New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1917, Page 6

Samtt ji'army that we must the regular army in the training of recruits to the new army. Events in Europe during the past month and a half have in some manner or means | upzet these calculations. ' The Russian 4 will be found on ssle at Hote- 42nd 8t. and Broad- News Stand, “New York Clty; Board) Walk, At- ’City, wnd Hartford Depot. | might be termed a tie battle, er against which we wed has sought to impose I upon the world by force. nd it has increased arma- ‘until it has changed the face . ‘In the sense in which we e been wont to think of pies there are no armies in this there are entire nations fhus the men who remain to the soil and man the es kDo less a of the.army that nce than the men beneath battle flags. maust be so with us., It is not and for war—it is a Nation. To i» end our people must draw we in ppmpast'front against £ “But this, cannot Fsues a private ¥ pursue - one . ‘The' Nation needs. all Dbut {t needs each’ man, not ‘ie]d that,will most pleas- but in the endeavor that 6 the common good. “—WOODROW WILSON. DO YOUR BIT. - the Common Cou,w‘ell has seen sccept the municipal farm suggested by Mayor Quigley, the city must expend the $16,000 to defray expenses ‘and cultivation, all hands pitch in' and make this ven- : Those who fear that pmie 1a not practicable, that it Be worked out successfully unteer labor, that’it: borders ‘walley of dreams, must throw Beir fears and see to it that.no jotions are thrown in the way. pation is:at, war. iThat must forgotten. Food "!’f.eb“' of foodstuffs are fabulous, the natlon faces d crisis each state ‘must contribute its of help. ‘When a state is hard- each county, and city, amd " haglet must. come to the This is the case in a nut- New. Britain must do every- n its power to furnish foodstuffs n people without depending itside help. The plan as ad- by Mayor Q\ll‘hy;la a very in this respect. Whatever . may have otherwise are not ‘copsidered now ‘that the Com- unctl has‘paved the way for Who ‘will not' be éalled to At when the Selective Draft s operative, or those who wili| busily engaged in the factories ernment work, will have ‘& ! ffice to do-their bit on the munici- . An especial appeal will be| to the boys too younsg for en- nt in the army. These youns- of tender years may be able to the municipal farm even better ji their elders; providing they have ry instruction. This is as- Competent agriculturists will hand to help those unfamiliar b the work. There are but two that can mar the success of the —bad weather and insufficient Do your bit. 4: SHING AND HIS BOYS, ral Pershing, West - Foint , an American army - officer has devatps | whole ~ life to is the man sident Wilson sena to France, as soon as prac- e, in, command of a division, of troops. This step is necessar- at the, urgent request of the ‘nations ‘of Europe Who are kg upon the moral and physical ¥ of the United States,in the ‘conduct of the war. . Since ust be sent to Europe it 18 r part of ‘wisdom that rea} ig- men, trainied to the minute, Such are the men under They have been in harness je. They will require but a eks on foreign soll to adapt fes to the new conditions and “a good account il the interest [ny troops that go away from this puntry in the immediate future will rily be missed, in more ways one. It had been the plan of the ral Btafl to use the members of situation is a menace to the entire civilized world. There is no telling what might happen if the Russian troops forsake their companions in arms and go over to the side of the Germans. The mere fact that Hin- denburg can call 600,000 troops from the Russian frontier and stack them against the Franco-English forces on the Western Front is in itself signifi- cant. There are reinforcements needed to meet the newcomers. England and France are counting on throwing half a million more soldiers into the fray by July 1. To this end even little Portugal has been drawn upon for troops. The situation, while it may nat be.called desperate, is dangerous. The ememy armies on the Western Front have wagered what They are, to all intents and purposes, dead- locked. This despite the fact that the English and French and Canadian troops have made some very. severe inroads on the Hindenburg line. They have Tepulsed the Germans at many points: but the Germans have not yet given in, nor are they anywhere near conquered. The British realize this. Phe French understand it. The, United Statets is awake to the situa- Hon, 1t is this salient fact that has helped the General Staff to decide as it has, as the President has authorized, What is gained now must not be lost. Any set-back to the Entente Allies must necessarily act as an injury to the United States. We are fighting the common enemy. Since we are In the fight we must be in it with heart and soul. Instead of sending at first a volunteer division to Europe we must send men who thoroughly un- derstand the business of