New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1917, Page 6

New Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. ed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., 8t Herald Building, 67 Church St tered at the Post Office at New Britain a8 Second Class Mail Matter. ivered by carrier to part of the city for 15 cents a wetk. 63 cents a month. Bcriptions for paper to be sent by mall, Payable in advance, 60 cents a month, | $7.00 a year. ® only profitable advertising medium in the city. irculation hooks and room always open fo advertisers Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand. 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City lantic City, and Hartford Depot TELEPHON CALLS. Office 5 ber of The Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclu- istvely entitled to the use for re- publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. The Only Peace. Continually we hear rumors of peace. I think the circulation of such rumors is injurious to Amer- ica and to the cause of decency and democracy. We should make it clearly understood that the conduct of Germany has been such that we regard as enemies of mankind all people who would strive to bring about a peace based upon treating Germany, Austria and Turkey on the one hand, and the Allies on the other, as standing on a footing of equal- ity. The only peace that will make the world safe for democ- racy is a peace based upon the complete overthrow of Germany and the dissolution of Austria and Turkey. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT. START THE WEEK RIGHT. Were it not for the fact that every | y brings in a new name for the nor roll the Herald’s campaign for complete Hst of our soldier and | llor boys would have been closed hg before this. So long as there is s outstanding name the books shall kept open. Every day marks re- ved interefi. The names are com- g in slowly but surely. Before the pw flies some of our men who | nt into the army and the navy may | p action. Let us therefore put our pulders to the wheel and try to plete the record within this month. B owe at least that much to the men ho have gone away. Fill out a k today. Start the week right. ABOUR THAT FLAG. hey do tell us that in Germany, ! Berlin, on any afternoon when 8 Emperor formerly went for a, f" it was worth a thousand douars; real American money to see thu‘X ct the German pcople paid to | ir lord high potentats. Any time lhelm the II sojourned down the nue, drove along Unter den Linden, proletariat doffed hats, stood at tion, and paid as much, if not bre, homage than if the Savior had me agaln to earth. The answer, of rse, 1s simple. The people just | to pay this tribute to the Em- yor. If they did not,—ah, there the rub. They would have been all over the public mart. The m folk’s Sunday pants would have demaged, if it happened to be pdey. At any rate, offenders might been thrown into prison probably put on rations of bread water for at least thirty days. ds brings us back to America the homage the average Ameri- | pays the American flag when it es in review. Have you ever ced the great lack of respect ally manifested when Old Glory carried by? Have you not seen hosts of men standing with their s on as if nothing whatsoever was ppening? Surely vou have! If vou | ppened to be in New Britain on b ocoasion of the last send-off to b drafted men going Camp wens you would have seen this onstrated to a nicety. There was dly a man along the line of march 0 uncovered as the flag went by. to | ere was scarcely a man who real- | that it was his patriotic duty I take off his hat when the Stars | Stripes passed his position al route of parade. t some of the various fairs held bund the state during the past mmer we have noticed that when national anthem was played this @ disrespect obtained. When the ng wd stood while the Star Spangled | men failed have ner was played some remove their chapeaus. We rd the hooing the yellix Jich were leveled at them, and then looks of consternation that came r their physiognomies. The poor ‘:u, they did not know what it all about. In some instances. _and their possessors the reocip- and have noted hats being knocked press | Board Walk, At- | | one which i the i he NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1917. ients of very abusive language. They stmply did not know they were of- fenders. What true at the state fairs is generally true of any parade wherein the national colors are carried. There are a lot of peo- ple who do not realize they must pay |ro:u)ccl to the flag in this manner. | All of which goes to show that the time is ripe for an educational cam- We must teach our foreign- population, well native that Ola and { must have all possibly give, take off their | goes by in formal parade. was ! paign. | I born as as born, Glory demands the respect and that men hats