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

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The person who buys P Savings Stamps transfexs p purchasing power of his® buey to the United States Gov- hment until after the wax. [May there he none unenlisted the great volunteer army of pduction and savings. WOODROW WILSON. A | R 1 [I ecarnestly appeal to every: ! BAMUFL GOMPERS. ilo his critics continue to attack [violently, Samucl Gompers looms gger than ever, having just been peted president of the American ation of Labor at the annual pntion of that organization in St. ‘Whatever fault his opponents haye to find with him, Mr. Gom- declarption of the attitude ‘of ized labor in this country on questions must meet with the y approval of every fair-minded . The words he used at the pntion were: L American laber has done amd | continue to do, its full share the work and fighting neces- y to bring victory ,to the se of justice and freedom. s declaration is at once a pledge bilty and a warning to the I. W, nd others ¢ who. may consider [they can incite organized labor kes, or that attempts to retard vork will meet with favor among gmen. Let them read! the priting on the wall and guide elves accordingly. 8 American Federation of Labor ' be congratulated on having man s Samuel.Gompers as'its. He is a true American, 63 the organizatign and the coun- lfhrge may well be proud. Buy W. 8. 8. Today. IRELAND’'S PART. judge Ireland by the activities ore or less rabid Sinn Feiners the water would be grossly un. o the great body of Erin’s sons fighting under the flag of Great in France. The following par- h, taken from a oontemporary, 8 for itself: e military census showed Ireland had 645,447 men veen the ages of eighteen and p-one years. Of these 245,- were engaged in “indispens- o ocoupations; 107,492 were sically unfit; 130,841 had en- jed for the war, and 161,239 fe available for military serv- bdding ihe 161,239 available, ‘not enlisted, to the 130,841 dy enlisted gives a total of ilable man power of 292,080. A. Geddes officially credits d with 170,000 by Januafy, showing that 40,000 of the 89 had joined the colors aft- Detober, 1916. This leaves but 000 now available in Ireland. of a total man-power of ,000 Ireland has sent forward volunters 170,000—about 58.1 cent. are these figures complete, in- h as they do mot include the ‘number of Irishmen who were English army before the out- of war. Most of them be- called ‘'the miserable little but which, despite the slur, he Hun legions at bay in and " Ypres in the critical days of n, 1014. The great majority gave up their lives during terrible engagements. Their are Inscribed on Great Brit- lroll of honor, and they, togeth- th their countrymen who are hting for the cause of the Al- put to shame the handful of fionists who would betray the t;lulr allegiance to the enemy. g _smoothly enough after a while. to that famous unit which the NON-ESSENTIALS. Members of local draft boards will huve a4 pretty job on their hands when they take up the work of re-classi- fying men in the draft age under the “work or fight” ruling. = Proyost Mar- shal General Crowder has déclared that local draft boards must use com- mon ggense in' determining \which oc- cupations come under the head of nen-eésential. * Wor their guidance he has outlined gencrally the groups which’ must be combed to furnish further men for Class 1, but ultimate- ly the members’of the boards must use fheir own ‘discretion’ in passing o _the wvarious cases. In the matter of baseball players, no ~ruling has been made, but General Crowder will render judement when & cohcrete in- starice is referred to him by a ldval board in case a ball player appeals from' an -advérse decision. Obviously, thers will be no “Mtle “confusion caused if one local board terms ball pm‘vh}g .4 non-essential occupation swhile another board regards it as es- sential. Cooks, clerks and managers, fnt mstance, may remain at hotels, but the waifers must go. Naturally, their places will be filled by women, as s the case *in most KEuropean ceuntiies today. ¥Clerks in depart- ment stores must find other employ- ment or go to war. Thus female clerks will have the field all to themselves. Even porters on railread trains are considered as holding non-essential Jobs. Chauffeurs are supposed to do essential work, but many of them eould well be dispensed with, and it will rest with the local boards to de- termine each case according to :its peculiar phases. Thee chief consideration of the local boards will be to sce tiiat bus- iness is not unduly hindered and tiat the cconomic flbre of the country ls not injured. It will require judicious reflection on the part of the members of the board to arrive at conclusions which will