fighting. Volunteers can go later. The men under General Pershing are seéasoned troops all. They have not been in the army a day only, or a week or a month. Most of them have.years of service to their credit! Regular troops such as these are worth a million enthus- fastic volunteers such as Colonel Roosevelt might raise, men over the age of enlistment set by the Congress. All honor then to Pershing and his troops. The honor rightfully belongs to them. Regular army troops, men who have drilled and practiced and sacrificed themselves when there was no thought of glory, should be sent to Europe. Europe will be a truly representative American army, one that the nation may well acclaim. We shall be proud of Pershing and his boys. = SAD BUT TRUE. That section of the Selective Draft Bill which authorizes the creation of volunteer divisions made up Of men who do not come within the age lim- its prescribed,—21 to 30 inclusive,— and which was added because of Theodore Roosevelt’s ambition to lead a division on European battleflelds, has fallen by the wayside. The pro- vision did not make it mandatory upon the President to sanction the organization of such a “division or divisigns. It left everything with the ‘President: Happily, he has seen fit to spurn ‘the offer of these services,, patriotic_though they be. Invval ng the offer of a Roose- ivelt’ Division, the President does so with keen regard for the feelings of Mr, Roéseveit,” and for all those who y 4 who have opposed, the Prestdent would like § h to’pay this compliment to the Colonel. ' Also he ‘would be de- lighted to send to the aid of the Allles one of our ‘“most distinguished public men,” an ex-President whom all rec- ognize as having rendered distin- guished services to the nation. Polit- dcally, the President recognizes the import of Mr. Roesevelt’s inaistence. No doubt it would produce a _.very’ fine effect if Mr. Wilson sent his oli- time political enemy on a mission of this kind.' Surely it would’ creste.” a “profound impression.” -’ v “But,” comments the President,— and here comes the rub: |[This is not the time or the occasion for compli- ment or for any action not calculated to contribute to the immediats suc- cess of the war. The business now in hand is undramatic, practical, ang of scientific definitenéss and: precision,” Which is a beautiful way of telling us. what we ‘all knew, namely; that ‘the Roosevelt Division could have no place in present day army plans bé- cause of is dramatics. Aside from, that it would be impracti¢al;. un- sclentific, and in the way. As a Wild ‘West Show or a circus it might go. As a modern army division it has no place. According to C. B. Breed, Professor of Railroad Engineering at The Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, the United States wastes nearly enough money on wooden boxes and fibre cases, which arc useless after one or two trips, to build as many warships as were providéd forin the 1815 naval bill, maintain the Navy, MNaval Acad- The first American army in| emy and navy yards. -The entire naval appropriation of the United States for the year amounted to $147,- 161,320. The amount spent for the containers of wood and fibre was, ac- cording _to the best estimates based . on census and other figures, somewhat | more than $120,000,000. Asg yet we have falled to find a yisit- ing card bearing the democratic name Mr. Nicholas Romanoff. Where 1is he? Up ‘to this writing King Constantine has not abdicated. What's the mat- ter with the Greeks? Even if the Kaiser has sent for an American dentist that is no sign_he Is cuttigg his wisdom teeth, although he should get wiser as the days go on. FACTS AND FANCIES. Well, May has at last begun to be- gin.—Bridgeport Telegram. Sir Edward Carson admits that the British navy must be improved. But not a finger must be laid on Ulster.— New York Post. ? Spring has been with us almost two months, and holding old winter in her lap all that time. Immodest lady! —Greenwich News. The proposal to tax cabarets can-. not be serious, as the proprietors are already charging all the traffic will bear—New York Sun. One man we know is so patriotic that he has decided to be very sav- ing during the war so that he-can buy an automobile—New Haven Union. Experts who predict a long war seem to be pretty familiar with the make-up of an American congress— Rochester Herald. Whenever a new building is startea in a residence s&Ction nowadays the neighbors are always afrald it is go- ing to be a garage or a movie.—Pat- erson Call. No wonder Bethmgnn-Hollweg is skittish about talking regarding peace again. The last time he mentioned the word the United States jumped into the war.—New York Herald. Henry P. Davison, one of New York’s greatest financiers, renting a house in Washington to give his time to the Red Cross work, is an inspira- tion. He, at least, is no slagker— Brooklyn Eagle. P In Chicago they have just erected a bronze bust of an undoubted German named Ottmar Mergenthaler. But for him our print-paper supply would be adequate. He hit that hard, but most of us admire him just the same.