New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 3

| Boston Store FLANNELETTE SLEEPING GARMENTS | Fewer Vagrants and Much Less ! Real Poverty in City ‘ e | For Men, Women and Children If you sleep warm at night you will feel rested in the morning. These comfortable garments will produce the desired effect. —FOR ME NIGHT SHIRTS and PAJAMAS —FOR WOMEN— NIGHT GOWNS Common and extra sizes —FOR BOYS GHT SHIRTS AND PAJAMAS = ORI GRS NIGHT GOWNS Sizes 4 to 14 years. WORK OR FIGHT IS KEEPING VAGS BUSY report of the New ion presented evening by acting ted that e quarterly Charity O > the diectors las 1t Cora Beale, result of the fewer and actual | A it was st | as t1 | there of | the city cas| vagrancy in a corespondingly of poverty. the work furnishe: children in the factories and during the summer months, the financial assistance received from | the Iittie wrd garde Miss Beale's repor s as follow: Less Real Poverty Here “Work or fight!” With the alterna- v helped by ase has One man acquir ed a family b ained his wealkwill- ed habit of shifting about from job to job. Having gone to a town a hun- dred miles aw place and failing after several days to do so, he consumed still more time walking home. His wife, tired of waiting and in need, returned with her small baby to relatives in a nearby e. Considerably shaken by this rprise awaiting him, footsore and weary, the husband was cared for by the Charity Organization, placed on a train and sent to join his family. The a noticeable among the vi work or fight law | few | General eco- | conditions have also been ma- | homes | and by | tive of only one place left for idle men, ! appered | to find more lucrative | the spring with high hopes to offset | the extreme prices of foods. Some have flourished and will dd to the winter’s store, but sad are also the | | tales of the bushels of lost potatoes— | | despite the ‘“bugging contes and | hard work of the mother and young- | sters. | How we are looking forward swithin > next few years to the imiprovement | of our New Britain babies. The (Charity | Organization has already sent many !«4 mother and her small baby to the | Milk ation for advice and training | rezarding the proper c {and the feeding of the means of the newly opened di clinic under the auspices of the Board .of Health, omen and children o thorou 1ined, and special nmended whenever Several of the Charity Organization families have already paid a visit there and when additio: medicine, treatment, or specialists’ opinion were necessary and the family unable to supply the same, we have gladly filled the need | | Dental Condition Remedied. Over and again there is great need dental treatment. Becau of the se of such treatment the Ch nization can only occasionally have corrective work done, generally ilong the line of some sudden emer- | sency. A very few times the society | _has supplied @ mother with tificial | teeth and have bheen greatly gratified to see her general health improve. New Britain, with its many hundreds of school children, many from families wholly unable to go to any great ex- pense of dental work has come to a point where it needs a dental clinic. Already some of the local dentists, al- thowzh unusually busy just now wi the draft men have promised cert | periods of time regularly should this { ity see fit to establish a dental clinic. ba of | of | within ry preventive youth, there would been no reason for repeated wh they became men For tt the welfare of our N children, let’s all do what we can Other Agencics Co-operate The mothers wdditional income have 1 the neces: work ing the ha tions ew in need of Pston Tt ing the new Day ry just opened and the Charity rganization has offered its services to the Chamber of Commerce Day N sery commit tee. to make all ary tons of famili ditfons. have been v able to the welfare city summer by lending helping hand with runabout. Often a combinatior f calls in section of the city t one waits half hours for f has accomplished much rt time, at little Often during the hot days, W mothers were hustied home, he; sister or hrohter had a | physician or den- | journeys we to gather up cupboar regard- | f investiga- We | t aid this oceasional work o one where ssing cars good in she added expense Ty | vies and b ri en route to a tist, and many can take viz clothing offered all delicaci there will I for the are the Ford Our our just now 1y or bread | Just | bare of we hope marmalade and to tempt our sick notify us and we will you any transportation. With the bathing pool where hun- dreds of various sized paddlers en- joyed themselves daily, with the addi- tional playground facilities, and our us parks, we considered it un- ary to plan for general | s or trips New in is Dblessed with sunshine and air in most of its living quarte: and with always a bit of green gr walking distance of every From these homes 91 persons were | Britain | jec the fact that the actir ch been out of town ass office called t two weeks 350 visits families during months only. work ai three oflice Our trea iree month ~cial relief funds. nizc Anization STR GEORGE REED DEAD. forme for work or to the interest aid, clothir to talk over numbe 3 to cor u their in the w nt have e were made Sriia Ten hours irer pald 167.92 we aid outside of funds a total CORA M. Sept. 12 ligh \d member of prolonged illness, mily as of d the regular workers. 