New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 6

(] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, ‘New / Britain Merald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Assu2d daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., &t Herald Bullding. 67 Church St futeret. at the Post Office at New Britaln ®s Rocond Ciass Mail Matter. TELEPHONE CALLS Business Ommce Bdirorial Rooms The onlv profitable advertising wedium 1 the city Circulation books and Dr rocm always open to advertisers The iTersld wiil be found on sale at Fota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad: way, New York City; Board Walk. At iantic City. and Hartford Depot Momber of the Associated Pross. The Associated Prews ls exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news creditec to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local ne#s ed heretn Y earnestly request every patri- otic American to leave to the gov- ernments of the United States and of the Allics the momentous discussions initiated by Germany and to remember that for each man his duty is to strengthen , the hands of thesc governments ® % * by subscribing to the ut- most of his ability for bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan.—Pres- ident Wilson. WAKE UP, BOYS 4 GIRLS What is the matter with the schoolchildren of New Britain? Why are they not out hustling for Fourth Liberty Loan sub- seriptions? Why do they neg- lect the opportunity of winning two $50 Liberty Bonds, offered as prizes by a local manufac- the dren of this city who bring in, respectively, the la ‘wr of subscriptions and the dollars for Al- made turer to two schoolchild- est num largest number of the Fourth Liberty Loa though the offer was through the Herald last week, and despite the fact that re- peated references to it have been subscquently these so far as is known, has shown made in only one columns, boy. in the contest. This young man realized the opportunity thus afforded and is making the most of it. He spi Young America. But where are What is showing the true of the others? about the rest of the army of approxi- mately 10,000 school children? What arc they doing, and why are not many of them striving for these two splendid prizes? gome of them Possibly are 3 working for the Loan, but un- less they send in their names with the results of their en- deavors, there will be no rec- ord of what they have done be 0 and the bonds can only awarded to those known have tried to earn them. There lert. The Saturddy are only two days contest will close evening at 8 o'clock, when all be recorded at returms must the Herald office. The winners will be day. GIRLS! announced next Mon- AKE UP, BOYS AND GERMANY CRACKING—BUY! MORE PEACE TALK. Not so very long ago it was poini- ed out in these columns that an in- would We tensive peace campaign be launched by Germany are now In the midst of it. We have been warned by those who know that it was being prepared, and now it here. Floyd Gibbons, wounded Am- srican war correspondent, emphasized this point the moment he arrived in the United States, fresh from the trenches, and he has been driving it home ever since. What the enemy wants is peace by negotiation. Hc mows the war is lost and Bqually well that pease Germany is doomed. he knows unless hostilities Theretore the wily Hun is trying desperately to arrange an armistice so that his cities may be spared the fate of Louvain Belgian and hid and hundreds of other Vbreneh gcommunities. the war were to end at once, the Germans would consider a draw as good as a victory, inasmuch as there has been no invasion of their soil except In Alsace-Lorraine. The which pushed into ast Prussia early in the war, are no longer a fac- tor. Let us, thercfore, take no stock emanating al- in the numerous rumors neutral capitals about the the from leged abdication of kaiser, the disruption of the German armies and all the other stories which greet us daily in the press. The newspapers print them as news, but they are al- ways careful state the source of the to information, so thut the reader may judge for himself as to its au- thenticity. These rumors are circu- lated Ly Hun publicity agents who have headquarters in every neutral country in Europe. It is their busi- ness to give the world the impression that is repentant and will- ing to make all concessions demand- ed by the Allies. But in the interim, Germany Hun soldiers continue to despoil and burn wherever they are compelled to had numero him Russian