New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1918, Page 12

120 7 W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918, NELEPHONE SERVICE | “Aerican Tudiams Go Abros Dr. Mott Chosen Director of First Y. M.C. A. W as Prisoncr FECTEDBYPLARE Ao Workemsbor ed g | SL70000.000 War Fund Drive lgmred Denee To A cagers | As Workers For Re tangl. g 4 ST Tllll‘[y Per Cent. of New Britain | Two American (ndians have ff g oeen sent abroad pny the Na- Force Has Iniluenza | tionat War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A, one tor service with 3 & the British iroops in Egypt and one The epidemic of Spanish influenza has made serious inroads on the oper- o Jrancelforimor ey tilth ofin ating forces of the Southern New | dians with the American Expedi- England Telephone Co. through- | tionary Force. QuEgthepsiats | Leander Newton Gansworth, of In some of the small offices the en- ! Davenport, fowa, volunteered for o “?'n:n]”” 1[““‘“:;;y‘:‘;"i}‘fl'}’_‘:” o work with the Tndian troops in the g e e e American army and is mow in Gent lof khel opemtonstara il andon f'rance. He was born in Lewiston, duty and th ati staffs in the N. Y., where his father, two broth- larger offices > n considerably reduced by sickness and by the neces- sity of withdrawing girls from their uate of Carlisle College and is said work in the cities and sending them | the nearby small towns to take the pla rls who are ill. Clond. Before entering upon Red Operators have gone from the Haven office to several of the sn exchanges in the vicinity of that | retary of the Allied Printing Trades ecity, and ()(V?‘.P\'\’ have gone from ; council of Davenport, Rock Island Hartford, New London, Waterbury e and Bridgepori to small exchang and Moline, and secretary and trea- near those cities, to hold up the serv- surer of the Review Publishing ice. The transfer or these operators, e Z cotipled Wwith the fact that the epi- company of Davenport. He received ers and a sister live. He is a grad- to be a relative of the famous Red Triangle work he was financial sec- demie has_ laid low so many girls in military, athletic and gymnastic these, Targe exchanges, has made it _ G 2 diffictit“for the company to maintain | training at Carlisle and after leav- sice in large centers at- the ing college was a high school foot- 1 high standard _ Figures zathered by the traflic of- hall coach for a time. ficials of the company clearly show S. Ralph Walkingstick, of 218 _\”‘;;Nn'-"{: dfll,,,',v,‘:]”":,-m,tfllj & 5 “'.:i East Colvin street, Syracuse, N. Y., ease. In Hartford 25 per cent. of the ! who was sent to Egypt, is a Cher- force is laid up. New Haven reported 21 operators sick New l.ondon Y per cent. of its operators ill, Nc quah, Oklahoma where he sorved o fBIE 9B meicens, Wil L as a Y. M. C. A. secretar; LEANDER NCWTON GANSWORTH o cent.. Merlden 35 per cent, Winsted iRl % & DALPU WALKINGSTICK Photo copyright by Underwood & Underwood ytle, Writing from Camp at his task until the Germans cap- 25 per cent..New DBritain 30 per cent., i . tured him. Middletows pér: cent. Bris : S DR. JOHN R. MOTT Limberg, Says That He By post card Lytle writes from| per cent., Norwich 30 per’ cont e o . Is Sound and Well bis place of imprisonment that he limantic nt., Putnam 30 per | . o oon i doir utmost to meet HGYS EAT SUfiAR Dr. John R. Mott, chief executive of the Y. M. C. A., who has been elected is sound and well. The Y. M. C. A. cent, and in many, if not all of the | " Giation as best it can, hy earn- G iof the United War Work Campaign to raise $170,000,000 Carl Dewing Lytle, of Northfield, Will make an effort to get food other exchanges the pe Siataa | o slntion Sy R il Dirsston Cenereoftls rking to sustain and and clothing and other comforts! HEO R cstly soliciting the services of exper- BT for the seven war service organizations which are wo Mass., a non-combatant who was high as the average of those men- | ' 4" o none operators who have EUNSIENEH Tfl HUN increase the morale of the American and other Allied soldiers. Dr. Mott eaDtaredl byl ihal Germanslintihe to him in the prison camp. i okee Indian. He was born in Tahle- tioned. P S i A v en- of the big November drive for funds at a = While the French were retreating Precautions against the spread of | LIt he services bu are mo mow en ;2’;;{’,E‘;Zi“re‘,?,e‘;fiam'fix the & MG A the V. W. O A, the National French retreat east and west of for strategical reasons, Y. M. C. A the disease among operators have | Follo e\ “cunvass of former Catholie War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, | Solssons during the first week in workers, like Lytle, stayed withi Deen taicen by the company, 0 far a8 ;o utors, not employed out of the American Library Association and the War Camp Community Service. | June, is the first Y. M. C. A. pris- the troops during the rearguard! . 