New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 5

-NEW RRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1017. | Westbraok have exhibited work In | sewing. Some of the sewing work ex- : hibited by the Berlin schools are de- | signed from patterns drawn and cut SHOWN AT CAPITD Bxhibition of Interest Feature for Next Six Weeks The state board of education, through its thirty-six supervising agents who represent nenety-six of the Connecticut towns has arranged a school exhibition which may be seen on the first floor of the state capitol during the next six weeks, The purpose of the exhibition is to £how, in a measure, the character of school work now being carried on in the smaller tawn’s of the state. The exhibition ‘shows samples of reading material used in the lower grades and the charts for drill pur- poses in arithmetic, language, geo- graphy and histery, There are also on exhibition various bulletins issued by the state board of education including directions far teaching some of the common school subjects, accomplishment tests, read- ing sgelections, expression drills and the Plans for Progress.” pamphlet outlines the minimum re- quirements for schocls under state su- pervision. Each supervicor has exhirited work by pupils in schools under his supor- vision. The idea is not to displav the work of any particular schocl or pupil but to show the varlety and character of the work whith i being done in the rural towns of the state. There are arithmetic pap~rs show- jng the work of each standard from the first to the eighth. There are seven charte containing Janguage papers exhibiting = different hases of the work in this subject— ictation papers, work in copving, written reproduction, results in imita- ¢ tive composition, business forms, letter writing, exercises in paragraphing and written expression. The exhibition in penmanship .in- cludes some papers which have been marked by the Houston Handwriting Scale. The Houston scale is shown in this exhibit, Agricultural Work. The towns of Lebanon and Mans- field have furnished two interesting charts about agricultural interests. These charts glve some idea of the scope of the work in agriculture now carried on in some of the schools. As part 6f this exhibit there are to be found compositions writtéen by school children describing their home pro- ject. The club work idea is presented and there are interesting photographs of school gatherings, a schocl agricul- | tural fajr and field work. - A, J. Brun- dage and R. A. Storrs, supervisors of agriculture, arranged this part of the exhibition, Several of -the .towns have sent’ drawings to illustrate spolic~tions of' principles ot drawing taught in the #chools. These principles are out- lined and explained in the Dunn leaf- lets which are in universal us¢ in the Echools under state supervision. Schools in the towns of Berlin, Bethlehem, North: Branford, Sav- | by the pupils. 1 th The latter | The steps are shown in e exhibit. * There is one chart showing pictures of school houses bringing out the changes which have been made by re- modeling. One of the interesting features of | the exhibition is a modél of a one- room country school hoyse which em- bodies tdeas of good constructian such as one-side lighting, high windows, { improved ventilating and heating ar- | rangements. The model on exhibition i was made at the South Manchester Trade school, | H. O. Clough, wha planned and as- . sembled the exhibition, has arranged to have someone on duty between the hours of 10 a. m. and 5 p. m. to !answer questions and explain the character of the work exhibited. CANADIANS READY 10 D0 THEIR BIT Recruiting Booms As Spring 0F- fensive Is Drawing Near St. Johns, N. B., Feb, 28.—Canada is making active preparations to take 2 prominent part in the great allied oftensive on the western front this spring. Thousands of troops have ar- rived in the province cf New Bruns- wick within the past few weeks for final training before embarking at Halifax, N. 8., for England. Military authorities have been ordered to pro- vide suitable quarters and they are taking care of a number of units in this city, Sackville, Chatham, Cam- bellton, New Castle and other towns in the province. The housing and feeding of these troops has proved quite a problem, but it is being met successtully and has brought increased ! business prosperity to the province. Major General Lessard, inspector general for eastern Canada, has been here supervising the work of mobiliza- tion. He recently was quoted as say- ing that 100,000 additional men would be needed