New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1918, Page 5

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And, as the flow of immigrants from Eu- rope has been cut down to compar- atively nothing, it has increased at the Canadian, Mexican and Pacific stations. 4 For a decade before the war, the annual influx approximated a million a year. From July to December last year the number fell to 80,222. More- over, the decreasing stream of new- comers is being offset to a remark- able degree by the exodus from America of those desiring to return to their native lands. In fact, the departures outnumbered the admit- tances in November and December. A great many of those leaving the country since the beginning of the war have been allied reservists who have gone back to amswer the call to the colors. Effort to Keep Out Spies. ‘While war conditions have cur. tailed the usual dutles of the immi. gration service, a new fleld has been opened that requires even more in- tensive application and effort, Be- | ginning with the seizure of the Ger- man ships, the service has been called upon to assist other agencies of the government in many import- ant lines of work. Especially have the inspectors been active in pro- hibiting the entrance or departure of enemy aliens, in the detection of spies, the surveillance and appre- hension of suspects and in capturing draft law invaders. A great part of the facilities of the immigration stations, especially along the Atlantic coast, have been turned over to other lines of war work. The great recelving depot at Ellis Island now is devoting only 25 or 30 per cent of its space to handling immi- . gratton and somewhat similar condi- tions exist at other Atlantic ports. As ever, the service is employed ac- tively in preventing surreptitious en- try into the country of objectionable aliens, chiefly Chinese coolies. Al- though the traffic has been cut down materially by vigilance, the great financial inducements offered those who successfully can run the block- ade prevent a complete curtailment . of the practice. Stowaways Increase. The number of stowaways on ships was twice as many in the last half of 1917 aa in the preceding 12 months ~—93 altogether having been detected and debarred. Included in the num- ber were several German soldiers who deserted, fled to neutral coun- then sought to find a safe hiding on America-bound vessels. Although the tide of immigration ! dropped from a million to 300,000 the first year of the war and has since : steadily been on the decline, there ls every prospect that the flow will not resume its pre-war proportions for a decade or more after the treaty of peace. America, practically since its dis- covery, has been the land of promise for the ambitious, the adventuresome, or the oppressed people of other lands. Beginning with the Argonauts of the early seventeenth century who established colonles along the Atlan- tic seaboard, the tide steadily had in- creased until the first part of the present century saw milllons eagerly setting thejr faces toward the new world. They came principally in the steer- age of the great ocean liners, ever with determination to win fortune and enfoy liberty. The immigrants still come from Europe, but in small scat- tered groups, mostly of women or children joining relatives here. The ravages of war have made it an abso- lute necessity for the belligerents to retain within their own borders all useful manpower—not alone for act- ive fighting of imperative non-com- batant tasks behind the lines, but for the great work of rehabilitation that must start when hostilitles cease. Even the neutrals—Norway, Swe- den, Denmark and Holland—are dis- couraging emigration, recognizing that the loss of even small portlons of their populations may prove a ma- terfal after-war economic loss. With the great stream of immigra- tion curtailed for a while, the na- tion, even in the rush of war, will find additional time to break up, edu- cate and Americanize the polyglot groups in the larger cities. There are many of these elements which, it is asserted, have not yet begun to be as- similated in American national life. Thelr language. customs and ldeals remain practically unchanged in thelr new surroundings. Americanization of an emigrant of this class offers great problems and greater rewards for the soclal worker. L S e OUCH! LUMBAGO PAIN! RUB BACKACHE AWAY Relief with a small bottle of old Jacobs Oil.” Instant trial “St. Kidneys cause They have no nerves, not cause pain. Listen! Your back- ache is caused by lumbago, sciatica or a strain and the quickest relief is soothing, penetrating “‘St. Jacobs Oil." Rub it right on your painful back, and instantly the soreness, stiffness and lameness disappears. Don't stay | erippled Get a small trial bottle of ‘St. Jacobs Ofl" from your druggist and limber up. A moment after it is applied you'll wonder what became of the backache or lumbago pain. Rub old, honest “St. Jacobs Oil" whenever you have sciatica, neuralgia, i rheumatism or sprains, as it is abso- utely harmiyse and doesn’t burn tho kin. Backache? No! therefore can April 3.