New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1918, Page 6

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Do preet Justice to all, and never that we are American GEORGE WASHINGTON THE RIGHT Ine of the High SPIRIT. instructors at the Vo- bnal school has assigned to { whose attitude on war the of Ipupiis es task of memorizing all “The Star-Spangled ner as those of “Ameri- so that they will be able to sing keeping their ver as well s anthems without glued on the text. is is a step in the right direction. would like to see all the instrue- the high schools of the city the of these their pupils. We know the lower grades boys and been taught and have orized the versecs under the cap- direction of our supervisor of . but it seems that they are apt in upon learning s by in have get themn when they enter the school unless their memory is hed from time to time as in e present instance The fact ne is able to sing all the verses our patriotic anthems does not an entire com- dutie; p s constitute e with the he inability to sing them shows which should be of citizenship ast a failing jied at once. LARMONY OF THOUGHT. lcommenting on a recent article 2 columns relative to certain < of The Herald’s noonday bul- whose facial expression betrays when they read of Ger- or Allied “Hartford Times” hetion successes reverses, teemed of lesday evening had gay edttorially: do not like to believe this. We think it in any way represent- of the New Britain we knew. eag of New Britain harmonize . Col. 8am Moore of the Four- Connecticut, and Color Bearer the follow- ing, of Stanley Post, G. A. R, he long list of names on the s’ monuments, and the hun- of bo; = va s who represented New uota in the Spanish-Amer- with gave and Palmer and who lives in the nes remains were with public honors in Fairview bry; with young Heinzemann nton, mere boys, who have al- ielded their lives on the west- bnt, and with these associations more in harmony on the first the esteemed Herald in the young their whose pt hcement that Mr. Sloper that b bond sales up to Monday amounted to $644,800 and by Jowing day would undoubtedly $500,000, thus placing the city Hardware cult on par with balthier and more pretentious Springfleld. irec, we have not lost faith y Britain, even if it has lost rotle poct edftor who left ctum for service in the field. w editor will see things more e old one did after a time. s not vet lost. One cannot fand New Britain in a week. liro more than glad to know lhough we have been here a fme, our views correspond in every detail with those of the of the above, whose evident e knowledge of local affairs e been acquired by lontact Britain and during a period extending on1y with New e of We mod- dmit with becoming blushes ; little bit flattered to hat our inexperience has not jed us from arriving at a view- Which harmonizes closely with the in the City. He does not lke to that there are disloval per- New Britain. Neither do we, fact remains that there are their num- number vears. are a veteran observer lhough fortunately not large and they are of by federal agents. He bt think it in any way repre- be of the New Britain he knew. do we, although, to be exact, not discussing the New Brit~ our esteemed contemporary | rather conditions in New are being it s Britain which exist today. Again, the list of heroic New Britain men men- tioned the having as fighting now for country; its reference to the two local as by “Times" fought or this lads who nobly laid down their lives for us in the present war; and the mention of the success in New Brit- ain ol the Third Idberty Loan,—all these facts clinch our assertion that the “Times” fully agrees with us in our statement that New Britain is nevertheless a “loyal community, and it name be- smirched does not fair by want iti alien any or ues is ques- tioned in the least.” This, our state- ment, receives the unqualified en- dorsement of the “Times” editorlal writer who says in another place that it ‘‘undoubtedly represents the triotic tome of the city of locks and door cheoke” 1y, we emn only bring mutual admiration party by expressing oursclves as fully pa this to Fin littie a close n who contemporary New B & And “hope is not vet 1o with our not “lost faith Neither wouldn't accord hag in ain we had, because have we. v be here. he believes that st and that ‘‘onme cannot Britain in a week” to the hope that he call, either for or a month, so that sce for himself daily otcurences sup- New we beg express will honor us with a a day, or a weelk, he can porting these statements of ours in which he concurs so heartily. NOT A CHANCE. We understand from press des- ratches