New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1917, Page 10

the Y. M. C. A. is doing in the eighty or more training camps: of the United States is a long one, and it is & story 'BUTCHERS GO OUT d SOLDIERS WILL BE GERHAN SOLDIERS AINS WORK OF ARMY Y. 6. . Barnes Addresses Gathering of Congregationalists " At the annual meeting of the Cen- | tral Association of Congregational churches held:at the First Congrega- tional church here this afternoon C. - H. Barnes, general secretary of the docal Y. M. C. A. and a man who has Bpent several months in active service with the soldiers at various mobiliza- | tion camps, delivered an interesting i ‘address on ‘“The Army and Navy Y. M. C. A. Work.” Miss Bertha Morley also spoke, taking as her sub- Jeet, “‘Conditions in the Turkish Em- Pire”. The sermon, was delivered by | Rev. A. J. Lord and Hon. C, M. Jar- ' vis of Berlin presided. This evening i & 6 o'clock the ladies af the church [ @re to serve a supper for the guests. B e talk given by Secretary Barnes ‘was particularly timely, since at the ‘present time a campaign is being P waged to assist in raising funds for more Y. M. C. A workers at the front. Speaking largely from his own ex- pariences and personal. observation, Mr. Barnes said: . “Tt is next to impossible to grasp largeness of this war and the big- of the factors and elements that e up this magnitude. The count ‘men, munitions, materials and dol- 18 so far in excess of our usual doulations that we are becoming ulled to impresstons of business. It ‘only through comparison with other of which we are famillar that oan realize the size of this one. v 38,000,000 Under Arms. “In the past two millidn was the number of men ever opposed ‘each other in any one year. Now rty-eight million are under arms. ©ost of the twenty greatest wars the past 125 years was twenty two ns of dollars. The United States, ough appropriation alone has spent eteen billion of dollars to the pre- e date. *Coming into the war after nearly o years of it hadibeen waged the [Inited. States was in a position to r much from her Allles’ ex- dce. There was no-need to make » same mistakes in preparations as d been made by some of the other ‘warring nations. Again America was {jn the mood to remember her own r experience with disease and bad in ’08. X L “#And so we have seen in the past fuplx months preparations begun in a ‘gkilfull and scientific way. There i/l a drafted army—the organization # the Industries, the conservation of pod and fuel, there are the medical utions taken in time to forestall ravages of disease—wooden in- ®d of tent quarters, intensive train- 4n new methods of warfare long advance of the baptism of shell fire —student officers’ training camps an gilitary training in the colleges and ost significant has been the attitude med by the government and Smilitary | authorities against vice and their eagerness to profit in this respect, #8 in the other war preparations from the experiences of England, Canada and Austria. And this concern for the moral welfare of the American I soldiers and sallors sives the Y. M. ' ©. A. with the Christian forces back ' of it its place in the government pro- & gram nad its place in the war. . %It has taken its place alongside ‘pf the Red Cross as a great world _wide organization, pledged to follow flag of the United States as well the standards of her allles. “Its particular organization and ethods of work as well as its broad lence in previous war wark and ta experience in peace among men of civilized countries has fitted it i t M. C. A. on the roof. that comes in chaptprs, through the hundreds of thousands of letters which the boys are writing home. Its fleld is all the men in camp, its pur- pose is to serve them with its fourfold program—of physical, Social, educa- tional and spiritual activities. Its buildings, as soon as opened become a rendezvous—the one meeting place in camp that the men characterizes as ‘life saving stations’ or ‘the nearest thing to home.’ “It is here that the numerous small services rendered the men take on a new importance, for they are not far from the home folks and friends, un- ! der a discipline new to them—doing | work that they are unused. to—liiving under strange conditiond under a sys- tem where they serve rather than are served. Is it any wonder that the Y. M. C. A. man gets under the skin of a trooper when he hands him out pa- per .and envelopes with the sugges- tion that he write to ‘mother’, or sits on his cot in the hospital and reads to*him, or tramps across the camp to pass him a word of cheer along with some magazine in the guard house. And is it gny wonder that he tells the people back home that the Y. M. C. A. is on the job and is all right. “A typical Y. M. C. A. building in camp is a long, wide, low building so different in shape from the stand- ardized army building and painted green that it stands out conspicuous- ly even without its huge letters—Y. Four or more hospitable doors unite the men in- side. There long tables for writing and reading go down the auditorium at the end of which s a stage and screen. There within the day will be staged a boxing bout, a wrestling match, a concert, a motion picture, a religious meeting and a