New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1918, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1918, r\-—— - ew Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. ued datly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. at Herald Buflding, 67 “hurch St tered at the Post Office at New Britaln as tecond Class Mall Matter. - tiverea bv carrter to any part of the eity for 15 cents a wenk, 65 cents a month pscription for paper to be sent by mall, payablo In advance, 60 cents a month, $7.00 a ye @ onlv profitable advertising medlum in the city Circulation books and press roem always open to advertlser P Hersld wiil be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk. At iantle City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS ness Office torial Rooms Momber of the Associated Press. Associated Press fs exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news creditec to it or not otherwiss cradited in this paper and also the local news Dublished herein Liberty unsheathed legessity stained it, pturned_it. ~—~WENDELL sword, victory his and PHITLIPS. KEEP IT UT. 80,424! That Cross fund 48 total of the as announced today of is the hours subscription Teft whi r only k. With four 1 dd materially to this splendid re- New Britain to go br the top’ generous gin. Less than $20,000 remain be contributed to complete the P.000 quota, and at the rate funds B poured in the first two days, it ld not sing if this city ld show a total of 50 more than requested days in is certain with a very be surpr final it per was Lo ish. esident Wilson has us a slogan for the n. He said Saturday York: “I summon you to much and sincerely unanimously t of the world gh the infidel enemies seek oy it/ They spirit of the American people in been evidenced by the given Red Cross cam- night in say how and you sustain the The heart of What rules world.” sustained! Kaiser who foul means to must be by shall never succeed. ) war has Int heroes who are fighting across eas and by the generous response ose at home to the last Liberty . And this week they are dem- ating again that their hearts in sympathy with the heart e world. Europe is bleeding to . America’s sons have given lives for democracy's sake, and blood is mingled with that of foldiers of our Allies, so that ically the ecntire civilized world be said to in strugele. heart peating strong because its wounds peing stayed and its pain eased e women of the Red Cro: ‘What ve doing to help them in this of mercy? we contribut- prove how sincerely we wish to n the heart of the world? be involved the The world’s is Hav, MILITARISM. the Reichstag a few days ago of the deputies delfvered a h protesting agaipst the action e Hun government in taking bl of Austrian federal affairs, as s of the Austrian army, and ded with this parting shot at ilitary clique of the Hohenzol- fivnasty: “There is no doubt that absolute a any again under have from a German description of the state airs in the enemy country. His indicate that the mastery of pilitarists is more complete than The' civil government has to functionate, except insofar e military leaders see fit to al- e eabinet officials to exercise a power and then rs. s than German was promised full suffrage. Now e we a man now in minor a year ago the s it taken away from him with- y explanations whatsoever. And b does about The majority of the German people kubmited to this outrage quietly idently it 1s immaterial to them er they ever obtain their full or not. In view of these facts ld seem foolish to diseriminate ir between the people and their The government, wheth- nothing i ment. il or military, Femain ver so long as the people permit emiain, and it can exercise only powers as the people will . Perhaps some y the yolk” may wake up and realize has been betrayed by the zov- nt, but until the voters show igns of doing so, they are not d to any Cconsideration the Allies tha their leaders. re military people led by mad g rulers and one deserves the nishment as the other , can only sub- Ger- more { maintaining THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL. What is New Britain alout a psuitable memorial in oldiers who are fighting a committee has going to do honor in this been or its wAr? True, appointed to discuss plans for a tem- tablet other form of memorial, but is it not posible to be- R|in now something per- nianent? porary or to figure on When will the war is over New have added to the they and be entitled to splendid pub- ition, and this recognition in the form of a perman- timonial which their children children’s children can It is not an easy matter the right sort of a per- and the sooner a the Diitain’s sons elory have already won they le hould will recog: be ent te end their «ze upon. to choose memorial takes up the matter, manent committee better. OUR ‘COLORED TROOPS. Negro troops in the American army have fought valiantly in other wars which our soldiers they are high standard skirmishes in heen ced, and tave engs and the cxcellency in Every reads the war news must thrilled by the account of American soldiers which them 10 to 