armies | sisting leave country it ish is the greater since they Apd That opportunities to meet and appreciate his qualities as general and a gentleman. He was most courteous in the matter of as- Americans in his distr to Holland. He always for fo pro- fessed warmn admiration this wich he lnows thoroughly The fact that such an able general | opposed the Allies, makes their vie- 1 all the true soldier”alv tory in Belgiu more bril- liant. Your tys ap- preciates a worthy foe, and the cred- Belgians, due the French and Brit- have de- feated one of the hest generals in the whole German army. GIERMANY CRACKING—BUY! FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN. B, ght reserved) (Copy: The Kaiser's peace proposal we have conned, deem the Bond; That's the slogan that will win, That's the ticket to Berlin will boost the Allies in, Bond. fitting answer, Buy a Buy a N retreat, and even now the German Admiralty is thought to be preparing for another tremendous submarine campaign. So it behoves us to pay no tention to these storles. “Ger- many is cracking”, says Secretary Lansing More pressure B and she will break.” ure means right now an oversubscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan. 'Nuff said CRACKING—BUY! GERMANY RECOGNITION OF POLAND. In every corner of the globe, Polés and those of Polish blood are rejoic- ing today at the announcement from London of Britain of the Polish national army as the recognition by Great autonomous, The allied and co-belliger- ent. momentous announcement is contained in the following dis- patch: London, 16.—The British recognized the . Oct government has Polish national army as autono- mous, allied and co-belligerent, according to an official an- The news will be particularly grat- ifying to those of Polish birth or ex- traction in this country, from whose ranks the Polish army in France was largely recruited. No doubt the other Adli will and the United States as well, follow Great Britain’s No example of recognition. other of the smaller nations deserves tg be recog- Though invaders, nized more than by the Poles. downtrodden ruthless the sons of Poland have ever been in aceord in The by perfect with the Allies, whom they saw their liberators. recognition of the Polish Army Great Britain is different from that accorded the Czecho-Slovaks. Bohemia has been recognized as a belligerent state according to the legal definition, for Bohemia is a political and mli- tary entity, although, for obvious rea- directed The Jugo-Slavs sons, this entity is from abroad have been recognized as belligerents without an established government the the Polish Army or recog- nized territory. Now military government of is recognized as an autonomous organi- zation which awaits political and ter- ritorial identification. { GERMANY CRACKING—BUY! THIE HUN ROUT IN BELGIUM. “Poday’s advices from the front con- 17 Ger- the command of vey the pleasant news that man divisions, under General Sixt von Arnim, have end of the from Ostend to Lille. been routed on the ‘northern we This comprising a4 40-mile iront, has been ‘ern front, important ip of territory, zealously gnarded by the Germans since they occupied it in 1914, and their wild flight from it now gives us an idea of the p ious position in | wheh they found themselves after the King And it terrific onslaught by the troops off Albert and Field Marshal Haig. is no mean opponent who has been decisively defeated by them General von Arnim is regarded as the ablest strategists in the Although advanced one of German army. in years, he Is still very active and an able leader. Prior to the outbreak of war, he was stationed at Magde- burg. Prussia. where he commanded the 4th army corps. There the writer The The Till Take accepted as a tute for a restless day of rest.—New York World. a good the News. did soldiers in France. ed it, Germany’s foot a imperial Germany a gun aimed eves. understands. Courier. ser's 1s a fake, most conclusive answer make Is to batter down his guard Keep on hitting, hitting hard, the spirit of Autocracy break. K peace propos are we can shall That is what our boys will do across the pond, can do it here Buy a Bond; That's the slogan that will win, Come on fellows let’s begin Now to pony up the tin, Buy a Bond. You and now, just another if can, then some more, Every blessed Bond will help win the war, That's the slogan that will win All the way to old Berlin Where we’ll make the men of sin pay the score. —WILLIAM G. you RODGERS. AND FANCIES. is now everywhere onable war substi- ess Sunds rea Gas It's well worth $10 a vear'to have occupation in a country like United States. — Indianapolis If required to rebuild all he has nouncement tonight. destroyed the Hun will be sentenced to “hard for generations. tar labor Washington many Reading the war news we agree with the correspondents that the be- ginning of the end again has begun.