that the Department of State is considering the lodging of a protest against the action of the German gov- ermnent In demanding access to the warehouse in where former Ambassador Gerard stored his house- hold effects when leaving the Prus- sian capital at™the time the United States relations with Germany. The officials of the Department State know far than what they are doing and it is not for us to Berlin severed diplomatic of better we criticise their action. It may be per- fectly proper to cnter protest against such high-handed actions on the part of the (German authoritics, and in jus- tice to Mr. Gerard the Department evidently fecets that it must make at least a formal attempt to protect the interests of an Amecrican citizen. But as to the possibility of obtaining the desired results by such a protes doukbt very much whether even W ington is this Germany has private properry we ash- Tf confiscate hopeful an point. decided of once resided there it to Americans who no power in the and understand else world from Mr. Gerard this better The chances can stop doing to s0 has reason than anyone of rescuing such pro- perty after Germany once lays hands on it are even less ihan those of the proverbial in Hades. We know somebody not a thousand miles snowbhail from here who left houschold effects in a territory now cccupied by the Germans and that person told us that if the enemy starts on a hunt for American property in that particular section of the war zone he never ex- pects to see his furniture again. HAVE YOU BOUGHT A BOND? A local brought out very aptly at four-minute speaker one of our theaters the other evenimz the fol- lowing point: There are only two classifications possible for persons who have not yet bought a Liberty Bond, vig, elther they belong to the class of those who feel that they can- not afford to buy a bond, or to those, who, though able to buy, have not and will not do ®o0. Of this latter class, sald the speaker, on our guard. and avoided as enemies of the coun- try. So much for them. But as for those who feel that they cannot af- ford to buy a bond, the mpeaker In- we must be They are to be shunned sisted, and he was right, that they must realize that at a time like the present, we are all called upon to malke sacrifices. They are not ex- empt. They must do without this or that thing which they would other- wise buy amd with the money thus saved buy a Liberty Bond. Under the easy payment system there are really very few who are actually so poor that they cannot deposit a dol- lar or two down and pay the rest tn small weekly or monthly sums. Tt 1s the best investment a person can make. Let each one ask himself the question—If I have not yet bought a bond, what Is the reason? with intelligence long remain in elther of the gories described. Moral—Buy a Bond. The weather man scemsg bound to No man average can very cate- wake us use that last shovelful of coal. Following closely on the heols of the story of “Doug” Fairbanks' sepa- ration from his wife comes the rumor of ae enstrangement between Mary Pickford and her husband, Owen Moore. When news columns are empty we always have plenty of screen gossip to “Allum. The editorlal page of the “‘Meriden Morning Record” ix indeed inspiring understand | | | | | | i these without phuse tirr of res. the war Hardly situa day tion, passes an opportune article on some written in a tone that refiects the deep-rooted patriotic whence sentiments t sprang. Our| of th sincere e mind com- pliments to our Silver City contempor- ar Mattthew resident the old swindling game of substitut tissue paper for real currency. Staunford, 1 ell v chumacher, a Hungarian ictim to g Mat- thew wanted to get rich quick, but he should have been born eve satisfled nmaining a Schumacher with instead re- of be- coming one of those things which are minute “German is going to be cul out of t except for oollege preparation, New Britain hool cu rriculum This ought to be & timc when our boys and girls understood German den lege mans better than los helped Ger v greatly. knowledge of other tone Journal. We think does not wish to pu ° preparatory course, private tutors. employ ar On 88 ies. that rsue he Th nd Ger- | e thing was her I any- if one wishes to study German nowadayve but the col- should ere are other things just now vastly more im- portant to which our students can de- vote their time. IFACTS AND Germany want sword. She all sword must be ir FANCIES, s peace by the get it. But the 1 our hands.—Chi- cago Evening Post. Germany is paving a terrible price to demonstrate her devotlon to the doctrine that might malkes right.