1. themselves faithful and Republic evi- heroism for same of France today. one who have been negro patrol least now two fought off outnumbered proved fearless, and the Fren dently appreciates their they have been cited for the Croix de Guerre. The two men were Harry Johnson, of Albany, and Needham Roberts of Trenton, N. J. In speak- ing of their courageous conduct un- most tr circumstances, a French general said: a German at They der ing The American report is too modest. As a result of oral in- formation furnished to me it ap- pears that the blacks were ex- tremely brave and this lttle com- bat does honor to the Americans. With proper leadership therc is no better soldier anywhere than the Am- crican negro and we well proud of the part they are playing in holding back the Hun. When the final victory is won they will be en- titled to a full share of the credit— end they will get it. may The rain will help your garden. Have you given to the Red Cross? Tt will hurt tnan it hurts you. the Germans more Wonder if the central powers also had a king selected for Ireland. Active, Says Pershing."” Does the General mean Uncle Joe? annon Major General March has been promoted to a full generalship. ward, March! For- One of the first reports of an over- subscribed Red Cross quota came from Hawaii. Hats off to the Island- ers, In Lowell, Mass. $125,000. That a voungster to a boy was rohbed a lot tote of for him. of maney around with Rumor again has it that Hinden- burg is dead. He might just as well be for all the good he will do Ger- many. 4 Find O'Leary and you will receive $250 reward from Federal agents, besides doing a splendid service for the Government. One of forms us wait for the lying the latest reports in- that the Huns are lying in our men. We can war believe A metropolitan discussing oyr expeditionary force, mentions a number of “full” generals. What will th prohibition folks say to that? daily , Vhen the Allies’ plans are perfect- ed, Berlin, as well as Cologne, will be treated to the same medicine as the fiun aviators showered on London has found a Congressional A contemporary for the mailing its exchange cop- of sheets cut unique use Record, by jes in a wrapper made from the Record. Mr McAdoo has dismissed all the railroad presidents. It must be & novel sensation for some of them who ire more used to being the “bouncer instead of the “hounced”. Tank At first ing to libel John be only a ship which was siink Rockefeller. Lost.—Headline. we thought 8] sonmeone was but it proved to bearir his name John McCormack, or, bought the first sale in Boston for a concert he is to the famous ten- twenty seats on take part in there. He paid the com- mitee $1,000 and then requested that the seats soldicrs in the Hub. be given to in be | FACTS AND F Certainly all the complaints about delay in delivering soldiers’ mail are noi justified. Here Is the record of a postal received from a soldier an- nouneing his sife arrival in France the day after he sailed from Hoboken. —New Haven Register. From what we hear we gather that the plan to win the war by com- munity singing is not making the headway it should in this community. There are those who do not believe it can he done in —Capper's Weekly. ANCIE We give the small boy who that bascball through our sanctum window six weeks more in which to replace the pane, after which we will see what we can do about it ourself, —New London Day. batted ‘e on the western front costing Germany as many men as the last one will do more to loos- en the food situation at home than the Ukraine treaty has been able to do.—New York World. The Dakotas report crop prospects this spiing to be the best in 30 years, and that the increased acreage sown i to wheat this season is from 10 to 20 per cent.—all of which is extremely ANt newv Let the good work go !—New Haven Union. Senator Gallinger has introduced a resolution proposing that the statue of Frederick vll\o Great be melted and H converted Into’munitions of war. The | early Gothamites who melted a statue of George the Third did not wait for a resolution of congress.—New York Sun. SONG OF THE L (Written for the National Service Sectlon of the United States Shipping Board and dedicated to the men in the ship trades.) THE SHIPBUILDER. We work in the oldest stuff of the world— Water and iron and fire and afr, And the courage of men with a flag unfurled, ’ To build bridge from here over there. a With a sea, To carry supplies to you in France Guns and food and . N. T.