New Britain herald., 1919-12-16

shall operate, without assurance that their credit is going to be restored. Under the situation which hes grown out Of government control and opera ton oe the roads they can have no such assurance tC(:ay unless # Is from the United States government itself-New York Sun.
 Lloyd George is not aiding the friends os the covenant in this country when ho covertly rebulSes the senate TOT objecGns to the arran gem ent which gives Great Britain six votes in the assembly of.the league of nations to one for the United States.--Roches- ter Dem ocrat and Chronicle.
 Another reason we agree with the scientists who fear something Is going to happen in the heavens on December IT, is that that's where it will have to happen, Everything else has happened down here,--Knnsas City Star.
 It has just about gotten so in this country that distiller can get an in junction easier than his old customers can get a d-ink.-Dallas News,
 Among life's minor ironies told i'll the days news we note the burning Of an asbestos plant. But we have still to read of the frigorif1cal crys- utilization of the roof of Gehenna.- New York Evening Sun.
 The New York World is unneces- sarily alarmed lest the South Dakota nomination of Wilson should become infectious. It insists that MT. Wilson must not, as @ matter of principle, be re-elected. As 8 matter of fact, there is no danger.-Syracuse Post Standard.
 We suggest to Colonel House that he sit down and talk matters over with William F. McCombs and Col. George Harvey. They knew what it means to be excluded from the presence.---A1n- sterdam Recorder.
 Alaska is getting so purfed up be- cause of the mild season there as com pared with the northwestern states that it would not be surprising if she set up in business as 8 winter resort. New York Herald.
 Not so many people who want more free speech have shown any desire to do more work and relieve the scarcity of ng.-Poughkeepsie Eagle News. .f
 We might invite d'Annunzio to try his hand in Mexico when he is our yis- itor.-Watertown Times
 
 Our wife has forced the bitter truth home to us at last. The mice in the pantry are striking for Q. bet ter grade of cheese.-TeXarkania No doubt the Esl1imos, too, are having their Christmas seal drive.- New York Evening Post. British clergymen are forming trade union, but they are going to run into some serious opposition if they consider charging for overtime l on sermons.-Clev Plain-Dealer It now looks as though Mexico 1 might be punished for killing a lot 1 of our people and kidnapping a Lot l more by being ordered to salute the l American flag again and then not ; doing it.--Columbus Dispatch. Exchange goes lower every hour, 1 but inamuch as nobody knows any 1 thing about exchange and never feels ] the difference, what of ?-Washing- 1 ton Post.
 It is reported that the college stu ] dents who took the places of the striking miners are disgruntled over what they term the premature" end ing of the strike, the midyear exami- nations still being some weeks off, l New York Evening Post. ] Fish trust ordered dissolved in ] 30 days" eh? Standard Oil dissolu- ton is recalled. But maybe this is l only a fish story. Boston has ce- garded the fish trust under the sacred lcodfish as immortal.
 Now and then resident of Ellis 1 Island, having found time to glance at Lenine's speeches and discover what the chief commissary really thinks of anarchists, goes out and ap- plies for a habeas corpus against de- 1 portation-New York Evening Post
 PEACE DAY. 1 w. R. Titterton in the New Witness GOndOn.)
 | Let us remember, we whose spirits have met,
 1 And hearts, and hands have met l whose loud-mouthed, gay Hosannahs made a Roman holiday,
 Whose casual bunting hutters idly l yet;
 1 With bride and love greater than Oll
 regret