New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1918, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 30 1018, e AN Any tailor can make clothes ——only master tailors can make STEIN-BLOCH SMART CLOTHES Suits $20.00 to .00 Straw Hats $2.00 to $8.00 Bates' Street Shirts $1.50 to §6.00 White Flannel Trousers Summer Underwear (Two-Piece and Union Suits) 60c to $3.50 Wash Neckwear 50c, 65c, $1.00 HEW BRITAIN, CONN. NTUGKY GOLONELS OW MILLIONAIRES ed Whiskey Tor High Prices ‘and Made Fortunes puisvitle, May 30—War and cky have produced a joer of millionaires. The story of complishment forms an interest- hapter in present day history. ght months ago distillers were v over the prospect of ruin as esu’t of enforced closing of their s for a period of two years and pggressive advance of the prohi- movement. - Today, through key price advancement, accord- 0 statements made in the Louis- wholesale liquor district, prac- v al] have become well to do, or been thrust into the millionaire About twenty men in Louis- alone are said to have become hy as a result of an advance of pximately $2.50 per gallon, in ey prices since Sepember 1, last Ky., whiskey e man, long identified with the ey business, said that whiskey rs and dealers who have held lies have made money so fast that hagdly know what to do with it. of them, he said, has made ar- ments to provide annuities for in of his older employes. ptailers say that the consumer settle the bill and that over-the- ustomers are not only paying in cash in many cities, but are 12 less for their money. e Louisville plant had 30,000 bar- when prices began soaring. If powners have retained it they will lze a profit of about $3,525,000. fher distiller is reported to have PO barrels which at present prices d yield him $5,875,000. s are reported to have holdings womld net them $2,350,000 cach total profit of $11.750,000. One r is said to have cleared $2,500,- lone. ny small dealers who held from to 200 barrels have cleaned up $10,000 to $20,000 each. The ated holdings of the men and aggregate approximately 300,- arrels of whiskey of forty-seven ns each, or 14,000,000 gallons, on h, it is currently reported they realized $25,250,000. Many ng their stock for even higher ps. e report of the internal revenue rtment shows there were in bond e United States on July 31, 1917, 78,000 gallons of whiske: of total there was in Kentucky 108,- 23 gallons. March 1, of this Five there was in hond in the United | in| ' bs 198,404,000 gallons, and ucky at that time there were h2,000 gallons, thus showing a drawal in the country during that d of 15,289,000 gallons, and a de- se in Kentucky of 10,829,723 gal- hen the law closing distilleries me *effective it was -estimated e was a supply Which would last wo years or more, with the with- al rate which hegan this spring, estimated it will not last more a year. During March there was from bond more than 10,000,000 ns. st September the key in bond ranged ents a gallon. Later in the fall se to $1,000. At this record price distiller sold approximately 7: parrels. Now the price stands at 5 per gallon. price of from 50 to are WHAT UNCLE SAM 1S ' REALLY GIVING MEN New Book Tells How the Individ- ual Is Developed May 31.—President statement on the ons on Training Washington, Wilson’s special work of the Commis Camp Activities as it will appear in “Keeping Our Fighters Fit—For War and After,” a book giving an official account of what the government is doing along semi-military lines, fol- lows: “The twin commissions on training camp activities—one for the war de- partment and one for the navy de- partment—were appointed by Secre- tary Baker and Secretary Daniels early in the war to link together in a comprehensive organization, under official sanction, all the agencies, pri- vate and public, which could be util- ized to surround our troops with a healthy, wholesome environment. The federal government has pledged its word that as far as care and vigilance can accomplish the result, the committed to its charge will be re- turned to the homes and communities that so generously gave them with no scars except those won in honor- able conflict. The career to which we are calling our young men in the de- fense of democracy must be made an asset to them, not only in strength- ened and more virile bodies as a re- sult of physical training, not only in minds deepencd and enriched by par- ticipation in a great heroic enterprise, but in the enhanced spiritual values which come from a full life lived well and wholesomely. “I do not believe it is an exaggera- tioh to say that no army, ever before assembled in history, has had more