1ls for the last | mounting expended We were able to the estimated mount of relief ust of $446.71. Respectfully submitted, BEALE, Acting Agent.. Sir George Reed commissioner parliment for , died in London today af- RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1918, advice and matters 181 persons arious sub- stions or k Despite ent and her | [8 various these 10 on busi volunteer to $176.34 from the to Charity at for Aus OUTING by the yard—White, Grey, Stripes and Checks. PULLAR FLANNELS molested. force the the 1917 and in stature hour day family. & NIVEN Many compulsory work law was in force in that state and our weary friend knew he could be idle but a limited time un- car fare nts have ganization of Many were the children asking for vaication work, most of them too small tions of hous eral found wor] income derived Noticeable indeed is the lack | of requests for school shoes to start the fall term. were the garde B great To reunite the family, to n to work, was well worth cpended. Only eight va- applied to the Charity during June, July and ths vear against eleven for seventeen for 1916. n to fill the much needed pos keepers and maids. Sev- t the factories, the om even their short proving a great help to the up stant to planted in | y social worker ctions given sician and nurse, there i mains to be done in the way of follow- work. under special supervision to have the actual work done, gener- ally bec the family. men have proved under recent exami- | nation that had they recognizes the need and all are willing to co- welfare of her rooms which ly until with the splendid work of the stic clinic and the advice and by the school phy- much re- Many a family, unless and con- pushing, never ets to the point use of the additional expense Hundreds of draft gone through | dealt with during August, < were continued and operate. I One of the offered the use can be used at least tempora | the time comes when some permanent arrangement can be made by the city. for { and Augu numberin | when there were three families still 239 thi We situations needir tion there were have August for service from ate from 4 schools quests from other citi Applicants themselves called at the, & 15 fa the three months of June, I home. ! | | than in the How the continued ummer and 188 come in contact with some spec: whereas months. ver, have this summer, in 270 Throughout our come during city, June of vs public officials, from from nd there were 20 71 societie: same | || Cuticura Quickly Relieves = 1l atten- 1917, 44 pri- individuals, | re- | than our own of whom milies new. July the new cases | 1917 | | Itching Skins | 4 apply Cuticura Ointment. I making Caticy toilet preparations. Bample Each Free by Mall. <Cuit Bathe with Cuticura Soap, dry and Forecze- mas, rashes, itchings, irritations, etc., they are wonderful. Nothing so en- sures a clear skin and good hair as icura your every-day Address post-card: , Dept. 18A, Bosten.” Sold everywhere, Ointment % and 60c.~ Talcum 2e. or college sm@ smocks we are'| to 46 bust. Smocks are m and pongee silks. /M are all prettil Colors are'pink, ' green and salmon. morning only we will This is an opports it. Get several smocks blue, yellow and white 8 All have nice wide bel Never before have would retail ordinarily to take back to scho WAR'S SCARS SHOW ST “Game” Too Weak a Word and New One Must be Coined to Designate Unselfish Spirit Shown by Wounded, Army Surgeon Declares —Youths, Rough on the Surface, Suffer in Silence Insisting Others Need Aid More than They—Scenes in Dressing Stations at Front. By CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND HWY were coming back out of the bot blast of the great battle—those boys of a cer- tain division now famous throughout France and one day to be famous throughout the world. They were not coming back because they wanted to, nor because they had had enough of it; they were being brought on stretchers, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, to an advanced dressing station. Some of them seemed just boys. Omne could see them grit their teeth to