- New Haven Journal Courier. “Eat ‘em up!” is sald to have been the war cry of the American troops in France. Go to it! There are no food conservation regulations on the battle front to prevent.— New Yorl Hotel Review. Poor lille Serbia hard hit but she still has enough strength to call the premier of Ausiria a liar.—Mer- iden Kecord The purchase of Liberty Bonds need not interfere with the purchase of thrift stamps, any more than buy. ing a life insurance poiicy keeps vou from getting the daily paper.—Cleve- land Plain-Denler, That New York man who asked the court to issue an order compell- ing his wife to keep quiet seemed to quite overlook the fact that the courts consist of mere married men, just like himsell.—Springficld Union. Those b pugilists who are con- templatmg stasing an alleged fight on July 4 may find them es before that time inciuded in the government's classification of thesc engaged in use. less or harmful occupations.—Louis- ville Post. You remember the old axiom to the effect that conscience makes cowards of us all. Well, it isn’t that The thing that makes cowards of us all is the fear that we shall losa some votes or a cash customer.—- Capper’s Weekly. ND TODAY. When I was a boy I used to go Across the fields, where an unseen foe Was waiting in ambush to give me fight- Oh, T was brave and my cause was right! T'en Million Home Gardens. In a recent issue of the Count Gentleman there was a very excellent article by John R. McMahon with reference to the gardening movement. be this vear’s goal. Last vear he points out were 6,500,000 gardens and that there the or- | | | ganization was mnot half complete. j The 1917 war garden drive began with |4 goad deal of hysterical impulse. The public mind was in a state of fer- ment and patriots and patrioteers ramped into it. The resul, Mr. Me- Mahon indicates, was a great deal of preliminary enthusiasm, all of which did not materialize In results. This vear, he believes, we have settled down to somecthing like a more definite movement and, while there may not ba quite as much nolse about it, the 1918 result. should he materially greate Mr. MeMahon points out very striking- 1y that if the United States home gar- deners raised more food in 1917 than the submarines sank in a vear, double returns for our gardening in 1818 wili, to use his own words, mean ‘'a whale i of a lot The home guarden products | of Tast vear were sufficient in volums i to fill 100,000 f{reight cars. That | means, a Mr. MeMahon points out, { that the use of that number of cars | was saved for other purposes bhy | reason of the production of foad near | the point wherc it was to be con- | sumed. This is far from the least im- portant phase of the home garden movement since the transportation sit- uation is sa acute. Here are some of the facts Mr. Me- Mahon gives: There is & wheat short- age of around 350,000,000 bushels for our Allies and crop last year ord-breaker of but when deductions frost-bitten, immature or soft corn, the total fell to 2,591,000,000, which is really below the average for 'tho preceding five vears, so that instead of a surplus of corn, we actually have a hortage. Production from all crops | last year was 20 per cent. under ex- pectations and the same conditions which produced that result in 1917 prevail to a great extent in 1918, the chief of which, of course, is the short- age of labor. The facts production produced 1 in 1917 than course, that for an increas The corn heralded as a rec- 9,000,000 bushels, were made for ourselves was with reference to grain are that the United States s of the six leading grains in 1915 and it is true, of there was no campaign ed foad production as far back 1915, so that with all the drive which was made for increased food last year, we actually did not produce as much in these directions as produced two years before when we had no special effort to stim- vlate production as was 1 carried a gun that my daddy made, | And a sword as sharp as a hero’s | blade. | And a deadly dagger that Bill Brown | found ! So T clattered ‘away to the battle- sround, And 1 dreamed, as I marched mm_v} to fame, i That the world would ring with mvi mighty name! | My sun was made out of whittled | wood— That, I take it, is understood— And I had to shoot the 8o task! no bullets or powder flask, foe was a man-sized But the 7 ouching enemy never knew "Twas a wooden gun with an aim un- And when I'd He'd alway: You And he'd shudde. *Most true: fray, see, breat to de eve A squad With a things hum' If there Today Sowme bronze-f It re took When then now men feet; " 1 tling And oh. Under Blue! longed I For So For 1 too, th stay, my aray doff