New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 8

A Personal Offer to Those Who Fear Spanish [nfluenza ANY doctors are urging the use of a soothing antiseptic like Kondon's for inside the nose and head. I want to make it easy for folks to get this relief. HEREFORE, | hereby author any druggist to let you have a 30c tube of “Kondon’s” on the understanding that if you don’t think it is worth many times that to you, you may return your tube to the druggist and get your money back—the druggist to collect said refund from me. (Signed) Thomas N. Kenyon, Owner Millions of American troops abroad and more daily arriving. Just a few arrivals that wi Pershing’s Pushers Underwood Under of the many the ranks of (c) ULL’S EYE SMASHED BY VICTORY’S SHELL Unconditional Surrender Club Brings | Liberty Loan Subscriptions Away Over City’s Quota. The shell from the cannon on Cen- tral Park shot right the | $3,178,000 Liberty Loan bull's eye last evening. Chairman Noah Lucas | of the shell committee went to work | 1t once and reloaded the cannon and | through started the shell out for a second shot for the bull's eve. | Today’'s label on the shell is $3,- | 725,760, a half a million in additional | subscriptions having been brought yesterday. The committee reported splendid success today have now passed their record for the $6,000 in | women's | They | last loan and have more beyond it. veach the $200,000 mark, and it looks as if they had a good show of attain- gone or They are aiming to ing it the way they are bringing in to the render club. Chairman A. J ral ihe Uncondition ed to $700,000 the Unece would ahead of Unconditional Sur- | members Sloper of the gz timated today through 1 Surrender clu It committee ¢ pledge obtained ame looks thot ditional sSurrender reach o mdllion, the fondest tations. is an excellent indication of how Ne Britain f government b such as this makes it indicates how feel towards German kaiserism and the rest of the international outlaws. The team committees hold a meet- ing at 5 o'clock this afternoon at the Y. M. €. A. to make a Garrison finish for the campaign and the general expe the German city towards and coming from a eosmopolitan all the better, as it | ma population | the people of the world ' | committee will at o’clock at the bank building. meet tonight New Britain FUNERAL M/ POSTPON Rev. John T. Winters ha that until further notice will not be celebrated Ma church on the same the funeral, He will try to celebrate the ma ing day. This deci day on is because big demand that their and the is made for days. services 7:45 | tional announced funeral at St. as | however, s on the follow- | of the shortage of the hacks in the city | being during these RUTHERFORD DECLINES } Ofic From Amting as E. F. Hall’s Politi- cal Campa Arthur NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, Boys at the Front Re- fuse to have Their Sabbath Service In- terrupted by Crash of Hun Shells—Sit I1n- tent, Listening to Homely Phrases of Itinerant Evangelist Who Had Come Far to falk to Them. BY MAXIMILLIAN FOSTER ARIS, Sept. 1.—The gunpit stood at the end of a little wood, artfully hidden by a camouflage of interwoven branches twined into an arbor overhead. In the midst of this the gun, a blunt: nosed howitzer, squatted like a toad, its grim, significant viciousness con! trasting strangely with e quiet of the green fields and the taicket sur- rounding it. The day was Sunday. There are no Sabbaths in thix war. The day was Sunlay, true, but it is the way of war that you do murder on Sundays or veekdays, seven days in the week. Humvm}:er- ing this, it was queer to xee what was going on in that gunpi;. Flfty or sixty khaki-clad boys were #lus- tered in the slight depression. Some sat om their bunkers, resting their backs against the gun-carriage. Others stretched themselves ovu the trampled earth and there were some prone in the grass at the gunpit's edge. War may not stop for Sun- days, yet these sixty boys wer® there yor Sabbath worship. CIRCUIT-RIDER IN FRANCE The preacher stood at the center of the pit. He was a man Af fifty or thereabouts—tall, spare, avgular, witk grizzled hair and sfooping shoulders—a plain, awkward fellow —a man of the people. Three gen- erations ago, any Sunday morning, you might have seen one of his kind, riding his rounds in the back- woods region of some Far ¥festern community, bent on carrytg the Gospel from one outlying ccugrega- tion to another. This was wiat this man was doing, too. His type may long have passed in America, but in France that itinerant evangel, the circuit-rider, seems to have come into his own again. This one had ridden far to-day. He had come up from behfad the lines, making his way to tbs front by railroad and army truck. The last few miles of the journey he did afoot, trudging with his pank and bedding roll along a shell-swedt road unsafe for any vehicle. As it was, every now and then a sheli would come trundling over the cres! of the¢ hill nearby and fall with a flat, clat- tering crash in