within the next few months to offset possible casualties in the spring offensive and to keep the Cana- dian divisions at full strength. Among the troops ordered here is the 198th battalie commanded by Lieut. Col. John A. Cooper, former editor of the Canadlan Courier. This battalion, known as “The Bluffs,” con- sists of 31 officers and 931 men, many of whom have seen service heretafore. Some other troops which are either in. the province or on their way are No. 16, Field Ambulance corps; part f the 216th “Bantam” battalion, com- prising soldiers from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; 236th “Kilty” bat- talion; a detachment. of the Rayal Naval Canadian Voluneers reserve and the 116th battalion. The presence of large numbers of troops has stimulated recruiting. Since the, provincial election, the work 6f enlistment has been taken up with increased vigor. brock, Somers, Sprague, Sterling and | Protestant and Catholic churches have opened their doors to recruiting parties and appeals from the pulpit and altar for Canadians “to do their bit” is meeting with a ready response, The 257th railway construction bat- talion, which obtained its first re- cruit in January, is now nearly filled and ready to depart. Officers and men alike express con- fidence that the war is approaching its final stage and all are eager for ser- vice at the front. Increased activity on the part of the Germans’ sub- marines in the Atlantic has caused little concern. NON-SINKABLE AND FOLDING LIFE BOAT A collopsible, non-sinkable steel lifeboat has just been patented by Yves Andre Bouget, a native of Phil- adelphia, which will probably be used by the United States in case of war, The picture shows Mr. Bouget with a model of his boat. . The inventor has been working on the idea for three vears and I8 planning to give demon- ' strations of the new craft in water in and near Philadelphia. The boat is supposed to be entirely | from any | and although practi- ' different in construction other lifeboat, cally indestructible does not take up more room than an ordinary lifeboat, The non-sinkable feature is made pos- sible by means of two air compart- ments placed in the bow and stern. MULTIGRAPHS LETTER Fac-¢imile of Typewriting done 1. 3 and $ cctors with mgnaturea Letter Heada Printed THE HARTTFORD TYPEWRITER CA ING 8 Ktnte Siraet Hartford Conn " 'PAPER PROBLEM IS A FOREST PROBLEN Wood Must Be Conserved, Says Ass't Sec’y of Agriculture Washington, Feb. 28—Conservation of the country’s forests as a means of insuring a future paper supply I'was urged in a statement issued to- | day by Carl Vrooman, assistant secre- ! tary of agriculture. The paper prob- lem, he said primarily is a problem and can be solved by re- forestration and scientific forestry to | keep up a continuous production of pulp woods. “At the present moment,” the statement says, *“ we are using daily 6,000 tons of new paper and this is increasing at the rate of ten per cent a year. We need about 7,000,- 000 cords of pulp a vear for all our paper products and at present only two-thirds of this supply is grown in our own forests. We import a third of our newspaper pulp wood from Canada and between 15 and 20 per cent. of the pulp wood used for our other paper products from Kurope. Since sthe war this latter source has been cut off. We 'must re-use old paper and woods hitherto unused to any con- sidarable extent. “Both public and private enterprise must take the'lead in the intelligent re-forestration of private lands. We must provide for the development of privately owned timberlands by com- pleting fire protection and thus forest - GAPT. JACK CRAWFORD DEAD Famous Indian’ Fighter of Frontier Days Passes on to “Happy Hunting Ground”—Was Custer’s Chief Scout. New York, Feb. 28.—John Wallace (“Captain Jack) Crawford, a noted ! Indian fighter of early frontier days, ¢ died last night at his home at Wood Haven, L, I. He was stricken with ! pneumonia more than a month ago. ] Captain Crawford wrote a number of ‘plays, stories and poems and was known as the “Poet Scout”. He was chief of scouts under Gen. Custer at the time of the Custer massacre, but it is said that he was on his way to | Custer’s headquarters with despatches ! when this event took place. | played an active part in the pursuit of Sitting Bull. Crawford- was born in Ireland in 1847. He served in the Civil war and the story is that he learned to read and write while in the hospital re- covering from a wound. P SO, MAY POSTPONE OONVENTION. Richard Schaefer, national grand secretary of the Sons of Herman, has written to the various lodges about { the country asking their opinion as to the advisability, of continuing plans for the national convention which ig scheduled to take place in Lawrence, ‘Mass., on September 18. The secre- tary thinks that due to the strained | relations between this country and Germany it might be the part of di- plomacy to postpone the convention until June, 1918. i Later he. 