bold back the moan of pain. “Hard luck, Pal?” saild a doctor interrogatively, as the bearers set down a stretcher in the courtyard. The boy shrugged his shoulders, actually shrugged them as well as he could, bundled up in that stretch- er, and grinned wanly. “Comin’ fine if I can get you fellers to save that foot. She’s smashed plenty. If you can’t—ald the same.” “We'll run you right in.” “Nix, bo, not me. I'm gettin® past &1l right, nothin’ but my foot. You jest lemme be here and git busy with them guys that's hurt. I'm on the waitin’ list” STILL HARD-BOILED, BUT— That was one boy. He belonged to an outfit that bears a name far and wide for beinz boiled hard. ough birds, you hear them called, rough talking boys with the crust outermost. If you had seen them a month before or two months be- fore when they had not had thelr purifylng in blood and fire, yom would not have prophesied that they would hold back in suffering to wait for one in greater suffering to be eared for first. It was an attribute that was not apparent to the casual e¢ye. Hard-boiled, you would have agreed, and you might have felt a trifle sorry for the enemy that had to encounter them. But you would heve stood by with tears in your eyes—not in your eyes but rolling down your cheeks—and nave muttered acain and again, “Here are men!” But now they had felt the scorching breath of war. Suddenly they had been dropped into the fur- nace and had come out with dross burned away. Something had happened. They were still hard- boiled. Their language was made B of the same words, but the worda had taken on a new meaning, their very faces had taken on a new aspect. In spite of blood and grime and the discoloration and burn of gas, you could see that something ‘was present there which had been absent before—until you could not see at all for the flooding of your eyes. “I got mine....No Can’t do—nothin’ for—me....Git— busy with some of them bays—you kin—help.” That was the spirit. That was the thing that had been burned into their souls by the hot breath of war. They had forgotten them- selves. Jim was not of Jim but of Mike. Mike was not thinking of Mike but of Jack. Each passed it on. The dressing station was small and many must lie outside until the men who were taken in first could be evacuated. You heard groans, but amid the groans you heard cheery, gritty, words. “Oow, that damm leg ....How’s Charlie makin’ it? Any- hody know? I seen him git #t.... Oow....! “They just took Charlie tn. He wasn't sayin’ much.” “Say, them stretcher bearers ought to git the Croy de Gerr, them birds ought to. See ’em fetch me back with them shells bustin’ like ft was rainin’? And would they knrry? Not a damn bit. I hollers to them to git a move on or they'd glt busted one on the dome, but that little shrimp says for me to mind my own business, he was oarryin’ that stretcher.... Afraid if he hustied he’d shake me up and hurt me some. Can you beat that? «ee.000wW?" Y. MAN A HERO “Two of them stretcher bearers was Y. M. C. A. guys. What they doin’ in that game?” “Volunteered, one of them told me. I asked him. He's been workin’ up in thet dressin’ station right where she’s happenin’ ever since this busted out. seen him there. Hain't had his clothes off for a week. Looks to me like he's about ready to crack. But he's ai- ways there with & cigarette or a cup of coffee, or a cake of choco- late. Now he’s totin’ stretcher.... Needs a stretcher himself, seems ag though.” “You’re mext, son,” sald a leu- tenant-doctor. you got t7” HONEST ? T WONT BE ROBBIN® NONE OF THEM BIRDS © “Leg and a chunk somewheres In “Out of luck nothin’. Didnt I bayonet three of them Germans be- fore they got me? Eh?....Luck” The story goes that this division ‘was called upon to stop the rush of five times its number. The story goes farther and says they not only stopped the rush but caused a movement in the other direction. It was not an affair of hours but of days, days of constant, bitter, hand- to-hand fighting with horrors added by the Hun that no American soldier has ever been called upon to face. But they had dammed the flood: had even swept it back for a , and they were proud. SPIRIT OF ALTRUISM But their achievement on the fleld was not the great thing that came into view in those days. It was the spirtt that flamed up in thefr hearts —not merely a spirit of courage, of daring, of heroism against odds, a spirit of altruism, of love for the other fellow. Somewhere in that holocaust those hard-bofled boys had gotten it, and the manifesta- tions of it that night in the little courtyard before the dressing sta- tion, made the spot one never to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. A burry call was sent to the distant Y. M. C. A. “Can’t