meet with the needs of the country. It is to be expected that mistakes may be made at first, but gradually the ability of the people to adfust themselves to new circum- stances will assert itself, and the pro- cess of re-classification will go along 7\ Buy W.S. 8. Today. Brittania rules the wa: Hun waives' the rules. - "Fhe Cologne Gazette by any other | name whould be as foul. .. What is so rere as a day in June? Answel-—A ton of coal . It looks as though the Austrian drive had an Italian clutch. Vel S « - A punster in khaki writes us that all men zoing to Camp Devens must travel via the Ayer-line. % A baby bull, weighing 500 pounds, was sold recently at a state fair in Wisconsin for $106,000. SOME BULL! 30,000,600 Tons of Ceal Promised to New England.”"—Headline. That would till our little bin just about 5,678,943,275,284%; times. A film corporation has offered Ca- ruso $300,000 to take part in the making of a screen version of 11 Pagliacci.” That's a reel job. Empty liquor drums were found in the wake of U-boats off the Jersey woast. The pirates evidently used them when beating a hasty- retre: A soldier at Mineola and a girl in Minnesota, were married yestérday by telegraph. If the Western Union for- warded that message by rail the bride would be left “wailting-at the church.” The army, dental corps announces that there are enough dentists en- listed to care for 5,000,000 men. From which we conclude that it will take considerable ‘pull” to join that branch of the service. We agree with the sentiments ex- pressed by Mr. Charles' Aspinwall in his communication published last evening, to the effect that there are more mighty precblems demanding our attertion than that of changing the name of Berlin Following the G. O. P. row in this state, we learn that the Republican bosses of New York are to call a meeting of party followers over the chairman’s head. Nice battle prom- ised. Now that the authorities have pre- vented the Fulton-Dempsey bout from taking place in Danbury, on the grounds that it would be a ‘“‘prize fight””, which is prohibited by law, will somebody kindly tell us the dir- ference between a prize fight and a boxing match, such as is held in New AND FANCIES, A Georzia woman offers a hundred walnut timber to the manufacture any price the govern- pay.”"—Cleveland acres of biack government, gun stocks * Plain Dealer. 3rooklyn Rapid Transit gets a loan of $17, complaint of ifs servi disloyalty -New York hers and, 15 h musig for them dive celebration layen.~—New | bands to furni eral Hindenburg died present reports that he has lost mind and is confined in a private hos- aggerated.— be greafly Springfield Rebublican. ‘When TUncle- Sam across” it’s usually pretty good. Take a squint at the khaki clad = Press-Guardian. puts something | he; “I have heard more funny stories among our in theg front lines in one night than time 1 have been Associated “Kid and be our boys’ miotto. which process the Boche hates go Evening Post. It is doubt- worse.— Chic AC TIME. Through orchards of old apple trees That spring makes musical with bees; of vines and flowers, Where twittering sweot, the bird box Barden way And swallows sun their plumes— | February The path lehds winding to the gate, Hung with its rusty chain and weight, That opefs on a lilac walk Where dreams of love and memdries Born of ths dim perfumes. The old house stands = with And locust trees on either side; Its windows, kindly as the eyes Of friendship, smiling at the glkies, Again he meets her, brown of hair, Beside it steps May lilles_lift Bell'd sprays of snow in drift on And in the door, Again she stawis, the one he knew In ‘ia."fl/ that ar: a lily, too, Again he meets her, brown of hai:, Among the, alustered lilacs there, | The sun e set; the blue dusk falls; A néstling bird another calls; A star leaps in the sky. Again he breathes the lilac scent And rose; again herghead is And oh! agein, beside the ga: To ges the round moon rise they wait, | Befpre they kiss good-by. Long years have passed; since then, Have changed—and customs, too, and the times, | But she has never chans.ml to him, Nor has that Where onceé they sald good-bye. That place, which spring keeps ever Through memori Unchanged, - immortal Where evermore ‘tis lilac time, And love can never die. MADISON CAVEIN, The Precident’s Honors. (New York Sun) It is an honorable distinction which Has been conferred upon 1S Academy . of Maffal and Political Se he is to pe elected on together with Cardinal AMercer of Bel- Antonias Salandra, Prime: Minister s mistake to suppose that it is an elee- tion to the famous coter distinctived, irench Academy, miose; bers are denomin Tmmortals. : There are in fact and in law five great academies in ¥ en together make up the organization