hidden Wittig's old there step my h, path! Ty of my d foe broken had bee vou'd T e back foe T wished he brave to go. ed my prayer those and stalwart dare WILL march seamper name s five in for the folk h n I is slow hat cros to and ‘niost day T would soldier Once there were A goodly sight So did T lead To the And Solly abou ne ¥ ead— mov have seen con ¢ ¥ and and the red hid t d orga it m my company, to see! and the dar just ing my bloodless o 0ok away. his and shake well-nigh nize v size— land, rum— made pictures gallant arched along the str. ced lads with rhythmic quer White, 3ut I my sent hoys who In GRTFE the TRIN, N. ¥ et to the long ago marched to a bris- were marching and had to head is forth a must do Times. Live stack is deercasing the world over. There are 20 per cent. fewer hogs than is normal in this country. The farmer are killing poultry, so the garden takes on a new significance. Mr. Mecdlahon suggests consideration of a few possibillties in the American garden, As stated, he estimates the total of last year at 6.500.000, covering about 1,500,000 acres with a total food production of $350,000,000. He sug- good reason that there is no reason why that number should not be doubled this year. There are 50,000 towns and villuges in the United Mr. McMahon suggests that if place put an average of the tatal food production would be $750,000,000. Gardening, therefore, when it considered on a national basis, looms large as a means of producing food The advice which gives Is to plant only tical and productive give food for next for this summer. This is in line with the advice which is being given hy the home gardens department of the committea on food supply and seems to be followed by local committees. He also suggests what has heen foung to true in Connccticut, that while there are seeds enough for all the gar- dens that will be planted. there is a seed shortage and secd should be used ringly and not wasted. He recom- mends that every surplus vegetabls should he salted, pickled, dried or nned for winter and that commuui- ties which encourage large garden piant should be alert to the necessity of providing some way of taking care of the surplus which is sure to de- velop in mid-season when green stuff ripens much faster than the gardener can eat it. (Issued by the Council of Defense,) Tank Week in Great Britain. wita ench $200 an acre Mr, the crops McMahon most prac- hich will well as winter as a Connecticut Stafe It is entitled “Ten Million Home Gar- dens,” and Mr. McMahon sets forth that ten million home gardens should | | | By Joe Biast All the Way Bugs, “Your honor, the dcfendant I8 undoubtedly insane, and in behall of the other wmembers of (he family, whom I repre- sen(, I nsk that ho be com- mitted (o an asylum,” sald | Causeway Pleod, attornsy for | the offense, I ask your honor | to remember that witnesses hive testified that the defend- ant, for instance, suddenly voncelves the ldea that he is a | battering ram ana that at such tmes the family have to take refuge behind Jocked doors, | Innsmueh as the defendant | belleves them to be clistles that 1t 1 his duty to storm.’ “Oh, well,"” murmured Judga Bpindle, “perhaps that's mere vlayfulness—how 1s one to know ?" “But your honor,” pursued Pleed, “it has also been testi- fled that he s in the habit of spending an entire meal try- ing to drink boulllon with a fork.” “He may be a bit absent minded,” Judge Spindle ob- served “But your honor-—his pas- sion for sitting on the front steps in his undergarments?” persisted the attorney for the offense. mere physical culture fad, no doubt,” nodded the judge wisely. | Causeway Pleed scratched his head. “Your “there neglected defendant by the hour Lajoie is a player than Ty Judge Spindle, ball season, never game, flushed an angry violet. “The man is stark, staring, raving mad! I sentence him to the Looseworks asylum for Lionor,” he was one point to bring out. The frequently argues that Napoleon better all around Cobb. who, in base- missed a said, that I life,” he cried. ‘ il L (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) _—_———— compete, or hope to compete, with Glasgow's aggregate. Yet, now that the accounts have been flnally made up, Edinburgh easily leads in the contribution per head of population. Taking the population of Edinburzh at 326,901, the estimated figure for 916, the total amount obtained brings the individual contribution to £14, 11s, 6d, or about $72 per capi- ta. The estimated population of Glas w in 19 was 1,072,793, so that' her average contribution comes to £13, 21-2 or about $66 per capita. And yet been said that “canny” but it has often