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"". copied—at 8 o'clock. All Master
. Masons cordially invited. 'D. Burr
r 1"; Beach, W. H. Robert M. W'HCOX,
Tuesday, December 3, 1914. It 8
.v o‘clock p. m. . . :
Work—4’. M. Degree. All Roysl‘
‘ German policy and their ignorance of and resourcefulness rare
aln has driven that; country into thel
4 arms of France.
‘ 4 should begin by criticising themselves.
' editors hate been saying about tier-
4 indignation of Herman Bidder, editor
_ of theStaats-Zeitung. Can it be that.
' pimped for misindglng qermany
‘ whose business it has been' to inter-
departed. No longer is he the equal
murmur Noawafit
mEVENINGsnIrmm.
ESTA! ISHED BY
]A GOLDEN
E. L. AND A. L. GOLDEN,
, Paorain'rons. “
HogYp'DEq. 4-}, 1914
MINIATURE ALHANAC FOR ‘
I TOMORROW. _
High tide 2 .25 a. m.; a :40 p. m-
45»: rises 6: 34; sets I" 39.
44fEVENING SENTINEL TELE-
I: . PHONE CALLS.
fwa¥um Department.
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MASONIC NOTICE.
Oil Well Lodge, No. 108. F. and A. M.
Meets in Masonic Building. Sontb‘
Main street. lot and 3d Tuesday of '
each monthwduly and Auxilst 4 or-
A stated Convocation of Butler
Chapter, No. 38 N. A. M" will be held
in MasonlcTempie, South Main street, l
Arch Masons cordially invited. ;
Fraternaily
CHAS. A. TUCK. H. P.
Attest: F. 8. Lyon
Assistant Secretary.
EDITORIAL WICKEDNI-zss. 'ator Morris Sheppard got one.
The Xe“ York 8mm Zeitnns. the his in Texas during December}
1 Mayor] \\ Riggiiis of Wth Tex”; was the .first
official in the United States to more tortll In a suit made wlIoll)
10f cotton. His was made of white duck. Shortly afterward Gov—
Iernor Coiquitt of Texas got to Suit, and that United States Set»
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public
The senator said he would wear
4-
{IN-9mg“ and [he most belligerent of WW
Nerinau- American publications
but great war have acquitted Infinitive- front; having arrived there. he could
it
been “aging bitter Will“ against a large in a way that sheds honor on twir pro be depended on @501“wa to write or
“prejudice” of its contemporaries in or their brethren have ever belore ex~
‘_ fiction of the American press It has tension. They have refused to-dlo oh. utter nothing prejudicial to the inter
' condemned in unmeasured terms. the Suffering bigger handicaps thn they: ests of France. '
it is the inability of soldiers to ap-
favor of the allies. their criticisms of perienced. they have shown pounce preclate this high honor and intelli-
European cohditlbhs. To the Giants-idepnr‘fmem of human work
Zeitung Germany can do no wrong l
l
any 001" Kenco of the correspondents that leads
to stupidity in handling them. As I
4 T119? have gone to the trout against; matter of fact. the correspondents arc
The innocent. Fatherland 18 nahtlns 10' iorders, with' passports or without much better Judges of what is advise-t.
its life against a ring of monstrous sue. them They have netted authority, en- ble to print than or“. the military men.
rates. “no how forced IIar upon it. dured arr at, over and over again, ro- in England. Ware the censorship m
turning to the firms line as soon as been especially blunderinx. the author-
G>rinany has pever given causeyoi of-iI
tense and has neIer encouraged mlll- libelnted. They have risked execution iiies are slowly coming to realise this.
iurism.
wholly unprovoking self defense flaked being shot as spies, they have
The IStnais-Zeltung has be?“ consist- jgathered news in the trenches and in
em in this attitude since the war start-l besieged cities under a rain of bullets
ed.
a piece of pure editorial WleOdneSB‘cismhf yam-“'54, soldiers.