— Emporia Gazette. Is Prince Maximilian stronger than the German army and the German navy? the and Empi Unless he is he cannot stop Entente forces.—Toronto Mail 5 the grip we had 1,800,000 If Germany start- slipped once Courier-Citizen By heaven not break the mercy of until n.—Lowell There is only one way of meeting and that is with at the whites of her the only language she ew Haven Journal- That is Another good plan kaiser would be to dress him in Palm Bach suit and stand him by a muddy spot in the road while all the American tanks splashed by him in review. the 2 to punish It may be of interest to recall that when Austria’s peace proposal so abruptly rejected the Germa; chancellor declared that nevertheles: peace was nearer than people sus- pected.—Springfield Republican. not understand complains the German newspaper. sometimes, in our artless way, we wonder if the sagacious marshal hasn’t constructed his strategy pur- posely to produce that effect.—Mil- waukee Sentinel Foch’s military And We do strategy,” critic of Retu Soldier Brooklyn Eagle.) of the after-war before the country of the Interior rms 1o ned (The About the sanest plans so far put is that of Secretary Tane for putting returned soldie upon farms, a twentieth centur adaption of the old slogan of the Freedman’s Bureau, “Forty acres and a mule” for the freed negroes. Aside from the patriotic which gave to the plan its impulse it should be valuable ¢ bringing under cultivation large areas of land which is now wasted. The need of more farms and better farming has been shown by the war. That need is not likely to decrease hecause our war shipping will extend the market for our crops and there will be steadily more and more mouths to be fed. The Lane plan is sound so far as the sol- diers are concerned and it wili be needed for the development of greater food supply a Ten St (The Waterbu In his speech attacking the Kitchin $8,000,000,000 tax bill. Rpresentative Moore of Pennsylvania points out “that the Administration receives its strongest political support from 10 States which pay but one-fifth of the tax.” All of which is in accordancs with Mr. Kitchin's announcement that as the North wanted the war, the North could pay for it. was | Tax-Free Income Taxed. York Times.) Title 1 of the war revenue bill in its provisions respecting income from tax-exempt securities keeps the promise o the ear and breaks it to the hope. Hitherto, interest paid or accrued aring the year has been deductible from the amount in- come for taxation. The Ll pending provides for a simi- lar deduction, but the provision de- liberately defeats its own intent. Sec- tion 214, rating the deductions allowed 1 computing uet income, in- of the deductions: or accrued with- on indebtedness ss of interest received free from taxation under this titl The inter cived free from tax- ation under that title includes tne in- come from obligations of a state, territory or political division thereof, or of the District of Columbia, securi- ties issued under the provisions of the Iederal Farm Loan act, and obli- gations of the United States or of it possessions. It is plain that the ef. fect of this section is to deny to the taxpayer the advantage of exemption in terms granted as to income from government, state, municipal or other exempted urities. Take an example. If the interest paid or accrued during the year on debts owed by the taxpayer amounts, say, to $10,000, he should be allowed to deduct that sum from his income before computing the tax. That has been allowed hitherto. But under this bill he will deduct only so much of the $10,000 as represents the ex- cess over the interest he receives from taxfree securfties, If, for in- stance, he in receipt of $5,000 in interest on the first Liberty Ioan bonds, which are free of all taxes, he will be allowed a deduction of only $5,000 of the $10,000 paid out or ac- cruing on his debts. In effect there- fore, he is to be made to pay interest on his income from the 3% per cent. FJovernment loan. He receives $5,000 in interest from the government, nominally not taxable, but for that reason he loses the benefit