— Brooklyn Eagle: The German war officials aver that they would welcome a combined at- tack of the British and Yankee navies on Kiel canal. They must see their inevitable finish and select that al- leged impregnable stronghold as the last ditch to die in.—Portland Easter Argus. Tt is eminently fitting that the na- tion, should unite in paying tribute to the distinguished gentleman, Joseph H. Choate, who labored for her until the very last. What finer tribute than to pay reverent heed to the final words of his last public utterancee—*“For God’s sake, hurry up!”"—N. Y. Herald. The authority for a ‘statement that the Germans are employing 326 sub- marines is a sailor in the crew of U-568, according to the Amsterdam Telegraaf. In less hysterical times he would be considered no authority at all. There will soon not be room in the North Sea and channel for all the submarines credited to Germany.—N. Y. Sun. 3 ‘When We Have an Irish Kaiser. (Alr:—*“Wearing of the Green.”) ‘When the war is over, laddies, just take a tip from me, 4 There will be no German submarines a-diving through the sea. In the Fatherland is Kaiser Bill, the guy we're going to lick, And we'll have a brand new Kaiser, and the same will be a Mick! We \will change the song *“Die Wacht " am Rhein” into an Irish reel, And make the Deutschman dance it, if so Inclined we feel, e police force In Berlin will Micks from County Clare When we put an Irish Kaiser in the i palace over there. ¥ : Sifure, in German *parkway vou'll filld a-gyeet colledg,. - the flelde of waving sauerkraut we'll nc,,\bp(h * shamrocks .+ green. . & F¥e No Mverwurst or sausage when: the «, -« “Deutschmin- dririks his suds," - But he'll get corned’beef ant cabbags. and good old ‘Irish spuds.. R For Ana ‘The heathen'si'guns and gas bombs, e'll throw them all away, And make’ thém use shillalahs or bricks- of Irish clay. = They'll wear no iron crosses—shure, It's shamrocks they will wear When we put an Irish Kaiser in the Jpalace over there. i ~_The Louisville Courler-Journal. ‘Wanted What He Paid For. (San Francisco Argonaut). Pestered by the ever-advancing cost of living' dnd determined to exercise a protective vigilance in the future even in small matters, the customer picked up a knife from the counter and handed it to the butcher with a friendly smile. “I really don’t want it,”” he sald, “but if you will cut it ff I will take it along with the rest.” ut what off?” demanded the butch- er in blank surprise. “Your hand,” was the gentle reply. “You weighed it with the sausages, and I like to get what I pay for,” § X | efficlentd; Town T épics Mayor Quigley's third annual mes- sage proved a well balanced, con- structive, progressive article and it has received no little favorable com- ment. -His plea for all departments to economize and retrench is timely and consistent with the expressed views of the citzens at the last city meeting. His sweeping recommenda- tions for an all time assessors’ force will thus be enabled to go more ‘searchmgly into tax lists was most pertinent. The statement that the city recelves revenue on only $22.603 on hand in National banks and Trust companies, while the reports of these local institutions show deposits of over six millions of dollars, indicates the need of more eflicient assessment along these lines, a thing to be made possible by an all time board. There is no doubt but what the fire and po- lice headquarters need larger quar- ters and the mayor’s idea to convert the old Burritt school over to sych & place seems to offer the most feasible solution. Pertinent aiso is His Hon- or's advice to hesitate and investi- gate conditions thoroughly before ex- pending about $200,000 for the Bur- lington tunnel. To the mind of many however, the dwil service, which has by no means been a failure and prom- ises to improve with age, has not been quite so much of a success as the message would indicAte. Looking back over the past three years, con- sidering plans for the future and the usually efficient corps of workers with which the mayor has fortified his ad- ministration the citizens need not worry that the city will be able to live up to the motto: “Onward and Upward.” .o Of interest to local people, partic- ularly those hundreds who are trying to increase the food supply with their domestic gardens, is a recent bill passed by the legislature for protec- tion of these gardens. Since the pas- sage of this bill it becomes doubly hazardous for any malicious person to trespass upon or attempt to steal from the gardéls of private individ- uals for not oply will he have to run the gauntlet of the wrathful ewner, but if he escapes him with a whole skin he will have to face a criminal court. This bill, which was intro- duced by Senator Burnes, provides: “If any person shall during the time of the war, enter upon & fleld garden or land