known as the These academies Academy—the den dted in France the ance which tak- (1) the French ; Immortals; of Tnscriptions and Belles | Lettres: (3) the Academy of Sciences: of Fine Arts, (5) the Academy of Moral and Politi- Tt is to membership in these that Pres cal Sciences. last named dent Wilson is to be admitted. is permitted to associates, regular membe son the samg as it needs the dollar: of the people in other cities, tow: cight being allotted to each of the five sections intorwhich the academy Philosophy, lation, Public Law and Jurisprudence, namely (1) | possible for the wealthy cl nance it alone. The income 1 of 1916 show that 206 Americans had tnecomes of * more than $1,000,000 | each. Their combined imcome to- and Philosophy. The relation France to the five component. been compared to that of its several the college the university, -taken together make neh academy has its own | to give and to lean. " When all the academies apartments ings, but all casions n tute, whose permanent the old Palai £ distinctive scribed for academicians een was First Consul, consisting of a pantalocns, participate on stated oc- since Napol- as the bicorne ent academies of the institute official- | ly rank as equals, (Academie TFrancaise) the Forty Tmmortals, originating with Richelieu in the Louis XIII., enjoys an unquestionable primacy among its peers. tion to occupy one of its forty chairs highest distinction An invita- NEW BRITAIN DAIL¥Y WERALD. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918 At Christmas time the New Britain Chapter of the™ed Cross sent out a [ number of Christmias packages to be distributed among the soldiers and sailors, A1l of these were not address- l'ed to any particular individual and some were given to those who might need themt most. Only a few weeks ago, according to a local naval officer who is with the iAtlantic fleet, a man who said his home was away down approached him, saluted, “Sir, you arc from New itain, Conu., are you not? The offi- | eer replied in the aflirmative, where- upon the sailor told him that his | Christmas had been made more pleas- ant by the receipt of a package sent , out by the New Britain Red Cross, W08, 8.—— At a meeting of the common coun- cll Wednesday night Alderman A. M. Paonessa of the sixth ward introduced a resolution callinz npon the board of Ith to ‘make a report in reference to a contract with Nathan Cohen of Ansonia whereby he was to do the jonitor work at the slaughter house. Tn conclusion the alderman asked that the health board explain why this con- tract is not ng enforced and why the city is having to pay a janitor at the rate of $500 per vear. Briefly, the contract was terminated when Corpor- ation Counsel J. E. Cooper declared it to be null and void. - The slaughter house contract, has aused considerable troubls in the health department before. In. the first place the Fast Side Hide company of Hartford did the work, byt subse- quently, following some agita®on, bids were asked and Nathan Cohen of An- sonia was awarded the ‘contract in 1917. A forgal contract was drawn and it was du‘;» signed ‘on March 26, 1917. Whet M. Cohen | agreed to do was to: take care of the anitary work at the slaughter house and to pay the city $200 per year for a term of five year In return for this he was to have the exclusive pri- vilege:of bidding on all hides and othey valuable refuse on the premises. The job evidently proved bigger than Mr, Cohen had estimated. The work was hot done satisfactorily and finally the heéalth board took action. In May of 1917 Corporation Counsel J. E. Cooper. ruled that the contract was nul] and void and Mr, Cohen willingly gave up the work. Tnasmuch as no bond had ever been posted, no forflet was collected. Finally the health de- partment became convinced that the only way the janitor work, at the slaughter house could be done satis- factorily would be to pay a man, and this is being done. d W. 8. S.—— There was a little Hun And ‘he had a little gun But ris bullets were all adumdum, Aumdum He shinnted up a tree To snipe what he could see And now he is in kingdom come- come-comae, —W, &S t the fly, shoot the svy, cut out the lie, swear off on pie, quit drinking rye, and never say die. —W. 8, 8- students of thd war should sin Yo familiavize themselies with the map of Germany. The time ap- proueches for a change of scene. SR SE aCE The honest farmer's berry crop Has been dispatched to town The baskcte looked this way on top: 0 0o 0000000000 And this way lower down: 0 000DOOOOO —W. 5. S—_ New Britain. is going to succeed in its War Savings Stamp campaign, of that there little doubt. but at the same time it is well to Keep before the public the deep meaning of these loans to the zovernment. In 