Here's the relevant code:

public static void printBoarders (Territory x) 
{
    int t = 0 ; 
    int n = 0 ; 
    for (int i = 0; i<x.borders.length; i++)
    {
        if (x.borders[i] == -1) 
            t = i ; 
    }
    for (int j = 0; j<x.borders.length; j++) 
    {
        if (x.borders[j] == 1) 
            n++ ;
    }

    Territory.translate (t) ;
    System.out.print (" has " + n + " borders: ") ;
    Territory.translate (x.borders) ;
    System.out.println (" ") ; 
}

When I run this, I get everything on one line without a line break. Why isn't the System.out.println (" ") ; creating a line break?

Here is an example of what the output winds up being:

Northwest Territory, Alberta, Kamchatka, hidavid-names-macbook-pro:~ davidname$

EDIT: the problem was that this method was never being invoked. A different one which i was replacing was. All is well.