songf around the piano, and no partiality shown to any one attraction. There is a victrola, a library, games and French classes. Outside the bullding are baseball, football, basketball, volleyball and quoits and the physical director is a busy man running these games. The secretary’s duties call him to visit the hospitals, guard houses, outposts and detention camps where '\ he carries writing materials, magazines and books. The chaplains hold their services in the bulildings and the Y. M. C. A. men conduct Bible classes. A Sunday program will include an early mass, a Bible class and a Protestant service—one fol- lowing the other and all well attend- ed. “But perhaps the best service that the Y. M. C. A. man renders is iIn helping the men through personal calls. That someone cares enough for them to concern himself about a fel- low’s troubles or doubts leads men to unburden their souls and often get a fresh hold on themselves, and so through its recreational activities its social features and by genial friendli- ness the Y. M. C. A. contributes towards the morals of the men and is most certainly doing, in this way as well as in any other wdy, its bit. Its bit in helping to win the war. GASOLINE FAGTOR IN WAR SPENDING France Is Paying $100,000,000 a Year for This Commodity Alone / Paris, October 17 (Correspondence) —Discussion of extravagance and wastage in war expenditures, during the recent debate on the appropria- tions for the fourth quarter of this year in the Chamber of Deputies de- veloped the fact that France is paying for the place it is called to fill by puthoritles of America, England, ¥yence, Russia and Italy. “Its task is a big one, that of the American association a stupenduous me, for it is called upon tpday to e, not only American forces, but forces of the above mentioned al- and the prisoners of war. Last the American association was ng 700,000 men and boys under conditions. Now thirty-five that number is its fleld for ser- In other words a generation of is to be done in less than a £ year. This will call for $35,000,000 Which is to be raised in a country- wide campaign next week. Dafly Life of Y. M. O. A. Man. “The Y. M. C. A. has a definite mil- status in a camp. It is there the autkorization of the secretary ¢ war. It is recognized by the mill- authorities, who provide a site Jor its buildings, heat, water and light. Dn the other hand it is subject to military regulations and {s under the thaplain. It remains a civilian or- i* ganization in a military atmosphere and as such offers a touch of home pnd the outside for men from whom Ihe world is practically cut off. The jocretaries are not exempt from war jervice and no men are accepted for Ihis work between the draft ages for bome or overseas service unless re- vJectea from -military duty, ' except ihat they may fill in their time in a very useful way, before they are talled. Scores of Y. M. C. A. secre- laries are serving in the army and navy until both the home and war ' work s embarrassed for men to car- ity on its activitles. Don’t imagine lor an instant that the Y. M. C. A. man’s job is an easy one. From the standpoint of hours—menial work and Hving conditions, his lot is as hard as enlisted man's. His day begins & béfgre an early breakfast and he § yaples until after taps on scven days o k. He does not hesitate to sweep, ap and clean—he cats the soldiers’ rations at the mess tables and he Meeps In the same amount of space as I8 occupied by the soldier’s cot, and with it all he does not get the . physical exercise that keeps the sol- filer' it. As for danger when on for- sign service, he is likely to be located Jn a communication trench just back ot the firing line where his huf is un- ger constant fire. The story of what e the equivalent of $100,000,000 a year for gasoline. The up-keep of cars placed at. the disposition of the mili- tary authorities outside the war zone amounted to about $500,000 a month during the year 1916.. ¢ Emmanuel Brousse,. whp is some- times called the “watch-dog of the treasury” remarked that part of this waste was due to the fact that mo- tor lorries intended to carry loads of from three to flve tons were used to transport single cases eighing no more than a hundred pounds. Another speaker declared that dis- carded stallions belonging te‘the state were sold by the Agriculture Depart- ment ‘at the equivalent of $70 to pri- vate indlviduals who subsequently sold them to the war department for the equivalent of $300. It also was asserted that in pur- chasing 40,000 horses in America the government lost about $5,500,000. Tt wag claimed that these horses were bought in the United Statcs at $80 to $85 a head and cost $140 to $160 when the freight and feeding wero paid, but that the French government paid $300 each for them. Another deputy pointed out how some of the measures adopted with a view to economizing food products had involved extravapance. The ap- pointment of millers in each depart- ment to supervise the distribution of the cereals allotted by the gov-11- raent, with a compensation of four cents 2 hundred weight for their ser- vices, it was calculated, would cost from $40,000 to nearly $400,000 in each department, and there are eighty-seven departments in France. Thus a simple service of supervision; had the plan been carried out, would have made eighty-odd fortunes for as rnany millers. N In spite of these isolated cases of persistent waste, it was declared oun the other hand that the government has in most departments connected with the war effort realized economies running into hundreds of milllons of francs a year. The New Britain club will receive election returns from New York and other states tonight at the club head- quarters. A speech will be made by Corporal F. A. Street, who was for- merly with the First -Canadian Con- tingent in France on his experience while at the front. BENEFITTED NOW Sailors, Too, Will Be Helped by War Camp Community ‘Washington, Nov. 6.