— And whatever you need for the big advance. And what's the difference where we work— bench with a hammer, trench at the front? We all are needed and will not shirl We are done with delay Count us in at the hunt. fleet of ships we'll span the At or a And what's the how fight— With blood guns? ep the bridge and night, we trestle the sea to get to the Huns. difference we or money, labor or We'll huilding day Till And what's difference where you are? We're all on the job with a will to win: boys, do your in the war; We're doing our bit with the rivet machine. the So. bit with your gun We'll keep the bridge building night and day: We'll speed marine. We'll build to you, boys, so keep 'em at bay; We're doing our bit with the rivet up ahead of the sub- machine. Boys, keep up your courage, we're getting to you, Khaki of overalls, count us all in— Knaksacks or dinner pails, we're fighting, too, doing our bit machine. And with the rivet In camp or the shipyard we all of us swear hat the hope we are building will span to Berlin; all of us soldiers, dare: we're doing our bit with th rivet’ machine. LOUIS G. ANSPACHER the New York Times. Woman Suffrage. to do or to We're And in { comrades | viewpoint of the Baseball A La Francaise. Some vears ago the Yale Alumni Weekly, published a literal transla- tion of an account of a Yale-Harvard foothall game written by a French journalist which was a classic in its presentatfon of the viewpoint of a stranger to our American game. With the invasion of France by the Amer- ican, taking with him his baseball bat and glove, there are now appear- ing stories of the haseball games which give the same fresh viewpoint. One of the most intercsting (and in- structive) accounts of one of theso contests wag published in “‘Le Mau- vais Parisienne’” by ‘Adolphe Max,” who is described as a ‘‘war corre- spondent.” The story in itself shows that. Tt is just as enlightening as would be the story of a battle writ- er, remembering that the story is written for those who have nothing like baseball In their category of sports, will easily understand the fol- lowing explanation: “This game, of which our beloved in arms speak in is of a puzzle to the and it is of (his reason have come at once from combats, should make ciear. Briefly, this game is per- formed without the houses and a long instrument—she is of wood and is jocularly denominated ‘bat'—with which the players, of which cighteen, divided in half, make collision with the ball, thereby es- caping injuries serious. Stationed where they cannot interfere with the spectators are the grand, it initinted 1, who of the un- that one all are piayer There car game of oyt the houses, “Now, my dear friends, that you a ciear comprehensive of this game have gained, I shall proceed as the spertsman writers American do and apportion the battle into nine phases. Then comes the account written as “the sportsman writers American’ do, starting with “Inning No. 1:" Inning No. 1—Alert! Nine of these players have the field traversed. Bach of them have with caution protected their hands right and one has had the wisdom superb to safeguard his anatomique with a cushion pneuma- tigre. Again, alert! a gentleman in uniform blue speaks with feeling of the artillery (in the technique of the game it is announcing the batteries), a player takes a posture facing him and waves the ‘bat’. it po: Cpponent No. 9—he of the cushion pneumatique who stands directly to the vear. Ah, yes! that it is—for see Opponent No. 1, with thought magnificent quickness, hurls the ball madly at this would-be Apache. Suere! He has missed! But fast does he of the cushion pneumatique re- turn the ball grenade to his savior. And the player with the great club? “Palerme! he is hardening and plays with his victim, saying, ‘T'll get him on the next. “Once more. m the ball grenade in a nutshell, is our Ameri- baseball, played *witlt LT is friend—alert! See again the air in! What rapidity! What certainty of aim—-ah, quake thou Apache rascal o1 the club! But no! How this The villain degraded has cunningly hit the grenade with his club, the sectators by half arve wildly indig- 1t shouting ‘toubaggere, toubag- gere, (meaning, one of them formed me, revenge).” But M. Max finds too much to in- terest him, for he doesn’t tell how a single man went out. He ends im- niediately “Inning No. 1" with: “The players reversed their positions and a sign slgnificant of zero is hung up an accompaniment of cheers.” As a good journalist, and showing that he was a good one, M. Max gives as much attention to the crowd which watched players—a failing of all Buropean newspaper men, who find in the spec- tators much human interest as in a game which must resemble to them a species of symptoms of in- sanity, Set an American sporting to as to to much he devote: and how much and see how gome itself crowd. But there is some suspicion that the account was written by an Ameri- and the ‘“literal de purposely. It “smells of lamp” in places; it reads too like the French count of the cal comedy. There is too climax in an incident “gentleman in blue,” which recognize as the “ump’; who came an obfect of remarks and target for missiles. M. Max" quired the cause for the animosity. Some American told him the umpire the can, the much musi- about the all will be- the in- (Extract from speech made on May 7th by Senator Brandegee of Con- necticut.) “You cannot win this war by talk- ing about woman suffrage and prohi- bition. We won every war we ever were in without woman suffrage and prohibition. We won the war of 1776, and 1812, and the Mexican War and the War of 1861, and the Span- ish-American War and there were no pink tea parties talking about putting | pink chemises on the men and