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Tue TELEGRAPH put the oldtime war correspondent 
in business, but the wireless has put him out again. Now 
the armies of Europe have forbidden the correspondent a 
place in line. Some have lamented the fact and asserted 
that the cause of history will suffer. It is difficult to see 
how that will be so. It will be impossible to destroy all 
evidences of the great struggle. The reports of the en- 
gagements may be meagre, but they will be authentic. 
After all, in ultimately determining the factors of history 
the details that war correspondents gather do not carry 
much weight. In fact it would seem that what the news- 
paper syndicates lose the historian will gain. It will pre- 
vent at least many well meaning, but unintelligent men 
from swaying large numbers by their personal prejudices 
or more often by their subtle and ingenius gifts of color- 
ing facts or by clever fabrications. 
Wiit1aM Jennincs Bryan, Secretary of State, has 
issued an illuminating protocol intended to placate the 
pro-German critics of our American policy. Secretary 
Bryan pleads his cause well and the neutrality of the 
United States is maintained and defended in a masterly 
and conclusive manner. 
Tuer INDIANAPOLIS SPEECH of the President will not 
down. Perhaps the President will find it necessary to 
make another speech to meet his critics and then the 
campaign for the new term may be said to be well under 
way. 
Betcrans Wiuu Nor Forcet their neighbors’ acts for 
a generation or more! If Alsace and Lorraine cherished 
their resentments. and hatreds these forty years, what 
may be expected of Belgium ¢ 
Grocrapuers, lithographers and teachers are having 
difficult times these days when geography and history are 
in the making and unmaking. 
THERE ARE Two Hats in the Gubernatorial ring. The 
fight is on. 
THERE IS THREE HuNpRED DoLLAaR fine awaiting the 
justice-of-peace or the clergyman that neglects to file cor- 
rectly certificates of marriage presented by the contracting 
parties to the marriage. The rebuke which the colored 
clergyman in a neighboring city received from the judge 
for neglecting to keep a careful record of marriages per- 
formed by him was warranted. There are civil rights 
which accure to the husband or to the wife in the event 
of the death of the other, and the neglect to record the 
marriage may place either party in an embarrassing posi- 
tion. 
Tue PerriopicaAts that are exploiting the claims of 
new discoveries providing for painless child-birth are 
sinning against the best in human life, hope. There has 
been nothing yet devised by the art or discovered by the 
science of man to warrant any such hopes for suffering 
womankind. To arouse such hopes adds another burden 
to human life. 
WHATEVER CRITICISM may be made of the President 
and his Mexican policy he has been successful in main- 
taining peace. What a catastrophe it would be if this 
country were at war with Mexico and were caught in the 
European embroglio. Avaunt the thought! 
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Wueat 1s SOARING and flour will soon reach a new 
high level. Boots and leather are and have been high. 
The price of neutrality is not as high as that of belli- 
gerency, but it is high enough. 
Wuat A DISAPPOINTMENT it will me to Goethals if 
the slides at Goldhill and Cucaracha prevent the passage 
of the baitleships at the opening ceremonies in March! 
Anp Now 1t Turns Ovr that “It’s a long way to 
Tipperary” is not the popular army marching song the 
public has been lead to believe. 
_Beverty Farms has hopes of a municipal library. 
POWORTHY CHARITY 
Hep tHE PEOPLE oF WAR-STRICKEN 
PoLAND Next SATURDAY. 
Manchester people have become 
very much interested in the plans 
which are being made for Polisn 
Day, Saturday, Feb. 6, and are pre- 
paring to do their part in the state- 
wide charity for the 6,000,000 home- 
less war stifferers in Poland. Until 
very recently little was known of the 
pitiable condition of that stricken 
country, where over 500 villages have 
been razed and multitudes of peopte 
left to die of starvation or of ex- 
posure. When Salem’s people were 
suffering from the fire which wrought 
such havoc there last June, the volun- 
tary aid which came immediately and 
efficiently from. all sides was some- 
thing not soon to be forgotten. Many 
of the best helpers in the relief work 
at Salem were Manchester men and 
women. Will they not give their 
mite towards the fund for food and 
clothing for these people across the 
sea who are not only destitute but in 
the midst of their country’s enemies! 
On February 6, miniature Polish 
flags will be sold for 10 cents and 
Polish eagles for 25 cents. In mem- 
ory of Poland’s service to our country 
during the Revolutionary War, al- 
most anyone will be willing to give 
ten cents, which will provide food for 
one person for one whole day in Po- 
land. 
Miss Mabel Boardman, Head of 
the Red Cross, writes: 
“There is very great suffering and 
destitution in Poland. All the aid 
that can be given is needed.” 
Madame Szumowska-Adamowski, 
in answer to whose appeal the Public 
Interests’ League of the Massachu- 
setts Anti-Suffrage association has ar- 
ranged this Polish Day, says: 
“In the beginning I hesitated in ap- 
pealing for help. Now I see clearly 
that it is America’s mission in the 
world to win her prestige not through 
fire and sword, not through im- 
perialistic tendencies and exercise of 
material strength, but through the 
greater, more far-reaching power of 
true charity and big-heartedness.... 
It is only a question of reaching the 
ear of the American people in greater 
MasSeSe ou aes I have been more and 
more impressed with the wonderful 
warmth and responsiveness of the 
Americans. On February 6, it is 
planned to have a public sale of Po- 
lish flags and pins with the Polish 
eagle. ‘The little flags will be sold at 
ten cents each,—apparently an insig- 
nificant sum—yet this little mite will 
grow in our eyes when we learn that 
it represents the sustenance of a hu- 
man life for a day in Poland. We 
beg the citizens of Boston and any 
other New England towns to buy one 
little flag each on the Polish Day and 
get in return the pleasant conviction 
of having saved a human being from 
death, through starvation.” 
The Public Interests’ League earn- 
estly requests the townspeople of 
Manchester to give their aid in this 
great work by buying the flags and 
pins of the boys and girls, who will 
have them on sale on Feb, 6, 