German“ record is one 0‘ tor disobedience to orders. they have1
There are issues involved fur bigger
than any consideration of the success
_ of this or that writer, or newspaper or
4news service. This is a war in which.
it must therefore he resettled “5 and shells. with the coolness and Itbi-i nbovemll other were. the world has a
They havej right and a duty totem the facts. No
and spite tor the Wall Street Journaligone sleepless for days at a eiretcthatlon at war will of its own accord
to dig up and print this critic“ 0'”they have suiferod cold and hunger-permit the publication oi the Inn truth
cussian policy. which appeared ‘3 ‘n' and all manner of hardship. And ‘Ol'lThp onIy way for the immml world
editorial in the StantoZeitung nine what? To let the public know meg", see the company its FWF§T dime»
years 330‘ (truth about a many-sided w.ar
"if Germany 'todny in general is un-‘
beloved. and 1° able 5°. easily to be either. it is a public whose attitude.
lslons and true colors is for the cor-
t
l
i
It isn' t a very appreciative public. respondents of neutral countries to on
serve freely and write their impres-
come suspected, the first and principal puzzles the correspondents. With the? titans unhampered
lesson for this is the provocative ac- strict censorship that- {"8va and the
The war correspondents do not want
tiyity of the PanGermans. their v-asin' deliberate suppression and doctoring to give away military secrets, to di-
3‘0” and their male 1°” treating oth- of the news by eevry belligerent goV-_ vulge plans or reveal inform.tion of
.4 or powers with mortifying insolence. eminent, it is impossible for the Amer-g sit-ate 81c value to the enemy, Whnt
mm“ “‘9’ ”mm“ “m“ the “‘ee'; icon reader to set the facts except ‘38? they do want is to be able to tell the
merit between France and England. 'ythey come mm ““5“.me “Pmen';trutlt about “1M after they have hep-
they should not forget that their un~1 tatives 01 American newspapers And
measured enmity against Great Brit- .yet, for some reasoii or- other, the
The Pan-Germans malevolent delight in learning that the
correspondent has failed in his shorts.
The whole dimcnlty arises from s
misconception of the functions of a
war correspondent. The render some-
how or other budget the notion that
the correspondent is‘ a busybody but-
ting in where he has no right. and iii-
terierlng with the proper conduct or
the war. The military gentlemen who
run the campaigns are largely imbued
with thevsame error. Hence the cor.
respondent, trying to serve the reader
at. home and perhaps aise‘the nation
‘They are a small minority, but they
' understand how to exert _a kind of per.
sonal influence over the German peo-
ple which any day might proVe itself
in the highest degree ia’tgl."
That'is just what many American
runny since the war began, to the great
they were misled by accepting too im-
p'dcitly the ante-helium declarations of
such conISpionons German-American
Johnson as Herr Bidder himself? How
can provincial American editors be
' .It
they have been led into error by men
tusted above all. by a desire to per-
form a seeree to humanity by tellin‘z
mutilated andnndervslued.
4 It. should be understood that. in goa-
eral. the war “Respondents are the
pset Germany to America?
____._.’....___..
THE WAR CORRESPONDENTS.
The war correspondest's glory has cm“ 4mm”, “”4 that they on
not only trained; m and unipo-
tent writers. but are preeminent):
mm.
o: dell marshals and major gen-ale.
motions-lira ‘u’fd the admit-4..
newspaper reader'seems to take a,
whose army he eeegimpanies. and se- -
the whole truthj’sbosrpsst events. is ‘
blinpored inactionandnisnionotieis . '
picketthemuntry'asetiwndem T
4 An W W was .'
tbmwnhtoiauwemuw4
pelted—to write newly made history
for the Information and palliation of
mankind in forming its opinions of this
war and Repairing to prevent such
were in the future.