1k tomslbIayy The operating rooms are | PPSF TS MOy SEROVEC SURLEE T S[Ores Smppfld Tm’ee Yea]‘s Ago oner of war. Official confirmation fighting, gathering and distributing! filled " with:'tvesh #ir at frequent in-| F0 OWCS S NS E H ave Datriot- i = = : S of Lytle’s detention in a Hun camp supplies. Four “Y” men joined the tervals and close attention is given to | SrooS @0¢ somie of these Aave P ; | tred 5 watchmen have been chocolate was (he article most in de- | at Limburg has been received at staff of a base hospital and worked! \ly consented to return to the (iven to Ar[fly the health of the girls. In addition: the rates, the would-be thieves and | mand; and, ever since, the factories Lh’e headquarters of the National 20 hours a day as stretcher-bearers the transmitters used by the opera ea the weather conditions to have that | have been mixing. the sugar into| War Work Council of the Y. M. and nurses. { tors are disinfected every night. Inj % """ > | ? sugar sweet and clean, ready tor ship- [ chocolate bars. C. A. Lytle sailed for France on Janusi ordinary circumstances this is done The public, now doing so much to| Paris, Aug. 30, ¥ Mail.)—When | ment on the shortest ble call. The thousand tons will soon come Lytle was attached to the French ary 3 as a secretary. He is 88 but once a week, but conditions are! help many lines of essential business ! You say quick, ¢ sand tons of It's said that Swiss agents bought | forth in 10,000,000 bars of the finest army. Amid a rain of gas shells, years old and unmarried. He was! such that a daily disinfection is r during the period of the war is asked ! sugar seems a small amount. But }inhe s the French authori- | eating chocolate. And when the sol- he went into a burning village to principal of a grammar school in garded as a good measure of minimiz- | to give consideration to the troubles’ When vou sit down to contemplate it ; ties, . ¢ the quantity, did a | diers who zet that chocolate learn | rescue refugees in spite of the fact Nonhgem before he joined the ~¥."| ing the danger of contagion. | of the telenhc company. e t ' You begin to realize that even in nor- {little grubbing »und, with the re-|th the sugar in m was intended that thousand;i of the enemy were Overseas forces. He speaks Frenah; The situation is a serious onec for | the telephone for really necessary .mal times a thousand tons is a con- | sult that they became reasonably ce for German tummies, can't you pic- rushing into the place. He stuck to fluently, the telephone company to say the | calls only, would help the company |siderable quantity and that in these | tain that the sugar would go straig] tnre rins that they will wear? | least. Before the epidemic the com- | out of its troubles. It is requested | d of su r ircity it is a great | through to Germany. Wherefore th Can’t you now? pany was handicapped to some ex-|by the company that the telephone, | deal more. took charge of it on its ival and tent by a scarcity of operators, s | recoznized by the Government as an | Put it in simple terms and yvou sit | packed it away in a warehouse, far, well as other kinds of labo inst | essential of the first class, be regard- UD. You cannot imagine, much less | far from the Fatherland. H this condition was an ever incri : as such and that it be used, count, the number of cups of coffee { Of course the owners protested. | 73 %27 demand for service. Then to the ex- | the {ime being at least, for essential |it would sweeten or the millions of | The French merely smiled and hung E Y ing difficulties duc to the abnormal | calls only. Social conversations, ex- | three-layer, home grown chocolate | on, They h the sugar safely tied | conditions under which many busi- | change of minor neighborhood affairs that it would make. Reduce it} yp and they kept it so until some nesses are laboring, came this epi- | and such like, over the tetephone, 10 & ale or lemon