Ply- mouth Rock pants on 'the women. The women do not propose to go over in the trenches abroad and do the fighting. Tt is the men who will have to do that. Instead of bleating around here about their saving de- mocracy by forcing their way into caucuses and conventions, they had better go home and knit bandages and pick lint, and get ready to take care of their brothers and sons and fathers, who are going to be shot to pieces in the trenches abroad. “And take the boys in the trenches ‘over there’. standing all night in two feet of ice water, with orders in their pockets to go over the top in the cold gray dawn. in a chilly fog, to put their unprotected bodies up against shot and shell and machine guns and pois- on gas, in addition to frozen feet! And they say they are going to fill cuech man's belly full of ice water be- fore he starts as a moral stimulus to him. It is perfectly absurd! Every | army abroad gives its men a drink of something to. expand the cockles of the heart before they go up against | the cold blue steel, and it may be the one the poor devils will ever get. you would think that this war Zoing to won by such fads and is be wag suspected of being a Boche. That was enough. The machinery creaks. W hat American wrote the account?— New Haven Register. Coal Market Conditions, Anthracite—The lesson of last win- ter, together with newspaper publieity and the advice of the United States Fuel Administration has done much to bring about a liberal placing of or- ders on the part of consumers for thelr next winter's supply of coal. This situation is helpful and if per- sistently kept up for the next few months will prove an important fac- tor in poving a maximum amount of coal during the spring and summer months which is the only possible way in which relief can be secured for next winter. The heavy demand for anthracite keeps up and that there will be a permanent shortage in the supply as long as the war continues is as cer- tain as anything in this world can he. This condition naturally falls hard- est upon the retail coal merchants as it is up to them to supply the domes tic consumer who finds it hard to un- derstand why he is unable to get a few tons of hard coal when he is willing to order and pay for near- ly a year in advance. Anthracite production is heing kept up to the maximum, the tonnage for April having broken all records but it must be remembered that there is no hope of very much increase being made in this respect the coming year as the output has now reached just about as large figures as it will be pessible to produce Tnasmuch as the eastern it require- fancies and frills as that.,” Jwents will be heavier than ever be- ten by the sporting editor. The read- | terms | there | next few months is to keep Max continues: | ! cal | dled by the retall coal merchants. sible he conspires to kill | | earnest patriotism by being willing to of | | would help win the war, provided it in- | the game as he does to the | writer to describing a cricket game, | the { translation” | evident a | fore and much of this demand will simply have to be supplled with an- thracite, it is evident that the sup- ply to other sections will naturally have to be curtailed and especially in those sections where it will be pos sible to substitute wood or bituminous coal. This condition, of course, malkes it hard for the retailer as he is unable to secure any definite promises as to how much anthraclte tonnage he can zet. His only redress, therefore, lies in protecting himself by accepting or- | ders from hls customers subject to | his ability to get the coal. | Those retailers who in the past have | bought their coal from the larger | producing companies will stand the best chance of getting their normal | supply but as it is now too late to attempt to make oher arrangements or new connections, it follows that | each retailer must “lay close” to | whomever he has been accustomed to | buy his anthracite from in years past | and use his utmost tact and diplom- | acy to coax as large a share of the tonnage for his community's needs as ' he can. The redeeming feature is that it all helps to win the war and for that reason the retaii coal merchant must | do his part In making the consumer realize that it will be but a small sac- rifice In helping to bring victory to | our country, if he has to use soft | coal for one winter instead of his cus- tymary amount of anthracite. The one important thing for the all the coal possible moving and get it stored in the consumers’ bins. This will spread the distribution throughout the vear and is the only way that a most serious situation next fall and | | winter can be relieved. The retail coal merchants know the needs of their communitics and of each individual consumer far better tfan anvone elsa can possibly know them. Tt is their business and theyv have been familiar with them for years. . Consequently each retailer has a most important responsibility rest- ing upon his shoulders at this time by seelng that an equitable distribu- tion is made in his locality and that thoughtless dealers do not give any consumer