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CIVIL SERVICE IN CONNECTICUT.
in our opinion AttorneyaGeneI-nl
Light has done wisely in advising that
the Givil Service Commission: cannot
select member. oi the state police
whom the State Police Commissioners
are supposed to select and to be re-
sponsible for. :4
In our opinion. too. the Civil Service
Board, when purpose is to secure bet
ter workendto nndeamlnethespollo
intent in its relation to publk so:
- Ethin-no: with New Hotel mm,
“"“wiitbc'oeemn both the American and
' Wompdl-ehbshxmatme
adddinnerinllieevesing. ‘ ' =
' The no, can Lunch. which armature;
served atmhhaibhsdies 4nd mp.» "
~ momma-mm
......
I.me minnow earn. wan not on Impeller.
. a..." ‘
[Hosiery ”sedition-meet? his ls 0
Until 1017. Pending
Hunters and sportsmen Is this Iviein- A prominent manhole agent of this
lty have bosom xious to shoot deer city received notice this morning from
within the last ow seasons became of his are theorem companies that they
W '
townie. Coronal” to Pay All Tam
tion. They are prohibited from shoot- once poliéi‘pa' peilllfi'anopinlon which '
his the attitude by the same laws. itbey are “skin: fromths solicitor of
which protect: the deer until 1917 lie» the internal mom depiftinent Is to ,
4eauae of the lows in other moot-lug; their liability fingpncn tax, The war ‘
states, which allow hunters to shoot tax provisions stats thsttbe ten must
them on one day in the season. local be paid by the one mhhinx the policy.
hunters will salt representatives to the . .but'inssmuch as a policy of insurance
General Assembly to introduce a bill’ in {contract and it takes two parties .
at the out ”Inflow blinders elm-K to “make." the question 0! who shall
“If Frivilosoo [it this state. Enters pay the tax is somewhat ambiguous,
who have hugged through the distal the companies believe Previously the
this season report that deer are nil- companies lisd iseup'd a statement
morons. caudally near the state line.‘ that they would pay the war in on
On the dayswhen hunters areollovwd all other policies such as burglary.
NC WHOM Mohackemo ' . ~
Arrived too late lorlast Sate -
day’ s Stile. offered this week at
$9.98 and $12.98 }
Warm Winter Coats for
' conning cold days”
Values $l5.oo to $304.00.
the '
There is a jr
the large bomber of them in this sec would p's‘y'4 the w tax on lire insur- ' '
8
II “merry one ” Toys for
' 4 of the most beautiful kinds.
cost for every (Iceman, n4 5'.
such a variety oi stylesabot your ’
{greatest difficulty Icgl be to sc—
- loci the side you like best. ' ‘ ‘
71'
No woman can miss the oppor— A I
tunity of participating In this safe
. at our great saying price
coat is of the newest. and lateSt
designs of the seasons best ma-
tcrials.
Almost without number are the Playthings and Dolls , .
x3 that we havewassembled to make the little folks’ Christmas . ~
indoor or outdoor pleasures. Dolls ' ,
Fascinating Games in a va- ‘ .
riety that cannot fail to supply your every want.
Ever? If,
3 mammal-on in mrwm
, folio Sentinel, .mr. bolt attain
-_ etently well
_» what we thought we neutron n: will
. statement that the mementos-
. titles even if BMW to the ‘svsr:
to phoot them lit Minolta. can."
nectlcdt deer set over the state line
and are shot. . E
WOMEN minnow
«mGERhlAN urinal
LONDON. Noiember 25~Corre~
spondence oi The Associated Prone)?
——Women'a cl be in England have
been enlisted Ii the movement to
head off the emitted of possible
German spice and Austrian and Ger-
man lichen Wheels salted to re—
sign oigguoan uofififioir attention at
many lcgormgyly welcoma !
ed the“
A number oi prominent literary
women limo urged that English wo- .
men should in us millions on End.
llnh men about their associates and
should shun all women of German or
Austrian sympathies at n time when
chance remunks might give \uiuable
information to the enemy.