of a de- duction of $5,000 in his interest item. The draft upon the pocketbook or his bank account is the me as it would be if the law allowed him to make the deduction of $10,000 paid out in interest and then taxed him on his income from the 3% per cents. In either case he has the benefit of a net deduction of only $5,000. The same denial of the benefit of deducting interest paid is effected by the second paragraph of section 234, relating to taxes of corporations. These provisions of the bill have an unpleasant air of evasion and decep- tion. Théy rob the taxpayer of his promised and expected exemption as to income from tax-free securities. Mr. McAdoo’s bill. allowing a limited exemption from the surtaxes on in- comes derived from the later issues of the Liberty bonds has been readily ac- cepted by the house. Mr. Kitchin’s committee should go further and bring in an ‘;inr'ndx‘npnt removing the high- (New ot assessed now enum one rid year cludes tiis “All interest p in the taxabl * * in exc st e is Iy objeftionable limitations upon the deduction allowed for interest ments,’ paj The Siege of Germany. (New York Times) The guns of the fortress of are in action. Thus far has the first intiative of the American army pro- ceeded in the making of history. Tt is a long way to the taking of Metz, perhaps; but It is not a long w the artillery command of the coal ficld by the Allied forces. would not be so spectacul tory as the capture of Met tinued through the winter, be a real and heavy disaster enemy. Even if the American ck had had no such object, it would still have served Foch's general purpose of striking the enemy from every point of the compass, so as to weaken his strength and make it impossible for him to reinforce any threatened point. Today, for instance, Haig is pushing his advance toward St. Quen- tin, Mangin is before Malmaison, and the Serbians and French are climbing the Macedonian ridges. Perhaps there are Bulgarians on the west front, perhaps not; but if there are, no more wiil be sent there, and if Metz Briey That a to the | there are not, none at all will be sent there. 1In whatever direction Luden- dorff casts his eyes for help, a new attack from the Allies immediately begins. Even the minor operations of the Ttalians in the Brenta Valley are sufficient to wor the Aus ans into keeping their forces where they are, and may have been begun in response to the news thar Austrians were go- ing to the French fronts. What success we are the Far East is less ea but of one thing we may achieving in to find out, be sure, the | Bolshevist { Teceive points | the aspect | | man | for reports of defeats inflicted llies are made out of whole All the trustworthy news we to the redemption of a. Meanwhile, even Bolsheviki admit their defeat on the Archangel front, though why they should tell the truth in this one instance must remain for the present an inscrutable mystery. While the German armies are being held in place by a succession of «blows from different directions, while the process of exhaustion of their power is becoming more and more rapid, it is the duty of the Al- lies not to siacken their blows, but to increase them. Germany may have hoped for some slackenir but if she did, how significant a commen- tary on her hopes is supplied by yes- terday’s news from Washington War Department calling on Cong $7,347,000,000, of which $1,98 000,000 s for armament and $1,2 854,000 for transportation. That last item means simply that as Germany's man power fails the man power of the Allies is to increase; that as Ger- many weakens they are to grow stronge-. On the defensive everyvwhere, and now plainly unable to regain the of- fensive anywhere from lack of men, this Washington item is not the least ignificant one in the catalogue of rmany’s troubles. She knows what has happened to her in 1918, and by reading the Washington news she on the cloth. Western Sibe; OCTOBER i, can form an estimate of what will happen to her in 1919. England’s Christmas Pudding. (Yorkshire Observer) The Secretary to the War forwards the following: At the request of the Army Coun- cil the Director General of Voluntary Organjzation is this year again mak- ing arrangements with contractors for the supply of a sufficient quantity plum pudding for the purpose of ing a ration of one-half pound pudding to every soldier serving British Expeditonary Forces ters of war, whether in the hosp! overseas, pudding Mesopotamia force being through India. The Direc- neral has only been