the fields alongside. The preacher, however, had not seemed to think of that. The small leather-bound volume in his hand— his book of texts—seemed to occupy him more. It was a serious business for him (his business of his Sunday text. H4 must pick one appropriate to the ocsasion. UNIFORM DUST COVERED His congregation rose an he came among taera. His uniform, the same as thelrs, was rumpled and dishev- elled, too. Dust and mud covered it. Dust, too, covered his face, the dust ol the roads he had trudged that day. As for the man himself, lank and ungainly, he stood there fided with awkward shyness. One would have said, certainly, there was nothing very heroic in his looks. But the boys in khaki did not seem to think of that. Most of them came forward to great him perso=- ally. As he stretched out his ha to them, the mussed. rumpled. ur: form gathered in ill-fitting hillocks on his arms and shoulders. Thive was nothing very smart, very swig- ger, about that uniform. It lookr2 as if its wearer often had slept 'n it. On the right arm blazed {le Red Triangle of the Y. M. C. A. “Hello, Doc,” the boys in kha®i said to him. “Hello, hoys,” he - plied. TALKED BOYS’ LANGUACGE One does not remember the text he pave that day. The preacher, in fact, lacked much that would have made him prominent and popular in, say, a New York or a Chicago congregation. However, he had sémething about him that many an eminent divine might have givén muck to possess. What it was ore cannot say readily, but all he said his hearers seemed vividly to com- prehend. He talked to them in their own language—the language boys can understand. They did not wrig- gle or squirm or scuffle their feet THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918, as boys do in church at home. They sat intent. As I say, I do not re- member what the text was he chose that day. There was an interrup- tion just as he uttered it. The shell—it was a 77—came by way of the woods a mile or more be- yond. One heard it ceming before it struck. Where it hit was fifty yards or more from the gunpit's edge. Having finished the text, half of it unheard, the preacher’s face turned inquiringly toward the spot where a shower of earth, recks and other debris had ascended skyward in a sudden belch of flame and smoke and dust. The crash that came with it shook one's teeth but the preacher seemed not jarred. As rocks and earth came thudding back to the ground, his inguiring eyes turned again to his congregation. Some of the boys had stirred ab- ruptly. One lad at the edge of the gunpit had gone rabbitting over the crest, and now was hidden from view. The preacher smiled, his bony features expressive of whimsi- cal humor. Crrrrk-—Blam! thudded another shell. The Hun evidently was feel- ing out the range. “Boys, you know more about these things than I do,” said the preacher. “Shall I go on or wait awhile?” Blam! Another shell. This one, though, was further off. “Go on, Doc!” shouted back the boys. | named for Bdw date nounced this morning be unable Hall name of his political i November 4 | Mr, for Mr, frain from any activities in tical two important public positions. building inspector for the city Britain and a should not he been position essential is an added reason for his withdrawal | o politics. | ' from field n Business Will Prevent ]|ilnl gn Manager. sition to serve as United Rutherford, who was erday political agent d 1. Hall, republican candi- state representative, an- that he would e in that capacity. yet announced the who will manage rs between now and ve ing to se Mr. has not the man forc | plie Rutherford’s decision to the pol ult of hi He is | °F of New a city official feels that | take any part in poli- addition to that, he has recent- appointed to a government as district dir tor of non- building operztions and this comes as i re like sres; HENRY FORD" Detroit, Ford has elected, than he ha the medium of a letter this city. Ford said that he found impression t d anxious You v to vour friends and 1 will be very Michigan, make there are a number of great problems which war in which the world is deeply in- terested, to 1t question of o prevent all future wars, so strong ATTITUDE. Iy d Support League of Nations. Mich., Oct. taken a more to 17.—Henry definite po- with rega iingness if previously given, his announcement be- M. Holley of in a letter to a public Ford was being is not really Mr. Ford re- States senator, to George Mr. Holley at Mr. run and be elected to to at liberty to others that ad to serve as senator elected, and I will it. Furthermore, are certainly if a real job of will arise at the close of the much con- which I would the president and and help olve. and the nations foremost, there a league of st is ex-President that politician, this plan, great stead. I this question senator, would favor the advocated by Wils “The public control ephone lines and of be dire be certain that they are not Wall street too tors alres questions. “Other mighty concerning the industr tation of our industrial