston. But what of France!
Where in the history of the world was
there ever so urgent call for a great
hearted leader and inspirer of men!
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
Let Us Have Them!

In bringing the U-boat war to the New
Jersey coast Germany strikes, of course,
at the source of those men and munitions
by which the weight on the side of the
Allies in France is being and will con-
tinue to be increased until it is of crush
ing preponderance. 1t is desperate en-
terprise, designed, no doubt, both to re-
vive the submarine hope in Germany and
to produce dismay in America. Fright
fulness in all it's forms is a projection of
German fear. Because he is himself
governed by that emotion a German
thinks all other people are. He has now
something to learn Of that reckless spirit
which the inarticulate Farragut dis
charged when he said: "Damn the tor
pedoes."
1t is incredible that U-boat campaign
which the German Admiralty has been
unable to sustain in European waters can
be successfully transported across 5000
miles of ocean; but even if this were
possible we should hardly regret it.
Each Uboat here is one less to harass
the Allies on the other side and also
very great incentive to American achieve
ment. We are tempted to say: "Let us
have the U-boats."
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
The Pot of Broth
New York, May "a, 1918.
To the Editor of The Tribune

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The Rev. Percy S. Grant has evil
IDENTIFY been reading William Butler Yeats,s
delightful comedy, "The Pot of Rrotb y
which tells of magic stone that onl,,
needed water, meat, meal anu cabbage to
make delicious soup DR.. Grant tb;nl.
that prohibitory law would be Ineffective
unless social and economic conditions arc
changed SO as to give the workers shorter
hours, higher wages, better education inn
proved tenements, and other much needad
reforms. OF course! Of coursei Aho,;.L
the evils that cause intemperance bv ,eo;s
latlon that will establish social justice. and
give prohibition all the credit But = tha
constructive social legislation to which DR.
Grant refers is necessary in order that
prohibition may succeed, is it not possible
tnat THIS legislation would be sufficient
without the farce of laws that cannot and
will not be enforced? NN
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.
New York, May 81, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04

with many sayings now so frequently
quoted as epigrams.
The essence of an epigram lies in the
fact that it contains two apparently con-
Trajectory ideas, neither of which DESTROYS
the balance force of the whole. The
more marked the seeming contradiction or
antithesis the smarter the epigram
lhere was time within living memory
when 1t was considered literary offence
TO perpetrate an epigram, and to utter one
was bad form. In these more elastic davs
the more we produce the merrier. even 10
we delude ourselves with the belief that
they seem what they are not.
when literary giants were abroad j, the
world they did not evolve these undes;rah,s
A',ia''ions. w. E. ALLEN.
Lakewood, N. j., May 81, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04

dents address Immediately following the
word principles" on which the Hearst
quotation stops, were these:
"The representatives of the Central
Powers, on their part, presented out
line OF settlement which. If much less
definite, seemed susceptible Of liberal In
depreciation until this specific programme
OF practical terms was added. That pro-
gramme proposed no concessions at all,
either to the sovereignty Of Russia or to
the preferences of the populations with
whose fortunes 1t dealt, but meant, in
word, that the Central Empires we're to
keep every foot of territory their armed
forces had occupied-every province,
every city, every point of vantage-as a
permanent addition to their territories
and their power"
The writer Of the Hearst editorial was
net obliged to quote those two sentences.
He could stop where he pleased. But by
not quoting them he "failed" to remind
his reader what German peace was like
and that the Brest-Litovsk parley became
the epitaph of Russia. BY not quoting
them he made it possible to pretend that
the Bolshevik performance at Brest-
Lltovsk was a sane manifestation Of DEM
ocratic government and not the betrayal
of Russia to the enemy. He then pro-
ceeds to compliment the Bolsheviki in
these words:
ut is the part Of craftsmanship, wis
dom and justice for the American people
to inform themselves concerning the real
character of the Bolsheviki, and to under
stand that the Bolsheviki have committed
no act of treason disloyalty to their
allies; that they have done nothing that
we In their circumstances would not have
done; that they are to-day working out
the problems of democracy as they never
can be worked out by war in Russia; that
considering the suspicion of the Russian
people toward war which their tyrants
had begun, and their positive determna-
tion not to continue 1t under any circum-
stances, the Bolsheviki took the only
course open to them in abandoning
conflict which they could not, under any
circumstances, continue, and the aban-
donment of which appeared to be the best
way Of giving Russia breathing spell
In which to settle her internal conditions
upon the firm, deep foundation Of true
democracy"
The Russian Bolsheviki, says Hearst,
did nothing that we ourselves In like cir
cumstances should not have done!
What did the Russian Bolsheviki do
not as we think, but as he says?
They abandoned the war in order to
get breathing spell in which to settle
their internal differencesl
That is what all the American Boil
sheviki wish to do, and they are forbid
den to advocate it.
That is all Rose Pastor Stokes did, and
she has been sentenced to ten years in
prison under the Espionage Act.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04