able to make the necessary arrangements with the assistance of the Food Con- troller and the Sugar Commission. In view of the congestion of traffic and the necessity - for economizing transport it wiil not be possible to grant facilities for the conveyance of consignments of plum pudding, other than those referred to, and the Army Council hope that the pub- lic will refrain from dispatching plum puddings to the troops abroad. The whole expense of providing the re- quired quantity to enable every sol- dier scrving with the British army overseas to receive one-half pound of pudding each will be borne by the Expeditionary Force canteen funds. Office of of with the in all thes: field or in for the supplied tor and the Kaiser. (¥rom the Atlanta Constitution.) For a short time the Kaiser has secmed to neglect the god he manu- factured for his war purposes, but re- cent events on the western front have constrained him to bring his god into it once more. But instead of “May God help fur- ther,” we have a prayer that Germany may “stand firm,” and—not shake all to pieces, which concludes with: “May God grant it!” Quite a comedown—that, “May God help further,” and wonderfully God is assisting u The reason for the change i war news, as it comes daily from the battle fronts, and it is llkewise in this brief summary from the Fort Worth, Texas, Record: “Germany is on the run. “Germany has a broken backbone. “Germany has a bankrupt treasury. “Germany has a miserable morale. “Verdun settled the day for Ger- many. “Peace may not come this vear. Peace may not come next year, but the German cause is a dying cause and military autocracy is nearing its end. “Billions of American money will be spent this year. Millions of American soldiers and sailors will be sent over the seas. “All the world for democracy. “All the world is to be relieved, of the Prussian menace. This is the way it is written in the book of destiny.” It is, indeed, “written that way,” 1d that's the way it has been zoing right along since Foch showed the Hun that he knows how to handle him now; and struck him here, and beat him there, and smashed him every- where! “May God help further!” And that's what the God of a human-hearted world seems now to be doing on humanity’s'side! God from “How is to be made safe Fighting and Service. (The Seattle Post and Intelligencer.) Those Americans who! have been prevented by age or physical inability from going to war need not feel that war is of necessity all on the other side of the Atlanic, nor that they may not confer patriotic service to the na- tion without donning a uniform. The men and women who support the business structure of the United States have a national service assigned to them no less important than the work of the men at the front. We are just beginning to feel the full strain expenses. The huge sum of tax money nec v to finance the Government for the coming vear has heen fixed at between eight billion and eight billion two hundred million of dollars, apart from the requirements of financing the Liberty Loan, War Savings and auxiliary help to the army. Local tax requircments, swelled by the emergent expenses of the times and the higher cost of living and d ing business increase the average citi- zen’s apportionment of expense out of all proportion to any Tecord of the or the Federal, Tax imposed by the new Revenue bill the contributions of the country, it is stated, amount to approximately $30 per month for each family, if spread equally. The folks at home have, therefore, a task cut out for them during the coming year that awill enable them to feel that soldier service is not the only service a good citizen may render his coun- try in war time. Nobody is to be slighted. If we meet the home obli- gations imposed upon us adequately and with good heart we shall wear the Cross of War in our hearts if not up- on our breasts, To accomplish this we must keep the structure of business vitalized; the machinery must be rengthened where necessary, and retained in per- fect condition. We must make and earn much money, and we must have adequate profit for our work to the end that we may take our increment and support the war Government with it. The man or woman at home may give no better service to the nation than exerting a one hundred per cent. efficiency in his or her daily grind of home duty. Happily a great and abundant volume of business is ready at hand for us, and those who are meecting its obligations are serving the nation when they use the proceeds to finance the myriad calls for Govern- ment help that are made upon them. ATRMEN SAVE T N T. Washington, Oct. 16.