New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1918, Page 6

Nubmit this appeal in the "Name of all those who hold in hely the grimaces of irate coal And, if the War Bureau help, it can look in this A ONE COUNTRY, ONE PEOPLE, ONE LANGUAG The State Board of Education has : recently organized an Evening School s are put behind us for the mo-| pepy tment, the purpose of which is i ted | to promote and inspect the instruction of evening schools throughout the state. One of the important departments of cvening school worl is the instruc- tion in clementary English to reduce the amount of iliteracy In looking over ity ffles the State oard of Education discovered an | editorial published in the Herald Sep- in | tember 22, 1915. It is thouht this edi- 1ovial fits the conditions and needs of today even more strongly than was the case two years ago. Upon the urgent request of the State Board the Herald | republishes the editorial thus bring- ing to the minds of our people the | burning nec: and importance of . at our Co . . 3 danger we must: be brave. coward 4 It is £ ¢ | horror who cringes and cries at | | | dealers it s direction. he he sound of ne Petty partisan politics have no place in the scheme of things as they | bre. Only those who have no love for | untry can tolerate the intrusion at 1is time. So )ehooves every man, ery woman, to to it that these hing ment and that every energy n the one channel. Abraham Lincoln and his Andrew he successor, Johnson, were handicapped mumblings and grumblings of contented. Fvery obstacle that e drawn up thrown in was of the great Emancipator. tory before us, why do did in the early and The 52 nation is fifty vears head of that time. There should be going back Whatever democrats, o our party affiliations,— ¥ >rohibitionists, ublicans, Progressives, Socialists,—let us Tt superintendents of over would follow the WORD. | ample of Stanley H. Holmes, of New Raking over the records the Spring- | Britain, and co-operate with the bu- eld Republican finds an act of Con- | of ndturalization of the Depart- March 2 Andrew be Americans now. schools the TEROTS 18 THE country ex- PREPO rean ress dated | 1867, depriving | ment of Labor in helping to Ameri- of the | canize alien residents of the United except | States it would not be long before all | factionalism would he obliterated. clieve the general of his command or | Events of the past year or so have &n him to duty eclsewhere than the president Johnson ord; hrough the general of the army, or to ower to issue military ) /as: t Was yn request roval of the phich lance to the Chamberlain War an eminent shown what danger exists in allow- | : hington, save at eneral’s | ing great hordes of immigrants to or with the previous ap- | come into a country whose principles nate. Of this act, in | and customs are foreign to them, the Republican sees a resem- | whose language they may never prop- bill which ‘ erly know, whose interests they may bould prowide a never have W radical steps are taken an historian has written: It is with- | tendencies of the past decade the ut parallel in our history, either for [ United States of America will be nothing more nor less than the Di- Cabinet for | Amer- heart. TUnless some resident n, to curb the ower of the-exec { s encroachment on the constitutional | itive or for inherent | vided States of America. There must to be With a conglomeration of national ties each pulling the strings in differ- ent directions the only witimate result can beo disaster. Men like tendent Holmes and other educators have seen the oncoming chaos and are hastening to stem the tide of de- struction. Tt was the federal missioner of education, Philander P. Claxton, who made the suggestion that Fourth of July be made Am- It was fitting that Americanization Day should have been jointly celebraied with Indepen- dence Day. Those whose heredita- ments were in other lands were then made understand beautiful thought of Liberty. By such all creeds, class- reposterousness’. Wr fty years hence, an historian in re- | be unity if there is succes ing at some future date, say iewing the case might very appro- | riately apply the same terms to the Superin- mber proposition which likely to now ands die a quiet and easy eath in committee. In the event the | bill goes imverate rar Cabinet through and oy ach a as that suggested, y th three distinguished tizens of demonstrated ability p President Wilson will constitutional tr description set be shorn of The nt would not even have a place h the War C would ap- oint its members and then step down commanded by them. They Lould take his place e Commander in Chief of the Army nd Navy the United States, his rerogative under Article II. of the 1 of which he Executive Power nt of the = The sec- | We of New Britain, with our great of the | cosmopolitan population, realize what hamberlain bill would give the War | it means to have many people of va- abinet jurisdiction and authority “to | rious nationalities settled in one com- pervise, co-ordinate, direct and con- ol the functions and activities of all Read- the American people that this bill has for its su- reme