—Give the pub- lic a clear understanding of the nec- essity for War Camp Community ser- vice—what it means to every enlisted man, and the $4,000,000 quota which we ‘are seeking would be over-sub- scribed in a day, declares. John N. ‘Willys, chairman of the National com- mittee of the War Camp Community service. - { “Because there are so many move- ‘ments on now for the benefit of the soldier and sailor, it was not the most easy thing in the world for us to ac- ‘quaint the public thoroughly with our object,” contlnued Mr. Willys. “At first we were continually being asked, why we should undertake this work when other organizations were al- ready covering the same fleld. “As a matter of fact, the reason we took up War Camp Community service was that it appeared to be a most vital fleld of. endeavor Wwhich had been entirely over-looked, as far as concerted effort toward im- proving community conditions were concerned. Up to this time, many fraternal and. other organizations have done splendid work in improv- ing camp conditions, but they have not gone outside the camps and ‘posts. “The enlisted man is bound to go outside his camp or post, Whenever the opportunity affords itself. Ho goes to the neighboring community seeking Test and recreation and that is when we want to be with him and protect him from evil influences. We do not want to accompany him in the guise of a policeman, a detective, a ’mor&l instructor or anything of that nature. We simply aim to surround him with an environment in com- munities adjacent to the camps and posts which will be so conducive to- ward' clean living, mentally and phy- sically, that evil temptation will be practically eliminated. “That environment will consist of home hospitality, club houses, swim- ming pools, outdoor and indoor athle- cs, professional and amateur theat- rical entertainments and such other form of amusement and recreation that appeal to young red-blooded soldiers. \ ‘““We can provide our fighting men with those- advantages only if the public will contribute the funds, which other words, $3 for each soldier and sailor will do the work. ‘That the plans for War Camp Com- munity service advocates are most feasible. is evidenced in the way prominent public men and military officers have endorsed them. Not only Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels are lending active support to the work, but such men as Col. Roosevelt, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and others equal- ly well known are back of us in the work. “The war department and navy de- partment commissions on - training camp activities will supervise the ex- penditure of the funds when they have been collected. “The keynote of our instructions to our representatives in the -various cities and towns of the country dur- ing the ‘big drive’ this week is: Make clear to the public what war camp community service means and the fund will be forthcoing. The American civilian public is too loyal to its country and too fond of its fight- ing en to forget either in the hour of peril. STILL NEED STENOS. And Hundreds of Other Employes Are Urgently Needed: By Uncle Sam. ‘Washington, D. C.,, Nov. 6.—One of the manifold problems presented by the war is that of furnishing adequate office accommodations for the thou- sands of additional officlals, clerks, d other Federal servants who are pouring into Washington. The Gov- ernment is exercising its prerogative in this direction and has comman- deered conveniently located office buildings and apartment houses with a free hand. In addition, it is erect- ing huge temporary structures for use as offices, and in the bullding f these contractors are breaking time records for construction work. A building to house the six hundred officlals and clerks of the Council of National De- fense, containing more than 100,000 square feet of floor space, was erect- ed and fylly. equipped in fifty-three days. Siinflar buildings nearby are for the use of the forces of the Food Administration, Fuel Administration, and Army Ordnance. Work is well under way on a mammoth structure which will cover three city blocks to house the overflow-of the War and Navy Departments, the contract for which calls for completion in four months. By these methods the Government keeps in advance of its actual needs. At the present rate of increase the usual 35,000 Federal employees in ‘Washington will be more than dou- bled if the war continues another year. Workers of all kinds are being