when the can must flag we HITT s THE SUBMAF Something has happcned to submarine. It is not half so deadly now as it w The news despatches of the past six wonths, in particular, have heralded the decline of this menace. Now, on top of all this, comes the Unitea States with an announcement that there will in effect immediately a reduction of twenty-five per cent. in the war-risk insurance rate on steamers and their cargoes plying between this country and points on the other side of the This itself that the combatted not so rampant as before. It within the that Germany boasted of bringing England to her knees within six months, and this by the persistent use of the sub- marine. Germany was going to starve out the Entente Allies. Germany was going to cut off the from America. Yet posite is the case. .the s a year ago. be put danger zone. in is ac- subma uatil it is knowledgement peril has becn was past year food toda supply the op- Germany is the starvation, if any nation does. Germany it is who can- not get shipments from or from South America, or from any of the neutral nations within the shadow of her border. The submarine faces America has been con- | aucred to this extent: {t is not twenty- five per cent. eflicient as it was as | at the bLeginning of the war. Then it had to fight against unarmed mer- chantmen. Then it practiced its arts and wiles upon passenger ships carrying non-combatants, innocent men, women and children. Now the submarine must go up against fight- ing craft armed with the best guns money can buy, the guns manned by best marksmen in the world, American jackies. In the last an- alysis it will be found that the American gunner was the prime cause of the crippling of German submarines and the rendering of them practically helpless. A T e THE MAYOR'S: WARNING. “I am convinced” says Mayor Quig- ley in a formal statement, “that the local dealers who are asking any- where from $10.50 to $11.25 per ton are charging too much and I have| been unofficially warned that such is the case. Therefore, as mayor of the city I would recommend that the peo- ple wait a week or more before placing orders for coal at the prevail- ing prices. 1 think that within a ghort time these prices will be mater- | ially reduced. Mayor Quigley did not utter those words merely for the sake of hear- ing himself talk. It is presumed that went over the situation carefully, considering it from all He had with him in conference men who know Just what the price of coal should be at this time. The public therefore will well to follow the advice of the Mayor. Notwithstanding the fact that the words of the Mayor may ir sum and substance be taken attack on the coal dealers here: that the) in the long run curtzil the sale of coal, the dealers can take n» excep- tion to this official action. If the truth were known, the coal dealers might welcome lull in their busi- ness just at this time when the sup- ply is scarce, when the facilities of transportation are tied up, and when the dealers have troubles of their angles. do as an may a own. FACTS AND FANCIES. Spulos “Onward with | God!”"—New York World. | Can't China and Japan wait a bit? | There are too many rings in the in- ternational circus now.—Paterson Call. 1 e ; | The small boy has had a long, joy- ous, perhaps busy summer. But to- | day he begins to realize how it feels | to be drafted.—Hartford Times. A Topeka man who has failed four | timos in he Jast two years is now be- | ing referred to as the “crown prince’. | —Capper's Weekly. | Soap is said to be one of the |-scarcest things in Germany. It is than decency.—Bridgeport We Wonder if Nick Romanoff will send picture posteards to his old friends during his Siberian travels. Norwich Record. | —_— When a husband fiddles away his time and a wife harps on one string there isn't much harmony.—Milweu- kee News. Korniloff demanded that he be everything or nothing, and Kereasky { States last summer generously granted the latter. half) of his demand.—New York World. Mr. Hoover advises us not to spare the sugar, as there is plenty of it. If he should run for president he would get the votes of all up to 15 years of age—Springfield Republi- can. It was the Swedish government, | no less, that intimated last spring | that the United States government | had not been sincerely neutral in the days of its official neutrality.— Springfield Republican. i Work. Guest). because ihe Day (Edgar . anyhody happier passed his way? Does anyone that you spoke b to him today? This day is almost over and its toiling time is through; Is there any one to utter now a Kindly | word of you? i you you give a cheerful greeting to | the friend who came along, a churlish sort of “howdy” then vanish in the throng? Were you selfish, pure and simple, as | vou rushed along the way, someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today? Did Or and | Or is Can you say tonight in parting with the day that’s slipping fast, That vou helped a single brother of the many that you passed? | single heart rejoicing over what | you did or said? Does a man whose hopes were fad- ing now with courage look ahead? Is Did vou waste the day or lose it, was it well or poorly spent? Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent? As yvou close your eyes in slumber do You think that God would say You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today. Those War Menus. (Don Marquis in New York Sun.) We have been interested in reading a lot of food programs—menus by people who say, in war time, we should cut-our eating down to that much. | In a number of cases, the menus | represent a scale of living that thou- sands of people haven't been able to | get up for several years past. There's an old story about the fel- low that called on the specialist ‘in nervous diseases. The specialist looked him over— listened to the wheels in his chest, | fussed with his pulse, prodded him | viclously in the very center of his be- | ing, and all the rest of it, and then | antfiounced: “Three cigars a day for you!" “But doctor,” began the patlent, who was a meek individual, “I—"| “Don’t protest! Don't argue!" said the great physician. ‘‘Three cigars a day, if you expect to live!” The patient sadly departed, and re- turned in two weeks as he had been told ‘to. He looked worse. “How do you feel?” asked the phy- | sician, who felt pretty well himself, | cheerily. “Awful,”” said the patient, feebly. The doctor frowned. ‘““Are you on threc cizars a day, | as I told you? Did you use your | will power, and stick to that?’ 1 “Yes, sir,” said the patient. “But T don’t think I can keep it up much | longer, doctor. You see, I never used | tobacco before in my life.” Two meatless days a week, somo of these war menus. And a great many people are won- | dering where they are going ta get | the meat for the other five, Politics i England. (Springfield” Republican.) British Liberals are naturally ask- ing what meaning lies behind the publication of an article in the Lib- eral Daily Chronicle, in which Lord Miner, who is generally charged with autocratic methods and distrust of democracy, is plctured as a Radical at heart, and, in fact, almost a so- cialist. Another Liberal paper hints at Lord Miner's superseding Sir Auck- land Geddes as head of the new man | power organizations, and says that such a step would point to the in- dustrial conscription which organized labor suspects the government of having in mind. The placing of Lord Milner in control of the industries of the nation would probably accelerate rather than check the mysterious “revolutionary movement”’ which, ac- cording to the Tondon Times, has | gained ‘‘considerable momentum.” At all events, there is apparently enough unrest in England to result in po- litical changes before long. ery General Bridges Wounded. (From the Troy Record.) contact with Lieutenant General G. T. Many Americans who came into ! M. rBidges while he was a member of the Balfour mission to the United will regret that he was recently seriously wounded in action. Although General Bridges will be a cripple for life, there is a hope that he will recover sufficiently to enable him to offer further service to a cause which owes its present success to the fldelity gnd sacrifices of such men as the g SHE WOULDN'T GO HOMEF. Josceph Zisk of 59 Broad street re- quired the assistance of the police Sat- urday night in an effort to make his 17 years old daughter, Stella, return to her home. It is claimed that she left her home and went to a place on Sexton street and upon being re- quested to come home by father fatled to comply with his wishes TO RESTRAIN PIRATES. Washington ,Oct. 8.—The supreme court decided today to review federal decrees which restrained the Interna- tional News Service or Hearst Service, from pirating news from the A ciated Press. SOME. MORF MONEY Washington, Oct. S.—-Ancther credit of $15,000,000 was advanced today (o Great Britain by the government, 1 3 ! ditlons { ment impossible in Germany, as long has not | | fiying task he DOING HIS BIT HERBERT A. BRANN. Herbert A. Brann, who is pictured above, enlisted in Troop L, last April in Hartford. Shortly after he was called into service and at present is stationed at Niantic. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Brann of 24 Hart street. Brann is a graduate of the New Britain High school and a member of the local Y. M. C. A. Troop L has been reorganized and is now a machine gun company. Getting Ready For Long War. (Bridgeport Farmer). Jt is not proof that the war has vears to run, that the United States is making preparation on a large scale. The government must prepare for a long war, even if It expects a short one. Where there is no certain as- surance of peace, it would be worse than folly to conduct preparation as if peace had already arrived. There has been, in the peace pro- posals that have come more or less in- formally from the various nations, an element of likeness which is hopeful. Russia, and the United States, Ger- many and Austria have indicated a willingness to make terms on the basis of no forcible annexation and no indemnities. > The Allies have assented to the pro- posals of Mr. Wilson. There remains to be accomplishdd one thing. Ger- many must raise up a government re- sponsible to the German people, for it is only with the German people this | nation is willing to treat. Mr. Wilson has not defined in pre- cise terms his conception of respon- sible government In Germany. Tt would certainly be a government in which the Hohenzollerns were not, i with the junkers and the war chiefs, the actual dominant power. But whether government by the people would be sufficlently established by the adoption of a ministry responsible to the Relchstag, or whether its con- make a responsible govern- as the Hohenzollerns rule, been declared. Whether Germany has at any time a government so un- der control of the German people that the Allies can deal with It is a matter to be determined by the par- ticular facts as they exist. Against Capitol Punishment. (Buffalo Enquirer.) T'resident Fallieres of France is commuting all death penalties to life imprisonment, and where there is any | | doubt of the man’s guilt he him. He savs: “France must take care of her criminals killing them.” 1It’s poor use of A man——to take his life— acknowledgment of our Tven a pardons learn to 0 make it is an inefficiency. life sentence should hold out | to the man the promise that 20 years | of good behavior and useful work will make him a free man. Penology must be made a science to the end, that | when we imprison & man we do it for his own good, a sort of compulsory education. which the man has neg- lected, or never had the opportunity to get, with the intent of turning out a | | better man than we took in. long as the state sets the example of kiNing its enemies, individuals will ! occasionally kill theirs. Capital punishment has been abol- | ished i nArizona, Kansas, Maine, Mich- igan, Minnesota, Oregon, North Da- kota. Rhode Island, South Dakota, ‘Washington, Wisconsin, and Missouri. “By Gum, That's Me.” (Washington Star) It is related that in a certain news- paper office, as a linotype operator was | seiting numbers of those drafted, his eye reached his own . without halting number, and his fingers in their claimed to his neigh- bor: “By, gum, that’s me!” and went on with his work without further com- ment, That is the spirit in which the great majority of the young Americans have taken the news that they are in- cluded in the first draft. Any one of the men who were drafted may in a few months be in the trenches in France, may be facing the horrid -hail of shells and bombs and the waves of gas and the jets of liquid fire, may be sent out of the ! trenches across no man's land to storm the German positions or may be re- quired to stand steadfast in the face of a German attack in force. Any one of them may be sent aloft in a swift alrplane to Scout over the German lines and perhaps battle In the air with a German filer. Any one of them in fact, may face death in a thou- sand forms before another summer comes. “By gum, that's me!” The prospect of being one of those in France in all the perils of war, perhaps to die in- stantly from a shot or shell or to be maimed for life, did not ruffle this man’s nerves or cause him to miss his stroke on the keys for the fraction of a second And the tens of th who in a few day themselves before the i have taken the news of their selection in practically the same way. without ; Just as | Germany and Ireland. (Buffalo Times) German love for the Irish was born of expediency. Tho Imperial Government looked upon Ireland as a desirable base of operations and upon the Irish people as fitting mediums for the advance- ment of Germany's plans. Bernstorff recommended intensive cultivation of the spirit of unrest ex- hibited by the Irish and to that end urged that money and influence be exerted by German emissaries in this ' country as well as in Ireland. | i I | | Irishman lacks r Casement was gulled into taking action that cost him his life and with the exception of rioting, led by that body ofirreconcilables which has cver afflicted Ireland, German plot- ting proved abortive. German propaganda failed as re- gards Ireland and no wonder. The professions of friendship and comradeship expressed at that time for Ireland by Germany was too pal- pably part of the German game. The true German opinion of the Irish may be gathered from the fol- lowing extract culled from the great German encyclopedia, the Conversa- tions-Lexicon of Meyer: “The character of the genuine Irish is a singular mixture = of opposite traits; many of them, no doubt, de- veloped by their unfortunate history. The main feature of the Irish is incon- sistency and thoughtlessness, though they possess such characters as are compatible with these vices. The oning power, per- severance and selt-control. He pos- sesses a poetical faculty and a taste for art, music and rhetoric. He is keen for knowledge, cunning, clever and witty, although for the sake of de- ception he often pretends to the stupid and naive. But with all his intellec- tual powers he lacks profundity. Su- perficial in his actions and thoughts, untrustworthy as a worker, lacking perseverance, and fickle, he 1is not equal to the performance of any great task in life and is incapable of attain- ing results commensurate with his spasmodic activity. Those who are not his relations or friends dare not trust him. The proverb seems true that when an Irishman is stabbed, an- other Irishman is always hound to drive the dagger in. Treason has al- ways been a prominent feature in all Irish risings. Conscientiousness is con- spicuously lacking in the Irishman, and he is not distinguished for his love of truth. Irritable as he is and inclined to quarrels and violence, he is fond, too, of amusement. Hospitable and extravagant, he forgets to provide for the future. Though often a vic- tim of intemperance, he can put up with dearth when necessary, and is quite contented if he only has pota- toes to eke out his life.” That would make good reading at the next moeting of professional Ger- man-Irish agitators who masquerade as Friends of Irish Freedom. “The Mcanest Child On Earth.” (Waterbury Democrat) The tired child whimpered as his mother jerked him by one arm in- to an elevator. It was plain that his short legs had been taking three steps to her one for hours up and down the long alsles of the big department store. Shocked women in the elévator gazed in astonishment at the impatient mother. “What a pretty boy”, ven- tured one of them sympathetically. “Pretty enough when he's asleep,” grumbled the mother, “but when he's awake he’'s the meanest child on earth!” And all the other women wondered if they could believe their What needless miseries a three- year-old must endure at the hands of a mother who could say that! “The earth is full of anger, the seas are dark with wrath”—which makes it doubly necessary for reasonably hu- man beings to cut down the great score of the world’s small unneces- Hundreds of people say they can’t; but they can reduce the average of human sorrow greatly by being tender in all small ways to all things great and small. Dixie’s Land. The term “Dixie’s Land” originated in New York in the early part of the past century. It is said to have come ears. sary griefs. !into general use when Texas joined the Union, and the negroes sang of it as “Dixie.” In the popular mythology ?r New York city Dixle was the negro’s para- dise on earth In times when slavery | and the slave trade were flourishing in that quarter. Dixie owned a tract of land on Manhattan Island, and also & large number of slaves and his slaves increased faster than his land, an emi- gration ensued and naturally negroes Who left it for distant parts looked so it as a place of unalloved happiness, and it was the “old Virginny” of-the negroes of that day; hence Dixie be- cume synonymous with an ideal local- ity combining ineffable happiness and every imaginable requisite of earthly beatitude.—Philadelphia Press. Northwest of Bagdad. (Brooklyn Eagle). It is clear that the Turks intended to use the Euphrates as the avenue of approach to Bagdad. A map will show how the Tigris and BEuphrates all but converge opposite Bagdad. Ramadie 1s some fifty miles northwest of the ancient city. By a daring stroke, General Maude has removed this menace. At the same time he announces that another British col- umn, moving out dad, routed a Turkish cavalry de- tachment and captured 300 supply camels. It would seem from this that the Turkish campaign against Bagdad has begun. If so, it has found the British defenders fnlly awake. In fact, General Maude has made a good start in doing more than holding his own. The Nation-Wide Talkers. ((Burlington Free Press). President Wilson has done well to approve a nation-wide speakers’ movement to counteract the paralyz- ing effect of the German anti-war propaganda. With speakers of na- tional fame engaging in this work in Vermont and other states, the resuilt can not fail to be an added impetus to the patriotic’ movement now sweeping over the whole nation. JOINED BY 'PHONE. Little Thing Like Separation Didn’t Bother Army Lieutenant. New York, Oct. 8.