object the surrender of the residency into the hands of “three istinguished citizens of demonstrated bility””. Not knowing who three distinguished citizens” might e, nor acquainted with their “demon- rated ability’ is preposterous to ven think that we shall turn the con- ericanization Day. powers. L He gathered be to immediately ad celebrations whereat es, and races gather around the same there can be but —the uniting of all of intelligent democ- of fountain-head, one onstitution, Section spe- | outcom in a true spirit hall be vested in a Presid racy. nited States of America.” d paragraph in Section munity. Under proper conditions they can work together in real harmony. Under different arrangements than those in vogue here, #t would not take long to produce a state of discontent- ment, a separation of the various cliques and classes, a smoldering civ- il Tt is the idea of Mr. Holmes ecutive departments » * *. g no further, pn sce war. these tion the names of all those of foreign in this part of the country. Having learned this ship and settle the | peoples | to get from the bureau of naturaliza- | birth who intend to take out citizen- | much | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918, | Britain Fould start an cducational { compaign among these people, teach- | ing them to read and write, to know | the laws of our land, and the meth- lods of Because the government of (he United States is so different from anything most of these people have been acquainted with, there is great chance of doing mood work in this field. The ot illiteracy among those of foreign birth who flock something appalli government. percentage to these shores is and these are the people upon whom the schemers and designer centering their attacks. It tion of s submerged por- tion that is being the oratorical ef- forts of the anarchists and the dis- gruntled. The present in ®u- rope has awakened the sentiraent of the nation to the question of immi- our po up by war | gration and how it should be dealt vith. At the next session of Congress it is probable there may be a revi- 'siin of some of our immigration laws. A mgore stringent method of allow- ing foreigners to enter the country may Be put in vogue. It is a known fact that of those get by the government inspectors are morally and physically unfit to enter and live among decent people. This is one evil that must be checked. An- other to aid in of making these people fit citizens of the United States is the method sugzest- ed by Superintendent Holmes. Wvery man at the head of an educational in- well many who way the work well what is to be done in New Britain. In en years the improvement can be ade such that those of the present fay would marvel at the great change to Mr. and h 'l:cnl American idea. it spread over the country like wild fire, envel- oping every American teacher until at last we shall realize what it means to be many in one,—one country, one people, one language. A BOY'S DILEMMA. S stitution should ponder over power Holmes May She lives 'round the corner from our house the right as you go down the street great big place with a drive- way And a mat where feet. When you ring the bell. then a butler Opens the door, tall and thin, And you tell him who ’tis that's callin’,— If he likes you he lets you in. Then you can see the old lady The one that we boys call Miss Jane Who sits all day by the fireside And never goes out in the rain. Some call her an Old Hermit woman And others they just sorter sneer And say she's an old maid and whispe: That something’s she’s queer. she gives us kids cookies and candies Whenever we go there to 1 And tells us about the wild injuns Whose pictures are out in the hall. And she how she likes all us feller: 'Cause we malke her old heart jump with there ever wanted She says it is just a plain boy. And then I go home to my mother And tell her what Miss Jane has said mother says if she had had me She reckons Miss Jane'd be dead. And then mother says the old woman Is lucky with what she has got, With a butler to answer the doorbell, And a maid, 'nd a cook, 'nd what not; And servants to 'tend to her wishes, And money to pay all th’ bills,— While us poor people is poorer Than a nest full of whip-poor-wills. She says Miss Jane ould be thankful To the Good above 'Cause she ain’t got no children to care for she don't have a bad boy to love. But it cert'nly is funny out women, the way they can talk g 'Nd never know just what to want for,— When they're ridin’ to walk. But I guess they’re all of 'em foolin’ And makin’ us boys “knuckle down” *Cause I've noticed that most of 'em’s happy With what they town. When 1 spend the day at Miss Jane's house, And don’t want to go to no other, She always seemis to be anxious For sending me back to my mother. And mother, who sa I'm a nuisanc And that I am right in her way, She cries when 1 stay at Miss Jane's house, >Cause she misses me all of the day. JOHN J. DALY. On In a you wipe your gone wrong and But vs It was one thing she And Lord that reigns up And Gee! they all want have got in this FACTS AND FANCIES, The president of the Rural Mail Carriers’ association is named Rhodes. Now it is up to the city carriers to find a man named Walker.