—While war] HER DNE RIFLES USED BY ~ AMERICANS BEST ‘ B U. §. Troops’ Arms Superior to Those of Germans ‘Washington, April 8.—The Chiet | of Ordnance authorizes the follow- ing: American troops are armed with a faster firing and more accurate rifle than used by the Germans according | to our expert designers, manufactur- | ers and marksmen. One military crit- ic and writer (Edward C. Crossman) claims that the German Mauser does not permit the most skillful user to get more than 50 per cent. of the fir- ing speed of the modified Enfleld adopted for the United States service. If the rapidity of fire of one army's rifle is twice that of the weapon used by enemy riflemen, and the forces numerically the same strength, the former has in effect, other things be- ing equal, two riflemen to the enemy's | one. Hence to make two bullets fly ! where one flew before has been one of the main objects sought in gun de- sign since organized fighters found a more effective way to battle than the primitive stage of throwing missiles at one another. The superiority claimed American weapon is supported on three counts: (1) Quicker firing as a result of bolt handle design; (2) eas- ier and quicker sighting as a result of sight design; (3) greater accuracy of bullet flight as a result of bullet design and greater mechanical accur- acy of chamber and bore. Each of these points is explained hereafter. (1) In both the attack and defense of trench positions the rifles are fired without removing them from the shoulder at a rate called “rapid fire” which is the most rapid rate of mag- azine fire consistent with quick ac- curacy. ‘When the Mauser rifle, with which the German troops are now armed, was designed in 1898 no one could foresee the development of ‘rapid fire” from the shoulder which fol- lowed and the necessity for which is emphasized by present-day trench warfare. In all modern rifles a ‘bolt handle" is used to lock the cartridge in the chamber for firing. After each shot the right hand must leave the trig- ger, grasp the bolt handle, unlock the bolt, eject the empty shell, thrust home another cartridge—all done by movements of the bolt handle—and then push the bolt handle into the position which again locks the car- tridge in the chamber. Thus the po- sition of this bolt handle in reference to the trigger is of great importance to rapidity of fire. The Mauser rifie has the bolt han- dle propecting horizontally from the rifle so that, in locking the bolt for firing, the index or trigger finger is left several inches above the trigger. When the U. 8, rifle, model of 1903 (popularly called the Springfield) was designed, the length of the barrel was reduced from 30 to 24 inches, so that the rifle thus shortened could be used by both infantry and cavalry. The | carbine had been carried by the cav- alry for years in a leather scabbard attached to the side of the saddle. To ! allow the Springfield rifle to go read- ily into a scabbard and to protect its | rear sight, the bolt handle was bent down toward the trigger so that it locks a little in front of it. It was little realized at the time what great advantage this design would ulti- mately result in. In the U. 8. rifle, model of 1917, (popularly called the Modified En- field) the bolt handle is bent not only down but also about an inch to the rear so that upon locking the bolt for | firing the index finger is guided nat- urally into position for firing. This feature- was adopted from the Brit- | ish Enfield rifle, model of 1914, as made in America for Great Britain. The speed of firing thus gained s considerable. (2) The contrast in the position of the sights In the two rifles is best 11- | lustrated by a simple example. If a prencil is held between the eye and a doorknob it may be seen that the far- | ther the pencil from the eye, the greater the movement of the head necessary to cause an equal amount of lateral displacement in the posi- tion of the pencil. Assume the pendil to be the position of the rear sight of a gun and the door knob the front sight: the nearer the rear sight to the eye, the slighter movement of the head brings the eye in position to sight the gun. The rear sights on both the modi- fled Enfleld and Springfleld rifles are placed nearer to the eye of