Reports from Belgium and Hoi-
land of the nettvil‘los’ 0! women
apt-.0 who armed its governance and
servants in Holmium. and Dutch fami- 'n
lies hatt- also throw suspicion on
4nerinnn and Aitgtrian women in nor. '
vii-e in various parts of England. The '
Belgium refugees who are in Brit:-
lurid haIe issued general warning
uglilmri German women as well not
German men. and their .tales of how
Belgian citiee wire betrayed by Ger-
man spies in all walks of life have
alarmed the English.
Alarming tales have been printed
in London papers or alleged (tourism;
spies high in social and financial ctr.
rles.4 and practically all oi the lead-
ing men's clubs hate naked men oi’I
German or Austrian birth to resign
or refrain from frequenting the club-'
rooms during the war. Many sup-i
honed spies high in official life vol-
untarily left Qnglapd before - the
movemeht nanirlst suspected persons
became so acute. (‘li’ar'ges wens sell- .
orally made that then Gyertnana who
had become Naturalism bed often
done so only for; business and social
reasons and were at heart Germnnsf
as much no ever. ' '
, PAPER Film l-I.AVIAH
Rev. William H. Thomas has in his
possession {Ionics of several news-l
papers published in Iliowail. Among:
them is one printed in the Chinese
language the "O Lulth" in the Port-
uxeee Were. can the notions its-
elicit, a Hawaiian publicatloii. We”
have manned Vii-y carefully the col-
union of the newspapers. hoping there4
by to reprint some information con- .
touted therein. “mush admit mail.
we have isiled their tinsel-Kim The
nearest ‘wa come to singers: was? the.
sl Themeehsniealdenartmt oi
consumi
stably contest air coders '1“ the
nhto giant. liability and the Into
Ills stole insurance commissioner
of ,Masauchusetts in a statement says
that. it is plain, that the law intends
that the companies shall be respond.
bio for the tax.
‘ 'l'be statement is as follows:
"Dndoubtedly they can piss that. tax ‘ ,
.alons to the public. the same as they
do other taxes and expenses. by male
in: it a part xfitfig; cdpsiderntion for ’
to be stated in the?
the insurance.
policy. continues the insurance coon
mlssloner‘s statement.
it separate charge not contributing to
make up the total premium written in
the policy. is not permissible under.
the law.
"Such tax may not lor instance. he
added as an item in a bill for, the in-
surance. unless it is a part of the con
sideration set‘ forth in the policy4 To
rule otherwise Would be to say that
acompany may write in the policy
a premium that includes nothing for
expenses. but provides for such out~
lays by billing them to the policy-
holder or separate items
"This would utterly destroy the has»
is for computing reaches which has
been operative both by law and cus-
tom for many years. Hence. the only
Iconclusion is that the new tax must
Ibo a. part of the consideration, stated
in the policy, if it is to be collected
from the policyholder. As the com-
panies do not propose to so include it,
the tax remains as their burden and it
would not he rebating for agents to
4‘pay it from their own We
Houses son westwonren.
chm}- Woodworth Named as Mem-
bar of College Basketball Team._
Chester 8 Woodworth. of Riverside
aVsnue, Westpori, ‘has been proud-
neatly mentioned for a place on the
Renssclaer Polytechnic beekotball
team. Mr. Woodworth'is a member of
the institute baseball team. also the
Theta Np Epsilon and the Renauleer
Nuclei! of Eminent-o He was elected
-'to membership in the senior honor-or!
society. tile Phalanx. ,._ _
HAMDEN FARMER FINED.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, Dec. 7-4
line was imposed upon a farmer in
the Harmon court. Saturday. for mov-
ing a cow from an adjoining town, is-
to Hamilton to Violation of the instan-
tine calculation owing to the tool and
mouth‘ disease. fiche question of.
possible infection had not been rain»
donatthooncmmmm’gtouw
the movement of cattle between towns
utiltlie stataisfroeofthediaeese.