—Milford, N. H., Cabinet. The senate is going to fight the r: 1 bill—just as it has fought all the other bills that it eventually had to { pass. he senate i a ver body.—TLowcl] Courier-Citizen. proposed to recruit a regiment in this country. Not a.bad idea. Think of the talent: Vietor Murdock, J. Ham Lewis, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Billie Burke, Terry McGovern, Billy B. Van, Eva Tangu ad infinitum.—Brooklyn o It is now red-headed uct of the war over into their hands at | the Superintendent of Schools in New Eagle. reluctant | COMMUNICATED. ON THE F¥ Members of Salary CE. Revision Com- mittee Taken to Task for Lack of Grit Editor of the Herald Dear Sir:i—As o0 ent at the meeting vision committee in fice Monday pliment your accurate report as published in Ferald. Now, how many of your readers took note of the fact that on of the important maiters which came be- fore this body for consideration, but three of the tcn members present had “sand” enough to on record by voting either for, or azainst it? Surely. no member of this impor- tant committee, with any sense of as a citizen, and by reason presence in that body, can honorably explain his position ‘“on the fence.” 3 To many of your -readers tics of the “silent ones’ are rcadily apparent and it hoped that in the future show a more intelligent of their duties to the city as a rather than to the fear or favor of their political friends. As to the gentleman who was moked out,” the operation was iardly necessary. Less talk and more ction on his part would, doubtless, greatly alleviate his throat trouble. A CITIZEN. 10 was pres- of the salary re- the of - wish com- for his very proceedings, evening's mayor's evening, 1 Lo reporter of the Tuesday one the tac- but too to be they e Jan. 23, 1918. OF' THE STORY SUL/TAN SELIM. Beach of Forme German Battle Cruiser Goeben Gives Briti: A h Flect Chance in Dardanclles, (Springfield can) The beaching of\the Sultan formerly the, German battle Goeben, in the Dardanelles afte ing a mine, should mean the that formidable vessel, unle British miss another opportunity. An injury making it nece to beach her must have been serious; to effect repairs with British airplanes continu- ally dropping bombs should be diffi- cult. There is the further possibility that the British may be able to de- stroy the Sultan Selim completely by indirect plunging fire across the Galli- poli peninsula from their ships sta- tioned miles away in the gulf of Saros. But this probably depends up- on whether the Turks or Germans, for the crew was no doubt under German control, beached the v the Asiatic or European the straits At the time of t naval at tack on the Dardanelles it was found impossible. owing to the nec gle of fire, for the British fleet in the gulf of Saros to reach the forts on the ropean side, and the indirect attack had to made on the opposite forts on the Asiatic side. Therefore, unless the Sultan lies on the Asiatic side, or unless the Brit- ish have now available ships whose guns can be trained at a higher angle of elevation. the wor: further de- struction must ne rily depend upon the airplanes rather than upon airplanes directing the fire of war v sels. Putting the Suitan out of important achievement, for the h can withdraw from the Med- iterrancan any battle cruisers which they may have in that quarter and be better prepared against a possible German foray in the North sea. The Sultan was much faster than any dreadnought in the Ttalian navy and might have created an awkward situ- ation, particularly if'a campaign had been pressed from Salonica depending upon the greater and munitions. If the view of some British nayal critics is accepted the Sultan, in spite of her possibly inglorious end, actirally contributed more to the course of the war than any other one ship. These critics take the view that when the first naval demonstra- tion was made early in 1915 at the Dardanelles, it would have been en- tirely possible for the British and French to push through the straits into the sea of Marmora with their old stvle predreadnaught battleships of which they could afford to lose a considerable number. But the ques- tion would then have arisen as to what service the ships thus put through "could perform and how long they could last. The Sultan, which had had a dramatic escape from the Brit- | ish fleet under Admiral Trowbridge in August, 1914, immediately following the outbreak of the war, was then lving at Constantinople. With her heavier battery and greater speed she could have chosen her range and alone been a match for three or four of the old stvle British and French vessels, which, but for her might have commanded the sea of Marmora and the railroad communications to the forts on either side of the Dar- danelles and have threatened Con- stantinople itself. But it has been declared fhat, owing to the Sultan's superiority, the British admiralty came to the conclusion that it would not be worth while to lose a consid- erable number of old style battleships in forcing the straits only also to lose with no less