1871 victorious Germany: imposed an in- nity of $1,000,000,000 upon . the h:un less T'rance and, range to say, France paid it rather easi ly. But how? The people dt deep into thedr hidden stockings, bricks were fakbn from the fireplaces, disclosing | hidden wealth and in the old feather bheds hidden coins were sleeping. Y France paid the indemnity when it was too late to win the war, but had | the French people delved into these r;;lares during the war, in its early da then the ~government might Jhave been different. New Rritain "people cannot bur a | 8reat American statesman who said, | “Millions for defensc, but not one cent for tribute” TThis being so, | Toan your money and vou will have to pay no tribute. The government needs aree with that thre dollars of every New Britain per s and statef. This is not a rich man’s | war and it would be physically im- es to fi- turns talled about $450.000.000, vet this en- tire amount would pay the costs of war for only nine days. Therefore. it is obvious that it is evervbody's duty is said md done even the most miserly must adniit 1hat a dobar bill is only dollar bill and nothing more. Tt is simply a government promise to pay. Take $4.17 and let it stay in vour poc- ket forever and it still reraains the same. - Put a $4.17 Savings Stamp in vour pocket and in 1823 it will have become 30. — S R The man who hasn't got all his bockvard garden spaded up yet has the encouragement of thinking that if he keeps on he will get it in fine con- dition for ne A k Now is a great chance for these persistent boosters of the Mattabes- sette river barge canal to say “T told you so”, when they read of the traf- fic congestion. —W. 8. 8. Already many women and girls of this city, and its outlying districts, are taking an active interest in gar- denfug and a little trip through the A Town Topics!|| while on the leval the four cylinders 7 June 16—The State Normal school «fJune 19-+V. B. Chamberlain, at the German and other language: schools, have each bhid $5.25 per at the Allyn Tlouse in Hartford. that Hartford has no especial candi- bers of the fair sex without skirts, garbed in bloomers, etc., diligently hoeing eorn or Lilling potatoes. Pop- ular fancy hes tcimed them farmer- ettes, but many object to the title, so the whole question simmers down to one of nomenclature. Farmerettes sayors too much of the suffragette to suit many. Lady farmers is not proper and female farmers would do for brutes.as well as women. Why not woman-farm A compound of two excellent KEnglish words that mean just what they gay. ‘ One of our New Britain boys, sliglitly wounded, writes: “What with the«Tood and care and ainusements and hospitals and nurses wpplied to our soldiers, this would ally be a pretty good war if it wasn’t for the Germans, — W, 8. B The council's vote to buy 2 Sea- graves motor truck for the fire de- partment harkens back to the ‘days, a few years ago, when one. of the old safety board headed by the-iate Jos-' eph Callahan, was at loggerheads for a long titie over the choice of:appar- atus. At that time the Seagraves‘car was vigorously opposed and after much agitation the board purchased a LaFrancesmachine. That w the beginning of the motorization o ew Britafn’s fire department. Tt was also the time when M. T. Kerwin then an aldermen, is alleged to have made his famous remark about the rela- tive merlts ‘of =@ six cylinder car. It was said of him that he declared .a° six eviinder motor was better than a four because when going up a steep hill the two extra cvlinders.could be switched on, giving added power, would be enough. Mr. Kerwin . al- ways maintained thaf he was misun- derstood. but newspapers all over the, country copied the alleged statement, much to the amusement cf the alder- man and his friends. 3 —W. 8. 8. « Twenty-five years ago the Herald printed the following itema: graduation exercises will take place on June 28 when Governor Morris will give out the diplomas. — Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Stanley are in Chi- cago. — The pastor and standing committee of the South chureh has been incorporated by legislative act and the church can now receive the $80,000 trust fund left by C. B. Er- win. — A number of pw‘mn{nt‘l\\dcnh ocrats met last night and agreed to support T. B. Sheehan’s application for assistant postmaster. Jlle {J--There will be a concert at White Oak on June 22. — George M. Landgrs returnqd yesterday from his trip t0 Moosehead Lake where he caught sbme trout. which he savs, weighed five pounds each. — The clags of 1890 of the High school held a reunion yesterday, those present having: been: Misses Antoinette Smith, Olive Bauer. Mary Upson, Bertha Bowers, - Bertha Sheldom, Annie Glad- den, Grace Gerard and