the firer than in the case of the Mauser rifle. The rear sight on the Mauser |is placed well forward of the receiver on the barrel, while the rear sight on the Springfleld is placed right against the front end of the receiver. The modified Enfield has the rear sight on the rear end of the receiver imme- diatly in front of the eye of the firer. The modifled Enfleld is also pro- vided with a large ‘““open peep’’ near the eve, through which the eve eas- {ly looks and quickly and automati- cally centers itself in alming. This large ‘““open peep’’ combined with its rearward position gives a good fleld of view permitting this rifle to be quickly pointed at an advancing ene- my. Incldentally the rearward posi- tlon of the rear sight on the modified Enfield rifie lengthens the sighfing radius (or distance between the front and rear sight) resulting in increased accuracy. (3) The weight of the Mauser bul- let is slightly greater than that of the U, S. bullet and the bullet s pro- pelled at a somewhat greater veloc- ity; but the Mauser bullet is of a peculiar shape such that at the long- er fighting ranges it is not consid- ered by many of our rifle experts as accurate as the U. S. bullet because more apt to tumble or *“key-hole” at those ranges especially when the wind is blowing across the range. It is also known that the MAauser for the e e ——e et st rifie, produced in large quantities for the German government and others, is not made with the mechanical ac- curacy demanded in the manufac- ture of the chamber and bore of the S. rifles. One of our rifle experts, who recently fired a captured German rifle, states that the bore was not as accurately finished as in the Spring- field rifle, nor was the rifle ammuni- tion as accurate. To form some idea of their stand- ing, the records of the Springfield rifle and its cartridges in internation- al competitive tests with the military rifles and cartridges of other countries may be considered: In the International (Olympic) Shoot of 1908, held at Bisley, Eng- land, the United States, United King- dom, Canada, France, Sweden, Nor- way, Greece and Denmark participat- ing and scoring in the order just named, our rifle team won first place with the Springfield rifle. In the International Shoot of 1912, held in with the Olympic Games at Stock- holm, Sweden, national teams all us- ing their military service rifles from the United" States, Great Britain, Swe- den, South Africa, France, Norway, Greece, Denmark, Russia, and Hun- gary scored in the order just named In 1912 at Ottawa, Canada, the American team firing Springfield ri- fles put on the targets the world's record for any military rifle at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. This record still stands. In the Pan-American International Match, held at Buenos Aires in 1912, in which the United States, Argentine Chile, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay scored in the order named Springfield | rifles and cartridges won first place. In the Palma Trophy Match held at Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1913, the United States with the Springfield (U. 8. rifie) model of 1903, Caliber .3 Argentina with the Mauser, caliber 7.65 m-m; Canada with the Ross ri- fle, caliber .303; Sweden with the Mauser, caliber .256, and Peru with the Mauser, caliber 7.656 m-m, scored in the order named. Teams armed with the Mauser were defeated at these matches, whenever used. In winning all these victories for the Springfield rifle, and the Am- erican cartridge, great credit is given the man behind the gun—the Ameri- can marksman. In all, the present Springfleld rifie was used in the de- feat of the military rifles of fifteen nations. The modified Enfield rifie has been received with satisfaction in the Na- tional Army Camps and some re- markable scores for men untrained in military rifle shooting have been made. SCOFIELD STILL LEADING. Pinehurst, N. C. April 3.—E. L. Scofleld, of Weeburn, led the field at the conclusion of the qualifying round in North and South amateur cham- pionship tournament at Pinehurst yes- terday and won the medal by a mar- gin of eight strokes. Scofleld had on the championship course Monday and he added thereto a fine 74 on No. 1 yesterday for a total of 151 for the 36 holes. The Weeburn player sank a full mashie for a 2 on the par 4 second hole, this being the most sen- sational of three twos that Scofleld ne- gotiated in the course of the 36 holes. CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use ForOver 30 Years Always bears Z Z LA M‘ 77 the Signature of (Olympic) connection | ADAME & Pure Chewing Gu ada N~ a Stick T o % SO . 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