enemy's successes and an inaccurate an.
praisal of the value of his achievement
He has two things to accomplish: He
must conquer the will and the morale of
the French and British peoples and he
must smash their military establishment.
He must do it during this season of cam.
paigning, and after third of his al
lotted time has expired he has done
neither. He has not been more successful
in Eastern France than was Napoleon in
1913 in Eastern Germany. Yet Napoleon
lost Leipsic and the Germans crossed the
Rhine at the end of 1913.
The German is paying for his gains
by losses which equal, if they do not
exceed, the cost to the Allies. And each
month the Allied losses are being made
up In large measure by the arrival Of
American troops, while the German is
compelled to draw upon his own popula-
ton to meet his losses. Some day he
must risk all in an effort to translate his
local successes into a supreme victory
In the days of the Marne he had used
up his reserves in advance of the De
cisive battle. This is the peril for bin
now, and this is the object of Foths
strategy. If the minor successes cost
the Germans too much they will be IN.
able to deal the great blow at the end.
AT the present moment the German
advance has approached but not yet quite
reached the old battlefield of the Ourcq,
where Maunoury opened the Battle Of the
Marne. The French lines now rest upon
the great forests of Compiegne and VII
lers-Cotterets; the fanks are securely
resting upon the Disc and the Marne.
lime has been allowed Foch to concen.
trate adequate reserves between Paris
and the imperilled front. The railroads
IN this region were constructed to meet
exactly this situation, and every advan.
tage OF communication is now with The
french. Unless the situation changes i
seems fair to conclude that the operation
between the Disc and Marne is reaching
Its term, and what we have now to expect
IS the second German blow, delivered
somewhere between Verdun and Ypres.
Ontll this blow has fallen the situation
Will remain grave. But in the present
nour Paris is not in danger, and the last
three days have been marked by rapid
slowing down of the third German blow
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
By Frank II. Sirnonds

has been due to the fact that we are still
thinking in terms of trench warfare-of
a war of position-while the character of
the war has changed.
The events Of the past ten weeks shed
a new light upon the Eastern operations
of Germany. It is clear now that Ger
man successes against Russia, against
Rumania, against Serbia, were due not
merely to the fact that Russian, Ruma
MAN and Serbian armies were inferior
to French or British; that the artillery
and munitions of the Eastern allies were
inadequate. 1t is beginning to be patent
that in their Eastern operations the Ger
mans devised g system of warfare which,
tried in the West, first against Italy last
fall and now in France-in Picardv.
FLANDERS and Champagne-has proved
effective beyond all expectations.
But this was the history of the first
campaign of the Marne From the 5th
of August, when the first German troops
appeared before Liege, to the 5th of Sep
tember, when the Battle of the Marne
opened, German successes were uninter-
rupted and the total destruction of the
French military power seemed inevitable.
Yet in point of fact, as we now know, no
French army was destroyed, the organi-
zatlon of French armies remained intact.
and thus even before the Battle of the
Marne the main German purpose had
tailed, as was revealed in that gigantic
struggle.
Now, it is essential to remember that.
despite the local, considerable, disappoint-
ing successes of the Germans in their
new campaign, they have so far failed
to destroy any appreciable portion of
the Allied military force, which was
equal in numbers to the Germans at the
outset We may conjecture that the AL
lied strategy has been defective. that
there has been failure to hold the Ger
mans on the trench lines from Nieuport
to Rheims, comparable with the failure
IN 1914 to hold the Germans between
Mons and Mulhausen. But the defeats
of 1918 have been far less disastrous
than those of 1914, and those earlier re-
verses turned out to be indecisive.
There is balance to be struck in the
minds of all who are watching this great
struggle between an exaggeration of the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
At the End of the First Week
THE end Of the first week of the
third German drive is marked