relations on a beace taking turned soldier ed and crippled for and will and unselfish thought advocated by President Wilson and Taft. It seems to powerful are getting v to fight nd to put this nation on a permanent military basis in- should like to help settle right, and, if elected plan now n and Taft. me certain and all-important of questions of telegraphs and tel- the railways will tly in issue. The people should putting and stock manipula- into congr , for Wall Street is dy fighting the nation on these questions will arise reconstruction of our after the war—the rehabil- basis after the war is over, the of our millions of re- ma of them maim- life. All these important subjects best, most sincere for the good of other our many engage One does not recall much of the sermon. It was punctuated at inter- vals with those emphatic exclama- tion points. One not accustomed to war’s alarms listened more to those resounding 77’s than to the labored, homely awkward figures of speech falling from the preacher’s lips. But between times it was evident that the others, these boys in khaki, lis- tened. AIll of them sat there still intent. Not once but half a dozen times the preacher had to pause, warned by the ripping clatter of a big one, tearing by close at hand. More than once, tca. one of them expleding in the Ield alongside, flinging its splinters into tite gunpit. ASKED TO COME BACX ‘When the preacher’s talk was fin- ished, he picked up his pack and bedding rotl, his book of texts safely in his pocket. One by one the boys ir khaki came up to bid him good- bye. “So long, Boc,” they said to him. “Come again soon, will you?” “You bet, boys,” was the reply. Up the read as he hurried along to the next place—a dugout in the trenches—the shells still were burst- ing in the fields. The preacher still did not seem to heed them. “Yes,” he chuckled, “I always teil the boys they know more about those things than I do. That's so they can light out if they like, and not seem impolite.” Then he smiled anew, this time all our people. I should be very glad to participate in such capacity as the people may decide. CITY ITEMS. The New Britain Trust Company will be open on Thursday and Friday evenings from 7:30 to 9 o'clock and on Saturday from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. for the purpose of receiving subscrip- tions to the Fourth Liberty Loan.— Aavt. Court Pride No. 76, . of A., will hold its regular meeting tonight at which business of importance is to be acted. After the business session hments will be served. B. E. F. Ludorf and Robert Monks of New Britain, are registered at the Hotel Marseilles, New York. BELATED ANNOUNCEMENT. A certificate has been filed in the city clerk’s office announcing the marriage of Miss Mable M. Johnson of 78 John street, daughter of Imil Johnson, to John Joseph Booth of 207 Main street, Hartford, which took at the distance. always stay. to talk to them, those ys. of pathetic, teo. of boys—boys of my own. you know ~—over here in the trenches. That's what set me to thinkimg. I wom- dered if they had anyon#® to talk to, and that made me wondwe who was talking to all the other tsoys. came along.” «77’s” BOOM PUNCTUATES GUNPIT SERMON ' “Queex but they They wa¥} someone Kind I've got a couple So I JUST A BUSINESS MAN My preacher, I came to find out, was not even an ordainwd preacher. He had beemn a busineds man in a Middle Western town. “It's a great work,” I said, “only I wish sometimes I conld speak a little better. the boys like someore %o talk to them. It don’t seem t¢ reftter much what a fellow talks aoout; they're crazy te bear him. ‘em a little nearer home.” I looked at him in thn dusk. One forgot for the momen® ness, that and the qua¥dt uncouth- ness of his: speech. men, women too, are ever here talk- ing to the boys. brings them over on every ship; but about this one man was something I say any one would give to have. It was the exaltation of simple earn- estness. along, his face seemed to shine. So the circuit rider of old has come into his own again. It's wondésful the way M~ybe it brings Itis ungainli- Many famous The Y. M. C. A. In the dusk, as he trudged place in Providence, R. I, on Septe: ber 14. The couple were marrig by Rev. Peter A. Hanley. NOTICE The Savings Bank of New Britaj will be open on Saturday, the 19 instant, as usual from 9 o'clock un noon for general busine: and fr noon until nine o’clock in the eve to receive subscriptions for bondd the Fourth Liperty Loan We will welcome any who up to thj time have not subscribed for a bol and urge any such not to fail to sul scribe before nine o'clock Saturdd evening, the 19th instant; and we a urge upon all who have subscribed, it is a possible thing, to increase thel subscription and thereby becomé member of the “Unconditional Surrei der Club.” ‘I It is the patriotic duty of every mag woman and child in this communi to subscribe for bonds of this loan j amount to the very utmost of his her ability. 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