of another, sown, planted, or cultivated with grain, veg- etables, fruit, articles of good or sub- stances used in the preparation of food, with intent to retard or injure the growth of product or the soil of such fleld, garden or land, He shall be fined not more than $100, or be im- prisoned not exceeding six months or both.” Therefore, ye members of the agri- cultural army if you catch any mid- night marauders in your pet garden, don’t waste your energy on him, especially if he is bigger than you. Let Judge Meskill handle the case. e If the trolley company and police officials are satisfied with 'the present stopping station of the inbound West Main street cars in front of St. Mark’s church, all of the public is not. By having the car stop to discharge pas- sengers before rounding the corner into Main street all street traffic com- ing down West Main street is tied up, whereas much of it could continue on past City hall, into Church or up and down Main street should the cars round the corner before stopping. e Now that officlals have definitely decided that never again will Hart- ford and Chestnut street cars stop for passengers at the corner of Main and Church streets it might not be amiss to recommend that some noticeable and intelilgable sign be so placed as to appraise visitors and uninitiated per- sons of just where the cars do stop. And although this is not the time of the year to worry, some way should be found to have a; wide pathway through winter slush and snow from the curbing to the car tracks. .o In George W. Klett, Edward F. Hall and.Richard Covert, New Britain has a trio of legislators of whom it can be Jjustly proud. Never has the city been more ably represented in the senate than by Mr. Klett, or in the house of representatives than by Messrs. Hall and Covert. All three men had most important committee appointments and all three worked hard for the best interests of the city and state. The record of Senator Klett, who finished his second term in the senate on ‘Thursday, is one that has seldom been equalled for during these two terms he did not miss a single session, which is no small achievement when duly considered. Hardly less regular have been the representatives, Mr. Covert having attended every session of the 1916-1917 assembly and Mr. Hall be- ing absent but once. \ e ‘Wednesday marked the twenty- third anniversary of P. J. Egan's first appointment asa water commissioner, where he +ras served so faithfully and f ly as clerk for so many years. During -his almost a quarter of a century ‘service in the water depart- r.. Bgan has seen many civic changes, but it is ti-his own domain that he has been primerily interested. Roughl¥ speaking Mr.. Egan has noted eight distinct epochs in the develop- ment of the city’s”water department since 1893. gIn 1894 all of the old fashionéd. cement pipes were removed and twg vears later the city saw fit to extend-the west canal”at Shuttle Meadow. The larger water mains in the city were renewed in 1901 and in 1904 the Wolcott pipe line and res- ervoir was installed. The Burlington pipe line and reservoir was construct- ed in 1908, while two years later the high reservoir and pipe line was put in. Not until 1911 was the system of paying water rents changed, and then only partially, the attention of the public being taken up with the meter system. During this same year the new water supply for upper Burling- ton was installed. The city Wu’oom- pletely equipped with meters in"1912, an innovation that has proved its worth both. in fairness to the consum- AY, MAY 19, 1017, ' er and In the revenue brought in. To- +day the New Britain water depart- ment supplies approximately 11,000 , families, an increase of about 7,000 in the last twenty-three years as in 1893 there were: only about 4,000 families being served: During this same. peri- od the income of the water depart- ment has increased more than four- fold. 1n 1893 the zeceipts totalled $34,000, In 1916 they mo‘\lntu‘i to $142,000. v Sl ves . People trying to induce their little back yard gardens to grow are ex- perlencing considerable difficulty in keeping stray dogs and eats from con- verting these plots into.giinlature race tracks. Patience sometimes ceases to be a virtue and when it does We look for some dead canines and felines and some very indignant owners. by ... Now is the time to begin swatting the fly. Biff him as soon as crawls forth from his winter quarters. Smash him before he is fully awake and becomes such an elusive target. Squash him before he can begin his deadly work of transporting disease germs. A fly swatted today is better than a thousand flies swatted on July 4.. ’ The French Model Council, a civic organization to promote Americanism and to foster American principles, i8 beginning a new agitation in favor of a day nursery for New Britaln. There was a time, a number of years ag0 when there was a well established day nursery conducted on Walnut street. Here mothers