conscientious and painstaking thought given to the protection and stimula- tion on its mental, moral and physical manhood. Every endeavor has been made to surround the men, both here and abroad, with the kind of environ- ment which a democracy owes to those who fight in its behalf. In this work the commissions on training camp activities have represented the government and the government's solicitude that the moral and spiritual resources of the nation should be mobilized behind the troops. The coun- try is to be congratulated upon the fine spirit with which organizations and groups, some of them of national standing, have harnessed themselves together under the leadership of the government’s agency in a common ministry to the men of the army and navy.” Leisure Time in Camps. With a hundred thousand men a month coming into the camps by the new draft there will be increased in- terest in how the soldiers and sailors spend their leisure time; how they while away the evening hours; what they do on Sunda; It is generally known that there is organized music in the camps, but in the chapter, “The Fighters Who Sing” one gets the ex- alting effect of 5,000 voices lifted up in “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! And that music promotes military as well as social teamwork is admirably il- lustrated in the following: The song leader had a small motor car with space in the back for a. folding organ, which en- abled him to carry his work to the men in whatever part of the camp they happened to be. He had, moreover, a number of white oilcloth charts on which were let- tered the words of the most popu- Jar songs. One afternoon, on a trip through the camp, he noticed about forty men pulling stumps. He saw at a glance that they were tired, dog tired, in fact. Draw- ing up his car at the side of the road he held a hurried conversa- tion with the officer in charge. The officer was heard to say, “By all means try it."” So the song leader unrolled his charts and hung them on the side of the flivver, told the men to sit down on the stumps they had been pulling, gave a chord or two on the little organ, and suggested that they sing ‘“Yaaka Hula, Hickey Dula.” They did. It be- gan a trifle languidly, but the volume picked up after the first line, and they repeated the chorus twice. This was followed by the modern classic, “Keep Your Head Down, Allemand.” They fairly bawled it out, The transition from lassitude to energy was marked and sudden. They didn’t want to stop They went back to their work, but they vanked out the stumps with a vigor that they had lacked before. And from the distance the song leader heard them singing: “Pull away, pull away, the vic- The book takes you right into the government's own - Liberty theaters, which play a large part in the enter- tainment in camp, and you hear the vociferous applause of many soldiers as the military band files in and takes its place in the pit to play until time for the curtain to go up on a “real” show. There are glimpses of fun at its height on a “stunt” night in a “Y or Knights of Columbus auditorium “If the little one butts the other in the stummick with his head—Oh, boy,” comes a voice from somewhere in the audience after the announce- ment of “a three-round bout between Knockout Waite and One-round Hogan.” The bout began quietly in fact, for s of “aw, mix it and the like, but whether these colored hoys were tired after a strenuous day or afraid of hurting each other they stalled and clinched through three rounds of comedy boxing that Mr. Frank Tinney could hardly equal. quietly, too there were up,” “Go to And a laugh was pulled from the crowd between each round when another negro, acting in the ca- pacity of a trainer to both fight- men | ers fanned them an army overcoat. There’s the tug of war and the tus- sle where animal spirits have full play in addition to highly organized athletic activities in camp, all under the supervision of directors—now be- ing commissioned as captains in num- bers of the army camps. Mr. Allen quotes Dr. Joseph E. Rayecroft, of Princeton, who is at the head of this branch of the commissions’ work as showing that sports mean more than mere pastime in making and keeping our fighters fit. The sports in the camp curricu- Jum, such as boxing, football, and other personal contact games have been selected primarily to prepare the men for the struggle to come, and the value of the athletic training they have re- ceived will be realized when they go “over the top.” To illustrate: Boxing teaches the manly art of self-control as well as that of self-defense. It also makes better bayonet fighters. Nearly every