appointed, stenographers and type- writers and draftsmen for the service generally, and what are known as schedule clerks, index and catalogue clerks, clerks qualified In statistics or accounting and clerks qualified -in business administration for the Ord- nance Department of the Army, being in great demand. Representatives of the Federal civ- il service commission at the post of- fices in all citles are the official re- cruiting agents for the great civilian army, an army of a half million be- hind the men behind the guns. for one year amount to $4,000,000. In ' IFIGHTING AGAINST _[**470n wames o TIME FOR MURDERER Lawyers for William J. Wise Seeking to Get New Trial Lawyer Albert A. Greenberg, who, with Lawyer John F. Forward of | Hartford, defended William J. Wise in the recent Wise-Tobin murder trial, went to New York today to consult with the father of the condemned murderer in a final attempt to secure parental co-operation * which might have some bearing on the young soldier’s flght for a new trial. The time limit for an appeal for a re- trial is ten days after the date of | sentence and, as the time in this case will lapse on Thursday, Lawyer Greenberg is making all haste pos- sible. Wise was sentenced to be hanged on December 14. The lawyers for the doomed man conferred with Judge Willlam S. Case, Who presided at Wise's trial yester- day and asked for an extension of time in which to apply for a new trial. Judge Case refused to grant the re- quest, however, explaining that be- cause the young man’'s father and relatives had shown such an apathy towards the accused during his first trial, he was not in favor of granting an extension in order to permit them to act now. Their previous actions have convinced Judge Case that Wise's father, sister and relatives have but little Interest in his case. Should Lawyer Greenberg succeed in making the necessary arrangements today with Wise's relatives he will at once file the papers for a new trial. Should they refuse to assist in the case it is possible that the lawyers for the accused may take a last chance and appeal to the board of pardons and ask that the death sen- tence be commuted to life imprison- ment on the grounds that the accused ‘was convicted on purely circumstan- tial evidence and that while the state presented a strong case there were, possibly, enough unexplained inci- dents to constitute possible doubt. Meanwhile Wise is in Wethersfleld, awaliting final word which will either condemn him to eternity or give him another fighting chance for his life. He still maintains his calm demeanor which characterized hié actions-during the trial and although eating and sleeping within the shadow of the death house he shows no signs of weakening. MERE SCRUPLES NOT T0 HINDER HUN A Little Thing Like That Not to Interfere With Plans London, Oct. must not be hindered scruples for the establishment of empire in America and elsewhere overseas, declares the *“Program’ of the German Colonial Society as trans- lated by the British African Society. The German Society belicves the treaty of peace should provide such an empire for Germany in South America. The German Colonial Socieyt has 250 branches in Germany, and is headed by W. S. Solf, the German Co- lonial Secretary, the Duke of Meck- lenburg, and Dr. Bernhard Dernburg. It’s “Program” is a kind of colonial creed tor the German Empire. It de- mands that any peace settlement must, above all provide Germany with adequate territories capable of white colonization. The three main points are: “First, an adequate outlet for Ger- man emigration and German white industrial activity: Second, stepping stones across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, to the New Germany over- seas; Third, the restoration of Ger- many’s tropical and subtropical col- onies.” One of the sub-sections also demands “suitable strategic points in the Paciflc.”” The preamble says: ‘“Extra-Euro- pean and Colonial possessions are in- dispensable, whether regarded ethni- cally, politically, economically, or ethically. The German people desire to be, as heretofore, a world-directing people, with the German Empire as a great power. “A colonial empire essentially Afri- can should not suffice us. Besides a fleet, the military and egconomic se- curity of our foreign and colonial ter- ritory requires the possession of stra« tegic points, notably a sufficient num- ber of coaling stations, submarine cables and telegraphs, and fortifica- tions as required. “The available coaling and cable stations on the route to South Ameri- ca and the African colonies are the Portuguese Canary Islands, the Port- uguese Cape Verde Islands, the Portu- guese Islands in the bights of West Africa, British St. Helena, and the British West Indles, protecting the route to Panama and South America. It is noted that the demands outlined in this respect cover almost exclu- sively territories which have never been under German control, and which, in order to meet this program, must spell changes of sovereignty on a very large scale. But, explains the program, “the great needs of Ger- many and her allies require the pos- session of a great colonial empire, and it means the not being hindered by pusillanimous scruples, the more 80 because a favorable opportunity will not recur for many a long day.” 17.