who were compelled to g0 olt to earn their living could leave their little children and feel assured that they would receive proper care in capable hands. Eventually, however, the day nursery was compelled to sus- pend operations because of lack o funds. Such an institution is a most worthy one and it is indeed unfort- unate that this city cannot have one. New Britain’s isolated case of small- pox hag already caused a good many people to pe apprehensive about the future and since the case has become known there has been & decided influx of patients to the various doctors to be vaccinated. This is particularly true of children, their parents wishing to take every precaution against their contracting the disease. Although New, Britain has had its share of diphtheria, meningitis, scarlet fever, infantile paralysis and other serious contaglous diseases it has been re- markably free from smallpox. Until the present case there had not been a single case of that disease in the city for about five years. It is the epi- demic of 1902, however, that is still vividly remembered by the residents here. During that year a smallpox scourge broke out in the early spring and increased in its intensity as the summer progressed until there were in all fifty-seven cases. The schools were closed. Factory workers were vaccinated and every possible precau- tion against the disease was taken. It was at that time that the isolation hospital, now used as a part of the town home, was built. While the pa- tients were confined there the hospital was surrounded with a high picket fence which was constantly guarded by police. Smallpox patients who were not removed to this hospital were kept In strict quarantine at their homes and people still remember the little wooden coops in which the po- licemen guarding the houses to see that quarantine was not broken were wont to sit to get protection from/the elements. It will also be remembered that Dr, T .E. Reeks, now superin- tendent of health and then a prac- ticing physician, was one of the few medical men in the city who did not hesitate about entering fearlessly into the sick rooms to administer to the patients. At that time he wore special clothing within the houses which he chdanged upon again going out- side. Although there were fifty-seven cases of smallpox during that summer there was but one fatality, the victim being a little bal Doctors state state the mortality of smallpox in the ‘United States is very low and that it is the loathsomeness of the disease, rather than the fear of its resultant mortality, that so alarms people. Doctors claim that the average death rate of smallpox is about one to every thousand and that out of the 50,000 cases reported in the United States last vear there were only about a half hundred that proved fatal. This one case of smallpox, how- ever, shows New Britain’s need of an isolation hospital. Not only has the city no place to send people afflicted with smallpox, but also has no place to send people sick with the scarlet fever, contagious meningitis, infantile paralysis or any other highly conta- glous ailment. Either the city must rely upon the generosity of neighbor- ing authorities or care for the patients as best it can by a strict quarantine. . we In their mind the old time resi- dents are going back to the days of their youth, being transported there in memory by the sight and sound of so much garden activity. In years gone by almost every homestead had a sizeable garden patch connected with it and people who lived even in the center of the town raised their own vegetables. In those days we are told, there:was no such thing as the present high price of potatoes and onions. Each family generally raised enough for its own consuniption. Al- though times have changed and the big farms have been cut up into resi- dential sections, there still- remains no little Jand ‘available . f3r/ garden plots in §lmest ev , but until this yaer‘heg wfln;yxtlwunst. Now fearing that they are to face a food famine, the owners are working early and latd in &n. dttempt to in- crease the food supply. “o e The electric light standards along Main street rave beén treated to a coat of black paint during the week. A much needed improvement. The ingtallation of a standard and electric light in Bigelow street extension, be- tween Church and Chestnut streets, is also appreciated by those who have occasion to frequent this highway at night. What was previously -an ideal SELF HELPS FOR NEW SOLDIERS . . SO0N TO BE CALLED INTO FIELD: Advide-By United States Army Oficer Whichi Is Valuablé to Those Eligible For Servics tn America’s New: Legious. THY 'USE OF COVER. From ‘s military standpoint— though not in the slightest sense from a moral or patriotic standpoint —8 dead soldler is of no use to his ‘command., But i a dead soldler is of :: further military value, a wound- soldier, like a sfck Soldier is doubly useless, since he Tequires the atten- " other soldiers “:ld or.in removing him Te he can be rescued g nm&-bunwle-, of course, © ‘actfon is too violent to allow for the immedtate care of the ‘wounded. T¢ 15, therefore, highly important up | to the point where it retards the mil- itary purpose to reduce the number of casualties. This is done, hen deployed as skirmighers, by 1 ing the intervals, as explatued in s previous article, by advancing in single flle—in Squad Column—or by the advantageous use of cover. All American boys will remember the defeat of Gen. Braddock's Tegu- lars by the Indians—a defeat which only the young Colonel Georse Washington saved from utter disaster. The Indians fought from under cov- er—from behind trees—and the: Brit- ish Grenadlers, accustomed: ty inarch into battle as if on dress were thrown into consternation. = That principle of fighting, from behind cov- er, was taken over by the American Minute Men at Bunker Hill, and again the British regulars were cast into confusion by volleys from. & .foe which they could not see. The United States army has never wholly departed from this principlé of warfare learned from the Indians, and the modern system of ' deploy- ment and. skirmishing is but development of it. From the Amer- ican Indian, then, through the United States army, this method spread to Europe, and, rendered trebly neces- sary by the incredible deadliness of modern attack, has reached its most place for a hold-up now has more of the elements of a modern city gtreet. e s ef B Having ‘but one entunes‘(aa élfi‘ at each end and that o fifinf side, people riding on the g A, Y8, caxs will now have to exercise more ‘ciu- tion in alighting from the cars at Central Park. “Look before you leap' will have to be constantly on tieir mind. e Local followers of Isaac ~Walton have had but little to brag about this spring. The broows have all been high and the weather cold, anything but favorable to trout fishing. Even the most enthusiastic have had but few elaborate stories of thelr prowess to relate. " ' e LR Manager F. L. Beardsley of the Connecticut company states that in all’ probability a new ruling whereby trolley cars will stop on the near side of all crossings will become effective about June 1. This will be a much needed reform in the management of the local lines. At present trolley cars, when stopping to take on pas- sengers, always cross the intersecting street before coming to a stop. Al- though it is no new rule, it seems al- most impossible that people will ever learn it and consequently there are frequent occasions when people starid patiently on the near side of the street waving their hand in vain for the motorman to stop. Then they have to cross through the oftimes muddy street and board the car some distance further up. But that is not the worst fault, for the more anxious or athletic would-be passengers often decline to wait until the car satops and essay to jump aboard as it p: They are frequently thrown, .- times injured and «elways indignant. For better service, stopping on the near side of the street is a distinct improvement. So too, are the new P. A. Y. E. cars on the Hartford branch. They are more comfortable, decidedly more ghnitary and make better time. : oo Never has the passing of a citizen been more sincerely mourned by..the members of the fire department than that of the late ™ Dwight Parsons, who died Sunday night. For although Mr. Parsons, “Deacon’ as was always fondly knoam ‘to the “boys” in the fire departmeht, was beyond the Biblical threl score and ten mark. he still continued: to be ‘“one of the boys” and up to theé Very day on which his failing health compelled him to remain indoors, never n to walk out, he kept alive his iriter- est in the firemen and visited them at their querters. For “Deacon” Parsons was an honorable tradition in the fire department and stories of him will be told ‘to the fire fightery of “the next generation. In his youth Mr., Par- sons was a. member of the volunteer fire department and from hence sprang his love for the clang of the bell, the roar of the flames and the odor of burning material. In the| early seventies,, when the Landers, Frary & Clark factory burned down, Mi, Parsons was assistant chief of the fire department, resigning a few years later. But as the years rolled by the veteran’s interest in the~’de- partment never waned. It is said of him that there was not a day of his life. when he was able to be out of doors, that he did not stop in for a friendly call and chat at the head- quarters station and frequently at the other engine houses where he was always a welcoms guest. He took great pride in the development of the fire department from the old hand cart days to the modern auto trucks and even as late as last fall he would mount his bicycle and ride to almost every alarm that was sounded during the day. The firemen will miss “Dea- con” Parsons. He was their friend and they were his friends. Oftimes on hot summer afternoons the “Dea- con” ‘would