New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918, LUTHERANS SEND ign for £750,000 for war- | crvice on the part of the Lut rans in America is focussing atten- on the work which the National theran Commission for Sailors’ Welfare is doing The saying has been that Lutherans . move deliberately. All Lutheran rec- | % ords for quick action were broken by the National Lutheran Commis \nd men from other denomir onfess frankly that the luthe his case have set & mark for the h it will be difficult for them Tt time “oldiers’ ior equs #he National Lutheran Commi g the re entativ bhody, made 1 rey ives from the different nods. The singular. Lutheran precedented fact about the comm is that in it are representatives fron ¢very Lutheran body in America, that its work is 1 wd made ¢ fegtive by ten mill haptized mem- in the Luthe nomination. s concentration of cffort and en- in the problem most vital fe toda. was not attained at first the vario own “war boards of their ler sphere sithout regard to the other badies. 10t ta long, howev ¢me the fact that the 1 and that the very irch are involved in i 3} at only the most heroic meas ures will answer in the emergency | At present there are 165,000 Luth- eran men with the colors. That figure | js verified in two ways. The r >ports | of congregations to the National Luth- | eran Commission headquarters in New | York City give a fair idea of the por- | hich have left the { the ct centage of men w cor ns. The figures arrived at | that tally with the figures re- ulting from an estimate rcached by r of men enlisted, th chureh membership, the total | populat the United tes and | of men between ° | 1 | | | | the cer | ; R31. in many scctions of the \rv\\n(r.\" > X Lut ins preponderant in the ¢ mpe, as rcligious cc ses show. | § %] X 8 . Canmp Dodg ; i : ! | Teg usinz the n it med, has o ten {housand Lutheran soldiers. Simi- | Wi the camps that hou from Pennsyivania and the [Valley o ver jhood of Lut to go to the men 1t finally cent. of tI eran con mps who are to ma your 'gations left and that the | e the con s of tomorrow are today in the ot the United oW ENGLAND WILL | PAY £0ST OF WAR 1an to Develop Resources of Erm- pire on Grand Scale ates Londor n. 30.—(Corr spondence theé Ass re Resources Development con e has be jpa means of paving off the ated Press.)—The trying to devise Em- 1mit- ways va the war. but accordin It has not been long at to H. Wilson-Fox, M. i gacy of debt that will be bequeathed i a prominent member of the com- ittae, it is making highly tisfac- | ry progre oblem outlined by Wilson-Fox in an dress before the Royal Colonial pstitute, the colossal sums needed | e to be obtained by the state de- loping certain resources of the em- | re on a huge scale and turning over e Drofits to the national treasur in the solution of the e of th is fish of which, Mr. il Pox s &wioundland red, could 1 i ingdom at pri ling before the v ing for d weld the 5,000,000 to 1 id, unlimited ned from Can This fish, it e sold in the engaged in tl ate a profit £50,000,000 a supplies ada and was as- United es far below those , provide a good he work of from year. Another proposal was that the ate should participate in the supply hd distribution of the the empire hich palm products are daily be- pming of greater les of food importance From this, the profit as ar- it was COMMENCES SATURDAY, FEB. 23d, FOR ONE WEEK leulated, would soon nount to £50,000,000 annually. An- % ! her £100,000,000 a year it w es- % A natéd could be derived by the state Nl m electricity for light 1 power | g 3 be provided at much cheaper rates 4 ‘ R an private companies charged. 1 The home government, it was sug- | B8 : G LELANDCO. sted, should co-operate with Can- 1 in the early development and | [ e of large t it a *ts of corn nt of 200,000,000 juld be negotiated, the committec | § nd. acres ieved, the nation’s food uld be assured and within supply a quar- 38 Stores 38 Cities of a century the sale of farms this area would pa off a large rtion of the empire’s debt. ‘“Looking into the future,” said the turer, ‘“we can ualize the state an owner of vast herds of cattle rseas raised on lands which are ay sunutilized; as a proprietor of ts and valuable plantations of pical shrubs and trees grown on |8 as which are still virgin, and the Fnesser of mighty waterfalls fed by | B eternal snows of India and Fica; as an organizer of great com- rcial air services, and as the re on an imme, scale of the ma harvest of th “Always More For Less” Finding an Advantage. (Chicago Herald.) One&\ advantage of a Supreme War ncil of three is that it would leave & manh on the job while senate com- | ttces quizzed the other two.