blow and position has its counter- part in bayoneting. I have seen boxing lessons in camp given to one thousand men all at once, the class being directed by a man on a high stand. One thousand box- ing lessons at the same time! I said to an officer standing by “How many of those men do you suppose have ever struck another man since they were boys?” “Not 10-per cent,” he an- swered, and- 1 think he was right. The boxing which these men did in their friendly bouts later taught them what personal con- flict was. One of these days the quickness and agressiveness de- veloped in this boxing wili be the means of saving their li There is a place in camp where the soldier can spend his money. And Sammie comes nearer eating his cake and having it too than anyone else; because Sammie buys his cake at the Post Exchange, also post cards and chewing gum and shoe strings, pastry and peanuts and soda pop, at very lit- tle above cost with the profits turned back to be spent again by his regi- ment. And there are profits. For each exchange does a busi- ness of nearly $1,000 a day, and when one remembers that there are from eleven to sixteen ex- changes in each cantonment, it is easy to realize that the trade of a year amounts up into the mil- lions. As to what becomes of this gate of piled up nickels, quarters: In one cantonment at the sug- gestion of the commanding officer it has been decided to put aside the major part as a tobacco fund for smokes when the soldiers get “over there” one unit has bought musical instruments for their band at the expenditure of $1,700. A million books are in circulation among the men in forty camps and training statigns. I have talked with Dr. Herbery Putnam, librarian of congress, and general director of the library war service, and with other representatives of the American Library association, in- cluding camp librarians, and they are unanimous in their statement that the American soldier of to- day reads a higher class of books than the average American citi- zen. vigorously with aggre- dimes and So says Mr. Allan in the chapter “What - They Read—And Why."” There is a demand, he has found, for books on war strategy, and .calculus and civil engineering, literary classics, and technical handbooks, but our sol- dier is no highbrow, and there is a corresponding demand at the other end of the scale for Henty books and the like. Similarly, educational work covers a wide field in meeting the de- mands of men gathered in from all walks of life in the draft. They are millionaires and society men, and men from farms and mines and remote mountain districts. Some of them speak and write the King's Fnglish; some alas, the Kaiser's German, but with strong American accent; and others anything from Russian Dialect to Chinese. English for non-English speaking foreigners is for the most part, com- pulsory. In such sentences as “I am a soldier of America; T am fighting for democracy; democracy is the rule of the people,”” the new citizens learn both the language of the coun- try and the meaning of its privileges. English for illiterates is strongly urged in camps where it is necessar The men are appealed to through their love of home to learn to write letters. Intermediate courses are en- couraged, and college extension courses furnished wherever there is a demand for them. Then there is French. In some camps it is compul- sory, but in them all it is popular. At Camp Wadsworth, recently, it was found that ninety-two per cent. of the men wanted it. Tt is a trench French that they are learning, rich in the slang of the poilu, and in the little text- book they use, “Premier Sec- curs,” there are no reminders of high school French such as, “I give the red copybook to the aunt of my father.” Instead there are really usable words and phrases regarding living, eating, traveling, fighting, and the like. The soldiers learn that ‘“Je m'en fiche” means “1 don’t give a hang about i and that when he would say at an American ‘‘Beat it,” he would tell a Freachman to “Fiche-moi la pa Siouie e “Vous blague” French for “You're kidding" and “Qu'est-ce que vous me chantez la” (What are you singing to me about?) for ‘What are you Dblatting about.” Other foreign languages are being taught in the camps also,—Russian, Italian, Spanish, and even German classes. In fact a man can get in- is struction in almost any subject. With 100,000 men enrolled in educational classes in camp, it is well said that !the influence of this vast movement will never cease in America. The Personal Element. Among other “non-military” neces- sities allowed for by the government are many opportunities for contact with