Mrs. F. L. Rigelow, and’ Messrs.: B. F. Osgood, Orland . Blair, - Andrew J. Barker, George B. Smith .and William Still- man. — Willis DeWolfe has returned from Cornell for the summer vaca- tion. ;, June 18—Sunday. s¢hool board .yesterday, opposed téaching other languages in the schools, exclaiming: “I am opposed to'the teaching of Swedish, Polishd I wish they would forget every other lan- guage and learn sood English, which is good enoughgén this country.” — Murray stréet is being ‘repaired =o that %t will’ be accevted by the city. June 26—T. W. ©U'Connor, Thomas Farrell -and ‘@ party of friends are going to sp&nd their - vacation at Block Island. — Master Howard C. Wilson has returned fromi s trip to Boston, making the trip hoth ways alone, where he went to spend a week with his aunt. —- M. P. Leg- horn and bride returned from their wedding trip last evening. June 21—Selectman Bassett, who will be postmaster after July 1, has offered the position of assistant post- master to Charles W. Beach who will file a bond, and take the job. —George H. Dyson was elected keeper of the wampum at the meeting of the Red | Men last night..— A -dog belonging to Dr. Strosser.was. believed, to have gone mad this .afternoon and was finally killed affer a long chase. June 22—It is hinted that Iloecal coal dealers have entered a combine inasmuch as all who have bid on furnishing 300 tons of coal for the ton. — Editor Reilly of the Meriden Journal was in _town last’ night. — Miss Mabel St jas returned from boarding school’ Andover. W S0 8 On “Tdesday of next week Mayor Quigley will formally open his cam- paign for the republican nomination to congress with a dinner to be given About 150 guests. representing the republican strength of the district, will be in attendance. Alrerdy the mayvor has made a strong start in his campaign "and -has_got the New Rritain congressional delegation all lined u Tt is likewise understood that thed Bristol delegates will be in- structed for Mayor Quigley and re- ports from up-state indicate that Collinsville, Suffield and other dis- tricte are to come to the convention prepared to boost the local man. As vet no other candidate has announced himself and in political cirveles it is now practically conceded that Mayor Quigley will have no opposition at the convention. especially since A Storrs Campbeli, a prominent repub- il 1 leader in Hartford. is sald to have told the New Rritaln aspirant date to boost. Tn the vast the old Lake-Goodwin fight, which split the Hartford republicans on all issues, has had a bearing on the election, | 'dis as one faction or the other generally had a candidate in the field. Inas- much as the mayor says he had no part in the ancient controversy he hopes to be able to obtain the com- bined support of both factions and possibly at the sama time reunite the Hartford G. O. P. Incidentally, if the mayor does get the nomination about a Schen 5 toméd to life without trolley ‘service. This condition of complaceney and considered a necegsity must be at 1 whi dispensable. Since the development of the trolley the automobile has come into general use, has cut into the earnings of the trolley companies and in Schenectady today has superseded the electric traction car. three-cornered deadlock? thing, politically, he . ever got withi- {the resumption .of trolley servid out a battle. W. 8 Bp— Strange things happen As time passes— Little brown jug's now Used for molasses. W. S. St Labor’s Privileges. (New York Journa! of Commerce.) A survey of government war aetivi- ties and legislation shows practically no measures directed toward the con- trol of labor or wages, and what is being done in that direction is being effected primarily through adminis- trative effort. In the various #ines of business undertaken.by the govern- ment there have bheen developed boards of arbitration or wage ad- | justment. Tt is there duty to bring ngements with labor bodie: such as to insure continuous work and maximum production. At the head of the government’s labor or- ganization there stands the National War’ Labor Board. This body » has announced its inténtion of 2VOr- ing $o maintain standards of living oand general working conditions for labor; it being understood that in re- turn there 1s to be vontinuofs work and, if possible, an avoidance 'of strjkes. The program is attractive and perhaps the best that can be secured under existing circumstances, when, as everyone recogn nance of peaceful conditions in indus- try and the getting of a maximum output are essential to success in war. The man who takes a long view of the situation, however, necessarily wonders what the effect of certain phases of this policy is likely to be. Thete is no other class in the com- munify whose “standards” are