you do something for these boys that are being brought in here?” the officer in charge de- manded. “What can we doT” “Something to eat and smokes. Coffee. A bite and a smoke do & wounded man more good than any- thing else. Do you know some of those boys have been out there in that for two days with nothing to eat but hardtack!” So the Y. sent its men and its trucks; it made coffes, it brought such fruft as it could; it carried chocolate bars. e “Here you are, sport,” said one of them, coming into the courtyard. t “Here’s a cup of chocolate.” The boy reised himself painfully on his elbow and reached for the cup—then he motioned it away. “I hain’t hurt much—and there's & lot of guys here that's messed bad. You hain’t got enough to go around. Git busy.” “I've got smokes and hot choco- 1ate for every man. Go ahead.” “Honest? T won’t be robbin’ none of them birds?” “Honest.” The boy drenk—and was trans- formed. He lay back with & cizar- ette between his lips, with his eyes closed, and the expression on his dirty face was such a reward as fow men ever earn. “That's Hvin".” he sald softly. OUT OF THE BATTLE FLAME One boy was brought in with a broken leg. It had been an accident and not a wound won In battle. He had gntten in the way of a motor troek “Jest fix me up out here What you can,” he said. “You get to the hospital, son.” “Nix. Hospital's for those fellows that’s hurt. I just got a busted pin. You fix me here and leave me here ‘When you git a chance.” Somewhere, some time, they had all gotten this thing. It had come to them out of the flame and crash of battle; it had been carried to them on clouds of searing, noxious gas; 1t had awakened In them through suffering and through the cight of suffering. They were the same, yet they were not the same. They were not gentls, yet one fancied he could detect a gentle- ness in their voices. But out of the battle and the suffering, some- thing better than they had ever known came to them. There was utter ignoring of seif, and it was a thing wonderful to witness. “We've got to have a new word in the language,” said a Captain- surgeon, “Game won't do. These boys are something more than game. I've never seen anything like it. I don’t know what it is.” Bven he, inured to suffering and to scenes THEY OUGHT TO @I THE CROY DE GERR — THEM BIRDS OUGHT TO of bloodshed, wiped his eyes. “They’re—they're—why, damn it all, they’re something! Nobody was ever like them.” One man lay inside on a mattress on the floor. His chest was rising and falling as he struggled for breath. “He’s on his way,” said the doctor to a Y man who was acting as orderly, nurse, assistant, anything. The Y man went over and touched the boy”s forehead. “How about it, old man?” he said. “Kind of—lonesome....Maybe Yyou....oould sit....here till....~. IT WAS BORN OF AGONY The Y man sat down and a hand struggled toward him. He took it and held 1t in his own, and he whispered to the boy a moment. Maybe it was a prayer. Whatever the words, it was a pgayer. The wounded man lay still, his hand in the hand of the friend who had come to him in his last dark moment—his 1ast glorious moment. He was giving his utmost for his country. The Y man sat still until THE Y MAN SAT STILL UNTR. THE HAND GREW LIMP AND LIFELES the hand grew I'mp and lfeless u his own, and then he moved away to other errands, for it was a night demanding much of men. The courage of the battleflel§ seems to be a common commodity; but the courage to bear without flinching; to realize the approach of death without crying out; te reach a moment when you know you must face life maimed, without arm, leg, eye—and not to cu with black rage or cory out wi despair—that {8 another kind of courage. But it was there. Not ons man had it, but it seemed as if all those wounded had ft—it was not the gameness of the bulldog. It ‘was something that had to do with the soul. It was greatness, it was fineness, it was a thing that com- pelled the watcher to uncover his head and stand bared in its pres- ence. MUST COIN NEW WORD ‘They were Americans. Perhaps it was their birthright. More likely it was a new thing; rcewly born of the day and the business of the day. Whatever ft was, whenever and however it came, it was present. This had been written with re- pression, with a striving for under- statement, with a wish to tell the truth. The thing wes there. They brought it back with them. “How are you yuaking it, sport?.. . .Here's a oup of coffee.” “You come arouad to me safter you've glve some to the boys over there, g’hey need it.” That s what was there. It has réad something new into the meaning of the words American Soldier. As the doctor said, seme new word must be coined to designate it. It was born of batile and agony.