the kind of influences the men have been accustomed to at home. For in these is amelioration for the dull pangs of homesickness. There is the “He-Man" there. He acts as the guide, philosopher and friend. In his position as secretary in any one of the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Colum- bus, or Jewish Welfare bhuildings, his_ opportunities are unlimited. He may write a letter for an il- literate, or engage in an im- promptu debate with a college undergraduate as to the relative merits of Isben and Shaw, he may lead a Bible class or referee a boxing match. He must be a good mixer first and last There are many reasons for these men becoming known as the Big Brothers to the men in camp. Here is one: He was a “live wire.” He had seen all sides of life and met all kinds of people. He had a brand of slang quite his own, a sense of humor to match, and a smile that couldn't be eradicated. Under the bed of his combination office and bedroom was a sizeable cache of cigarettes. ‘“They're for the boys,” he said, “when they need cheering up.” They have mastered the art of per- sonal service, these men, they know the personal likes and dislikes of the soldiers and sailors and minister to them in surprising wa But it is the Hostess House of the Y. W. C. A. that does most to “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” Here is an aston- ishing military discovery. When from 30,000 to 60,000 men are gathered together in a training camp or station where discipline of necessity disregards the individual, and where each man is but a cog in the machinery of warfare, there is nothing on earth most of them want so much as to see their families and friends. Many of them are mere boys, especially those who have volunteered in the navy. A com- fortable, cheerful spot where they can go and spend their time off with mothers, wives or sweet- hearts has given a new meaning to life for them. After such a visit the boy goes back to the dis- cipline of his man-made world with a new courage and a new readiness to do his whole duty. They go whenever they have free time, for They know they can always find & hearty welcome. There are times when they like to go there and unburden their hearts. There are other times when they simply want to sit by the fire and read, or play a game of checkers with a pal. They come for a cup of coffee and a sandwich They have before now borrowed an outfit of clothing from an obliging hostess for an amateur show de luxe. ‘Weddings not infrequently take place in the house. In fact all sorts of re- quests are met there. And, as Mr. Fosdick says, it makes the men better soldiers by keeping alive the mem- ories of home, and supplying a sub- stitute. “The Hostess House,” says Lieutenant-Colonel Reille, sent here by the Freneh government in connection with teaching our soldiers trench warfare, “would help to solve a big difficulty on the other side. And I feel that it is going to be one of the ways in which our new allies will help us.” The Hostess House is furnishing the {'home life in camp. The War Camp Jommunity service is furnishing it for the men on leave. “What have I done for a soldier or 4 sailor?” you instinctively stop to ask yourself after reading about the 305 families with- in five blocks of a Service club in New York, who opened their doors to men on one holiday; and of the “block parties” given in Chicago; and other unusual entertainment offered since “take a soldicer or a sailor home with you” passed from a slogan to a habit. Cities and towns everywhere are vieing with each other in ex- tending real home hospitality to the men. And when all these little human details are traced back to the commissions on training camp activities which represents the United States government, one can grasp to a fuller extent the significance of the movement; and when one realizes that it is all a part of the government's purpose to make better fighting men and better citizens for after the war, he cannot but wonder at the far-sighted policy that in- spired it. Mr. Allen has shown throughout the chapters devoted to the various branches of the commissions’ work how the government is offering every incentive to the men to lead clean, wholesome, normal lives. The idea, as set forth by Mr. Fosdick, is to that there would be no place for vice. One Town Cleaned Up. The subject of the influences of ve- nereal disease and alcohol upon the fighting efficiency of armies in the past has not been avoided. Within six weeks after the United States had entered the w: congress enacted a special law, provisions whereby pros- titution and liquor were absolutely forbidden