—After vainly trylng for more than three years to obtain a leave of absence long enough to marry, Lieut. James O. Taylor, One Hundred and Sixty-Seventh In- fantry, U. 8. A., now at Camp Mills, solved the difficulty Sept. 28. The facts did not become public until yes- terday, when the bride arrived at the camp. Mrs. Taylor was Miss Ruby R. Knight of Balinbridge, Ga. She was willlng to wed any day, but the leutenant just couldn’t get the time. ‘When the war broke out he was sent to China. From there he was trans- ferred to California, thence to Texas, and finally was sent to Camp Mills on Long Island with an Alabama regi- ment. It began to look as though he would have to wait until peace wag declared. Tiring of the delay, the Lieutenant decided to marry by telephone. So he took Lieut. Arthur Humphrey, his best man, to the telephone exchange in Hempstead and by arrangement Miss Knight and her maid of honor met the Rev. John Shers at the ex- change in Bainbridge. The connec- tion was made and all were given re. ceivers so that they could ‘“listen in. The clergyman read the ceremony, the bride and groom gave the re- quired answers and in fifteen minutes the two were pronounced man and wife. The tolls were $25. The bride met her husband yester- day a few minutes before the review of the Rainbow division. At the close of the review the couple left for this city for a twentysfour hours’ honey- moon. . ARE DAYS OF GLORY. English Gave Germans a Severe Les- son Around Ypres Thursday. Paris, Oct. B.—These are days of glory for Field Marshal Haig’s troops and disastrous ones for the Germans. The enemy 18 shattered and unnerved and the German losses in dead and wounded are such as to constitute a terrible lesson. Four thousand five hundred of their best fighters, who were massed to attack the British, are now prisoners. Thus defeat overtook the enemy at the psychological moment and in such a way as to make the blow doubly staggering. One Havas correspondent draws attention to the importance of the British gains, saying:— “Since Thursday all the Illne of heights dominating the Ypres basin from Warneton to Broodseinde is in our hands. Instead of being domi- nated and overlooked, it is we who overlook and dominate the plain of Menin and Roulers. Broodseinde is the crest of the key position, sixty northeast of Bag- | metres above the sea, and the high- est point of the Passchendaele Ridge.” E. de Feuquiers, telegraphing to the Petit Parisien, says:— ““Enthusiasm and acts of devotion were the order of the day here, es- pecially to the honor of the flying corps. A violent westerly wind was blowing and not a German aviator dared venture out. British pilots volunteered their services, and in couples throughout the battle flew over the enemy’s lines, locating bat- teries, several of which were put out of action, and, after undergoing heavy shellfire, tossed about by the wind, returned to their own lines in safety, victorious over the enemy, the ele- ments and death itself.” EXPORTS ARE DECREASED. That Is, Those on Wheat and Corn, While Beef Went Up. Washington, Oct. 8.-—August ex- ports of wheat, corn and mineral oils decreased to a marked extent while exports of oats doubled and fresh beef recorded a 500 per cent increase, the department of commerce an- nounced today. The great bulk of shipments went to the Allies. Breadstuffs to the value of $45,- 000,000 were exported during the month, an increase f $10,000,000 over a year ago. Cotton, leading the list in value, recorded a rise of $33,- 000,000 to $63,000,000 although the quantity shipped, 469,667 bales, was only 8 per cent greater than in August, 1918. Five million bushels of wheat were exported as against 11,- 000,000 bushels a year ago. Meat and dairy products worth $24,600,000 were exported, a $6,000,000 increase. Total exports of breadstuffs, meat and dairy products ,cotton and oot- tonseed oil and#mineral oils were $155,676,612 as compared with $108,- 122,861 in August, 1916. — ‘Who Congressman Norton Is, (New York World). Representative Norton of North Da- kota, who resents so vehemently the intimation that Germany has “influ- enced” congress, was one of the 102 republicans who, in supporting the McLemore resolution warning Amer- ' jcans off the seas, voted for the kaiser. The other 101 are trying to make the American people forget it, but Mr. Norton seems to have other ideas. Stoocks for Traitors, (Baltimore Star). Cincinnati has reverted to the old stocks in order to punish those who utter seditious language. The stocks are placed in the center of the city's largest park and bear id bold letter- ing: ‘‘These are for traitors.”” Good for the Ohio city. German Idea of Exchange. (Philadelphia Inquirer). It is not only stolen goods, but stolen goods that have been damaged, that the Kaiser wants to exchange for peace, and valuable property. Some of the Traitors. (Boston Evening Transcript). Some of our seditionists might even be referred to as belonging to the “lu- natic fringe” of treason. Tnternmént of Americans. (Wall Street Journal). There are ‘Americans who should be interned, and Germans who would not abuse their freedom, | EVENTS TONIGHT High class photo plays, Fox's the- ater. Superior photo drama, Lyceum the- ater. Moving pictures and Keeney's theater. vaudeville, Mattabessett Tribe, I. O. R. M., meets at 242 Main street. Gerstaecker lodge, I. O. O. F',, meets in Turner hall, A. W. Harvey lodge, A. O. U. W, meets at 187 Arch street. Court Prosperity, F. of A, meets at 277 Main street. Star of Good Will lodge, S. of B, meets in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall. COMMISSION WRECKED NEAR PITTSBURGH /Baseball Men on Way East Held Up ‘When Others Are Injured By Wreck. Pittsburgh, Oct. 8.