'NEW BRITIAN ARCHITECT RUN DOWN AND NERVOUS FRONM OVERWORK HAS | Health to Lax-a-Tone, the Mo Does the word HEALTH not send a thrill through you, said Mr. Martin, the Lax-a-Tone expert at the Econo- my New England Drug Co., 165 Main street, especially if you are on the siek list. I know how you long to be able to eat what you want, how you long to go here and there but can- not, how discouraged you get when you tire out so. easy and others can go all day long and still be as fresh as when they started. Now you people that are sick, down and out, can get back in the health column through Lax-a-Tone, the same as many othetrs right in this city have. Many work- ers in New Britain say that they have increased in their output by fifteen per cent. with the use of Lax-a-Tone. A woman told me right in this store today that her husband used to come home from the shop all in, would hardly eat a bite, and then sit down and doze away until bed-time, and awake the next morning as tired as when he went to bed at night. This same woman told me that he hus- band has taken three bottles of Lax-a- Tone and on Saturday night they: went to the.movies, and Sunday en- joyed themselves all day by calling around on their friends, that is what RECOVERED HEALTH ENTIRELY N( Mr. Wm. H. McKay of This City Owes His Return st Wonderful of All Tor Lax-a-Tone has done in that fan It is simple; the husband was poisoning himself with waste in the stomach and bowels, he tired out and languld all the His friends probably thought he lazy but he was not. That man sick and just could not get up tion. Now, how many of you ers are in this same shape. If are, go right down and see the a-Tone man. 3 Mr. McKay, who lives at the ‘Washington, this city, and is a known architect, says: “I have Y in a run-down condition for = time, was in a dreadful nervous dition, could not eat or sleep nigh all. I had been looking around, some time for a tonic that I thoy would do me good and I,am gla say that I found Lax-a-Tone just it represented itself to bo. I Wi not recommend anything unless I sure that I was right, but I am to say a good word for Lax-a- and heartily endorse it to all.” Call around and see Mr. Martin, Lax-a-Tone expert, at the Econ New England Drug Co., 366 street. He will be glad to tell yo about Lax-a-Tone and just Wi will -do. checking anhual losses amounting to millions of dollars. “There are plenty of sources’ in the United States. The trouble is that they are undeveloped, unorganized and unnationalized.” GRIFFIN HEADS CADETS. Frank Griffin was elected president ofsthe Tierney Cadets at a largely at- tended meeting of the society in the T. A, B. hall last evening. More than 300 members - were in attendance. Other officers elected are: vice presi- dent, John'Kelly; secretary, Harold Ward; chaplain, Rev. John E. Fay. The soclety plans a number of hikes soon and drilling for the state parade | in Torrington in June will be com- menced at an early date. QorQ 0. Every Nighf /For Constipation Headache Indigestion.etc RANDRETH PILL Safe and Sure Bock! Bock! Bock! The Bock season has arrived and the bottlers and cafes which handle Cremo Beer are ready to supply you. ' Gremo Bock Beer is of high quality. It is made of pure malt and hors with the employment of the exact methods of the famous Munich beer. It is properly aged and is a pure and wholesome beverage, a satisfying drink and a body builder sec- ond to none. Beginning tomorrow (March 1) you will find on draught at the saloons of our customers our 1917 Bock beer. When in a cafe call for Cremo Bock. You will find it a most satisfactory drink. from your bottler. You will be pleased with it. Cremo Brewing C NEW BRITAIN, CONN. Order a case of Cremo Bock, or a dozen bottles for a trial, ‘paper Te- WITH SIXTEEN SELECTIONS OF MUSIC (Eight Double Disc 75¢ Records) from the March List Just Out or YOUR OWN CHOICE DOWN . THIS WEEK ONLY 138 MAIN STREET, Tone Control Leaves. — e The Balance of $41 Can Be Arranged on EASY WEEKLY or MONTHLY TERMS To Suit You. This Instrument is Finished in Oak or Mahogany, Equip- ped with a powerful Double Spring Motor and Exclusive MARCH RECORDS NOW ON SALE BRODRIB & WHEELER HALLINAN BUILDING