ME end Of the first week of the
third German drive is marked
by the announcement Of a SUBJ
stantial check of the enemy along
the whole front. This comedies ex-
actly with the experience of the earlier
drives in Picardy and in Flanders, and
barring an accident-always possible in
war-it seems safe to say that for the
moment the worst is over and that the
present German offensive, with relatively
slight further gains, will be pinned down
between the Oise and the Marne, as the
Picardy drive was pinned down between
Noyon and Arras. To use the phrase of
Foch two months ago, the German flood
again appears damned.
But it is essential to recognize that q
second German blow is now almost in
evitable. The highest estimate of Ger
man divisions used in the present attack
does not pass fifty, and it is a matter of
common agreement that at least an equal
number are available for a new drive
wherever the German High Command
may choose to put them in. And we NAV
safely guess that the German blow will
be delivered against that portion of the
line which has been most weakened to
meet the present emergency.
With the pause in the present opera
ton comes the opportunity to analyze a
little the meaning of the three unmis-
taxable successes scored by the Germans
in the first ten weeks of the campaign
OF 1913. 1t is plain that we are now in
transitional period between the war of
position, which endured from the close
Of the first Battle of Ypres to the open
ing of the second Battle of the Somme.
and war of movement, comparable with
the campaign from Liege to the Marne.
1t is manifest that the Germans have
devised or developed method of attack
which seems bound to transform the
whole character of operations at the
present time.
German successes so far analyzed and
weighed by comparisons with the pre-
Wlous efforts in three years of trench
warfare have made a profound impress
sion upon the Allied mind 1t is impos-
slble to escape the fact that wave of
pessimism and depression has followed
the several advances made by the Ger
mans. Yet in the larger measure this
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
What Is an Epigram?
To the Editor Of the Tribune

To the Editor Of the Tribune.
Sir: Apart from the question of the exact
wording of the sentence attributed To Cen
eral Nathan Bedford Forrest, may l enter
protest against the description of the
phrase, whatever it may be, as an epigram?
This description of any saying containing
more or less truth is too often misapplied.
and it would be easy to mention MANY
examples OF epigrams wrongly so called
mere statement of fact is not and never
can be an epigram. To say that al arrived
before ne did" however much the predicate
may be varied, is neither an epigram nor an
aphorisW, and the latter definition would
be more correct when used in connection
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
A Technical Defeat

The decision of the Supreme Court
holding the child labor law invalid is q
victory for the Southern manufacturing
interests who fought the measure in Con-
gress on the ground that it was unconsti
tutional. The Senate in passing it was
about as closely divided on the point of
law involved as the court now is in it's
decision, but President Wilson threw
his strength in favor of the measure and
it went through.
The law undertook to bar from ship
ment in interstate commerce products
from establishments in which children
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
1ntil next fall, the Mayor has withdrawn

until next fall, the Mayor has withdrawn
them.
A libel suit is commonly held to be
the recourse Of an individual SO nearly
touched by the import Of publication
that he has no other means of vindicat-
ing his honor. The net result of the
Mayors action is to let "The Worlds"
publications stand unchallenged If the
Mayors personal and official honor per-
mits him to follow that course the public
cannot be expected to worry over him.
But in view Of his vacations at Palm
Beach and Atlantic City the public can
not be expected, either, to adopt with
out some reservation his explanation that
whole-souled devotion to public business
would not permit him to take the time
necessary to press these actions.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-04
Flowers for Wounded

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: want to call your attention to
the splendid patriotic work which the
florists all over the country through the
Society of American Florists and Orna-
mental Hortculturists are doing. Thirtv
eight thousand florists have pledged them
selves to keep the base hospitals in the
United States wherever there are sick or
wounded sailors and soldiers supplied with
fresh flowers, and they are doing this in
spite of the fact that their business is
one hardest hit by the war,
Flowers essentially are a luxury, and the
american people, generally speaking, have
no place 1or luxuries in this time of sac
rlfice and suffering. During the next win
Ter t many florists will be compelled to close
their greenhouses because of the recent or
der of the fuel administration restrictino
the consumption Of coal by florists to so
per cent OF their normal requirements.
Every day a small truck loaded with
flowers leaves the distribution headouar-
ters of the florists, at 81 West TWENTY
eighth Street, to visit several hospitals. and
the generous spirit of the florists is evi-
denced by the quantities Of beautiful flow
ers which are piled high in this truck The
National League for Woman's Service &C
pody OF American women war workers
appreciates this contribution of the florists
to the cause of democracy. Certainly these
flowers, real gift of sacrifice, 90 lono
way toward cheering and Frightening the
convalescent hours of the men who have
Deen returned to us battle-scarred, i'll and
WIZ" '"e ueHness OF war vivid memory
EDITH M'VICKAR
(Mrs. Edward McVickar). Citv Ch.;r
man National League for Woman,s
Service.
New York Nav "a 1919