—Eight million pounds of T N T were saved from de- struction during the recent fire at the Gillespie shell-loading plant at Mor- gan, N. J., by an army airplane which flew over the wrecked works at an al- titude of 1,000 feet and directed the fight against the flames. The war de- partment announced the feat today, disclosing that the plane was piloted by Lieut. Cyrus F. Smith, with Major H, L. Armstrong as observer, LIST OF NEW BOOKS EVERGREEN TREE, by P. W. Mac- Kaye. “The author has created a modern miracle play which will be welcomed by schools, churches and communi theaters. The masque is accompan- ied'by three monographs: 1, Drama- tizing community song; 2, Commun- ity music and the composer; 3, De- signs for the evergreen tre A. L. A. Booklist. . a e FORTY YEARS IN Marks. BURMA, by J. P GO GET 'EM!, Well- man. The true adventures of an Ameri- can aviator of the Lafayette Ilying Corps who was the only Yankee flyer fighting over General Pershing’s boy of the Rainbow Division in Lorrain. when they first went “over the top”. P GOOD NEIGHBOR IN THE MOD- ERN CITY, by M. E. Richmond. e w JOYS OF BEING A WOMAN, AND OTHER PAPERS, by Winifred Kirkland. “The joy of being the woman questionable; the joy of reading this book of essays is not.” v o NEMESIS OF MEDIOCRITY, A. Cram. “A gloomy arraignment, unrelieved by palliating circumstance, of pr ent-day democracy and all its works —Nation. 1 Cram is a distinguished archi- tect and his writing has most of the defects and also some of the virtues of ‘artist'’s criticism’.”—Springfield Republican. by William A. is by R. oo REVOLUTIONARY by B. Peixotto. N STAKES OF THE WAR, by adard. Summary of the various problems, claims and interests of the nations at the peace table. PRrg For War Gardencrs. The best time to study gardening PILGRIMAGE, . L. Stod- AT THE NEW BR ITAIN INSTITU' is in the Fall and Winter, Profit| k last summer’s mistakes. Take ngj of what you read. The library by many more books for amateurs an professionals. BEAN CULTURE, by S CABBAGE AND CAULIFLOWER, Y Allen. G . Sevey. Bolton Hall . < HOW TO GROW VEGETABLE AND GARDEN HERBS, by Frend GARDEN YARD, by HOW TO by Morrison MAKE A GARDEN nd Brues, PA NEW ONION CULTURE, by Grein| er. P PUTNAM'S VEGETABLE Croy. BOOK, bl TOMATO CULTURE, by Tracy. Fiction. AMERICAN PEP, by A. Stone A tale of America’s eflicienc CITY OF MASKS, by Cutcheon. i .5 KHAKI; HOW TREDICK GQT THE WAR, . Tilden. N “It is a story with a purpose an the author has done his hit for thy stimulation of a broad and unselfl | patriotism. Tn the hands of a les careful writer the drama would b only melodrama, but Mr. Tilden i thoughtful and serious enough t redeem his story from such imputa¥ tion.”—Springfield Republican. * .o LITTLE RED HOT { LOW, by A. B. Hall. “The /story is full of mesticity, a gay and ment.”—N. Y. Times. e THOMAS, by H. B. Creswell e | ZEPPELIN'S PASSE! Oppenheim. G B M INTS by IN THE HOLy ) a pretty dal blithe senttd GER, by E. P DEFICIENCY BILL OF $6,643, 733,660 Covers Military, Naval and Givil Branches of Government Washington, Oct. great appropriation bill, carrying $2,487,403,890 in—eash and $3,858,- 349,776 in authorizations a total of $6,645,755,666, was introduced ta the house of representatives yesterday. The measure officially the “first de- ficiency appropriation bill” for the fiscal year ending next June is intend- ded to make up the deficits in the military, naval, and clvil establish- ments. Immediate consideration was give: by the house to the bill, and leaders said it would be passed tomorrow. A cut of more than $2,500,000,000 was made by the appropriation com- mittee from the original estimates submitted in the bill. The army asked for $8,599,889,509, receives $6,- 152,062,704, the sum of $2,293,712,9 bing in cash. The navy requested $1250,064,601 and received $107,177,- 450, all in cash. The cut in the civil $86,475,183. Of the qriginal civil esti- mates $134,000,000 w for payment of military and naval family allow- ances, but the committee reduced this to $70,000,000. The committee submitted the fol- lowing schedule in its report: Bstimates all quested in cash Amount granted cash Reduction in cash Amount of quested wh granted in form of tion Net reduction timates . This net reduction distributed as follows Military establish- ment and War De- partment, includ- ing fortifications .$2,447,826,894.86 Naval establishment 17. — Another re- ..