drop in at a-ire station further. /}service more years than b sclentific stage in the t ¥ e oy rench warfal But it is not out of place to ob- serve, as American officers will point out, that this very trench warfare, like nearly all the major inventi with which the present is being waged, is an Américan devel- opment. In the Civil war, befabe, Vicksburg and before Petersburg, there were months of trench warfaré, ", the same in principle, it less devastat- ing, than that now in progress In Burope. . The new soldier shouM give carefi]: attention to the individual use o cover. ural cover—that is, throwing hims prone behind & clump of earth, a de~.: pression {n the ground, a rock, & or-a bush—he will be able to conces himself as much as possible. while: fip~ ing and’ while advancing, and will give him opportunity for his sight, taking deliberate aim, sending his bullet to the mark. : should fire dround the right of ' h congealment when this is possible, co! t « By taking advantage of nat- ' E? (and when not possible, over the top.u =~ . In. drder to advance in single-fils, the corporal will give the éommand “Squad’ Column, MARCH!" He moves to the front, and the members of the squad oblique from their positions in’ the line toward- him and fall in be- hind him at easy marching distances. ‘The chief value of a Squad Column, however, is understood to facilitate an advance over rough or brush-growi « . &round, since it is held to l.flord‘m-" tle ‘'material advantage In securing' covér. At “Assemble”, the members: of the squad advance to the right or deft of the corporal, as the case may 58, and take their places in line. When in ;Squad Column, the order of the in column behind the corporal is: No. 2 front rank, No. 3 rear rl.nlr'_ No. 2 rear rank, No. 3 front ronk,” No. 1 front rank, No. 1 rear rank, * No. 4 rear rank. . ‘Wwith some ice cream for the boys. At: other times he would bring "them other eatables. Although out of the A = the oldest ued untdl the end to be ome of the “boys.” The mourning of his passing among the firemen is genujne. They have lost a friend cee The city administrations plan. for municipal farming is, on the : basfo i principles, a most worthy and admiry | able idea. Whether it will prove | successt, adopted, is up to the | people sq ly. * ,Volunteer workers | are always more or less independable. ", (Oftimes people who volunteer their "\ services on the spur of the moment and when filled with enthusiasm, per- mit their ardor to cool precipitately !whon the novelty has worn off. jcnnot be so if the municipal farms are to be a success. Constancy must be the motto of the volunteer garden- ers all summer. It will be no fun for con! | muscular work required. to labor under a brofling summer’'s sun. Yet they must stick to the resolution if i the plan to which they lent their sup- iport is not to fail. The underlying - idea and ultimate aim of the muni- ! cipal farm plan is excellent. The {and constancy of the volunteer, un- ! skilled workers. But it will be up to i the people themselves to make good jor fail. It will be the people who will profit and it will be the people | who will lose, in the event of failure, | Let us put our shoulder to the wheel, ior more correctly speaking, let us put our muscles to the hoe and ‘“‘go | to it” in. the event of the city meet- ing yoting to back up the project. Victim of Grave Injustice Explains, (Atchison Globe). “Will your esteemed paper give me’ a little space today, so that I' may '/ correct a wrong impression that is do- ing me a grave -.injustice?"” Johnson of :Atchison asks of the Globe. “They are telling about that when I was in the clvil war I deserted the Onion army. 'That is untrue. Dur- mg a big battle I!left the front line of .trenches beca: some one shouted | that the brewery back of our linss was on fire, but'I did not desert. I have, always felt it to be my duty to sa: property from destruction.” 4 A Seed-Waster. X (Washington Star). “There’s a man planting potatoes,” sald Farmer Corntossel, “when he ’ ought to be playin’ golf.” i “You don’t approve of gardening?" “Yes, I do. But it he'd go ahead an’ play golf he wouldn’ be spoilin® good potatoes that somebody could ' use.” A Tinge of Envy. (Washington Star). “Aren't you a reformer?" “Not & regular reforme Senator S8orghum. “A regular former doesn’t have to run for office and depend on a salary. He can make all-kinds of money merely by getting out before a crowd and telling people they'd better be good." quite & clever social general. v Jane Gillis—Yes. = She went through last season’s campaign withoyt the loss of -a man. “And So Forth.” (Catholic Telegraph). Mother—Gladye, you stood on the porch quite a while with that young i3 man last night. i Gladys—Why, mother, I only stood there for a second. d Mother—But L'm. sure 1 X third and-the fourth, 1. the men: many of them unused to ng' work to say nothingeof the ' i | great possible flaw is in the efficiency “ Jude " AR This L