within military environs, and prohibiting the sale of liquor to uniformed men anywhere. The war department expected the fullest co- operation of local communities in car- rying out this law—not only the let- ter of it, but the spirit as well. The Jaw enforcement division of the commissions, aided by representatives of the department of justice, the army land navy intelligence departments, and other agencies, was assigned this work. They sent men into the field to check up on the situation and follow up on it where the law was not being enforced. A few localities failed utterly to take the situation seriously, And wherever drastic ac- tion has been found necessary, the day life so attractive | government” has taken it hesitation. Here is one case: “Clean the street walkers from your boulevards and stamp out those dancing halls, halls where the bootleggers lie thick,” warned the commanding officer of the camp, *or not a man of my thirty thousand will enter your city.” The mayor and the police of this city thought the general was bluffing . but he was not bluffing. True to his word, he slapped an embargo on that en- terprising city; not a sol- dier was permitted to enter it. For a thousand miles around the papers laughed in loud outlines. It did not take the officials of the town long to get it cleaned up after the citizens got together in an indig- nation meeting following this pub- licity. In many communities the officials gave their fullest co-operation, how- jever, from the first, and welcomed the opportunity to do so. As a matter of fact, immense progress has been made to date in eliminating drink and disease from the army. The commissions on training camp activities offi- cially estimate that the venereal disease rate has heen reduced fif- ty per cent. since the beginning of the war. The significance of this fact can only be grasped after considering that our military strength has been more than trebled since 1916. It is a truth, supported by the records of Gen- eral Pershing and Surgean-Gen- eral of the American army that the venereal disease rate of our army is far less than that of other warring nations. The repression of vice resorts in cities in im- mediate vicinity of camps which was accomplished early in the war-year under the congressional enactment has developed into an attempt at repression of such places everywhere in sections vis- ited by our soldiers and sailors in large numbers. The work of has, in effect, become cleaning up the whole United States. Until May of this year over seventy red light districts had been wiped out. Forty-five of these were not in the immedi- ate vicinity of military camps and did not therefore come within the prohibited zones provided for by the federal law. Their abolition was the result of co-operation of state and municipal authorities with the commissions. “The war must be won by man- power,” Secretary Baker has said. The whole work of the commissions on training camp activities has looked toward the creation of fighters one hundred per cent. efficient. We have profited by the “bulletiess casualties™ of other nations, whose thousands and hundreds of thousands of men, placed on the ineffective list through vene- real disease, remain behind the lines to be protected by the troops in the front line trenches who have kept themselves clean. WOMEN ASSISTING IN GAS MASK WORK | Mothers, Wives and Sweethearts Contributing “Their Bit” Washington, May 30—Women who, as wives, mothers, and sisters of sol- diers have a dcep realization of the necessity for painstaking care in their work, make the gas masks for the American army. “Somewhere in the United States"” at a plant whose location for obviou reasons is not made public, thousands of them are engaged in the deiicate and intricate operations and in con- the commissions one of They have been organized in militar: fashion, and specially selected for the work. “It soon became apparent that the type of women needed could not be secured through the ordinary chan- nels of empioyment,” says a state- ment of the Gas Defense service, that section of the surgeon general's of- fice which controls the manufacture,” and men were sent to localities dis- playing service flags to secure the mervices of women vitally interested, who would he most loyal in their work, and extremely anxious to send out perfect gas-masks.” Sewing face pieces, assembling sec- tions, and making sure that the fin- ished mask will be impervious to gas requires a whole series of complicated operations. Schools were established and the women selected were trained in special courses until they became proficient in all the divisions