being maintained throughout the ' war. Everyone is asked to economize, to save, to refrain from unnecessary buying. The capitalist is requested to abstaim from individual invest- ments so far as possible, except in en- terprises that contribute to the war while at the same time he is heavily taxed, not only on the profits he las succeeded in making from the war but also on his own. individual in- come. The convenicnce of different ntembers of the community is being greatly limited and the maintenance of the “general standard” of living is, as everyohe now recognizes, out of the question. In these circumstances, does not the undertaking of any’ plan which *will even leave labor exactly where it was at the beginning of the war make it a .privileged class? As a matter of fact, labor in most lines is much better off than it was at the beginning of the war. This, of course, Is not true of unorganized laborers of various classes—the high- er clerical employes and others re- ceiving “fixed _salaries—but it is true of nearly alrades of so-called man- ual workers. They are, in short, working .under what seems like a, dis- tinct promise that their economic condition' shall at least be main- tained, while in practice that condi- tion is very much improved—at the same time that the status of other members of the community is being made less satisfactory. The situation in the United States in this particula) is not peculiar, but is very similar to that which has been developed in England. Our Finnish Enemies. (Boston HEvening Transcrint) The “Ambassador of the Finnish republic,” 'Mr. Nuartowa (he speaks for the Red Guard part of Finland, and not for the Germanized White Guard rule now dominant), is cer- tainly well advised in warning the American nation as he did in a speech at the pro-Soviet meeting on the Common, against the Fhhns of the White Guard and German party. He says that the same forces that formed the White Guards in Finland have been spreading, German propaganda. in this country sinee the European war began, and that they had sent across to Ggrmany from their (head- quarters in Stockholm 30,000 youns men, mostly of the wealthy class, who are fighting for the Germans. All this is' undoubtedly true. ‘“Conservative™ LTinns have been working steadily fof the Germans in this country for the last three years. Some of them are ing German propaganda and spy rk still. The property holding ‘Blass in Finland entered into a com- pact with the Germans as long ago us 1914, and their leaders have been in- tently pro-German all through. the | war. Not all the Finns, of course, are in this class. Many of the race in this country are intensely layal to the Am- erican cause. But it would, be better if these people occupied the status of alien ecnemieg rather than that of supposedly friendly allies, because in that case the activities of the Ger-, man sympathizers among them could be looked after. This being the case there will be interest in the fact that the French Government has warned the Finnish Senate that any act by the Finnish Government against the Murmar Railroad will be considered a breach of neutrality. That railroad. and the port of Kola to which it runs, is Qqn Russian territory; the line is Russia’s only rail connection with an ice-free Atlantic port. The =ubf servient Bolshevik Government has decided, we have been told, to cede it to Finland, which would put it in German hands, cut Russia off from the Atlantic and the Entente Powers, and hem in the Seandinavias forever. Certatnly if the new republcof Fin- land Jdoes not want a state of war with Great Britain, France and Amer- ica, it would do well to lst the Mur- man country alone. Dong Without Troleys. (Schenectady Union-Star.) s surprising how gracefully {adians are becoming accus- Tt ‘heerfulness without what had been st neerting ‘to the trolley comfpany, h had supposed its operations in- What will be the outcome of this s, the mainte- | and it can bo folded flat, utility must rufe. Verdun runs along this river. Na doubt there are other connecting lines, but the advance imperils the route of supplies and involves the possibility ¢ an offensive turning to the east if line of the Allies dnally sk here? The city refuses absolutely to yield in the matter of allowing any increaso in fare. The company declares that (£ cannot grant-anyv increaze in ‘wages without an ‘fncrease in revenue. THq emploves demand an increaso of ot | cents per hour, —_—— Mennonites in Camp. (Des Moines Capital) ; The so-cailed “conscientions cbjee= tor” has catged the Government much trouble. Hvery cantonment has some of these objectors, men wgo ‘claim they have conscientious soymu- ples against fighting and = killing. There ure more than one hundred of