certainty, and no more profit, fhose that succeeded in get- ting fhrough, Tf this hypothesis is accepted it is f easy to go a step farther and con- ceive of the Sultan Selim as having saved the Turkish empire and the { central powers from disaster in 1915 Rut in view of the published dis [ patches between Admiral Carder who commanded the British fleet at the Dardanelles and the British admiralty in London, it is a theory which must still be regarded with considerable skepticism. Possibly there remain un- published dispatches which would il- luminate the matter. At all events the question is one of the thousands hich the war will furnish as a battle sround of speculation for future his- tarians. Repub Selim, cruiser strik- end ot the of 1 the action is an Bri i will | realization |{ whole, | transport of troops | has | ‘; TODAY'S TABLOID TALE By Joe Blast. The Bulletin Boarder. Pauncefoote Swatts dearly loved to collect a crowd about him in front of a bulletin board and discourse learned], dog- matically and passionately on vital questions of the day By a strange coincidence, that is precisely what he is doing as our story opens. “I tell you, men.” he is crying with clenched eyes and spark- ling fi it 1 had the running of this world thin would be different. Things are in a mud- dle, men, a mizzerandrious, measely muddle! And why men, why? T'll tell you why Becaus the chuckle headed, chibbenary fools who have things in charge don’t know enough to come in out of the rain, that's why! “Men, listen. If, when the first war clouds began to stoom- er, Ru had been partilioned off according to races among Snojack the Slovwoolies' aad the Flingoes, and Austria-Hun- had been divided justly among the Splurks, the Choo- vies and the Gravic peoples—if the Strait of Gratin had been given to Greece, and the Pholic Mountains to Germany and the Stidgie Islands to England, there wouldn’t ‘a’ been no war, men, there wouldn't ‘a’ been no war!" And, amidst the hearty ap- plause of the intelligent crowd, he stalked off to the next bulle- tin board. sary s “Pauncefoote,” said his wife when he came home that eve- ning, “I declare 1 don’t Know what to do with the children. Their Uncle Wimby gave them a “@ollar to.dividle among them, and Harold says he ought to get most because he's the oldest, and Edgar says he ought to get most because he's the youngest, and Evelina says she ought to get most because she's a girl. Won’t you arbitrate the thing ! for them, Pauncefoote?” i “I will not,”” snipped Paunce- foote Swatts. “Do you think I'm a public accountant? Why is everything always shoved off on me? (Copyright 1918 Matthew by Adams.) George A Chance for the Imaginative. (Providence Journal.) This is a time when some people’s imaginations are unusually active. The shortage of fuel, for instance, has set many inventive persons to work won- dering how to secure heat, light and power from other sources than coa, Zas old or Wwood. One of them a writer ! in the Worcester Telegram, points out that if a pail is filled with water, se- curely covered and set out doors in the cold, it will be broken open if not em- tirely demolished by the expansive force of its freezing contents. Tho writer goes on from this modest illus- tration to a survey of the attendant possibilities, He says: “Billions upon billions of gallons of water freeze in this country every win- ter. If the force of that irrestible power in a gallon of water is equal to the power of five pounds of coal while | burning, than 400 gallons of freezing water might be made as usefuul for | power purposes as a ton of coal under | a boiler. And in 10,000,000,000 gailons of freezing water we have the power of 25,000,000 tons of burning coal) | Then by not making use of that power | of freezing waters we must be losing i the value of at least 500,000,000 taus of coal in this country annually, snd that is as much coal as we have been mining the past few vears.” This ought to spur up other tenta- {ive geniuses to make further inter- csting suggestions to the same end. How about harnessing the tides, or| using the solar rays more effectively? | Let the society of the imaginative get | busy. It may at least help them to | keep warm during the period of fuel shortage. Boys and Agriculture. (Chicago Herald). The need to produce more food ap- | peals now especially to the youth of | the land. Boys old enough to be use- | ful on farms and too young for the | draft are being particularly sought Happily, this year the undertaking has been put upon the correct basis by the | State Council of Defence in co-opera- tion with the university. During the hurly-burly of spring sundry plans not always well | conceived were proposed for utilizing | the juvenile strength of the country. Children, it is said, were sometimes | sent where they were not wanted. trained and, under the circumstances, last 1 tie | wat i a fatter job to start. | tion. | Meaning of Personal " FACTS ABOUT THE BY LIEUT. FITZHU AMERICAN NAVY GH GREEN, U. 8. N. Making rope and j I once tried to learn to I got the caught and the pony tumblerd her. ® when it came to settfing up I found that by the time I had