Scotchmen are not only as a rule inclined to be close-fisted, As an old Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University boy. the writer desires to extend congratulations to all the menibers of our Order, wha he feels sure will fully agree with him that Scotland’s great ecffort dur- ing Tank Week was well worthy of her glorious record in this war and was truly what the renowned Do- minje Sampson used to term “pro- deegious, simply prodeegious.” I append a list of the amounts sub- seribed by the principal cities: G sow, £14,171,760; Birmingham, 708,439; T:dinburgh, £4,764,639; Man- Bradford, £4,060- chester, £4,450,020; 000; Newecastle £8,082,324; Liverpool, £2,061,012; Leeds, £1 1,70 Bristol, 11,400,481; Shefiield, £1,326,613 The War in the Back Yard. (New Haven Register.) The man who cannot shoot a rifle can wield a hoe. The man who knows not the Morse code in flag waving can draw the rake. ) The man who is unfamiliar with the entrenching. tool can use the spade. The man who is ignorant of the uses of the hand bayonet will find it casy to manipulate the dibble It is not necessary to be a soldier or a sailor to help win the war. The attacks can be made upon the ground. The next three weecks are the period fn which the garden and truck farm (By D. G. Presgrave of Clan Can beli, No. 116, in “The Fiery Cross. As an xample of liberal tion of money fer war purposes raising of funds for building tanks), I should like tention to whatywas recently accom- plished in Gre; af_Britain during Tanl Week lasi January, a5 eal sure it will prove a maitter of interest to the members of our Order. What was the exact nature of the premium bond offered to investors the writer is not at present in a position to state, but it was evidently something more at- tractive than merely a flat rate of in- terest, and apparently included some mild speculative element in the shape of a prize draw scheme. By a great and worthy effort, Glasgow beat by a Jarge margin every city in the United Kingdom, not even excepting Lon- don. In raising (14,170,760 in one weels, the 1 city the Bmpire demonstrated at the time ber patriotism and her prosperity Nowhere, probahly, cxcept in Lon- don, will there be found a greater ggregation of wealth than on the banks of the Clyde, and during the three and a half vears of war Glas- gow’s industries have enjoved . such exceptional prosperity that the aggre- zato resources of the inhabitants, in spite of inereased cost have been largely Glas not only wealth; she has p call of patriotism s0 spontaneously {1 ) subserip- (the moro to cali your at- same of living, must But great the a augmented. Dossesses rted with it at 50 generonsly t her compe 0w a te in this friendly and useful rivalyy will readily acknowledge that the achieve nient of the commercial capital of Scotland is, so far as asgresate fis- ures go. far bevond their powers of emulation. Edinbursh with less than one-third of Glasgow's population and no lurge war industries, could not must be sown and planted. If food will win the war, the garden is the place for gotting the am- munition. Community Markets. “A wall is heard on every side this year that farmers will not plant be- cause last year they could not dis- pese of all their produce,” says M Stanley J. McCormick, of the Wom- an’s Committee of the Councll of Na- tional Defense. “What can we do? Well, one thing we can do is to es- tablish a curb market. “Curb markets convey a general jdea of the last word in frenzied fin- ance and big business, but the term was given another meaning when women took up the idea of using curb markets as a direct exchange between producer and consumer. These markets enabled the farmers to bring or send their wares and sell di- rect to the housckeepers. The Wom- an’s ‘committee had rcports of such markets in many states, including the California Fruit Exchange in San Juan: a market in Tndianapolls, Ind.; one in Lexington, Ky.: another in Deerwood. Minn.; and one at Minne- apolis. The Hoover store in St. Louis, Mo.., sells surplus food and is a com- munity enterprise of much interest. New Jersey had 20 markets, includ- ing (hose at Summit and Newark. New York had markets at Albany and New York city. Ohio had several, in- cluding one at Canton. Wisconsin did well with those at Madison, Fond du Lac, and Richland Center. At Santa e, N. Mexico, there was a children’s market, and New Mexico also sup- ported a Food Exchange “The svstem of establishing vege- (able 'markets was very simple. A permit was obtained to use certain | T0DAYS TABLOD TALE | | FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NA BY LIEUT. FITZHU | == VY | GH GREEN, U. 8. N. N | Can I seize this opportunity terrible truth. In all in whole exists no to reveal a the world, perhaps dom, there drin than the sailorman. in the U. Navy conditions are astounding! It has been reported that of 24 hours men from the Fleet consumed 50,000 bottles! Such in- corrigible spongaciousness—What's | that you say—'what was in the bot- | tles?” Why Apple-O, of course, and Root Beer, and gingerale, and a dozen other kinds of fangled summer | beverages, What a waste! some think. Maybe s0. But remember that whether in | peage or in war our men must for | weeks be cooped up aboard ship. Week-ends, however, are nearly al- ‘ways spent ashore, From the ad- miral down every onc off duty wishes if possible to have little spreo on the beach. There are and walking across much else in the ports best suited for naval bases. Ts it unnatural then for a man thirsty from his pipe or the bleachers or the dusty road to | stop and wet his parched throat whenever he can? Bubbling springs are few and far between. Sparkling pop-bottles are far more available and when vou consider the infectiou possibilities of modern microblal water, well sterilized bottled stuff Is better even if it is sweetened and colored and high-priced. Weak is the term although these slops do cents. The big soft-drink companies have planted their noxious ad. hoards from Philly to Frisco and up and down between. A bill for them all would make even a millionaire bride- groom feel falnt. Only war tax could cover the total cost. And that is really what we pay for Drink-O advertising:— We get so hot and we much and there are many that a billion bottles are sold. profit tremendous. And the truth that we pay someone mind us what kind of grape we llke best when any kind will 50 long as it is soft enough the animal king- heavier inside have new his the movies baseball | country. Not and ‘high-priced” sell at five a drink so of us The real | re- | juice | do S0 a to teen it is possible that a ing of t sort will some day be- handled by the government, at least for its own employes. The fleet paymaster ows at the beginning of eich vear that during the ensuing 12 months ¢ approximately so many tons of choc- olates, so many cases of fruit juig so much tohacco and other canicen luxuries are to be bought by the men If common brands of ‘‘rot-zut are sold to the blue-jackets the pay wholesale prices to t ship's ae- counts with just enou over 1o cotar depreciation and add a little to the welfare fund What they pdy buys not only what is in the bottle or package, but tha bottle and package itself Iranecy wrappers, useless strings ribe bons, faney shape and 1 iny riptions: aill mut b pa ith the sweetmeats th enclose, d portation is hig Tahc is high salesmen from 1 counter te the road are more expensive than private cretaries Factories ars run to pay dividends Dividends ars run (up) to draw investme And the total grows and grows, until Out of the dollar bill our seaman lavs on the counter for his little week-end dissipation he 1y no more than about 0 cents worth of actual material. The rost goes inty the pocket of a host of men a - lutely unnecessary to make the drink cither wholesome or appetizing That a ship’s canteen may do $3,000 worth of busine: in a week means nothing nov That hundreds of thousands of dollars are put intp the undeserving hands of jitney driv ers and other managers of extempo- raneous transportation, including the Coney Tsland roller coasters, that watermelons are sold to the sailor atg 81 per, is mavhe forgotten by tha men who spend the money. Bug Progress has a long memory an Progress is going to put all this Intd bizger hands, and fairer hands, somg i da Some dav. when Uncle Sam gocl into business for himse o, : knows that the men who fight M1 be fondled as well as fed. And cufs" ting the cost is one of the neated” little caresses in the book. Py American Women and the World War, by Ida C. Clark . e Beok of the West Indies, by A. II. Verrill “The author gives something of the | history and resources of the islands and is enthusiastic over their scen- ery, climate and possibilities.”—A. L. A. Booklist Deductions From the World War, by | Baron von Frevtag-Loringhoven. “The bhook has instructive value, Lut one leaves its perusal with an increased disgust for the heartless, accursed spirit which pervades the militarism. so captivating to the au- thor."—Publisher's Weekly. . e Fragments From France, by Bruce Bairnsfather. More cartoons by the author of “Bullets and Billet: . Life and Letters of Stopford Brooke by L. P. Jacks, 2 volumes. PP Hare, . Life of Robert F. Smith “Important biography, not because of the eminence of the au- thor but also for the invaluable ma- terial with regard to the development of chemistry in the first half of the 19th century.” chamis alone .