TMNMNTATION co. BANKNDP‘I’
lult'i‘l‘illlllrp Conn, Dec. 7‘-—.l'nd:e
llldwins. Maths United Blokes
”But to make ‘
\Vhy not select thou you want NOW', to be delivered ’
,when desircdi. Let us Show
lfii thin Iii
Pilltl Slllilil‘llllll
suit Militia anytime» ior
ill Past Year, Willi lore
Man For Clerical Work
WASHINGTON. Dec.
militia. act is working well, even
though it has been in operation for a.
short periodonly... according to Com-
nipnder F, 8. Bennett, Jr.. Chief of
the Novel Militia Bureau. in his an-
nual report today. On the whole, he
stys. the Naval Militia increased in
numbers during ' the past year, for
. while several divisions were disband-
red. I. a number were organized “and .the
increase is expected to be even more
marked during the coming year, ow-4
in; to the enthusiasm and interest .
aroused by the passage of the act.
lbspectors' reports showed that the
Navsl‘mlitia with the exception of.
two divisions oi South Carolina wees
Qualified to participate in the allot
merit of federal funds. Several or-
gdnlzntioiis are topheaVy with chines:
and petty oilieers, and in my cases
the rank of the odlcera is too high.
IBeceusc of the mummy in getting ‘
returns fromN Naval Militia outcers.
busy with their own affairs. colloid»
arable Government property is not
properly mounted for and Command-
of Recast: recommends that it isn't
one competent yeomsn be accrued to
each Naval Militia vessel to assist in
this. clerical work Hw- recommends .
else that some of 'the old- battleships
now in. reserve. be assigned to .-a
Naval Militia of certain was; tile
reserve odlcers and men on one still!
combinahoardwnlletneysnslao
ooaipiadbythelulilia. Theple'nls
forthsmhioibtobemtonrook-
fynforusobythesscoodbsttsllonoi
the New York Neal willie: the
lemmeYakM-fluessofthe
,. 4 ”moistenmm-
"shfimmmmaasm-
'L—The new l
you the MECHANICAL "
{business had workingmon.~"tbo time
ithey are able to devote to Neal mil.
‘itls matters is necessarilylinited and
Bennett. be devoted. to drills slid! the
dam“: of the ' navel profusion. He
asserts that they should not be ex-
pected to spend much time scaling
pairing material, and he recommends
a considerable increase of the num‘
ber of ship keepers to take care of
Ithis work.
While several adverse comments on
the personnel of the Naval Militia
were received iron olllcers of the reg-
ular navy in whose ships the militia
cruised in general. the personnel was
commended for its intelligence, apti-
tude and camera The necessity of
haviuanodlceroithellavynasko
the cruises with the Naval Militia on
canals loaned to the states is strong‘
ly emphasised
PLEA‘D GUILTY TO ROBBERY.
SclIec and BerrieltISentoncloarg-
ed- With Entering luikl‘ey's, '
The codes of Joséph Seller and Jen-
eplt Derrick. the two 'ynu'ng area who
meanntlnthesetoirohbingthe
railroad station at W Farms.
were brought up in the Superior court.
at Bridgeport, Friday They plead
guilty to' the charges oi robbery and
Scher. who is under tweniybne years
of age, was sentenced to the State
Reform mil Herrick was given
three months in the courtly loll. ’l‘his
case wits tried before a heel justice
of the peace and the two young men
tom of: the superior court. 4 4_ .
Sonia evidence on the case of the
Holiday Goren robbery. in which Lar-
son and Wagner were implicated, woo
heard- many; and the also will probe
8“! be. m M today They
are charged with entering and robbing
thanikloszrageonthe nisbtot
W Ill: What the case was
tried hetero Justice of the PeaoeSem-
no! A. Fundy. is Import. moon told
Yum: mmuuu
Isl-sun‘- uteri-attesting
#'
should in the opinion of Commender -
bilgos. painting double'bottoms or me
were bound over to the December :
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