—Germany by “pusillanimous in taking what she wants a colonial Advises People Not Go Give Funds Unless Solicitors Can' Show Pro- per Credentials. Mayor G. A. Quigley today issued a warning to the people of New Britain advising them to beware of whom they give donations for alleged war relief. The mayor stated that unless these alleged war fund solicitors can show credentials from ether himself or the war bureau they should be given no money. This morning the mayor received a telephone call from a woman in the southern section of the city who ex- plained that a strange woman had Just called on her and asked for money to be used to relleve war sufferers. Inasmuch as the woman had no credentials the mayor's advice was asked. He promptly advised his interrogator not to give the solicitor any money, but to recommend that she vist either himself or the war bureau, there to explain her purpose, | show her own credentials and then, if satisfactory,- get the necessary per- mit. At this time when so many calls are being made on the publis it is necessary to conserve all moneys, the mayor states, and unless contribu- tions are made systematically and | through proper channels trouble is liable to ensue. At a time like this there are lfkely to be many fakirs who would collect money from an unsus- pecting and sympathetic public unless their activities were checked by proper supervision, the mayor sald. CITY ITEMS Members of the New Britain lodge ! of Moose attended a gathering held in Hartford last evening, and listened to an address by Rodney H. Brandon, secretary and treasurer of the Moose- heart Legion. Action will be taken by Unity Re- becea lodge I. O. O. F. on the send- ing of Christmas boxes to the sol- diers at a meeting to be held tomor- row evening at 7:30 o’clock. Following a brief visit to his home in this city W. J. Lobdell of Wash- ington street who is'in charge of the state highway department at New Preston and New Milford, has re- turned to his work. ON STRIKE ORDER 3,700 of Them Decide to Leave Markets for More Money New York, Nov. 6.—Five thou- sand men employed in retail butcher shops wept on strike yesterday, ac- cording an announcement by Jo- | seph* Levy, business agent of Local No. 108, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers’ Workingmen of Amer- | ica, who added that today the 3,700 afiliated workmen in the slaughter | houses of the city would be called out on strike to enforce the demands of the retail men. By late afternoon Mr. Levy said | retail butchers employing 1,500 men | had acceded to the demands of the | unijon and their men had returned to weork. He said he expected 1,000 more to return to their work this | morning, their employers having met the demands of the union. The members of the United Master | Butchers of America, the retail mar- ket owners, including representatives from the Washington Heights, Bronx and east side and west branches, met | last njght and voted to grant all the! demands of the strikers including a week‘fo and f sixty-three and a half hours a minimum wage scale of $22 a | week, but voted to refuse to grant the demand that the union be recoz- nized. , ‘Wil] Call Out Other Butchers. When Mr. Levy was informed of that fact he said the result would be to call out the slaughter house men today, so the retail dealers could get no meat to sell. He said he had as- surances that the slaughter house men would strike in sympathy. Despite the strike no advance in prices was reported in the shops yes- terday, and families in both boroughs managed to do their marketing with- out any difficulty. more wages and fewer hours, but, ac- cording to Mr. Levy, they have de- clared against continued selling of | lambs’ liver for calves’ liver, chuck | steak and trimmings for round steak | and the substitution of rooster for fowl. These deceptions have been practiced in many butchers’ shops, Pastor of the People’s church Rev. N. H. Harriman is spending a few days at his home in Arlington, Mase. Mrs. Edward Miller of Linwood street is ill at St. Francis’ hospital in Hartford. Following an illness of five weeks William E. Baker has resumed his work at the office of Landers, Frary | & Clark. The claims committee of the com- mon council will meet tonight. Edward Dunn hns transferred prop- erty on Newbury street to Jack Bonol. Mrs. J. N. Wilson of 62 Seymour street is.recovering from an opera- tion performed at the Hartford hos- pital last Tuesday. Corporal Charles C. Breen of the 301st Machine Gun Battalion is home from Camp Devens on a furlough while he recuperates from a recent operation for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Cook of Norfolk 'have returned to their home after having spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schubert ot Tremont street. Sir Francis Drake lodge, S. of St. G.. will meet on Thursday evening in Vega hall. A final report on the ladies’ night ceebration will be made, officers will be nominated for the coming term and other routine busi- ness will be transacted. Frank V. Vensel, coxswain in the naval reserves at Brooklyn has return- cd to duty after a short furlough