of the task, the statement adds After that they were assembled in divisions, companies, platoons and squads, under women leaders, and the Defense service says that the method produced ‘‘unusual results both in discipline and control of production. Friendly rivalry as to the quantity and guality of output is carried on between the different com- panies.” Soldiers who have experienced the horrors of being ‘‘gassed” have lec- tured to the workers, and special mo- tion pictures have impressed upon them just how the deadly fumes, against which the work of their hands is the only defense, are used. At the me time, the government has paid special attention to welfare work, the statement says, and at the immense plant hospital, rest rom and recrea- tion facilities have heen provided. KAISER'S CUP NOW JUNK. New York, May 30.—One of the most valuable pieces of metal re- ceived at the war savings metal mar- ket here, it was announced today, isa solid silver cup presented in 1897 the former German ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, to the winner of a golf match at Lenox, Mass. The cup was won by the late David W. Bishop and was sent to the exchange by his widow, who is now Mrs. John E. Parsons, of New York. ducting tests on the finished produets. | by | without | | | | i | | | | | { my { was German Kultur. | ehivalry RICHTER & CO. MEMBERS NEW 81 WEST MAIN STREET YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NEW BRITAIN, TEL. 2040 New Britain Machine Rights Bought and Sold GOODWIN BEACH & CO. Room 410 National Bank Build ng, Telephone %120. E. F. McENROE, Manager, N. B. MACHINE RIGHTS BOUGHT AND SOLD BOO! FRANKENSTEIN LOSES HIS SCARE Son of Militarism and Kultur Floos Before Blonde Beast |55 oo oneionally cauming the (By Kenneth L. Roberts.) Down to the banks of the Rhine tramped a hideous creature, eight feet | in height and of tremendous strength. | His yellow skin was stretched so taut | that the muscles and arteries beneath | «could be discerned. His watery eves | seemed almost of the same color as the | soiled gray sockets in which they were | set; his complexion ! and his lips were horribly straight | and black. So frightful was his ap- | pearance that the little birds fluttered | terror stricken from the trees and ‘bushes as he passed, while the very | leaves turned themselves upside down | in’ digust. The creature from the river, was shriveled, was about to drink | when his attention | was diverted by a blonde giant who | sat on a near-by rock and regarded | him from little piggish eves with irri- | tating calm. The blonde giant had a.bull neck, small, mean features' and a fat, soft body, and was clothed in garments of a strange green-gray color.| . . An expression of indescribable ma- levolence swept over the countenance of the hideous creature. He. contorted his features into a repulsive grimace, thrust out hi tongue at the blonde giant, and roared in terrifying tones: “Boo!” “Pfuil” responded phiegmatically, drawing a piece of sausage from one of his capacious pockets and devouring it with relish. The hideous creature stared at him in amazement. ‘“Aren’t you terrified up my ugliness " he inquired. The blonde giant shook his head | coldly. “Not at all,”” he replied. “you wouldn’t look badiy if you wore a uniform like mine.” “But”, protested the hideous crea- ture, ‘“you are the first living thing that has ever looked upon me without ‘being frightened into convulsions. { 8Surely my fearful reputation must be known to you." “You have the advantage of me,” replied the blonde giant, cramming Ris mouth with sausage. The hideous creature sighed. “And T thought I was famous,”” he moaned. | “I am Frankenstein's monster. A | young man named Frankenstein built me in his laboratory: but he made me so repulsive in appearance that no human being could endure me. Re- buffed and despised by evervone, 1| declared everlasting war against the | human race, and especially against Frankenstein, who was responsible for the blonde giant With a look of fear and loathing in his eves, Frankenstein’s monster backed slowly away from the Blonde Beast. | " “I thougnt I was pretty bad,” satd {*he, “but I'm a saint compared with | You. 1f I should ever fall as low as | You have fallen, I sincerely hope that | posterity will never find it out.” Ten seconds later Frankenstein's ‘monster was fleeing from the Blonde Beast at top speed, whimpering fear- and qecaslonally causing the BOHEMIANS BATTLE FOR ALLIED FORCES March Out to Mect Austrians Under Own Flag of Red and White. Italian Headquarters in Northern Italy, May 8, (By the Associated Press) —Bohemian hopes independence from