New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1918, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY ANKEE SOLDIERS ARE THRIFTY LOT { S~ 0ld Time Spendthrift Mania Has Disappeared From Ranks Paris, Nov. 20 Not many fortunes n American small change are being spent by General . Pershing's fighting men for they are not at all like the old style private in the days when a.rmy Bperson re montt pay was §13 a montl will be recallec emolurents in fifteen ninutes experimenting with craps, whereupon 1 shrugged ~his sho loy commenting philosophically “Oh, we co easy go The new type of man isn't like that. saving young man he sends a good shar of his earnings to heip out his wife tha he sends back Vankec He is a or any other partial dependent he may leave. In fact as much money as self, if ginance he spends on him- rom Y. M. C. A. may be taken as a criterion. And they ought to be con- sidered a fair indication of the way the pay goes. In the first place, the private makes an allotment of half his base pay by government order if he h dat home that needs it. And hasn’t the government takes it gaves it for him. With very few ex- ceptions, he also is the holder of a government insurance policy, which takes another bite out ings. By the time his allotment and his insurance payments have been de- ducted, there isn't a great deal left. Yet from this little, he save what in the fo a vast sum figures reports In four of the five huts from which | figures are available in one Y. M. C. A. division, the soldiers sent money home than they themselves in buyving canteen supplies during the month. In the other hut, the amount of merchandise sales was only percentage greater than the home re- mittance handled by the Red Tri- angle. Taking the five huts as a hole, remittances was over for the month. one whose business in all departments was the biggest of the five, sent to America almost three ‘times money as it received for sales. All of ‘which shows that the Yankee sol- dier is as generous and thrifty as he is brave and capable Here are the figures in total: | chandis 2 francs, tance, 377,468 In the entire division, office handled 1,068,249 Mer- remit- the business francs - of | MONEY SAVED | enlistec | anyone | if he ! and | of his earn- | more | spent on | a small | the difference in favor of the | 125.000 francs | One of the huts, the | whicn 697 f represented can- s and 70 franecs remit- Imm«, to the United States, or ap- proximately half and half | | ENGLAND THANKS LABOR. | London Ded 17.—The admiralty | board has issued an order to all dock- | rard torpedo civil e victualling yvards, ordaance, nd mining depots aad other blishments of the navy ex- pressing grateful approciation of their Inable services throughout the war The order each establishment its full part “in sccuri of right over might.” savs bore z the vie- GOVERNORS WANT T0 GET GERMAN CANNON Would Use Them to Decorate Treir Capitol Grounds Annapolis De miels and "1 {oaay for final stat Lane ere on the pro- addresses hefore the sion of the conference of vernors. In addition the gov- cxpected to discuss what is to be done with the national guard aft- or the soldiers ar edemobilized Secretary Daniels invited the ov- ernors to lunch on the Mayvilower and ter to inspect the battleship M ippi, anchored in Chesapeake bay. The conference, it is understood. will not adopt resolutions committing the state executives to definite poli- cies. A telegram from Henry Mor- genthau, director of the campaign for relief of populations in the Near East, 2d the governors to lssue procla- s supporting the campaign for ng £30,000,000 between January L9, overnors have decided to ask the war department for a number of captured German cannon for the grounds of their respective state cap- itols All the ernors svernors today | Red Cross and promised licitors to boos’ the member campaign on their return home. joined the women ONECO HOTEL: MAN DEAD. New Haven, Dec. 18.—Thomas H. Sullivan, proprietor of the Oneco ho- tel and one of tke best known hotel men in Connecticut, died today. He had been ill for many months. as much | The open Park Hotel dining will Thursday morning at 11 a. and we announce that the profits of the first three days will be donated to the Red Cross fund. “Pure food, best of quality, moderate prices,” our | motto. 213 Main street, one flight up. P —Aadvt. room children 14 . | American 'WILL INVESTIGATE CHILD EMPLOYMENT ‘Women's Committee Alarmed at . Number of Children Working Hartford ~Pursuant to a Nationnl Doc. 15, request by the Council of Defensc Federal representatives of the and the Children’s Bur the Department of Woman's Co mittee, Connecti Council of I fense, arc investigating throughout tlic state e with the eircumstances connected withdrawal from school years old or over. Th heins conducted State investigation is cooperation with the f2ducation. Board o to statisties ecompiled 1y E Committee of the Ce Defense Council, 973 permanent work certificates were i sued to Conmecticut children durine period from August 1, 1917 to August 1, 1918, than were issued from August 1, 1916 to the sama date in 1917. The number of permanent work certificates issued for the year ending August 1, 1918, was 13,699. W conditions, which accounted for high wages, induced many children to work and accounted s said by offi- mo the leave school for for the increase, it w: cials of the Woman's committee. The investigation of these cases is held in connection with the “back to launched in Jann- the investigation, ;) retary of Sducation, school” drive to be ary. To facilitate Charles D. Hir State Board of (. Morrison, Assistant Secretary sent the following lefter to all superintendents and the state | “The National Council of Defense and the Children’s Bureau of the De- partment of I.abor have asked that the State Council of IV\(‘(&"H.\'\’. through |its Woman’s Committee, investigate the matter of the withdrawal f I school of children who are 14 3 of age or older. The representati the Woman's Committce are ac- commended to your good and Henry have “hool SIRLS. Manchester, Eng., Dec. 18.—De- seribing the celebration of peace in tLondon the Guardian's London cor- respondent writes: “Another inci- {dent was that a very large plain | American officer, with two short plain officers, marched up rafalgar Square to Leicester S KISSED MANY shouting, ‘next, pleas. 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