here. Harmony lodge, A. F. & A. M. will confer the third degree this evening. The socialist party will keep open house at their quarters in the Booth building this eening. Election re- turns will be received from New York and other citles. The war bureau will hold a routine business on Wednésday evening. Members of Valiant Hive, L. O. T. M., attended a state rally in South Manchester today. Rev. Dr. T. Brown of Independence, Kansas, formerly pastor of the First Baptist church, has returned home after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sloper.” Various pastors in the city called last evening, and extended to Dr. Brown a farewell. DARKEN GRAY HAIR, LOOK YOUNG, PRETTY Grandma’s Recipe of Sage Tea and Sulphur Darkens so Naturally That Nobody Can Tell, Hair that loses its color and lustre, or when it fades, turns gray, dull and lifeless, is caused by a lack of sulphur in the hair. Our grandmother made up a mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur to keep her locks dark and beautiful, and thousands of women and men who value that even color, that bealtiful dark shade of hair which is so at- tractive, use only this old-time recipe. Nowadays we get this famous mix- ture improved by the addition of other ingredients by asking at any drug store for a bottle of "Wyeth”s Sage and Sulphur Compound,” which dark- ens the hair so naturally, so evenly, that nobody can possibly venl it has been applied. You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw | this through your hair taking one small strand at a time.. By morning the gray halr disappears; but what delights the ladles with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is that be- sides beautifully darkening the hair after a few applications, it also brings back the gloss and lustre and gives it an appearance of abundance. Wyeth’s Sage and Surphpr Com- pound is a delightful toilet requisite to impart color and a youthful ap- bearance to the hamr. It is not in- tended for the cure, mitigation or pre- vention of disease, \ said Mr. Levy, and the purchaser has had to pay from nine to twenty cents more for the substitute. With the settlement of the strike these decep- . tions will have to stop, he declared. | The master butchers deny that such deceptiong have been practiced. The members of the union have { been holding meetings for two days at the Labor Temple, No. 243 East Eighty-fourth street. Henry Brassel, | one of the delegates, stated that the | n%en been trying for three years to get | the dealers to acceds to thelr de- mands, which have been embodied in | a lengthy agreement to be signed by both employer and employe when a settlement has been reached. g The agreement signed by the em- ployers who vesterday took back their men, calls for a sixty-three and one- i half hour week and a minimum wage of $22 a week. Before calling ithe strike some of the men were working | eighty-four hours a week and being | paid $16, they said. The strikers also carried their point on being given holidays off and of getting full pay on those days and of getting a $6 a day wage on Saturday | for extra men who on other days re- | celve $4. | Another change demanded by the butchers was to have the working hours of the first five days of the week start at seven o’clock in the morning and stop at six-o’clock in the eve- ning, and the Saturday hours to start at seven o'clock and stop at seven. Mr. Brassel said they would not in- terfere in any way with the work of the government in handling food and that if any difficulties arose they would seek a conference with the gov- ernment authorities. | Retall dealers in Queens and Brook- lyn have signed the union’s agree- ment and the strike has been confined to Manhattan and the Bronx. No dis- turbances were reported and the meetings were order! I A. F. Grimm, treasurer of the United Master Butchers of America and president of the east side branch of that association, when seen at his place of business, 2603 Broadway, saild that it was simply a question of open or closed shop, and that the retail dealers were perfectly willing to grant all of the demands. of the strikers and that as a matter of fact they had been granting them long be- fore the strike was called. He added that he was willing to close his shop at six o’clock, but he wasn't willing to let the men go until they had cleaned up the shop. “We must, according to the health depart- ment ordinances, see that our shops are clean,” he said. Dr. Henry Moskowitz, commission- er of public markets, said that he did not anticipate any trouble resulting from the strike, “but there may be some allens employed to take the places of the strikers and that might cause some distulbance,” he added. LOOKING FOR MEN. Springfield Arsenal Want Workers and the Pay is Good. Because of the great number of men who have enlisted and are in many other ways serving their coun- try a labor shortage has come about. Due to this word has been received at the local post office to the effect that men are desired at the Spring- fleld Arsenal, Springfleld, Mass. where men are needed in a pressing manner. The men that are most in demand are drop-forgers and good mechanics. The wage schedule for a good me- chanic has been set at $8.40 per day. To recelve further information con- cerning the enterprise those wishing to make application for work at the Arsenal should make application to local Secretary, F. S. Cadwell of the post office for form 1800 which gives information in detail. Not only are the men striking for | TOLD OF BUTCHERY - They Protested to Gerard Against Massacre of Russian Prisoners ‘ ‘Washington, Nov. 6.