more than his rightful share of his year’s requirements. Bituminous—The zoning system 1is still uppermost in the bituminous branch of the industry and in most sections it has made some very radi- changes in the coals to be han- since the ! into ef- their As in all other rulings, government regulation went fect the retailers have shown do anything within their power that was for the good of the country and was not an unnecessary injustice. In the present instance, they rec- ognize the fact that eighty per ceat. of the munition plants are located in the East, consequently it is of first importance that they should get the Tetter grade steam coals that are rroduced nearest to them. With such a radical and limitation of distribution as tained in the zoning rules, it fs, course, problematical how f{t will work out and there are many differ- ences of opinion in the trade on this point. Already some changes have been made in the zone boundaries since the system was announced and it is prob- able that more will follow from time time. Inasmuch as coal coal distribution is so entirely de- pendent upon transportation facili- ties, it 1s natural that 1t is difficult to make any arbitrary rulings that will not have to be changed whenever congestion, embargoes or lack of ade- quate car supply becomes abnormal. arbitrary con- of is to production and | At the present time the demand for |4 domestic coal keeps up in most sec- tions and particularly on the better grades of bituminous. This has softened the demand for screenings somewhat and in the mid- dle west there seems to he a tenden- cy on the part of some of the large steam users to stay out of the market, in an evident desire to break the price before they begin storing the large quantities that they will need later on. This condition, however, is probably only temporary as most of the large buvers are broad enough business men to realize trade condi- tions and understand the difficulty there will be next fall and winter in getting a sufficiency of coal at any potnt. The railroads are and will con- tinue to be taxed to their utmost in | moving munitions, food supplies and | everything else needed to cavry on | the war and which cannot be delaved very long even with an insistent de- mand for coal. In view of the uncertainty of the coal supply. retail coal merchants will do well to bend every effort to get any kind of coal fhey can and then to pass it on to their customers as the ideal place to store coal in the spring and summer months is in the con- sumers’ bins. And this vear with press and government recommending | it as never before, the retailer should do his part by urging it strongls The Student Outbreak. (New Haven While no defensible excuse can offered for the Yale students who | broke out into riotous conduct Mon- | day evening, there is an understand- | ing of their behavior which tempers criticism while not modifyinz con- | demnation. The element of vicio ness can be left out of the reckonins entirely. The element of mischief carried to a lamentable degree forms a large part of it If there ever was a case of mob | psychology, we find it in this reckless || suspension of self-restraint. What was begun in a spirit of exuberance gathered momentum, under a mis- taken view of fun, until it had passed hevond the control of the mob. As a demonstration of student thoughtless- | ness, it was not in fact different from the long series of indulgences of a | like nature with which we have been | made familiar. What differentiated it from like indulgences in the past | was the setting out of which it came. | The great majority of the students of | Yale have been living for months in A wmilitary atmosphere. They have been subjected to a precedent and in so far as Journal Courier) ! bo | it was to vention in the Irish situation; Grover | Whalen, who is & brother-in-law the mother and father of the fugitive, Alex O'Leary, a : Devoy editor of the Sinn Fein week- known 1 It was amined yesterday ¥ ap discipline without, | ¢, Y., thought matter of course that they had tered the adventuresome spirit which has enlivened so ters of Yale undergraduate history and made them deviltry ing that sort year, iy in consequence correspondingly dis agreeable. condemnation and ought 1 our heads over dulge our inary contrast as to what would have happened, have s onstration siration. with a gown dents made higger fools of themselves than they intended to, ties should fact is, ations of studen thing and piaces in Some of their fighting on the flelds of I We are quite sure themselves of [ 1 tute T've heard a Folks That The McMillan Store, Inc. “ALWAYS RELIABLE” Help save the lives of our Soldi can to the “RED CROSS.” ers in France, give frecly all you FOR COOL SUMMER DRAPERIES We offer a very wide choic Nets, Madras, Mardquisette and Special Showing Voiles, vard goods Craft priced 15e of in Quaker to 5%¢ yard. of New Curtains QUAKER CRAFT NETS, $1.98 TO $4.50 PAIR, MARQUISETTES READY TO HANG, VOILE Cream and Ecru, special values AND VOILES, 98¢ TO $5.98 PAIR. 