—Members of the national baseball commission were on the Pennsylvania limited on their way from Chicago to New York when the train was wrecked near Beaver Falls, west of here early today. Reports to Pennsylvania railroad officials here said that none of the commission had been injured, although two en- ginemen had been buried in the wreckage and a number were hurt. All tracks were blocked by the wreckage of the freight train, and while one track was being opened physicians attended the injured, who were confined to the engine crews. Four of these men were badly hurt and were removed to a hospital at Rochester, Pa.. The passengers on the limited, including the members of the commission were brought here soon after 10 o'clock and continued their journey east. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. The Burritt Service league will meet this afternoon during the closing pe- riod in Room 16 to talk over plans for the Belgian Relief Fund. At 4:30 this afternoon, in the Do- mestic Science rooms, the Poster club will hold their opening meeting of this vear. The olub, organized last yesr, has been very successful, having de- veloped a large number of artists in the advertising poster line. The Commercial club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30. After the business meeting and initiation of new members which will take place in the auditorium a social hour with dancing will be held in the gymna- sium, Informal elections for presidents in all four classes will take place Thurs- day of this week. During the third period today psy- ehological tests were taken in the section rooms. Each pupil was given a slip of paper upon which was print- ed a quotation. The pupil was to read this and answer one question. The tests were sent to the local school from the Mineola High school. ¥ BILLY SUNDAY THERE. Is to Speak in Favor of Pushing Liberty Loan. Washington, Oct. 8.—Former presi- dents, cabinet members, Senators, fin- anciers, ecclesiastics, actors, writers and generally the best known men in the country will join this week in a speaking campaign for the second Liberty Loan. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is on a swing to the Pacific Coast. Secretary of War Baker and Federal Treasurer Burke will address a mass meeting here tomorrow. Saturday night former President Taft will speak in Chicago. Billy Sunday has offered his services. “Rush loan dope,” the evangelist wired, prelim- inary to going into action in the bond selling campaign. Secretary of the Interior Lane will speak in New York, Oct. 18; Samuel Untermyer in Trenton, Oct. 8 and Dr. Neweli Dwight Hillis at Detroit on the same date. ’ Speakers whose f{tineraries have been arranged include former Gov. David I. Walsh of Massachusetts; Augustus Thomas, Representative Montague of Virginia; J. Sloat Fassett of Elmira, N. Y.; former Governors Dunne and Dineen of Illinois; former Gov. Fort of New Jersey, and Sena- tors Kenyon of Iowa and Shields of Tennessee. Secretary McAdoo telegraphed to- day, “The West is enthusiastically for the loan.” From all over the coun- try reports indicate the farmers are: getting behind it. IN THE SERVICE. John K. Dunn, a member of the U. 8. regular army, is now stationed at Newport News, Va. He expects to Ye sent aoross to France with his regiment in the near future. Charles McCarthy, “Doc” Fay, Jo-, seph Nealon and Robert Nealon, now ‘in the National Army at Camp Dev-— ens, Mass., were home over Sunday. Lieut. Robert H. Lee, stationed at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., was home over Sunday, Bergeant Louis G. Nelson of Com- pany B, 30ist Machine Gun Bat- talion, has returned to Camp Deven: after spending the week-end with h! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nelson of Jubilee street. Harry Scheuy of the Naval Reserve spent the week-end at his home iIn this city. Edward Coniff, student at Cam- bridge, Mass., aviation college, was a visiter here for the week-end. Joseph Pasquerelle, a member of the army aviation corps, wes home over the week-end from Mineola. Carl Carlson spent Sunday at his home in this city. He i» in the U. 8« navy.