pop and the | weeks ago when they and the Ameri- | demic to further.deplete the already | make of that hand nd mighty use- sts at it would quench would | can authoritic ot together to decide limited number of good telephone | ful instrument a non-essential which turn all the camels in the world into | on its disposition. Not to be mean operators. is taking the time and use of equip- teetotallers for envy about it, they as that the sugzar The. conditions which bring about | ment and labor needed to carry the | Or if you >pen to have a small | should be put up at auction, and sold the present troubles in the telephone | vital work assigned to one of the;Poy handy, call him jn and ask him | {o the highest hidder. Out of the service, it i apparent, are not such most cssentis es of the nation, | If there is a half an ounce of sugar | (gta] the original owners were to get | {in all-day sucker how many suckers | {heir share. | your 2,000,000 pounds of sugar will produce. Perhaps you may even be 22l ; ‘able to figure it out yourself. concerns soon heard of the proposed D = " whilel vaul are setting at | austionland Eoifon) the tranisolnia | ?’y/ result, you might like to know [the Y. M. C. A. which was just then | / 3 . that for three years a thousand tons |in need of sugar to keep its factories ) /// Don t Polson Baby. of first-grade American sugar has | running full time. The “Y¥” bid top- / & Wz been lying in a French warehouse ed ali others and got the sugar. B BTG FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have D e e — switchboard till the trouble has SRR IR Several big private sugar-raising SN N = ) | keep it safe from German hands, For |- The “Y” could have made many, 4 - PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce ' nyee venrs watchman have been | many things from that sugar. But : » sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP | .yarding it day and nght. And for | the supply department agreed that FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who | . % i have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda- e et ooy of oo e Proouctet b bruggis | NEW ALLIED VICTORY IN PICARDY to anybody without labelling them ‘‘poison.” The definition of ¢‘ narcotic” is : “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison- ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death.” The taste and smell of medicines containing oEium are disguised, and sold under the names of “ Drops,” ‘“ Cordials,” * Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of M: V. FRIUIBIIN 135 Main St ATTRACTIVE FALL axo WINTER STYLES Our stock of Tallored Coats. Suits, Dres-es and Skirts is the SN Jargest and most varied in the city. It in need of one and want to g 3 i 7 5 \ A By DANIEL. HENDERSON beesyoll, dressed, call and inspect our stocks and you will be con- [ 3 % 2 ; : « | : ‘ 5 s RN e e R i L4 N { HAT do you build when you bml\‘i aseYaur Where caste is banished, and sect is gone, | L b ] o " | A home-roof under a foreign sky ! But the Ten Commandments thunder A A little house by the side of the road Where Youth gains manhood to deny Where a brother eases his pressing load! The ceaseless lure of the Lorelei. - > e el : X = Where still the Good Samaritan Where America spans the seas to dwell i TaWTL 1o SCAlY SOISSON: - = May come and be a friend to man! With her knightly men on the rim of helif “We also have an abundant supply of Waists in the latest styles and odlers, and priced to suit every lady in this city and vicinity, ATERATIONS FREF. ":s‘.cfi?algg_ée 2 i Where a lonesome lad, in a woman’s eyes, Can see his mother’s face arise! \ hut that father’s love has founded! \taericn Amnu .m; Ir pied. he American W ,) at di- ! \‘\ here a chap can te what he longs to say A place that mother’s love has bounded! | troops sinashed the foe in Picardy s i wdvancing on the front | T 1 B 3 ) ) o a true blue girl in the U. S. A.! A spot by sweetheart’s love surrounded | completely he is retreating quite r marked with o United States fag 7 S : o s idly. 'The heavy line is the frent be- | The French are on fhe south. east of Where there are a hundred brands of joy A taste of home for hearts that sigh— fore ths attack. Tne shaded belt | St. Queniln. The rest ol the [ront iz To welcome and cheer a homesick boy ! It is this you build when vou build *Y." shows approximately the territory oc- | British