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The that previous gener- s have done the same lived to take dignified American representatives are ince today the students humiliation not however, yet the that feel the full their offensive conduct But doesn’t ‘“‘mischief carried to amentable degree” almost consti- “viciousness” ?—Fd.) PRONOUNCE IT “RANCE” o half a dozen times call it Reims. right, thought, so it isn’t seems, Perhaps it's Reims. Poor [ city ruined now by flames— ‘an it be Reims? That once was one of France's gems— | More likely Reims. 1 New York, grand jury for the southern district of | New York began an investigation yes- terday miah A tator who was to have gone on trial in the federal dictment entered the operation of the military laws of the United in charge they to O'Leary investigation will he continued today. Among the witnesses the grand preme halan, ber go to Washington this week and seek | direetly tive since May pear other after room. S Lloyd Reaney, Secretary J I'll get it right sometime, perchance; ‘m told it's Reims. Boston Transeript. O'LEARY'S FTIGHT. PROB Justice Cohalan One of Witnesscs Be- fore Grand Jury. The e May of the disappearance of Jere- O'Lea Sinn Kein agi- and pro-German propagandist, court last Monday on an in- charging him with having into a conspiracy to obstruct The federal officers O'Leary case said would make every possible effort ascertain the circumstances of s going away. The grand jury States. of the called before sterday were Su- Court Justice Daniel F. Co- John Jerome Rooney, a mem- the committee appointed to jury vy of obtain President Wilson's inter- to Mayor Hylan, of O'Leary; secretary brother, and John Gaelic American that no witness ex- was able to throw on the matter. None of was said, has heard a word, or indirectly, from the fugl- 8, the day of his nce. Justice' Cohalan and witnesses all refused to they emerged from the as the reported light it dis- the talk jury- M. C. A, WORKER ENLISTS, Acting M N assitant to W. Denton of the Y left today for Fort Slocum, to enlist in the tank service, 2.50, SHADES, e, $6.50. offering a week citizenry. | federal | ideal summer rug, size 5x10, $10; Matting unning Yard; G4-inch (extra fine and Hammocks 50, $2.98, £3.98 and $4.50. $11.50 to $19.98. made of the best materiais, 6 of Undermuslins choice of )AY AND STEELE GIVES 0UT DISMISSAL LETTERS wide THURS Dainty, well FRIDAY. (Continued from First Page) | | of the City of New Britain, such con- ditions being prejudicial to the inter- est of the Police Department of the | City of New Britain. ‘Very truly yours. GEO. A. QUIGLEY, “Mayor of the City of New “May 18, 1918 A. Quigley, ew Britain, Connecticut Dear Sir: “Your not unexpected order remoy= ing me from the office of Police Com~ missioner w last evening in a local paper. “I have always helieved that independent judgiment appointed to such such men only wer any administration “But, since you ebdicate his own read a magy should he and that value of positions, of real to require a man to judgment in order ‘to be in harmony with your admin- istration’, it is a great relief to me to be out of the position. but I cannot feel it is for the good of the city or that it increases the self-respect if he does of the nioval hanging over not line up with the Mayor. 1. therefore, with profound sati faction, take my place in the goodly fellowship of those already by your autocratic orders. “Very truly yours, “HOWARD M him opinion removed STEELE.' MISS METCALFE LEAVES Miss J. E. Metealfe, emergency home demonstration agent for the Hartford County league, who has been ¢t the Chamber of Commerce rooms for several months arranging the home gardens plans, leaves Wednes- day evning for a three weeks' vaca- tion at Mechanics Institute, Roches- ter, N. Y., where she will attend the commencement Miss Met calfe is a graduate institute in the of 1917 ab- sence from this Curtin will be in charge of I MRS, STOKES CROSS-EXAMINED, f City, May 22.—When Mr | Rose Pastor Stokes, on trial in federal court here charged with violation the Kspionage act. took the stand again today, she faced amination by government She was first placed on the stand vesterday. She interspersed her testi mony with her views on socialism, the causes of the and the which prompted America into it exercises of the During city, Miss E the work class her Kansas | witness cross-ex- attorneys. | | | war reasor to enter WAR TAX ON Washington, May -Persons who sell seats on any, roof or structure overlooking a haseball will be obliged to pay a war g0V~ according to announce- today by the bureau of revenue. The tax must be and paid by the person own property, of selling “peren’ ROOF SBATS. park tax to the ernment, ment {ssued internal collected the an ing the i | | building { fan or occupant seats to the WANTS GOLD Madrid, May 22 istry has p offect BASIS IN SPAIN, The finance min- a bill in parlia- which be to gold basis. It pro- vides that silver shall not be legal tender in amounts of more than 50 pesos except for puyments of the gove 1 crnment. sented ment the place of would pain ou a - of, any official to have the threat of re-J Britain,” € % {