meditated on all the shouted directions that dimned in my cars the cow had taken things into her own hands—or hoofs—and X was the one upended It's not so different with a ship. Any fool can drive her up the chan- mel and get her nose roped from the dock. But if inexperience necessi- tates instruction at this critical mo- ment, before onme can obey all the ‘rules’ either the dock is smashed into pulp or the vessel's nose turns up a& if she had just met the true rights up a cow. lady | fram an expert boxer. A battleship moving through >r has tremendous inerti she's some fat ] very gradualiy the That b to stop, except Concersely, she's even 0 when she is near the dock, but not quite along- side, some of the hardest and most skillful tactics are necessary properly to make her fast. At first the great mountainous hulk is eased in very slowly with her bow pointing a little inwards. A light heaving line is thrown. To its end is made fast the heavy hawser leading out of a hole or hawsepipe well for- ward. This is called her bow-line. As soon as possible a similar line is got out aft, called the stern line. Sprin come next. Unlike bed or buggy-kind these have no spring in them except by virtue of their posi- About every forty feet along the warship's side, lines lead through chocks or notches in her deck. They lead in pairs, one tending forward and one aft in each pair. If the ship tries to move ahead all the lines tending aft come taunt and she is swung in. Thus the lines act as if they were real springs and so get their name. All this may seem to have very little to do with warfare and the ef- ficiency of a five-hundred-million dol- lar fleet. It may seem anything but a step toward blood-drenched victory and all that. But remember that scouts and fleets and submarines and the little chasers are continually rush- ing in for a bit of coal or a new bot- tom or enough ammunition for the next battle. Every minute they are in the mavy-vard is so much lost to the next vessel crying for help. In such times the slightest damage to pier or ship or personnel becomes al- most criminal. So don’t get discouraged if you have never heard of a breast before— a ship’s breast. Besides the springs and end-of-her lines there are several which lead out perpendicularly to her sides and hold her directly on to the dock. These are known as breasts. After all this gear is draped along { really fighting. Fast. the ship ghe is not sectred at once, But heavy rafts called ‘camels are dragged in betvecn her and the pier. Some- times the water is not quite deep enough or else a heavy tide requires socme sort of protection between the sicel monster and the comparatively £oft wooden pilos. I suppose that if I guess whai comes next, you would anmounce prowdly that tho zengway was plaeed. Whereupon I wotld know immediatery that vou are mo more than a common jandluhber. The big fiat, bridge-like walk Maid ap agrinst the ship's side for her passen- gers to land from is not a gangway but a brow. Another Hem, nearly always mis- named by the rurai tourist, is the uff. right post on the doek to which is made fast a vessel's line. (Notice that 1 always say ‘line’. This is proper rather than rope). Most people, even the sailors, sometimes say ‘post’. After a little experience the recruit calls it: a pile. Finally, he learns that piles are only those wooden posts driven. into the harbor bottom as part of the dock’s framework. Any other of the battleship's hitching posts, which stick up out of the dock itself, are called ‘bollards.’ Then there are spur-shores. Thege have been recommended by conscien- tious people as possibly useful in mit- igating the obvious impropriety of modern dancirg. Spur-shores . are long lozs of wood leaning against the ship’s side in order to help the cam- cls hold her out from the dock. The poor old camels, which are the rafis down in the water, are very grateful for their aid and, by it, can sometimes avoid being entirely crushed when the tide hands them a thirty-thousand dreadnought without so much as & warning. Things like chocks and bitts and cleats I'll leave to your curiosity. They're used to run the lires through and around and under—don't forgof its lines! And, just to give this paragraph a war-like touch, I may remind $ou | that there have been times when wé killed more men at this tame little job of making fast than we did At Men tumble into the water, get caught in winches and_do other foolish things—not frequently but just often enough to remind u# that its not a picnic even though it does seem pretty tame after a rip- snorting gale off Hatteras. So, wiether its a cow or a man- of-war to be tied up, take it from vour Urcle Bill, who knows, that ifs worth while learning how before vou try. And, even if you are never going to try, your knowing how enables vow to give the fellow doing it the proper kind of appreciation. (It pays to advertise. asked you v Adirondacks, by T. M. Longstreth. “Informal, sprightly and vivacious, yet abounding in matter-of-fact de- tail of the sort most needed by the tourist.”