these conscientious objectors at Camis. Dodge. To say that these men are & nuisance in camp does not fully ex- press it. In many cases they réfilsy to work. In all cases they refuse: drill or receive military training. They j bccome common loafers. The myjll tary officers do not know what to do with them. The Government feeds ? them. The effect upon the othexr members of the camp is bad. It rep~ resents insubordination. These ob« jectors at Camp Dodge bhecame sucl a nuisance that the Towa Council 66 i National Defence had taken actien, ™ looking to the sending, ef a commit- tee to Washington t6"see what could . be done. Before this committee could, g0, however, the War Departnient [, took the matter up and appointed Major Richard S. Stoddard on the Judge Advocate’s office. Washington; - Federal Judge Julian W. Mack, Chi- cago. ando Dean H. F. Stone of the Columbia University Law School to visit at least four of the cantonments ! for the purpose of cross examining the men in regard to their religious. views. etc. This makes the propogey committee upon the part of Iowa un- necessary. The majority of the conscientiovs objectors at Camp Dodge are from | Henry and Washington counties and they represent two Mennonite churchs es. Tt is predicted that if the mén go back to the places from whick they came there will be all sorts of local troubl dred conscientious objectors would require one hundred more young men’ tp be drafted who did not make such claim. Hencs the people in the edges of Washington and Henry countfes have been m ~h concerned in regard, ! to what might happen in case thess young men were sent to their homes. i Tt is stated that the War Departmeént has no intention of doing more thag to ‘find out whether the objectors ara genuine or hypocrites. However, the Secretary of War announces in his instructions that under no circumi- stances will- conscientious objectors otherwise qualified to perform mili« tary duty, be discharged from thelr , respgnsibilities under the selective service law. The Secretary outim the possibilities of punishment. Fh they may be furloughed to agricul- tural lahor with the pay of a private soldier. Sécond, they may he fur- loughed for service in France in the& Friends Reconstruction Unit. In other cases they may be sent to Fort Leavenworth to be interned. Mean-, time every man in camp must takd | care of himself and keep himself up & io the military standard and they ean be required to prepare food. But he . 4 shall not be required to wear a uni- for or bear arms against his will. The Secretary describes various —degrees - of punishment for various degrees of refusal. At any rate the conscientious objector is to be dealt with and he'i¥ not to be a loafer at Camp Dodge er in any other camp. . " k:‘n,m for the Soldiers, (Boston Post.) Those who have seen some of the’ pictures of our later arrivals on the French front must have noted the dis- appearance of the old-time wide- brimmed, cowboy , dented campalgn hat that has been characteristic . of | American soldiers for many years. The fact is that, while it still persists to some extent, it has been ruléd out by the War Department and in a shoti time will be seen no more in battld This change in favor of the bris léss and peakless “overseas cap'ti g made because the first Americans ing fihe trenches found that the felt camq’ paign hats interfered with sightinz through periscopes and that the wi Grown in ‘the case of tall men could be deen above the parapgts. Other a wvantages of the new cap are that the trench helmets c¢an be woin over/ it ‘Millions of these new caps are B3 under process of making - here; .4 soon 4fl of Pershing's men wiil weaw thein. “Bome will regret —the. 6ld wear, but in this case, as in all ‘othera, School Prizes. 4 (Boston Post) F Over in Parls, we are told, the Municipal Council recently decided & that this year no prizes for scholary ship or merit were to be awarded in .~ the s=chools of the capital Instead of buying costly books and silver and gold medals the money will be expended in sending the poorer chil- dren out of the city, where they will be safe from bombardment. And the puplls, brave yvoungsters all. have agreed heartily to the plan. . Perhaps something of this sort may be done here. Where prizes are givs en, in public or private schools, w?gyi« could not the cost be devoted instead’¥ to some worthy war fund? Our chil- dren would acquiesce just as heartily as those of T'rance. Our Toul Communications, (Philadelphia Bulletin.) The success of the Crown Prince's armies in reaching the Marne is of par- ticular iuterest to Americans, because the main Wne of railroad from Paris tb the eastern sectors held by thq Americans in the vicinity of Toul and 4 Discharging one hun-