« v . Loiterer's Harvest, by E. V. Lucas. “The light touch, the lack of the controversial, the wholesomoness of the essays makes you loiter through every phase.”—N. Y. Times. v Mrs. Humphry Ward, by 8. L. Gwynn. “A eritical estimate of Mrs. Ward's more important books.’ e Oldest Music Room in Burope. a Rec- ord of Eighteenth Century En- terprise at Oxford, by J. H. Mee. “It is a valuable commentary on the history and conditions of music and singing in England.” e History of Japan Fra, 1867-1912, During tho by W. W. Political Meiji MecLaren. Playe, by H. G ballot—Farewell .« . Three Short Barker. Rococo—Vote by LIST OF NEW BOOKS AT THE NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE, Is of the United States, by L. K. Zabriskie. “Tells their histo concerning their fin and industry: it describes mate, their government, the ceremony of the fer."—A. L. A. Booklist Jands land Virgin gives faef: commerce, their * cli= in detail ormal tyang- ance wnd and Its Vevages on the Yukon taries, by Hudson “Does for Alaska in the author's “Ten Thousand With a Dog Sled” does for it in ter. Fie describes the country its people.™ L. A * Trib- summer what Mile; wif- and A Boollist Fiction. House of Intrigue A ¥ * P Stringer. E Pawns Count, by Oppenheim. Soldier Men, by Yeo B Source, by C Kelland, Y e n o Tideway, by J. Ayscough Library War Service, Books are still coming in for the scldiers. 176 volumes are packed for ‘Somewhere in Connecticu and we hope to send five or six hundred vol- umes to the Dispatch office in New York within a few days Testimony to the value of hooks to the soldiers was found accidentally in a book which required a little mend- ing to fit it for a camp library. “Har# tack and coffee,” by John D. Billings describes the life of the Civil war soldier. He writes [ “Besides letter writing the various geames of cards were frecly engaged in. Many men played for money Cribbage and euchre were favorite sames. Reading was a pastime quite generally indulged in and there was no novel so dull, trashy, or sensation- al as not to find some one so bored with nothing to do that he would wade through it. I, certainly, never read many such before or since. The mind was hungry for something, and took husks when it could get rothing better. A great deal of zood might have been done by the Chris- tian commission or some other or- ganization planned to furnish the so diers with good literature, for in t elimination of overhead expense mad« the prices very low, while the farn ers’ profits were better than usuul “The principal advantage of Lhis | to the theater:. ,\va\ many might have acquired a .. taste for the works of the best au Training and Rewards of the Physi- g thors who would not have been likely cian, by R. C. Cabot te acquire it except under just such a * “Gives a clear idea of the prepara- | condition as they were then in, viz tion and personal qualities needed to y a want of some entertaining pastinye Lecome successful n the practice of‘lThcrn would then have hee much medicine, considering two types, the [less gambling and slceping away o family physician and the public health | daylight than there was. Religious « worker. Helps and hindrances in the [ tracts were scattered among the sol- doctor's development are discussed |diers by thousands, it is true, and non-technically.”—A. L. A. Booklst. | probably did some good.” strects as markets, and here the |system of retailing is to encourage furmers drove their carts and wagons | greater production and to avoid long to the curb and sold directly from |hauls. The certainty of an immed- them. The principal work that wom- |iate market makes the farmer glad en had to do. aside from gefting per- | to plant larger crops than he would ¢ mits, was to advertise the ma\'kn!l:txnw if disposal of them presented a among housewives and farmers so |problem he more locally n that they should become a consider- | vegetables and fruit used in a town, able center of exchange. | the less that town must draw on our “The women interested in the ;r«u“l‘uxmi(vml hmr-]v.m".nm system movement (hrough the Woman's |00 5 (004 SUPRIY. Committee of the Council of Nation- | R al Defense and the food administra- | Court Pride, I, of A., will me o- tion drove through the country, not |nizhi in Turnar hall cnly encouraging farmers to use the | markets, but cven carrying their ¢ wares into town for them A strictly cash’ system was observed. Comiplet At Fox't TULESDAX MONDAY,