—Three letters from soldiers of the German army showing that they considered it neces- sary to protest to Ambassador Ger- ard against certain German war prac- tices, among them the unnecessary slaughter of Russian soldiers, were made public by the United States gov- ernment yesterday through the me- dium of the Committee on Public In- formation. These letters were written to Am- bassador Gerard as ‘‘the representa«< tive of a Christian State” with the expressed hope that he might be able to accomplish something toward put- ting -an end to butcheries which the writers of the letters sald they were forced to witness or to participate in. They are to be published in a forthe coming pamphlet on ‘“German Waf Practices,” to be issued soon by the’ Committee on Public Information. Here is the protest of a German soldier, an eyewitness of the slaughter of Russian soldlers in the Masuriam lakes and swamps: “It was frightful, heart-redding, as these masses of human beings were driven to destruction. Above the ter- rible thunder of the cannon could bs heard the heart-rending cries of the Russian: ‘Oh, Prussians! Oh, Prus- sians!’—but there was no mercy. Our captain had ordered: ‘The whole lot must die: so rapid fire.’ G “As I have heard, five men and one officer on our side went mad from those heart-rending cries. But most of my comrades and the officers joked as the unarmed and helpless Rus- sians shrieked for mercy while'they were being suffocated in the swamps and shot down. The order wasi ‘Close up and at it harder!” “For days afterward those heart-. rending yells followed me and I dare not think of them or I shall go mad. There 18 no God, there is no morality and no ethics any more. There are no humean beings any more, but only beasts. Down with militarism, 5 “This was the experience of a Prussian soldier. At present wound- ed; Berlin, Oct. 22, 1914. “If you are a truth-loving man, please receive these lines from a coms= mon - Prussian soldier. | Here is the testimony of another German soldier on the east front: “Russian Poland, Dec. 19, 1914, . “In the name of Christianity I se | you these words. My conscience force me as a Christian German soldfer v inform you of these lines. Ay “Wounded Russians are killed with * the bayonet according to,orders, and Russians who have surrendered ; ard 0 | to orders in spite of their heart-rend- ing prayers. “In the hope that you, as the rep- resentative of a Christian State, wil} TIAN. 3 “I would give my name and regi- ment, but these words could get me; court-martiajed for divulging military secrets.” N The following letter is from a sol- | dier on the western front: i l “To the American Government, Wash- © | ington, U. 8. A.: “Englishmen who have surrendered™ | are shot down in small groups. With the French one is more considerate. T ask whether men let themselves be taken prisoner in order to be disarmed, and shot down afterward? Is that chivalry in battle? - “It is no longer a secret among the people; one hears everywhere that few prisoners are taken; they are shot down in small groups. They say naively: ‘We don’t want any unneces- sary mouths to feed. Where there 18 no one to enter complaint, there is nd” judge.’ Is there then, no power i the world which can put an end to these murders and rescue the victims? Where is Christianity? Where 1s right? Might is right. 3 “A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS | NO BARBARIAN.” . HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. The Teachers’ Athletic club = will hold its first hike Sv,lurduy. They will walk to Sunset Rock where a lunch will be prepared and served. After lunch they will return to the football game at St. Mary's field. Head Mas- ter Clinton Farnham will be in charge ¢ of arrangements. The football squad began a week of hard practice at Walnut Hill park yes- terday afternoon in preparation for Saturday’s game. All week the boys will be worked out under Coaches Bearce and Moorhead, Harry Gins- burg, Dave Dunn and George Kings- bury. The record of the Hartford team does not frighten the local lads}, who, although they realize that they will have to work hard, are thankful that the hopor of being the first team to score or Hartford this season will be theirs. Principal Hyde of the Hartford High school was a visitor at the Vocational High school this morning. The Commercial club will meet Wednesday evening. During the eve= Hing cheering practice will be held. Harry Kerin, who has composed two new football songs, will sing them for the members of the ciub. X —_— Skin Sores | & B remedy. If eases, incl o Bsema in isappoint you. is the master 2D DD We ® D. D. Clark & Brainerd Co., Wash Away . | often shot down in maases according: fi protest against this, I sign myself ' © i “A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRIS. 5 ¢ 4 !