$8,886,131,651.49 in 2,847,405,890.04 6,398,725,761.45 $58,849.776.00 G 40,376,985.45 ment e ivil services, includ- ing $64,000,000 for payment of mili- tary and naval family allowance. . $2,540,375,985.4F Total reduction Necessarily the appropriations for | the army were huge, has been characteristic since the entrance of | the country into the war. The Quar- termaster Corps received $1,635,821,- , all but $15,750,000 being in h. The Ordnance Department re- ceived $3 42, of which 656,866 v as as in cash. The new branch of Chemical Warfare received $250,- 000,00 the Medical Corps and Hos- pital Department, $95,000,000: the Signal Corps, $95.000,000; the Divi- sion of Milit: Aeronautics, $60,- 000,000; the Provost Marshal Gen- eral’s office, (expenses of registration, etc.), $20,000,000 and the Engineer Corps, $326,250,000. The larger sums in the navy appro- priations and authorizations were: $11,185,301 for ordnance and ord- nance stores; $26, for new batteries for ships; 30,000 for | ammunition for vessels, $15,000,000 | for outfits on first enlistment. and $28,560,807 for training camps. AWAY FROM CAMP, The police received word today from the military authorities at Camp Devens, Mass., that Joheph F. Mahaley and Thomas W. Boyle, sol- in estimates is | I } Woodsville, N. and Navy Depart- ( 17,846,823.00 { known: | Wounded—J. McQueenie, Pitts | L. CITY ITEMS. New Britain Trust Compan; will be open on Thursday ahd Fridai cvenings from 7:30 to 9 o’clock on Saturday from 9 a. m. to 9 p. a, for the purpose of receiving subscrip: tions to the Fourth Liberty Loan. Advt. { There | will be a mecting | Liberty Loan committee in ‘the Na. *vonal Bank this evening at T:4f o'clock. ! Secretary L. A. Sprague of i Chamber of Commerce has Teceived] a letter from the committee on th I conference of the New England Asso-! ciation of Chamber of Commerce sec-, retaries stating that the conferenc: has been postponed owing to the con. ditions caused by the epidemic. Mr. Sprague had planned to attend t. conference. . i The meeting of the Past Grand a sociation with Rebekah lodge, No. 11, i on October 18 has been postpened| ! until further notice on account of th | epidemic. of the CANCELS CAMP CONCERT ¢ Miss Baum Unable to Siug For Sols diers Owing to Epidemic. Owing to the Spanish influenza ep ' demic, the cantonment concerts thaf were to be given by Miss Grace Landers Baum at the camps of the Iastern Division, have been posts poned. Miss Baura has been in the city { a few days but will leave on an ex tended concert tour next Monda | when most of the theators are @ pected to re-open. ENGLAND MEN IN GERMAN PRISON CAMPS. . Washington, Oct. 17.—Names of | two officers and 38 ted men inf ! German prison camps were announced ' i today by the war department ! The officers are Lieuts. | Manney, New York City and | V. P. Newbold, Wayne, Pa. whom are reported in good at unknown camps The enlisted men include At Rastatt: Alton E. Stowell, North Dana, Mass., Henry Richard, | Holyoke, Mass.; Joseph Greeley, Hol- voke; George E. Turner, Providence. At Merseburg: George Briggs, H. Reported in good health, camp un= Phillip F. Fillion, Fall River. | NEW William Charles both of health CANADIAN CASUALTY Ottawa, Oct. 17.—The following names of Americans are included in today’s Canadian casualty list: furg: W, ¢ H. Oakley, LIST. Ansill, Trenton, ner. Union 'Hill, N. J.; Levenmore, Pa.; A. Hudson, Philadel- phia; F. Hughes, Greenville, F b P. Cabot, Boston; W. Cook, Philadels phia; E." Potts, Irvons, Pa.; S. P. Yeo, Philadelphia; J. Bowren, Alls- ton, Mass.: A. W. Fiddes, Westerly, i.; A. M. McDade, Allenton, F Collins, Medford, Mass.; Boston. GIVE NOTICE. essors have sent out the following warning notice to the pub- lic: “The property owners of the city are slow in filing their property lists with the assessors. The month ig over half gone and only 20 per cent: of the lists have been filed. Unless the property owners file their lists soon a 10 per cent. penalty is added to the assessment. The office is open daily from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and Monday, Wednesday and Saturday night from 7 to 9 p. m.” GRAY IN MERCHANT MARINE. Boston, Oct. 17.—Toda 1 of men accepted by the United States, Shipping Board, after final physical examinations at Boston, for enroll- ment.on its Merchant Marine training. diers sent to the camp from this city, were absent without permission, ships included Willilam H. Gray of 369 Bast street, New Britain,