domination of Austria-Hungary assumed a more concrete form recent- ly in a large city near the Italian front when a regiment of Bohemian troops received a battle flag on the eve of their departure for the fighting line. Under their own red and white | banner and their own officers the Sohemians are now ranged in ranks of the Entente allied forces battling against their oppressors. | The formation of the Bohemian regiment gives a definiten to the recent congress held in Rome of rep- | resentatives of the various Slav ele- ments which seek to throw off the ! Austrian yoke—Serbs, Croats, Slove- { nese, Czech-Slovaks and Poles. The Serbs, Croats and Slovenese have an independent national organization known as the Jugoslavs, while the Czech-Slovaks and Poles, the northern Slavs, also are working toward inde- pendencze. All are bound together by Ithe bond of Slav sympathy and are animated by aspiration to throw off the tyranny of Austria, In addition to bringing all the Slav elements into accord, the meetings in of the in | Rome have also brought the Jugoslavs and Bohemians into closer accord with the allies. The close relations estab- lished between Italy and the Jugoslavs are of special importance to the harmony of the allied cause, for to- gether the Italians and Jugoslayvs com- pletely encircle the Adriatic, Ttaly ipredominates on the west and her 2s- pirations extend to beyond Avstria, The Slav ciement is strongest in Croat B Herzegovina and Montenegro This extensive Slav frontage on. the eastern coast of the Adriatic is now in complete harmony with Italy and the ellied cause. is DUNKIRK IN LIMELIGHT French City is Mentioned More Than misery. 1 murdered his litttle brother, then his best friend, and finally his bride on her wedding nizht.” | “So!” said the blonde giant with in-: creasing interest. “TWhat other crimes: did vou commit ; “XNo others,” replied Frankenstein's ' monster in some surprise. ‘“Aren’t, the ones I name sufficient to make you ! tremble before me? ' The hlonde giant laughed merrily “You are a cheap piker”, said he. “If you want to frighten me, vou'll| have to get a reputation.” | Frankenstein’s monster peered at him curiously. “\Who are you. an) way? he asked, “and what have y done to lead you to view my murders with such contempt?” “I am the Blonde Reast”, replicd the buil-necked one, ‘“‘My father was German Militarism and my mother 1 have murdered thousands of women and children, and millions of the world’s finest and bravest men have filled unmarked graves because of me. T have torn innumerable innocents from their homes and sent them into degradation and hopel slavery. 1 have maseacred myriads of helpless Armenians without giving them a chance for their lives. T have shat- tered international law in every con- ceivable way, and T have violated every known tenet of decency and 1 have rendered my country barren of composers, dramatists, and poets: T have supplanted love with ‘hate: T have caused art to descend to obscenity: T have sent my hirelings into every nation to debauch and defile whomsoever was so weak as to listen u thousands upon { under Any Others in War Accounts, f.ondon, May 30.--Dunkirk, “The City of Dreadful Night,” it is pointed of the Daily mentioned out hy a correspondent Mail, has been perhaps more often in French communigues during this war than any other cit There are weeks When it is rare for a communique not io conclude with the words, “Enemy airplanes droppéed bombs on Dunkirk during the night. or “A long-range gun has fired into Dunkirk.” That seaport, the the firing line, is now scarcely less dear to the hearts of the French people than Verdun, and, like Verdun, it has been decorated for its courage fire. Recenly France's biggest ship was launched there. The amazing thing about Dunkirk, the writer continues, is that it is still a city. Its inhabitants, refusing to leave, have carried on is normal life with indomitable courage. Tramway ars run as usual along its cobbled streets and well-stocked shops are open every da Weekly in the main square, market is held and the count- le; stalls are well patronized by shrewd housewives, The frequent bombardments from sca, land and air arc not laughed at, although they are taken as a matter of course. Bedrooms, instead of being on the upper floors of the houses, are now in the cellars. and public dugouts dot the town as do the air raid shel- ters of London. Scarcely a house or wall in the town remains without its record of the nearest of all to to them or to accept their bribes. Some day T hope to destroy my parents and even the entire world enemy’s continual efforts to destroy. Dunkirk.