—Review of Reviews. i P Challenge of the Present H. E. Fosdick. “A sane and thoughtful consider- ation of the rclations of war and Christianity for those who are ‘find- | ing this a difficuit time in which m’ think, believe, and live.' "—A. L. A. Booklist. Crisis, by l i w % Crime, by a German | The author of ‘I Accuse’ answers his critics. K Life, Art, and Letters of George In- ness; by George Inness, Jr. Reading his life cannot fail to the Inness lover new reverence for his work and it must introduce many who may not know it.”—A. L. | A. Booklist. The Talcott Tanes art room ha picture by Life, Ne man Smyth. S. - Memoirs, by J. Mosby “A valuable addition to memoirs Tells of the raids famous Mosby rangers in against the Federal troops, other Civil war events, and timate of Generals Stuart, Grant.”—A. L. A. Booklist . Civil war of the | Virginia describes zives es- Lee and Mrs, Fiske, Her Views on Acto Acting and the Problems of Pro- duction, Recorded by Alexander Woolcott. “Informal Fiske.” i | | | conversations with Mrs. Ale iy untrainable adolescents were enlisted without discretion. The venture was unsupervised and to a conriderable extent futile. The United States reserve fortunately rors of the haphazard enlistment. the same time it offers very henefits to the country and boys assembled. Only those 16 and 20 are being acepted are first given a course of preliminary instruction in agriculture. When they are detailed to farms they will be | watched over by intelligent visitors. | They volunteer for war work and notj exploitation : In setting aside next week for regis- tration Governor Lowden wisely drew attention to the educative advantazes of such an expericnce both to the boys and to the State. The urban youth who puts in a summer at farm work will be broadened and enight- ened by the experience. Boys' Working | eliminates the er- At | tangible | to the between They | As It Tooks in Lowell. (Lowell Courier Citizen.) The Boston Herald affirms that we are living under an elective mon- archy. There are Roston newspapers who seem to feel that the situation is tolerable only when the elected mon- arch happens to be a republican, l | given | ars German Policy Before the War, G. W. Brothero. by Science and Kdited hy “For each Learning in France, J. H. Wigmore. field of learning the record of French scholar- | ship of the past century, its leaders and special line of development. . . . Ay appreciation by American schol- | in parallel fields."—A. L. A Booklis is | . e Canon Sheehan of Donneraille, by H. J. Heuser. The life of the author of Curate” and other storvies life. My of New Irish P | State Socialism After the War, by T. | J. Hughes. which cteristic critical s author’s char: versatility, whether music, painting, literature | A. L. A. Booklist ! “Thirty the and writes of or men.”- English and the Bucket, by Johnson. essays, and Johnson the public of Burges “‘Seven convincingly humor, Mr charge that Well written clearly with a touch of | admits the schools and { Ommirandy, { contains { the | ea | favorite i ling I it ( tary of War—Why, 1 | one.—Life. LIST OF NEW B00KS~ AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITU?E colleges are not teaching their stus dents to speak and write in such a way as to serve the needs of life today and maintains that the study of English can be so conducted ‘without any betrayal of pure learn- ing.’ "'—. A. Booklist. PR Fiction. abylon, by King in E. Steven- son. A movie novel. . by A Southern story. .. B. .« s C. Gordon. A Secret Citadel, by Isabel C. Clarke. P i Smiths, in War Time, by Keble How< ard. PR Webster Lively Man’s Man, by P. and entertaining. B. Kyne/ William and Williamina, by Frances R. Sterrett. “A story that is rich in humor, and many surprises.” oxoe . William, by the Grace of God, Marjorie Bowen by Iibrary War Service. member of “The Independent” who was sent ta France to in the distribution of books to men in the :orvice, reporis an ur- gent demand for reading mattef which is neither light or sensational. French-English dictionaries, maps and music scores are constantly asked for and thus far, the supply hopelessly dequate. Hymn hooks, opera librettos and almost any popular songs are a joy to both American and Frerch, for the poilu is immensely eager to know the mu- sic of his new allv. One man went, so far to declare—*Collections of colleze songs would be more uso than two tons of American tobacco!™ e few maps of France hung in Y. M. C. A. huts are worn white by fingers tracing the various army routcs and often “Paris is literally nothing but a hole Hizh school and college text books's on every subject from English gram- to a Greek Testament are heed- and specitl pieas come for ‘“a whole Bible.” After dark when lights are few and dim, men take turns reading to numbering hundreds, by the a tiny eclectric torch. Among poets may be named Kip- Secger and Service. A staff, help is as mar s aid of Did Miss Swift bury her - Guy-—Yes; but her friend dug it up and performed an autopsy over —Town Topic Wise past? we h for our Cit n see new aeroplane e ordered army thought a ecre- we had Wite—TI was outspoken in my senti- meuts at the club today. Husband I can't belipve it! Who outspoke* Town Topics,