New Britain herald., 1919-08-14

! of the whole amount before they l even considered stealing them This clearing house might easily hide it's activities under legal business deals, l thus avcrting suspicion. Anyhow. there is no need of sending boys out with the means of their downfall in 1 the shape of large amounts of negoii- | able securities
 FACTS AND FANCIES. N must seem quite a novelty to the people of Washington 10 have a pres 1dent in their midst once more.- ] Rochester Post Express, We all agree that the high cost of 1 living should be reduced and all thar remains for us to do is to find the way 1 to reduce it.-Baltimorc Star l One of the irritations of high prices ! Is that nobody knows when his turn will come to be blamed for most of 1 the ifficulty.-Washing gton Star. The more Japan's policy is ex- plained, the moro need of further ex- planation.-BostOn Transcript. Discussion of the servant problem now properly ranks as n chapter in paleontolOgy.-New York Evening Sun.
 It is not pleasant to sec Rumania making preparations to pick the bones of defenseless Hungary Not in that way will Bolshevism be banished.- Toronto Globe
 The M. r.. who wants d discussion in parliament of Britains Irish policy evidently desires to ak about what ain t.--Manchester Union
 some farmers are complaining now because they think that without the government fixed price they could sell their wheat for more than S226 a bushel. It's d poor guarantee that doesn't work both ways.-St Joseph Gazette.
 Mrs. Franlllyn, who walked from Seattle to New York slept by .the roadside until she was east of Chica- Go when she found 1t ul,safe Amer ica's higher civilization seems to be west of Illinois.--Louisville Courier Journal.
 Jim Larkin. professional "Red' 1 agitator, who finds America good 1 enough to ply his trade in, says: T thank God that I am rot an American citizen.' Probably the God who was the junior partner in the late firm (noW bankrupD of Me x God."- Louisville Courier Journal
 With kurds and Tartars attacking 1 Armenia from three sides, the long | suffering Armenians must think the l world Was jollirg when it said the war l was oVcr.--Clevcland Plain Dealer.
 As the European countries that are 1 clamorinG for American coal have l bounuful supplies of their own under 1 ground, there is d more or less gener- ] al idea over Iere that they should dig | their own coal or suffer the conse- l uences.-Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele- graph.
 The German people are said to take l no interest in the governments rev. citations of the militarsts' guilt in | starting and continuing the war. 1 Probably Germans are a good deal | like children in that they don't crave | bad reading.-Dallas News
 Good morning. Have you unhoard- 1 ed your fCod supply yet ?-kansas City Times.
 In France the government has | undertaken to control living costs. | We'll it ought to be easy to reduce prices in that country now that the | American army is no longer the chief | purchaser.-kansas City Star.
 It ought to be easy enough for la bor to follow the presidents advice and take a sober second thought when there isn't even any 2.75 on tap to make the other lNind.-Manchester l Union.
 Sidetrac<ing the Plumb plan may become one of the most admired ac- ompIisllmentS of locomotive engi- neering. ng.-WashinSton Star.
 
 THE SHIPS THAT BROUGHT
 THEM OVER.
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 These are the ships that brought them
 over,
 And all through life will their
 names remain,
 Sheerng west from the Cliffs of Dov- cr
 Into the waste with the sunset stain,
 Slipping from Brest in a channel 1
 rain,